skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It takes some doing including digging into Areva‘s finances before and after it’s restructuring (bailout) etc.

Why the hell would you dig in Areva's finance on that topic? Look at EDF's finance instead for the past 40 years instead, because that's where the money is. Area's situation is a project management and strategic failure, but they aren't relevant to the discussion because they aren't electricity producers.

> I am not sure how you think it’s a refutation of my point?

Well, you argued that:

> They do export some non nuclear generation, but the majority is nuclear which you can verify by looking at the generation during times of export.

RTE's[1] disagrees with you … I don't know where you get your ideas from but they simply don't align with facts.

> That’s why nuclear isn’t load following in practice.

and

> The more expensive bit relates to both design changes to deal with reactor poisoning

Which I refuted: nuclear is indeed load following, and you don't need to make design changes to make it so.

[1]: https://www.rte-france.com/eco2mix/la-production-delectricit...
The article link doesn't appear to be a valid Internet URL? Why is this being upvoted?
Adding to that, even worse, each state are also implementing their own identity solutions. Take Service NSW which is an expensive front-end built on Salesforce, with its digital drivers license. Each platform has its own digital identity system, which is just waste of taxpayer money.
Aaaaand it's gone! 404 for me.

Hm. What happened? Did someone realize, that there is traffic on that page and took it down?
RFC5905 uses 32 bits for era number and 32 bits for era offset in the 128 bit timestamp type. Though I don't think the 128 bit timestamp is used much...I can't find support for it in either ntpd or chrony.
Absolutely. The only way we can be sure that this will be fixed by 2036 is by introducing a new NTP version that doesn't have this problem. Anything running the current version (which could be seen on the wire) would be considered broken.
I use fastmail for myself, but I think Office 365 is a good alternative to Google Workspace.
What do you think about ocean thermal energy conversion plants [1]. It seems to be a promissing technology that both produces energy during whole day, and captures carbon by increasing the biomass of the ocean.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_convers...
> ICANN controls the root name servers but it’s an international organization with bylaws and governance...

All true, but doesn’t make ICANN not centralized.

>ENS is based on Ethereum…and has already had one case where they rewrote history when it was financially advantageous.

There is a difference between rewritten and forked. Nothing was rewritten, both chains exist. Similarly there is no centralized authority that prevents an individual or group from forking the blockchain, nor any central authority forcing users to the new fork.

Alternatively, you won’t have much success attempting to “fork” your own .com TLD because of conflict with DNS. Realistically even ENS potentially faces this risk with .eth conflicting with DNS at some point.

But as it relates to ENS on EVM, if you are suggesting Amazon could in anyway force the take over of Amazon.eth from another owner on the blockchain, it is not possible, not even the ENS DAO has that power. This may be a result of your misunderstanding that Ethereum was previously “rewritten”.
Interesting that Popper denounce Plato's political theory as totalitarian. But if you look at it, that's basically how we divide society and government.

We cherish technocrats and "philosopher-king" to rule us in the Supreme Court and high ranking agencies and military. In turn they're not expected to have relevant property to avoid temptation.

Truth is people like being ruled and being told where they fit, if this leads to some sort of purpose and stability. That's why such millennia old ideas prosper
These days they use lots of sources in addition to Bing.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
Well, yes. I'm not directly offended by ad-supported free content as such. Especially when the ads are regular low-key banners.
Narcissists here really means people with narcissistic personality disorder. There are numerous personality disorders. Personality disorder is a kind of arrested development, a failure to grow up and develop a normal personality. Narcissism is one particular failure mode. Narcissists victimize and abuse people all the time and then impose on others the ego defense mechanisms that they employ internally to deflect information that would help them mature. I.e., they deny reality to themselves, and gaslight others.
You have inserted this link about 10 times in the last 24hrs.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

Please stop.

Also - the book, while correct, is not terribly original. It does not really address the more difficult segments.
The Rust SemVer Trick (2019)
This is all-around a good idea. As a worker I would be happy for a paid opportunity to get away from my desk and dash across the city once a month.

The protesting engineer cited sounds like a bad team player who needs opportunities like this to develop character.
I'm sure that's technically true, but I haven't seen any meaningful difference in the results vs. Bing for the queries I've tried.
This is all fine as long as all externalities are included in the price of consumption. Currently burning fossils is just way too cheap for the damage it does.
TheNFTBay.org was covered here a few weeks back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29265064
Just terrific. Not the just content. But the whole process of speculation, digging, testing theories, sharing ideas on a blog. Scholarship outside of academia. Feels old school somehow.

I hope he's proven correct.
The vapidness of the state department has long been pretty remarkable. They struggle to hire people who can actually speak foreign languages because they are ‘too smart for that shit.’

