skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can you share your plan details ? I did clean my diet 85% but I'm still looking for a PE plan.
>The economic realities of coal have nothing to do with renewables.

Coal isn't load following. It overproduces and doesn't get paid during that time because renewables get feed in priority.
We did zero iPads iPhones computers for kids until 8 years old. Tv only.
Oh maybe I have the name wrong, but it is on the Gibraltar side and partnered with Waitrose in the uk
I’m really not. He told Elon to “stick it where it hurts”, which was why I said he talked shit to Elon. Again, I’m not trying to deny that Elon is the bad guy here. But Vernon can be the good guy in a situation and still have made a distasteful mistake (talking disrespectfully).
We’re Fumbling the Return to Physical Offices
The description sounds very complicated. I doubt this will ever fit into my brain, which would make me wary to ever use this. It seems more like a "voodoo data structure" like Judy tables, where you have to trust some library and likely there's no practical way to debug it when it ever goes wrong. Perhaps it has nice properties, but it just seems risky to use something like this. In this case I don't even see a link to a library.
My fault, I just didn't think about the process that much - I wasn't thinking about "cancelling Apple Music", more about just changing card/countries. I figured it would keep my library around, just deactivated.

I actually did end up attempting to restore backups where i had downloaded everything, but as soon as I signed in with my account it just deleted everything from my local library again.

I had been using windows more and more and I didn't care so I switched to Spotify and am better for it.
I have Netflix and Amazon prime in Sweden, but still need to get pirate content if I want to watch it in Italian (my mother language).

It's not the Internet, it's copyright that has failed us.
Local government broadcaster, the ever more bloated and ugly NRK, have started using synthetic voices for translations and it is so jarring I cringe in my seat.

Especially gross is it when you hear the passionate voice of someone crying out - I particularly remember this when Myanmar was on the agenda - and then that perfectly understandable English voice fades out and is replaced with this all-artifacts-no-emotion-at-all voice.
Cool to see this here. I'm from Winnipeg, but didn't hear about this until I found the book sitting on the ground in Vancouver a few months ago.
My grandfather was a nuclear scientist who worked on the Manhattan project. He ate right and exercised daily. He even maintained the community parks as a volunteer fixing things like tennis courts and fences.

He got Alzheimer’s. It dragged out for over a decade killing him slowly and hurting everyone who knew him.

My father decided he’d rather have a shorter but more quality driven life after that experience. He’s overweight, has a great outlook on his life, and is a joy to be around.

Not everyone wants longevity.
> Extremely rare != never, though.

Can you show a single example - anywhere in the world - where this is done at grid scale?

> So it's useful to have a very low capital cost "black swan" backup system. The name of the game here is extremely low capital cost, even at the price of terrible efficiency

I've seen grid scale generators leased as a month-scale solution, so I suppose that counts. That seems more useful than any unproven scheme.
That doesn’t make sense at all. That interpretation would make “positive reinforcement” and “negative punishment” redundant, and it would make “positive punishment” and “negative reinforcement” contradictory. It’s very difficult to effectively reason about modes of operant conditioning when you throw that much nuance out of the window.
> seemed eager to leave Google Maps, but couldn't because of one critical feature

I never wanted to use Google Maps, but had to due to the feature. Using "Apple Maps" was the default preferred position.

I think Apple Maps looks better and is easier to use than Google Maps. I especially dislike the Google Maps turn by turn directions interface.
> The US supported their coup and gives the regime billions of dollars in military aid a year despite a law that specifically forbids giving military aid to juntas that overthrow democratically elected governments.

Egypt was supported by the USSR for much of the Cold War. Prying them away from the Soviet's sphere, at the same time building a buffer for Israel, was a major coup. The aid is the price of that, regardless of who is in power in Cairo. Again, US ally doesn't buy SU-35 from Russia.

Middle East history and politics is mind bogglingly complicated. It's naive to try to reduce it to one sentence. American only Middle East ally is Israel. Iraq and Iran used to be close partners. I wouldn't be surprised if Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey will be mentioned the same way some day.
> The Internet never delivered on its promise.

Only if you look at the commercial offering.
If the kid had a cold, what did you expect the doctor to do about it?
> The technology to generate hydrogen is also completely mature

That depends on what metric you are looking at. Efficiency? Perhaps. Cost/kW of the electrolyzer? Not true at all.

Also, the use case for electrolyzers has changed: from converting relatively pricy baseload power to hydrogen to converting cheap intermittent power to hydrogen. For the latter you want to trade efficiency for lower capital cost.
Slow Mole
> How many people stopped pirating when Apple made it extremely easy to buy music for $1?

