skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many people who want to see ordinary Germans suffer for decisions their government made. Do you think the pensioners who will freeze are the ones who decided on energy policy?
micropython can also run natively on ESP32 devices and other arduino devices now.
For those looking for an alternative to that, I've been building a self-hosted search engine that crawls what you want based on a basic set of rules. It can be a list of domains, a very specific list of URLs, and/or even some basic regexes.

https://github.com/a5huynh/spyglass
Why are you and your friends okay with this? The increase in energy prices due to EU sanctions are making the Russian state fabulously wealthy right now. Russia has alternative customers, y'all don't have alternative suppliers.

If the EU doesn't come to their senses and embrace realpolitik, they are looking at literal deindustrialization and a plunge into mass poverty and social unrest. BMWs aren't built nor homes heated with unicorn butterfly karma.
I generally despise Trump, but here he looks like a visionary and the German diplomats look like morons (in hindsight, at least).
yes, like US and China, we can't stop them and it doesn't help to kill our economy for a strictly symbolic action
This. Russia relies heavily on trains for logistics, so all their main depots will be near a railhead. Then they have to truck the supplies to the front. They're lacking in trucks so the further back they move the depots, the longer the supply route. Putting more wear and tear on the trucks, slowing the supply amounts, etc.

And trying to disperse the depots into smaller amounts doesn't really help; say you cut it in half somehow (ignoring the doctrinal challenges). Then you actually need more trucks, and you need to plan carefully about the supply levels at each mini-depot.

Besides, if you cut the depot size, the Ukrainians will still hit them with HIMARS etc. One or two rockets is enough for most of these sites.
France is looking into small reactors it seems

But has RR actually shipped one of these?
Unfortunately the troughs of the waves are at minimum zero so we cannot benefit from negative interference to cancel out waves.
Interesting that Espressif recently announced they are moving exclusively to RISC-V[1]. This will likely drive costs down even further, but unsure if they will improve on the power efficiency in the near term. The ESP32-C3 is mentioned in the esp-rs[2].

[1] https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/espressif-moves-exclusively-...

[2] https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-hal/pull/76
Wtf are you smoking, you want Uber disappear because you think it has too much controllable power?

You can say that to literally every fortune 500 companies.
Some places are still like this. EA is not. I worked at a company that was acquired by EA in late 2011 and stayed until 2016. Post-acquisition, EA's HR folks made sure that a whole bunch of the studio's staff were properly classified (salary vs. hourly) and that the studio was following proper procedure regarding timecards and overtime. The studio also hired on some senior staff to deal with operations and production practices.

There were still some bad times - politics outside of the studio forced staff into some do-or-die milestones that required crunching for a week or two at a time, but nothing like the kind of sustained months-to-years crunch I've heard about in other places.

The funny thing about EA is that even though it has such a bad rap for making big mistakes in the past, they made them FIRST and have managed to learn. A lot of other major publishers that grew to comparable size more recently are still making them.
Yeah, so you build nuclear reactors and raise the standard of living in that case, which would be the exact opposite of what EU is doing (recommendations to reduce energy density and carrying capacity, ie. you own nothing and will be happy).
Elixir in Action is pretty good
Yeah if anything this should be a lesson to build more clean energy, including nuclear.
I'm not sure what embedded space you're referring to, but microcontrollers, in my experience, generally use monolithic binaries. I'm unsure why you'd wish to use dynamic linking in those cases.
EDIT: This is wrong, as the commenter notes below, this is energy, not electricity.

Citation? The number that I consistently see cited is 1/4 of all electricity in EU comes from Natural Gas [0].

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/infographs/energy/bloc-2...
I chose my words with care.

The figure (specifically Fig1D and Fig1E of https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/jour...) speaks for itself.

I would rather the authors soft-pedal the alarming results and get published than not get published at all. Just as I approve of POWs appearing to collaborate by sitting for media interviews that may, on the surface, make their captors seem humane and then blinking "T-O-R-T-U-R-E" in Morse code.

Ignoring the charts and clutching at that line of text still requires one to accept that vaccinated and boosted persons didn't clear covid any faster than unvaccinated persons, which completely contradicts the vaccine-pushers' dogma that the adverse effects and deaths occurring in younger demographics (especially but not solely among younger males) post-vax are worth it, on balance, because the shots reduce spread to and hence deaths among more vulnerable groups.
We're still talking about git clone:ing a hundred thousand github repos. Git Repos get big very fast. That's a lot of data when you're realistically only interested in is a few markdown files per repo.
By valuation and number of copies, it sold for more than any game. It defined an entire genre. It's culturally relevant a decade on. There's almost no metric that you can't define it as the most valuable.
> ... with NT - whose end user usable versions always booted into graphical mode (outside of installer and emergency console)

Elaborating on this... the "Windows console" host (csrss.exe, analogous to a tty manager) is actually one of the few core Windows "subsystems" that actually runs as a Win32 usermode service instead of being baked into the NT kernel. Furthermore, up until Windows 8 (when the legacy XDDM[1] was removed), this system actually had the capability to draw a console in VGA text mode, bypassing the graphical session (and most of the rest of the kernel) entirely[2].

