skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you square this:

> France retains its position as the leading exporter in Europe with a total exporter of 43.2 TWh

with this:

> because of europe we import electricity from germany that is burning coal for it

?

If you are such a keen observer on the electricity market, then surely you know that France is always importing from somewhere, and as its biggest neighbours, it is logical to see Germany there? There was indeed some bad timing with the maintenance of some of the reactors. It is not the decision of the government, but if the operator (EDF) and the regulator (ASN). And the EU has fuck all to do with it.
Fair, it's good to have other perspectives.
> That wasn't going to happen to my dad, either, and he kept a length of iron pipe at hand to beat the student into letting go of the controls.

That's awesome haha. Hope your dad is well.
Whats wrong with the browser?
My gf once asked me why I wouldn't just park on the street, it was night, it was Delft (Netherlands), it was very still standing water in one of the canals with leaves on top.

It did look surprisingly like a street, but I knew I was in Delft.
> I've been steeped in the doctrine of not emphasizing things like skin colour over almost anything else

Regardless, much of the world does emphasize it; there is a lot of racism going on. I hear white people in the US express it with some regularity, especially in the last few years. In Internet forums (not HN) you can find it quite a bit. Should black and brown people pretend it's not happening? How should it be addressed if we can't talk about it?

> reignite conflict

Conflict seems obviously ignited for awhile, especially in the last few years.

> to improve their own and their groups perspectives to the detriment of the rest of society

I think that perspective is fundamental to racism: We are divided into groups based on skin color. Certainly some people divide us that way (see my first comment, above), but if we look at each other as humans, and that skin color means little (except for racism), then we see fellow humans seeking fairness and justice. That isn't a detriment to me - I want fairness and justice for all (of course) and those things are not competitions - in fact, less of it for you means less of it for me.
Michael Faraday
...except greenhouses are not exactly hermetically sealed, especially during summer.
The reason for this is that resume review is really ineffective as a screen.

No is saying they should rely solely on resume review as a screen.

What is under question here is the perceived wisdom (on Google's side) of screening for Director positions using badly programmed chatbots (or recruiters, whatever) instead of having them be asked the same questions by an actual human.

IMO, a better approach now are basic on line code screens designed to take 15m for a qualified candidate.

Perhaps, but companies like to screw that up as well -- having people code into a Word doc, for example (try it sometime), or assigning problems that are either brain teasers or essentially willingness-to-cram filters rather than what they should be -- a simple, straightforward test of minimal programming ability (to determine whether further time investment is merited).
Proof of Stake implementation has been as never-ending as COVID restrictions.

Besides, it's not clear whether PoS won't create governance problems. PoW is a pretty smart solution of proving you spent some money and pays the miners so that people who have computing power won't attack the system.

PoS is trusting rich people, hoping they won't bring down everything for who knows what profit - a government printing money to delay a market crisis, is not that far.
Oh man, I learned so much from these books and a few other similar ones.

I learned to program a few years after these were popular (around 1991 or so), but a friend of my dad’s gifted me a bunch of them after he found out I was into computers. I was 8, and it changed my life.

They were magical to me. I didn’t even have access to a BASIC interpreter yet (I didn’t even know what that meant), but I read the intro to BASIC programming book and the computer games books so many times. I remember running to my parents room to tell them I could use PRINT to output to the screen. I would write programs by hand onto paper.

I remember a few months later going to my dad’s friend and asking, “ok, where do I type these programs in?” He gave me a copy of QBasic, and away I went.

I remember having to learn so much to get the games to work. I learned about different versions of BASIC, and how to convert things to work in my version. Taking bits of one game and combining them with others. Making my own.

My life has never been the same since.
In 2022 a Moonrush will begin in earnest
I don't get it either. My wife's side of the family goes crazy about morels. They have secret hunting spots whose location is carefully protected. I've tried them, they just taste like .... mushrooms. I don't get the infatuation. Along with the risk of illness/death if you mistakenly pick the wrong one. I'll stick to cultivated mushrooms from the supermarket.
Sorry it should be possible now. Anyway, you can drop a line to vander_elst [at] hotmail [dot] it .
And yet fossil fuels are still funded, and even subsidized, instead of nuclear.

By all means try and get 100% of power from wind and solar, but we're not there yet. And until we are, and they can provide the required baseload power, it's not a strawman at all.
Nanite doesn't do any rendering on CPU and does a lot of work that is traditionally done on CPU (culling) on GPU. Nanite does use a software rasterizer for most triangles, but it runs on GPU.
How the heck are morels not on this list? Delicious, not commercially available, very hard to grow, easy to identify safely, and grow across the country.
iOS backup apparently doesn't work like you described. E.g., when restoring a backup from iOS 14, it doesn't revert your system to iOS 14. Clearly there's a separation of restoring the executables and restoring the configs.

