skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, China and Russia get blocked by many corporations' web application firewalls (WAFs) or other firewalls. You may be caught by that restriction.
You're omitting a very important point: the heat sources themselves. The heat for the entire city doesn't come from a single power plant. It is distributed over many heat generation plants throughout the city, some dedicated solely to district heating. I don't think any spot on that map is more than a few km from a heat source.
You have to admit its a clever scheme. Start co-firing small % of wood pellets in a coal plant and you magically get a renewable energy plant!
https://www.science.org/content/article/natural-gas-could-wa...

That's a myth based on old data, no one who understands the models makes such simplified black and white claims. Methane (which is natural gas) is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2. As in up to 100x the warming potential in the first couple of years until it's naturally converted. When burned, it's turned into CO2 but the problem is there is leakage all over the place because methane is volatile. During production, during transportation, during storage - it gets leaked into the atmosphere all over the place. See this more recent article:

https://www.iea.org/news/methane-emissions-from-the-energy-s...

As others have pointed out the title has been blatantly edited to omit the gas part. This is propaganda, declaring fossil fuel to be renewable energy doesn't make it so. Words still have meaning and the laws of physics still exist. It's really sad to see this sort of political science denial finds its way into HN now.
I see, thank you for explaining! Good to know that rooting your phone still has some benefits. I wouldn't have thought that there's such an easy bypass for system apps, but I suppose it makes sense for some modem/carrier apps to specify an interface.

I absolutely love Netguard even though I don't really use a firewall in practice (I was sort of hoping a permanent VPN with some "real" traffic meddling would be enough to block most violations of my privacy). It's the one rootless firewall that actually just works on practically any device you can think of, among a sea of broken/scammy firewalls that fail all kinds of edge cases.
One single piece of CSS instantly improves the look of plain html pages:

body {font-family:sans-serif;}

Beyond that, all other CSS is optional imho.

And you don't need JavaScript to trigger back-end events, as a simple <A> link will work just as nicely.
AFAIK New Zealand doesn't do homework either, only reading.
Surprised there's no mention on how much to charge

- You get choice paralysis if you price things too closely e.g. instead of $4.99 and $7.99, use $4.99 and $49.99 to make the distinction clear

- You may actually hurt yourself if you price "business" plans too low. Odds are it will get expensed and people like to feel important by buying expensive stuff.
General-relativistic thin-shell Dyson mega-spheres
If there’s no Kraftwerk it’s not “perfect”. It also seems quite modern - there’s lots of instrumental music in all sorts of genres or periods that works. Hell, people can go all the way back to classical music (or it’s modern reimplementations such as switched on Bach). But I agree that voice must be limited. I can debug to most instrumentals but it seems my mind tracks voices and thus distracts me.
You should use a VPN anyway if you're going to torrent.
We are scientists and can use names. 'him' is Jürgen Schmidhuber. He's a luminary of ML, but he has entered into several attribution controversies. He famously accused Ian Goodfellow of appropriating his work to create generative adversarial networks (GANs) in a public venue (a NeurIPS workshop).

I agree with the parent comment. Ultimately, Science is about advancing the human condition more than celebrating great individuals. While I'm sympathetic to Schmidhuber's feelings he isn't given sufficient credit, he's still an internationally recognized, fully tenured professor.
The massive issue I have with these sources is their reliability. Scotland can produce 98% from wind because they can sell the excess or buy when in deficit from their neighbours who modulate their coal/gas plants. If all its neighbours switch to similar methods, I don't see how we can have reliability on a wide scale.

Usual fluctuations (eg. no photovoltaic by night, more wind in the afternoon) can be planned for, but local events such as big clouds or no wind are frequent but have a great impact on
The historic averages don't look very different:

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/germany/leipzig/climate

https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/usa/moscow/climate

though Moscow gets rather more snow
See, framing it as a personal preference makes much more sense. Of course disallowing nontrivial work in operators will also mean you can't concatenate strings in them, so you will have few languages to choose from.
I pretty much do this as well. The only thing I do different is, when I need to present it to someone, I will drop in a minimalist css library like PureCSS or Milligram.
I extended the traditional DI pattern with:

- A Healtcheckable interface: expose services state, with error cause.

