skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Could you share the numbers

No thanks, you're doing a fine job finding wrong numbers by not knowing the difference between nameplate and delivered already.

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> The number I'm seeing[0]

is irrelevant, as it's about how much power the solar panels could produce, if the planet had noon 24 hours a day and the panels were forever perfectly aligned.

Energiewende is unambiguous.

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> which, combined with wind, wave, and tidal etc. comes to 10.5%,

When you learn what to look for, it's under 1%.

No, I don't have to teach you this in order to speak where you are also present.

No, googling things without foundational knowledge isn't a valid push back. This is energy anti-vaxing.

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> That hasn't been the experience in Australia

Gee, who'd have thought that Australia, whose solar panel industry barely exists and which is entirely fuelled by coal and LNG, which can ramp up and down, would not yet be facing this?

If only there was a valid piece of history to meausure, which left an entire country dumping power at negative prices for more than a month in the desperation to not blow their grid

If only that country was radically more industrialized than Australia

If only you knew enough about power history to not need to ask me who I mean

If only you'd look at that eleven years and figure out what it meant
To the polyhaven.com home page? I don't think it did. They are all sub pages which adds another navigation step to see the root page, which is what I find irritating.
> The people at the end of the line who are flipping NFTs do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models or payment mechanics, but they care about where the money is.

This is ultimately the issue, some people want to grown their own vegetables in their backyard, or chickens, but they do it for their own purposes, the loud majority in crypto space(now pushing the web3 branding because it sounds more revolutionary) is in it for the money, and since they lack the tech knowledge to build stuff around crypto they focus on the marketing/virality side, because that will make money faster.

The irony starts when what these people want is to control the supply and distribution channels for what is supposed to be a decentralized set of systems. I think the comparison to the fediverse is very good, people are in it for the tech, no one is blindly pushing it to increase the value of their virtual assets.
It's a very different kind of skill and risk tolerance.

If your YouTube channel doesn't take off, you've only lost the time invested.

If you misconfigure your server and it loses data or is hacked, it might seriously disrupt your personal life. (Imagine someone taking over your email server and stealing your identity.)
My diagnosis is severe case of ligma.
Yep, mechanics generally dislike electrical work.
Differential Fuzzing for Smart Contract VMs
Idempotent is a very clear and quite basic term: being able to run something multiple times with no different outcome than running it once. A very valuable property for certain systems (even for simple shell scripts).

And the description of systemd just uses bog standard terms related to what systemd does and the resources it manages.

But I get the feeling that both this and the parent comment it agrees with were more about the putdown and talking bad at someone, than about a technical or other objection.
Interestingly, the prevailing belief seems to be that parents, teachers, and students, all want to keep in-person school going. Yet when you actually hear from each of those groups, it's a mixed picture. Here's a HS student with boots on the ground describing the situation in what seems to be a fairly objective way. Elsewhere, teachers unions are voting to suspend school. This seems to be what a lot of people want, though of course I can't say that it's a consensus or how prevalent the view is.
> The potential for surprises gets smaller and smaller the more data you collect.

Mathematically, you are quite correct.

But do you really believe that with one little ole' telescope pointed at the freakin' universe you're going to reach a significant point of diminishing returns?

It's like saying if you invent the first microscope, and discover bacteria, why bother with another one?
Yes, it was incredibly clear what Moxie meant with that line (and it's been proven over and over) but some of the rounding error of people who like running their own stuff (I'm one of them) take this as a personal attack for some reason.
Now wait for Intel to install a miner directly into their on-chip Intel Management Engine.
I mean, it's the standard in the US. It doesn't really matter whether you can imagine it or not.
Yep you're right. The fact is that the content on the website has grown a lot in the last years, there's really plenty of information. I try to help users digest the material with an autoresponder that starts when users subscribe; they receive periodic email with step-by-step chunks of information. Thank you for your feedback!
We were talking about governments, not individuals or radical groups. And in that group, the iranian leadership stands out a bit. I am not aware of any other country who makes such open statements.
> The vast majority of people don't want to, and indeed, most nerds also don't want to, even if you know some counterexamples.

The point is that things are best designed in such a way that people may run their own servers but not that they must run their own servers.

The former is good even for the people who never intend to do it, because it implies that whoever is operating the servers you do use is in a competitive market that anyone can enter without having to overcome a network effect.
>> The National School Boards Association says that 1,384,000 public school students are homeless.

Holy fucking crap.

(Sorry I don't normally react like that, and even given homeless might not be "living on street", that is a horrific statistic)
> A lot of schools have nothing to offer the top 10% of students

IMO, the ability to self-study ahead of peers is a defining criteria for being in that top 10%. So, the system is working as designed.
"Download the Web3 app from Meta!"
The idea that NASAs goals and limitations is equated with happiness is ridiculously reductive.

