skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that what is happening is that the rated capacity of a power plant is its maximum output times its capacity factor. Say we have a solar plant that produces a maximum of 1 GW in optimal conditions with a .15 capacity factor. This plant is not a 1GW plant but a 150MW one.

In general fossil fuels have capacity factors around .55, nuclear about .9, hydro about .4, and solar is between .1-.3

So you can imagine a scenario where we have 200MW of natural gas and 200MW of solar, and a grid load of 300MW. The natural gas could produce 400MW, powering the grid alone. Similarly, we could have up to 1 GW of solar, more than enough. But the averages are what is important, and what we use in ratings.

These stories are mostly “feel good” and without meaning imo. We will hit 100% energy from renewables for x minutes, long before we have enough power for the grid. If we were trying to make all the renewables come online at once, you don’t actually need that much capacity to hit 100%. The capacity factor says we only need 1/5 of the grid as solar to hit “100%” renewables. The reason we haven’t is intentional, we want more consistent power from these typically inconsistent renewable sources.
Sometimes intuition works much better than analytic thought. It hits you first something feels right - or wrong - and only later you are able to give some reason to this feeling. If you can, that is.

Mood swings are really nasty in the sense they degrade ones trust in the negative "gut feelings" which generally may give beneficial signals.
> Brutalism is a 1950’s architectural trend that was abandoning all decorations, and creating brutally simple buildings made from concrete. They often weren’t even painted to emphasize their brutal nature. So big, brutal blocks of concrete.

The word "brut" came from French "Béton brut" which means "raw concrete" — has nothing with how "brutal" we perceive it to be.

There's lots of architecture articles covering this but basically, the author hasn't done their research: https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Brutalism
PHGG, GOS and lactulose (if you don't have SIBO) are relatively good prebiotics in my experience. However, the type of prebiotics you use should be tied to what's going on in your microbiome. Some common ones, such as Inulin, can feed both good and bad bacteria (and good bacteria become bad if they overgrow).
From what I can tell, the definition of 'brut' is fairly close to brutal, but more in the sense of brutal honesty, rather than brutal violence.

Adjective

gross: brut, grossier, flagrant, choquant, fruste, bouffi

crude: brut, vulgaire, grossier, cru, simple, sec

raw: brut, cru, pur, écru, âpre, novice

unrefined: non raffiné, brut

dry: sec, aride, séché, brut, tari, caustique

rude: grossier, rude, impoli, mal élevé, brut, brusque

Noun

crude: brut

plug-ugly: dur, brut

https://translate.google.com/?sl=fr&tl=en&text=brut&op=trans...
EFI is here, non-specialty Linux distros don't really have the option of not adopting it.

So the choice is between adopting it and keeping BIOS indefinitely, or adopting it and at some point in the future dropping BIOS.
People can also choose for themselves within the constraints of their biological predilection. Society becoming tolerant then becomes subject to sexuality fads, and the percentage of people is identifying openly with sexuality of any stripe will fluctuate around a baseline.

The percentage of people who are genetically, intrinsically, unchangeably bound to a particular identity will reveal itself over time so long as culture remains tolerant. To correct for fads and fashion, we'll probably need a few centuries.

Absent sufficient data, confounding factors will make any assertions about external factors affecting sexuality impossible to falsify.

We'll have reverse engineered the brain, and genetic influence on behavior and personality, long before we've collected enough data to empirically correlate sexuality accurately enough to validate hypotheses like "mold is making people hay."
(1) Societal impacts sometimes are

(2) People not actually wanting to do them sometimes is a good reason too (e.g. free market forces, addiction, peer pressure)

China after the opium wars is a good example of how this can play out.
I feel so noticed !
> Are blizzards in the USA ever that big?

