skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I checked this recently. California is still in the 30-40% range for gas/fossil fuels usage on average, but it has achieved a 100% renewables grid for a 15 minute period this year, and it wasn't a fluke or engineered stunt, but one more in a series of record-breaking milestones which have seen the grid periodically blast through the 90% range. So the trend looks good for electric conversion.
No, a GB is no longer that much, esp if you been with them since launch.
Nokia 1680 phone gets new PCB with MIPS SoC, runs mainline Linux
Unfortunately, the hacker culture that gave rise to HN is a different beast altogether, and the crab mentality is strong here.
Since python3.8 you can just call `breakpoint()` and it does the same as `import pdb; pdb.set_trace()`

Also since were on the topic I started using pdb++ and my debugging got incredibly more efficient.

https://github.com/pdbpp/pdbpp
George Saunders is funny. I highly recommend reading his commencement speech and I REALLY highly recommend reading A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. The latter because Russian literature is amazing.
Try valet up and running with a few quick commands.
Classic AD&D rules suggest the use of acid-tipped and incendiary ammunition against trolls, since they can regenerate from other types of damage.

If you've got a bunch of trolls gathered in one place, strafing them in an A-10 Thunderbolt II is tons of fun. The GAU-8/A Avenger autocannon rips apart trolls as easily as it does tanks.
> Bitcoin in its current form is not an alternative to USD, it is at best a system that complements USD, and I see no evidence at all that the existence of Bitcoin has reduced military presence anywhere in the world.

I agree with this statement to date but in the future as Bitcoin grows in importance I believe we will all see a diminishment of USD petrodollar hegonomy.

> I'm not going to get into it, but I disagree that Bitcoin is P2P in the way that most people actually care about P2P

I wish you would get into it. To my knowledge most internet based p2p networks do rely on the internet. The internet allows for p2p networks that operate between any 2 players on the internet, effectively any 2 of 7 billion people, the very definition of p2p. What am I missing?

> I also think the inflation claim is ridiculous given that Bitcoin's price fluctuates wildly.

The inflation claim is sound and is based on the proportion of Bitcoin created per block not the speculative USD value of the created supply. It is like valuing the inflation of the gold supply based on the speculative nature of gold in USD fiat, rather than the gold supply itself.

> And the inflation is not "to infinity", Bitcoin is set to eventually run out of coins on purpose. The inflation is set to eventually reduce to zero. Bitcoin is a deflationary asset, not an inflationary asset.

I agree with this statement.

> This is actually one of the things that turns out to be bad for Bitcoin as a currency, Bitcoin has been a good demonstration in a lot of ways as to why a deflationary asset is inherently not particularly well suited for transactions.

This is a statement without substance that I fundamentally disagree with. Please provide evidence or back down on such baseless accusations

> And again, by your own admission, Bitcoin is primarily a store of value, not primarily a currency designed to be regularly exchanged.

Agree, but I did provide a couple examples where Bitcoin is a superior medium of exchange today than Gold or USD.

> If you want to talk about Bitcoin like it's an alternative to USD, then I'm going to criticize the fact that its transaction rate and per-transaction environmental costs are garbage and unscalable.

If you are going to focus singularly on the transaction use case, over the store of value use-case, I will call you out as missing the point. The only guarantee of the USD is that by design it will lose 2-8+% of its value per year, every year to infinitity. If you take the lower end of that at 2%, then over a 40 year average career, an income earner loses 40% of their income to an invisible tax. This theft is what Bitcoin’s deflationary asset backed system protects against. Infinity/21 million is better than 1/infinity (exponential inflationary money supply) over the long term. The only reason you don’t understand that yet is that you haven’t sufficiently studied Bitcoin. I encourage you to do so.
PBS has been putting out such great content in the last 5 years. Really impressive and highly overlooked
What fields/tech stacks would you recommend to specialize on? I have nearly a decade of experience in programming but I'll probably specialize just to stay in-demand.
Fool's chocolate.
American CEO says the airline has grounded 100 planes
Yet Vim vs Emacs arguments contribute to a lot of hot air...

