skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAICT, things are already "financialized" so that things like community solar appear to be "cheaper" to a customer. (Nothing wrong with that, BTW.)

I just got my first utility bill with a community solar monetary credit. I wrote the following piece attempting to figure out the energy flows -- as opposed to the dollar flows.

-- cut here --

OK. I have a(n energetic) head scratcher with my latest unbundled
electricity bill. It's the first one that includes a community solar
subscription.
For geeks, this is almost a thermodynamics question about systems and
surroundings -- but it's camouflaged as a monetary problem in
disguise...

1) My utility company (NYSEG) charges me a per kW-hr fee for
"transmitting" electricity and servicing their infrastructure. Fine and
dandy. I understand that perfectly.

2) There is a separate per kW-hr fee from a different supplier of
electricity with whom I have contracted for power. Again, I understand
that perfectly.

3) Now the head scratcher. My "community solar" account just started
contributing PV energy to the grid from a recently completed solar
farm. My fraction of energy generated from their deployment just
showed up as a monetary credit to my total bill. They will invoice
me of 90% of that credit, and claim that I "saved 10%" on my
electricity cost. There is no statement whatsoever of the
amount of electrical energy corresponding to that monetary credit.

That's the monetary accounting. Now let's examine the energy accounting.

Let's call the amount of energy from 2) above "N" for my "normal"
source of electrical power. Similarly, let us call the (unknown) amount of energy
from 3) above "S" for my solar PV power.
(In principle, once I knew the fee per kW-hr I was being charged for
the PV energy, I could convert the monetary charge to the numerical
value for S. Let's leave that as an exercise to be dealt with later
after I receive an invoice from the community solar provider -- which
hopefully will tell me their cost-per-unit of energy.)

Clearly, I paid my normal provider for producing N units of energy. However, I
actually consumed (N-S) units of their energy, because I (notionally)
also received S units of solar energy. I understand perfectly that
electricity on a transmission line is fungible, hence I don't actually
receive "electrons" (so to speak) from either of them.
The community solar project will also get paid (at their claimed
"discounted" rate) for producing S units of energy and delivering it
to me via NYSEG.

My conundrum: It seems to me that (N+S) units of electrical energy
have been produced and paid for, but only N units have been
consumed. Hence there are (N+S) - N = S units of electrical energy
"somewhere" that are generated but not consumed via this accounting
system.

Where are those S units? Who owns them? Are they simply going towards
heating up the transmission lines, or is somebody benefiting from
them?

Is it simply the case that NYSEG no longer has to pay for the energy
consumed in heating up their transmission lines, but are still
charging me the same transmission fees???

I don't know the answer to this problem.

Discuss.
If we don’t switch to wind and solar we’re going to be hearing a lot about heat pollution in the coming decades.

They fought Clinton, Illinois’ nuclear plant for decades. The locals were uneasy because it’s on a recreational lake. The lobby for it dismissed the concerns of the uneducated rabble and built it anyway.

An amoeba that causes encephalitis grew in the heat from the cooling plant. Nobody was allowed to swim there anymore. There’s not a lot to do in the middle of the Plains States if you aren’t in a metropolitan area. Swimming and boating are two of your options.

Fusion, fission, geothermal all dump between one and two units of heat at the source for every two units they push down a power line (which is mostly turned into heat at the destination and a little along the way). In the big picture, all of them are bad pairings with global warming.

And hydro reservoirs boost methane emissions.
Am I missing something or is there no IE11 support? A fairly common use case for a datagrid like this is as the heart of an enterprise app. Dead in the water with no IE11 support sadly. Looks great tho!
The way it was done was so abrupt that Windows 2000 nearly released with Alpha version on standard CD (which would be AFAIK 64bit clean, unlike the older ones), but essentially the whole NT/alpha team (which was part of Compaq) was told close to RTM release "sorry, your project was closed".

Later, Compaq had to restart production, and HP even had to introduce updated chip, because some customers, especially VMS, didn't want to move to slower Itanium machines.

I have even heard that part of Itanium's flop was how often older EV6 machines were running circles around new Itanium ones...
If you're overweight at all, even by a little, losing that weight that greatly impact your sleep and health overall. Also if you eat any inflammatory foods - sugar, carbohydrates, dairy, etc - then that inflammation can cause issues with sleep, especially for brain related inflammation, sleep time when brain channels are meant to open up to clear waste; inflammation is linked to Alzheimer's now because of this process.
Based on it's name, combining it with ffsend [1], would make it a fun quick screen sharing tool. /s

[1] https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend
Having a large rainy day fund is something a lot of people are missing.

Paycheck to paycheck drastically increases stress level, yet so many won’t get away from it.

When I ran an Airbnb, it was shocking to see how cheap other cultures would eat. Every meal home made. Despite no kitchen access label on listing.
Because Germany burns seven times as much fossil fuel as France.