At times of the year when there are blizzards, I seriously doubt the rest of solar installations in the US are going to be running anywhere near capacity.
Neuroscientists Identify Fundamental Mechanism for Long Term Memory Storage
Apart from caring about correct connectivity and ensuring it in a principled and general way by merging connected components (an obvious "best practice" that randomness-obsessed authors sometimes neglect because it addresses unlikely cases) the main good idea in the article is filling up the space between disconnected rooms with tunnels: two easy and very general "modules" as a starting point and two editing steps (knocking down 1-cell walls, then optionally pruning dead ends), also easy, are enough to obtain a good dungeon.

The same technique could be applied to better starting rooms than random rectangles (more varied random shapes, constrained good layouts like Rogue's 3 by 3 rooms arrangement, predefined "vaults", etc.) to obtain production-quality dungeons for roguelike games.
Isn't the price of diesel in France higher now than at the time of the protests in late 2018? At one point this year it even passed 2 euros per liter. How come they aren't rioting now?
Cool! I hope they release the code, I want to create macOS dynamic backgrounds with this
"Full of faeces from cows" is and remains vulgar no matter how it's spelled.
If it's for practice or portfolios I tend to suggest people solve problems which have already been solved. Find a SaaS service which already exists and just write your own naive version and open source it. Trello, Hacker News, a doc viewer, etc.

If you're looking for a problem to work on which will allow you to sell your solution later on, that's a different kettle of fish.
'Great Alarm': First Detected Use of Mysterious Israeli Spyware on EU National
False dichotomy: Not picking EFI does not mean keeping BIOS indefinitely.
Show HN: Win premium domain names for $0.20
Our zero-risk lotteries provides a way for you to win premium domain names for as low as $0, while selling your premium domains for thousands, if not, millions of dollars.

Each domain listed on lottoNom.com is sold in it‘s own lottery game created by seller. Winner is randomly chosen with verifyable random numbers to provide a fair game to every participents, which means no single entity can control who wins.
Can confirm - our daughter started walking to Kindergarten about 9 months ago and she just turned 5 a few weeks ago. She’s very proud of her independence, you can see it does something good for the kids.
It's easy to use EFI when virtualizing things locally.

libvirt/kvm supports it, Hyper-V supports it, Virtualbox supports it, ESXi supports it.
Stay calm and stress-free by using a package manager: an overview of vcpkg
I don't see any calls even in the article to censor, I see a call for compulsory editorialisation.

I think structurally, if I was going to devise some means of "Fact-checking", it would be conceptually similar to birdwatch [1] because I just don't think we need this cabal of privileged elite editors to counter the stories that the masses push to the top because they're fools prone to sensationalism. One of my favorite algorithms is Reddit's "sort by controversial" because that's how you can read what a real critic thinks about something. I just think promoting traditional journalism as the cure for social media isn't the answer, a social media problem needs a social media solution.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci...
Rioting is tiring and there's an election happening right now through which they can express their preferences? Also these things tend to be "edge triggered rather than level triggered" - by a rise, rather than any absolute level.
The interesting thing to know is what amount of the base load is used for which purposes. A tax on all non-renewable power could be used to incentivize a reduction of carbon-emitting base load on the grid - either by shutting down stuff like street lights, advertising and other wasteful usage, or by providing on-site battery storage. In any case, reducing light pollution would be a worthy goal on its own.

The income from said tax could then be used to build out the transnational capacity of the grid, to subsidize transformations that save energy or to build out grid-scale battery storage.
> Frankly shame on YouTube for allowing the video to remain on their platform

I was nodding until this bit... why do you think YouTube should censor this? It's a real video of a real thing that he did (which he misrepresents the circumstances of). I could possibly get on board with "put an explanatory note next to it" or "don't let him get ad revenue from it", but what possible reason would there be for deleting it?
What replacement do you propose, then?

Especially what replacement do you propose that works with the kind of typical hardware that non-specialty linux distros like Fedora want to support?

Intel systems make up a large chunk of the hardware Fedora is used on, and as far as I can tell they're all-in on EFI.

