skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well electricity takes the lowest resistance path (read shortest).

I have solar panels and my neighbor uses electricity to heat their home. So my solar panels heat their house, but the DSO gets to charge the neighbor as much as if the electricity would come from across the country for transmission. If we'd move the meter a bit further we could share. Plus the energy company I sell to and they buy from charges something as well.

If we could cut out two middlemen the I would earn the same but their bill would be about 25-50% smaller. Which incidentally you could invest in on-prem batteries and I would use their battery energy to heat my home during the night. Little microgrid community. Scale that up to a neighborhood and the effects start to add up quite nicely.

But I do agree with you that integrated grids that span large areas are essential for grid stability and increase the odds of clean energy is being produced at all times needed.
Economics is about the behavior of people with respect to scarce resources. It has a lot of overlap with other fields, including public health and epidemiology. The main tools of economics are statistics and mathematical modeling.

Economics is often thought of as being about money, but money is just a proxy for scarcity. You can have an economics in a society without money. Money is a compelling tool for counting, but it's not the only one. It's really the resources, and how people behave about them, that economists really want to count.

To make good models an economist needs domain knowledge, either by themselves or with collaborators. This author's work is precisely about health economics. Her dissertation was a hypothesis that hepatitis B was responsible for sex ratio disparities in China. (Additional data proved her wrong, and she published on that.)

At this point she's as much of a public explainer as an actual economist, the type who does TED talks. But her background in the economics of health is real. That's what real economics is supposed to look like.
We need a minimum living wage for YouTube creators? Or it should be completely demonetized /s. Another mindless incarnation of the outrage template
Maybe "encapsulated" is not the right term when I simply meant "scoped".

I tried scoping the entities using Context in some prior art which we use in production. Some colleagues kindly gave me some benchmark results and the version without Context (external/module-scope) was faster.

I'm not trying to debate against Context here. In fact, there's nothing that would stop anyone from using SimpleR State's entities with Context API.
While I agree with your statement, please do not insinuate or ask if the commenter has read the article. It is against the rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
8 to 11 can be a bit trickier, though. Subsequent upgrades should be boring again, but 8->9 can get interesting.
I still use my K&R which proudly proclaims that it includes the new ANSI C 89.
Encryption being 20 years old doesn't mean it's easy to break, given that AES is 23 years old :)
>The instance admin has no right to dictate what the users on that server shouldn't be allowed to read or follow.

of course they do; they run the server. Whether you think they should is a different story.
That's every poor country in existence. Not everyone has the same mindset as you, however. Provided with basic incentives, many, if not most, would not want to leave family, friends, common culture, etc, just for a wealthy life - they just want basic stability.

Companies paying more (offering more at least) would begin to slow this domino effect, which raises standards of living and provides more funding for the government to provide services and ultimately pressure for increases in quality of life by the voting public. Everyone wins.

Ultimately not everyone can emigrate - it's an impossibility. The brain drain will continue to be real, so it's incumbent upon these companies hiring to raise their wages and retain talent.
What makes a perfect 3D tree?
How do they dox their users in this case?
I had a startup that went all in on scala. By the time we realized we chose the wrong language it was too late.

Complexity is the primary issue with the scala language... when the whole goal is to have a scalable language which in itself is diametrically opposed to simplicity, your language is dead on arrival.

After using Scala, Go seemed like a dream come true.

We really loved the integration of OO and FP, really miss the FP awesomeness honestly... but simplicity trumps doing either of those things well.
Have you seen an image of a factory farm? They don't fix the soil. They ruin it more by having too many animals in a small space.

I'm fine with having smaller amounts of animals in open spaces that goes around and take care of the fields, but today's animal agriculture doesn't take care of that.
The issue here is specifically with beef, so going to an extreme like vegan is way past the reasonable change line.

Eating more shrimp/seafood, chicken, pork, etc instead of beef would be just as effective without all of the extra work necessary to ensure people are getting necessary amounts of protein.

Asking everyone to go vegan is selling a lifestyle and a belief system, not solving a problem.
Zigbee got problems with non-free licensing. Z-Wave seems open, is it completely open?
First off, thank you for being one of the few people in this thread to have a rational discussion. I ultimately disagree with you, but at least you didn't go all Reddit like so many others here.

I think there are a couple points I'd like to make, to see if any of them change your mind at all.

- First, you bring up what the landowner knew when they bought the building. However, three years after they bought it, the law was changed to make it harder to convert pubs to other uses. FTA: Watson was involved in campaigning for legislation in 2017 that went some way to stopping pubs from being converted into shops under permitted development rules – full planning permission is now required.

