skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might not be that straightforward, given contracts agreed with EDF guaranteeing a minimum tariff for electricity supply; the article links to one from 2016 [1] that states:

The UK government sought to ensure EDF pressed ahead with the project, in spite of the high expense, by in 2013 guaranteeing the company would be paid £92.50 per megawatt hour for the electricity generated by Hinkley Point C over a 35-year contract due to run between 2025 and 2060. This is more than double the current annualised rate for wholesale electricity prices.

This aspect of the contract is also explained in a 2018 Guardian article [2]; here's the relevant bit:

Given its commitment to building Hinkley Point C, the government had no choice but to make EDF an offer that was too good to resist. It offered to guarantee EDF a fixed price for each unit of energy produced at Hinkley for its first 35 years of operation. In 2012, the guaranteed price – known as the “strike price” – was set at £92.50 per megawatt hour (MWh), which would then rise with inflation. (One MWh is roughly equivalent to the electricity used by around 330 homes in one hour.)

This means that if the wholesale price of electricity across the country falls below £92.50, EDF will receive an extra payment from the consumer as a “top-up” to fill the gap.

[1] "Why EDF’s Hinkley Point deal is potentially so lucrative"

https://www.ft.com/content/70baa0ea-6493-11e6-a08a-c7ac04ef0...

[2] "Hinkley Point: the ‘dreadful deal’ behind the world’s most expensive power plant"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...
>The reason why the Apollo team chose these terms instead of the Taylor ones was because these were actually optimized for minimum error in the interval −π/2<y<π/2

How would these coefficients be derived in the first place?
Your clock does, kinda, ain't that enough?
People keep forgeting that ARM, Microsoft, Apple and Google OSes use drivers written in C++.
On the contrary, the last couple of years (including corona) have shown how much misinformation governments and schools are willing to spread. I worry a lot about the best ways to shield my children from that.
input shaping is wonderful.

I can't wait for the Duet folks to implement it on that firmware -- input shaping is really the only thing that attracts me to Klipper in the least.
You can, but that's an additional thing to think of.

My work laptop has a built-in camera cover, but I don't remember to keep it open/closed.
> But its value to people who study art is absolutely affected by the shape it's in.

> The most obvious example is "Ecce Mono", item 15 on a list of botched restorations here

You are right, but probably not for the reason you think. Ecce Mono had no value until it was botched, and then it became famous. So, yes, its value to people who study art probably is affected by the shape it's in, but it's anyone's guess whether the value of the Picasso will go down or up now that it's "the Picasso that fell on the floor".
Derivatives settlements with smart contracts is the all time killer app of crypto in my mind because the contract can allocate payouts on its own.

Obviously these can't be physical, they have to be financial, but if you are allocating something financial with value on a liquid market you are just one step away from getting to the physical thing.
If you plot out all usage globally, recreational use is probably going to be the most common case. However, being recreational is not a property of the substance itself, so the term you both were using is misleading in that sense.
Pasted from here:
https://pastebin.com/JVMvQnuh
First new VAX in 30 years?
If your biz doesn't work without tracking and you cant to context based advertisement to find audiences then your biz needs to fail. I don't want your sh!tty startup to succeed if it involves tracking children (and adults) to deliver ads. If you can only make money by using highly targeted ads on Facebook, then your biz model is just bad.
> C++ uses an exception handling model built around stack unwinding

By default, just like Ada, C++ allows to disable exceptions and use other error checking mechanisms.

As a real life example, macOS drivers don't use exceptions.
My understanding is that children rewatching things over and over is healthy for them, as it aids in things like language learning.

Anecdotally, in my own experience learning a second language, the online part of the course will play an audio or video clip, then play it again and have you answer questions on it, then do it again having you fill out missing words in a transcript, then play it again as you read the text along. I've found this extremely helpful to tune my ears.
Illegal no, bad yes. Also you would probably be partially liable if anything bad happened.
The Western concept of “freedom” - more precisely, of rights unalienably reserved to individuals, families, and private societies, even at the expense of optimal outcomes for society at large - does not assume or require the sensible judgement of its beneficiaries. As another poster alluded, this is a misconception of freedom’s purpose: it does not exist so that society may be optimally ordered, but because it is the necessary dignity (put otherwise, religiously: endowed by our creator) of a sentient human. To subordinate the individual to the needs of society for such crass goals as slightly increased economic productivity or a smarter generation of children is to deny that there may be a purpose to our existence beyond its own mindless perpetuation.

Moreover, there may be emergent boons in favoring the individual over society and the state. My ability to lead an idiosyncratic life, to make choices which may harm both me and the optimal operation of our society, allows for: subcultures flourishing unimpeded and providing joy to those who would otherwise be ostracized; clever eccentrics pursing new technology or new ways of living and thinking; the resiliency to change inherent in diversity, analogous to evolution.

