skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlikely, if you look one there at the pie chart for average use of the past year, you'll see that 41% fossil fuel, 26% renewable, 17% Nuclear, 7% Biomass.

We are running down the last few nukes, and it'll probably take a decade or more to get the new ones, if that ever happens.

For renewable, one should read 'intermittent' (it is mostly wind turbines), and the back fill for that is gas-turbines, so we need equal fossil fuel generation capacity to the wind generation capacity.

There are periods where our little island has weeks without wind, as has happened over the last year, including during the last winter. If you look at the production graphs, specifically the past year (weekly averages), you can see those spikes where there was no wind, and we had to fully utilise all of out fossil fuel plans - including inefficient OCGT (and possibly diesel) plants.

Unless and until we can have an efficient storage mechanism (batteries can not cut it), we will be dependent upon gas turbine generation. So one can anticipate high energy costs for around 20 years, until we get new nukes online - if we ever do.
Capacity factor, across 24 hours a 30% capacity factor works out to 7.2 hours at max output. Being able to 4 hours of max output is therefore 55% of the total energy produced in the average day.

Grid demand is also significantly higher in the daytime so that 4h of battery allows you to very closely match users demands over 24 hours or ramp up during peak demand and fall back on other sources at night.
> "Creating an economy where men can attain dignity and social respect."

Whether hard-working folks can attain dignity and social respect is a factor of society itself, not merely a side-effect of material circumstances. The poorest countries in the underdeveloped Third World have far more recognition and respect for those who work hard and provide for their households (and the happiness/life satisfaction indicators to go along with it) than much of the rich West.
Projective Geometric Algebra done right
> a tight-knit family is the foundation of all other social structures.

But you're missing an important part there: the "tight-knit" part doesn't just mean "stays together no matter what". It means "genuinely care about each other and work well together."

Yes, a close, loving, supportive family is hugely important, for everyone in it. But a) the nuclear family you're almost certainly thinking about (a married couple and their children) has not been the norm for the vast majority of human history (and certainly wasn't when Confucius was writing), and b) whether you have a nuclear family or not, when one or more of the relationships at the core of your family is dysfunctional and causing significant stress, breaking that relationship apart can be a big improvement for the family as a whole. (In fact, when you don't have a nuclear family, it's much easier and safer to do that, because you're much less likely to be losing half the income in the household, or the only stable adult-to-adult relationship in the household.)
I’m the same but thankfully my house has a rule of whoever doesn’t cook cleans. So tech debt isn’t too bad!
I mean, sure, among the parents. Plenty of people in Asia love relationships for the same reasons young people do in the West: sex, money, status, comfort, etc. -- without needing an end goal of launching families.

The main difference is a lot of people here feel pressured by their families into a path to starting a family they don't want. Some balance those opposite forces, some just give in and have unwanted families while cheating to get what they really want.

Anecdotally, I've noticed a clear contrast since moving from the USA to Asia. Cheating is far more common here. I've dated a number of "taken" women here, and the common thread always seemed to be that they kept their unwanted partner around for appearances to placate family pressure.
If both parents are spending all their time at work just to make ends meet (or workaholic executives), how can that be stable? When will they have time to guide and develop the child?
well I mean that is not normally what one is talking about when using the phrase family planning in the modern era.
Ebola: New outbreak declared as officials warn 'time is not on our side'
One more random question...

What's your thoughts on a NixOS like operating system for FreeBSD? And have you seen any development effort for it (I don't mean the package manager for FreeBSD which already exists).

Frankly, FreeBSD being an entire operating system with userland included seems way more appealing to me than Linux based NixOS - since it seems like reproductability would be even easier/stronger for BSD than Linux.
Which is why when Apple introduced new ARC optimizations last year, they had a talk about possible gotchas that might crash the application due to them.
Russia’s Chernobyl seizure seen as nuclear risk ‘nightmare’
I would argue we are just as social as before, but our social needs are able to be satisfied in the short-term by entertainment more than ever before, which dulls us from pursuing slow-burning-but-high-long-term-reward rewards like a stable relationship/marriage in favor of high-dopamine, low-risk, convenient, low-effort rewards like immersive video games and ever-more-enamoring leisure options.

In the 40s, what did a young man have as far as entertainment options? Books, theaters, cigars, racing his motor vehicle with friends, going to horse races, hanging out in bars, finding a public telephone box to call someone, etc.

In the 80s, 40 years later, you had all of the above, as well as basic 8-bit arcade machines (more social because of the high score aspect, going to the arcade with friends etc), then the advent of the IBM PC and cohorts (yes HN I'm skipping the PCs that beat IBM's product to market, hand wave with me please) which enabled computer games with interactive stories and explorations, as well as home media and basic, basic internet connectivity (BBS, Usenet etc.)

