skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the more renewable capacity Bitcoin uses, the less of it is available to factories, cars and houses

Electricity costs 22p a unit but for every unit my solar puts onto the grid I am paid only 5p. They pay me so little not because of their greed but because they can't use the energy, electricity is needed most in the evening when my solar isn't producing. At that rate the solar on my roof will never pay for itself.

Batteries and hydro storage are expensive and not that great for the environment in comparison to a miner thats small and can be anywhere there is a power source and internet connection.

If we can manage surplus energy on the grid instantaneously in a way that stores its value like we can with bitcoin we could solve the grid balancing problems renewables present. We can produce energy at 120% - 200% what is needed and burn the surplus instead of trying to store that energy.

If I put that surplus energy my solar produces into a miner I can make more money than powering the grid not because I am starving factories, cars and houses of my power but simply because my power would be wasted on the grid and would never actually power those things.

> It's greed, it's selfishness, it's short-sightedness.

Its a tool it can be used how the wielder sees fit
Did we read the same article? Nothing in the first few paragraphs seems this way, what stood out to you?
> Nobody is coming along with a better search engine

https://neeva.com/ better than pretty much any solution (Qwant, DDG, etc) I've personally tested. It also indexes specific websites like StackOverflow, GitHub, and GMail.

Edit:

Neeva does require an account to create because eventually the product is going to require a subscription.
I don't think his point was directly related to people's religious views today, but the type of people who originally came to the US and how their views and norms have impacted the culture up to today.
This sounds like an awful idea. you'll have a kid somewhere mimic their parents, throw their plastic fruit in the oven, and tell alexa to cook it (starting a fire)
Took me a while to realize you are actually being serious. Those systems are terrible examples - just look at the state of those countries themselves. That kind of highly standardized, high pressure exam school culture drives all the creativity and joy out of learning. The ones who survive are the calculators who can't think for themselves. Great for communist dictatorships, yes.
Propaganda in the United States
> ...They know exactly what is going on as far as the cost in human lives, and believe it's necessary to ensure their own survival.

Given the propaganda and the extensive coverups by govt, it's not really clear what exactly the people know in terms of counts, but for sure the scale of the war is hard to cover up by now.

However, knowing the actual facts is rather irrelevant for them. The pervious decades of "raising from their knees" in fact gave even more rise to the cynicism - another product of the "developed socialism".

Thus lots of educated citizens of Russia would readily accept and justify any form of twisted falsehood as a given, kind of rules of engagement for their daily act of survival.

Sadly, similar cyncism seems to have its place in lives of may people from the former Soviet republics, Ukraine included. Just in Ukraine, there happened to be a practical succession of government and presidents. This has been powering a hope for changes, better future, access to Europe. Meanwhile, the Russian Federation got clearly stuck "in-progress", same as Belarus, and the Central Asian republics. Sans alternative.

How does one reconcile with such a reality? Well, if unable to leave, then adopting some cynical attitude to anything may perhaps become a choice.
> Consider this an arrest, rather than imprisonment. We don't have to prove a man with blood on his hands is the murderer before we arrest him, that comes later.

OP isn't talking about freezing the funds, OP is literally asking for the funds to be redistributed right now.
People who are born and grown up in an area but can't stay as adults are also "locals" that are hurt by prop 13.
Understanding is subjective. 'Shut up and calculate' is considered objective. The latter offers no insight or understanding and instead demonstrates how to model the functions of the system under scrutiny.

These two are provided by different faculties of the mind, and sensory perception of a physical reality is yet a third instance with reference to the one thing. If you have additional faculties of perception, you grasp the thing in additional ways.

Should you be color blind, is paint superstition?
> "Lawyer-brain legalism" describes the right way to interpret law, though. The way to fix it isn't to be flexible about the law, but to write better law.

This isn't 1 person writing 1 law who gets to iterate on it until the bugs are gone. Bandwidth is not exactly abundant here.

Before suggesting lawmakers somehow have enough bandwidth to improve every law into perpetuity, I feel like it might be an interesting experiment to try writing software the way law is written (through democratic voting on "amendments" to the codebase, with filibuster and all that fun, with similarly limited ways to kick people out of the group), and to then observe how many times you can feasibly go back to the drawing board to remove bugs and "write better code". And then calculate how much bandwidth you would need if you wanted to produce N products every year, instead of just 1.
The significance was that they needed to be based in a NATO country, and not in Ukraine. I agree that it wouldn’t make much of a difference if it was Poland or Germany.
Most people know "A Pattern Language" because of the design patterns, but it's _this_ book that every software engineer (and everyone in the space of designing solutions) should read.
Ever been near a car fire? They burn pretty well and you'll feel it from the other side of a multilane road. I've also seen buses burn.
Is there a reason to think that more kids are going to burn in electric busses than ICE ones?
What the hell are NPM and GitHub doing, are they letting this malware exist since it's for the "right" cause? I understand where this guy's heart is at but this is wrong on so many levels. I reported this to both of them this morning, and they are still up, I can't be the only one. If they don't take it down then that is a serious trust issue there, and represents a new reality where people will willingly host malware if it's for the correct political cause.