As you say, this is probably how most Windows non-graphical modes worked: bring up the VGA driver, skip starting the graphical subsystem, bring up csrss in VGA text mode. That all changed when Windows Vista deprecated XDDM in favor of DWM, which monopolizes access to the pipeline. From that point forward, such "non-graphical" releases (almost?) always bring up a graphical display session and window manager as part of the boot process. The only "non-graphical" thing about these is that they disable a few shell components and services, autostart a console window, and maybe stub out some of the win32 API.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/di...
[2]: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1243573/Vga-Text-Mode-T...
Great, thanks for responding! I'll be taking a serious look. I completely understand the motivation behind Appsmith, it's kind of exactly why I'm evaluating tools like these.

Out of interest, what proportion of your creators are engineers vs SMEs? Reason why I'm asking is that I'd be very nervous of letting non-engineers (without an understanding of just how much damage they could do) create write apps.
> losing body fat means that you must continuously make choices that decrease your comfort in some way - eating fewer highly rewarding foods, maintaining a state of hunger, increasing activity level

Not necessarily! I've successfully lost a lot of body fat (~50 pounds over the last 18 months) by deliberately changing my diet to eat more foods (that I like) that are lower in energy density than what I was eating before -- fruits and veggies, lean meats, etc. I do end up eating fewer stereotypically highly rewarding foods, but that's because I'm already full of other highly rewarding-to-me foods and don't feel like having a treat or a huge fast food meal or whatever. And I'm certainly not tolerating frequent hunger!
I wasn't proposing restarting nuclear plants as a solution. I was suggesting Germany made a huge mistake shutting them down in the first place.

> (of course, neither will anything else really... there are zero short term solutions to Germany's russian gas dependence other than kowtowing).

Kowtowing isn't a solution to Germany's Russian gas dependence, it's accepting it as inevitable. It may be the only solution to Germany's gas shortages.
If you can convert data into an API call, then it becomes an issue of steganography. The only way to trust a binary is through 100% code coverage through all possible inputs, which is intractable.

Code signing and a secure enclave may help protect against local use cases, like ransomware, but doesn't protect against hybrid attacks, like granting access to 3rd parties.

Maybe this means that all binaries in 2040 should be derived from open source with AI doing the threat detection.
Qualcomm 8+ Gen1 uses TSMC 4 nm
In the middle of the night? Having to change underwear and socks too? :P
Your comment is is pure whataboutism.

Also: which Chinese efforts? Differently from US and Russia, China hasn’t invaded anyone for quite a few decades.
You mean, how Russia technically controls 20-25% of Ukraine's territory ?

Do you see what those sanctions against Russian cheap energy are doing in Europe:

- Estonia Goverment fell

- Bulgaria Goverment fell

- UK Goverment fell

- Italy's PM resigned

It's not even August. Do you know what will happen when colder months hit ? :)
Set up direnv, and then:

cd /your/project && echo "layout python" > .envrc && direnv allow

Give it a go then tell me what the point is for any of these poetry/pipenv/hatch/flit/pdm/pyflow thingy if neither you or your teammates work on Windows.
Also according to the EU:

Natural gas is now green in some circumstances. I'm not sure what to make of this.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/06/europe-natural-gas-nuclear-a...
This story has been posted here a few times, and it seems like every time the story has led to people knowing less about this topic than they did before the article.

That can't be a good thing. I'd assumed the dodgy source I read it through had twisted it, but it seems like Cornell is endorsing this contradictory take, which it basically repudiates at the end of the story. Why would they do that? Just for extra clicks?

First line

> may be falling into a dumb trap.

Why does he say 'may' here? Are they or aren't they? Isn't it his job to tell us?

> this so-called load synchronization will become a problem in the near future.”

Seems like they meant to say "might, in the near future, fall into a dumb trap".

I looked up their 40% figure and that seems wrong too:

> Parks Associates' smart thermostat research finds 29% of US internet households plan to buy one of these devices in the next six months. Smart Thermostat Market Assessment finds that adoption of smart thermostats has been flat for several years, at 13% of US internet households, despite owners reporting savings that meet or exceed their expectations.

So are they even talking about smart thermostats? It's not clear.