I do expect "the config/setup that would trigger a battery drain in <iOS X" to be restored, but Apple can always fix iOS so that the same config/setup won't break >=iOS X.
There is not enough competition, people got conditioned to high prices for 10 years - once prices are raised they are not coming back.

Good luck starting your GPU company
> these issues have been solved a long time ago where I live

I can't think of anywhere where that is true, but perhaps you can give us examples, even of places besides where you live.

Usually I hear similar claims from people who are not directly targeted by the discrimination. They don't see it and (IME) don't want to have to deal with it.

Racism must pass endless barriers to belief. No matter how great the evidence, people seem to demand more.
Same with lynx which is a bummer. I was half expecting HN’s <table> layout to work everywhere.
Oh, this has probably nothing to do with the major energy deficit Europe is now experiencing. Sorry for the sarcasm, but people living here without a secondary source of heat are suffering ice cold houses because they have to choose between heat or food. The deficit has lead to record prices here in Norway, in the middle of winter, because power for 5 mill people is almost completely drained in order to meet the demand of 450 million EU citizens. It's... I have no words. Guess it's great all these power companies are getting rich.
LOL. I saw the title, saw that it was on a developer blog... and took it literally. I wanted to know the build tools, the testing tools, the whole DevOps of DF. But, no, the title is completely misleading. Oh well! Enjoyed the too brief article anyway.
Intuitively 270g per kWh seemed high to me, but to put it in perspective a Tesla model 3 does about 100km per 11.9~14.9kWh (according to Google). So taking the larger estimate (and ignoring transmission etc losses) at 270g/KWh that gives emissions of around 41g/km.

Comparatively though my 2021 Camry hybrid has emissions of 96g/km.

So, assuming the plants are primarily being used to level out variable renewable production, I guess that is a reasonable standard for bridging a technology gap.
Maybe there's a need for a second front page, for off topic discussions. I like to read HNers's perspective on non tech matters. But it's valuable because HNers are mostly tech oriented people. If they weren't it'd be just like another reddit. So I'd like for this site to remain heavily tech focused and at the same time I enjoy reading more political discussions. I don't know if the two can coexist.
You have complete control over whether or not it is dark and sad in this particular way, which is why I feel bad for people who think otherwise.
Big fan of the environmental sciences over here.
You might look for jobs and opportunities at nonprofits/NGOs as places where applied research and interventions are occurring.
Mission-driven organizations, including government ministries, are a good way to feel like the hours you spend at work are directed towards something positive in the world.
In some cases like the GP these sound like direct actions in the field - which sounds really enriching.

NGOs jobs tend to be structured on topics as much as on functions, so making a shortlist of topical keywords might be helpful in the search to become aware of organizations.
You should also look directly at organizations' staff lists, which are typically fairly open and have emails listed.
One thing to be aware of is many nonprofits have tightly budgeted projects with specific needs, so getting your foot in the door on a less interesting project might be needed.
Generalists can benefit here.

I know a few job sites that collect these kind of positions, some techy and some not:

https://techjobsforgood.com/

https://nextbillion.net/jobs/

https://greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/

https://www.devex.com/jobs/search/

Last I will mention the nonprofit organization I work for - World Resources Institute (https://wri.org). We organize our work around seven global challenges: food, forests, water, the ocean, energy, climate, and cities. We do research, build data products and applications, organize partnerships. We help tackle some the largest questions related to how we collectively transition to a world where more than 9 billion humans have their food and energy needs met through fair economic and environmental systems.
The "black hole effect" is one mitigating factor - if you take off on a moonless night, it is surprisingly disorienting, and can become debilitating. These pilots missed a bunch of very basic things like rotating at V1. Maybe they got totally disoriented and it incapacitated them? Good training is supposed to prevent that. This wasn't a "missed an item on a checklist" story.
> Arora's remarks can be applied to any new food, not just mushrooms

Sure, but if I buy food from a store or a farmers market, I can at least assume the food was sourced properly, and they aren’t mushrooms that grew on something bad.
internet shitposting?
I am looking for help with financial analysis of capital intensive businesses both at startups and matured state.

Would love to exchange ideas.
I like how it boils down to "you just have to know." And those who know don't like to share because they like to know that they know and you don't know.
Cool. I'm also working on various side projects myself now too. Originally I thought would be in the general area near your -1- and -2-, but ended up finding myself spending my time learning general devops and web dev for the first time. I've worked on something like -1- before, but felt it would take too long to put together without the backing of a large amount of funding for data collection/generation and some collaborators as I'm a generalist.

I think I'll eventually get to ML CI, whether as part of a startup, or back in regular employee life.
That sounds pretty interesting! I am definitely interested in following along.

