skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus coal is more expensive by LCOE than wind and solar, and has been for several years.

That means electric companies are losing money running coal plants.

They are racing to replace them with wind and solar and natural gas turbine, with the gas turbine slater for replacement with storage once that is cheap enough.

Finally, with EVs and the electric grid, the power can be phased out centrally. Even if coal is used RIGHT NOW, once new power generation is available it is a seamless switchover for EVs.

If in the long term some dirt cheap thorium reactor supplants solar and wind, EVs don't care where the electrons come from.

Plus home solar, EVs doubling as home energy backup/storage, less components in the EV require less manufacturing, safer skateboard design, more internal space, lower center of gravity, regen breaking.

Although the ideal transition is a 100 mile LFP PHEV for the next ten years. No range anxiety, 90% + of daily and weekend driving is all electric, maximizes use of current manufacturing capacity of batteries, regen breaking efficiency.

Ten years ago (,ten years after the first Prius) we should have required all consumer passenger vehicles to be PHEV in a phased in manner.

It's still not too late to do that.
OT, but who thought this "declaration style" is a good idea for larger texts? To me it seems this is extremely hard to read, and makes it almost impenetrable. By putting the verb in the gerund and hiding the subject of every sentence somewhere 2 pages above this is very effective in obfuscating who wants to do what. Clearly no normal citizen could read this.
Sorry, my cat does not do drugs!
there is a grey area between reuse and abuse
Bill Gross Ruled the Bond World for Years. Then He Was Deposed
Americans will feel the impact as Fed raises rates. Here's what you should know
We need to stop corporations from buying single family homes.
A couple of interesting points to add about Hanami:

- At the popular parks in cities, you can pay a couple of students to set up your tarp in the morning and reserve your picnic space until your work group arrives. For a school-related group you’d just send a couple of junior people.

- Uber Eats will deliver to your picnic tarp.
On fedora, import your wg.conf into NetworkManager (`nmcli connection import type wireguard wg0.conf`) and set up DNS using nm connection properties (ipv4.dns-search supports the ~.domain notation, see resolved.conf(5) for details).

The connection will auto-start; if you do now want that and you want manually start/stop ip, set ipv4.autoconnect=no.

Fedora uses systemd-resolved by default since the 33 release; if you installed older and then upgraded, check the network manager config if you are using it or not.
Ask HN: What technologies greatly improve the efficiency of development?
What are the technologies or methods you've used that greatly improve the development efficiency of your team?
Aaaand.. lets dig up the history books, how did crimea become this way- and there it is, ethnic cleansing and replacement with russian civilians during the ruling of the ussr.

Thats how a lot of the baltic states in the regions got their russian minorities today. Deport the elite, import russians to life in their homes.

Hitlers crimes were rolled back, this crimes stayed and lingered and even worse, are the recipe for todays conquests. This is what ukraine can expect, if putin is victorious. Mass deportations and replacements.

It is also the "unoffical" reason why the "planted" people their need russia "for protection" against a "genocide". Every accusation a confession.
Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees above normal
So what you're saying is software will be created by people using some kind of formal notation to write a precise specification for how it should behave, which the technology then follows? If only we had a name for that process...
> On the other hand, who will work on polished software for end users for free?

Man we're so over that... do you know what FLOSS means? Most FLOSS used today (and it is used in or to develop mostly everything you use) is developed by paid developers.

You sound like bill gates in his open letter to hobbyists: "What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
It doesn't help that JSX feels like it should be a part of the language. I'd really expect the main programming language of the web to have first-class support for HTML.
Counterpoint: I spend a lot of time coaching data scientists and others building the “AI” on better software engineering. I have noticed a distinct difference in those that can organize, scale, and test their AI stuff over those that rely on software engineers to do it for them. Often left to their own devices, Unconstrained by software eng concerns, DS can push more and more to a theoretical and impractical direction, creating models that don’t actually work at scale. Whereas more constrained by these more SW eng concerns, DS will make more practical decisions. Often simpler models that scale.

I think this is reflected in the marketplace with the new ML and data engineer roles that try to find people on a data-eng spectrum.

IMO the DS with software eng skills (and software eng with DS skills) is the future - https://shopify.engineering/search-at-shopify
> So much as suggesting you miss going to the office or seeing coworkers in person is met with an incredible amount of vitriol.