This tells us that France has a cleaner energy mix than Germany, but I don't think this cherry-picked example contributes much to the discussion otherwise, no matter how many times you repeat it.
I've hosted a mastodon instance since 2017 and I see one general misunderstanding over and over, on mastodon or on fediverse related subreddits.

People think it's a completely new concept.

People seem to have forgotten, or not been part of, all the message boards we used to have during the late 90s and all throughout the 2000s.

The ONLY thing Mastodon brings to this is federation. You used to have accounts on over a dozen message boards, sometimes with different avatar names. Most were special interest groups.

All of those boards were hosted by someone.

Having lived through that I view Mastodon as a different kind of PunBB software with federation. Because I view it from the perspective of the hoster.
I also prefer not to interrupt others or to be interrupted. But if you send your problem as an e-mail, people can answer at their convenience.

My own experience is that frequently, the act of thinking about an issue long enough to be able to formulate a coherent e-mail about it makes the solution jump out at me before I even send the message.
That's right, but we need to start from something we know dogs are very good at.
Working with Your Hands Does Wonders for Your Brain
"walkable suburb" is an oxymoron. I believe you are looking for a thing called a "town".
Python2 code still works. You just can't use a convenient package manager to grab libraries for it from a managed repository anymore. When has C ever had that?
IMO Germany is more set up to benefit from future developments than France and the numbers you cite may very well look a lot different in 10 years. What you are giving is a static snapshot in time where France has a mature technology that is declining and Germany is rapidly moving to the future.

Nuclear certainly has a place in baseload generation but new greenfield development is rare and costs skyrocket upon decommissioning. On the other hand Germany is well positioned to take advantage of cost declines in battery storage to solve the intermittency problem. It’s not clear what France does when all of their reactors age out.
In order to be pro-nuclear power on a large scale, you pretty much have to not care about nuclear waste storage, as we don't have any good long term solutions for it. The favored argument nowadays seems to be that it's not that dangerous and what danger there is is easily outweighed by the climate benefits.
I really enjoyed this show. It’s fascinating and fun to take a walk down the technology development of yesteryear. I couldn’t help imagining how I would have interpreted the changes the characters saw - and recalling my own life at the time. One open question I remember being left with is how inevitable particular paths of technology development are? The show seems to create a world barreling towards a predestined future... where bright and creative people compete to get their first. I'm not sure how much I agree with that ... But I love that someone created a class curriculum that examine the many super interesting questions that come up. All I need now is a reading group of nerds to explore all the great content on the site with!
Energy consumption of reverse osmosis is about 4kWh/t. The byproduct is a ton of brine. Sea water contains about 3ppb Uranium, so our brine contains 6mg of U per ton of fresh water produced.

A 1GW nuclear power station consumes about 1t of U per year and produces about 8000GWh of electricity in that time. So we need about 1mg/8kWh. We got 12 times that much.

So, it sort of works out. Of course, this assumes a breeder reactor and I pretended that brine is purified uranium. If breeders are commercialized, it might be worth looking into this. Right now, it isn't.
There's subtext here, right? Is this related to Gab and the rest? From their earlier post about Fediverse:

>Some parties in the Fediverse demand “self-censorship.” Especially when we talk about particular services or products, individuals contact us and demand that we delete our posts. “We shouldn’t talk about the topic,” so other people don’t start to use these “evil” services and products. In our opinion, such demands contradict the claim of being an “open-minded community.”
Free trade and lax capital controls were supposed to increase foreign investment in the US economy. However, allowing so much production to move overseas has resulted in massive efficiencies of scale in China, which makes investment in the US relatively unprofitable, despite the restrictions and requirements in China.
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I'm sorry but what makes you think all of these comments are fake?
If a headline could convey everything in an article why write the whole article? There's always more than could possibly fit in a headline; "yes, buts", etc.
> Fossil fuel and nuclear power don't have these associated costs

They do, but with coal, it's the pile out back, I assume natural gas networks have tanks. Nuclear is interesting because it's almost control rods.

But your point stands; storage is a lot simpler for conventional fuels.
> it recently announced that state clinics would no longer hand out contraceptives or offer vasectomies

What a backwards and ill informed way of handling a declining birth rate. We should not be promoting accidental births, but instead doing everything we can to ensure couples live in a world where they WANT to bring another life into it.

- Good pay

- Safe neighborhoods

- Balance work/life

- Assurances of healthcare for themselves and their family

- Hope that the future will be even better than the already wonderful, today.

Very few of these things are true for the average worker these days. Often in the US, if you want to have kids, you are writing off your ability to ever retire.
> Of course the downside was that that was like getting off a drug that all of society is addicted to.