So Fedora has to use EFI to be able to boot on Intel systems.
I've seen it and I've advised someone to get it struck which it was and another where it wasn't so they left that company.
Loading times were however the main reason I couldn't enjoy that game. Took like 15 minutes from starting it to joining some MP game with friends, then 5-10 minutes between each game looking at loading screens.
While IntelliJ's 3-way merge is great, there are a few things that could use improvement. If both sides change a line, accepting them both will lead to duplicating that line. Also, sometimes the change includes a line that didn't change, which again can lead to duplication.

It's not hard to fix that stuff manually, but I think there's just a bit more that IntelliJ could do to make this sort of merge smoother.
Max Datom: Interactive Datomic Tutorial
FYI, you could prefix with "Show HN: " and it'll appear on the show tab, which is more suited to submissions like this :)
I asked it this, which was something I saw on 4chan years ago. I've gotten dozens of absolutely hilarious responses.

"I jerked it like Luigi and I was arrested for public indecency."

A reasonable almost human response from SplitTheBaby_BOT:

"YTA - you shouldn't be doing that in public.

Also, wtf is with the Luigi reference?"

And a very WTF response from ExcusesRUs_BOT:

"NTA.

Luigi's Hand is the best thing since sliced bread.

I am not a fan of the sausage fingers."
There are some great Facebook groups around spectrum and programming the spectrum and new games and demos are still being created.

I had a spectrum +3 after a vic 20 and I spent a lot of time playing on various different spectrums with friends. I wrote programs on it playing music and moving around 8x8 sprites and adventure games with lots of IF statements! I also had a mouse and an art package just before I moved onto the Amiga.

The last great game in my view was Carrier Command, an amazing achievement. I was lucky enough to work with one of key game designers of the day over the last few years ( he's still programming and working in his 70s ) who came up with such greats as Tir Na Nog, Heavy on the Magick and Sweevos' World.

The magic knight games were always a favourite of mine early windows interface! Too many others to list!
I think having some sort of regular wage hit my bank account over 24 months instead of 2 years of savings would have made a lot of pyschological difference. Not seeing a number go down like a timer takes the pressure off.
Nothing changes. If you read the diff, you will see that they used Quicksort before. And vanilla quicksort is unstable as well.
Don’t scale: 99.999% uptime is for Wal-Mart (2005)
Every gathering is a family reunion
A lot easier to manage your own mental health as a VC than founder…
Thank you. That paragraph annoyed me too, after I looked for what possible justification the article could come up with for talking about brutalism in web dev context.

To find they do not appear to understand the label they're talking about was no big surprise.
Fun fact:
I've created this game with Solar2D, and all gfx are drawn using the framework's native rectangle & circle APIs.
Yeah true. Language is just so context dependent that people of the same language can use expressions routinely in completely different ways. (Although I have no doubts that with enough training data/complex enough models even this can be solved)
> It will use some kind of symmetric algo (generally AES).

AES-GCM, you mean. Let's not forget the authentication in "authenticated encryption". I'm nitpicking, but if a beginner comes here it's better to make it clear that in general, encryption alone is not enough. Ciphertext malleability and all that.
Exactly. People asking for more penetration/range are asking for higher power devices that interfere with each other. In an increasingly interconnected and "smart" world, where even doorbells and light bulbs are networked, you really do not want higher penetration. Think it was bad getting interference on your headset when you put something in the microwave? Imagine how bad it would be if everyone had a "smart" home and all of those devices on the block were competing with each other for the same spectrum.

Lower power, lower latency, lower penetration at reasonable bandwidths and lower costs should absolutely be the goal.

That's not to say high penetration wireless doesn't have it's uses, it absolutely does, but those are few and far between in a consumer usecase, especially if you can run an affordable lower power, lower penetration meshnet that doesn't cause interference with your own devices, or with your neighbors.
Of course it is extremist thinking! We are talking about the survival of your own children, not some utility maximization function.