Do you think you will opensource any of it? I am always interested in workflow tools for various domains.
Like I said, I think it's great and important that he's doing it. I'm just wondering what happened to the orphanage.
In the scheme I described there would be no central authority with special power over the "recoverable account" smart contract. Each user would deploy their own fully independent instance and choose who can help them recover the account. Contracts are immutable so the person writing / distributing the code wouldn't have any extra powers the way Google and Facebook do.

Obviously this hinges on the contract not being backdoored by its creator to begin with, but collections of free, open source, audited smart contracts for stuff like this already exists. A user would likely use some app / tool to deploy their instance, once deployed it's really simple to verify the deployed code matches the verified open source version.
So I'm semi-new to Hacker News, but from a quick google search apparently grayed out comments are due to downvotes. I'm confused as to why this comment is downvoted because this was completely reasonable???
Vouch Proxy author here. Thanks for the mention @zorr

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Here's to a safe, secure and authenticated 2022!
> It seems completely mad that an automated flying mode could be engaged in such an obviously suicidal way on a modern bulk carrier aircraft, without so much as a blaring warning and red flashing lights.

You are assuming that there weren't blaring warnings and red flashing lights. Probably there were many.

> To elaborate, why isn't an autopilot "aware" of whether the aircraft is taking-off/landing or in-flight?

Autopilots are much simpler systems. I don't know how much you know about them, but people in the general public believe they are some AI which flies the airplane from A to B. In reality they have much more common with a thermostat than an AI. You set a target heading and the plane will bank to match it. You set a target height and the plane will pitch to match it. Yes yes, they have many modes, and some modes can do much more complicated things than these, but it is not there to replace the pilot. It is a tool to alleviate dead simple piloting tasks so the pilots fatigue less on long flights.

Just as an example how simple stupid they are: You can command the autopilot to climb, and if you don't adjust the throttle appropriately (either manually, or by enabling the autopilot to adjust it) then the plane will use up all the airspeed during the climb and the autopilot will happily fly it into a stall.

Also just a general rule about aviation incidents/accidents: It is a good idea to wait for a proper investigation report before running far with all kind of assumptions about what happened, and therefore what you think should be changed.
There are BTC futures, they could use those to bet against BTC
It should be noted that Tarn would probably agree with a lot of the criticisms leveled here regarding the UI. The focus so far has been on getting the systems working (and there are many more to go and be further fleshed out: magic, the organic development of economies in the game, world history, warfare, etc). The Adams brothers essentially want to construct a general fantasy simulator capable of constructing rich worlds all on its own. Wouldn’t make much sense to pour tons of energy into making and refining the UI over and over again when the game isn’t even halfway done yet.
If you add an Apple family account under 13 Apple helpfully prevents the adult account from changing the DOB, or removing the account, and forces you to give permission to install every app that you have previously allowed in your account.

And the child account passwords have to meet that same secret rules as standard ones, like rejecting 13 char passwords because some of the letters make up a word.

It's like Apple goes out of their way to make every experience as worse as possible.
> I probably would have had a middle eastern airline on the list before I did a project with them last year. After that, I learned a lot that made me stick to the list above.

Are you able to elaborate? My email address is in my profile if you want to share in private.
The was a call-to-action on https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/thedonald-win/ (the site no longer works, thus a hopefully neutral description what the website was about) to register HN accounts. My browser history says 2021-01-12 page title "Trump's going to need his keyboard warriors now more than ever"

There wasn't an usual uptick or long-term effect from that call I think. January 2021 was already crazy enough on social media including HN.
Have you seen https://authzed.com/?

I know it's not what you are saying but seems relevant if you haven't already seen it.

I think there is a ton of room for new players in the authn and authz markets. I like how narrow you are focused.
I managed code in version control long before Git, and before DF existed in 2002 we had decent and sometimes great tools (ClearCase?). Still, I personally do not care how other people work. Different strokes for different folks, etc.
What's noise and what's signal depends on the reader. HN is a big tent. Lots of room for people with different priorities.
That would be true if only the US was using the dollar.

Given the number of countries using the dollar as their reserve currency, value could collapse quite a ways without the US doing anything.

It's not likely, but neither is a 50 + 1 attack on bitcoin given the amount of computing power currently tied up there.
I mean no, I don't have a list with more than 500 sources for you, so if this one is insufficiently exhaustive then I guess we are at an impasse
You can see the lighted markers along the side of the runway indicating the number of thousand feet of runway remaining. I’d definitely be concerned as we pass by 2…1…and still not rotated.
Yes, fossil funding and subsidies should have been removed some 30 years ago. At least. Can't argue with that.

