skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're discussing semantics there. Coal use fell, coal and gas combined fell, but gas alone has risen. Which goes against predictions that coal would replace nuclear, that somehow some people claim have come true when there is obvious data that shows the opposite.

I agree with the point that we should have phased out coal before nuclear, but you have to state it like that and not cling onto some dream that nuclear and not renewables are the way forward for decarbonization.

> 2030 That's the international deadline for coal in advanced economies

Of the countries that have a pledge of a phase-out of coal, most have an even earlier deadline. However a lot of countries like the US or Poland don't even a deadline.

https://beyond-coal.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Overview-o...
https://internet-in-a-box.org/ might come in handy.

Facebook tried the same in India but was quickly shutdown: https://www.wired.com/2016/02/facebooks-free-basics-app-is-n...
Yes, Russia has all those great resources.

Unfortunately it also has the paranoid aggressive Russian security apparatus in charge that brought us to where we are, which for some strange reason you entirely omit.

Also, we have climate change, remember? We are supposed to not use up all the available fossil carbohydrates! The more we bring up the more even more large-scale issues we will have. Making fossil fuels cheap and easy does not lead us to somewhere good.

> It's an example of politics trumping economics.

Which is good especially in this case, so I don't understand your point.

One thing I don't understand is why nobody in German government (I'm German), not even the Greens, mentions that the kick in the rear that we get from the threat of Russia cutting gas is actually good for us, otherwise we would happily continue to rely on lots and lots of cheap natural gas and climate goals be damned because it's soooo convenient.

We would need to make big changes to our (German) economy to use significantly less fossil fuels even if Russia had a nice and peaceful government.

> Russia has the largest gas reserves in the world by far.

Which should remain where it is, underground! Or 50 °C will be the new normal in some heavily populated areas of this world, and other very inconvenient changes.

The plan for some seems to be to ignore the laws of thermodynamics and spend even more resources and energy on collecting carbon from the atmosphere and returning it underground using technology, instead of just letting it sit where it already has been sitting for several hundreds of millions of years. Funnily enough, this inefficient and leaky and destructive busywork adds much to GDP, compared to doing nothing (leaving the carbohydrates and not raising and using them).
I think all they want is to use modern, iterative development principles. It's fine to have the final 'yes' take the full lump sum and a 'no' being a real possibility. What they want is to be able to get multiple opportunities to fail and get a 'no' earlier in the process, when the stakes are smaller.
While your building analogy is nice, I'll propose a different one - pharmaceutical companies face a similar, lengthy, expensive regulatory process, but a new treatment doesn't just go from a single prototype to human trials - there are many steps, costing more and more as you get closer to certification, and each can block the entire thing. We need a similar path for new nuclear designs if we want to be able to live on this planet for long.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1290224/carbon-intensity...

This graphs shows the carbon intensity of their electricity dropping for years. There's a small uptick in the estimated number for the most recent year, but even with that it's a massive drop, so where is the recarbonization you mention?
I've never said this about anyone in tech, but I feel Louis Rossman should run for the Senate, or the House.

I've kept an eye on him for years, and think he's honest, and trustworthy. He does not appear to be a sellout in the slightest.

Becomming a politician doesn't sound like the life he wants, but we need guys like Louis running our country.

(It's not that crazy. A few years ago Zuck thought he had a chance in politics. His yes men put him on tractors in the midwest with a cowboy hat. I even think they had him sucking on a stick of wheat? All I knew is they picked the wrong guy. Zuck was a joke on so many levels though,
--even then. How a young man can make so many ugly decisions so quick is beyond me. I guess that's why he's a 1 percenter? Nice fair people don't become wealthy. He was just about his money, and his narcisstic life. Louis seems just honest, and cares about what's fair. He never asked to be the spokesman for Right to Repair. He was just, like I was, irritated over pricy items we can't fix.)
aws absolutely should be easy, and needn’t sacrifice any capability to do so.

i can choose to use none of apigateway but wiring up a domain to a lambda. i haven’t removed any of its other functionality, i’ve just chosen not to use it.

it will always be there, if i change my mind. one of the best reasons to use aws is that all those extra knobs are there, just waiting for you, if you need them.

trying to fiddle with all the knobs immediately is usually where the problems start, and the fun dies.

aws should be easy. maybe later, if it’s worth it, it can be hard.
Which exchange pays you those 5-7% and why do they do that?
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I find the style of the book so exhausting. How can you bring a narrative across like this?
I don't think it really does. If I remember correctly, there's a bit of white/blacklisting going on under there.
A sackcloth and ashes approach to civilization, where nuclear's low land use is preferred because we're also going to (for example) ban agriculture because it uses land, is a nonstarter. Society has decided that agriculture is ok, because the concerns of people are more important than the putative concerns of unfettered nature. And if agriculture is ok, so is the land use of PV and wind (which produce much more value per unit area than agriculture does.)