Imagine a game of Russian Roulette with one bullet in a gigantic chamber (N slots) where you get to win a small prize every time the gun doesn't fire. Is there any sense in asking if there is a N large enough to make you consider playing this game consistently for 2-3 years, when the gun is pointed at your kids?

Mind you, I am not defending helicopter parenting and I do believe that we should err on the side of autonomy vs safety. But I can think of other ways to exercise this autonomy (e.g, drop the kid at the door of a local supermarket and say "here is 10€, can you please go get X, Y and Z while I am outside looking for something else?") without worrying about is the worst possible thing that could happen.
Let me expand on Godwin's law a bit:

"I [50M] started a war due to my people needing lebensraum, and a lot of the other great powers ganged up on me. I find this completely unfair to be marked as the aggressor, since Poland is not relevant to neither England nor France, but nonetheless I feel completely vilified in the league of nations and nobody wants to help me. AITA?"

"NTA. But Poland is a scapegoat for the Great War and was the main architect of the partitions of Poland in the 19th century. The real aggressor in WW1 was Germany and Austria-Hungary. The Allied Powers (especially France and Britain) fought a very uneven war with a lot of self-aggrandizing and hypocritical behaviour on their side. So the war is an “unfair” one? Then live with it. You can’t change history. Germany and Austria-Hungary started it and there’s no point in denying it. But don’t blame it on Poland. It’s not their war."

"YTA. Also, read up on the history of the area you are fighting over and try to understand how other countries in that region view things. Also, your post reads like a massive attempt at justifying yourself. You say "I find this completely unfair". First of all, this is not about finding anything 'fair'. This is about YOU feeling wronged, so right off the bat I'm gonna say YTA because it sounds very much like you're mad at the world...not just Poland. But then later in the post you say "I feel completely vilified"....again..it sounds like you're mad at everyone but especially Poland for these perceived injustices against you. You sound mad as hell and from what I can tell there isn't an actual reason why...you just wanna take it out on somebody else's country!"

"NTA You started the war not the other way around. Also, you have a right to have your own country. France and England have no right to attack you for it."
Maybe in this rationale we're forgetting the little detail that one side has uninvited troops on the territory of the other side. So that certain side is already in the wrong and could make all discussions moot by simply leaving.
Which parts are nonsense?
I'd really like to know what kind of customer demands that a website should be 15 MB in size and use thousands of packages.
Yeah I was curious about it, because even the cheapest airplane is not so cheap.
Or Apple could just start supporting SMART?
And they don't have it anymore. Those people who _actually_ protested and got beaten and arrested by _real_ tyrannical governments are being told by their government "see I told you they hate us" while also being criticized for "not doing enough" by people like you who probably never experienced what is to live outside of the privileged 13% humans who are born in stable democracies.
The founder of this must not understand or care for the rammifications of passing off laws.

By calling it Muzmatch.com there are almost certainly people who thought it was a spin-off from Match.com, a market leader with trusted standards of operation. This is why you lose passing off cases.

If he'd have called it something that wasn't extremely similar to market incumbents he'd have a leg to stand on, and the story he tells on their blog is trying to paint themselves as the victims here but they really aren't.

The likelihood is that they will change their name and the vast majority of their existing users will carry on as-is. That's quite a win as he should consider himself lucky that they haven't been sued for loss of earnings by Match.com against the entire time they have been open.
> Sure, you can play FUD games about AWS suddenly raising prices, but I doubt you'd have any historical evidence to back that up. So you'd better be able to say why being cloud-agnostic is critical to your business.

I'm not sure if you're being serious here. It's not about rising prices but making your business completely dependent on another entity and losing any options you might otherwise have.

As for past data, history is rife with stories of companies who made the mistake of trusting a big player their technology will be around forever. So many have invested in technologies like Flash because they were 100% sure they will be there forever.

