skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a shocking amount of ignorance of the actual functioning of the electric grid and where costs actually come from for non demand resources like solar and wind (and run of river hydro and a bunch of others) in this thread. Power grids require supply to equal demand at all times within a small margin of error or else the grid blacks out. Grid operators keep within the margin of error with ancillary services constantly ramping generators up and down by small amounts to keep supply equal to demand across the grid. The uncosted and huge cost of solar and wind is that they cannot provide ancillary services (until storage gets a lot better and cheaper, which is a long time away, likely decades) and they increase ancillary demand because enough ancillaries have to be available to cover wind cutouts or clouds rolling in. This cost increases exponentially as percent of power from non demand resources increases because you have to run the other generation increasingly at min gen just to be able to ramp them to Max gen if needed. This is no big deal when these resources are a couple percent of your grid but hugely costly as they stop being a rounding error in your generation profile. So yes, solar is way cheaper than most other gen to install right now but it causes an externality that isnt being priced correctly right now and that per unit externality increases as the grid gets more of these resources.
There are tech companies that have cameras that track all the vehicles that drive by their campus HQs -- and report the activity back to the city/police
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> Clojure typically doesn't attract the kind of developers who want to work on "boring" things

I kind of have the opposite opinion. I worked on a large Clojure codebase for several years. There was so much effort put into building tooling and libraries in Clojure because the ecosystem isn't huge, (and some of its bigger pieces are just a misadventure, ie spec). It was really frustrating to me because I felt like we were spending 50% of our time writing inferior versions of code that Python, Ruby, or even JavaScript already had as libraries. I'd have preferred that time to be spent on interesting things like business concerns. Of course, you can use java interop, but it's much more natural in Scala and Kotlin.
I see exactly the same thing in the Scala community. Your first instinct when you need a library is to find a pure Scala one, when many times there are far superior (in terms of maturity, stability and documentation) in the Java word. Sometimes it makes sense to write an intermediate wrapper but not always.
First episode in the documentary series is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0iiVhOSWQg
They had an absolute shit-show of a migration a couple years ago where people were seeing others' accounts. "You get what you pay for" has struck them once and strikes again.

A good engineering culture requires investment, both in monetary fronts (make it worthwhile for people to actually work for you) as well as political/work environment fronts - engineering should be a first-class citizen in the business and not something on the wayside. Legacy companies still don't want to learn this because a lot of people's salaries currently depend on them not learning it.
Hmm, so you have lines that have fields in fixed indexed positions? Maybe something line this:

$ cat hn.txt
11alex a
12brian b
12craig c
$ cat test.sql
.header on
.mode box
.load dist/lines0
select
substr(line, 1, 2) as id,
substr(line, 3, 7) as name,
substr(line, 11, 2) as age
from lines_read('hn.txt')
$ sqlite3x :memory: '.read test.sql'
┌────┬─────────┬─────┐
│ id │ name │ age │
├────┼─────────┼─────┤
│ 11 │ alex │ a │
│ 12 │ brian │ b │
│ 12 │ craig │ c │
└────┴─────────┴─────┘

Unfortunately SQLite's substr function is a bit awkward, but if each field has constant indicies it may work
This is good data, but I am guessing it does not take into account the gig economy which I wonder what the effect of that is.
I think this is an area where industrial policy should play a serious role.

I am firmly against a technology with such a unequal downside/upside ratio. It's not that nuclear fission is inherently unsafe, it's just that every reactor needs to be playing it's A game every day.

We need to be lucky every day, mother nature only needs to be lucky once.

Maybe, maybe we can treat these as giant durcell batteries and use them for five years then seal it in concrete on site. But that does not seem to be the play here - so all the recycling and transport and handling just scales up - and it costs to be on your A game. The US military might afford this. but even they will probably want to run down the costs in the next few decades.
Interesting. I had the hardest time getting wpa_supplicant working on a new Debian install last weekend, and eventually gave up and switched to iwd, which was new to me, but worked immediately

Checking now, I have wpa_supplicant 2.10, so I wonder how much of my problem was due to that.

iwd's been great so far - I'm no expert so maybe there are technical advantages, but I don't see any reason to go back to wpa_supplicant.
Cloudflare Workers supports ECH out of the box. Also, one can deploy serverless-dns against any sub-domain that's available with underlying provider (mydoh.workers.dev, yourdoh.deno.dev, dohapp.fly.dev, etc) and keep changing the sub-domain for free to defeat SNI-based censorship.
Thanks a lot for the love!
If you have any feature requests, face any problems or have any questions, please open an issue on my GitHub page and I'll make sure to look into it as soon as possible. There's also a Discord server linked at the top of the Readme
Monolithic network appliances, computers, endpoints, etc are fundamentally designed without a security-first posture.