Finally, I think your critique is less about the freedom of the individual and more the danger of unimpeded free enterprise acting on that freedom with ever improving and ever more terrible Skinner boxes of consumerism. It seems to me the best way to address this plight is not more restrictions on the choices of individuals - eg, spying on children to homogenize their behavior - but more restrictions on businesses. If one argues from the dignity of the individual, there is more room to restrict the freedom of capitalist enterprises than that of an individual human’s choices.
I’m running a PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 (1st gen) and am stuck on 10.13.6 because I’m pretty sure they didn’t release drivers for 10.14+. It’s a FireWire 400 device. I absolutely love it but because of it, I’m probably never going to upgrade my studio mac. I do wonder if it’s a class a compliant device and works without drives (I think I read somewhere that it might work) but I legitimately use the software that comes with it for controlling the mixer and saving patches and things so I’m not too enthused by it.

The new Bitwig 4 even dropped support for 10.13 which was a bit unexpected as it supports Windows 7.

Old gear getting dropped because of driver issues is really annoying, but I have come to terms with it. All music produces and studios deal with it. Some mixing rooms are on 20 year old hardware and that’s just how it is.
Germany. Where temperatures dip for some months below the geothermal temperature. Efficiency of air based pumps drops markedly when temperatures reach below 0 degrees Celsius.

And last but not least: ground / water carries much more energy per volume unit than air does. So air based heat pumps would make more sense in Europe's south and less sense farther north.
Well, the person says people showed up with knives at their home and physically harmed them.

I'd say this qualifies as a threat to life, and shrugging is unlikely to work in this situation.
Wow, thnx for the link.
>risk of serious consequences (like dying) from COVID-19

Is absolute risk reduction mentioned anywhere?
The second comment says

>Then I had a year+ of long covid symptoms.

With that context, I read the first comment as

> In my case, remaining symptoms[of long covid] started disappearing after 2 weeks[after the vaccine]. By week 9[after the vaccine] I could no longer identify a single symptom[of long covid].

> However the vaccine itself had weird and strong side effects on me for a month and a half[= 6 weeks][after the vaccine].
> I suspect that Netflix had some movies that I would gladly watch

No so sure about that, in my experience they really don't have a deep licence pool any more, at least not for movies.
as I said
>yeah some movies might be more likely to be rewatchable quicker by a larger amount of the population,

>Wait [ ] months before recommending again a show
I already watched.

does not handle that scenario, furthermore I am perhaps more pessimistic about user self knowledge than you are. I would probably make that box some high number but I am a sucker for rewatching some movies very often.
I’ve never really thought of YouTube as a profitable venture by any measure. More luck-based than anything if you want to actually make money. And the time and effort that goes into it…
So if I can give my extremely pedantic rebuff: `end` is 3 characters rather than two with `{}` - that's objectively more work to type, and it makes your programs take more space on disk.

Also it's dead simple to write parsers and developer tools which can match open and close braces. Handling `end` with an arbitrary opening token (maybe it's `if <...>`, `while <...>` what have you) is objectively more work for your CPU to work with.

Subjectively, it looks dumb to have code which looks like this:

end
end
end
end
end
end
Dr Peter Attia is obsessed with the topic :)

https://peterattiamd.com/tag/autophagy/
> Cars aren't right hand drive in arabic speaking countries, things like scissors are still made predominantly for right handed people. The cursor keys are on the right hand side of the keyboard, and so on.

None of these deal with text alignment problems, I guess.

> Why would you swap the navigation of a website from the left to the right side

Because text with alignment is part of the UI; perhaps it’s better if the text flow and UI flow match.

> Personally, I think the convention to flip almost everything is due to old technological constraints.

This could be easy to verify. E.g.: are there newspapers that predate Windows, where text is RTL but other layout elements flow from left to right?
Unless I become Robert Johansson[0], my imagination and capacity for material engineering is not going to be enough to simultaneously have a life and protect against a single sufficiently motivated individual, let alone a nation state putting a lawful (by its standards) order against me.

I’m only even safe from nutcases because the nation collectively has enough experience dealing with people who think they know better.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_E._Taylor
The kind of content that works well for Netflix does not work so well for me. They introduce just enough content that works for me that I don’t cancel the subscription.

I still find it a marvel that despite the majority of content introduced being not for me, I have been able to watch something unseen approximately every night and have given up on so little. In that sense, it is better than TV – even if the impression I get from the new content I scroll past is that it appears to be following all the same trends that made TV less appealing to me.

The most irritating consequence of this content problem for me is that nothing remains in the same place. Is continue watching going to be one, two or even three down button presses tonight? The reward is occasionally something gets suggested that is worth watching that would have been found anyway within a few minutes of searching.

