skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but never true

Ehhhh, sorta? Wind power can be useful as a base load generator if you over provision by a large amount. But the problem is that during the summer months you will get ridiculously high generation and then in winter it drops like a rock. What's worse is that solar follows this same trend.

Typically pricing per kwh is averaging across the year. But during the winter you will have terrible shortfalls. So you need to double or even triple that price because you will have to double or triple the wind turbines and solar panels to achieve the same stable load.

Unfortunately, power storage for months worth of power is even more expensive than just over provisioning. Batteries are great for grid stability, but not for long term energy storage.

You can get a good idea of what renewables look like over the year here: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16851

So unless we want to keep running natural gas in the winter, or we want to pay 3x as much for renewables, geothermal and nuclear would make a lot of sense when paired with renewables.
Tribes 2 with modern graphics for modern platforms, and maybe an Apex Legends-like Battle Royale mode. I don't think that there has ever been a better multiplayer FPS. When you're used to jetpacks and skiing, most other FPS feel slow. And there is nothing as elegant as killing with slow ballistic projectiles like the Spin Fusor.

Apex Legends has got some of the aspects that made T2 so great, especially if you play Valkyrie (Apex's only flying character), but the weapons are not as much fun and you're wasting too much time on looting.
Yes, I understand that much or all of the tracking is automated. That does not negate all countermeasures. If the laser is powerful enough to punch through a mirrored surface, then one can use a sacrificial surface, a scattering surface, heat shield, emission of a scattering fog/smoke/chaff, etc., etc., etc.

I've watched the successful tests, and I'm not impressed. sure, it can shoot down a black-painted sitting duck with no countermeasures in several seconds. Merely starting to do twisting and spinning aerobatic maneuvers would have foiled it by constantly presenting new surfaces such that no tracking would work (can't make the laser point at the same spot from the other side).

The point is that until lasers get to insane powers not yet available in any portable form, it is not at all a slam-dunk. This stuff was funded decades ago for the "Star Wars" anti-missile initiative. It could use all power in fixed positions on the ground, so as big, heavy, and sprawling as you want, and the target missiles couldn't significantly evade, and it was an utter failure. Sure, we've since seen orders of magnitude increases in strength, but we're still orders of magnitude away.
That would require a constitutional amendment, which is basically impossible for this change (no small state would ever agree). Increasing the size of the House of Representatives would not.
I have silly items of zero value, that my partner would throw in a heartbeat. I have wires and gadgets rarely used. And books they are not I inerested in. If I dropped tomorrow, my cooking pans and teddy bear would be all that remained!

We had seven days to clear my Dad's which was our family home. Not even enough time to review trinkets and resurface memories. A few useful items went to charity. The rest the scrap heap. And I was limited as to what I could take. I took a multimeter and, a drill, and a barometer. Could have done with some furniture, plants and other stuff, but it was just too bulky to deal with.

My Mum sits on a pile of organised rubbish. And shortly after she shuffles off, the lot will go in the bin.

But then, my family and I have nothing of value. Which does at least save on any squabbling.

Both my parents have and had loads and loads of stuff. My Dad had about five car carcasses. Three sheds of wood. And other junk. It's pretty selfish leaving others to deal with your shit. I know that sounds cold, but it ruins people.
You could write an opposite article featuring people using SwiftUI that have never touched UIKit or iOS code before and it would be nothing but glowing praise.

That's kinda like my story. Covid started and I wanted to learn something new so I started with Swift/SwiftUI. 2 years later I've been doing tons of crazy custom stuff in my portfolio tracker app https://stocketa.com (not launched yet) - I kept a thread with my progress since the first day I started my journey: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/1527288954935922688 (scroll up).

This was last june but I wrote about my experience with SwiftUI at the time: https://paulstamatiou.com/getting-started-with-swiftui/
> all of ... in the last 30 years have one address space and use 2's complement for signed integers

Yes, they do.