Zingggg
but every species had arisen from sea
> BTW, there are coin magicians who have mastered the ability to flip a normal coin and control the outcome to >95%

I guess it depends on coins, but my experience with French coins is that it's extremely easy to get stable outcomes. Without training or anything, if I start with heads, I almost always get heads, and if I start tails, I almost always get tails. I could totally believe that with training, I could pick the result. But if you let me pick the side that is up when tossing, then I can predict the outcome.
> I don't get your comment. 1) Both Aldi and Tesco are European. 2) The point is that food shopping in the US is dominated by large stores like Wall Mart, Target etc, while in Europe stores more akin to Aldi, Tesco etc dominate.

Aldi has a large presence in the U.S., as noted in the article. About 2100 stores, according to a search. That's nearly half as many as Walmart grocery stores.

> Like how they meticulously pack your bags. I would say in Europe scanning is generally faster or one uses a more self automated systems where shoppers scan, pay and pack themselves.

I dunno, having your shopping bags loaded for you is pretty nice. With respect to self-checkout, I haven't been in a chain grocery store in the U.S. in at least 10 years that didn't have it. They may exist, I dunno. Usually, you have a choice of both.

> And of course saying "Europe" may be quite inaccurate as there are such large regional variations in Europe. Broadly speaking smaller stores in central areas is more common in Europe than in the US, but once you get into the details then each country tends to do things in quite different ways.

This is the truth.
This is your sign from God telling you it's time to let go of Meta products, and perhaps all social media in general.
I do this all the time!
I also do this when writing code, like if I'm getting some json blob from an API call, and I'm not quite sure what it is...
You could just write a script that lets you write an input and your spouse writes an input and then compares the two inputs without showing them - no need for hashing at all.
The thing is, that's not the problem. The problem is that people don't know these basic facts about the periods under consideration. Words change their meanings and 'vikings' is now just a vague term for all of it and that's not something to waste your time fighting. The real problem is people thinking they know something about vikings when they don't even know this basic introductory material. They don't even know there's anything to know. A big part of the creation of that situation is movies and TV which pretty much only focus on pirates but the whole thing from the migration period to Christianized Scandinavia is pretty interesting. It seems like something schools could glaze over, so that people at least get an idea that there's something more going on than what's in popular media.
> stop as soon as a letter differs

Oops - you just exposed a timing attack side channel
Mobile browser or desktop browser?
Which I think generally means you have to be more savy on wha to buy. But tbf. specifically regarding bread, coming from German speaking region, I could never get happy in my (limited) US experience. The standard there seems to be adding sugar and that just straight up ruins bread for me.
4-5GB in 2008 is not the same as 15GB (That's their free tier, I think) in 2022.

Hard drives have grown in capacity far beyond 3x in the same time period. Even more so if you consider the $/GB value rather than just max capacity.
Once I wrote my prime minister and then got a message saying they’ve sent it to the minister responsible for a reply. Then they have to respond.
That's what Dune said happened, computers are ok as long as a human is not being replaced. I personally agree with it but I realize it is hugely impractical and prone to error.

I'd even agree to it so long as someone is responsible for its decisions, someone died because your auto-taxi is buggy? Go to jail and pay for damages out the nose. You knew the risks, that's the price to play here.

Unprofitable doesn't mean undoable, it'll only delay things, not make them inevitable. Your investment profits can wait.
I think it’s the opposite, there are nearly no US models sold in the EU, whereas many EU cars are sold in the US (99% German)
It looks like there are just over 100k pilots in the US. That would mean that American is trying to hire roughly 2% of all US pilots.