There's nothing conceptually wrong with a modem that also contains a NAT firewall/router/switch/(WAP). But in practice, even examining the hardware architecture of a consumer-grade router reveals fundamental design flaws in terms of the monolithic nature of the hardware architecture. Thus, using separate appliances for modem, router, switch, etc., that are physically separated, is still a good idea.

Of course, once you pick apart the shortcomings of a global TCP/IP network itself, it's clear that a single pipe connected directly to the internet is also a horrible idea, security-wise. I have been asking myself of late: "Self, if we were to design the internet from scratch and from security-first principles, how would it look?" Doing so requires detaching entirely from the existing mess we've created. Actually building a new security-first internet with backwards-compatibility would be an enormous increase in complexity, and would put into question the viability of the security of trillions in investment into entrenched global-scale infrastructure. Thus, any attmepts to solve this problen -- essentially boiling the ocean(s) -- is likely to remain (literally) a (multi-)pipe dream.

However, I am hopeful that new initiatives to build out 'hyperscale' and 'edge' clouds will present a genuine opportunity to realize the dream of a secure internet, secure networking, secure devices.
>(well, I don't know if it happened or not)

It did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig
When people go to a grocery store does it really make sense to think about evolution and natural selection? Every part of the modern food shopping experience has been designed by humans. Even the food itself. It's strange to consider a chimp's hunting instinct somehow relates to, say, a human's evaluation of what's a good deal in dollar terms.

Evolution and Me: Darwinian Theory has Become an All-Purpose Obstacle to Thought Rather than an Enabler of Scientific Advance. by George Gilder

https://www.discovery.org/a/3631/

"These evolutionary sex wars were mostly unresolvable because, at its root, Darwinian theory is tautological. What survives is fit; what is fit survives. While such tautologies ensure the consistency of any arguments based on them, they could contribute little to an analysis of what patterns of behavior and what ideals and aspirations were conducive to a good and productive society. Almost by definition, Darwinism is a materialist theory that banishes aspirations and ideals from the picture."
Yes you are overlooking a variety of more recent federal laws and associated interoperability regulations, some of which apply even to providers that only accept direct payments from patients and don't bill third-party payers (insurers).

The basic guiding principle in force since HIPAA in 1996 is that patients, not providers, control access to their medical records regardless of whether those are stored on paper or in an EHR. If the patient authorizes sharing those records with another healthcare organization then the provider can charge a small fee for that service but they can't introduce additional spurious technical requirements on the receiving system.
This is a very charged comment about very subjective things so I don't want to get into it too deeply.

I'm not sure what you mean that no one has been of any importance since Ginsberg as that's absolutely not true. Heaney himself was in the generation after that, and there's been plenty since, Paul Muldoon, John Ashbury, Leontia Flynn, Ciaran Carson, Meadbh McGuckin, Sophie Collins, Dan Paterson, honestly the list goes on and on. These people have been hugely important in my life and in the lives of many people around me.

People absolutely care about modern poetry and magazines like the Paris Review are in very high circulation. Beyond the confines of traditional print media I also see more and more people in the younger generation using platforms like Instagram to share original poetry. Sam Riviere is particularly notably there for having published his books first via Tumblr before they were collected and printed by Faber.

I can sympathise with the idea that these poets might not be to your personal taste but to write whole generations off as unimportant because of that is a very self centered outlook.

With regards to the poets on the new curriculum I personally find them very exciting and I think there's something to be said for kids being exposed to verse beyond rhyming iambic pentemeter written by people who look like them or come from less dominant cultural backgrounds like they themselves might do.
Healthcare integration from a technology perspective is a solved problem. The real problem is that health systems have zero incentive to work with your shit. Oh…someone in rev cycle management wants to use your new SaaS to do a thing with PHI? And they need FHIR? How about HL7 V1 and an IT department that won’t take your call and a VPN connection procurement that takes 7 months to work? Oh also, your tiny little SaaS company also needs to spend $100k on getting a HITRUST certification. Sound good? “It’s cool that your using health connector XYZ but we’re not working with them, k thx bye”
I think what Clojure needs is to be best at some very practical real world usecase so kinda what Rails was 2007 or Python and ML were 2013.
it's definitely a base instinct. When I'm stressed and preoccupied, lashing out is certainly easier than when calm.

I also wonder how people rationalize seeking punishment. More often than not, no forced act can undo wrought damage, particularly emotional damage, and people don't really feel better seeing others suffer, even if that's what they believe they want.