The C virtual machine never did and never will.
I’d think so. Whether they realize it or not. Since inflation for the US isn’t a crazy situation without precedent. 2021, 2022 have been a lot more for inflation, but this century has overall been something that is not unexpected.

Looking at how big FB is vs other companies makes a metric like inflation not as important as all companies and thus all investments are affected by inflation.

So, still, any of the example market caps for FB today would’ve been gladly accepted by almost every one in 2010, regardless of the specific percentage of inflation that has happened. FB would still be a top 25 company in market cap at $300B. Top 20 if looking at US only.
i would LOVE it, if there was some project which would test popular appliances and linux at home, if v6(only) presents any problems...
GDPR is not just about cookies. In fact cookies are already next-to-useless for tracking because modern browsers have countermeasures against it (which unfortunately does hinder legitimate usage like cross-domain SSO).

The GDPR is about data processing consent as a whole, regardless of how the data was collected. It includes data that you can’t withhold such as your IP address, browser fingerprint, etc.
Wikidot close its wiki websites to Russia and Belarus
One of my parents is a hoarder and has filled up a 2500+sqft house with junk. It is so bad that there are aisles carved through the house so that they can get through it.

My siblings and I have been begging and pleading with them to sort this out for the past 20 years. We have offered to help. But they haven't, as said parent is "throw themselves in front of the car if we try to leave with anything" emotionally attached to this stuff and somehow maintains an inventory of everything, including how they bought it and how it made them feel.

Now they are getting old and infirm and are barely able to afford the house that they are renting, let alone put in the effort to clean it up. My siblings and I are going to be stuck with a quagmire where they only solution is to pay a professional to come over and clean out the house, and that will not be cheap.
Catherine the great tried creating a constituent body for Russia with 10,000 representatives. It didn't go well and soured her on the whole prospect of democracy. Keeping assemblies within at least shouting distance of Dunbar's number seems to make them work much better in practice.
We do use UINagivationController in our app, so that's no issue.

Crossing the boundary from UIKit to SwiftUI involves instantiating the SwiftUIView, handing that over to a UIHostingController, then presenting that controller. Something like this:

let myView = MySwiftUIView()
let hostingVC = UIHostingController(rootView: myView)
navigationController.present(hostingVC, animated: true)

Crossing the boundary from SwiftUI to UIKit is slightly more boilerplate to write, but it's not too bad. You have to implement either a UIViewControllerRepresentable or a UIViewRepresentable (depends on your needs). Those protocols only needs two functions defined: makeUIView/makeUIViewController and updateUIView/updateUIViewController. For the simplest views and view controllers, you can leave the update definitions empty.
They were common, but you wouldn't have seen folks wearing them around the countryside, certainly not on a bike!
It does, but very indirectly which defeats the point of "just emit YAML". I regret phrasing it that way as it seems to have caused a lot of confusion. See my responses to sibling comments for more information.
I think the biggest step towards the current political polarization was the FCC's revocation of the fairness doctrine in 1987. This lead to conservative talk radio's rise, which lead to the mainstreaming of right wing propaganda.

I'm not sure how we could "undo" this, given the decentralized social media we have today..
Congratulations Mr Author, you have reinvented WPF (XAML).
>Everyone that needs to log in to Jenkins runs an OpenZiti tunneler on their computer. Each tunneler has an identity installed on the same computer. The OpenZiti network administrator issues these identities via email or chat in the form of one-time enrollment tokens and assigns role attributes that match up with a service policy. The service policies grant permission for those tunneler identities to use Jenkins. We control the service policies through a web console or CLI. As soon as the policy grants access to an enrolled identity, the tunneler automatically configures a private domain name and IP route to the Jenkins server on that user’s computer.

How do you get everyone to run the tunneler on all the machines that they could use?