I dont have a feel for if this is a tall order, or not that hard. In other industries it seems like it would be hard. Hiring 2% of all developers in the US? That would sound hard. Is it easier with pilots?
Not all content is equal. Good content require efforts, often efforts of a team.
Youtube is a good example of how revenue share will work in practice. Some creators are getting millions there, some maybe hundreds. But as a consumer you can find good content for almost any topic you can think of.

Revenue share amount from Youtube is a few times less than what Google search is making https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings...
‘bound to be different’
Really?

Many do not know how to write appropriate formal letters, even on HN. And some probably don’t care to or don’t have the english skills to write credible comments either. That’s just how a diverse community works.

Some folks, long time posters, smart, even with the best of intentions, just sound off, or come off as strange when writing comments here, especially when they are doing so outside of their domain of expertise or responding to someone they believe is weighing in with a disagreeable opinion.

You really think zero of them would send a letter in the same writing style when a formal style would be most appropriate?

I’m fairly certain some percentage would. Especially if the person is famous or otherwise notable.

For example, the last big Stripe thread had Patrick Collison comment and otherwise seemingly respectable posters, judging by their history, came out of the woodwork to dump on him. For some perceived faults of Stripe, etc.
> They stopped giving the GB of free storage?

It's now 15GB, but if you use Drive or Photos it uses the same quota pool.
The fact that it has a manual proves that it's poor UI. Also the setup for sd card is way too complex, and it does not support Bluetooth. I doubt it will have any success.

Note that they're building this in Germany, no way they'll manage to recover their cost of manufacturing.
> they shouldn't be there because they're not OSI-approved, right

No, they shouldn't be there because they aren't open source; OSI approval has nothing to do with it. (Though it's still a good indicator, similar to how FDA approval doesn't change whether/how well a drug works/is safe.)
James Webb Space Telescope Set to Study Two Strange Super-Earths
I think people generally dislike them because they're often the odd thing in whatever dish (and because they're easily confused as chocolate chips), due to consistency and density.

If you add raisins to a salad for example they'll just collect at the bottom; Hope you like finishing your salad with a spoonful of dried fruit covered in ranch dressing.
What ever happened to that glucose monitoring contact lens that google/verily was working on?
I've heard that most wasabi in American restaurants is actually horseradish with green food coloring. Does anyone know more?
I use a home grown set of scripts to automatically pull transactions from banks/credit cards where possible, auto categorize them, and create shareable dashboards. All without sharing credentials with any third party.

The method is described in this blog post: https://sagar.se/blog/where-is-the-money/
They are aggressive about the "personal use" thing. I used to work for an ISP. Apparently our customers would download Virtualbox, Oracle would pull the IPs out of their logs, find us, and then email us and ask us to buy a license. (More threatening than asking nicely, IIRC.) We informed them that we're an ISP and those IP addresses are our customers', not our office. And no, we didn't give them the contact information of our customers.

I wonder how many of their sales reps have gone after Spectrum and Comcast since the whole work from home thing started.
Europeans say violent movies can negatively influence people, but don't worry so much about sexually explicit content.

Americans say sexually explicit content can negatively influence people, but don't worry so much about violent content.

Personally, I think both are partially right. We are what we eat. No human mind is inviolable, the information we consume effects who and what we are. Whether any particular influence is positive or negative is mostly a matter of subjective values.
(2008) This would just subsidize Pakistan to build more unless a non-proliferation agreement was also reached and neither would happen unless Kashmir was settled as India or China would steamroll Pakistan to resolve claims.
You are changing the topic of your own conversation... reread our messages and try again.
Vintage Macintosh Programming Books (PDFs)
Why do they think they have the right to kill domains that people have entrusted them with their custodianship? I don't understand why they have to set any domain to pendingDelete status, short of a court order. It sounds like something ripe for abuse. I don't see what the benefit of overzealous deletion is. If they think a domain is malicious they want to stop it they can simply disable it via NS records without actually deleting it for the remainder of the contract payment cycle. People shouldn't have to live in fear that their domain might randomly be deleted with no recourse. Perhaps new legislation is necessary to protect people's domains from random registrar deletion.
I don’t follow UK politics. What are the crimes?
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29621646
Hello,

I'm not on LinkedIn.. but do you have an email address or Twitter handle to reach out and contact you to discuss and learn more about this opportunity? Thanks
I suspect there are far more iPhone Safari users than firefox users overall.
Same here. Domains are the only thing I can't replicate or make redundant. If there is ANY risk of me getting locked out of my domains without even the possibility of transferring the domain away to another registrar, then I'm gone.