People also are extremely prone to forgetting the core intent of society's justice system and prisons, which is (or should be) reform, which is sad. Many balk at the idea that prison is humane in any dimension. We have a lot of growing to do :(
I was going to ask this. As someone with fine-detail vision issues, I found the font rendering uncomfortable.

Also, you can exit the app without any warning to save your work. I submitted this as a feature request.
What makes you assume a society with less punishment is a “more just” one? Have you considered that maybe there is a reason that otherwise different societies have almost universally evolved to impose harsh punishments? I.e. that it’s a positive adaptive behavior?
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The 'Why Web5' paragraph feels like pointless filler material.

The Google Doc presentation is here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SaHGyY9TjPg4a0VNLCsf...

From what I'm understanding, they're making a lot of assumptions about the organizations that people interact with that are going to have to sign up to this.
The article's main point seems to be:

The bad news is that American Jews--as a people--have never been in greater danger of disappearing through assimilation, intermarriage, and low birthrates.
Lonsdaleite (Hexagonal Diamond)
The Reason Mortgage Rates Are Dropping at a Record Pace
If you haven't done this, iOS lets you remap caps lock to esc. :)
Show HN: Bunny REST Proxy – a HTTP message broker built on top of RabbitMQ
The West needs to grow up
I think you've answered you're own question here, in a sense.

Erlang was created by Ericson for use in telecom systems. (OTP stands for Open Telecom Platform) which gives credence to the idea that Erlang didn't need a Rails. Once Elixir came along, being a bit more general purpose, people started building those things.

Clojure, from the beginning, was intended to be a general purpose language, not a web language. So I think it would be fine to expect Clojure to be able to solve non-web type problems. Maybe the community has attrition, but I don't think so. The Clojurians slack seems bigger than it ever was, more companies are using Clojure than I've ever seen.

edit: general not generate
US: "113E 3N"

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1553438866203443207

China: "119.0E 9.1N"

https://twitter.com/planet4589/status/1553444872237027329
It's not fair to discuss this without data.
>Of course that might be a hard sell given the importance of the ethanol production industry in the economy.

It's less important than it looks like, but it's backed up by a rather nasty political mafia.

At least for SP/PR/SC/RS, a better approach is to simply forget that the Brazilian government exists, and implement measures to reduce fuel consumption. Such as building an actually usable trains infrastructure for goods transportation across cities, and investing further on public transportation for passengers inside large metropolises.
I don’t see the point of disabling WPS,as every implementation I’ve seen requires pressing a hardware button on the router to switch it on for a minute.

I have only one device that requires WPS (a wifi-only printer), but there is no other way to get it onto a wifi network.
that would be fine if they hadn't called attention to it, but they decided to take extraneous time to make it a point of identity, time they could have put into making the site minimally correct (and a little more accessible). whenever someone tells you of their goodness, rather than just letting their actions speak for themselves, it's reasonable to question their underlying motives.
Before the #MeToo movement there was a slow ramp of scandals about celebrities and for a while there every time someone posted about Fred I would recite a little litany in my head,

Pleasebegoodpleasebegoodpleasebegood

That went into overdrive after the first rumors about Bill Cosby started up. And then by John Lassiter I was a momentary wreck every time Fred made the news.

Fred Rogers has been gone long enough now that I’m more confident that he was genuinely the Nice Guy his public image paints him to be. Of course Fred Rogers sued the KKK.

Arsenio Hall had Fred on the first run of his talk show. He was agog. Major hero worship. Ended up gifting him a copy of his signature jacket. Which was even bigger on Fred than it was on Arsenio.
No. The PC keyboard is stuck in the 1980s. The only innovation being the upside down T arrangement of the arrow keys. A few years ago when I started using windows, I was told that I would quickly get used to the keyboard arrangement, but I have not.

Outside of work, I use Linux with AutoKey and xmodmap which is still painful but an improvement over the total inflexibility on win10.

Things that are broken:

Inconsistent hot keys.

Function keys.

Numlock.

Caps lock.

Shift key xor.

FIrst two letters often get capitalized.

Over strike mode.

Useless keys: scroll lock, insert, super.

An easy way to create your own layouts for multiple keyboards that get plugged in and out. We should be able to physically rearrange keys and the key code moves with the key.
Since you implicate me, I’m open to feedback and willing to change my mind. Would you point out my incorrect assumptions to me?
> We need to be lucky every day, mother nature only needs to be lucky once.

Sounds more like a slogan than an argument
To be fair, if they did go ahead we would've had decades less coal burning and potentially could've provided electricity cheap enough in combination with hydro and renewables that would've seen some big industry shift away from burning coal.

NZ has a very green power grid but it's not perfect and suffers from reliability issues dependent on snowfall to fill the hydro lakes. Nuclear would have and still could provide a lot more security in that area.