(A similar argument applies to materials. Compare the materials used by a renewable energy system to the materials used by industrial society as a whole.)
Hello everyone.

This project is a JavaScript implementation of the Bionic Reading API, distributed via npm and available in a browser or NodeJS. It supports HTML and Markdown formats, and related settings can be passed through options.

Thanks for reading.
Yep, also didn't like the librewolf comments much. They're saying it's not good because it's just Firefox with custom settings and branding, and yet they list a librewolf fork as a good options because "it made it into some distros" and proceed to link to an aur...

I'm not sure the repo owners know what they're doing tbh.
Just put Netflix on hold for few months and pick a another service for that time. This is what I do and works great.
They sound like small clients, no offense. Indeed for them k8s is probably an overkill - as is Elixir.
large (> 10K) bank and wire transfers within UK and EU are still in the order of days, not seconds. the last large bank transfer I did took 5 days without any way for me to track this transfer. the same amount I was able to transfer within crypto networks in 30 seconds and the transaction progress and it’s validation status was visible for the entire duration.

the EU and UK banking system is far better than the US but still it is not a global payment processor network and API, hence why the web even in EU and UK relies on Stripe, visa, Apple Pay and PayPal and their corporate and centralized infrastructures. building an alternative infra that is not based on a single corporate entity is net positive for the world long term
Technically, isn’t selling one asset and buying another precisely the definition of a taxable event?

I don’t see how tether helps you avoid taxes unless you’re going to lie about your transactions and hope nobody notices.
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HBO's Chernobyl is not a documentary...
This article should not be taken seriously, which has at least 2 fatal errors in its argument.

First about the choice of delimiter. It argues for the use of \(…\) and \[…\] instead of $…$ and $$…$$. They don’t even explain why, but cite an external link to, guess what, a reason why the former is better for LaTeX, not markdown.

Then they made a claim about why putting math inside code delimiters are better.

Detouring a little bit, my guess that GitHub chooses this delimiter is because they have prior collaboration with the author of pandoc to create the common mark spec. Their GFM parser is an extension of a common mark parser.

And since pandoc chooses the dollar sign delimiter as the math delimiter, it is natural for them to choose it too, just to have lesser variants.

Then why pandoc choose $ instead of \(…\) and \[…\]? And would that goes against the best practice of LaTeX?

The answer to the latter question is no, because the $ is the markdown delimiter, and when transpiled to LaTeX, it becomes the \(…\) and \[…\].

Answer to the first question is related to the fact that at least in pandoc, \[ means escaping the [. So to type \[ in markdown, it should be \\[, which is cumbersome. (There’s a special flag in pandoc that you can use bare \(…\) and \[…\] though.)

And since all this parsing is happening at the parser level, the code-delimiter argument is invalid. They are thinking more in terms of hacking an existing parser and render math as a post-processing step.

The second fatal error is comparing MathJax to KaTeX by showing the commit freq. and claim that MathJax is dead.

This is a really amateurish argument seen occasionally elsewhere in the open source community that if a software has no recent commit history it is dead.

In this particular instance, KaTeX is far behind MathJax in terms of coverage of rendering valid LaTeX math. This alone means they have a lot of catch up to do and no wonder a less mature software has more commit activity than a more mature one.

MathJax is backed by a lot of organizations/universities and they have commitment to maintain it. It is far from being dead.

KaTeX aims at being fast (MathJax 3 reclaim that territory a bit but AFAIK KaTeX is still king in that aspect.) If the math you use can be rendered by KaTeX, then use it. But it happened to me that I have to change a config to use MathJax instead of KaTeX because soon or later I’m going to use something KaTeX doesn’t support.

As GitHub doesn’t give you choice, choosing a default that has better coverage is no brainer.
>- But you still owe the taxman $3! (though you might be able to claim some sort of offset on your material loss of $RANDOM; IANAA)

From what I understand, you have to actually realize your losses/gains if you want to claim tax on them. So if $RANDOM drops to ~$0 then you can't use it for capital losses until you trade it to another crypto (or cash). You could probably just trade $RANDOM to something else and then back to realize the losses.
Can't not upvote a discussion of James C. Scott, but I am surprised at the lack of mention of Ursula K Leguin's Wizard of Earthsea book which makes its magic emerge from knowing true names.
Arttime: Beauty of text art meets functionality of clock/timer
Alas, in reality the code controlled by the flag is often mixed with other code and separating the two is often difficult to do right, e.g. requiring to pass a lot of data hence and forth.
UK Government Guidelines on Documenting APIs
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Maybe low carbon power sources like nuclear would have done better if the WSJ hadn't been telling people that Climate Change didn't exist/wasn't a problem/wasn't caused by humans/was being pushed by communist beaurocrats for their own devilish purposes.
Crashes are a huge wealth transfer from the optimistic to the opportunistic. They’re very good for the few
Netflix is the one that got greedy and over estimated their position.

Serving video is an absolute commodity. They should have been getting pennies on the dollar if that. A simple distribution service for studios who should have been thought of as their customers. But no, making a steady, useful, profitable business is not enough.

Taking a big cut from an easily replaced service, and using the money to fund a direct competitor to their customers sure was something. Took a lot of chutzpah, is about the best I'll say for it.
This reminds me of the whole shebang around "champagne". There are thousands varieties of sparkling wine in the world, most of them are interesting in their own way.

So, what if we stop use term "parmesan" in our recipes and use just "aged hard cheese"?
Only for household consumers, for instance because there's a special tax on household electricity to get people to use less electricity: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromsteuergesetz_(Deutschland...

For none-household consumers it's the same as the EU average:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

At the same time Germany has one of the most reliable electricity nets with less outages than other countries.
You realize that most Netflix viewers are not Netflix employees? (For now at least!)
No one has done that. It's not clear it can be done reasonably or economically. You'd have to isotopically separate the LLFPs from stable isotopes of the same elements.

I will say that if those LLFP can be separated, it's probably simpler and cheaper to just shoot them into space for disposal.
It is indeed a taxable event. People who exchange crypto for “stable”coins are generally doing so to stay out of the KYC banking realm so they can lie about their transactions to their country’s tax authorities.
Importing cash has other limitations, so your $20,000 example is a poor one. Specifically, imports of financial instruments of $10,000 or more must be declared, following anti-money-laundering laws.
In the vast majority of countries including the UK, US and Europe this is a taxable event.

Which country are you talking about here?
This is a good summary article. It appears many commenters haven't read it so here's the key paragraph:

"Even if you think that natural gas should be banned or taxed away, nuclear will still end up uncompetitive. By the time you finish a single LWR, investors will build enough solar and storage to eat high daytime electricity rates. If you assume current nuclear plant operating costs and a very optimistic OCC then only a modest decline in cost makes solar + storage cheaper for 24/7 power. Solar and batteries have declined over 90% in price over the last decade, and the learning curve powering growth looks to continue."
You are totally right
i think the discussion style of the "the little" series is quite nice to introduce concepts. it feels like i'd observe a discussion between two experienced people.
It is corruption 101.
It's the same as stocks. Let's walk through an example.

You have 1 share of Stock A and I have 1 share of Stock B. We both paid 1 USD for each of our different stocks.

Now I want Stock A and you want Stock B, so we'll trade with each other, and lucky us, both stocks are now valued at 2 USD per share.

After performing this trade, ask yourself these questions (from my perspective, or swap A and B for yours, it's the same either way):

* Have I held Stock B?

* What did I pay for Stock B?

* Do I now hold Stock B?

* Why not?

* What did I sell it for?

* And how much was that valued?

* So then how much did I gain?

* How much is owed in tax?

Unless your local tax law specifies "cashing out" not only as a taxable event, but the only taxable event, which I assure you it does not for stocks, the correct answers are as below. The equivalent to what you seem to describe for crypto would be transferring money in and out of the exchange where you trade stocks, and it would be ludicrous if this was the taxable event, which it isn't - but this is a common misconception among amateur crypto traders.

* I did hold 1 Stock B.

* I paid 1 USD for it.

* I don't hold it anymore.

* My dog did not eat it, so I must have sold it, which I did.

* I sold it for 1 Stock A and it was valued at 2 USD at the time of the transaction.

* 1 USD of value was gained at the time I sold from the time I bought.

* I owe a percentage of the 1 USD of value gained, depending on the capital gains tax rate, which differs.

I'd ask the local tax office anonymously. Not knowing doesn't fly as an excuse, everyone says that and it doesn't matter if it's true. Where is this place, if you don't mind?

Bonus question, what if we trade 1 DOGE for 1 Stock C? Is that different? What about 1 DOGE for 1 USD? What about 1 DOGE for 1 token backed by 1 USD? What about 1 Stock C for 1 token backed by 1 USD? Somehow it seems to get more complicated with "cashing out" laws, not less. Also I don't believe they exist, but I'd like to know too if they do anywhere.
Maybe in US, but not in all countries.
It's against logic if your only consideration is geo politics. And even then, many have argued economic cooperation builds peace and security through mutual trust and dependency. In the light of current events, this way of thinking has been discredited, but it's far from self evidently irrational.
Why application sustainability is more than a programming language choice
That site doesn't mention whether it's the intensity of electricity consumed or produced, when Germany imports electricity it tends to be from countries with higher carbon-intensity production[0]

[0]: https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE
Is it really that pervasive? Can you elaborate more?
The Dao of Functional Programming [pdf]
> The other thing is their habit of releasing entire seasons at once. Their choice, but it's very supportive of my habit to cancel my Netflix subscription every time I run out of things to watch, and subscribe to a different service.

