skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LCOE of wind/solar is under natural gas, and sodium ion batteries will hit the market this year or next according to CATL press releases (always a grain of salt until you see the product on the market).

They are supposed to be half the cost of LFP.

And let's face it, nat gas / coal are effectively subsidized by ingrained government policy while they SHOULD be subject to a ten year escalating carbon tax.

Nuclear is still ... ok, it's on the high end of solar/wind deployments.

Perovskites may solve even more problems, but that hasn't really panned out like hoped, probably a ten year project.

Wind and solar don't require "huge areas of land". Well, not new land or land we need. There's a LOT of roofs everywhere. Residential power can be almost completely addressed with rooftop solar + storage, I haven't seen single family homes that need "more than the roof", and the excess can go to multifamily buildings.

Windmills can be offshore, or sticking out of farmland or nature preserves.

Utility solar can use deserts, there's plenty of that. I hate the hype about "green hydrogen" since it is a shadow play by oil companies to keep other "color" hydrogen sources which are invariably oil/gas.

Fusion should continue to get research dollars. We should be pursuing LFTR and other new gen fission.

But let's be real, no fission or fusion project initiated now will be ready in ten years, and no one can predict the price of solar/wind/storage in ten years. It won't drop like the previous ten years, but there is enough in the works that it will likely drop ... 50%?

I don't think new fission/fusion can be commercially planned until wind/solar/storage prices stabilize. It doesn't matter how cool a fusion reactor is if the energy it produces is 3x the cost of wind/solar.

I think the hardest thing to say about fusion is that the "it's always 20/30/40 years in the future" was always a technological commentary.

But now the new challenge even if they get a working plant in 20/30/40 years is "is it cheaper?"

Constant 3D printing reactor walls sounds like an expensive proposition. Granted I think the same strategies are in LFTR designs since the materials is hard there too. Liquid metal fusion and molten salts has all the materials engineering and endurance issues LFTR had. I guess fusion fuel is effectively liquid though, so they could just move the liquid to another generator while they "overhaul" the one that has neutron degradation. I figured if LFTR hit mainstream they would do the same: mass produce the reactors and then just move the fuel between them as they wear out, and then recondition the "spent reactor".

Can a LFTR expert comment on whether it can "burn"/breed/transmute/process most nuclear waste as usable fuel, or at least move the isotopes to other better isotope decay paths? LFTR is supposed to be able to use 99% of its thorium fuel without nuclear waste.
> it's a book filled with solutions to imaginary problems.

Have you even read it? I'd say it has more deep real world examples than almost any other SW engineering book I've read.
Nearly every library has CoEvolution Quarterly (CEQ)/Whole Earth Review (WER). It could be filed under either or both names. Same periodical, same people. Founded by Stewart Brand.
Why would anybody adopt a new Google platform? Very high chance Google will shut it down, I wouldn't bother adopting it because of the heartbreak that will occur in 2-3 years when they discontinue it.

Their reputation for shutting products down is now a barrier to adoption.
From some quick Googling (no, I don't know the hardness of bone off the top of my head though having worked with it I can say it's quite soft just like aluminum), it looks like aluminum and bone aren't that different in hardness or toughness, with aluminum alloy being somewhat harder and tougher at the expense of higher density.
When people think of Silicon Valley I font think pro privacy is the first thing that pops to their mind, quite an opposite actually.
Show HN: play audio of video without downloading the video
Google debuts Android 13 with its first developer preview
Apple Hit with Class Action Lawsuit over 'Jelly Scrolling' on iPad Mini
> until I moved from US to NL

So, my guess is you're using the 2 pronged brick (US) plug with a US->EU plug adaptor.
If only there was a way to figure out what the website address is, maybe they indeed would have "advertised this information" ...

https://www.apple.com/privacy/government-information-request...
how many people would have a $50,000 expense set their retirement savings back at last a couple years, if not bankrupt them?

none of these people are building a rocket company in their lives.
Preet Chandi's historic 2022 solo expedition to the South Pole
There are such CPUs, and the uptake has been minimal, because as proven by GPGPUs not every developer is capable of actually use them.

Your example could be as easily done in a GPGPU.
Point taken, but it’s not bullshit advice when the particular word in question actually follows typical English spelling rules (which, despite countless exceptions, do exist)
To quote myself:

>>>> If you never yield, then sure, but... that's not very useful in an asynchronous context. You might as well just go back to writing blocking C event loops where every task always runs to completion before any other task can start.