For example our company uses subcontractor companies that have their own network admin team that manages their work computer and a strict VPN. Getting an employee to run a tunneler sounds like a non starter.
For a cooperative space ship bridge game, you may enjoy the board game Space Alert [1]. It is real time and mostly tactical, but it makes for a very interesting challenging experience as the time constraint does not allow a single player to commandeer each detail, but rather you need to successfully delegate which at least I have found to be very challenging with the teams I have played with.

[1]: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38453/space-alert
You're the prime example of what's written in the article: belittling the effort, pretending it's hard to comply with etc. etc.
A full system snapshot is not 100% always the correct solution, data protection is complicated.

An example hypothetical, you have deeply embedded malware and you're unsure when it infected the system, it could have been sitting latent for months. In this situation you have to restore back and lose months of application data or restore a recent snapshot and then try to remove the malware in a clean room. It is much safer and easier to start from a clean OS and then restoring only the data on the system which is much simpler to scan for infection and sanitize.
Fighting Climate Change with Buoys That Look Like Ramen Noodles
Citation needed. Firefox HTTPS only mode does not upgrade local IP addresses or reserved local "TLDs" like .local. If machines on your "local network" are squatting on a public IP or potentially public domain name how is the browser supposed to know the difference?
And its going to be a very big moment, since V3 effectively bans Adblockers and website redirect extensions.

It might increase Firefox adoption if it actually happens.
Hostile Waters sort of did #1. Its solo, but it's a RTS where you can switch to FPS gameplay as any of your units
The malicious actors moved everything to "Legitimate Interest", which needs to be toggled off manually for each provider and very well hidden.
This is going to sound a bit dark...

A game version of Threads

You run a country in the run up to a nuclear war, decide on whether to attack first or wait and retaliate, survive in your bunker and get to run the county for the next 10 to 20 years

Like a long term version of Defcon.
> It's a choice for a high level language to pretend that's not true.

It's a choice C did since its inception: stop whining and accept the fact, please!
Would you mind providing a quick summary of the primary points of the book?
"Not a single living person knows how everything in your five-year-old MacBook actually works. Why do we tell you to turn it off and on again? Because we don’t have the slightest clue what’s wrong with it, and it’s really easy to induce coma in computers and have their built-in team of automatic doctors try to figure it out for us. The only reason coders’ computers work better than non-coders’ computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don’t beat them when they’re bad." [1]

[1] https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
While I've been waiting for this kind of game, some approximation I've been able to whet my appetite with is the old classic Baldur's Gate (I and II) with the following mods / optional settings.

Sword Coast Stratagems (radically improves AI, making mages especially terrifying), INSANE difficulty
Double Damage (only damage dealt to your party is doubled)
No Reload ("hard core" mode. No save scrumming).

These combinations turn the game into a strategically deep, and tactically rich experience. And just the hell more memorable.
Yeah some of it is a little confusing to comprehend. But, agreed, the numbers in this study are amazing. Higher than anything I've seen to date.
> Why?

Seems contrary to secret voting? If someone in the government wanted to round up many supporters of party X they have a database.

> this is done is to facilitate closed primary voting

Why is the government facilitating how political parties pick who represents them? Isn’t that a private matter?

How do you think this works in other countries? Parties have their own, private, lists, not shared with other parties or the government, so that you can support a party in private.
That’s actually a fascinating idea.
The article, despite a "what is web3 anyway" section doesn't get any closer to concretely explaining why anyone would want web3 or what we would do with it. I see why unscrupulous VCs and developers want it, but there are no reasons a regular consumer would (just some vague "principles"). If this was a pitch, you'd expect people to say "so what?". If it does a concrete thing that a non "crypto investor" would care about, explain that thing and maybe people will use it. If in exchange for investing in whatever shitcoin someone is promoting I get to feel warm about "immutability" and "verifiability" and whatever while I have to pay some shitcoin every time I check my email, I don't see why I'd use it. It it's useful, it should be really easy to explain how.
> Steve Ballmer ... was ridiculed because the outburst of energy ...

It was much, much worse than that.