This might be because some of those of us who want WFH perceive this as, in practice, carrying the (unintentional) implicit threat of forcing us into physically mingling with the crowds again. After all, you can't see us in person without us seeing you in person, and on the way to that in-person meeting we're seeing a substantial part of the city's population in person.
36M-year-old whale fossil found in Peruvian desert
Actually the EU should build common administration platforms for all members of EU. There is no reason that each individual country is building its own e-government platforms. If they are OSS a plus
That assumes we're the object of the simulation rather than a byproduct. Maybe what they want to simulate is a universe and we've just happened to pop up in a small part of the simulation.
1) Cool. I'd add it's really important that everyone knows and believes that you won't insider trade, otherwise they might get scared off of participating. So the perception is important too.

2) Right, so, the way this can go wrong in theory (not saying it will happen in practice) is if a large group of users, or a small group with a lot of points, decide to all get together and focus on one alternative regardless of how good it is. They predict that alternative really strongly and vote against / predict against all the others.

Then, again in theory, you (the site operators) look at the votes and say 'wow, this database must be much better than all the others, we'd better use it.' Then the colluders all get their predictions proven true, so it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Here's one research study that looked at this kind of issue, although they end up not finding a lot of manipulation: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315529106_Manipulat...
Lego Paper Shredder
My first thought when I read this article was: Dude, I used this probably 20 years ago and even then it had copy and paste between devices and drag and drop.

The case with this, though, is - as the article says - it just works. That's not the case with a single OSS KVM solution I know of. You'll always have to do some amount of configuration apart from installation that prevents widespread adoption.
Russia Uses Advanced Hypersonic Missiles in Ukraine for First Time
What I really want is biased search results of my choosing.

$10 a month for a personal search is a bit much. $10 a month for work related search is cheap. Give me results specific to my industry without having a super long query.
I remember reading an interview with Adams in a Swedish photo magazine in the late 70s, early 80s. Even then "electronic imaging" was on the horizon, and Adams was looking forward to it.
Open Source Microservice Testing Tool KubeOrbit Becomes Part of CNCF Landscape
Have you seen the “sl” command?
There was 16 years between the launch of ARPANET and the specification of the DNS.

It took more than 20 years for a website to exist on the internet.
Hiya. Doesn't bother me at all to have you question my motivation.

I'm not connected with this company at all, just ran across it and thought it was an interesting concept.

Sure, it's content marketing (they have a product to sell). But I found it educational.
It always seemed odd to me that we're so close to the apparent start of the universe. 13.8 billion years isn't that long ago, given how big the future time horizon is.
>an American NGO lost 30,000 files documenting Russian war crimes

This is a bullshit claim made by a one hour old GitHub account with a random username. Probably a pro-Russian troll that wants to dissuade other open source maintainers from pushing anti-Russian protestware.
I kinda wish the opposite of hypersearch existed. Let me explain.

I set up multiple browser profiles recently; work and personal. For work, I need Google. I'm a software engineer and I find that alternatives just aren't good enough for those kinds of searches yet.

For personal, I'm trying to use an alternative. It's ok most of the time but sometimes the results aren't great so then I try searching again in Google.

I'd like if there was an extension that augmented the alternative with Google results in the sidebar. If possible, in a way that preserved privacy.
IMHO if there would be an objective way (e.g. some kind of algorithm) to look at the company data and spot value stocks that will outperform the market, then somebody would have created a tool to detect these. Probably there would even be an index and an ETF to invest in.

The lack of these indicates to me that stock movement is rather random and that some people are more lucky than others.
Yes, That fits. People need transparency as far as possible. For example, prison phone systems are onerous monopolies that oppress prisoners with enormous connection fees. Apparently the various prisons accept bids = the largest fee paid to the prison system is the winner - who then extract the max fees from inmates.
The spectrum auction looks, on the face of it, to be a simple bidding process. Sadly the winners than pay billions to the feds and the winners then extort cell phone and internet users for fees - in the mean time, those billions that could have made US wideband universal and lower in cost are sucked into the political maw and wasted, oligarch style = USA lags behind dozens of countries due to this corruption.
If I'm not mistaken his writing also inspired the first wiki
> But all of the reliable evidence is that if you’re vaccinated, boosted, etc., the chance of you being seriously ill from catching COVID is really no more likely than the flu.

Citation for your health claims?

> And statistically, everyone is going to get it eventually.

That's not how statistics works.
Btw those text based interfaces are better than most gui/web interfaces of today.
Does anything that relies on “Linux on the desktop” just work? Of course not. I say this as a user.
Yes. If your site requires JS for one of the following things, it is simply broken:

- Video

- Plain-Text

- Images

- Sometimes forms

HTML provides everything you could need in the huge majority of cases.
Because that's their state, their responsibility. And it has happened before in USSR/Russian Empire, hunger is a key.
ISS Lunar Transit Photo
I would recommend evangelizing and working on HTML-bridges to this:

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

Asking people to not require javascript is like asking them to not use cell phones: yes, it would probably be better in many ways but it's not happening.
> I believe that they have achieved diffraction-limited alignment. What about the image suggests that there is more work to do?