I would imagine what they’re doing makes sense for the majority, but it would be wonderfully nice if there were some kind of alternate "advanced" mode for people who understand the lack of content where all this suggested and popular stuff went away and the search filter improved.
Nintendo is Japanese, and I don't think they heavily rely on such mechanics. They may have such aspects in their games for mobile phones, though.
Time to hit the history books. 1980s the fear propaganda was still strong, but the three letter agencies had enough material to pass judgment on the USSR.

Example:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1240452

The USSR bought grain when its harvests failed during the 1970s - this is not the action of a superior system about to surpass you and replace you.
Making a good meditation timer is not an easy task. I have tried many on both iOS and Android and can recommend only one that suits me - Meditation Timer by Telesense...

It is really difficult to filter out all obstructions and notifications. And it takes carefull design to make flexible timer that suits meditator needs.

As for meditation coaching app I think there are so many approaches to teaching meditation that there is a space for many more apps. But I doubt that one size fits all approach will ever work... Best approach might be not an app but a meditation platform where a student might mix various techniques, teachings, styles... etc...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.telesens...
systemextensionsctl list yields 0 extensions on my system.

Are there any users of these extensions at this point?

It does seem a bit weird that installing these extensions supposedly doesn't require any user consent, even though stuff like screen recording or folder access does.
i forgot what thread was that, but someone linked this twitter account lol

https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice/status/141214323096402739...
Ah but the Settings app does USB hotspots too
> FDIC & regulation kind of makes it so for most people most of the time it doesn't matter that banks are custodial.

Non-custodial means the owner is responsible for protecting the asset from theft and operational risks. Nobody wants that, especially not in the case of digital assets, which aren't governed by property rights and instead rely entirely on effective control of the asset to determine who "owns" it.
Jeff makes dollars faster than babies. Ambiguous and true
Maybe you could take them to court based on the argument that they made certain implicit promises, based on custom and reasonable and forseeable assumptions about their customers' expectations, when they began providing the service/platform.

It's in court where both parties get a chance to make their case and have it decided by an impartial party, based on the balance of evidence.
If its an eCommerce site then tracking and logging users is a necessary function in the same way as any brick and mortar tracks and logs its customers. A brick and mortar doesn't need your consent to track you on cctv because accessing the store is the consent why should a website require your consent for the same thing?

The law is just a bad idea poorly executed, like the obsession with cookies? I assume the law is for normies that don't understand that websites are using cookies to track them, but normies don't know that cookies are used to track them so informing them that the site uses cookies means nothing to them, they will agree cookies not knowing they are actually agreeing to being tracked.

From the point of view of a developer the cookie obsession also causes problems, like what if I use cookies to store the fact that people don't want to be tracked so I don't pester them with the notice? do I need a notice for that? What if I don't use cookies but an e-tag for the same purpose. If I uniquely fingerprint your browser can I then just track anyone anywhere without consent? Im not using cookies.

If the EU wanted to ban tracking users they could easily have just wrote that into law instead of this legal, technical and practical mess.
Technically, parts of the degree were wasted (everything to do with actual physics) and the maths education was just a side effect that could have been given more efficiently with a maths degree (or even some other kind of education).
You're wrong and you don't seem to be listening but I'll try one last time. I think you're simply refusing to engage thinking circuits because you've already installed the following in your brainrc: alias GPL=bad.

Licence incompatibility is not in the slightest bit unique to the GPL. It's simply how licences work. Other licences can seem interchangeable because they are very simple and one may stipulate a superset of the requirements of the other, so you can always "upgrade". But you can't "downgrade". You can't mix a BSD-licensed work with a WTFPL work and license the whole thing under WTFPL because you will violate the BSD licence.

Licences are only a thing because of copyright. Every single licence out there only works because of copyright. Different licences have different aims. The aim of GPL is to "disable" copyright. The GPL is antiviral.
AFAIK it’s usual practice for billionaire founders to fund their lifestyles with loans taken against their stock. If they sold stock, they’d incur large taxes. A loan avoids that.
Nice, I like it!

Of course, you won't be able to get away with just a simple checkbox there - to give informed consent, I need to be able to review what data is being sent, to whom, and for what purpose. Some kind of popup or summary page will still be needed. However, this has a much different feel to it - as a user, I'd feel respected by you, and I might actually be inclined to opt-in as a favor to you.