What you're talking about isn't what most people talk about or experience in regards to C# async, and it's still not an actual benefit. In all cases described so far, you're better off explicitly writing A to call B than to try to misuse an async task executor as a weird queue, especially as you said yourself that there is no yielding involved. It's really that simple. What you have described is incredibly brittle code riddled with implicit dependencies, and since you're not yielding, you are locking up the UI.
I think criminal in the eyes of 'Internet etiquette'. As well as the T&C for having an account on most sites. But probably not enforceable in a court of law.
The way I see it, you need to differentiate between security and privacy. Gmail is one of the best providers security-wise, but obviously one of the worst ones wrt privacy.
Indeed! It also had two independent joysticks. One for the left tread, and one for the right. One joystick forward, the other back allowed you to turn in place, like an actual tank. My twelve-year old brain was fully immersed.
* ...every sizable, North American, library...
(That I have found)
That time period featured the longest depressionary period in US history with large spikes in unemployment [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression#:~:text=In%2....
What does OOP have to do with any of that? I was at a dev shop that used no OOP, and everything happened the same way.

:-/
For 6th grade in 1983, I moved to the California suburbs with family. The kids were a lot more mature than where I came from; fighting, light drug use, sex, etc. I got bullied pretty bad. One day a kid picked on me before lunch and I had enough. I punched him and we got into a fight in front of the whole grade. I won that fight and the principal punished me because of it, not the kid that started it.

My punishment was to tutor kids in a grade lower on the only TRS-80 in the school. I figured out the flashcard games were written in BASIC and could ctrl-C out of them. The correct answers were in an array at the end of the program. I rewrote it so that it skipped the array check and always returned correct. The kids I was tutoring got all correct answers and thought I was a god.
If it works, it works. I've been running a couple Munin servers for like 10 or 15 years, and they're still happy on a 512 MB VPS!
A close look at how to take your SaaS apart via content marketing
There is a company registered that commits the following mobile ads fraud:

* The buy targeted ads from Google, served on YouTube targeting small children and clients of a particular carrier

* When you click on the ad (even if by mistake) you find that you are subscribed to a game service and immediately charged a small fee (5 euros) via your carrier (DCB). You may or may not see a chrome window open and close.

* If you extract the link from your chrome history and visit it again on your computer it looks like a benign form, with terms of use and you need to click at least twice to subscribe.

Now these guys will actually return you the money if you bother to find them and ask it back. They will appear really legitimate as the fraud is difficult to reproduce, and the bet is that they steal a relatively small amount of money and it's possible not everyone notices it on time. Worse I'm sure many parents will blame their kids.

The awful thing is that this scheme wouldn't be possible without Google and the mobile carrier. I actually had DCB disabled because I knew the problem exists, but the carrier had reenabled it without my knowledge. I clicked a link by mistake when I was choosing a video for my kid and got charged.

My project is to research a possible way to reliably reproduce their fraud so I can report it to the authorities. I know for sure they don't have the means to properly investigate it..
You can post anonymously on a forum against them. I sent them an email thanking them for making them. In the end, I buy their stuff and you guys don’t. They know that.
Just like making a single bad hire invalidates making ten great hires, setting up a single bad process invalidates every other good process you have set up. "Process" has a life of its own. Process is never re-evaluated. Process accumulates. People follow it mindlessly, wasting time and energy. When you know the solution to a problem, do you want to write a mini-proposal? Set up feedback sessions? Timebox, dogfood, canary-deploy? Heck, "process" will make you not want to do anything at all by that point. A well-functioning org runs on goodwill, tenacity, diligence, and sweat. Bad orgs run on "process."
No, you're thinking of salting.
Would like to buy the filled board as nft.
Is that a sustainable practice you think? Just asking
> So let’s picture multiplication by –1 as half a rotation, anticlockwise, around a circle (in our case, the circle passes through 1 and –1). It’s actually a rotation by 180 degrees.

Sorry but this just didn't work for me. My mental model is to use +/- as directional indicators. For me multiplication by -1 is same as multiplication by +1 but in the opposite direction.

I would rather think of "i" as rotation by 90°. In this realm +/- stand for anti/clockwise. So +/- continue to stand for direction and "i" tells me if I need to rotate or not.

It neatly lines up with different operations. As an example (+i) × (-i) == -i² == 1. In terms of movements you are rotating 90° anti-clockwise followed by 90° clockwise bringing you back where you started.

On the other hand, Nautilus's article is bit too much of mental gymnastics for me to follow their reasoning.

> So let’s picture multiplication by –1 as half a rotation..It’s actually a rotation by 180 degrees..What happens if we only do half of this rotation? It’s halfway to multiplying by –1, which you can think of as the same as multiplying by √–1...
And DC-9s if I remember correctly
You know, I don’t pronounce this one as it is spelled, but I do pronounce the first R in February, unlike many.
This is weird. I'm neither in US or Europe but still see all those cookie banners everywhere on every site.