I forked the repo to make the README.md more accurate and satirical (and removed the actual malicious code), but sadly I can't make a PR since he's locked down the repository to only contributors.

https://github.com/4oo4/cyberwarfareispeace

But seriously GitHub and NPM, get your shit together.

EDIT: Finally got a response back from NPM and GitHub that they're investigating.
> Interestingly, she is very YIMBY and liberal

Do you mean “liberal” the way progressives use it (i.e., center-right pro-corporate capitalist) or “liberal” the way conservatives use it (i.e., left of the Republican Party, with more liberal = more left)?
just civilian housing
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Yeah, no.
This kind of gets me. Isn’t a design meant to be “human centered” and usable for I dunno…users?

How many people do you know that have some form of color blindness or other vision impairment? Now think about how many of your users might be subject to those differences.

What is the point of an appealing design if a pretty huge market is ignore because “our brand colors are white text on a light colored cyan background!”?
In that case, you need a subclass of string that does nothing but has its type as FirstNameType. Wherever you create or return strings that are first names, you'll need to instantiate FirstNameType instead.
The term "browser" is easier to say than "Javascript/WASM Application And Document Object Model Rendering Engine With Bidirectional-but-mostly-client HTTP Interface".

Internet Explorer should definitely be renamed "Application Runtime Engine for ActiveX" though.
Related: "When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21454383
Given the authoritarian nature of country, conflating “Russians” with Putin may be detrimental toward reconciliation.
YouTube has plenty of videos showing the insides of school buses during crashes, anything that ain't a frontal crash has kids sliding and flying all over the place.

They slide sideways out of the seats trough any serious horizontal forces, in the case of a rollover their heads will violently hit the roof as they literally take off from the seats [0], and then fall on the people on the ground side.

[0] https://youtu.be/OvNjVQkye8Y
Is it easy for someone running their own small business website to have a working feedback/contact page? Working encryption? Freaking readable type for seeing people? And yet if a business website didn't have these and they lost sales over it, would people blame users or say that the owner should find fixing certain things about their website as being their responsibility?
> there may even be an opportunity to provide a curated service layer over the uncurated package managers like PyPi and NPN, possibly a paid service?

Anaconda comes to mind, and I've heard that for Haskell there is Stackage
You just keep saying this, but never provide a shred of evidence.
What part of the civil rights act does it violate?
Plenty, according to the presentation linked elsewhere in this discussion.

Cummins (the major manufacturer of engines, generators etc) will service the high voltage parts of the bus.
AFAIK it was an American base in Germany. Americans were ok with Poland donating their planes to Ukraine, but not ok with Poland donating their planes to the US to donate to Ukraine.
It's also pretty easy to invest in them indirectly. There are a few Fidelity funds that include SpaceX, and you can also invest in other companies that invested in SpaceX (ulterior motives, including my employer)
Sure, I'm aware. "Proof" is a too strong assertion either way.
I had hoped to not wade too deep into this discussion for privacy reasons, but essentially I have quasi-rented it to someone close to me who I trust, and isn't in need of the place. They cover the utilities they use, and I don't charge them rent. Still, you have a valid point. I honestly don't like the AirBnBification of neighborhoods across the world. But, the time commitment I need right now to get licensure and then to interview rental candidates/hire a management just isn't worth the time commitment. Besides that, I like the optionality of visiting the city, and I did live in the house last year ( saved a ton on rent by buying in another state and working remotely there for my employer in California during the pandemic ). Hope that adds some clarity. I'm not part of the global elite!
Harmony-Seeking Computation, by Christopher Alexander [pdf]
Hmm. My last engagement on this front was before TB4, seems like the situation has markedly improved!
I don't think these posts should be blocked, because they create discussion, which creates interest, which incentivizes for problem solving.

Humans are incredibly good at solving engineering problems they can see from a mile away, although it takes time to solve.
That's a good move by OP. Too bad for Calendly. I can't think of a reasonable argument that it's trademark infringement. A portmanteau with day is quite different from a -ly suffix. Levenshtein distance is irrelevant.
Ben Eater kickstarted this whole hobby into my brain! I’m (hopefully) starting a 68010 breadboard computer this summer; already have the parts, just need to find the time.

