skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much would fossil fuels cost if the west hadn't spent tens of trillions of 'your tax money' on security, and statecraft in the name of oil only to pass on the profits to private companies.

How much would it cost if demand wasnt subsidized by tens of billions of 'your tax money' going into mega highways, and three lane roads in rural places who's property taxes couldn't pay it in 500 years.
And they produce no waste?
It is very useful if you want to learn how to program OSes.
…in the US / EU.
Time and place. Taking a math quiz is the wrong time to experiment with bypassing quizzes.
If a significant amount of your new customers find your physical shop through Google maps, what can you do? If someone wants to find a hardware store near them, good chance they'll just write "hardware store" on Google maps. The entry point of people's search is Google - you've already lost the game before it ever started.
Your experience of mobile network coverage in the UK maybe doesn't match everyone else's?
Tschernobyl was practically the worst possible outcome. Yet it already is down to safe levels almost everywhere.

http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/radiation...

So no, I do not buy into the "basically forever".
Ideally, yes. All motorized vehicles could share the road.
Is this a euphemistic way of saying cheating?
What the App Stores need to do is be competitive on their own terms.

i.e. the % cut they take for the non-trivial service of billing and all of the overhead, for marketing and distribution etc..

People use the App Stores as primary point of entry, they trust it, their CC's are in there, and they have volume.

All said, if there were other app stores allowed to play ball, Apple/G could probably charge 8-10% and people would pay it.

They could require that any app downloaded from their store use their billing service, that's reasonable.

These are platform monopolies, they're bad for everyone.

If the web were to have been controlled like this, it wouldn't remotely exist in it's current form.
From the Ofcom release:

> Some of the call boxes we plan to protect are used to make relatively low numbers of calls. But if one of those calls is from a distressed child, an accident victim or someone contemplating suicide, that public phone line can be a lifeline at a time of great need.
not the same audience but I use org mode and its org-babel functionality for that and it's great!
thank you! Yes, our goals is really to make a better spreadsheet - but simpler to use, integrated with the tools people use everyday, and 10x better to share.
So, coal isn't the only option besides nuclear power...
Still about that hoax?
kind of related: (PHP in 2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825468
IRRC Samsung also has this bullshit "security" feature but it disables the fingerprint reader (there's a video about it but haven't found it again).
FileMaker is one product that does these things. It kind of languished while it was owned by Apple, and made some poor decisions. It does seem to have made a change for a better direction and I could see it making a comeback, but entry-level pricing is needed.
eheh thanks! Glad you liked the spreadsheet touch.
One partial solution to the renewables problem is to massively over-build. If they continue to drop in price, that will be feasible. Solar can be built up to the point where it will reliably produce sufficient daytime power even on very cloudy days for instance. Obviously it doesn't produce at night, but usage is also lower at night (in the future variable pricing to keep that the case as more electric cars come online). Likewise wind turbines can reliably produce power day and night if they're a bit geographically distributed and in sufficient numbers. This also means that often there will be more power available than needed. Some turbines can simply be stopped (braked) during those periods, but we may indeed find many loads can be time-shifted, reducing the baseline amount that needs to be reliably produced.

Long way of saying I agree with you; to make a reasonable comparison, you need to include an over-building factor to account for the variable nature of renewables. I'm not sure what that factor is (obviously it depends on a lot of variables), but I know it's been studied.
Censorship is horrible and would in fact be the end of democracy.
The best thing to do is add opening hours/other info to Apple Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMaps once they start allowing that. Right now Google has a monopoly because every local business in most countries just bother updating opening hours in Google Maps, so consumers have no choice but to use it. Apple and Bing aren't open, but at least it would help remove Google's monopoly on useful information.
Some examples of historic attacks you could embed in algorithms:

“Salami slicing” is a kind of embezzlement where eg an insider programs the computer to credit small amounts to the last account (and then opens an account with a name beginning with Z).

In the 90s there was a massive hushed up scandal where the programmers developing the early Barclaycard made the pseudo random number generator for pin codes just issue three distinct pins. This meant that a stolen card could be easily used because they could guess any pin in three goes before the ATM swallowed the card.

This is hardly an exhaustive list. It’s just to get peoples cogs turning… :)
Bullshit predctions?

Which ones?
Woah seems like Google should promote this instead of the Apps Script API on their Apps Script docs. Deploy, CVS, and TS capability to boot. Thanks!
While back I applied to this PHP/Laravel job. I had to make a CRUD app and I did it, took me like 9 hrs, I made it... but I was a noob too back then regarding repos/how to share code. So I attach it in an email and it never made it... so days later I ask like "did you get my project?" realizing it didn't go through oh man.
#1 Requires some knowledge to do, which can be hard. I do agree that #2 is very true and indeed what I mean by bein stupid is ”exposing your own stupidity/lack of knowledge” rather than playing stupid.
Buying Crypto Assets
> Disallowing explicit `root` login makes it harder for attackers to guess the usernames (...)

Technically correct I guess, but isn't password logins considered bad practice anyway? So if you have passphrase protected, key-based authentication only, is it really relevant whether you have it against root or a user with sudo permissions?
As almost-daily user of Wolt, I'm interested to see how this will impact me. Maybe I finally won't have to pay 3 euros for McDonalds to get delivered for a 10minute walking distance.
I don't use their services and yet my livelihood is entirely dependent on them (and Facebook). That's how bad it is.
You need to compare with renewables.
Fossil fuel isn't an option either way
Interesting you feel like with all this content, there's not enough. Usually we hear there's too much content. Can you elaborate? What's too flashy?

Yap, we have to use some APIs but the searches come from our servers... Which search engine doesn't call any APIs and has great privacy?

We dropped the extension requirement.

The extension has no read access.

No social trickery, I just posted?
Yes, it's just for the show because they know full well that if a police officer stops you and says (s)he is arresting you then in real life you have two options: to comply or to flee/to fight. Obviously they cannot tell the public to resist arrest so they came up with this slightly ridiculous suggestion.
I get that sites want you to create accounts to write comments and create posts. But back in the day, I found not one forum, but many, that wanted me to create an account just to look at the forum posts. It was great when a google search took me to the site, and just to look if the given site would help in my problem, I would need to register.
Notes on "Now / After" screen:
1. What they don't mention is that first results are usually ads, usually to competition. If you really want to be the first result then your business name is searched, you must pay for an ad too. Just tested this.

2. Hovering over an ad link on Chrome, it shows in bottom bar the link as going to brand.com . How can this be done, it's just an <a href="..."> ?
Inspecting or right-click shows the true link to www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk...
Docker Desktop 4.2: Pause / Resume, Say Goodbye to the Update Pop-Up
Thank you for posting that it could be just the thing to give inspiration to someone who needs it! Keep up the great work!
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What I'm learning from this is that anything Jeff Bezos has his hand in is litigious. Amazon did the same thing with the JEDI contract for federal government cloud hosting when they lost the bid.
I've gone down this rabbitole before, and yes, there are things that take two hours, and there are things that take a lot more. The problem is the scope - ie. are you trying to do what you said you'll do (miniature software to log urls), or are you adding 100s of requirements to the scope (gui, filters, privacy,...).

We had a bunch of .xml files containing some data, and someone wanted a .csv file... sure, an hour max, and it's done. Fire up some perl, loop, xml->hash, take the data needed, print line by line, done... less than an hour.

"Hey, can you add just this and that, and separate folders for this and a total and rolling sum?"

...yeah sure... hour or two.

"and this and that?"

...sure, another hour...

"Can this be made for that department to use.. just add a simple gui"

...and we've gone from an hour or two, to weeks or months of work. Nobody wanted a gui application made for "normal users", with all the checks and verifications and documentation and everything when you made a request... the scope was a simple one-off script, and that actually took an hour or two. This is like requesting a bicycle, than wanting to add a hitch for a boat trailer and making it higway-legal. And the added problem is, that your script never intended to do "all of this", and you either have to rewrite it from scratch, or you software looks like "the Burrow" (from harry potter).
The data directory part of OSM is being improved by an interesting way:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete

Basicaly a gamified editor that makes it easy and fun to fill in opening hours and onther important metadata while on the go. Frankly its almost addictive. :)
20000 rows (https://rows.com/docs/platform-limits#tables).
right now it is 20k rows and 104 cols (so ~2M cells). But that's changing soon to 5-10M.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.
We dropped the requirement to install the extension. We're open on all browsers now.
Happy searching or trying :)
I am not necessarily pro nuclear. But due to catastrophic risk, nuclear should be considered in a diversified energy portfolio. This can be different from region to region. I am anti-anti-nuclear.

Of course we should not ignore the risks of nuclear. But my point is that there is no 100% guarantee that no accidents will ever happen. But considering the problems we are facing, the risk characteristics of nuclear are favourable to the problem we are solving.
They can do what they want, but it's the role of the media to call out bullshit so the public is more informed. That's what this article is doing, pointing out how extreme Google is framing things here while the thruth could be very different.
That sounds about right for the administrative overhead. The expensive bit isn't the walk.
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I did think they could work quite well as a test/documentation framework. So as you develop the tests you write documentation, so other developers can use this to better understand the codebase, alongside how best to use the library/application.
Price for nuclear includes the cost of all externalities typically, whereas fossil fuel power assumes CO2 can be dumped for free (or cheap CO2 credits).

Quoting solar costs in UAE as representative for general solar production is clearly wrong. What about countries with seasons and clouds?

And it’s nice to have cheap energy when the sun doth shine and the wind doth blow, but it doesn’t always. Maybe we’ll develop battery technology that lets renewables take us to 100%, but we’re not there yet.

And if you include even modest storage costs in renewables, you don’t end up with fractions of a penny per kWh anymore, either.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29139537
'Not had to use it for medical/fire luckily'

Anecdotally, fire service will always attend at speed. For an ambulance, unless 'patient is not breathing' you'll have to go through the usual call-centre questionnaire process.
The blog post says that pause saves battery, but what I really want to save on my laptop is RAM, and pause doesn't help there.
Friend of a friend is literally an expert on base load provision. What you’ve said about solar and wind providing base load is untrue. You need nuclear (or gas etc) to keep the grid stable. Your base load cannot come from solar or wind, it is literally impossible, this is why we use the term “base load”.
The upsert strategy mentioned (using ON CONFLICT to update instead of insert) is something we use internally quite a bit, esp in multi-insert transactions which were horrendous to handle without conflict resolution because any conflict would end up cancelling the entire transaction.

Though I wish there was an easy way to figure out how many times "CONFLICT" actually occured (i.e how many times did we insert vs update).
Was there ever "buzz" about Amiga becoming one of those Set Top Boxes running Oak/Java?
I love typeful functional programming, but:

> There’s no objective and open evidence that OOP is better than plain procedural programming.

None such evidence for functional vs anything either.

> Some might disagree with me, but the truth is that modern Java/C# OOP has never been properly designed.

Really?

> It never came out of a proper research institution (in contrast with Haskell/FP).

Not designed 'by a committee' effectively? I guess there is a new definition for languages designed by "research institution": a language that nobody uses to ship things.

> Erlang is OOP in its purest form.

Erlang is a domain-specific language for backends. It's useless for front-end.

> Contrast this to a similar refactor of non-OOP code in JavaScript:

A language not made by a research institution, that had to have a bunch of higher-level languages created on top by non-'research institutions' to make it more usable (aka OOP)...

> Refactoring OOP code is extremely risky. Complex dependency graphs and state scattered all over OOP codebase, make it impossible for the human brain to consider all of the potential issues.

And you have picked JavaScript as a counter-example :)? Like, is there a single competent person on Earth who would pick refactoring a legacy JavaScript codebase over a legacy C# codebase? The types alone would be a game changer, not to mention ReSharper.

> The development of functional languages is mostly community-driven.

So, not by 'research institution's?

> I expect some sort of reaction from the defenders of OOP. They will say that this article is full of inaccuracies. Some might even start calling names. They might even call me a “junior” developer with no real-world OOP experience. Some might say that my assumptions are erroneous, and examples are useless. Whatever.

O_O

> However, their arguments in the defense of OOP are usually quite weak. It is ironic that most of them probably have never really programmed in a true functional language.

Pre-deflecting personal attacks followed by a personal attack?

...etc. Too much to unpack there frankly. On a serious note, functional programming saved me a lot of stress in many situations. OOP done well is quite beautiful, and yes, closer to Alan Kay's original vision than modern Java.
yea. we didn't realize this extension install would make for such a terrible experience for some folks.

but we listen, so we dropped the requirement entirely.

happy open searching
Kites like Makani's are autonomous, and that's really one of the harder aspects to get to work.
one way for making Google maps less relevant would be if all the other companies working on maps, including Apple, would instead curate an open repository, like on OSM. Yes, Google could also make use of it, but it will have to "give back" for example when updating info. I see maps and POIs as an infrastructure-like good, like Linux or Wikipedia, which could be shared and companies could still make money on top of it.
Every idiot with a stupid idea for a piece of software is a client, but vanishingly few clients are good customers.

In different words: there are tens or hundreds of thousands of people who can describe software that would be very useful for them, but very few of those ideas would be profitable to fully develop.

Opportunity cost! Every stupid idea implemented snuffs out what could have been a good idea.
The extreme Right is highly sensitive to issues of fairness, upset that while all other countries enforce their borders, this is denied to the US, and that all ethnic groups except whites have celebrated advocacy groups.

The extreme Left is uncompromising, attacking any attempt to enforce the border or limit immigration, and subverting the rule of law by preventing enforcement of current immigration laws, such as by sanctuary cities, legislative limits on cooperation with ICE, and continual deferment of deportation. They even go so far as to attack language, forbidding the accurate term "illegal immigrant", replacing it with the misleading "undocumented" (lack of documentation is clearly not the issue).

Oh, sorry! We were talking about the extreme Left, but I seem to have accidentally described current US government and media policies.
> payroll (average employee £19k, CEO £5m.)

Ouch. I’d forgotten just how bad UK incomes could be. Adjusted for inflation, £19k/year today is only a quibble more than the rate of pay I got in my pre-degree summer holiday job in 2003 making HVAC units in a factory.
Well, I think it depends on how you describe "threaten with violence" to them. On the face of it, it can be a serious situation that perfectly justifies calling 999 (I did it once for this reason and a police car was there within minutes) or it can be just words thrown around. They will try to assess the situation based on what you tell them.
Ever since I upgraded the Google billing API to the latest version a large % of IAPs fail (especially for users from 3rd world countries). Just wish I could offer CC, paypal etc. Let the user decide. Some users don't even have a Google Play payment method
Sorry it came off as hostile.
Lots of bad extensions out there. Ours only has write access to one setting field. No read access. Chrome tells you.
But we dropped it entirely so you can try it out any way you like :)
Thanks for your feedback.
Years later. Or more.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/tsunami-stones-ancien...
Great post, but somebody has to care about base load, round-the-clock power, grid frequency and so on, right?

The cost argument is quite compelling, but there seems to be a narrowing menu of options at the whole-system level. Bet on battery storage to save the day. Keep burning fossil fuels (internationally unacceptable, plus they're not renewable!). Massive degrowth (far from acceptable). Edit: fusion! (I love this one, but betting society on it would be a stretch right now).

Gritting our teeth and paying the cost of nuclear seems to have some value as an option on the table.
Not an attorney, but I always thought google had TOS against using their data to create or augment any other mapping related dataset. So I'm not recommending this either.

Just wanted to mention that while the OSM community get's very bent out of shape around potential copying by google, it's not impossible people are sneaking a peak at street view and google sat data to augment OSM.
But if you had to pick one to prevent, preventing the disaster is more important. So before earthquake-proofing the nuclear plant you should worry about earthquake proofing your home.

There is an objective ordering to what should be earthquake-proofed. Nuclear plants are not actually at the top of the list to worry about - places where people are likely to live and work are. Draw up a list of things that hurt people around the time of the Fukushima disaster. Fukushima barely makes the list. Fukushima might not even be on the list, the toll in human suffering of Fukushima is very small compared to the natural disaster that hit Japan that day.

We can also overbuild the nuclear plant because nuclear is so crazily efficient why not. There is only one plant to secure. But it isn't a blocker if it doesn't happen, and it is an irrational concern.
As someone who has used both Wolt and DoorDash I would say don't hold your breath on decreased fees. Probably it'll just get more opaque and restaurant menu prices will increase 10-20% while the additional fees stay the same so they can book more revenue without you feeling like you're paying more (because who is also googling the restaurant menu at the same time to compare?)
I only accept paired assignments. If you are going to use my time, the least you can do is offer an equal amount of time on your side.
I got the macbook air cheaply (basically for free) and I like the device. A passively cooled notebook with good power, display, HID. I have nothing against that and Apple built a decent product.

That said, for me this has little to do with the future of software and hardware innovation. In that regard it is a toy and is quickly delegated as such by other systems I use that tend to be more free and more powerful, just by the merit of giving me choice. Perhaps rougher around some edges than a stylized Apple product, sure. But anyway, this thread should not be about that.

But when I got the macbook, I was very aware that there will be hiccups in compatibility. I use non-native Blender and the performance is amazing considering that I use it with help of Rosetta on a passively cooled notebook. There might be a native implementation by now, but I would never presume to demand a project to accommodate my personal choice of processor architecture, even if someone already supplied a fix. Perhaps they just didn't have time to look at it or already had a solution under development and therefore closed a PR. I also think they don't owe any explanations. They probably close just as many PR for their projects without comment. To see it as an affront to the "developer community" is just a bit much.
Google as it stands is the worst threat to privacy and security on internet. Far worse than Facebook, Apple or Amazon. It's shocking how much they get away with!
Yes, it's not exponential at all. Larger blades also need to be thicker, and the tower stronger etc. But still, it's economies of scale like everywhere else.
I don't see any reasonable way they could find a way to expand the Fourth Amendment to cover this without it also covering things like the government using information given to them by informants and witnesses without a warrant.
In all honesty, a random bus driver is more likely to help you.
It wouldn't surprise me if those filters already use ML.
I'm interested in starting a film studio using ILM's 'The Volume' technique: https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/how-the-mandalorian-and-il...

but ILM has it all locked up. If Unity/Weta could recreate this as a product package.. well, that'd be a game changer for indie cinema.