- Second, it's shocking to the conscience that a local government unit like the Westminster council can order someone to perform labor. In the United States and most developed other countries, involuntary labor was outlawed over a century ago, with exceptions for sentences upon conviction of a crime. Is that really not the case in the UK? Can your local council just order you to build whatever they want?
Iceland seems to have a very relaxed approach to health and safety. I visited in 2006 and remember walking around boiling pools of mud on very slippery ground with nothing but a single token piece of rope to prevent tourists from slipping and falling to a slow and painful death.
people who work for companies like Buzzfeed and other
agencies, creating extremely successful web content for
them, having to work shifts at night on top of their
media jobs.

In my opinion part of the problem is that these kind of jobs are too much glamourized[1].

If a job doesn't pay enough (according to any metric) move on to a better paying job. If an industry or a field doesn't pay enough, move on to another field/industry.

At one point one must be honest enough to admit "this isn't working" or "this barely works, It's not wise to live like this".

[1] a similar scenario: van life. there was a fad where a lot of people were trying to get a lifestyle income by living in a van and blogging about that (instagram, youtube, twitter and stuff like that). needless to say, after a while a wave of videos about "the truth of vanlife" has come up. Once again, people don't realize that for one person managing to achieve a huge success, another thousand (or more) will fail, possibly with consequences.
Imho, there are couple of important underlying reasons why we see a centralized grid as a well functioning one.

It is a mature system. Having been operating in the space for over 100 years, it is true that the current grid systems are extremely well operated. Yes, even the Western NA and the ERCON (Texas one). They have a very complex system of ancillary services in places, order value of generation based on conditions, etc, etc.

It is also true that having a multi time zones footprint (and multiple geographies) allows for interesting properties. For instance, Denmark energy produced through offshore wind turbines is sent to Norway (equivalent to LA - SEATTLE distance) to be transformed into hydro storage.

So why do we need decentralisation?
First of all, there are places where a central grid don’t exists. You can think about Africa, but also some rural areas of US. Having the traditional grid reaching those places is simply not economical feasible.
Secondly, while a country level grid is operated effectively, is not always efficient. There are plenty of energy transformation (from DC to AC, but also different voltage conversion, etc). And then there is the OMH low, and energy loss through resistance of the material used to transmit it. To be honest, is not that microgrids don’t have loss, but there are definitely less conversions, and shorter distances to travel
Thirdly is resiliency and robustness. If we push for smaller decentralised grids, we are pushing for an extra level of redundancy in the operations, for instance by increasing adoption of residential/neighborhood storage solutions. If one of those microgrids goes down, there are no chain reactions, or tip-over effects, which today are quite common in a centrally operated grid.
Lastly, it’s about innovations. Central grid systems have made us ‘lazy’. Energy prices have been going up, but slowly enough that we haven’t been really bothered by them (boiling-the-frog effect). In markets where the traditional grid was not as present/robust, innovation has moved way faster. For example, is no surprise that the majority of residential storage solutions companies are based in Australia, where they are experimenting with multiple chemical compounds (zinc, bromine, titanate, etc) as well as different architectures (ie. Hydrogen)
I can't think of a single use case where a user would want a target site to know where they came from. Put that in the URL or something less nefarious if you want to communicate state.
Are you joking?

> Account created 2 minutes ago

Interesting.
I can't help recall that scene in the iRobot movie with Will Smith where he pulls an ICE motorcycle out of storage and the other person he's with reacts with incredulity at the idea of sitting on top of explosions.

It was mildly amusing back then (2004), now it seems inevitable.

Also, if you haven't read the books, the iRobot stories are great. A quick read and maybe even a good exercise in humility for folks.
95% of Plumbers are men.

Are you seriously suggesting this is down to ‘society’ telling boys they’re allowed to be plumbers and girls that they’re not allowed to be?

As I said, in countries where they have gone the furthest to try to eradicate ‘gender roles etc’, they saw the % of women plumbers GO DOWN. not up. Which would strongly suggest that it’s got nothing to do with ‘gender roles’

If you’re interested in looking at the research, go for it. There’s absolutely tons of extremely established studies into the differences between men and women, their different strengths and weaknesses, and why they decide to do different things in life, go into different careers etc (Unless it’s been cancelled or burnt, which is entirely possible)
It's never been about "disrupting" anything, least of all education and healthcare. It's about convincing enough investors that you can, and pulling in as much money as possible before the whole thing collapses.

Not true for all startups, but increasingly common among the moonshot ones.
One thing I haven't seen mention much with these "smart" devices is how inconvenient lack of physical buttons is. Instead of just reaching over and adjust the volume/brightness whatever, I now have to unlock the phone, find the app and do some gestures to achieve same results, all of which now requires some mental bandwidth for these banal tasks.
Meh, the complaints fall basically in two categories:

1. Open source libraries are sometimes not maintained which is absolutely true but also just a general hazard of the open source software ecosystem. The solution in most cases is to just not use open source libraries that are somebody's hobby project (which the author very sensibly recommends). But that is true whether you are using Scala or not.