Some of the remaining misalignment is rather obvious in the higher resolution image. For example, look left of the main star and notice an "echo" of the main diffraction pattern that is not centered on a star.

Also, if you follow that pattern's downward arm to where it meets a diagonal arm of the main pattern you see a rectangular bar of increased brightness. Perhaps it indicates the need for calibrating that part of the sensor.

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/te...
Alexa for Animals: AI Is Teaching Us How Creatures Communicate
This would be very nice for an animal adoption center.
Some general thoughts:

* There's no silver bullet. If one 'method' was far quicker and easier than all the others then everyone would do it.

* Generally it's a long process. You need to find a way to study and learn that you can do for multiple years.

* A teacher's explanation won't make things that much easier. When looking for a teacher, find one that is fun, exciting and motivating for you.

* Avoid translation as much as possible. The language you are learning will have lots of differences to the language you speak already. Don't get hung up on them.

I think adastra22's comment goes into some good detail about a method to learn a language. Try to have the attitude that you are a detective, investigating what all these different words and phrases are and what they're used for.

Definitely focus on phrases and sentences, not words. Sentences contain a lot more grammar and context.
"Actually helping people is bad" is an extremely attractive narrative that sticks very effectively. It is regularly used to resist all manner of useful systems from welfare to charitable giving to accessibility.

"I read years ago that _nonspecific_thing_" should be a red flag for making broad judgements about the merits of accessibility. One story about "welfare queens" poisoned millions of people against anti-poverty measures for generations.
I'm not asking people to ignore them, I'm asking for a hierarchy of concerns with regards to the ADA. The first concern being the acknowledgement of the good it does and its necessity.

It's arguable, but in my opinion you've got the chain of causality backwards. People here focus on the trolls because the ADAs popularity is low, they don't like the effort it entails, and they don't like government regulations in general, and they'd just as much not have to apply norms at all.

I can tell you the vast majority of businesses are not ADA compliant and do just fine.
Why would I build my own OS from scratch if I could embed Linux in my project?

In a word, performance. You know how when you were a kid and turned some device like a TV on it worked instantly but these days you might have to wait a minute before anything interesting happens? That's one thing that can happen when layers and layers of abstraction and generic software replace highly specialised firmware designed for each product. Of course building all those layers might be cheaper, faster or easier. Unfortunately that doesn't always mean the end result is better for the user.
Having perceived the Emperor's bare ass; why say something about it? Sure we thought society was better than this; but as it's proved it is not; what possible benefit to oneself in pointing out the failure?

Do we still believe that if enough of us "be the change we want to see" we can get the more just, better society back? Did we ever have it in the first place?

Lookit "civil rights"... Despite the articulation of sound principles (Character over appearance), we that movement ever about principle or was it just used for a while by the wielders of the propaganda cannon? And today, when it's convenient for those cannoneers to invert those principles, they've no shortage of such ammunition to spew forth either.
A Systematic Approach to Give Feedback to Blame Absorbers
Most people don't do things because they like them, but because they enable their relationships with other humans - so they can talk about something with them, compare their experiences, etc etc. This really is the conceptual basis for mass-culture; in Japan they've just accepted it a bit more openly than elsewhere.
> This company doesn’t want to go through the trouble of securing their employees’ data within their own system, so they use a tokenization platform for storing sensitive employee data

This looks like something useful.

I think the so called "Web3" movement would be more Interesting if it was focused of building such infrastructure.
Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Finally News Fit to Print
Woah. Thank you. This is nuts.
I wouldn't say it's rare for those actually entrenched in the crypto community. Hardware wallets are fairly easy to secure and if you really want no trace of ownership, you can just memorize your 12 word seed phrase.
Hmmmm… ok, what if somebody is handing out free food, but it’s poisoned. Is he still liable for harming you?
White House Reported to Be 'Appalled' at Axios over Ukraine Article
Wikipedia says there was an official Borland public domain release of the source code, which this is probably based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision
> with less user fussing/configurability.

Why is it so popular among hackers then?
SEO ruined search.
Founder of ToolJet here. ToolJet can be used for building public-facing apps but our focus is only on internal tools. Building public-facing apps will require more design customisation options, a built-in database that will scale well, payments/subscription features, user management features, etc. Right now our goal is to make it easier for developers to build internal tools quickly with the help of drag and drop application builder and the ability to connect to all the possible data sources with less code.
Ahh the classic “lose at every sale and make it up in volume” strategy
Remember: A "footjob" is not the same thing as a pedicure.
Some of the OSS projects originated from and are entirely maintained by commercial entities.
Putin puts international justice on trial – betting that impunity will continue
I did not notice that the comment said "2-3 years' salary". I would suggest that a cash cushion that is some multiple of your yearly expenses makes more sense.
This is true.