Baseload as a term does not exist on the producer side. Simply by chance the cheapest sources of energy were the most inflexible ones. This is coal and nuclear, they therefore got coined as "baseload" power generation. Today they aren't cheapest anymore and unsurprisingly suffer.

On the other hand, a base demand exist on the consumer side, that is true. But due to electricity being electricity it does not matter how it's met. Nuclear doesn't produce any other better kind of electricity. That's the gear strength of it, it is fungible.
I stand corrected Nvidia doesn't have that many GPUs.
we do import electricty and 22% more in 2020 ,a trend that continued this year. and we import from germany that is burning coal. so I dont see what you missed here. our electricity is not green because we import german coal based electricity that is a fact.
i know that france export some. but you know trade also means importing for different reasons like price for instance?
and europe has to do with it because in france prices for electricity are not related to our infrastructure and us being fully nuclear but dictated by the european comission.

you re welcome

https://ec.europa.eu/energy/topics/markets-and-consumers/EU-...
> with a slight risk of illness

Unless you pick up very innocent looking Death Cap or Destroying Angel mushrooms, then it's certain death.

The only danger in Wholefoods is to your wallet.
Isn’t that exactly what Tesla does? Deflect all autopilot/FSD blame on users because they were supposed to be “in charge“?
Most the haves I typed from magazines never worked. It was pretty discouraging to spend so much time typing and then the disappointment. Glad to hear I was not alone because most people in this thread seem to have been successful. Maybe it was because the size of the games in this book were small. The programs I typed from magazines were pages and pages.
I think it is pretty good.

A few years back the gender activists were complaining about their posts being flagged. Today it is the right wing special snowflakes who complain that we don’t want to take their dog pills, anti-vax spam, and how wounded they are because somebody downvoted a comment. (E.g. we have to not just receive their spam but we have to affirm it.)

I am sure they feel more anguish than they cause us.
Simple: LastPass master password recorded in Will. Will on file with Bank with directions for mailing my last wishes and mailing a letter to my Church (service details with my pastor at my church (hymns, versus, last words).

I update letters at the end of each year to loved ones (spouse / kids / friends / parents) and I update letters at the end of each year to business contacts (have my lawyer review them as well).

iPhone now with 15.2 makes it super easy to designate a legacy contact --> https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/12/14/how-to-set-up-leg...

I also am prepaid on Office 365 for domains / email, AWS hosting / and iCloud backup (with family sharing settings) for the 3 years out. So when I pass, well then after the initial grief there's no immediate need to update anything for 24 months. Plenty of time.

"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
An even better one that's directly relevant is: How profitable are roads? Public roads are exclusively unprofitable and yet they get fully subsidised.
That’s less significant than you might think as US GDP is almost 1/4 of global GDP and foreign countries don’t keep that many USD on hand. Aka even in global terms US GDP is vast.

Also, Bitcoin has significantly more vulnerabilities than just a 51% attack or a crash as nodes need to be connected to the internet and therefore can at least in theory be hacked. What exactly happens after that point is anyones guess, but it could easily be worse than a traditional 51% attack.
Hi, thanks for the checking out!

My bad, I should be more clear on the wording, it should be Chinese calendar though. So, basically the app supports two main calendar identifiers: Gregorian (default) and Chinese calendar... and more calendar identifiers support will be coming soon: Hebrew, Japanese...
This is what I don't understand. I thought the socks were green, not white in green light, and still thought the shoes were pink.
Should not matter that much though, since the small amount of insects that penetrate should be a far far lower number than the ones outside the greenhouse. Overall, it passes the sniff test for me.
There was a post about a month ago about recent-ish advances in cultivated morels: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29480357
Well i am on hackernews since April, 2013 and i still dont have enough karma to do a lot of things, i think i have to be more confident on commenting here
I've used (I think) hackerrank, and just done really basic stuff. Like freshman CS basics, starting with working code and extending it (eg a class that calculates the average of its contents, and you add min, max and median). Surprisingly it screens out about half.
I think the point of GP comment to yours is that by reading resumes skillfully -- that is, between the lines -- and comparing with other factors (e.g. their portfolio) it's pretty easy to tell the "probably solid" from the keyword-stuffers and buzzword droppers.

By "probably solid" I don't mean "immediate hire" but rather "It's a safe bet this person isn't utterly incompetent and I won't be wasting 10 minutes of my time talking to them."
Glider on fdroid and loving it https://f-droid.org/packages/nl.viter.glider
> (note the parent is slightly wrong. Most countries and workers have a 20mSv maximum).

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/occupation...

"The NRC requires its licensees to limit occupational exposure to 5,000 mrem (50 mSv) per year. Occupational dose does not include the dose received from natural background sources, doses received as a medical patient or participant in medical research programs, or "second-hand doses" received through exposure to individuals treated with radioactive materials."