Thanks to GDPR, we have a much more private web. /s
New Electric Motor Technology Will Push EVs to the Next Level
Most successful tech entrepreneurs seem to come from more or less his demographics, which is a upper middle/professional class upbringing. I don't think coming from extreme old money generally lends itself to entrepreneurship, there's a goldilocks zone that involves some degree of having to work for a living, having migrated or something along those lines.
This is because such words are not derived from Latin like most Spanish words, but are from native languages.
Sorry, Meant level as in low level coding versus high level... Software developer tend to use templates/framework to do most of the work, engineers build the darn frameworks, or more raw low level code. Both are coding, but it's sort of the difference in say crew member dumping out concrete vs the concrete finisher smooth or brooming the finish.
Lack of enough wind and sun is basically what happened in EU end of last year and caused energy and gas prices to sky rocket. It is not as rare as you think, moreover it happens over large areas at the same time which exacerbates stress on the grid.
I’m not of any opinion on the matter, but with decades in the industry I’ve not seen a lot of projects where unit testing made a net profit for the company.

I feel that it’s important for me to note that this is because almost all the projects I’ve been around have been build in imperfect scenarios. Sometimes projects had years worth of terrible unit tests that were terrible because they were written by people who didn’t really know how to test correctly. Sometimes because they were added waaaaaaay late in the process. Sometimes because they were sometimes skipped due to time pressure. Sometimes because the pipelines weren’t really effective or set up correctly. And so on.

The issue I personally have with them is the same issue that I have with a lot of other dogmas around software development. All our theoretic tools are nice, if people actually adhere to them and know how to utilise them.

But as soon as things like Test Driven Developmebt, Agile, SCRUM, Enterprise Architecture or even Unit Testing meets reality, they break in most of the cases because the theories aren’t fascist enough. By that I mean is that you can implement things in so many different ways that almost nobody manages to make them work, not really.

This is anecdotal of course, and I’m sure there are much more talented people, teams and companies that derive a benefit from these things than what I’ve seen, but the only thing that’s ever, really, worked for me is too keep things as simple and single responsibility as possible.

That sometimes require OOP or Unit Testing though. We wrote our general ODATA API with inheritance as an example. We do so because it lets us have a unified way of handling auditing and code-first SQL database IDs and convention and because it lets us write a single API controller and then use it in, every, other controller instead of writing the same 90 lines or code 10.000 times.

You can likely do that without OOP but it’s just easy with OOP in C#.

So I see a lot of these things as, do what is necessary, what works, and, what is easily maintainable. If that’s Unit Testing for you, then do it, but I can assure you that it won’t be unit testing for a lot of people out there for whatever reason.

At least with single responsibility you still have a somewhat general idea of what goes wrong simply by where it happens if it isn’t caught but automated tests.
Whenever I read enthusiasm like this for space travel .. especially talk of Musks interplanetary species and stuff, I get a flashback to Stark by Ben Elton . Published in 1989, getting closer to true by the day. Also probably the funniest book I've ever read.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)
It’s not a one way trip if you want to leave. They’ve said in previous presentations they plan to bring the ships back for multiple flights, and so there’s an option to return if you want it.
> this makes it essentially a cloud feature.

Wrong. Physically, the routines run on the device. It is not a cloud feature by definition. There are no wormholes here. The work happens on the device. When this work happens the device's battery gets drained so it's happening on the device. It's not a cloud feature. Both technically and physically you are wrong here. I hate that you have this wrong and continue to say it. Stop saying it because you are actually lying.

It's not a better outcome because other companies with the follower-like mentality that most product managers and execs have would attempt to copy and one up Apple only to create a worse and more easily abusable implementation, just like the notch. Just like any socially acceptable easily marketable act that can be hashtagged and spread. That idea would have been an infection of the worst kind.
Offhand, I don't see any reason why it couldn't be. What makes you think it might not be possible to do this sustainably?
You worked right across the way from me, in Action/Sim I think. I am trying to remember where you were in relation to my desk (Civ, then I82 at that time).
Speaking of duplicate removal:

An extension to remove duplicate snippets in GitHub Code Search results.

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> So there really is a tradeoff people have to realize when they consider either side's stance

There is no tradeoff to be made. The US government is explicitly prohibited from interfering with the liberty of its citizens. Every elected official swears an oath upholding this principle.
I mean Android only has a market share 70%, practically nobody uses it anyways /s

The fact that there were open source unwanted AirTag finder Apps on the PlayStore way before Apples official app arrived perfectly demonstrates how much Apple really cares about privacy. They only „care“ about the privacy of the people who pay them to care.
This is true, and another thing about state is also true - relational databases are much better suited to handle state cleanly and to minimize the amount of it than programming languages (except maybe prolog). Especially OOP languages are bad at state minimalization. For example there's no commonly used equivalent to normal forms in oo. There are no indexes and no materialized views.

The funny effect is - if you want to minimize state and you're serious about it - keep everything you can in database and make a 2-layered (relatively thin) client <-> relational db architecture. With stored procedures. We were there in 90s and we moved away because web and OOP became fashionable.