Bye, cloudflare.
〰 ZI 〰 Vim Syntax
I believe that the point of this project is not to have a simple UI, but an authentic one. UI in the 1980s was not known for being friction-free, so I would actually argue that its "poor" UI is a design success.

Although I understand that the SD card setup is complex, but I really think the target audience won't have too much trouble with it...this isn't intended to be a raspi competitor, after all...

Was this comment a joke that just flew completely over my head?
Yes chrome only afaik. Im firefox as well, but sometimes I have to switch because the FF debugger will give up in certain cases.
does pilot earn more than sde?
Beau of the Fifth Column spends about 15 minutes talking about how utterly foolish the notion of arming teachers really is in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o1l2LQGyP8

24 hours of training is going to be woefully inadequate. It doesn't stand to reason that a teacher can secure their weapon, keep it a secret from their students, and effectively wield it in a school hallway that has almost no cover.

Armed teachers are going to get more students killed than the murderous assholes they're supposed to combat.

Also, if I was a student in Ohio and I wanted to shoot up my school, I would start by trying to steal the teachers' guns and ammunition. It saves me the trouble of buying my own, makes background checks irrelevant, and makes it harder for the teachers to oppose me by returning fire.

tl;dr: Ohio legislators didn't think this shit through, and kids are going to die for their foolishness.
That is a true difference and I should have been clearer. I should have specified that I don't believe they used any test data, the "study" had probably been done with no test data set and simply using all data for the estimation of regression parameters.

I believe that (1) the model made little "mechanistic" sense, (1) the forecasting accuracy of the model would have been low, (3) the model had good hind-casting accuracy through overfitting by modeling the "noise" in the data with too many predictors. (4) the model could have not guided any training.
I recently did an embedded rust project. Gave up on rust `async` and rolled my own asynchronous runtime on top of "synchronous" rust. It was much nicer than worrying about the type system. Since it's an embedded project with no OS, it's not hard to get peak performance from a very simple polling async runtime.

The thing that makes async runtimes complicated is handling multithreading in an intelligent way, and that's not something that worries most embedded engineers.
I mean just the basic concept of survival of the fittest, which doesn't require deep understanding of biology. The same concept also applies to lots of things besides biological evolution.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Darwinism
Hotels are tax schemes that happen to rent rooms. The operator puts about 5% down and syndicates the rest. The investors are there for a share of accelerated depreciation, which means the operator keeps it for about 10-15 years.

After that, it either gets recapitalized or someone like those immigrants show up and buy the place with a silent partner. The “uncle” provides the money, the operator invests a lot of sweat equity.

Half the economy runs on this sort of crap. It’s the same reason strip malls eventually degrade to a kung fu place, big lots and an auto parts store.
What are your thoughts on Neeva?
As a writer myself, I thought the advice was quite practical. He's giving different ways you can approach writing an ending. He isn't writing the ending for you.
The stories and information posted there are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted there as fact.
I didn't realize more consumer choice is a bad thing.
I hope this doesn't get buried. I don't know enough to agree or disagree, so I'd like to see how people respond.
Yes, but the taste of the veggies, fruits, berries and meat is far worse in supermarkets vs buying directly from growers / butchers.
It has a basis in truth, although it is more of a 90s thing. Now many franchise operators are immigrants, with more money now. At one time something like 30% of motels were operated by Patels.
I disagree, and I'll also note that being out of a field for a decade in tech is a long time (late 2000's SEO was very different). To prove the contrary point is really the easiest thing in the world.