40 years later in 2020, we have all of the above plus social media, greater fidelity movies, television shows streamed on demand, the interactivity of the web has made itself available in our pockets in the form of smartphones, smart watches, and tablets, we have virtual reality headsets for even more immersive UX, and all of this is before said social media platforms and app makers started their algorithm iterations in earnest to increase engagement and maximize distraction/user attention time.

In the span of 80 years time we haven't gotten less social by nature, but the sheer amount of engaging dopamine hits we can get from entertainment has gone way up versus ye olde library book or baseball game, so the boredom factor that pushed us to hang out with friends and eventually pair up with someone special is much lessened.
But when it's warmer, I can't work. Obvious solution: let people have and control their own offices.
Unless you're locked in a room with no doors or windows.
Alternatively: Let them, even click the confirm link for them; increase the noise-to-signal ratio for their tracking, targeting, and profiling.
Over days, yes. Without writing down notes? No. I write notes and you can throw them in slack if they're sharable. I don't really see the issue.
84% of guests use the TV? I thought hotels were for visiting somewhere.
same here
switched for privacy/security reasons

i expected IOS to be this perfect experience, but in fact many of apple's own apps are buggy ,and some quality of life features dont exist

and then theres TrueCaller :(
How does violence in hetero relationships compare to those of same-sex relationships?
I have found this useful in practice when debootstrapping for a different architecture.
Farmed salmon comes to mind.
While it is a great project, posting a link to it is almost like posting a link to Wikipedia.
This isn’t the burn you intend. Henderson is talking about wealth/status privilege while the left uses “privilege” as a shorthand for racial or gender privilege. Henderson is clearly not ceding that point here (implicitly or otherwise).
Peppi shirt?
Thanks for pointing out hnrss!
I want to reconnect to someone I went to high school with. What steps would you suggest I follow to do so?
Their hardware isn't "forever" though. The industry they cater to and the consumers that industry serves are constantly demanding higher resolutions, higher frame rates, more quality, and at the industry level, the ability to process the vast amount of data that generates in a workable way. BMD aren't in the business of supporting cameras or video recorders that are 20+ years behind the times, they're in the business of delivering higher-performance equipment that improves on a "Moore's Law" type trajectory. Resolve is a tool they use to help manage this hardware process. Open-Sourcing their Intellectual Property and investment where Resolve is concerned wouldn't confer much benefit, other than catering to a microscopic niche of people such as yourself who have the time and patience to make changes in a highly complex codebase. Businesses don't owe it to you to make their hardware "forever". You could equally be trying to make a case for demanding the VHDL that runs their FPGAs open source, which would no doubt be lovely while being commercially damaging, and harming their ability to pay the high wages of competent and focussed engineers that bring you such complex products at a price you can afford.

P.S. Your text files will work better than your LaTex files in 50 years.
And they're committing a literal genocide while Russians abroad are silent or tacitly supporting it.

When Ukrainians are no longer being killed then we can talk about hurt feelings...
Sounds great but I wanted to have a salad. Is there no way to make lettuce salad safe to eat?
I doubt the upper class consciously tries to keep the lower classes stuck in poverty.

There are so many factors here the article doesn't touch on. Such as men's biological desire to maximize sexual partners, women's biological desire to maximize quality of and support for offspring, and cultural variation of expectations among all classes.

In my circle most of us were raised by parents in unhappy marriages. (Often for religious reasons.) The few happy marriages appeared surreal like some fake Hollywood production. So the same norms that keep families 'intact' can have a lot of unhealthily effects.

There's also less of a ramp or ladder for men who do want to support the family to commit to such an obligation confidently.
they’re all legally obligated to actually delete your data, feel free to cite the ccpa or gdpr, they’d rather delete the data than contest your residency

you don’t actually need the accounts for anything, I deleted all of mine and felt the same way at first… but 3 years in and I have zero doubts that i’m better off without them, should have done it sooner
Its innumeracy propaganda.

There are no minimum wage jobs where I live anymore, and I live in a lower cost of living area (not Manhattan or silicon valley, LOL). I'm not surprised no one can afford rent at $7/hr when no one can find a job paying $7/hr. Costco has a sign up paying $19/hr to empty trash cans and they can't hire people at that low of pay and the article claims its a tragedy that a middle tier single bedroom would take $21 as a nationwide average; although I live in a lower cost of living area.

The government "Fair Market Rent" is sort of median quality housing. If the goal is to demand that even people at the literal bottom of the barrel of income in the 0-th percentile live in 50th percentile housing, then who will live in the 0th to 50th percentile of housing. A goal of having the lowest percentile in any group meet median achievements is inherently impossible.