- A Shutdownable interface: gracefully shutdown services in reverse dependency order.
C++ compile times would like to have a word with you ;) The biggest drawback of C++ are the atrocious compile times.
I wannabe your friend hahaha

No really, you're absolutely on point. The post is not worth the time, the case against DRY is too weak.

Sounds like a kid complaining about pushing DRY in a direction that overcomplicated things for him because of himself and instead of improving himself he choosed to attack "an uncomfortable principle".
> Mistake 1: Switch from DRY to premature optimization.

Though note that DRY can itself be premature optimisation of the codebase.
Amazon CEO Jassy’s First Year on the Job: Undoing Bezos-Led Overexpansion
I received those letters 2 times.
I have never responded to them.
There was a "Gerichtlicher Mahnbescheid" once which is just [x] denied.
The rogue lawyer continued to harrass me asking why I denied their claim.
I didn't respond to that either.
In the end nothing happened.

They use scare tactics.
That was before the mess the EU created 2-3 years ago with the reforms. So idk what the status is like now.
But ignorance is bliss. The big players do it all the same. They ignore you until they really have to deal with you.
You're saying that there is a transfer from nuclear to renewables of 6.5 cents/kWh for every kWh nuclear generates, or a net market distortion of 13c/kWh between the two (using the tenuous assumption of roughly equivalent capacities between the two sectors)?

That's more than I pay in the US in total per kWh for electricity, generated, distributed, and taxed.
I honestly think it's because Americans are told from birth they live in "The greatest country in the world". In that context, it feels like trying to fix anything is not really a worthy pursuit, because it's already better than everywhere else anyway. So even if healthcare sucks, it's better than everywhere else. (Which everyone in a developed country knows first hand is simply not true)

I personally think it's a very dangerous thing to believe, because it means there's no driving force to improve, and it's a part of the reason the country has stagnated so badly.
Even the public reputation and free market system reduces ultimately to threat of violence, due to the fact that bank balances are maintained by state-licensed entities. It's just one more level of abstraction from state violence, but it is still always there.
I have taken what you might consider low-DRY approach also so it's interesting to see what mechanisms people use to manage reuse without introducing complexity into the system itself.

I think taking another look at project agnostic generators is something worth doing too. It has the benefits of automating some of the duplication without the rigidity of deep abstractions and dependencies. I am still exploring that though.
Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers
> just settling for one that's relaxing and good enough for now.

There's nothing wrong with that! I think it's okay to enjoy life for a few years without looking for anything "better" (whether that is in terms of career, how exciting the job is)..
I was planning on doing my masters soon (I'm 23) but figured my mental health is finally tolerably stable, I live with people I enjoy being around, have a circle of friends, enjoy work.. i could do this for another 1-2 years and just try to be happy for once, instead of looking for what the future will bring.
If you torrent it, it is yours forever. Copyright is a fiction.
I read 700 years of history to fix my glasses
That's a manifestly bad analogy and reasoning from it is very unlikely to lead to any sort of helpful conclusions. People very obviously do pay for both vitamins and painkillers.
> How many of us work countless hours for companies whose missions we don’t perhaps even agree with…

And there you have Marxist Alienation in a nutshell, and a new thematic thread to read though, if you're interested.
I go through different phases in what my brain can use for music. Sometimes I want really loud, energetic music with powerful rock lyrics. Those are usually amazing days because being able to function at a high level while taking in competing information often means I'm well rested and in a good mood. Usually though I can't listen to music with lyrics. I used to listen to a lot of classical but lately it feels like classical is just a genre of music that demands an insane amount of attention. It's like a painting that tries to use every colour. Can't really hang it without noticing the colours every time you walk by.