This is how I feel about soda. A couple times a year a soda will find its way into the house, and I just can't drink it unless I pull out the sodastream and water it way way down. I don't remember it tasting that syrupy awful as a kid.
Helpful, but in the real-world legislative systems I've interacted with, the patch (the bill text) isn't formatted as an algorithmic diff against the base documents (statutes, for example). It is a baroque system that requires huge amounts of clerical effort to keep aligned and which makes understanding all but the simplest changes a mind-numbing exercise.
That's a much lesser concern in France, where reprocessing or different reactor types have significantly less waste. Not zero though.
>social stigma traditionally associated with childlessness

poor thing has a bit of a chip on his shoulder
Does anyone know how much they raised? At the valuation you would assume 200m range.
It’s because it was written to oppress minorities in as many ways as possible.

> At the beginning of the 20th century, the President of the Alabama Constitutional Convention, John B. Knox,[12] stated in his inaugural address that the intention of the convention was "to establish white supremacy in this State", "within the limits imposed by the Federal Constitution"[7]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Alabama#Raci...
The Salton Sea area has its environmental problems, but it's less of a disaster than the author writes. There are picnic areas along the water that are nice. On the other hand, Slab City is more of a disaster than he writes. The residents seem to be of the mind to treat journalists nicely. Maybe they expect something good to happen in return. When I visited there Salvation Mountain had been taken over by acid casualties who put up threatening signs reading "keep out." When I stopped to take a picture they came towards me car and I feared I might be shot, expecting to hear the whiz of a bullet by my ear. Slab City is a disgusting homeless camp, full of mental illness and anger.
Nobody takes into consideration the cost of managing nuclear waste either. I understand there is not much anymore, but I believe its still dangerous and requires armed security effectively forever. (making the cost effectively infinite).

I guess those costs are for future generations and not our problem. (Kind of like CO2)
I think people have been hoodwinked, same as with UBI.

Nuclear is the only way fwd, sooner we come to realization better it will be for us.

Solar and wind do lot of eco damage due to low density output.
I've lurked on Mastodon for a while and honestly your experience will be only as good as your instance you subscribed to. Fosstodon is a very focused instance with like minded people, and the local feed there is pretty top notch. My experience on more "general" focus instances was a lot worse and borderline spammy.

Hoping they put effort in making your activity pub profile more portable as move accounts to new servers is still kludgey at best.
What will happen to all that parking real estate once automated cars are a thing and parking/owning a car is no longer the norm? They touch up on retrofitting parking lots but there is so much out there that will need to be changed once huge parking lots are no longer needed. If I had to guess, places like Walmart and whatnot may end up building strip malls on the empty half of their lots to take advantage of that in population dense areas. Perhaps even just extend their storefronts out another 100'.
My experience with the fediverse was that enjoying the benefits of federation encountered the same issues with content and user behaviour that can be found in silo'd services.

That is to say, fediverse sites increased their likelihood of replicating/serving hate, pornography and illegal content in correlation to the number of external sites they were connected to and the size of their user base.

It left me wondering why even bother? It's no better than using Discourse for a private group and Twitter/Facebook for public groups. Perhaps worse.
$75,000 isn't what it used to be, so this is a pretty comically obvious headline.

The median sale price of a house in the US in the year 2000 was around $163,000. Now it's $324,000.

Meanwhile $48,000 in income then is now $75,000 today inflation adjusted, according to the BLS. If you stayed in that general income bracket, you've been royally punched in the face economically.

And then we get to the cost of healthcare and education over the past 20 years. Someone in the $75,000 tier has spent the last two decades being financially tortured as their disposable income is being eroded by persistently rising costs they can't do much about (go without healthcare, don't buy a house, don't send the kids to college, don't have kids).

That $324,000 house today will cost you $1,500 per month. After all taxes are accounted for, in a normal tax state, you're going to likely have ~$4,250 per month; after that house, you're down to $2,750; and that's before you get to any bills or saving. The only shot a person at $75,000 has today, is to live somewhere where the cost of living is quite low, or to pair up with someone and hopefully double that income (and that still won't be enough if you're in a more expensive location).
> I know expat Jamaican and Dominican communities in New York that celebrate festivals yearly.

And I would not call those Anglo-Saxon as they are actual expats of a different ethnicity and recent-generation immigrants?

That you even consider those comparable to Anglo-Saxon African-Americans that are not recent immigrants but have lived in the U.S.A.. from six generations back is baffling to me.

> nor is the creole language and culture practiced around New Orleans and Louisiana.

Nor would I call those Anglo-Saxon.

You seem to cast very different populations, that speak very different languages and have very different cultural practices, in the same bucket, simply because of a shared skin color.