At least since Nixon, it’s been a major theme that political talk in the U.S. is driven by the need to bolster our self-esteem.
Going to the university at any one moment. 1/4th of the UK workforce has a collage degree.

Aka more than 25% of 18-20 year where in collage in the UK.
Disney has always made a big deal out of the "Disney Vault"—back in the VHS days, they tried to replicate the scarcity of waiting until a movie was showing in a local theater by arbitrarily refusing to sell copies of some of their movies for years at a time. I believe they continued this practice with DVDs and Blu-Rays, though not nearly as widely.

This seems likely to be part of the same philosophy.
It's an important number.
I am not dismissing it in general.
We don't need to starve more than we have to starve now if we live less wasteful.

That said, when it comes to looking at the maximum capacity earth could sustain, it rather seems short sighted to not consider life style changes while even the article being commented is about shrinking consumption.
This is not particularly uncommon for universities, as their networks tended to evolve as large and open "flat LANs" traditionally.

Almost all campus type VPNs are based on "standard-ish" VPN protocols, and have an open source and widely used client available for them. Note that you might need to delve a little into the configuration file to work out what it is. Common ones are Cisco vpnc, ipsec, etc.

At least on Linux, with Network Manager, one of the options when configuring a network interface (including a VPN) is to set the subnets that are reached via it. Most universities will have a /8 or /16 subnet, within which their internal services sit (assuming the services are on-premises). You can do a split route, so this subnet is reachable via the tunnel, but everything else is routed through your regular WAN connection.

Many universities are shifting towards cloud services like 365, where IP/VPNs are less necessary, so I guess that this is primarily for on-prem services, where they feel requiring VPN adds a layer of security beyond the (usually not spectacular) login form on the application itself.

If you need to use internal DNS to resolve IPs for campus-based resources (as public WAN DNS isn't good enough), you might need to go a little further in setting this up (run your own local resolver and use their DNS server, which is through the VPN tunnel, for resolving subdomains of their main domain), or use a VM (for an easy option).
This has been debunked and proven in various papers and scenarios. The latest one in France is by RTE (our national grid management company). https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org/les-futurs-energetiq...

They made 6 scenarios, from "100% renewable" (M0) to "50% nuclear-50% renewable in 2060" (N03). And here is there result cost wise: https://www.connaissancedesenergies.org/sites/default/files/...

N03 means we actually restart building nuclear plants and maintain the existing ones longer than expected. And yes there is 50% of renewable, because France didn't do anything for 20 years and it's "too late" to replace and extend the existing ones.
The importance of Freud and Jung to applicable psychology in the modern era is vastly overblown.
I've added a keyword search bookmark in my Firefox recently, makes it search in 'verbatim' mode, yields slightly more reasonable results

"https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&tbs=li:1"
Sure thing (though it was my lovely wife that bought them, not me!):

- Systems Engineering Demystified by Jon Holt

- Essential Architecture and Principles of Systems Engineering by C. E. Dickerson & Siyuan Ji

- System Design & Management: An Introduction to Systems Engineering by Bob Parkinson

On a somewhat related note I also got Difference & Repetition by Deleuze and Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead, but they're more philosophical than practical.
Bad URL

Here's a link directly to Blackberry's site:

https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/support/devices/end-of-life

> Updated December 22, 2021: As a reminder, the legacy services for BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10 software, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier versions, will no longer be available after January 4, 2022. As of this date, devices running these legacy services and software through either carrier or Wi-Fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality.

_____

Why is this being upvoted? Can't reach the server, so...
Who owns DDG and what happens if they’re successful enough that Google buys them?
My company went full remote in response to Covid in March of 2020 and things continued to work well for us, so much so, we decided to stay that way.

As a result, my wife and I were able to move, though we did the opposite of what you're considering. Having been in the burbs for the last 28 years of my life, we made the switch to move to the city. Sold our house during the very hot market and bought a condo in the city. We're almost a year in and loving it.
Then maybe it helps that the theory also fails the "common sense", "easily observable incorrectness" test.

What actually irritates me is how so many people ended up believing in it.

Just the idea that you can classify peoples personality in 4 categories, sounds _for me_ as obviously stupid.

Or the grouping of the attributes associated with the colors, just doesn't at all fit the reality I observe.

Like I know more introverted, less-verbal creative people then I know extroverted creative people.

Similar I have meet analytic, but not careful people.

Or dominate, considerate, nice people.

Heck I have meet people which where both patient and driven, depending
on context.

...
>but if premiums increase because insurers are actually paying more in fair settlements and/or punitive judgements because they failed to pay a fair settlement, again I cannot see the problem.