> Evidence showed that residents remain confused about how to operate their thermostats and are often unable to program it, the authors said.

That says 'thermostats' and basically described the problem that smart thermostats were designed to solve, since they don't need "programming".

Hmm, the related story at the bottom is another bullshit take by the same author. Does Cornell have a fake sustainability centre that just published FUD about renewables?

No, the academic involved seems to actually believe that networked heat pumps working in concert is actually a good thing, but must somehow feel that warning about the danger if we don't do <his research area> is more newsworthy than saying, hey we can save money if we do <his research area>.

https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/k-max-...

> They explore the potential for aggregating a large number of controllable heat pumps for providing high-quality power-system services to manage peak load and integrate renewable energy, while maintaining thermal comfort.

I'm not sure I like Cornell spreading what amounts to misinformation. There's a dubious quote from the person who funds their sustainability school which suggests the main aim was to find things that were bad for the planet, but that weren't agriculture (since the funding came from rich farmers).
US support for environmental policies fading as political gap remains huge
> you still need properly prepared and relatively fresh husks to get the effect

In the UK here. I've found that any old bag of dried, ground, Sichuan pepper, or dried Sichuan pepper corns that you grind yourself, will cause the effect. No need for 'proper preparation' or freshness, just sprinkle Sichuan pepper on the food.

The pepper is greenish in colour. Just add liberally and you'll get the numbness.
I am on the margin. So is my family. I'm getting by fine at the moment but I'm just a little above the poverty line but have no reserves. I have no choice anyway. I just hope that if I can't pay the bills there will be a moratorium to cut energy for a while. I'm trying to buildup a reserve for a few months exactly for that situation. It's also not clear when the price hikes will hit the consumers so I hope I have a few months to set aside money for this.
If inserting an intermediary voided all employment law, everyone would be hired through an intermediary. It would be a huge perverse incentive.
These don't taste great on their own (kinda grassy) but they give a more intense pins & needles feeling.

They're much stronger than any sane amount of Sichuan pepper -- but shorter lasting, and they change food's flavor in a slightly different way. I can't quite describe how, as I've only had them with a specific cocktail at Mcclellans Retreat in DC.

I'd recommend it if you're ever nearby, cool drink and it's also a great neighborhood cocktail bar.
Probably in a negative light.

Many doctors now believe if they cannot test for something, it doesn't exist. This has been changing with long covid.

Western medicine is in a weird place. It is based on science but sometimes it takes a very long time for science and information to trickle down to doctors....like decades. Then, there are pharma reps who sway doctors with new treatments, with questionable research.
Not a hard reset but my experience with a 72 hour fast has definitely been not feeling hungry, and the moment of eating a lot again restarted the entire thing. Feels like it is much easier to learn to eat a lot rather than eat very little.
> Ha! You call that parallax scrolling?

Don't get why you need to put down what someone else did because someone else did something better at the same time? Nobody claimed it was the best parallax at the time.
It certainly shouldn’t be ignored, simply because it might take some time. Targeting public housing and (responsibly) incentivising landlords to improve less efficient homes would go a long way.
Who is to say Russia will stop at Ukraine? They clearly weren't satisfied with Crimea. Is Poland safe? Is Germany?

I don't mean to be alarmist but we've seen similar scenarios play out in Europe before. This isn't merely about what's morally correct, it's also about self-interest.
> Letting Russia take Ukraine would have enormous security implications long term

Yes, I am not disputing that.

I stated that the actions of EU (self-sanctions) have not, and will not affect whether or no Russia takes Ukraine though, this was the entire point of my post. It is part of what makes them so absurd.

An action that would affect would be to deploy there via strategic military action, but which our Moral Leaders are too scared (for right reasons, Russia has lots of nukes) to make. So they do this idiotic self-sanction regime to Feel Good (all paid by the tax payers and lower quality of life by people like me, who live in EU).
The EU classifying nuclear power as being Green is a recent development.
Nuclear is climate friendly!!

Just not environment friendly.

Especially for "longer living" species like humans.

I don't understand why its supper common for people not understand that climate and environmental friendly often overlap but are not always the same and sometimes in direct conflict.

For climate protection nuclear power is currently probably the best choice we have (globally).

But for environmental protection and protection of human health it isn't.

Anyway coal is worse for both and tbh. the German green party should have focused on getting out of coal not nuclear power.
This is why I think the more likely future is for each house to have their own electricity generator (solar panels?) and batteries to store the energy.
Are you saying that Germany is not a democracy?
I see that "Vote with your feet" got downvoted in the thread, but it's true. I worked for another one of the large game studios in the US for a long time. The practices employed at the game studio were built around keeping people attached to their jobs because they love video games and loved the games we built. It was weaponized excessively.

Almost every town-hall, all-hands, etc was framed around the product and keeping players happy (we need to deliver this by this date so you have to crunch). The hiring pool was primarily people that played the games we developed and there was some psychological warefare going on that attempted to prevent attrition based on building what you loved.

The quote from the article is:
> No one works in the game industry unless they love what they do.

This is pretty true and can be very toxic in your "job". My advice: Don't love what you do for work THAT much. Keep a bit of a disconnect and live your life still. In the modern tech industry you can leave, you can find a job that treats you well, don't make your identity a "video game developer on X game" because that is a recipe for burnout.

The issues that stemmed from this are impossible to outline. People made subpar decisions, dealt with inhumane conditions and harassment, took lower pay, and at the end of the day has caused REAL harm in the industry (suicides, trauma, etc). We need to be better and hold these companies accountable from every aspect of not buying games, not working there, and attempt to make the industry better.

I left my stint at video games and went to a different company. The pay is better, the working conditions are better, my thoughts are not stifled because of internal politics.

The industry has changed quite a bit since 2004. During that time publishers were key and many times deadlines were set by the next "drop" for the publisher, but many of the problems with the industry have stayed around and video games are not worth it.
Visiting the deep amazon during COVID, I literally ate too much stuff (one of those nice, AYCA amazon lodges). Every date, I mixed all kinds of delicious things in a buffett setting, and constantly loaded with carbs. It was vacation, after all.

I normally do intermittent fasting and stay away from carbs during the work week. I don't do buffet and usually don't have 2 daily meals, let alone 3.

So, after 2-3 days of repeating the feast -3 times a day-, my stomach and intestines finally went on strike. I ended up with a strong reaction with a loose stool. 2 days later, it would still not go away. It was constant. I was chained to the bathroom. The rest of the family didn't overeat + mix everything, so naturally they were totally fine.

Finally on the 3rd day, I gave up on waiting it out and asked for help from our jungle guide.

He told me to have oregano tea, so had 2 cups. The change was instantaneous. Just like the article, all the locals from the amazon knew this was the standard remedy for diarrhea.

I googled this afterwards. None of the top hits for home remedy for diarrhea even mentioned oregano tea once in their articles. A medical dietitian had a 1 word link back to diarrhea in a "oregano health benefits" article [1].

Its crazy how ignorant we are of natural methods, and makes me wonder what other wonderful natural medicines are waiting to be re-discovered in the amazon.

[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/266259
Hello, author here. I mention this in Part I to link to a prior piece specifically on Ayanz, as this is hugely misunderstood. Ayanz’s machine only used the expansive force of steam, while Savery’s used both atmospheric pressure and the expansive force of steam. This is an absolutely crucial distinction. They were not at all the same, and Ayanz’s populariser and biographer specifically noted the difference.
At this point, EUR/USD parity is way less perceivable and concerning in our daily lives than the gas/energy that is coming full speed towards us (seen from France), which is driving a lot of first and second order prices (heating, transportation in general, food, construction).
the other day I saw a variation of the PVC tool holder used for holding drills. The notch didn't go all the way through, and rotated 90 degrees, perhaps less so it would be angled up slightly (so the pipe was hanging under the supporting 2x4) although it would also work fine upright.
You must learn to love the boiler plate, understand why doing the boiler plate well matters.
Hah, using the built in battery latches is a genius idea!

I just wish I had enough battery power tools that I needed to store them in such a fashion ;) Sadly most of my tools are still mains powered.
This is real and scientifically validated. The first person who ran the 4 minute mile changed the game by using intervals. Prior to that everyone trained for the mile by running the mile.

Athletes who train for the mile have to have intervals as the majority of their regiment. This is by far more effective then running long distances for increasing vo2 max.
> They are now in an energy checkmate situation with a hostile country with an economy the size of Italy.

I think looking at national threats by their GDP is kind of weird. Afghanistan led to the downfall of the USSR but had basically nothing going for it economically. The US also blew decades of effort and money. ISIS plowed through its region with sheer mongol-like savagery and managed to wreak havoc in major western countries sometimes as well. America went basically all out trying to stop Vietnam, then one of the poorest countries on earth, and got nowhere.

Gas is currently cheap and that makes Russia’s economy look small. If prices, say, quintuple globally and Russia keeps pumping out the same quantity, that’s a huge jump despite few internal changes and they’d have the world by the balls. Meanwhile, the Swiss could decide to all retire tomorrow permanently and drop their relatively huge GDP (half of Russia’s) to 1% of what it is now and the world would probably shrug and move on.

Russia is depended on globally for food, fuel, and loads of random resources. They’re just temporarily considered cheap while some things (eg banking) are currently considered high value. That could change very quickly.