Another fun (soldering) kit-maker is Lee Hart at sunrise-ev.com. His kits are always surprising in their cleverness yet understandability. Almost all of them have a 9600 baud serial port, yet no ACIA/UART in sight!
Something to note is that your credibility doesn't go with with you in a new job. You need to build it up again more or less from zero. Focus on being competent and as long as you are pleasant, the natural comradery of having a shared goal will follow.

Yes, it's simple advice, but when I recently started a new job it didn't automatically click that no one knew my capabilities, personality and previous career accomplishments. No one wants to be saddled with dead weight - especially in tech where there can be a high cognitive load.
I don't really think it has anything to do with curated. It has to do with popularity/accessibility. There are more JS programmers than just about anything (my belief) and they have an easy to use and contribute package manager. (unlike say C/C++). Curation, IMO, would crumble under the pressure.

Also AFAICT, Rust's package manager is uncurated? So is Swift's but AFAIK Swift doesn't really have an "official" manager and so doesn't have the conditions for the same level of popularity/accessibility.

Maybe that suggests no package manager is better? The C/C++ way? Because spreading malware is harder? Of course conversely, excepting exploit fixes is harder.
> the corporate left

This thing does not exist.
Here's hoping for more transparency and analytical rigour with regards to the volume and cost of prime real estate ownership within London (and other cities worldwide)
Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans
That is a good point. I would say that this post is not aimed at consulting companies, which typically don't have a community strategy (unless they are a participant in another organizations community as a way of driving business).

I know a couple of consulting companies that are doing just fine, but I agree, they'll need a sales team. Will they need an enterprise sales team? Probably not, it'll be the founders and once they get to a certain size a sales team. But not the kind of sales team that Snowflake has.
AFAIK that's not actually true. There are some crazy edge cases but for the most part if a tenant stops paying rent you can absolutely evict them in SF. Most of the horror stories from landlords are attempts to evict for reasons besides non-payment - which SF does make somewhat difficult.
Not a huge crypto fan, but Sen. Warren is just the most shrill, condescending, hypocritical politician imaginable, who seems to have no emotion other than outrage. I hate nearly everything that comes out of her mouth. Whatever plan she has, I probably support the exact opposite.
I love this comment. It feels like it gets at the heart of a frustration that is otherwise difficult to articulate. I have passed it around to all those I know (with credit) in the hope that it helps them, too, at least name what they are facing as they struggle through bureaucratic morasses.
We live in pist truth society trully, you dont know what is real politically or in products you buy
We can make power plants cleaner, and generally we do (but not nearly fast enough).
Which is in part why I stated: Though simplistic applicability of this to human society, in the ways that have been done in the past, should probably be discouraged.

But you are likely correct; I should have been stronger in my warnings.

Unfortunately, however, it could be taken that I was indicating the wholesale applicability of a possibly one-off event as explanation to broader and seemingly repeated phenomena (leveling and/or declining population rates in so-called developed countries), rather that just as a possible single extreme instance of population and reproductive instability as generalized example.

My interest is confined strictly to the rat populations themselves. The particulars of the designs involved and for the issues that were introduced by them, I think that to be the more interesting part.

Any applicability to human sociology I would regard as ridiculously erroneous at this stage. (Or perhaps any stage. We tend to cross-associate species too much sometimes.)

Though, I wonder if reproducibility may not, here, be as useful as we think. It is of course necessary for such to scientific, or at least scientifically studied. Repeatability, however, is not a prerequisite of existence. It is a question of how high a degree of variability exists within the flow and inter-relation and outcomes of population-wide phenomena among social species.
I think these kinds of generalizations are pretty absurd, as I can immediately think of counterexamples. Bourne shell (and by extension, bash) is by far one of the most common pieces of software used in the world, and has been hated by virtually everyone since it's release, including admissions by its own author that it is an inferior shell. It's certainly one of the most-widely adopted pieces of software in history; no shell comes anywhere close except maybe Microsoft DOS/cmd during a small time window.
I don't enjoy giving a-holes a platform but it's way too easy to just point at somebody, call them names that rile up the public, and de-platform them if they are inconvenient for you.

Freedom of speech is important, even if it enables a-holes as a side effect.

Furthermore, this seems like a classic case of political warfare where a company is dragged into the politicians' squabbles and is forced to pick a side. It's an impossible situation for any company involved and we already know even Facebook and Google and Apple gave in.