There does not seem to be any actionable plan proposed; to me its obvious that raising the legal minimum wage from $7 to perhaps $8 will not improve anything if the absolute bottom of the barrel of jobs in low paying areas is already $19/hr AND there is no supply so there are unfilled jobs. Another obvious proposal is building more housing to crash the price, and the ownership class is not going to tolerate that behavior LOL.

As a thought experiment, if the living conditions are indeed unlivable as the guilt inducing article proposes, fine, lets run with that theory that its true nobody can live that way, then how are so many people living that way?
The parent was asking about “policy proposals”. I imagine lack of success of President Trump in implementing his proposals has made many of his voters unhappy.

That said, if you don’t focus on deportations, but instead look at the entire picture, note that the total net illegal immigrant flow was significantly lower during President Trump than it was during President Obama, and has jumped through the roof as soon as President Biden took over.
The naming makes perfect sense with C Major, or A minor. Because the in-key notes are letters. The weirdness is how we then apply those same names to every other key.
I tend to be very C Major focused when playing piano, and just use the transpose function to change keys. Things are much simpler that way IMO.
The naïveté of this take is astounding for someone who frequents a technology message board. You’re just going to ignore the part where these services employ A/B tests to make their services more addictive? You’re going to ignore the countless stories about how Facebook knew that the content they boost is bad for mental health and is addictive but they did it anyway? You’re going to ignore .. the entire surveillance capitalism aspect where an entire industry is predicated upon keeping people engaged?

Have a feeling you’d get a long with the Sackler family famously. Christ.
Don't fall for his propaganda. He doesn't give a fuck about Russia, Russians, etc. He wants gas and oil (or more precisely, he doesn't want Ukraine to have it) - Donbas, Azov sea and Black sea are full of it.
We’re starting to see the seeds of this in various ways - an example is realizing that laws and penalties against speeding don’t really do anything, but changing the design of the road can do everything.

There are many, many more examples for us to find.
Every 10 years, someone will reinvent Larabee.
I’ve been using pobox.com (acquired by Fastmail) for the past 3 months after doing a lot of research just like you. They have very decent pricing, support custom domains and multiple aliases/accounts, + addressing etc. So far looks pretty good albeit simple!
It's confusing to me that it's socially acceptable these days to bully those who lack a sexual partner.
I suspect you moved to the US?
I did that as well, out of love for a human being; not a disdain of the political surrounding.

Boy oh boy, French have it good. They have no idea.
Maybe they do have it good because they keep asking for more.

I don’t even find the country specifically dis functional ( compared to the US )

But that just my own personal data point. Also, I live in the buttcrack of the US, maybe it’s not fair. ( and I love that said buttcrack :) ! )
It's showing that the other person's detracting point about not seeing a flame is moot.
You should try it with lutefisk and century eggs! Sounds like a great combination.
> Let’s conveniently forget that Gibraltar is actually territorially part of Spain

it is most definitely not

it handed it over in the peace treaty that ended the war

> The Catholic King does hereby, for himself, his heirs and successors, yield to the Crown of Great Britain the full and entire propriety of the town and castle of Gibraltar, together with the port, fortifications, and forts thereunto belonging; and he gives up the said propriety to be held and enjoyed absolutely with all manner of right for ever, without any exception or impediment whatsoever.

full text here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Peace_and_Friendship_Treaty_o...

> Oversee territories are a shame on every countries that still hold them be it the UK or France.

meanwhile Spain has two enclaves of the exact same type of in Morocco, Ceuta and Melilla
This is an absolutely valueless comment, so I apologise: but I just wanted to thank you for writing one of most sincerely level-headed responses I've seen in relation to Brexit, and from someone 'over the fence' at that.

I aspire to be as considerate and reasonable in my dialogue on the subject, as much as I'd like it to go away (much like most Europeans, I guess!) :)
I was thinking of Germans from the Palatinate...

The Irish and Italians often had the full weight of law enforcement countering their illegal activities. There was also lots of social pressure to assimilate.

It's hard to say, we'd need to do a deep dive on each. Pretty sure thats not happening. Absent that, yes I'm happy to exclude them.
Feedly + Unread on IOS
I love textualize/rich (and charm)!

I think this solves some of the web's browser problems by breaking things out into components:

- browsers are way too complicated to build, terminals are way easier

- browsers have a huge attack surface, terminals are smaller

- browsers lock you into JavaScript (more or less), terminals don't

- browsers have to support tons of backwards compatibility (quirks mode, TLS), terminals have less to support by being more circumspect

It feels like we're on the beginning of the next cycle a little. First we scattered a bunch of apps to see how we should use the internet, then we focused on the browser, now we're scattering some more apps to see which solves our new problems better.

