skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because that's not how I recollect it from 2007

The Linux world suffered from its own Eternal September, where every kid with some spare time has tried to install Linux and they're tribal about it. Of course Arch Linux requiring a little more time investment tends to attract that demographic of people with a lot of free time to learn, teenagers, that by definition are not fully matured emotionally. And some of those are insufferable.

I've been using Linux as a teenager since 2001, and it saddens me to read places where these congregate in mass, like /r/linux, and see the massively unfriendly and elitist attitude of some Linux users, berating others for using more user friendly distros or just because they're immature asshats.

One can write a whole book about how emotionally immature and insecure people become bullies when in front of a screen, but it's way off topic for this post.
Huh, this really surprised me, because Winnie The Pooh shipped for free with Apple Books when that came out, and I thought it was precisely because it was so old. So Apple actually licensed it then?
Python also has virtualenv, so what though? Like Docker, its a dependency nightmare, and a waste of space. Nix also wastes space, but it allows you to run separate versions of libraries and programs universally on the OS, and it allows you to rollback, plus it can be easily removed with a command (man nix-collect-garbage).
I hope it’s successful, so people, I included, can get vaccinated once and for all. I’m still on my first shot (AstraZeneca/Oxford) and apparently, I’m seeing that there may be a requirement for four shots to be considered “fully vaccinated”.

Getting one shot was hard enough where I am, not to talk of three or four.
See also Spanish “fácil” which means “easy”.

Some apparently less common senses that Merriam Webster gave me:

- archaic : mild or pleasing in manner or disposition

- ready, fluent

- poised, assured

So what’s a “facile piece of writing”? Something that was easy to write? Maybe too easy to write? Or easy to read? (Or too easy to read…)

Well, something being easy is definitely an insult in the minds of pretentious people.
What is a lower-case-g gigafactory? Just a factory that makes lithium-ion batteries?
It is true that we have a lot of hydro power, however it is pretty much fully utilised as it stands (they're talking about hundreds of additional MW when they talk about expansion, which will not do much in the grand scheme of things), and with all of this additional load, as well as fast ongoing electrification of our vehicles, it seems unlikely that additional wind farms will be able to pick up the slack.

Obviously I'm hoping I'm wrong here, because the alternative is nuclear which is apparently still a no-no word in most political circuits over here, and thus is unlikely to happen. Even if nuclear were to happen, ramping it upp will take much longer than the pace of this additional industry and electrification...

I'm worried we're going to end up in a crisis where we have to build up capacity quickly, and the only reliable and fast way of doing so is through fossil fuels.
What's wrong with wanting a site to look like a mockup?
No. It has to be about 1000 times bigger than a Megafactory.
> making it irresponsible to tell the truth.

So, we should be thankful for being lied to? Perverse. And extremely short sighted.
> [tl;dr: shallow]

Exactly.
x/x = 1 for all x except 0; defining 0/0 = 1 removes that exception.
Best answer that I can give you is: Because many of the ad companies are run by sales people.

Seriously, we struggled with an ad/retargeting company, they ran EVERYTHING of a single EC2 instance and they didn’t understand the internet. If/when their service went down the checkout pages of all their clients would timeout. The word async meant nothing to them, but hey better to crash than not track users. They would continuesly lie about their implementation, because they failed to under basic terminology. “This is a HA setup, right?”, “Yes, it’s a cloud solution in AWS”. That just meant: Why would AWS go down?
Giving words a cost is a great way of thinking about how to write. Make expensive words pay their way - they must add enough value to the writing to justify their "cost".
Oh yeah - I got mixed up on this and thought we wanted to access sub arrays within a.
>Readability should not imply a one to one match with natural language (counter-inspired by SQL),

SQL is not about a "one to one match with natural language".

If you want to be counter-inspired on that front, be counter-inspired by Applescript.
If you can allocate memory in a foreign process, I'd guess you could also change the permissions on that memory… So write first, then change to executable.

(VirtualProtectEx looks like it would do that. Never used winapi, not sure.)
I don't think so. TWh (Terawatt-hours) are not units of power, but a convenient conversion from Joules (J), which measure work, aka energy. When you say "steel uses so-and-so TWH" you are omitting over how long a period it does that; if it's an annual figure or something, then that makes sense, but you can't omit that. If my house consumes 1MWh (Megawatt-hour) of energy in one year, then it's a normal house. If it draws the same amount in an hour, then my house is not a house but a mid-sized city. You shouldn't expect people to guess what time period you are talking about. You should see the error in describing "all the hydro power" in TWh, because it simply is not a measurement of power.

Usually when you're talking about electricity generation, you are trying to weigh up demand and supply. These quantities are each most naturally represented as rates of energy use, because those rates fluctuate intra-day. We mostly care about the highest point of the graph of demand in a region over a 24-hour period, because you can't build a wind farm in an hour to meet extra demand. Using Watts avoids ever having to talk about the period in question. One Watt is one Joule of energy per second. The OP clarified in an edit that they mean Watts.

When you're talking about batteries, yes, you do need absolute quantities. Currently they're only good for smoothing out small peaks and troughs in supply, so the absolute amount of energy is proportional to how long it can cover for a wind farm when the wind farm slows down. Note that when the article talks about production capacity being "60GWh per year", they don't mean watts; the batteries are presumably shipped without much energy in them. They mean "produce enough batteries that the amount of capacity in total is 60GWh". It says nothing about the energy it will take to build them, which you would measure in Watts so that you can plug it into the instantaneous supply-demand calculation. 60GWh only tells you how much total supply smoothing capacity it will be able to provide to customers.

When you are talking about carbon emissions, you aren't as interested in peak demand, and you might instead think about absolute quantities in a year, and proportions of that that have been generated by renewable sources.
I took: "bash は、シェルスクリプトの実行中に適時シェ", which means it's either cronjob or sleep with a loop ( https://iww.hateblo.jp/entry/20211229/file_lost_insident )
I just think "censorship" means something directed at whoever is trying to say something a la "I've been censored!". Trying to stop people from hearing a message without a specific sender, that's just "out there", is somethnig slightly different so IMO it should also be called something different. "Suppression (of ideas)", perhaps? Something like that.

But yeah, I agree: Let's not mention Kn***rd's name again.
It's almost as if Germany is not a hive mind, but has different actors with different interests ;)

Coal: Bad, yes. This is being phased out: https://www.bmu.de/en/topics/climate-adaptation/climate-prot...

Gas: Mostly used for heating in Germany. Should be replaced with heatpumps/better insulation. Bad for heating, but since gas power plants are cheap, new gas plants will be used to generate electricity during the "Dunkelflaute" (no wind, no sun) until better solutions are available. So good for emergencies since plants are cheap and gas can be stored.

Solar: Good, many people have it in their back yards and I'm not aware of any protests.

Wind: Good, but most wind is in the north and Bavaria is blocking SuedLink, since the North will profit from it: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/kampf-gegen-stromtrassen-waru... So currently adding additional wind power in the north does not make a lot of sense, if the energy cannot be used. This is why a lot off offshore wind power is being delayed.

The new government is planning for 680-750TWh (80% renewable) of electricity in 2030 compared to 560TWh in 2020 (https://dynamic.faz.net/download/2021/Koalitionsvertrag2021-... ). So they are planning for electric cars as well. Electric cars are also interesting, because you can charge the cars based on prices / grid load thus making the grid more stable.

There are projects like NordLink (https://www.tennet.eu/our-grid/international-connections/nor... ) that use pumped storage in Norway for storing energy (capacity: 87TWh https://energifaktanorge.no/en/norsk-energiforsyning/kraftpr... ).

Also the high electricity prices in winter are aften caused by France, since a lot of electric heating is used there (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-01/france-fa... ).

Interesting times indeed, but I guess the new government will be more forward looking than the previous one.

A few hundred percent differences in spot prices is ok, since only a small amount of electricity is traded there. And these differences will make battery storage viable.
Ask me 20 years ago!
All major companies are moving to Vitess. The battle is over. No one at scale uses Postgres.
> How is that going to work, do they plan on shutting down production when there's no wind?

This isn’t completely mad. We are entering a new era of power where it’s price is going to fluctuate throughout the day/week (more than before) and industry will scale up and down depending on price/availability.

Automated production lines are “easy” to start/stop.

I think we will also see compute pricing in the cloud react dynamically to cost of power. It makes more sense to run compute intensive (none real-time) tasks during peak power availability.
>There will be a lot of new users at the table.

Don't think there will be. The whole "linux the hard way" has very little appeal to the wider audience. All the new users will go to Manjaro just like Ubuntu grabbed mindshare from debian thanks to being just that little bit easier (and then same for mint).

I personally look at the arch documentation occasionally but avoid interacting with the community. The elevated blood pressure is just not worth it
While true I don't recall Gentoo suffering the same everlasting effect?
What's the case where the C % operator behaves in an unexpected way? I've been wiring software for about 20 years and can count zero hands the number of times someone I've worked with has had to worry about how the modulo operator behaves with negative numbers.
I didn't _think_ GA provided a mechanism for a site owner to target a user in real time based on their gender though. I just assumed everyone got the same popup regardless of gender.
Not just the stitches, but also hand-woven! And the thread was hand-made.

It's really crazy how much work was needed to make a shirt.
Arguably, Safari is the IE of our times.
Safari somehow always have rendering issues. I use Firefox as that's closest to standards, I hate bending standard code to fit a garbage browser's special needs.
Eh, It can be good or bad. While generics (in C#) can make your code easier to use correctly, by making sure that everything is of the right type, and can give you a nice perf boost when using generic specialization with structs, they also have a tendency of infecting every bit of code they affect with more generics.
For example if a function is generic over T, where T is parameter X constrained to be `ISomething`, all the function that it calls with X should use constrained generics as well, this can easily lead to the explosion of generic functions in your codebase. Many times, instead of making a function generic over T it's easier to make parameter X just be interface `ISomething` and be done with it.
According to "Energikommissionen"s research, Swedish hydro could be greatly built out with minimal effects on the environment.

[0] (2015 article) https://www.nyteknik.se/opinion/dags-att-bygga-ut-vattenkraf...
Amazon Is Selling Out to China, and It’s Dangerous for Everyone [video]
I'd say that modern dictionaries are made for readers, while older ones were for writers.
Does that apply to things you 'have' to do as well?

For some folks: This is the reason for a shower becoming a monumental victory in one's day: Sometimes just getting out of bed is a struggle for folks. I'm in a few cooking subreddits, and often get folks looking for "depression food": Food that takes no effort (cooking at all can be too much effort) yet is still a bit healthy. At this point, you probably aren't enjoying food anyway. I've known someone that literally bought new underwear because laundry was the more difficult option.

Not everyone has all of this, and folks are pretty good at hiding it from others and putting on a happy face.
I 100% agree with you hear. I have never actually understood the argument for how cancelling debt could work, my point was only that it can technically be done and in fact wouldn't be the first instance of the US government taking on bad debt to prop up markets.

I've seen first hand how willing the education, banking, and political systems are to pile student debt on people who can never reasonably afford it. The check on bad debt, though, is supposed to be lender risk. When a failed loan directly hits the lender's books they are more careful about what loans they write. The government helped ruin the housing market by effectively underwriting ever bad loan. They've done the same with the college loan market.

To tour point, no one can possibly know what blowback there would be by cancelling loans. They government could sweep up the loans to protect any securities backed by them, but that adds even more federal debt and creates securities markets that are truly based on smoke and mirrors. Allowing those loans to be closed or moved without default also gives a green light to the banking industry to keep writing more and more bad student loans, and to the colleges to keep increasing tuition and fees.
"they contain some subtle humor suitable to both adults and children"

I enjoyed them as a child. As an adult, I discovered the sly humor in them, which I like very much.

The first season of Spongebob had a lot of sly adult humor mixed in, which I enjoy a lot, too. Later Spongebob seasons seem to have lost it.
That extremely competent product manager lacks imagination. I always learn things from watching users.

If anything the problem is I get too many ideas for things that could be improved and in reality you can't actually do a fraction of them.

But all this "extremely competent" guy gets out of it is "standing around not knowing what I should do"? What a joke.
Thank you for highlighting this.
The bottle neck right now is distribution, and building power lines is costly and takes a lot of time because you have to cross peoples properties, plus all the usual NIMBYism.
I’m happy to see this comment here. The OED is a wonderful resource and, as mentioned, can often be accessed via a library membership. I just need to enter my Dublin library card number and I get full, free access.

Another great writing resource is etymonline.com, which gives a bare definition along with a full etymology drawn from different sources.
I'd take a hundred Chernobyls over the end of modern society.
At our (fairly large) company, you can query by team (and maybe job role) but it will hide responses where the sample size is smaller than a set number (I think 8 or 10).

So yes it can be done but people have to actually care about it.

The cautionary tale about k-anonymity (from Aaron Schwartz's book I think) is when the behavior of aggregates is also something that should be kept privates - the example was that the morning run of an army base in a foreign country was revealed because enough people did this with their smartwatches on that it formed a neat cluster.
mod and rem are not the same.
This is ridiculous, there are many cities where it’s
vastly cheaper to rent than to own.

Look at London or Barcelona for example. Landlords in these cities aren’t hoping to come anywhere near covering their mortgages with rent payments, they are hoping to profit from real estate appreciation.

This is really basic economics, it’s incredible to see people railing against this on HN. Even the home-ownership obsessed US is full of cities where it’s a vastly better financial decision to rent instead of buying.
yeah, but I'd rather not get emails... I'd rather simply have a floating notifications thing, and a page... I like how reddit does it... something like that..... essentially.

I even thought about making my own app, that basically just tracks all comment replies for a user who's logged in/authenticated w/ HN, then has a separate db to check comments that have been 'read'... etc.. could have some sort of chat/messenging features using the separate DB bits....I'd probably model it closer to hckrnews.com's layout though...but in dark-mode.
Can someone give examples of edge devices?

Like, phones are end points. Data centers form clouds. What is an edge cloud or device?
I found that article as well, it cites no numbers, and according to Vattenfall the plan is for an additional 600MW by 2023... Hardly enough given everything discussed here.

https://group.vattenfall.com/se/nyheter-och-press/nyheter/20...
On android, you have Livio which is offline, tracker free and free of charge as well.

That's pretty disappointing that MacOS has an unmatched dictionnary app but iOS is forgotten while there is decent options on Android.
Use your own domain.

That way you get decide how your content is presented.
"Build"?
I wonder if the waning geomagnetic poles... change how well the magnetosphere protects us from solar flares, and maybe it opens the way for stronger storms to get through...
Money you didn’t waste on buying a house could’ve been invested in less risky faster-appreciating assets like index funds.

In many cities where buy prices are high the renter will end up with a higher net worth in the end.
T-Mobile's Latest Data Breach Linked to SIM Swap Attacks
I can see how they'd use Gigafactory for a factory that's only one order of magnitude larger than a Megafactory.
On the other hand, I don't see anyone talking about a Kilofactory...
The goal is not to replace common words with less common ones, but imprecise words with more precise ones, especially those with connotations and implications that more closely fit the surrounding writing.

There's a place for plain, utilitarian writing, but your complaint is a bit like saying Vermeer is a pretentious wanker because he paid more attention to colour and symbolism than the illustrator who did the images for my microwave's instruction manual.
> If you modify a shell script while it’s running, the shell executes the modified file

That is dependent on the OS. In this case wasn't the shell script just executed fresh from a cronjob?

I remember on Digital Unix - on an Alpha so this was a few years ago - that you could change a c program (a loop that printed something then slept, for example), recompile and it would change the running binary.
> web developers out there that are just shit

The technical term is webshits.
This is really beautifully done, thank you. Why shouldn't reference be a joy!
Those definitions are pretty but incomplete, right? It totally excludes the physical meaning of sport, and it forgets that an "example" doesn't need to come from a person
Did you try restarting your computer? If that doesn't work, try restarting your router.
I have nothing to contribute except "this is exceptionally well done" so I'll just add the TGM invisible Tetris video I watch occasionally to boggle at:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lE_UHhqAd1c

(Yup, still feels so much longer than ~6 minutes. Crazy...)
The crybaby rationalizations are not only not a suprise, they aren't even clever.

The very people trying to invoke the value of their time, are in that very process exposing how valuable it actually isn't.
the longest war ever... the war of the classes....
> gmail filters are just so flaky

Are you referring to actual Gmail filters, or Google Apps Scripts that attempt to mimic Gmail filters? I don't recall seeing the former be flaky, but the latter is another story.
Given how hard it is to treat fungi in general, having resistant fungi is very worrying.

Overall I think sadly that superbugs are going to be a far worse problem than covid-19 if we recklessly prescribe antimicrobial medicine we don't really need
Assuming that "Giga Nevada" actually is a Gigafactory, an ordinary Factory would then be 2.86400 mm^2.
The value of automating isn't saving a few hours of developer time spread over years. It's improving the developer experience, which is immensely important. Bonus points if the automation removes some human error, such as fat fingering something.

It and the benefits from it cannot be easily measured. But good managers understand its value.

As others note, being forced to context switch is quite damaging. If I have to context switch to press a green button every 30 minutes, sure it only takes 1 second but that's not the point. I've worked on projects that had dozens of these "green buttons".
What a strangely simple error
From what I know, so far linux doesn't have an exclusive lock capability on a file, windows does however. So in linux you can't mark a file in exclusive possession of a process.
Yes, because I couldn't find the Energikommissionen official publications any more, same goes for net stability documents being removed from government sites (from 2013).
I omitted "per year". In the energy debate i sweden, the "per year" art has often been sloppily implicit. I will make sure to keep it in.

The numbers given by the parent are consistent with the twh/yr number seen in swedish media
Really? I don't think that's why Arch is well known. If you gave me just that description I'd be very confident you meant Gentoo.

In my mind, Arch's reputation is not that of a challenge, but more of an ongoing projects that you can soak up as over much time you'd like to dump into it. Basically the OS equivalent of a daily-drivable project car.

Though to be fair, I think one of the pillars of that reputation is the quality of the wiki. And I've been increasingly finding the wiki not living up to my expectations over the last however many years. But (somewhat concerningly) the Arch wiki seems to be as strong as ever relative to other sources, so I'm not sure how that balances out.

Maybe it doesn't, and I'm just behind the times.
And if we could evolve some sort of ...system whereby we essentially...transform into a baby clone of ourselves keeping experiences intact, and just repeat the cycle ..grow old, be reborn?
Copyright laws have outlived their useful laws. We give 72 years of public funded enforcement for leisure and entertainment but only 17 years for patents. This has overly incentivized leisure and created irrational wealth in exchange for very little work. We worship football players while biochemistry majors with a bachelor's degree struggle to find jobs.
EU wants local datacentres, so EU data is local. Infrastructure remains (fibre, buildings) even if corps leave in a few years.

It is hard to insist data be local, then make it less competitive to build local. This deal you cite, may address that.
I think substituting the term with "fieldsport" would lose nothing.