Putting aside the crass yelling and dancing; also putting aside any rumor of cocaine abuse; putting aside how cultish it looks...

Having a large crowd of adults yelling "dentists! dentists!" or be it lawyers, accountants, etc in a frenzy would be seen as very unprofessional.

> But many of us appreciated the sentiment

I hope not.

> It's called virtue signalling for a reason - people who do it announce their principles but never seem to live by them

And how do you know that? Some people can be hypocritical, yes.

Are all people with principles hypocritical?
I want to see this for Desktop OSs IE Windows and Linux
Hugging Face introduces Pull Requests and Discussions
Unreal Tournament 5
> Do whatever you want with it,

That's the opposite of what is being said.
Plus:

* Long sunset period

* Instructions to make sure you can enjoy the same security after they sunset
I recently faced this same challenge and solved it using Amazon SQS, a simple Lambda function, and a corresponding SQS consumer/relay service running inside the private LAN.

Essentially GitHub's webhook is configured to hit the Lambda function, which authenticates the request and adds the data to an SQS queue. The internal relay service watches that queue and passes requests to the private Jenkins server.

The architecture is similar to this[1] project, but since the public-facing piece runs on Lambda, it costs almost nothing to run.

[1] https://github.com/osbuild/webhook-relay
It’s TikTok’s World Now. Facebook Just Tries to Make People Care About It
For the space combat FPS I think you're talking about Angels Fall First (https://store.steampowered.com/app/367270/Angels_Fall_First/). Players start on a capital ship and can walk around, fly fighters, and attack as well as board their enemy.

The old Battlefront 2 also had a (simpler) form of this type of capital ship combat, where the bases were the ships and players would dogfight in space and attempt boarding actions.
Not sure on the wearing out, but agreed - these developments are encouraging to say the least.
Half Life 3…
The part of mass shootings people don’t talk about: SSRIs.
In the realm of things that would actually be feasible for small teams or individuals to build:

- I'd like to see some some fully offline, single-player CCG/Deckbuilding RPGs in the style of the old Pokemon CCG Gameboy games. Balancing single-player card games is a lot easier than balancing multiplayer deck-builders, and I'd be fine with pixel-based top-down graphics (in fact I might even prefer them). RPG formats work well with CCGs; I want to run around and find rare cards in areas where my AI opponents have themed decks and gimmicks, and I want to be able to build a card collection and make little decks without worrying about microtransactions and online ladders. A nice little offline RPG with cards.

- I'd like to see more games (in general) of any genre experiment and iterate more with Breath of the Wild's weapon durability system. BotW pretty much single-handedly changed my mind on the potential of durability systems, and I think there's a lot of interesting things that could be done by designers who sit and really work through what made BotW's system work so much better than durability in a lot of traditional survival games. I think a lot of people glossed over (or criticized) what I think is possibly the most innovative part of BotW, so I'd love to see more games jump into that space and try to translate out those mechanics again in a way that players might understand or respond to better.

- I'd like to see some vaguely I-Spy or Where's Waldo games that are designed to be on some level passive backgrounds -- essentially games that are designed to be mostly pretty dioramas with a lot of stuff happening in them, where player interaction is more about just clicking things or seeing how they react to each other. I want a game that takes low resources that I can leave running on a Raspberry Pi or other low-power computer, hooked up to a monitor in my living room, where I can just occasionally walk past and spend maybe 3-minutes interacting with it. I want a game that is mostly a display piece, that captures the feeling of having a nice diaorma or animated scene, but where I can occasionally whenever I'm feeling bored or spacing out click on a few things and maybe hunt for some objects, possibly over the course of a week or two working through a list of hidden objects.
I thought it was a direct quote from Erik ten Hag after observing his first training session
Over the December break I started a new routine.

I went from:

- get up, make coffee, read the news / social / etc. TO

- get up, make coffee, read a book for 1 - 2 hours.