I can't think of any that stopped honestly or even owned an Apple product. Apple products are expensive.
What are some good alternatives? I’m not a fan of Medium either. Their user experience is very disrespectful. Edit: alternatives for a reader
Medium had a brief period when it was enjoyable and not overflowing with clickbait, listicles, and ads. Now it is, indeed, trash software.
The important votes in the supreme court are the swing votes. Thomas is in general pretty reliable in that he will generally have a conservative opinion.

The really important persons in the court are the new arrivals, they are all conservatives, but in several occasions they have already acted more like responsible professionals instead of activists.
This is only half-true:
"[...] candidates are chosen individually by the 27 national governments. Within the EU, the legitimacy of the commission is mainly drawn from the vote of approval that is required from the European Parliament, along with its power to dismiss the body."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission
> hard to store safely

It's far easier to store it (underground, as compressed gas; this is a demonstrated technology) than it is to store energy in batteries. The cost/energy capacity can be extremely low, ~ $1/kWh equivalent.
I believe it’s this ruling in a case involving Oracle: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=12...

The ruling was appeal and a 2016 ruling in a higher court just confirmed that you can in fact resell software licenses.
> As far as obedience goes, I can believe that test pilots are on average less obedient than an average member of the military. They might be better motivated/manipulated through feelings of national pride etc., though.

That's false for a number of reasons:

1) military test pilots followed orders. Chuck Yeager also said that it was a sense of duty that motivated him. Test pilots follow a "test profile", so there isn't a lot of time for showboating.

If you watch some YT videos on military test pilot training, you'll understand how they're the opposite of cowboys.

2) civilian test pilots demanded 6-figure bonuses for test flights, so they were the "less obedient" ones. Though Scott Crossfield held back in the X-15 to avoid setting certain space records first by a civilian instead of the military, as requested.

3) the X-Planes program stopped and the space program started. Astronauts (often test pilots or instructors) were obedient in space with rare exceptions (the Atlantis tile near-accident resulted in a rift between the astronauts and ground control during re-entry.)
I’d love to read a write up on how you did that. I wonder if it’s possible that one endpoint returns a chronological feed whereas another endpoint returns an algorithmic field?
Cinemas and Movie theatres are going the way of drive-in theatres. The only ones that will survive are those offering some feeling of nostalgia, and small independent ones with incredibly low overhead.

Outside of dating, why spend that much money if you can stream the entertainment you want on release?
We haven't seen big ideas in the construction industry yet. Where are the 3D printing processes and modular designs? Sure, they exist, but not on the scale needed to revolutionize this industry.
Oh yeah boys, let's enjoy our future income being less than past income!
At least there is now a dedicated japanese media torrent tracker and a lot of anime and tokusatsu have JP subtitles
That's super interesting, thanks for sharing! I admit to being pretty confused by all of the politics and fighting; my impression is that the power of the TPLF came from 1) their military capacity and 2) the fact they had previously held a disproportionate number of senior positions and could give favors to Tigrayans. But given their main demand seemed to be succession and they could have demanded that as per the constitution, it didn't make a lot of sense to me to pursue it by military means.

What do you make of the recent ceasefire? Do you think people have negative opinions of the fact that Eritreans were in country and consider it a violation of sovereignty? I'm not sure if you're in tech or not but you're on HN so I'm curious what the tech scene is like & what you make of the new safaricom deal?
To be fair, you're on a forum of largely highly technical people. If every one of us pirated movies and music, we still don't make a dent in the overall market.
I think what's essentially happening here is that Instagram has lots of tracking and targeting so it's very good at telling advertising "Hey, here's the list of people you want to advertise to, and here's how much it will cost". The result of this hyper-targeted approach though is that if you're not in any of the targets no one wants to advertise to you at all. This is the weird part though, rather than accept this, Instagram juts lowers the cost of advertising to you to practically zero. This is what opens the door to these trash ads - it's a kind of noise floor where ads are so cheap you may as well just spend some money on advertising something that costs you zero capital and has crazy margins - cheap chinese drop shipping rubbish. Because there's practically no barrier to entry, it immediately becomes a race to the bottom and the price of the adverts will perfectly match the margin times conversion rate.

What's interesting here is that Instagram have basically decided not to put a floor in. They could very easily say "Hey, we don't yet know how or what to target at these people, but they're still users, let's just not show them many ads, keep them happy on the platform, and give up on that ad revenue until we get it figured out, once we've firgured it out they'll probably be valuable". Instead what they've decided is "Hey, we have no idea how to target at these people so let's just drop the price of ads to the point where anyone will advertise any crap, it'll give the users a terrible experience and forever associate our app with cheap tat, but atleast we get to pick up that tiny revenue stream from drop shippers"
The USA for funding the creation of the virus

Citation needed.
Indian state proposes two-child policy, stringent measures for violators
I need to work on my memory and brain health overall because it acts sporadically. I can remember my first memory...I was maybe 2 or 3 and I was playing with blocks on the floor of our living room and I thought to myself "have I ever talked before?" and then I thought "I should ask mom, but it would be weird to talk while also asking if I've ever done it before.."..it's a very confusing memory...