> Do you really think NASA software is bug free?

Ignoring the fact you are arguing in bad faith is not compelling

GL with whatever.
A syntactic feature like this can only be judged in the context of the language. I'm sure there's languages where parentheses around function arguments prevent ambiguity, but there's also languages where it's very unambiguous, or the opposite might be true.

For other examples of languages where invocations don't use parentheses for arguments, OCaml and Haskell. In fact, I'd argue that if they tried to add that feature to those languages (parens around arguments to a function), it'd make things very confusing given the way functions and tuples work.
... I don't get it? Who is "Madeline" supposed to represent?
> people don’t want to run servers

It’s true and I completely disagree with the take that we can’t generalize this statement because a few “nerds” still want to run their own. Generalizations are based on 99.9% of cases, and .1% are exceptions.

The truth is that most people don’t want to run their server, rather they can’t. Most users on the internet don’t have basic literacy, let alone knowing what a server is or how to run it. It is safe to assume most people don’t want to do much beyond one click access to whatever it is that they want to do on the internet. And the most efficient way of doing that is, you guessed it, platforms and centralization.
Actually, it is just a word to describe the property that if you do something repeatedly, it leads to the same result as doing it just once. So the latter executions don't change anything.

And because it is such a common property when talking about algorithms and APIs the word is pretty common among CS people.

One very popular example are REST APIs because some HTTP verbs are idempotent and others are not [1]. This is also the reason why your browser asks you, if you want to submit a form again when refreshing a page that has been reached by submitting a POST-form.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfe...
New Covid Variant 'Deltacron'
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive/inflammatory comments like this. We want thoughtful conversation here, and comments like this point threads in the opposite direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: Sorry, didn't realize that gitlab.com requires you to be logged in to view things (that's dumb). Here it is on github: https://github.com/michaelnew/monty_hall/blob/main/monty_hal...

That is my premise exactly. If the host chooses at random, then there is indeed a 1/3 chance of choosing the door that contains the prize. In which case the game is discarded (or restarted, if you like). If that is the behavior of the host, then in the event that the host randomly chooses a door without the prize (which should happen 2/3 of the time), then the choice between the original door and the remaining door is 50/50. If the host never chooses the door that contains the prize (and therefore the game never has to be restarted), then the host is not choosing randomly.

It's stated pretty clearly in the wikipedia article. The 2/3 probability is only true when these three conditions are met:

1. The host must always open a door that was not picked by the contestant.

2. The host must always open a door to reveal a goat and never the car.

3. The host must always offer the chance to switch between the originally chosen door and the remaining closed door.
You (and by virtue, your children) are an outlier.

The most vast swathe of people in this country are not like this.

Schooling is not about learning. It's a mix of daycare, social development/grooming for the workforce, and the removal of the parent's influence on the child's development, in order to serve the state's goals.

Children that are motivated to learn something, will find a way to learn it.
Did you read the OP? What they are doing in school right now is also a joke!
This feature is under construction but will be available shortly. I think it would be appreciated a lot in tools like the fretboard notes game, in which users will use a real guitar instead of the mouse. Thanks for your comment!
That's great to hear! Thank you for all the hard work, I'm looking forward to see Bevy grow, and really hope it'll end up becoming a worthy competitor to Unity/UE/Godot for commercial games some day!
If 5% of people want to run their own servers and 95% use AWS etc. then Moxies point still stands. These blog posts fee like some folks are trying to ride a popularity wave rather than make an actual argument.

What “running your own server” mostly fails at, in my view, is the constant needed maintenance. It doesn’t matter so much if running a server is initially difficult and time consuming. But the constant need to come back to it and fix bugs, install patches, implement security updates, add features yadayadayada … this makes it so perfect to be externalized as a service.
I get what you're saying, and it makes sense, but people also often say "shots" when referring to childhood vaccines (ex: "did they get their shots yet?") They also say things like "rabies shots" and "diptet shot."

And coronavirus is also understood to be seasonal.

However, in spite of all that, I agree that the official messaging throughout this pandemic has been so inconsistent - from masking to "two weeks to flatten the curve" to "boosters" - that the public does have a right to be skeptical and exhausted.
Please don't take HN threads into religious (or nationalistic) flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for, so we ban accounts that do it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's just a game of probabilities. And it hard to estimate probabilities, deltas and relevancy so recommendations are conservative.
Great blog post from NASA themselves explaining it:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/01/06/why-doesnt-webb-have-...

the post is really not very long and I would suggest getting it straight from the horse's mouth, but for those not willing to devote a click here are arguably the most relevant bits!