I feel like when I'm in the best possible state that I don't even need music though. In this state its like 'okay, I feel motivated, I know exactly what I'm going to do today. Now I begin.' I can move complex systems around like they're children's toys and the outside world speeds past without me blinking. It feels good making stuff. I definitely think that as a profession we're lucky to be software engineers. It's not physically demanding and I feel like it gives off a crap load of dopamine.
There are other exceptions from Tuxedo Computers and Starlabs Systems mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

Though yeah, Clevo and others improving their display game would be a gamechanger.
Lecun's post is not even a paper as stated in the foreward of the paper. But thanks for bringing it up, i will read it

> This document is not a technical nor scholarly paper in the traditional sense, but a position paper expressing my vision for a path towards intelligent machines that learn more like animals and humans, that can reason and plan, and whose behavior is driven by intrinsic
objectives, rather than by hard-wired programs, external supervision, or external rewards. Many ideas described in this paper (almost all of them) have been formulated by many authors in various contexts in various form. The present piece does not claim priority for any of them but presents a proposal for how to assemble them into a consistent whole. In particular, the piece pinpoints the challenges ahead. It also lists a number of avenues that are likely or unlikely to succeed.
Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
I don't want to get into this debate, but one thing to keep in mind when arguing from this angle is that vim/Emacs competitors stopped being babies about 20 years ago.

The computing world is big enough that someone that cut their teeth on Visual Studio can still be happily using it in 2022, a quarter century after its original launch. And will likely be able to use it in 2057, half a century after its original launch.

With more or less the same keybindings and core workflow it had back in 1997.
The problem with Spotify is that their TV app is so appalling bad (LG TV). I used to watch Joe Rogan regularly on YouTube, I hardly ever watch him now.
Spotify had video working for a while, but last time I checked (2 weeks ago) it was back to audio only.
The mind boggles as to how they can spend so much money on attracting talent, then wasting it all, by having such useless software developers.
> So we started inlining everything. We just took it back to the request handlers. We started fetching, mutating and returning the data in the request handlers. Suddenly a change became modifying one function. Every endpoint was unique and didn't depend on anything else. Things became easy.

What is the big benefit you gained from doing that compared to calling, say, a service method call in the controller?

costService.generateCost(newPrice);

Is it really that difficult to go to the service method definition? With inlining at the controller level, in order to unit test generateCost, you'll now have to deal with authentication/authorization/request handling related infrastructure which has nothing to do with cost calculation.
That is not technically possible without a centralized authority, as smart contracts cannot hold secrets (ie DRM decryption keys for media).

If there is a centralized authority, the same risk still exists that they can tell you to FOAD like Sony has here.
> I'm surprised that they haven't heard of the possibility of energy storage.

Have we not? I think the real issue is that we have capitalist pigscum that are greedy and want to burn the atmosphere if it can give them an extra buck and the EU is beholden to them that is why they made this change.
Preact [0] + htm [1]

Why? Preact is small, fast, and reasonably easy to use. But the main selling point for me was that, together with htm, I don't need any build system a la webpack. No node_modules folder. I just have to load one script (preact + htm bundled), define my components in plain javascript files and import them. Bliss for me.

[0] https://preactjs.com/

[1] https://github.com/developit/htm

Edit: Just read that you want drag & drop style UI building, so this might not be for you.
Shit half the time inpirate is so I can get English subtitles. Netflix Japan is horrible for those.
The EEG Umlage had also been payed by renewable producers which made storage unprofitable in Germany. ENERTRAG was kneekaped by this afaik.
I've visited venice twice last year and I wouldn't pay 50€... (I do live close so I only have to pay ~20€ for a train ticket)
It is a nice app because it follows desktop app standards: a menu bar on top, floating windows, a document area, toolbars around it etc.