2. Spark is weird. Which is true but that seems like it is more to do with the idiosyncratic
nature of Spark than it is anything to do with Scala. That is, Spark development is sort of its own category and poses certain problems that are pretty specific to Spark and you don't necessarily run into when you are building non-Spark project in Scala.
So before the 2015 Order and before the 2017 statute making it more difficult to convert pubs. So no, these conditions were not part of the sale, and are a bait-and-switch.
There's nothing disingenuous about my "take." What's disingenuous here is calling it a historical structure when, under the law, it was not. There are, of course, all kinds of reasons why you believe in your position, including a perception of bad faith on the part of the landowners. I get that. I would expect nothing less. That doesn't make it acceptable to lie in defense of your views.
The AstraZeneca vaccine produced in the US is subject to the export ban, the home country of the manufacturer doesn't matter.

So we are left with the question, would an EU partner ignore the US market? Of course not.
> Would Stallman work on implementing a DRM?

It is a big difference working on A with people i disagree about B, and actively working against one's values. I can work with non-vegetarians on software, but i would not work in slaughterhouse.

> And not in this case, but what about someone denying the other’s existence?

As an LGBT person (and pro same-sex marriage), i think that mixing up 'being against same-sex marriage' and 'denying the other’s existence' is just horrible rhetorical device, fear-mongering about opponent's position.
Long before the virus was discovered in China, many people died in the United States because of the mysterious e-cigarette. Now it seems that these people are probably suffering from the new crown virus, but no one noticed it at that time.
Doesn't matter, it's still a 2/3 chance that someone saying they live in London is British. That's not such a crazy assumption, especially as a software developer.
Note that this board may have other applications than cryptocurrency mining...

The idea of an "open ended" motherboard -- which gives the hobbyist/tinkerer up to 19 PCIe connections -- may turn out to have a lot of future non-cryptocurrency related applications...

Like (if I were to have things my way) I'd like a motherboard with CPU slot (which accepted FPGA's), with RAM slots, power, and bus, and absolutely no other chips or ports on it... None. No sound chip, no network chip, etc., etc.

In other words, let the owner of the motherboard -- implement that functionality (or maybe put a set of FPGA slots on it, all connected to the bus, and let the user choose their own FPGA chips...)

That is, let the user implement their own designs without being locked-in...
"a new family of ICE" is not as confusing as you might think. Automotive engines have clearly defined generations and families of development.

You can think of "new family of ICE" as the equivalent of processor instruction sets. A common "new family of instruction sets" would be something like the development of the AMD x86-64 64 bit instruction sets on top of the original 32 bit x86 set. A smaller "subfamily" or "development" can mean the addition of a new family of SIMD or something like AVX512, etc. However, the processor family is still an offshoot of x86 then x86-64, etc.

In car automotive engines, it's exactly the same process. An ICE engine family can be in use for well over 20 years undergoing iterative improvements.

VW will not continue to push the automotive equivalent of developing new instruction sets for the x64 processor.

postmark: some examples of past "families of development" in internal combustion engines: carburator -> fuel injection; development of the supercharger and turbocharger, and making engines strong enough to withstand pressures from undergoing forced induction; hybridization - adding a battery to the drive train; etc

All of these would be seen as major "ICE new families" - and for example in the VW and Audi world, you would see "families" of engines that would have, for example, a turbo on the engine in a particular model year, vs naturally aspirated only from the past model year car, etc.

In VW, one major family is the VR6 - it's an innovation specific and proprietary to VW alone, and it's been around since 1991, and still in production - you see them still on new generation VW Atlas as a base engine option - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR6_engine - that's a 30 year run for an "engine family".

The Bugatti Veyron uses 2 VR8 bolted together to make a W16 engine - this is the same VR engine family technology taken to the extreme edges of performance.

VW will no longer develop another internal combustion engine family in the way they kick started the "VR6" project back in the 90's.
Agreed - my statement is in regards to "simple solutions".
"reading" and "the humanities" basically implies books or plays. Sorry if you don't see it what way, but I do.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU4MzE
Stallman said he isn't autistic.[1] The people with autism I know abhor what Epstein did as much as anyone else. And they're pretty angry about unqualified neurotypicals diagnosing anyone they want to let off the hook.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxy...
An accountant once told me a loophole is just someone else's deduction. I don't think you can even just go with the intent of the law, 401ks famously weren't intended at all, they were a loophole that are now viewed as a pillar of most American's retirement plans.
Mystery of Harriet Cole. A 19th-century anatomist mounted a human nervous system
The "virus brought in by foreign soldiers during 2019 Military World Games" is a widely used narrative in government of China propaganda.