RE details screen: given the data is already collected, a smart enough screen could let the user inspect actual data, not just promises. That's probably too much work and isn't going to happen unless someone like you implements this as plug-and-play components, but I imagine a details screen giving me summary like:

- Google Analytics
- Your mouse movements (24213 data points)
- Which links you clicked, and when
- 12 internal
- 2 leading to external sites
- EvilNoGoodCorp Ltd
- Input events in text boxes (234 characters)
[click here] to show recording

In a hypothetical, perfect world, most users wouldn't even look at any of this. But some might skim it, expand it here end there, and the few privacy-conscious users would read through them, ready to raise alarm if something is off. This would be a very meaningful step for the industry to regain trust of the users, making people more comfortable with some level of telemetry.

As I see it, there is a place for analytics on websites and in software, but it has to be respectful, opt-in, in a culture of mutual help. A nice company asks me to do them a favor and let them watch me as I use their services? Sure, why not. If it helps them make the service better, or stay afloat for longer, I might benefit too. That's a polar opposite of the current culture, where companies feel entitled to as much data as they can possibly get.

On the technical side, I appreciate the detailed writeup. I didn't know you could inject CSP entries at runtime! And then:

> We detect JavaScript network API events by patching and overriding all of the global interfaces used to create network requests, such as XMLHttpRequest(), fetch(), and navigator.sendBeacon().

Holy shit you can do that?! That's impressive, in a positive way, both in terms of the browsers allowing this, and you finding a good use for it.
What Is the Outlook for Trading Volumes from Here?
Yeah, as another comment mentioned I was specifically referring to the UK Office. I've seen the first couple of seasons of the US Office and so not enough to really comment on this particular scene being removed.

However, they are vastly different shows tonally and so I imagine a scene featuring black face would be handled very differently by the US version
Perhaps we don't need an app to meditate? Does everything need to have a tie to tech and the latest gizmo?
You can "burn" the synthetic and claim part of the collateral.

I don't think there is a problem in this particular situation.

The place where there will be a problem is where MakerDAO had problems: when there aren't enough people willing to mint synthetics. The only reason to mint a synthetic is in order to sell it, in order to get a synthetic short position. If not enough people want to do this, but other people want a long position, this will generate excess demand for synthetics and the synthetics will trade consistently above the price of their real-world underlying.

This is precisely what happened to MakerDAO before it turned itself into a "stablecoin index fund". DAI was trading way above $1.00 for several months running. MakerDAO's goal was to provide a trustless stablecoin. If it costs $1.15 to buy one this week and $1.00 next week, it's not very stable. Those 15 cents didn't make DAI expensive -- they made DAI a failure at its goal of producing a stable coin.

Mirror's case is different. They're not trying to create a stablecoin. If the synthetics trade at a premium to the underlying, that difference is effectively a brokerage fee charged in order to open a long position. If the fee charged to open a long position swings around by 15% week-to-week that is certainly unattractive, but it doesn't make Mirror a failure.

This might actually work as expected. The likely failure mode will be annoyingly high fees for long positions, rather than failure to deliver on its promise (as happened with MakerDAO).
While it may be true that the figure of 10,000 steps per day is fairly hand-wavey, headlines like this can be counter-productive since they can encourage people to abandon the overall goal of being more active.

What's interesting to me is how governments spend millions on public health messages (in the UK: "five a day" fruit and veg, recent TV campaigns about lung and bowel cancer) while messages like 10,000 steps and "eight glasses of water" take off from the grass-roots.
Implementing a sane back end in Node.js using NestJS, Part II: Project setup
Also worth checking out in the context: https://peterattiamd.com/the-mouse-trap-lost-in-translation/
Why don't you write it, and people can use it if they want.
That's because:

- bad trips are rare if your respect set and settings, which every responsible consumer will tell you to do.

- they have been used politically in bad faith. It's only fair to not add to the stack of propaganda.

- most of bad trips are not a bad thing. It can be spectacular, but rarely dangerous, and may actually be a good thing. My only bad trip helped me grow just like my good ones. It was not pleasant, just like throwing up stale food is not, but I was mentally healthier after it. Some dark things are inside of us all, and it's good they come out, but the experience is likely not something we crave for.
I have syringomyelia (spine cavity that presses on nerves causing neuropath pain) - some days it's barely noticeable and some days it feels like someone is putting my legs/feet in boiling water.

Had a massive row because it hurts to stand on those days and I'd booked a reserved seat on a train and someone decided that reservations don't matter.

I had to politely ask them to move, then impolitely ask them - there are days when been 6ft/200lb (1.83/90KG) has it's uses tbh.
> What alternative action to putting up a banner do you propose for the huge numbers of companies that are apparently using cookies in a way that requires a banner?

1. If you use cookies that are strictly necessary for your site to function, you don't need the banner, at all.

2. For anything else you need a banner.

So, the question is: is it EU that "vandalised the web with cookie banners" or "huge number of companies" that indiscriminately collect and sell your data?
Drinking an unsupervised beer still seems less dangerous than taking a supervised bullet.