But the problem is that in the example I given, the lowball option is fair given the probabilities/expected value.
Maybe this? https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/support/devices/end-of-life

If so, end of an era. BIS and BES was a cool architecture for the time.
The audio is fine. There's for sure a notable difference in the frequency spectrum between the two voices due the fact that one comes from a better microphone and is directly sampled while the other comes off a presumably low rate audio stream.
Nothing however than filtering and normalization applied in the right intervals can't correct.
This aside, I found both of them very understandable although they're not native English speakers, just like me.
I don't see where that number comes from.

Also, "good grid" means "perfect national transmission", which is a wildly optimistic assumption. The US is currently split into multiple grids, with ties being able to handle less than 1% of their generation capacity.

Moreover, that's just the US. Here is what the link has to say about countries less blessed with landmass and latitude:

> Indeed, in smaller countries, substantial gaps (>30% of demand for >20 h per year; pale orange curves in Fig. 4) remain in systems even with 12 h of energy storage and annual generation that is 3x annual demand.

Or this, directly referring to extensive overbuilding required to meet demand:

> For instance, historical solar and wind resources data in Germany reveal that there were nearly 2 weeks in which dispatchable generation had to cover practically all of the demand because of a period with very low solar and wind power availability (called “dark doldrums”)27. Although with vast enough wind and solar capacity it might still be possible to meet demand in all hours, the required capacity increases exponentially after a point that depends on the renewable resources of that country, and it is this geophysically-dependent point that will largely determine the cost-effectiveness of highly-reliable, renewables-based electricity systems.
If no one pushes the button that is provided to do anything about it, what do they expect to happen?

The original comment seemed to be complaining that no one was pushing the button for them, and the other side wasn’t just doing something without them pushing the button.

Well duh.
from the article: "The story of the tax break is in many ways the story of U.S. tax policy writ large. Congress enacts a loophole-laden law whose benefits skew toward the ultrarich. Lobbyists defeat efforts to rein it in. Then creative tax specialists at law, accounting and Wall Street firms transform it into something far more generous than what lawmakers had contemplated."

This is so true, and deserves to be more widely known.
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2022
They are blasting billboards in Salt Lake City.
Same here. DDG is also superior if you are searching for controversial information which Google bans.
I don't think that is the case as you are not providing MongoDB as a service but an application that uses it as a database, that said it is under the EUPL license so you will have to share any modifications you make.
2 on my iPad right now.

As few as possible on my PC. I look things up in history all the time so I don’t need to have tabs open.
8 (3 pinned), rarely go over 10
Typical INTJ behaviour.
45 tabs in one window, 5 in another
Sure, but I'd argue that beliefs derived from these sorts of books of advice should be relatively loosely held.
I prefer DDG over Google because I seem to encounter less SEO blogspam, but I wonder how long it'll be before such blogspam is tuned for both. Ideally there are conflicting parameters that would make it difficult to game both search engines for any ambiguous query.

Also, this article mentions DuckDuckGo's email protection service, which some (like me) may be unfamiliar with. Seems like a proxy for incoming email that strips trackers, pretty neat: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/20/22576352/duckduckgo-email...
Yes. It would be pretty cool if we could include a blocked-site list saying "please exclude these sites from my search results."
How about a response from SpaceX software guy that works on Dragon software, including these displays:

> Dragon is a fully autonomous vehicle, so it is capable of completing the trip to and from the ISS without any interaction from the crew. But the displays and button panel do provide the crew with capabilities should they need to take action due an unexpected scenario or emergency. As for the tablets and displays, the tablets themselves act as a sort of backup, and include copies of important data such as procedures. The displays themselves are designed to be fully redundant, so if a single display failed, the other 2 could fully take its place. Even if we were to experience a failure of all 3 displays, the crew has a button panel that can be used to initiate emergency responses, and ground commanding is also possible.
> -Jarrett

https://old.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/ncj4vz/we_are_the_s...
Indeed, very misleading. No solar project has a capacity factor of 50%. In India, CF is around 16-20% [1,2,3].

[1] https://cercind.gov.in/2011/Whats-New/PERFORMANCE%20OF%20SOL...

[2] https://www.cmu.edu/ceic/assets/docs/seminar-files/2012-2013...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18318-7/figures/1
I find image search to be almost entirely useless but the normal search is generally sufficient. The last time I used DDG the geographic results were frustratingly inconsistent. I’d get restaurants in different countries and whatnot.
> Quite the opposite. It should charge the user per-e-mail on an at-cost basis.

When you write “charge” do you mean money? When you say “at cost” do you mean at the cost of the sender, receiver, both?

If charge means money, isn’t money just a transaction cost inefficient method of proving stake? Maybe a new SMTP would ask the sending server to perform some work on behalf of the reciever in order for the recover to accept it.
Ask HN: Is it always bad if a company does not grow?
Companies seem to always push employees to grow (get new business, hire more, repeat) above all else. But, what if a company functions perfectly fine at a given size -- that is, it's profitable, employees are content with their compensation and there is a clear path from entry level to advancement and ultimately retirement? What's wrong with just "sustaining" that size rather than stressing everyone out by seeking growth above all else?
> I's basically a big fuck you to anyone who does not commercializes his software but wants to contribute to the software ecosystem and only expects users to also contribute back to it.