If they didn’t do this and I were going to screw about with subscription micromanagement, I would just subscribe when an entire season had been released, since I have no interest in being drip-fed a show or watching something over several weeks.
no startup should start on aws unless they have years of expertise with it.

unless they can tape over all the knobs they don’t need with little notes that say: peel off when your on the moon.

this is what i’ve done here.

i believe there should be fewer knobs.

i believe i shouldn’t have to remember which knobs to tape over every time i launch a new product.

i believe for almost every use case, a single subset of the knobs is sufficient.

i believe that when the day comes this is no longer true, it should be just as easy to peel off the tape.

aws is easy, and is fun, and (egress aside) is cheap thanks to scale-to-zero and spot.

i believe this more every day.
Pretty much. xD
Sorry, purely anecdotal.
Pharo recruitment plug: yesplan.be (Belgium) is hiring European Pharo software engineers. If you have little Pharo knowledge that’s fine too, in my (personal) experience, as I am now working with it for 3 months.

More on topic: there are many ways in which Pharo can find things that is not possible (or applicable) in other languages.

For example, there are 4 mouse clicks you can make in your image:

- left click

- right click: it shows a context menu

And then there are two clicks that I would need my laptop for to (re)figure out. One shows a “halo” around a window. The “halo” gives all kinds of options. The other one shows a context menu that allows you to figure out what objects are running with regards to the pixel you clicked on!

Because of the last click, it’s easy-ish to extend your IDE.

The last two clicks are some combination of CMD + Option + CTRL + click
We have been working for years now on a smalltalk like IDE and a language (which is as language not like smalltalk at all, but as runtime it is). When we went down the rabbithole of prior work (like smalltalk, lisp, etc), it is painful to notice how far we actually have come but how little we actually use / have available to us in mainstream dev. We hope to show how it should be later this year!
I will add that using just batteries for 24/7 solar is also not the cheapest way to get to 100% renewables. Solar + wind + batteries + hydrogen reduces the overall cost of providing "synthetic baseload" (in Germany, modeling using historical weather data, the inclusion of hydrogen there cuts the optimum cost nearly in half.)
You can't make precursors for CoViD vaccines from heat pumps, you can't make steel using heat pumps.
It’s literally just headless evergreen chromium handling the rendering these days and has been for a while. It handles JS fine on the condition that you as a developer continue to think about accessibility.
Germany is a net electricity exporter:
https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/EN/Infografiken/stromaustausch...

Unplanned shutdowns are a increasing occurrence in France because of aging reactors and overheating/freezing rivers
Wow they need to see prison time for losing investors money saying their main coin was USDC
The other aspect of the Ukraine war used for advocating for nuclear, which the nuclear proponents like to omit is that 25% of European uranium comes from Russia, so Europe's dependence on Russia is even stronger for Uranium than for gas. It's simply dishonest to use the current situation as an argument for nuclear. If anything it shows that we should have invested into renewables much more strongly, but nuclear proponents were strongly arguing against it because it would have made nuclear even less financially viable.
But Germany is a net-electricity-exporter

https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/EN/Infografiken/stromaustausch...
Recently there was that blue-algae powered computer. Wonder if that concept can be used. But at ocean scale.
Inspecting Electron's native stack to diagnose nightmare JavaScript memory leaks
Creating a popular OSS library is a marathon, not a sprint
Isn’t Microsoft always championing Linux malware? Anyway it appears to get in through SSH with default passwords so it’s nothing to worry about as usual. Typical MS anti-Linux FUD like this is issued by MS quarterly at least lol.
The sun shines 24/7.
Seems like this would be easily countered by weighting each tag by something like log(n tags) or something.

Basically have just a few tags? They count a lot.

Have a bazillion? They count next to zero
They are describing this from the perspective of an exchange however. Also most of the initial guys came from Jane Street which is a market maker. While I haven't personally worked at a market maker before, I suspect these guys are less fascinated by crytpocurrencies themselves but by how there is suddenly a whole new class of assets that is ballooning and ripe for market makers. As market makers, they are also understandably less concerned about what an underlying asset itself really is worth, or what it even is, but more about facilitating transactions and arbitraging away inefficiencies. (for example, in the podcast he repeats a few times, "who are we to question what it's worth if the markets have spoken"). So from that perspective I can sort of understand why he described it that way.
I'm sure there's a better way of debugging "my Electron app ran out of memory during the night and I don't know why" - but this was a successful attempt to apply brute force to figure out why Element kept crashing.