skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as statistics clearly show, there is a minimum demand 24/7. But that is just one characteristic number. That is the demand you always have to provide through the year. But at any time, more power is required, you have to provide that too. You cannot treat power demand over the "base load" any differently than the base load. Which type of energy production you might be using, you need to plan the ability to ramp up the production.
So it isn't that you require special sources for the "base load", that can be provided by solar+wind, if they are available in the necessary amount. It is just that "base load" can also be provided by slow power plants.

The big problem with nuclear from the grid side is, that they are the slowest power plants available. Consequently, (and because of cost efficiency) they are run at high power output levels 24/7, the rest of the grid has to adjust by being throttled or fast plants which can be ramped up and down.

Gas is the fastest type of classical power plants (together with water, but that usually has limited amounts). And as the fuel always was on the expensive side, there is quite an incentive of not running gas power plants too much. They would be a good company to renewables, as they can switch between 0 and 100% and back very quickly. And in a grid dominated by renewables, you would only rarely run them at high loads for longer times. And while they emit more CO2 than nuclear plants, they do distinctively less than coal powered plans.

In the long run, you can run gas plants on e.g. hydrogen produced from solar - the recent plans for extending gas power plants in Germany all included the requirement to be usable with hydrogen too.
Unique sword casts new light on Viking voyages across the North Sea
Another great resource similar to OP's but for self hosting https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
There is not enough geographical locations. Sorry to bust your dream, but not every country in Europe is Switzerland or Austria with useful valleys and rivers in them
Park and ride lots exist exactly to facilitate suburban access to urban centers via public transportation. Most of these lots are free. Parking in a city is a luxury, and is not necessary for access to urban entertainment venues.
You can quibble about why so many on the right and the center are insulated from the harm, but that demonstrates that people don't want to discuss the intended harmful outcome of these state laws that will go national via SCOTUS or when a Republican takes power again.

It's totally reasonable to be disgusted at how convinced people can be that the conservative project won't come at us with a dangerous national abortion ban with no exceptions and then come for contraception, who you can marry, what your kids learn, how you pray and whose property rights are worth as little as their right to marry and have sex.
> The baseload[1] (also base load) is the minimum level of demand on an electrical grid over a span of time, for example, one week. This demand can be met by unvarying power plants,[2] dispatchable generation,[3] or by a collection of smaller intermittent energy sources,[4] depending on which approach has the best mix of low cost, availability and high reliability in any particular market.

> [...]

> According to National Grid plc chief executive officer Steve Holliday and others, baseload is "outdated".[7][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load
Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier.

Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it.

As for CI/CD, I didn't know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab,
Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its an unnecessary complications that doesn't exist on GitHub.
Most of the altcoins I'd recognize were created because Bitcoin was deficient in some respect, whether it be scalability, privacy, etc. Bitcoin itself forked over such concerns.
> chicken pox has a vaccine now, but is relatively harmless if you catch it as a child.

I think if adults were catching a disease that took them out of action for a week in a fairly miserable way and gave them blisters that frequently ended up leaving permanent scars, we'd be taking it way more seriously. Kids don't make the decisions, and everyone remembers that they suffered through it, so kids these days should too...
I can understand it's a stimulating problem for the brain.

In terms of priorities it doesn't make any sense at all to me though. It's hard to get the global population to care and act about what the GLOBAL state of the planet will be by the end of the century.
So I really could not care less if by accident a few people dug a hole in tens of thousand of years at the wrong place and it created an issue. It's not like the whole human population would meet at this same spot and quickly dig a hole deep enough together so that they all get radiated...
As they say, the best things in life are free.
C'mon, it's just someone with some opinions you don't like, not the bogie man.

It's not a rabbit hole to hear out someone you disagree with. Unless you're either afraid 1) they might be right, or 2) the listener doesn't have critical thinking skills. I get that #2 is scary, and it's a legit issue in society, but they shouldn't be listening to you either.

Also, there are good tear-downs Peterson's message online, the one you linked is... not.
Sarcasm detected.
I tried it with my team about 4-5 years ago and found it, while useful, to be too much overhead for the benefit it provides, especially when compared to normal ad-hoc code review.

I will do something similar as part of big product releases though: I'll get the team together and we'll do a once over walk through over everything end to end. Normally this produces about an additional sprint (two weeks) of work ahead of the launch as you uncover problems and people see things with fresh eyes. So make sure to build that time into your schedule.
Paper arguments.

All that happens with a dam, is one ecosystem is replaced with another. Some animals die off, others replace them.

Literally, a dam isn't replacing the tiniest part of an ecosystem in Quebec. Trillions of acres, upon trillions, and only thousands for dams.

Meanwhile, there are far more deadly things with nuclear plants.

I think I'm lucky in Quebec, as such dams can be located away from people, thus reducing danger of a dam breaking.

The biggest mistake environmentalists ever made, was to fight dams. You cannot even remotely compare burning coal, or gas, or oil for power, with a dam.

Yet environmentalists fought dams, and nuclear in the 70s, the 60s, and look where we are now.

Still spewing CO2 like mad.

How about we jump up and down for joy, at a dam, or a nuclear plant instead of naysaying either?

Priorities...
Many cross platform GUI apps have been written in C, JS and Java too. The ability to write GUI apps does not really seem that unique to C++.
From the flow graph, the film grain estimation is done on the difference between the de-noised video, and the original. So it only picks up the difference that the denoiser creates.

> and estimating the film grain parameters from flat regions of the difference between the noisy and de-noised versions of the video sequence.
I mean, most US states (but not all) have codified three ebike classes. Class 1 is pedal assist (no throttle) up to 20mph. Class 2 has a throttle up to 20mph. Class 3 is pedal assist (no throttle) up to 28mph.

I have a class 3 ebike. The only difference between it and a normal bike is that I don’t have to work as hard to turn the pedals. As a result, I can go up hills easier. And maybe go a couple mph faster than my body would be capable of on a normal bike. But the overall experience is the same as biking. I’m still burning some calories, and going up hills isn’t exactly easy either. It’s a fantastic balance which turns biking from less of a sport and exercise into more of a fun activity.

I’m not regularly going anywhere close to 28mph either unless I’m going downhill. It’s very comfortable to pedal at 15mph or so. (E.g. the ebike doesn’t make me feel like I must go fast all the time.)

Once you step outside of this class-based system, I’m guessing the law changes pretty drastically. An electric motor on a bike allowing 50mph speeds is probably not treated by law as a bicycle.
I'm so tired of this argument. I want to host stuff myself. Really, I do. But I really don't have enough time in the day to do it.

I set up a blog this weekend using Hugo, Ansible, and Github Actions to host it on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. It "only" took two days, but I'm exhausted and I don't actually have any content yet.

I host Plex and TiddlyWiki at home on my Raspberry Pi. I used docker and traefik. Sometimes it still has weird issues and I have to reboot it. It was another project that "only" took a weekend and left me exhausted.

So let's say I don't want to self host, but I don't want to use Github. What are my options? I used to use Bitbucket, but I moved to Github a few years ago to consolidate my accounts. I liked Bitbucket, but people give you weird looks when you give them a Bitbucket URL. It's not as seamlessly supported in apps that can automatically understand Github urls. Confluence kept buying other products and tacking them on. And they kept trying to upsell me.

Then there's Gitlab. I'm going to have to get used to it because my employer is transitioning to it, away from Github. This article mentions developers having short memories. I remember when Gitlab decidedly said they'll do business with anyone back when people were shaming tech companies for helping and cooperating with ICE a few years ago. That left a bad taste in my mouth.

There's Sourcehut. But I have friends with beef with the guy who made it and I don't want to support him.

I can't help but feel like Github is probably the lesser evil here. Honestly, I'd pay for a service if I believed in it. It's important to me that I'm the customer, not the product. That's why I switched from Gmail to ProtonMail a few years ago. I have their top tier paid account because I believe in them and I want to get what I pay for.

Sorry, I don't really have a point. I'm just tired of this argument. I'd self host in a second if I could do it quickly, easily, and reliably. But I don't think I can.
> definitely worth clearing your cookies to read if Medium is yelling at you about subscribing:

I've been getting a lot of mileage out of "scribe.rip" that was posted a while back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838053)

https://scribe.rip/swlh/negative-rings-in-intel-architecture...
I think his point is the names have changed but the quality is still there. 1960s Disneyland is more similar to a modern Six Flags, while modern Disneyland has no equivalent in the 60s.
Title is misleading - This wasn't a statement made by the FCC.

It was made by Brendan Carr, who works for the FCC, but the request is not an official FCC request.
The government can levy large taxes on new big vehicles just like they did with cigarettes. If the largest SUVs had a 25% tax on it, I think most people will not buy it (basically limiting it). Or if the gas prices went to $10 a gallon, people will ditch their big vehicles.
I am curious at which level vehicle safety/requirements should be regulated in your opinion?
> Before we get into the numbers, let’s compare how much families earned in 1960 to what they earn today.

> Today’s median family earns considerably more, at $84k per year, or $40.38/hr. ... But when it comes to traditional family outings, the purchasing power of that income has declined.

I'm not sure this is a fair comparison because it doesn't distinguish between single and dual income families.

https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_dual-income-households-1960-2...

According to Pew Research, only 25% of families in the 1960s were dual income vs 60% today.

Not only have wages not kept up with inflation, but, even with dual incomes, families have less purchasing power. On top of that, they have less free time because the work of maintaining a household didn't go away.
can you share the article, i'm trying to be more littered in disability and this type of article tend to be useful.
While I'm sure there are plenty of ways a determined astronaut could wreak havoc on the ISS, opening the hatch isn't one of them. Much like on an airplane, the pressure differential makes it impossible to open when the inside is pressurized and the outside is not.
Can a “magic” protein slow the aging process?
Pumped hydro and batteries solve this variability very well.
This has been my experience, enterprises are routinely one-upping their security requirements.

It used to be Shared Controls Audits, now its SOC2 Type 2, tomorrow it will be HiTrust or combinations of SOC2 and ISO controls.

This has been getting more arduous every year for the last 10 years, I don't see it reversing anytime soon.

As a startup, you will be out of business by the time you meet their requirements, or could have landed other deals.
Very small loss if you consider only the footprint of the pylon. Probably quite an inconvenience when you consider having to turn the tractor or combine a lot more than you would need to with an open field. Even worse when you realize that you need to be able to access the wind turbine for maintenance two or three times a year. Definitely not good when you need a major replacement or removal after 20 years and you need to bring in heavy equipment.
D still requires you to write bindings, see https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html

Also D objects have a different lifetimes & requirements, which complicates things ( see https://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html#lifetime-managemen... )

Carbon appears to be auto-generating bi-directional bindings, and since it has the same memory model has no such awkward interactions between non-GC'd and GC'd worlds like D does.
Perhaps the 49ers were left out because the article references the cost to attend a baseball game, whose league (MLB) requires a team to host 81 home games per season which requires much greater consideration for public transportation than the 8 home games hosted each year by professional football teams.
Agreed, its the same tactic used in healthcare.
In my household we typically use the phrase "pet peeve" to refer to things that are meaningfully below the impact threshold of killing humans

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/large-trucks-suvs-far-m...
This reminded me of how in Tamil Nadu (a southern state in India), move ticket prices have a cap (and movie going is HUGE) so it stays affordable for the masses despite really good and well maintained theatres. So companies that run movie theatres charge a bomb for the food (popcorn etc). If houxan afford the food, that's ok, but if you cant, you can just go watch a movie for <$2 per seat.
I remember doing multiple rides on the same roller coaster without giving up my seat as a teen at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg. At peak times they had 20+ minute lines, but I never considered that as worthwhile.

Disney lines are horrific by comparison. It’s nice they add some theming while you wait, but you will have a far better time just skipping the rides unless you want to run to something at park open or schedule your day around fast pass.
Thomas Lord 1966—2022
* Die when hit by a lifted pick up
also talking about radioactive waste, guess what comes out of burning coal? more dangerous radioactive material than you'd expect. https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why-is-coal-ash-more-radio...
Even by running on nuclear energy, Germany condemned its own industry which relies heavily on gas, which will not be delivered as required by Russia due to its own political decisions against Russia. They won't be able to get the gas from another country in the quantity required. The majority of factories just can't suppress their usage of gas. This winter will be quite difficult for a lot of industrial companies.

I just can't understand, strategically, how such huge decisions can be made so quickly and totally going against the interest of your own people and economy.

I mean, they just messed up badly.
> Germany could simply sell nuclear electricity to other EU members so they will burn less gas.

Germany is already the largest electricity exporter on the planet [0]. Germany is also the only economy of its size class that has an actual renewable share close to 50% [1], while comparable economies, like Japan or the US, hover at around 20% renewables.

In that context it's extremely questionable how Germany gets constantly blamed for all kinds of things related to energy, when it was literally were the renewable energy change was pioneered not just technologically [2] but particularly regulation wise [3].

[0] https://www.worldstopexports.com/electricity-exports-country...

[1] https://www.trade.gov/energy-resource-guide-germany-renewabl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Examples_of_industrial...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Renewable_Energy_Source...
I mean... the lead-in photo screams narcissism.
the country is fuller and the world is flatter
It’s the greenest energy source at scale![citation needed]

Or my counterpoints, as found here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32027004
you have to band with others to make it .. all the tools are there
"Your problem is so terrible, I worry that, if I help you, I risk drawing the attention of whatever god of technology inflicted it on you."

https://xkcd.com/1912/
> For ex, the ARM VPSes will actually switch off/get disabled at the end of the first monthly trial and I believe (feel free to correct me on this) that you will need to get some support to enable any VM you setup in the trial. Although the resource is always free, the first month is treated differently for whatever reason and you end up with a disabled VM. You can create new ones within those limits again, just fyi.

I tried this, and it will worked, so I'm not really sure.
I recreated the VM anyway just to be safe.
> German policies not only managed to destroy domestic nuclear, but also cripple the French.

Why do I always see this shameless bullshitting in favor of nuclear energy?
Everyone in these comments sounds like they are just trying to beat the system. Mindlessly optimize income above all else.

I'm a mechanical, electrical and systems engineer. A hardware person. I design medical devices mostly. Yes I could make more money being a dev, a data scientist, etc. But I don't want that. I deeply enjoy, love what I do. I love that I can receive a list of requirements on Monday and sit down in CAD and design something, order it by Friday and build a medical device prototype the next week. It's so satisfying, and it's what I've wanted to do since I was 5.

I dont make the kind of salary that folks are saying here for a FAANG data scientist, but close - and I haven't sold my soul. I deeply love what I do, I have chosen to do the part I love and am deeply talented at rather than the part that pays the most. I still get paid handsomely.

Hopefully this inspires another person like me to say it's OK to not maximize your income, it's ok to do what you love and are passionate about. You'll still be ok.
France recovers something like 96% of their recoverable uranium for additional use, because spent doesn't mean inert.

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...
You can flip a coin and pick the better choice 50% of the time. That's still a better methodology than following celebrity advice.
> Now compare this to Afghanistan.

The same Afghanistan that was invaded by the Soviet Union?
Volkswagen bringing back Scout brand truck as electric vehicle made in America
> expensive

Seeing everything through the "how expensive is it" lens is exactly what is making us burn our own planet though. Price should be the least of our concern when we discuss the future of our planet. Money has no value if you can't breath
Chemical batteries are completely useless and expensive gimmick in state-wide storage of electric energy. Cost is main reason why it is cheaper to build coal/gas plant instead.
Here is another interesting list of projects. The book is specific to python but the projects are interesting and they can be implemented in any language:

http://tinypythonprojects.com/
Plus there's the fact that film casts and crews have a work day that's quite a bit longer than a programmer's typical work day. We have already enough problems with crunch; do we want to make 10-12 hour workdays the norm? Because that's what will happen if you want to maintain current development velocity.
Everyone (not on Antarctica) lives close enough to a place enough like Austria or Switzerland. Electric grids can be big.
Maybe the government should have been more in your parents' business. I'm not usually one to think that the government has any place in the family, but 10 children seem like too many for 2 parents to wrangle well. Unless your family has more than two adults, how were you supervised?
Some people think that batteries are advanced enough to power the grid.

In reality the largest battery installations in the world can run the grid they are attached to for a few minutes.
I've flown through Dubai a few times, and I think most of their flights are early in the morning or at night. I don't know if that's for the runway or for the tires (or just heat in general), but I wonder if those factors played into things in the UK?
Very well said!

Developers are also a very marketing-averse group.

Tbh my guess is the founder of this product never got feedback from devs before doing that landing page.

The tool could be superb. Kind of doesn't matter. Pattern recognition kicks in.

Maybe they built a great product. If that's so they camouflage its value by making it look like some ebook with a scarcity timer.
(I made) a tool to show the browser's history using:visited
This is a quick check to see if your browser (or child) has visited any concerning websites (or you forgot to clear your history!).

It doesn't use the :visited selector to tell anybody else, although that has been posted on HN before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940766
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7868211
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30569396
In my mind, continued storage of nuclear waste will always have to remain an active process. Dispose and forget like in a landfill isn’t an option if you care about the long-term risks.
> Which will come from renewables.

This is something solar/wind zealots often like to repeat, while hand-waving away the fact that those energy sources work when they want to, not when you want them to.

If you want a reliable, clean power grid, there's one option, and it's not solar and wind.
Looks really cool! Is it hard to port a Chrome extension to Firefox?
Could you explain how one would go about determining what you explained here? Is the "KLE..." part of the shortened URL just compressed somehow and you can decompress it? I guess I always assumed the browser just requested the shortened url and the black-box google server opaquely serves up the destination page, allowing it to do whatever with the (I assumed, incorrectly it would seem) unique string in the URL. Unique to the user sharing and video being shared, I mean.
> Nobody knows if it was just general erratic behaviour by the green party or just general hatred and jealousy towards the french.

Those are terrible explanations. There's a much simpler one: The oil and gas industry was able to corrupt Germany and not France.
GAF Energy to build second US nailable solar shingle factory
I never said nuclear power plants were bad. But Chernobyl depopulated a 1,000 square mile region that will remain uninhabitable for hundreds to thousands of years. Do that a couple more times over a century in a densely populated area like Europe and see how easy it is to travel without a car made of lead, much less find a place to live.