The switch from short-form micro-morsels of information to long form has done wonders for my readiness for the day.
Can't recommend it enough.
Here is a better solution. Just do not care about your credit score. Seriously. It is all BS. They make you think you need these things, it is all marketing.
I'm confused by this post. Is it just a random smattering of Twitter sentiment collected into one place?
My favorite example:

Microwave controls. One dial for power and one dial for time is all you really need and much better than numpad controls.
I'm a contractor/consultant and know exactly what you're talking about.

Things that help me.

1) Finish all client work first

2) Reach out to my network, not for work but just to catch up with people, sometimes work comes out of this effort but it's also good just to hear from people (even when you're busy it's good to make time to stay in touch)

3) Think about how to bring in some more business, this can require thoughts, strategy, etc

4) When times are busy clients sometimes ask me for things that could be more generic for lots of different clients, I immediately write them down so that in down times I can look through the list, can any of these ideas be made into a small side hustle?

5) Hit the beach/slopes/gym, whatever I put off during the busy times. You probably put some things off when you were really busy that you have time for now
No, Skylines is terrible IMHO. It's comically dumb.
The CS course I did in the 1980s had us use a Burroughs mainframe for the first year (complete with MCP) - I think this was a cunning ploy to make us really appreciate Unix when we got to use for the remaining three years....
It's in the latest print magazine of the ADAC from n=548 Tesla customers there was a alpha return rate of 13.80% and a beta return rate of 14.50%. Mercedes (n=728) has a alpha return of 5.8% and a beta of 6.7%. VW (n=912) has alpha 7.4% and beta from 6.8%. It's a lot.
SonoBus: High-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio
There are official escape hatches in SwiftUI to let you leverage UIKit. As someone actively working on a slow migration from UIKit to SwiftUI (where possible), it doesn't feel discouraging to wrap a UIKit view to use it in SwiftUI if necessary.
imagine getting a push notification about your city rioting about property prices, so cool!
How many real-life meetings have 200, 500, let alone 1000 active participants? Representational democracy comes to mind, which is interesting, because the ”representational” part only exists to mitigate this very problem.

Maybe there is a systemic lesson here.
AWS Copilot CLI: Build/Release/Operate Apps on AWS App Runner, ECS, and Fargate
> GPS doesn't use battery

Tell that to my phone. And my sports watch. GPS being available doesn't use battery on its own, but if apps actually ask for precise location information so it gets used, that doesn't happen for free power-wise.
This is the most first world problem I've ever seen.
> FPS that can be played in large scale format but doesn't reward 14 year old reflexes

FWIW I've recently gotten an Oculus Quest 2 and I've been playing a lot of Pavlov Shack. I was afraid of the quick-reflexes, playing-all-the-time, fearsome 14 years old (and judging by their voices, there's a lot of them), but I've been doing pretty well - usually ending up with a 2:1 or 3:1 K/D ratio, top of the team table, and playing maybe an hour every other day. I'm very surprised by this, and I can't really explain it - I'm not a gamer and the last time I played an FPS seriously was before 2010. TLDR: Go get 'em!
Loss of understanding of the lower strata of the technology we depend on is a popular new fear. I see evidence of this all around me these days. The more the devices around us "just work", the fewer people question them and learn how they work. As time goes on, fewer and fewer people will understand them and the quality will decline. Looking at recent history, instead of relearning the underlying technology, we'll just replace it with a completely different approach instantly making the old tech obsolete and unfashionable. Why? Capitalism. There's no profit to manufacturers in you repairing your devices. As employees/workers, we're so starved for time and taught that time and money are equivalent, so we choose to swap time for money and buy a new one.

Like the Catholic church in the middle ages, Capitalism is in many respects helpful to society but ultimately holds us back and if we don't abandon it, it will lead to the end of civilization if it hasn't already led to the end of the habitability of the planet.
Not a video game or with combat like that but there is a board game called Space Cadets. It is what you say in that each player has their own role but it is also real time and quite frantic. I'm sure there are lots of YT video reviews of it.