"deployment surveillance cameras would not add significant information of value for engineering teams commanding the spacecraft from the ground."

"Webb’s built-in sense of ‘touch’ (for example, switches and various mechanical, electrical, and temperature sensors) provides much more useful information than mere surveillance cameras can," said Geithner. "We instrumented Webb like we do many other one-of-a-kind spacecraft, to provide all the specific information necessary to inform engineers on Earth about the observatory’s health and status during all activities."
Won't it be pretty close to earth in its final position at L2? If so, is there no chance that there will be future missions to do service to it? If so, maybe we can get a photo of if then?
An idea or mission, I guess? Maybe a reputation? Good point, though
And that is probably the motivation for this design philosophy of limiting options that Redhat and Freedesktop champion where more and more, simple, clean, turing complete solutions are replaced by a discrete list of simple options.

But it does not change at all why I dislike it, and why I am annoyed by Freedesktop's pushing and insistence that many keep to these more custoizable solutions supposedly simply because they are “stuck in their ways” and that their philosophy is the future and “modern”, whereas all I see is more hurdles that stop me from effectively being the master of my own machine.
It also needs to get as close as possible to the top of the hill without going over. L2 is not a stable point: you’re either falling back to Earth or drifting away. If it goes over it can never get back as it can only fire in one direction - away from Earth (to protect the instruments from the Sun). So it’s a continuous balancing act where it falls downhill towards Earth a bit, then jumps up without going over the edge, rinse and repeat.
I see music related tech posted on HN regularly. Is there any place where tech focused people can jam?

Or just a place to find people to play music with online?

Since the pandemic its hard to find people to play free form improvisation with.
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I think you are not giving enough credit to the whole argument that André is making.

He is not saying

> See I found a few people who do run servers, therefore your argument is invalid.

His point is:

> It is correct that only a tiny percentage of people do run servers. But it is exactly this tiny percentage who make certain projects successful.

He then generalizes this observation. To paraphrase: "People don't want to run their own servers" is similar to "People don't want to write their online encylopedia" - true, but not the defining point.

In a sense this article doesn't say that the argument "people don't want to run their own servers" is wrong, but that it is the wrong argument.
Again, to be clear, Julia does not have arbitrary indexing as in Fortran. It has an external package that can mimic arbitrary indexing of Fortran.
I might be misunderstanding again, but with DAOs it seems like you go from "one (wo)man one vote" to "one token one vote", which exacerbates the worst of money-in-politics - any entity with sufficient influence can literally be bought out.
Simple cycle gas turbine + generator is $500/kW.

A nuclear power plant is $10,000/kW.

Back up the entire grid with turbines burning hydrogen or other renewable fuel and you're good, and it's still cheaper than using nuclear.
If you end up with a very large mbox file you can open it with NodemailerApp https://nodemailer.com/app/ - it’s a desktop GUI that indexes and displays emails from multiple sources
Signal’s leadership is well known for being hostile towards forks and alternative clients. It seeks to be a monopoly too. I think that’s the right call, as it maximizes user-friendliness, but if your overriding concern is monopolies then Signal is not the messaging system you should be advocating.
I like systemd, but I abhor the arrogance and manouvering with which is was pushed.
Hey! I used that website when i was very young and surfing away my curiosities on the limited web.Thanks for that, i never thought i'd see the guy who made it.Also i believe it's one of the first sources (if not the first) where i learned what BMI was[if the version back then had it, which i think it did].
> OUR ENEMIES WILL BE THERE

> Proprietary software companies are evil, and must be opposed. They know that if this bill passes, their days are numbered.

Doesn't seem to be very objective.
> Some people want to run their own servers

I can guarantee you that number is less than a million people. And considering internet hosts Billions of people, that is less than .1% of people in the world. We can safely generalize people don’t want to run their servers
I wish this got more attention.

At the same time, it's not just about the private system having more capacity, it's also about the whole attitude that comes with thinking it's the government's job to take care of people and the idea that when they can't, the should restrict peoples freedoms as a result (and anyone who has dealt with Canada's health care system knows its mediocre at the best of times)

We need much stronger decoupling between the governments inability to deliver on programs and the restrictions it places on people. Somehow we manage to find enough police to enforce all the restrictions...

I'd be interested to see how this is different in other European countries with socialized healthcare, because canada is not the only one
Interpreting an obvious generalization as absolute fact, is not conducive to a productive discussion.