But half the time my short term memory is nearly useless so I have to write everything down. So much static from my internal monologs, constantly talking over each other. It's exhausting sometimes. So I just write down everything..what I'm about to do, what I was just doing, what I just thought to do next week...all goes in the notebook.
>At 42 I have the memory of me at 25. My memory was terrible back then too.

Same here, I've always had bad memory, I've learnt to live with it better as I've got older.

I always (or mostly) think of my future self for current actions, ie I try and predict what I would be thinking in the future - eg If I put things down, I choose places where my future self would guess to look. same for my documentation or actions lists etc..

over time this makes things extremely efficient
Mutating and non-mutating Swift contexts
Should have been qualified with middle-class Americans living in the suburbs.

Growing up in a rural area with Chinese takeout as the only Christmas option is well protected from the pre-conditioned Honey Baked Ham holiday lifestyle.
Piracy allows us to live in the year 2100.
Apparently not an Australian.
Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight
The YouTube channel Caspian Report has a great video on this subject (with a lot more detail and context): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8X8tbjqjg

That channel's content is remarkably well-made and gives a great insight into geopolitics. I wish most YouTube content would be half as good as Caspian Report is.
Proper insulation is way more efficient than AC. One of the main reasons there is so much AC in the US is because many buildings aren't well-insulated and historically energy has been incredibly cheap.
I think the state of software and media piracy have been in somewhat of a sweet spot. It’s technically illegal and not just every random person can easily find what they want. But those who are motivated enough to find the content and skirt the laws are able to do it.

This way the industry is still able to monetize and those without the resources can still get access with some effort.

I pirated like crazy growing up poor but internet savvy, but now that I’m a well paid professional it isn’t necessary and isn’t even worth the effort when I can just rent/buy.
A university professor that created the Modula-2 compiler sold by Borland, and was one of the Pizza compiler designers, which contributed to Java generics.

Not your regular university professor, rather someone with industry experience, specially in the Java world.
like 25-year olds? Give me my memory which I had when I was 3-8 years old, I can still 'taste' the sunshine through green sunscreens we had in elementary school. The faces of teachers and fellow scholars so vivid.

Anybody else have that experience that once you're 20+, your brain is full and only x-amount of stuff is retained per day. I sometimes don't remember what I had for dinner the day before, but I remember some esoteric option to a one-time used application on the commandline from 2 weeks ago. Scary, because it makes me look ultra-dumb for everyday stuff which I have to do in a normal house-hold.
Like I said, nothing startling. I do studio pilates a couple of times a week, if you have aches and pains I really recommend this - I don't have back pain anymore because of this. I walk everywhere now, I used to drive everywhere, I moved inner city near public transport. It seems very personal though, I know some people that run a lot, not for me, others do gym work or golf. It really depends on what bits are hurting I feel. I do think we all need some sort of strength training, and the research seems to back that up, and Pilates is superb for that. I'd been very sedentary for a number of years, and happened to go to someone that had done a lot of rehab work, she was great. I tried a few people though, so just find one that works for you.

Diet is mainly Mediterranean now - beans, lentils, veggies, fish etc. occasional meat, but not much.
That is untrue as well. Inflexibility isn't the problem, the cost profile is. Yes, nobody likes running nuclear at half power, because fuel costs are minute compared to the building cost of the plant (Btw that is exactly analogous to the cost profile of renewables: almost all cost is in the building). So as long as you can regulate some pumped hydro plants that, shed some load, etc, you may save some money. Why don't we do load following with renewables, like e.g. shutting off some wind turbines? Same reason as for nuclear, plus some government regulations.

And in general, renewables do need a flexible supplement. So what would you suggest? More pumped hydro is impossible to build due to environmental regs, NIMBY and geography. Coal and lignite isn't flexible at all, and it is coal. Gas is extremely expensive to run, so expensive that there are gas peaker plants on idle for years in Germany. Also, they are burning gas. Bio gas is not available in sufficient capacity. Battery storage might be an option 30 years from now when enough old EV batteries are available on the cheap. But that will prevent recycling them into new EV batteries and need even more resources like lithium and cobalt. So the alternatives to nuclear like coal and gas are worse, and only still in use because they don't pay fair a price on their carbon emissions.
Not quite, but it's sure vastly more efficient than swapping floppy disks.
Where do you see the author complaining?? He's celebrating the tracker-induced trashiness of the ads!
Jelly: a recreational programming language inspired by J
Has anyone done anything by themself? Weak argument.
I think long range UHV transmission plus wind/PV Solar is the real challenge for other baseload technologies.