The "legal court orders" are super easy to craft when you're ruling the country so don't give me that, it's not a good argument at all. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden were also "legally" persecuted. Or will you now say they shouldn't have done what they did?
I aliased ifconfig to this:

echo "Local IPs: "
ifconfig | grep "inet " | grep -Fv 127.0.0.1 | awk '{print $2}'
systemd-resolve --status | grep -A 2 Servers | sed 's/\ //g'
ip route show
curl --silent ipinfo.io | grep -E '\"ip|hostname|city' | sed 's/\"//g'

Hope this helps
I'm glad I stumbled upon his books when researching design patterns early on in my career. His writing in 'The Timeless Way of Building' left a big impression on me, precisely because it didn't reduce building to a sequence of mechanical steps which are to be followed exactly, but allowed, even called for, gaining a deeper understanding for quality. It's hard to express, but he did a stellar job at it.

It's somewhat ironic that he is said to have laid the foundations of the design patterns movement which, I don't know when, must have taken a series of wrong turns to end up where it did.

Thank you Mr. Alexander for writing about these fuzzy things which dare to be named.
Reminds me of a podcast I was listening to about a period in Greek history where they played music at every event all day and evening, kind of in an ambient way while they went about whatever they were doing, even during serious meetings and such.
> Wondering if wheelchair users were hated back in the days when the law about wheelchair ramps was passed

They were. AM talk radio hosts would whine about that one for years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Center
I'd say that the code that is malware/not malware depending on IP address of the server is a bad kind of weaponization. Not because I pity poor Russians or some such. I'm a Ukrainian national myself. Putin is a dickhead that should be put down with extreme prejudice; much of both the state and ordinary folk in Russia should be accountable, too. Here, I said it.

The problem with those NPM packages, or better said, the approach they are taking is that it is a double-edged sword. IP blocks can be sold and bought. Today they belong to someone in Russia you don't mind targeting, tomorrow it's someone else entirely. Today you put in a trigger to turn your code into malware, tomorrow someone finds a way to flip that trigger at will. Bad things ensue.

Not providing services to Russians is another thing and that could work. Limiting downloads by the country is okay in my books. After all, you block IPs that try to DDoS you, so banning IPs of an aggressor country that is fond of murdering civilians is fair game too. Radio silence their contributions. Don't respond to their support requests. Close the issues they open as if they never existed. Of course they can find alternative ways to download stuff, fork, implement the necessary changes themselves, but it's jumping through the hoops. Let them jump extra and then some.

Stop providing documentation in Russian, kick some people off the team/mailing list. Make the OSS you're responsible for be, for all intents and purposes, unmaintained piece of software if the user is from an aggressor country.

These are ways of sabotage I can stand behind. But putting in actual malware is rather where I draw the line.
Probably the biggest influence of my engineering career. RIP.
- It's free

- It's better than most alternatives, and in many cases there isn't even an alternative

- People have amassed too much data on Google services and the cost of moving/switching is too high

- People don't care
> The short version is “that’s begging the question”.

> That interpretation wasn’t what I intended. I intended the weaker “I can’t imagine it winding up any other way”. It’s not inevitable as a mathematical consequence.

I dare not argue with you what you meant, and apologise for assuming, but it very definitely is inevitable as a mathematical consequence. What I wrote was not a sketch or a hint, but a proof, from the ring axioms.
Why would electric buses have more problems on winter roads than ICE buses?
I guess my point was not clear. I meant to say this:
1. Ukraine will never join NATO, and NATO knew this
2. NATO encouraged Ukraine to ask for NATO integration knowing (since Dec 2021) Russia will not stand for it,
3. Russia invades Ukraine and US supports Ukraine with weapons,
4. Russia will spend money, lives, international standing, etc...;
5. US will profit (your enemy's loss is your profit);
6. Ukraine will be burned to the ground.

If NATO told Ukraine from the onset they will never join NATO steps 2 and 3 would not have happened. Which means step 6 would not have happened.
[edit - a typo in the numbers in events sequence. Sorry about that]
The great thing with Azureus is if you could download bits of content somewhere else you could copy them in and it would take that into account.

This was quite handy for a big torrent of music videos back in the day with not enough seeders.
By that logic, any harm to any Russians, even those living outside of Russia but e.g. sending money back home, would also negatively affect the development of the Russian economy.

How far would you follow that logic? Which Russians should be harmed, in your opinion, and how much?
Niche is already exploited. School boards have already been contracting out busing. Diesel/CNG contractors will just retool and charge more for green tax to school boards that want to pay.
The M1 is pretty fast, but don't get fooled by the reviews claiming there to be no difference between the 8GB and 16GB models. When you run into forced swapping, the thing still grinds to a halt. Audio crackling is the least of your worries (happens when switching apps, for example), at worst the thing runs at 1 FPS for a minute.
Average total route length is 75 miles per day. A Blue Bird electric bus, as a comparison point, has a range of 120 miles. So not all routes will be feasible with that bus, but a large number will be a perfect fit.
Yeah that's what I meant by 2r3o. I'm lucky enough to have a job that fits both.