There are indeed populations of any color in the U.S.A. that are decidedly not Anglo-Saxon. I would no more call recent black Jamaican immigrants Anglo-Saxon than I would recent white Italian immigrants, but the vast majority of population of any color in the U.S.A. is decidedly Anglo-Saxon and has been nurtured within an Anglo-Saxon milieu for generations.
So in one case, the text becomes corrupted and unreadable (i.e. loses its meaning), and in the other, it becomes corrupted and unreadable. What's the difference?

Having "accents fall off" has gotten people murdered [0]. Accents aren't things peppered in for effect, they turn letters into different letters, spelling different words. Analogously, imagine that a bunch of software accidentally turned every "d" into a "c" because some committee halfway around the world decided "d" should be composed of the "c" and "|" glyphs. That's the kind of text corruption that regularly happens in other languages when dealing with text at the code point layer.

[0] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73 . Note that this is Turkish, which has the "dotted i" problem, meaning that this was more than likely a .toupper() gone wrong rather than a truncation issue.
Not neccesarily. Only if you're the sort of person who values money and chooses to asscoiate with people based on how much money they have. Of course people with lots of money do tend to be people who value having lots of money. But not always.
That's an emotional reaction and not grounded in logic because they're not differentiating the contexts. Differentiation, boundaries and context with words and language, is something then they need to learn - and if you coddle them, they're not going to learn that - so you're actually doing a disservice to them and society.

If a child is having a temper tantrum because you won't let them taste the bleach, you don't give in to let them taste the bleach.

And re: they will consider my response irrational - I just explained it with logic, and there is truth and logic - you don't fold to that behaviour just because someone's emotional maturity is underdeveloped or blocked - likely from coddling and adults in their life not being integral to hold boundaries for certain types of thinking/behaviour; this has lead to what's considered a neoliberal group - the same extreme exists on the conservative side as well, though it manifests differently.
Try cutting the caffeine intake and see if that helps?
I think your argument could be good if nuclear had any chance in the future. Unfortunately though, it hasn't. The complexity, risk and political cost make it unlikely that we will see a nuclear renaissance. Even countries like the US that can be very market driven, see much higher levels of investment in renewables including solar than nuclear.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sea-worth-salt/

A good treatment of this some years ago on 99 Percent Invisible
Thank you for getting back to me with a source. I agree Stockfish had a significant edge over Leela in that contest from a year ago.

Right now, Stockfish is winning in the current TETC, but only by one point (one more win than Leela). https://www.chess.com/events/2021-tcec-20-superfinal Stockfish 12 27.5 - Leela 26.5
So HN.
Before I learned of the flag, I used to do a 'while true; do killall -SIGUSR1 dd; sleep 5; done' loop in another terminal.
> Went from bed ridden in horrific agony all day to kayaking or equivalent every weekend.

Did you have muscle pain?
> It's weird to borrow someone's laptop, and see a barrage of ads, notices, bars and other visual spam.

"Hey you should be using an ad blocker, it avoid ads and viruses, and makes websites faster. Do you mind if I install you one?"
Is your hobby social or individual? Do you know people besides those you moved with?

If everyone tries to enjoy what you are, that drive won't be 5 minutes an average.
ok we all feel much better about your well-being
Imagine all those smart people doing something else.
I've seen this question a few times and have been looking for hard sells, especially because I spent quite a few workdays during summer in a hammock without a second screen.

I've found about two hard sells so far:

Online presentations and demos to people. For example, showing some slides to some people, with some jumps to code or terminals. In this case, it's extremely valuable to have the call with webcams open on a second monitor so I can keep tabs on the expressions of the audience in order to adjust tempo. Switching the contents of the presentation screen / shared screen without warning is jarring and confusing to the audience. And commonly used communication programs do not support sharing one virtual desktop easily, only screens and/or windows.

And sometimes, it is valuable to be able to display more information at once. Sometimes, during larger outages, it helps to be able to display more key metrics of the system on one screen and poking the system on the other screen. This one can be done with virtual desktops, yes, but it has less overall cognitive overhead for me to just have a stable screen with the monitoring data and/or logs on it available instead of constantly flipping between desktops.

And again, during screen sharing, people hate it and get confused if I flip the main screen around too much between monitoring data and shells. So having a work screen to share with people on a call and another screen for information helps reduce that.

A lot of other use cases are convenient with more screen space, but good virtual screens with hotkeys work almost as well I've found.
End to end encrypted?

https://delta.chat/en/help#does-delta-chat-support-end-to-en...

Yes, if receiver uses IMAP if I understand this correctly.

Edit: End-to-end encryption or not is maybe unrelated to IMAP use. E2E Encryption does not work with some email providers though.
The translation exercises are terrible and should never be used by anyone not specifically training to be a translator. I’m an intermediate learner and I almost always can identify exactly what the phrase should mean, but when I try to write the English sentence more than 80% of the time I will phrase it differently than they do and get it wrong.

Translations make me spend time worrying about how EXACTLY the original translator phrased it rather than focusing on the contents of the sentences.
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