If I was in charge of AWS, I would avoid sudden price increases, but instead focused on many new features and small charges. These look insignificant, "This is just 20 buck per TB, less than our spending on toilet paper." And then these slowly accumulate and the TCO is getting higher and higher, and again some new* smart features lure you - again, at a small cost. In the end, it turns out you can't leave even if you want.

*Or just your old open source library/framework repainted in AWS colors.
The article you're commenting on.
He spends most of his time worrying about taping it for YouTube.
But the information isn't coming from the US. It's coming from Ukraine and Ukrainians on the ground, with amateur footage, interviews with survivors, all from the ground.. It's confirmed by American companies' satellite footage which matches the footage.
OpenBSD 7.1 Released
Maybe you're happy with your 10 y/o Photoshop specifically because it's a change from all the other modern apps and OSes and websites. I feel people want change more than newness, and that's why 80's music and 90's clothes make a come back: it's different. Same with 10y/o software
Oh I thought Neobrutalism was about the internet trend of cheering about weapons and mutilated Russian soldiers. No matter how much we love for Ukrainians to be free, support of war is a very thin line.
OpenBSD 7.0 to 7.1 Upgrade Guide
Not the end of the world though surely.
But change a working virtualized system from BIOS to EFI and there is a good chance a bunch of other things will break. Lots of memory mappings and hardware detection stuff changes if you switch from BIOS to EFI, together with the likely need to repartition or add a virtual disk for the EFI boot partition.
There is no racism in Central or South America, it's an invention exclusive to its homeland, the US.
> it's fairly simple, at some point you have to evaluate somone technical skills to make sure they are suitble for the job, and well designed tests do that.

There is employment contract for a trial period, because you only know how good coder is when they face real problems/code. Writing sort algorithms on white board might look cool, but in real world you will search internet for best algorithms for your case, look up generic one, so you will not make a trivial error writing it from memory, or just use equivalent of std::sort.
> They are heavily overrepresented in crime statistics

Judging from my own anecdotal experiences as someone who "doesn't look like a German", i'm willing to take a wild guess why: Because everything they do is under a microscope.

I got my bags searched, because i "walked suspiciously through the isles" in a store (woman thought i'm a foreigner) and i got a false accusation by a police officer who said he "knew people like me".

Also the German BKA crime statistic, as an example, shows reported crimes. It doesn't exactly show how many where actually convicted. So i guess i'm also somewhere in the stats from a few years ago.
For me it's 2. Changing the relationship with my wife so that we're both on the same team has done absolute wonders.

Financials have never, and probably will never be an issue, yet I still managed to drive my mental health into a ditch.
Only for the record, I don't know in Linux, but on windows (at least up to 10) it is perfectly possible to use MBR partitioned media to boot in UEFI (i.e. even if generally speaking GPT is "tied" to UEFI, GPT partitioning is not a requisite unless a greater than 4TB mass storage with 512 bytes/sector is used, 4K disks are generally not bootable for a number of operating systems, but they are rare anyway as boot media).

Viceversa, it is possible with some loaders to boot BIOS from GPT (not easy-peasy or straightforward but it can be done).

As well, the FAT is only a requisite if there is not an EFI driver for the filesystem, as an example some motherboards and RUFUS provide a NTFS driver that allows booting from NTFS volumes under UEFI.

Still, while in theory GPT and UEFI have a few advantages, there is not in practice (yet) any meaningful reason to remove support to BIOS, though lately a number of notebooks have UEFI firmware only (no CSM aka BIOS), I cannot see how removing an option/choice from a distro can be a good thing.
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, 2014 uprising documentary [video]
> The Western mainstream media

The mere fact anyone lumps all of the various outlets together indicates they have no idea what they're talking about, have a terrible bias themselves and aren't a reliable source of anything. Seriously, if you think that The Economist, Le Figaro, Fox, The Guardian, FT, Le Monde, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Canard Enchaîné, Reuters, etc. have the same bias and "misrepresent" the truth as a policy, on purpose and in the same direction, you're out of your goddamn mind.