It may be a little slower than native desktop apps, but that is to be expected, since it relies upon an interpreted language.
Did anybody else here ever work in the Tea Rooms in Shoreditch,
London? Or any of those "incubators" around the A10 "Silicon
Roundabout"? It was a massive warehouse and popular low rent facility
filled with startups circa 2010. You could rent anything from a desk
to a whole floor.

Only one problem. Constant construction noise! Hammering, drilling,
sawing, cranes and trucks moving. Shoreditch was a trendy place for
tech companies at the time because the whole area was under
gentrification. Every coder in that building had ear-buds in and
blotted-out the din with louder music. For management meetings we had
to go find a basement coffee shop.

I met a guy called Julian Treasure and we did some projects on sound
management in public spaces. He wrote some stuff about the impact of
noise on productivity and quality. The background research looked bona
fide. It will scare you.

After that I realised that every single line of code produced in the
companies I was around at that time was probably broken. When I tried
talking about this to other founders and managers people basically
shrugged.

It may be that "work from home", where you have more control over your
acoustic world, may be the best thing to ever happen to code quality.
When in a crowded space (like a dinner or party), it is very hard for me to focus only on the conversation I'm currently having if I can heard (semi-)distinctly another person speaking.

This is especially painful during dinners when you can't actually move around too much because well, you're supposed to be sited.
> But he's living proof that putting in the hours, being consistent, and yes a little lucky, really pays off over time.

My inner cynic says that he's rather a living proof of survivorship bias of that approach. There's really a lot of talented people out there, he just did it at the right point of time, when not many thought of it. He risked and survived.
background from the great Genius Makers history of ML:

The press needed heroes for its AI narrative. It chose Hinton, LeCun, Bengio, and sometimes Ng, thanks largely to the promotional efforts of Google and Facebook. The narrative did not extend to Jürgen Schmidhuber, the German researcher based on Lake Lugano who carried the torch for neural networks in Europe during the 1990s and 2000s. Some took issue with Schmidhuber's exclusion, including Schmidhuber. In 2005, he and Alex Graves, the researcher who later joined DeepMind, had published a paper describing a speech recognition system based on LSTMs-neural networks with short-term memory. "This is that crazy Schmidhuber stuff," Hinton had told himself, "but it actually works." Now the technology was powering speech services at companies like Google and Microsoft, and Schmidhuber wanted his due. After Hinton, LeCun, and Bengio published a paper on the rise of deep learning in Nature, he wrote a critique arguing that "the Canadians" weren't as influential as they influence would soon reverberate across the industry-Schmidhuber stood up in the audience and chastised him for not citing similar work in Switzerland from the 1990s. He did this kind of thing so often, it became its own verb-as in: "You have been Schmidhubered."
I analyzed Italian hospital costs so you don't have to:
it's 0.
I'm rather baffled by how all of that can just go over people's heads, and they go back to debating whether Apple is mindful enough of their security and privacy or not.
> due to our evolving licensing agreements with content providers

An impressively high weasel quotient in these words.

> you will no longer be able to view your previously purchased Studiocanal content and it will be removed from your video library

I expect this policy decision will not survive contact with the courts of Germany and Austria.
Design Your Life
“Permission blindness” still remains at the stage BEFORE app installation.

Perhaps we can call what it is now as “trust me first, then we will let you verify”.

When it should be “trust but verify first”.
Oooh, I spent a lot of time doing this! Good times... then I told the lead about svn:externals and we gradually mitigated some of the pain.

To the lead's credit he was humble and open to proposals while I was an asshole about it.
This looks pretty useful. I'll have to do a bit of digging and see how hard they are to put together.
It’s a beast. I can’t live without it.
htmx (https://htmx.org/) in backend templates (flask would work) and tailwindcss (https://tailwindcss.com/) and you can get very far without touching css and Javascript. Html writing would still be needed.
AFAIK this happens when the subtitles are not made by the same company, for example old Disney movies are translated in each region, but not by Disney itself, so they don't own the subtitles.