It's understandable that many people believe it.

It's not just paid trolls ("wumao") who believe this, but even normal people are susceptible to spreading such falsehoods.
If you've been to Iceland you've probably been near volcanoes, just not necessarily active ones. This volcano that is currently erupting is only about 10 miles from Keflavik Airport (and maybe 5 miles from the Blue Lagoon, if you went there).
To make it worse, there's a Thunderbolt port which is indicated by a little lightning-bolt near it, and a charging port which is indicated by a little lightning bolt near it, and neither of those has anything to do with the Lightning connector.

Some USB-C ports have DisplayPort output, so there's a DP near them. Some do Power Delivery, so there's a battery near them. And some are also a power input to the laptop, so there might be other random symbols near them.

It's chaos. I just juggle plugs until I get the expected behavior, and sometimes I never do because it's not implemented. I've given up.
Off topic, but using BMI and not body fat percentage to define obesity in an individual seems dubious at best.

> Keys explicitly judged BMI as appropriate for population studies and inappropriate for individual evaluation. Nevertheless, due to its simplicity, it has come to be widely used for preliminary diagnoses. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#History
Bundling vs. Unbundling
It already is tied. Western capitalism recognizes that expanding customer base and increasing customer wealth is good for business (see Henry Ford’s aphorism about paying workers a wage suitable to buy his product).

It is illegal to be poor because progressives impose laws making zoning, housing, food, jobs, etc too costly and punishing any who attempt to make lower wages livable.

Billionaires are because they make accessible goods/services to greater percentages of limited populations.

World abject poverty has plummeted from majority to near zero in my lifetime. That was capitalism improving productivity of all.
> Depending on which regulations are ultimately applied, the outlook for internal combustion engines could change dramatically once again – all the way to a scenario that makes it almost impossible to still register internal combustion engines after 2025

This is prescient. Government regulations in this particular area will continue to be revised as it becomes clearer that the shift to electric cars is happening rapidly, and it's obvious that this is the only lever in the fight against climate change. We wouldn't even know where to start when it comes to tackling the emissions from steel and cement (1/3rd of all greenhouse emissions).

In September 2020 California banned the sale of ICE cars past 2035. In a couple of years, that'll change to 2030 or sooner. Most car manufacturers know this and some, like VW, are planning accordingly.
Literally a brand new account shilling a US origin theory. This is the internet now.
In the United States, many variants of the new coronavirus have been detected, and the types of these viruses are more complex than those found in China.
10 years later the language is still the same, not much has changed, I can't say the same about Rust, C#, Java, PHP, Python etc ... The only major thing that came in the last couple of years was Go module, and it's more on the tooling side than the language itself.
I really loved the roar of the air cooled engines.
His inappropriate behavior toward women is well documented. One example where women traded advice on how to keep him away.

https://mobile.twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/99426727746...
The first time I read about this a few years back I was wondering how long it would take to become the norm. Once produced at scale, its the easiest and fastest way to address the problem.

If there are any companies out there getting into growing this stuff for industrial uses, I’d certainly be interested in investing.
That's a brand new account pushing that narrative. They're here.
> they were forced to keep a historic structure up

This is untrue. The building was never designated a historic structure. This action by the local government had nothing to do with Heritage England. It was solely a bizarre flex that shocks the conscience (and would be unconstitutional at least two different ways in the U.S.).
Virtually no one is an atheist, if you take the Sapiens definition of religion: “a system of human laws and values, which is founded on a belief in a super human order." (Super human orders are not the product of human whim or human agreements, unlike e.g. the laws of soccer)
https://sites.google.com/site/taborsapiens/home/10-the-law-o...

If you read the book it’s clear communism, fascism, democracy and capitalism are really religions too. They require belief in a super human order - a set of laws that exist without backing in science or human agreement. E.g. “All men are created equal”
why not spark is a maintenance nightmare?
Hmm, it wasn't clear whether this will Make the World a Better Place (TM). Financing denied.
Yep! I have. I also don't drive, don't fly on airplanes, live in a tiny apartment, and will never have kids.
Artificial chicken stuffed with soy and other fillers can't be long term indistinguishable to your body.

I wish you lasting health, but fear you are suggesting we all gamble on the oversight and benevolence of the food industry by eating even more processed, engineered foods than even Doritos or Taco Bell as your main protein source(s).

Yes, industrial food does bad things to produce large amounts of chicken, but there are quality farmers still in business, and I'll take a real, dead bird, fish or cow (and occasional pig, though harder to defend) any day over engineered replacement proteins.
You do know that you can prevent IOT devices from reaching the internet, right? Our Wemo gear, cameras, etc, get blocked by my firewall. Problem solved while still benefiting from their convenience.