Speculators play a vital role in stabilizing the price of a commodity over time. All other forms of arbitrage are meaningless besides the biggest one of them all: temporal arbitrage. Buy low sell high. And with it, sell high buy low.

Government employees, for instance for Codelco, Chile's state-owned mining corporation, value speculators because those speculations are the best predictions of the future. Suddenly you can make guarantees to your stakeholders, and sell futures, and plan, feed the prediction into your other math.

Also I'm not sure HFT is totally useless. If you set a minimum latency in the market and forbade anybody go around that you would get cheaters, and less integrity, and roll back trades. Instead, with HFT, the only challenge of the fastest is to really be the fastest. They gotta win. Further, at a societal level, I divine there are harmful macro artifacts that happen at large multiples of HFT's granularity. So when the latency was milliseconds, artifacts happened in years, in microseconds, they happened in days.
The Importance of Proper Serverless API Design
The US spends about as much as peer nations on healthcare through taxes. Then it spends that much again in private expenses. In return it gets poorer health outcomes.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/237043/us-health-care-sp...
Inlined Images in Next.js
Yeah, Sony was always pretty good at the ergonomics, but I decided long ago against buying anything they make because they always wanted to go it alone and define their own formats, and refused to join in with other manufacturers to create a common, interoperable standard. E.g. Memory Stick, MiniDisc, etc.

Sony gear always seems high enough quality, but the proprietary lock-in that it inevitably comes with, one way or another, is a nonstarter for me. I haven't bought anything they make in decades.
>It's always been thin-walled garbage where I can hear every word of every conversation of my neighbors

I feel this is mostly a US problem.

In most of Europe, apartment blocks are solidly built, especially the older ones, even in Eastern Europe.
Exactly, we already do that. We want more detail and control, which means lower-level programming and writing more software.

Specify programs by only a very brief specification is similar to No Code/Low Code. It's great for prototyping and not much more.
A system where we invest our money in only the maximally productive places is not a system that is just. Ensuring that people aren't left behind is a virtue and even if investing in people at the boundaries ends up leading to less society-wide productivity it is still valuable.

Your proposal falls prey to a sort of "investment-productivity monster." What if we identified the brightest kids in 2nd grade and spent all of our education resources on them, while shuffling the rest into the Amazon Fulfillment Centers? Maybe that'd increase overall productivity. But it'd be wrong.
Dear God, please kill the 2-factor auth as a requirement. Passwords are OK for me.

Btw an asymmetric cryptography may kill not just passwords but logins too - but it will not do that because modern devices aren't the thing I would trust all of my private life (and not exposing the private key to some connected device makes the idea impossible).
The fact you cannot even refute any of these clear valid points, not even with a token that fits all the criteria shows that crypto is completely a scam and you've just admitted that. Your arguments have been heard all before and backed up by nothing.

Because in reality, No token, blockchain or "coin" fits any of this, which means there isn't a use-case at all, which is exactly what all the crypto skeptics including myself are saying.
Not sure if it qualifies, but I find humorous the mysql --i-am-a-dummy flag.

> Allow only those UPDATE and DELETE statements that specify which rows to modify by using key values.
> programming work in the next decade will be done by logicians using something like TLA+

How is that not software engineering?
Honestly at this point I don't think bing sucks vs google. Bing has less random junk in SERPS for a lot of searches, and seems less gamed by SEO companies, but it isn't really better enough to make a point of switching my chrome url bar over and breaking my habit of just going to google. If things keep going like they have been I wouldn't be surprised if I switch in the near future though.
Torrents, P2P file sharing in general. I really don't get the argument that technology doesn't get adopted fast.
The lawyer needs to find a person that has suffered as a result in order for the suit to be valid. So they team up with someone who is unable to use the facility as a result of it not being compliant. They sue, and split the money. Often, all that is needed is for the lawyer to demand compensation since it is far easier and cheaper to just offer them a few thousand dollars to settle than it is to hire a lawyer and figure it out in court.

The ADA is interesting because, to my understanding, the law asks for ‘reasonable’ accommodation without defining what that is. So it leaves it to the courts to decide. It is reasonable that new building should be completely wheelchair accessible. But is it reasonable for architecturally or historically significant sites to be modified for wheelchair accessibility? That’s where the lawyers come in.
Abortion is a religious thing (for some reason - God killed lots of babies in the Bible, and also there isn't really much mention of abortion either) more than anything, but I guess you could also say that religion is just a way to control bodies too?