To that end, presuming we stick with terminals, I wonder if they're at risk of falling prey to the same problems, or if they have different potholes in their future. One thing in particular I saw someone else mention in a comment in a different thread is that terminals are almost all written in unsafe languages like C, which feels super bad. Something else is auth and identity--something the current web is pretty bad at.
My name has an accented character in it. It also begins with a lower case letter. Zoho's sign up form force-capitalised the name and also told me to 'only use letters and underscores' when I entered my name. I should make clear this was when trying to fill in my real name on the sign-up form, not the email username [I know they can't have accented chars]

Similarly with Runbox. It allowed me to enter my name properly when signing up. But in the name part of the 'from' field of the test emails I sent, it replaced the accented character with a � as in my email 'from' line rendered as F�rstname Lastname <username@runbox.com> ---like something from the 1980s!
> The soviet union illegally and unprovoked invaded Finland in 1939 and conquered territory.

The Soviet invasion of Finland in 1940? Yes, it was absolutely illegal, and I irrevocably concede with that fact. Finnish alliance with Nazi Germany to regain previously and forcibly ceded territories? Yes, I [can] accept that. Selective ethnic cleansing specifically targeting the ethnic Russians purely on the pretext of Karelia being the cradle of Kalevala and of the nation? Hardly so – for it is an attempt to impose and extend a sense of collective guilt upon an entire ethnic group of people for the misdeeds of their leadership they may not have agreed with.

I also note that you have evaded to provide any evidence to back up your prior statement being «Less than a hundred years ago russians marched into my country and tried to murder every man and rape every woman». Strong statements require strong evidence. The human history is full of highly unpleasant truths, but – to be able to arrive at an objective assessment of any historical situation – one has to immerse themselves in each side of the story, no matter how unpleasant it is/was. Cherry picking truths that selectively suit or support one side of the story is not an option in such a case.
FeedReader with DecSync plugin: https://github.com/39aldo39/FeedReader

It's a desktop app that, with the plugin, sync across my different machines.
Apple now removing outdated apps from the App Store, developers complain
Or he would be killed by his in-laws
90% of economic gains are captured by the top 5%.

If you're not in the top 5% - I'm not sure this an insane world view.

If you just want to have an average job and not a career in the right field or run a business - life seems less like a positive sum game and more like a zero sum game.

It's easy for us at the top to talk about "making a bigger pie" when we get 90% of the bigger pie.
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Russians are unironically dying for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevism#/media/Fil...

Mordorstan.
> Yes, a close, loving, supportive family is hugely important, for everyone in it.

Telling people that it doesn't matter if they divorce and that they should put their own short-term happiness first and foremost is tantamount to denying this. And when it's the liberal upper class doing this, they're pretty much pulling up the ladder to effective social cohesion behind themselves, even as they hypocritically enjoy its benefits while denouncing the horrific plight of those most socially marginalized. The fact that some people in terrible relationships are genuinely better off if they split apart doesn't mean that celebrating divorce as anything other than potentially a lesser evil is a sensible idea.
Giving birth to a baby without being married is a religious point of view.

I am supposed to believe that a "sociology professor at Princeton, and Kefalas, a sociology professor at St. Joseph’s University" can somehow convince me that he knows what a "low-income woman" thinks or does in her life. I've lived around "low-income women" my whole life and I haven't figured it out.

"The conventional view is that a lack of money leads to out-of-wedlock births."

Whose conventional view? This is not the view of poor people.

"Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men.", the book this came from was written by a conservative scientist from Iowa. I tried to check some of the stats and every one of them seem to be wrong.

This link outright proves there are not 10 million men unemployed in America. https://www.statista.com/statistics/193244/unemployment-leve... So who's statistics are right?

This is a horrible article that seems to do nothing by try and place blame rather than provide a solution to a problem that does not exist. I will go as far as to say this article is quite racist. The article says "American" men but then only targets white American men in their statistics. Which is it, American men or white American men?

He says at the beginning of the article he was one of America's "lost boys" which already tells me he has no idea what it means to actually be lost or poor. His other blog posts reveal his religious rhetoric. Remember when Cambridge produced leaders and not followers?

This is a poorly written article based on personal views and statistics that don't even target the proper demographics of the content of the article. Unbelievable.
I was a child of divorced parents. It seems logical that which is 'better' depends on just how irreconcilable the differences are, relative to the parents in question. I mean, it seems staying together could only work if the parents had small changes to make, simply because people mostly don't make big changes to themselves, at all.

My mother sat my 2 sibs and I down before and asked for our thoughts/feelings, and we all said "Do it" without hesitation or doubt. In my case, we were all clearly worse off materially after. I think we kids were a little better off mentally and emotionally, but a large component of that is that my mother would have continued attempting suicide otherwise, and it's possible she might have succeeded.

It's useless to speculate about whether they could have stayed together if they'd had the capacity to put others above themselves, because they didn't have it, and no amount of counseling could have endowed them with it.
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