The problem here is that "user contributions" are basically impossible to value. Who knows what they might have contributed, and what value others may be able to derive from those contributions. I can't think of a single good way to translate that into dollars. You could charge engineer hours, but who knows how many they would have contributed.

> Maybe we need a GPL4 with a building nuke. "You agree to pay 1 Trillion dollars if you do not publish your changes".

I hope this is in jest, because I fear something like that would chase off open source developers.

I do think it could use a penalties clause. I would suggest something in the net revenue or profit category. It makes the penalty scale, including scaling down to 0 for other open source projects. I don't want to encourage open source projects ignoring licenses, but I do think suing them for money seems unfair when the currency of open source is really contributions.
Interesting they seem to ad-hoc the lifecycle processes, or at least no mention of any industry standards mandatory (RTCA/DO-178C, ISO26262 or even sys eng like SAE ARP4754, etc). Also, no talk of formal methods (formal modeling or formal verification, a la DO-333 with something like Simulink Design Verf or TLA+). Works for them obviously!
> I personally can't use it anymore now that my MacOS version (Mojave) is not supported so everything has to build from source and Rust fails.

This is pretty interesting, that Homebrew abandons recent systems. I am running MacPorts on Mojave with no issues (yet). However, I am strongly considering going back to High Sierra for it's ability to build 32-bit packages, which Mojave won't do (though it will still run 32-bit applications with a warning). The only thing that keeps me from doing so immediately is that I have macOS install exhaustion. I'm a little beat up because I am doing custom macOS installs, and it takes a little effort to prevent the installer from installing all the crap I don't want. The easier way to do it is just to let it install, then remove it. I'm a little something that I prefer to go the other route, and I'm not aware of anyone else fighting the default system install to assist. I have no doubt that MacPorts runs flawlessly on High Sierra, because I have it running flawlessly on Mountain Lion, and I have a functional but frozen install of MacPorts on Snow Leopard, but I am aware there are others that have live and functional MacPorts running on Snow Leopard with a minimal amount of effort, and I'm pretty sure the same is true of Leopard, Tiger and Jaguar, though the number of users gets smaller the further back we go. It can not be overstated how awesome that is, that no system version is completely left behind. This exposes that MacPorts has some seriously resiliant development.
Eng Managers, start setting expectations, it works like magic if done right
There are absolutely problems in the twin cities, including ineffectual leadership, but I am - to a degree - amazed by the picture my WI family has of the place I live. By their telling, the entire city is still in flames from the George Floyd protests, and you have a 50/50 chance of being carjacked by teenagers every time you drive. My gut tells me that it must speak to the effectiveness of media filtering, but I am at a loss for how to effectively push back on it.
Did it and have no regrets. Some of the concerns here are bizarre. Swapping work commute time with grocery commute? Do people think people across the country don’t have access to food? Our grocery store is a five minute drive away. It took us 15 minutes to get to the nearest one in SF. Now we have a house and land that would cost millions in SF for a fraction of that.
That makes sense. I'm just surprised that this many people have apparently rolled their own signature algorithms with this flaw that running a bot to check for it is affordable. It's one of the most well-known mistakes to make in EC signature algorithms, and anyone researching how to implement these signatures should stumble upon high-profile cases such as the Sony private key leak, which should scare them enough to not trust that they can implement a reliable PRNG that won't generate the same nonce twice (with non-negligible probability). But I guess these bots check for a whole catalogue of mistakes, and this is a fairly cheap check to add if you are checking every transaction anyway.
I know on the testing/V&V side, they use a mix of LabVIEW and Python, at least for some specific teams. Lots of automated (physical) tests are being written in both.
I wouldn't bet on everyone alive today being descended from them, but at least 90% is pretty likely.
TikZ/PGF had a graph layouting implementation for about a decade now, c.f. "Part IV - Graph Drawing" in the manual. And apparently `dot2tex` can also render TikZ instructions, so going via Graphviz is possible too.
interesting, thanks! It is not often to meet an active History user.
Western scientists call her Eve because of our culture’s Judeo-Christian (or Abrahamic?) roots. We could have also called her “Ask” if we were Norse mythology inclined.

But I’m just trying to sound intelligent here while I should be working on something boring, I’m not even sure if OP was serious :)
Whoops, read it last night, must have missed the wax. I still have a hard time imagining it’s a candle holder though. You and all your soldiers have got to haul all this heavy shit across a continent, and somebody wants to bring a candle stick holder? Even if you had slaves, they could be hauling something more useful than that.
Same. My university required it. I just turned it off when I wasn't doing school-related stuff.