Just replace "own servers" with "own restaurants" and understand the original meaning:

> Thus saying “People don’t want to run their own restaurants” is akin to saying “People don’t want to have their own kitchen”. Both sentences contain the same amount of statistical bullshit.
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I think it's less "parents buy the same things for their children" and more "parents give their old devices to their children"
Any kid who is disciplined and focused enough to do and benefit from self learning already has a big leg up, whether they are in school or at home.
Maybe 'Liberty Software' would be a better brand?
Trying to set up network booting with NFS mounted root with SystemD is a challenge to say the least.
That's interesting analysis, and I think you're onto something. I've owned Macbooks in the past, but I never liked macOS. In fact, I'm old enough that I never really liked Windows. I spent my formative years on a Commodore and DOS. That said, for GUIs, none really felt as right to me as Windows does. I'm capable of fully adjusting to macOS, but I don't want to.

But I'm practical. If Windows machines never get close to the battery life of the M1s, then I'd eventually jump ship. I suspected Intel's 12th gen chips will be the beginning of a new era on that front.

For me, it's about getting things done and running smooth while doing it. Whatever that takes. I bailed on Android phones after the Samsung GS3 because my 5S was just more reliable. iPhones have their pain points, like Lightning ports, USB 2.0 speeds in 2022, and software limits on how large of files you can transfer by a cable, requiring workarounds like Simple Transfer Pro. But I weight it all out and decide if any given trade off is worth it in the end. I don't understand illogical stances about tribes and grudges against the other team. Use what works.

As a developer, I've had good luck requesting Thinkpads at work. I use an X1 Extreme at work and it's very reliable. I'd never request a Macbook, but I've had the urge when most PCs were squeaking pieces of plastic.

I think the only reason anything but a CLI is necessary is due to the internet. Without it, I wouldn't see the need for it. Applications would simply have to be full featured, absent the multitasking required today.
So don't post state secrets on SMS. I hardly think that encryption is a major issue, unless you actually have something to hide.

But if Signal or a secure, universal SMS protocol could be agreed upon and used by Android and IPhone, that would be okay.

I just don't see that happening anytime soon.
> The reason people don't want to run their own servers is because in most cases it's as expensive, or more expensive, than having someone else do it for you, and requires a huge amount of skill and patience, not to mention risk tolerance.

It very much depends on what do you need a server for, and may not always be true.

However, IMHO primarily it's neither of these reasons you mention, nor any rational reason at all, but simply the fear of getting out of the comfort zone. The same reason why majority of people are not into DIY, but rather pay others to fix their plumbings or pour the concrete or change the lightbulb in a car. If you know nothing of it, running a server on your own sounds scary, you fear you'll screw up something, it's all stressful, and you'll rather pay to make it someone else's problem.

But then you also have a not-so-insignificant number of people who really enjoy in DIY approach and love doing as much as possible themselves. So the author's counterargument IMHO is more about Moxie stating something as an absolute truth, while in fact it's more like "majority of people will probably not want to run their own servers, under the current state of affairs". However I'm old enough to remember the time when the same applied for Internet - majority of people were not interested in messing with modem drivers and PAP/CHAP scripts just to connect to some BBS to chat with people, the idea seemed as ridiculous waste of time if you asked my father. And yet here we are now just some 25+ years later, whole world is connected. So perhaps the centralized platforms can't be avoided, or perhaps we need to make running your own server easier? And maybe both ways can co-exist, because different people want different things?
Past related threads:

“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29777048 - Jan 2022 (273 comments)

2.3k Patch Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix “Dependency Hell” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775298 - Jan 2022 (22 comments)
I know, right? Apparently I'm at 54% completion of my life...
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Huge benefit it’s fully customizable
Looking at the bill itself[1], I don't think the short sentence summary is correct. I think the summary might actually hurt the bill, rather than help it.

What I'm seeing is things like:

"No person in the state of New Hampshire shall be required to use proprietary software for any interaction with the government,..."

I don't see anything that would, for example, ban Microsoft Word, unless it somehow became mandatory for a NH citizen to have to own it to interact with the state.

https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billT...
I used systemd for a time, and after looking into all the documentation I found it hard to understand and it's scope overreaching. It doesn't stand by the unix philosophy of mechanism not policy and is prescriptive in it's inplementation. As another comment stated, the politics behind how it was pushed never sat right with me and I believe it is leading the Linux community to vendor lock in.

I have been using s6 on Artix and find it a great init system and service manager with a clear cut design goal of knowing where to stop. It does what it is supposed to do and no more - by design. It doesn't have the user friendly interface of systemctl but that is being currently worked on. If one is looking for an alternative to systemd, I think it is an excellent option to consider.