So we took our clean, normalized, minimal state from db and made it messy and complicated with ORMs to satisfy OOP gurus :)
Years ago, I had a tile on my keys. I left them on top of my car in a parking garage. When I went back, they were gone. Someone took them, probably meaning well but didn’t leave a note saying where they took them to. So that sucked. To this day, despite the tile being in “lost mode”, I’ve never gotten a ping. There’s real value in these trackers, because people pick up things that aren’t theirs.
Yeah but they had secret courts issuing secret warrants. Or something. So they’re fine.
There was a pretty recent change where the most visited sites always open in a new tab, regardless of how it is accessed. I browse about 6 different sites. When I press the address bar by far the fastest way for me to go to news.ycombinator.com is to press it in the most recent sites.

But some time in the last half years I started having lots of new tabs. Right now I am at 60. 3 of which are interesting. So every day I have to spend about one minute closing tabs because firefox becomes sluggish (old lowhrange phone).

Ublock origin is the only thing keeping me on Firefox, but to be honest I have started looking at other browsers because this is driving me insane.
And Delphi could do that 20 years ago.
I keep blaming Java for the big detour.
AirTags last only one year and you can't replace the battery or recharge it? Is that right what I'm reading? I gave up on Tile for that reason about 3 years ago, although they may have added a replaceable / rechargable one.

The Tiles were useful while they kept charge. Apple has a lot larger participant network as well than the tile network.
Love the hilarious emoji post options: chili, glass of milk, slap
> I don't think they'd make many policies if that were the case

That would be progress.
... very slight difference between excess energy and let's import a contries worth of energy. The cost of transmission will be insane, the grid is not meant for those kinds of transfers.
You've got billions of people worldwide who've been vaccinated. How many have had instances of heart failure?
Contamination at WD Facility Destroys 6.5 Exabytes of Storage
It was already non-invasive. I, as a conscious human being browse a website, use their (potentially free) services. The website can of course put a cookie and track me. If I'm really paranoid I could block cookies etc but regardless, no one forces me to use their website.

If someone pointed a gun and forced me to go to a website, enter my personal data and give my data to trackers that would be something else (still not website's fault but anyway).
For example, by forcing Apple to remove the apps from the Appstore.

Apple would fight this all the way to the Supreme Court. This is IMHO a clear violation of the 1st amendment.

With such a conservative Supreme Court, I doubt they would look favorably at restricting speech of a company.

Besides, Apple’s App Store is available in many countries around the world; an American iPhone user could get restricted apps from its App Stores in other countries.
All most programmers will need is a classic for-loop. For of, forEach and any other kind of iterator is really not necessary and adds to the language bloat that just confuses less experienced developers.
JSON-LD is ideal for Cloud Native technologies
For whatever reason Red Baron was much harder to find. We went on a late night bike quest to play the only one nearby, which was in an arcade under a pier. We could see the relation to Battlezone, but I wouldn't understand that they shared much of the same HW til years later.
> How many have had instances of heart failure?

Who knows when every authority seems to have a vested interest in promoting vaccines no matter what.
It’s a bit funny to imagine but the NYC knife murder rate is actually higher than London. Against the background of substantially greater crime, though, it fades away.

It’s just a difference in culture. Despite the stabbings, Americans will not tolerate knife control to the same degree.
wait till they IPO. They will need to show growth and will erode away old reddit features, with more nags and modals to switch to the “new experience” — so they can boost ad revenue

The push to open web links in a mobile app has already become a PITA
I wouldn't even hold one single full-time remote job.
Going Armchair Quarterback on Golden Cove’s Caches
What I would like to know is, for young males (i.e. those who are most at risk of myocarditis after the vaccine), does the vaccine lessen cardiac risks in a subsequent infection or not?
Would you mind explaining this part a little more - I do not get the difference between a Customer class and a customer as a unique entity represented by an ID?

"That said, best thing you can learn in your programming career is to get rid of "Customer" classes (or whatever the equivalent is for your particular problem). A customer is a unique entity represented by an ID, a private key if you will, which links data in various systems."
Also the only true way we'll save the biosphere IMO - doing it all somewhere there isn't one, and where your pollutants basically don't matter.
Hardware.

A firmware-blob is nothing in comparison for the vast majority of cases.
It seems to me that chess rather exposes a common fallacy in games now a days. So many games in an effort to create "deep" systems somewhat intuitively turn to creating convoluted and complex systems of rules. But the problem is in so many cases once you understand the rules in play, it reveals the game itself to be little more than a deeply obfuscated roshambo.

By contrast with chess you can learn every single rule in about 5 minutes, and then spend the remaining 80 years of your life exploring their depths.

Complex != deep, simple != shallow.
We have been sustainably farming trees for over 100 years.
Why does the article call her "German woman" as if that was her job, or as if she accidentally found this? She's a professional security researcher.