Projects like the proposed 4500km Australia-SG link[1] mean you get a lot of flexibility to build supply in places different to where the demand is. That solves a lot of the baseload issues.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%E2%80%93ASEAN_Power_...
Too many leaks.
Yeah, I was replying to the 'superager' submission and my observations in connection. People can do whatever they want, particularly when you hit 60 :-).
The Trump administration caused a lot of problems for the US. It further polarized the entire country. One big long-term problem is that it did push the supreme court to have a conservative majority. Conservative are not really a majority in the US. And even among conservatives there is a wide range of opinions about many issues.
I'll give you two reasons.

1. In many countries $6500 is enough to start a business. I'd rather do that than pay for an overpriced piece of aluminum with a piece of fruit etched on one of the sides. What if I'm not the business type? That's fine. It's still probably better to save that money.

2. Modern computing is turning into a dumpster fire. It will be pretty soon that the Intel platform will work in the same way as the above-mentioned fruitty platform and you won't be able to run whatever software you want on it. While I agree OP is probably making his life extra miserable [1], I admire people like him, since their efforts will give us the next free/fun computing platform.

[1] I too run a Raspberry Pi at home, but I've long given up on turning it into a desktop machine. There is an easier way to run modern software on cheap hardware with a fraction of the hassle.
I think software piracy hurts/benefits companies in complicated ways. When kids trade copies of Photoshop, Adobe benefits from this. This allows people to learn the tool and strenghtens Adobe’s status. On the other hand more affordable options suffer. Why pay even $20 for the second best, if you can get the best for free.
There is a pair of books called "writing an interpreter in Go" and "writing a compiler in Go" If I remember their names, pretty accessible.

There is also the outstanding "Crafting Interpreters" by Robert Nystrom, this book and its author hold a very special place in my heart. Before I read this book I was stuck at the "+-*/ calculator" level in compilers and interpreters, intimidated by the depth and breadth of further material. This book teaches you how to make a full blown scripting language with first class closures and classes, first as an interpreter running on java (high level enough to get the intimidated beginner started and focused on the task, yet still a challenging learning experience) then as a {bytecode compiler, VM} pair in C be because this is how all the cool kids write their interpreters and compilers. Accessible if there was ever such a thing in the world, I mean it : if you understand how linked lists, hash maps and trees work, you're good to go. The icing on the cake is that the whole thing is free on a website by the same name the author made, the same thing he did with his other book about Game Programming Design Patterns, it's an astonishing act of charity, I really wish to meet this guy. An awesome personality and a great teacher. You will remember his voice and manner of speech for a lot of time.

There is also the book "elements of computing systems" aka "From Nand To Tetris", where the authors walk you through creating a full computing stack from the NAND logic gate to the OS. Starting from chapter 6 through 11, you write an assembler for the hardware, then implement a VM running on the assembler, then implement a java-like language on top of the VM.

These things are just off the top of my head, there is a massive trove of material in YouTube and the rest of the Internet.
I am not sure about this article but Jian-Wei Pan looks to be doing some pretty interesting stuff with photonic devices.
> unless you believe that the artists' work should be free

Interesting, “work” is kind of ambiguous in that sentence. Either it means the labor or it means the artistic creation.

Anyways I want to think that there are a multitude of ways to allow global unfettered reach of the latter while ensuring the former has adequate funding.

I mean everyone is free to buy practically any pizza, in practically any form, from practically anyone, and still people get paid to come up with novel recipes.

For digital media I think YouTube and GitHub are the type of space to focus on. Compared to Spotify they are almost the kind of free services one could imagine a copyright free Netflix and Spotify could look like.

You don’t find many multi million dollar productions on the ad-financed YouTube. (You do on the completely free GitHub though). It would be interesting to find out if there are other models for YouTube-like media to get access to that kind of funds, pretty sure ads aren’t it, and copyright seems to lead to the Netflix problem.

Patreon and selling merch does it share to finance the channels I watch. But also seems limited in what can be expected.

LWN has this interesting freemium model of keeping the latest edition for subscribers only (unless they share a link), it’s kind of what Kickstarter things do too no? Some extra perks for those is provide t he funding.

Personally I would be happy to pay for “premium” YouTube subscriptions for channels doing a LWN like thing. Would probably prefer to do that through a meta-subscription service (like patreon?) built into the consumption experience to lower the barrier.

For music I see no reason these models shouldn’t be adequate. Film could be a bit mor problematic, seems like those are being replaced with series anyways though, so perhaps a good pilot is enough to secure funding for subsequent episodes.
Tesla bought Solar city to bail out around $6 billion in assets owned by the Musk family. He came up with an overhyped product launch (the solar roof) to instill confidence while behind the scenes he gutted Solar city (renamed to Tesla Energy) to nothing. I don't want him to be a role model for anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QqtSqy3oeY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f0PzbJOau8