For Netflix originals I have no explanation, I though they do it all themselves.
Oh that makes much more sense.
Another recommended this, seems good.
I'm disappointed that the three photos in the Gallery with the laptop in use aren't actually showing what the screen would look like IRL; they've been cleverly doctored by overlaying screenshots on top of the display.
This describes webpages just as well.
Ironically, the second example has a copy-and-paste bug:

def make_pepperoni_pizza():
make_pizza(["pepperoni"])

def make_hawaiian_pizza():
make_pizza(["pepperoni"])
Neither of those are sent as normal messages so just configure your client to not show them if you don't want them?
It's two different things.

Yes, it totally is a question about moral responsibility. But it's still not called "killing" by any reasonable definition of the word.

It'd be fine if it said "death count" or even "you oversaw x deaths". But not "you killed" or "you caused x deaths", because you didn't.
Smart contracts cannot hold secrets, as they are executed by hundreds or thousands of nodes. If your license holds the key and it is on a blockchain, the decryption key is public, alongside the ciphertext.
Let a recession happen when we deserve one, so the depressions don't happen.

Holding back the floodgates until the problem is ready to kill everyone equally is stupid, and the opposite of a meritocracy.
> with _extremely_ clickbait and inflammatory titles

A number of YT'ers I follow have mentioned this is basically required now for any sort of rankings.
Thank you for your voice of reason in this bubbling sea of uninformed nonsense.
This works for me. I trust Apple a lot more than I trust some third party rando and I enjoyed watching Facebook whine about losing data tracking revenues and whiplash into Meta on their way to more people discovering that the world can live without them.
Transparent California is also incorrect in a lot of cases. I worked in CA as a seasonal worker and they reported what I would have earned if I worked full time for a year. In reality I only worked at that rate for 3 months making a quarter of what was reported. So I am not sure how much I trust it anymore.
No, politicizing vaccination is breaking trust in vaccination. Social media is breaking trust in vaccination. None of the things we vaccinate against are harmful until they are. Society is a group activity and operates best when there is shared responsibility for its success. Something that minimizes your risks along with the risk of others is an example of the glue holding things together.
It's very unclear what this actually does. How is it different than using Git+LFS for example?

On a first glance, it seems it's also not content-addressable, which is a no-go directly for most of my data needs.
Thanks for this link. Yeah my thinking was some OSS devs might want to make their app open source but sell it on the stores to help fund their efforts. So a blanket ban on selling OSS sounds wrong.

But hopefully the policy gets sorted to rid bad actors and allow people to find their efforts.
Dependence on the Soviet Union and later Russia worked for 50 years.

This partnership, which was being undermined by the US from the beginning, is attributed to establishing a basis for cooperation between the Soviet Union and Western Europe. Considering that the Soviets pulled out peacefully of Eastern Germany, that worked pretty great.
> Bitcoin would probably make us too poor for war though.

...?
Normally they just pump sea water since that's usually below 20 C anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_cooling
I used to keep two types of playlist for coding.

- Strugggling: Soft rock mainly

- Successing: minimalist techno. Metal.

But these days, I rarely play music. Aside from making constant typos, I found that some music changed my mood for the worst like subconciously.
Pyramid for backend.
HTML+css for the front end. Often just bootstrap. Vuejs applied to very specific places that need to be interactive, but without any build/bundling/whatever - just referencing a single minified file.
Someone has to first import the certificate into you systems trust store. With employers that's usually done by joining their active directory.

If you're not in the active directory, but using your employers proxy, you will see a warning about an untrusted CA on every https site you visit.
I find these definitions funny…. how statisticians vs computer scientists define machine learning differently. You get two different perspectives. Everyone wants to claim AI for themselves. I think the statisticians are pissed off that DNNs works so well.

Anyway least we forget: Neural networks came from cybernetics!