1. Think of some product niche: say, best dog toys.

2. Google it.

3. Click on the top 5 search results.

4. Now, judge for yourself: Are these good quality links which look like they were written by a smart human who simply bought a bunch of dog toys and tested them, and is speaking from their personal experience? OR, are the search results gamified to hell, and clearly not something any normal person would think to write by themselves?

I think it's clear in 2022: you have to write in an artificial style and make a lot of unintuitive choices to rank on Google, which is to say, to have anyone online be aware of and using your website. You also have to compete against giant incumbents now who will crush you if you don't come educated and ready to rank against them. So you no choice but to learn SEO techniques, really.

Note: I'm not an SEO guy, I make $0 off SEO. I'm an independent developer who's concluded, if I want to make any money off my own websites, I can learn SEO or I can be poor. And I don't enjoy being poor. So there's not really much of a choice imho, at this point in the timeline.
If they don't recognize that the return address is in a different area than where it was dropped off, and that the destination address is in the area it was dropped off, then oh well USPS.
In my experience almost none of the US supermarket breads are decent. They almost all have added sugar and don't taste good compared to UK/French/Italian bread. There is one brand called "The Rustic oven" that has come out recently that has no added sugar and isn't bad, but that's the exception.
I've found the opposite (although I do run Windows 10 LTSC). Most Linux distros I've tried break between releases, driver issues galore, UI aesthetic and performance inconsistencies across apps that use GTK/QT/Electron/etc. I love Linux, but as a desktop, it's really nowhere near as consistent or cohesive as its corporate counterparts.
Arm the students if you care so much about ensuring individuals can defend themselves. But then you might see real-world re-enactments of a little British movie called If....

I wonder if Stephen King still thinks pulling Rage from publication is a good idea. It doesn't seem to have helped. (Incidentally, reading that novel helped me understand that as tempting a fantasy as it is to bring a gun to school and take my class hostage, it wouldn't get me what I wanted.)
Further reading here: https://molekule.science/air-quality-other-pollutants-beyond...
I don’t know if it was the original version or a hack. But I had a version that worked on an Apple // series using the 1 bit built in speaker. It actually was decent.

A few of my first assembly language hacks was to get it working when in 80 column mode and getting it to work in ProDOS.

The original version worked by redirecting text output to it and then you had to call another routine to redirect text output back to the monitor. But it would always revert the screen back to 40 column mode.

The second hack involved copying it to a ProDOS disk and changing the output to use the ProDOS routine for text output.
Nice work!

I used the feedback form to request a feature to only whitelist calls from people in my address book. A year or so later... "silence unknown callers" was released. I take credit for that one. I made my own version of it before Apple did anything, but it was a huge pain (but did dramatically reduce spam calls).
Can we add (2019) to the title?
I believe specific groups can reject it, but that won't stop it from progressing. You'd need everybody to reject it.
> I find this every time I shop on the continent. Are our standards that much lower? Is it just Brexit? I yearn for a European supermarket experience in the UK.

I think it’s an Anglo thing. Canada, the US, and Australia are all like this too.
If you like that book, read the Newton biography "Never at Rest."

Almost certainly Stephenson read it in his research, and he gets the nature of Newton totally correct in fictional form.
What motives do you think would lead Luckey to make it up?
The real farmers that drive in to urban areas tend to do the majority of their business with restaurants, often the rather better ones that want high-quality or unique produce (this is according to farmers I've talked to who referred to their farmer's market sales as 'nickel-and-dime'.)

Some of them do a half-off sale for everything they've got at the last half-hour of the market, that's good to know. Some are just buying from the wholesalers, too, that's something to watch out for as others note - but some of those run lower margins than the local grocery stores, so it's cheaper to buy from them.