I'm hoping NZ sees the light and accepts small nuclear as a decent method of going to 100% green sources (currently it's 85%)
The Malicious Enemies Case for Liberty
hunting the bad guys
The thing is, we all know that processed meat is bad to our health, and its the core of many health issues in the wealthy countries.

So what do you call fake meat?, super duper processed food? And why should it be called meat in the first place if it has no meat in it?,

It should be called manufactured meat-like... Thing.

Also is it more healthy than normal meat? Or will we discover it has some long term side a effect that nobody noticed until it was too late?
Yeah, if you don't care about your domain name, it's less risky. Your readers may or may not want to open an email with a random domain, but if that's not a concern to you, go for it!

> I get the feeling this "UUUhhh! Black magic! Don't DIY with mails!" is fueled by marketing consultants who want to sell their services.

I think that's true, but in fact it's quite a bit worse than that... the email deliverability issues exist essentially because email has become a cartel of big providers who can collude on anti-spam schemes that make it very difficult for small players to break through successfully. They come up with both standards-based domain configurations (which in and of themselves are hard enough to get right) and out-of-band reputational databases that they are largely opaque, yet frequently shared, and with very limited & slow appeals. And depending on the recipients, if too many customers are on the same hosts, that intermediary host may throttle or block you if you send too many emails to them at once, regardless of the content. If you're a small fry ISP or random VM on the internet, you're totally at the mercy of these big players with no real recourse. They just don't care if their spam filters screw up. (And I dunno, maybe there's a pro-user side of this in that probably many people would rather their inboxes stay cleaner, risking the occasional false positive?

> I don't see why Google should care for technicalities. They can see the behavior of their users. The behavior should tell them that the mails are not spam.

It's not just Google (and even then not just personal Gmail), like depending on the makeup of your customer list, it could also include Google Workspace (business accounts that can set their own spam rules), Microsoft, Yahoo, Zoho, etc., and then tens of thousands of ISPs who make their own rules.

There's a lot of "it would be nice if" in email, but it's an arms race that got this way after decades of uncontrolled spam. I have no vested interest in any email service, but I often had to fix deliverability problems for small to medium businesses who mistakenly thought email newsletters should be simple... but they aren't today, because of the deliverability cartel. After doing that a few times and spending many days & weeks fighting these systems, I swore to myself I'd never make that mistake again. The micro-cents per email just weren't worth losing my sanity over.
The main constraints of being a solo developer at scale and time. You cannot scale because that means doing a lot of stuff (coding, support, business planning) at the same time. And you can only work on one or two features, meaning development speed is quite slow.

But coding is very easy. And once you solve something, it stays that way. Unlike conflict with others.
Yes, the screenshots are excusable initially because they just look like the images have just been shrunk.

But that’s just an accurate reproduction of how it looks at full size!
A bigger challenge is our own because we are largely oblivious to it.
Beating any state censorship is a success and we should appreciate that.
I use the WHM to get high on drum and bass parties. The adrenaline that you have is higher than a first timer’s bungee jump when they are on their adrenaline peak [1].

[1] on the phone right bow but it is in the PNAS article about the WHM suppressing the immune system
If they decide your IP address is a source of spam you will have a problem. And if you are using the cloud, you may end up being assigned an IP address previously identified as belonging to a spammer.
That's gold!
The community will have to deal with those people eventually. Putting it off just makes things worse.

Some of those shut-ins would do well enlisting in the military, if they can pass the medical screening.
Larkin is a poet who "comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable." I often return to his poem Aubade [0], in particular the idea that "death is no different whined at than withstood," and that in the meantime, "work has to be done." Chop wood, carry water.

[0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/aubade-56d229a6...
Sure! changed from https://kominfo.go.id/content/detail/43385/siaran-pers-no-30... now.
Though public opinion and regulations might be a barrier too, there's a more elementary and fundamental problem around nuclear: cost and time.

Even France, without the regulatory or public opinion problems, is having difficulty building nuclear, and the construction project at Flamanville is an unmitigated disaster, just exactly the same as the US's recent projects at Vogtle and Summer.

And that's the reason that SMR designs are even being attempted. The design has always been rejected in the past as uneconomical. But with large reactor design proven to uneconomical, and a huge devotion to nuclear among some, SMRs are giving it a go again.

If nuclear worked well, there are always populations that welcome them nearby. Most, but not all, of our current 100GW has supportive neighbors.

But I always find it curious that these lesser problems of public support and regulations get so much more attention than a far more fundamental problem: economic efficiency.
> I am firmly against a technology with such a unequal downside/upside ratio.

I'm very curious what you're basing this opinion on.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy