skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gas use has been similar for the last 10 years. Now you're correct in absolute numbers Germany uses more gas, it has more citizens, more energy intensive industry etc. and yes they are less dependent on Russian gas (most of their gas seems to come from Norway [1], although the second biggest source is Russia). I actually agree making Germany dependent Russian gas was a terrible idea. Germany actually had a unique opportunity in the late 90s early 00s, they could have really pushed for a transition to a mostly renewable energy production, but instead strong lobbying won out. And the lobbyists were the fossil and nuclear sectors (i.e. the large energy corporations). One thing one can see again and again is that the nuclear lobby is never arguing against fossil energy, but only against renewables. The reasons are simply that they largely have common interests, highly centralised energy production, with strongly subsidised plant construction, which guarantee long term profits. Renewables are actually disruptive, because they allow for very distributed energy production putting into the hands of small investors and relatively small construction industry. They threaten the large profits of the old model.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ueipzd/country_of_o...
Later he writes a comment saying is due to network latency. Seems a bit dubious if you ask me though.
It's always helpful to post a link to back your claims up. Presumably if gp is asking, it's because they couldn't find a credible source by Googling.
Same, I just canceled my Fusion subscription for different reasons (they were spamming launchdarkely 2 MILLION + times because I had little snitch blocking it), shifting some of that 60USD per month seems worth it.
Aside for not having to handle errors in Go, the type system itself makes error handling less useful. Rust's error handling is superior to Go's in every way I can think of.
Oops, didn’t realize the HN link pointed to /about. Thanks!
You wouldn't be fucked over, you just got a house for nothing and then you have to pay taxes on it because you weren't living in it. I don't see why that would warrant an exception.
I guess it just shared some code path with Windows update (as it is exactly the same server) and thus ended require permission it didn't need to use.
Modern Malaise
I found this to be an interesting design pattern for online learning communities.
Some people don't know others see them going slow and managers don't have conversations till it's become problematic. Some people don't realize or won't inculcate feedback until they're fired. They play brinkmanship with their managers. Those people firing cab help. Kick in the pants as it were.
Really good read enjoyable prose, if not a bit "much" at times.

This was thought provoking, particularly the second sentence:

"Do not forget that medieval England was one of the most devoutly Catholic nations in Europe and one should never underestimate the ability of the pertinaciously pious to behave irrationally. A medieval person’s moral and world views were so intensely bound up with those of the Church that he would have had no doubt that these trials by ordeal were entirely genuine. It would never have crossed the mind of most medieval citizens that being tied up and lobbed into the local lake was not an effective method of proving guilt; shockingly, fluid dynamics and gravity weren’t particularly common topics of study in the thirteenth century. A person’s logic was interchangeable with that of the Church or the ramblings of the one-eyed crackpot codger at the local tavern."

Was this true, did people really not question anything? I always assumed people went along with it for fear of punishment but probably thought it was a little ridiculous. Are we this, forgive me--stupid--today? I would like to think not, but I also see some of the things happening in my own country in places like Florida and think maybe this is just human nature to want to put down our sense of curiosity and willingness to question and give it over to another entity.
Yes. Unlike gas and coal, nuke plants have to pay to clean up their waste before it's created.
As a more direct analogue of your VMS example, Windows provides system-level support for handling exceptions without unwinding the stack.

Here's an example of page fault handling, using Microsoft C/C++ compiler extensions to access Windows' built-in exception handling,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/memory/reserv...
> existential threat

Mainly for those in high-risk groups such as older obese people.

I got it 1.5 years ago, it sucked for a week at home, and I got better. A couple months ago I got blood test which shows I still have good level of antibodies. Even the CDC has moved on, so continuing to call this an "existential threat" may indicate an addiction to fear.
What makes a website high conversion worthy? Have you ever thought of it?

I was always curious to learn about this as I have to implement it for my startup - Fueler. In today's time, we are adding 100+ signups in a single day in Fueler

All these case studies are mind blowing.
Also curious if the sentiment changed at all after 2014 (Crimea).
In my experience, high creativity is just going down as many (mental) paths as possible, as quickly as possible.
Exactly. With a proper lexical order you can search efficiently. A composite index that starts with a month would be useful for finding entries with the given month, but usually we want to find entries recursively, starting with a year, then the month, then the day, if necessary, as at that point we may have already found what we are looking for.
PyPI-data: Automatically updated PyPI API data, available in bulk via Git
Is there any research to back that claim up?
> We also don't want to foster a "chemicals are bad" attitude more than it already exists.

Why don't we want to foster this? If some compound is unknown, it seems prudent to assume its a risk until proven otherwise. Then you can calculate whether or not the possible miniscule or nonexistent benefit is worth the potentially miniscule or catastrophic downside.

Some might respond that this would hamper progress, but really it would just hamper sales. You can continue to learn things without testing on the general public. And if you can't, then maybe that's no excuse to test it in prod.
> OTOH perhaps we need a new format, where you can mix the audio locally, rather than just getting whatever the audio engineer decides.

FWIW, nothing stops you from appending additional processing to “remaster” for a specific playback/listening scenario — all radio stations do this, for example.

There’ve been a few attempts to deliver music in formats that would support remixing (the latest being Ye’s STEMPLAYER), but so far they’ve all failed.
But as of April, only 17% of France's gas imports came from Russia:

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/04/27/h...
I think we should study the effects of materials well before jumping ship to production and consumption. The industry is guilty for rushing this and for the lack of knowledge pretends there’s no proof of effects on human health. They could always use something that is not (yet) banned but also not well tested in the first place. The regulators ‘regulate’ within the framework but if the framework is bad is complete different thing. The industry has bigger pockets so it can almost always put the consumer’s interest at the bottom of their priorities. Till we fix this imballance we’re likely to suffer again and again in different ways in the future. To me the return to simpler times really means simply consume less and if we all did that and coupled it with strong repairability movements and proper recycling we’d all benefit from this as well as the environment.
>Leaded gasoline, CFCs, microplastics, pesticides

Cigarettes, sugar, asbestos, hydrogenated vegetable oil, "clean" diesel cars...
I think yours is the ridiculous argument, how are homeless people relevant to this conversation?
Zooming through space to reveal the Cartwheel Galaxy
RIRs won't approve transfers that are purely speculative. Also, IP leasing seems to mostly be used by spammers or other bad actors who trash the reputation of any IPs they use.
Just embarrasing that it had to go this far before Germans realized.
You act as if calling for an end to half the humans on this planet is a horror. Posioning all of the humans on this planet is a horror. Filling the ocean with plastic is a horror. People going around talking about topics like white extinction and promoting natalism whilst we've sabotaged fundamental planetary mechanics is a horror. Walking blindfolded into the future and betting on some god to save us, or at least there being some heaven for us to retreat to, as if we deserve it, or just hoping for the best whilst everything falls apart around us is a horror. Believing in the myth of infinite growth is a horror.

Reducing the human population isn't a horror, it's a mercy, and not just for us. It buys us time to try and resolve the dysfunction of our species.

We are talking about potentially giving every new child an eventual death sentence with inevitable liver cancer here, and if that's what this shit does to people, take a beat and think about what it'll do to the things we eat.
Regulation to prevent use of force and fraud, and contract enforcement, and dealing with externalities.
Ask HN: Any e-commerce site/solution that understands complex information needs?
When shopping online, my information needs are often complex.

Example 1: Multiple conditions...

> wifi routers with openwrt support get it by tomorrow 8MB flash 64MB RAM price below $20 with at least 80% positive reviews

Example 2: Multiple products with inter-dependencies...

> Ryzen 4th gen with 8 cores and graphics support + compatible motherboard that supports 32GB RAM + 32GB compatible RAM, total price < $500

I tried both on Amazon but the results didn't satisfy many of my criteria.

I'm wondering why the online shopping UX in 2022 looks and feels pretty much like my first experience on eBay back in 2005. These websites only walk half-way, sometimes not even that far.

I have to do the rest of the evaluation by scrolling through 5000 reviews, pulling in information from other websites, manually intersecting sets of results, etc. They don't even provide their inventories as structured data so I can code up something quickly.

We have much better natural language understanding now. We have the "semantic web", ontologies, knowledge graphs, graph neural networks and so much more. I feel like this should be possible in 2022.

__Question:__ Is there any e-commerce site, or even a demo, or a SaaS that's able to do this kind of thing?
No, we have to immediately enact a huge number of measures globally for which we don't know the longterm impact and not worry about these things that make life more convenient if only minimally

/every s
What I honestly don’t understand is what the individual employees of these companies think. I’d love to see a documentary with interviews of a wide swath of employees (different levels within the companies) and how they rationalized this aggregate behaviour. Do they not have children and grandchildren? Do they think they don’t breathe the same air and drink the same water?

Certainly some, probably low level employees, didn’t feel they had the luxury of questioning their company’s ethics and looking for work elsewhere, but what about all the more senior people who presumably sat in boardrooms and spun ways to continue pouring shit into the environment with reckless abandon? What am I missing?
Yeah, the drought in Europe has dried up or made too warm the rivers used to cool French nuclear plants.
It's an IEEE-754 problem... Only the above operations and sqrt require full accuracy. Just about every other floating point operation is allowed to be less accurate and fully compliant, and widely differ in exact answers. Even on say x86, using SSE vs FPU vs libc (which often will not use above versions in order to be more accurate) will give different answers.
what is truly flabbergasting is the use and application of trauma induction as a technique by shadowy persons within governments and other "for the science" and later on "for the [your cause of choice], we must use these techniques, lest the rivals use them too and we lose".

traumatized people passing on their traumas. some very clever powerful persons using traumatized people like they use other tools and instruments.
One hour. Haha.

There are a dozen mutually exclusive methods for seasoning cast iron. I’ve never found one that works as well or as simply as advertised. In a 1bd apartment, the seasoning process will make it difficult to breathe for nearly the full process unless you have incredible ventilation. Stripping the previous seasoning after burning something (only once, but it mentally scarred me, as you might be able to tell from the ranting… ;)) is incredibly difficult. So much steel wool. So much elbow grease. That was the final time for me, and I gave up after several weekends without being able to get the burnt odor to go away. There is a limit to how many hours I’m willing to invest in cookware, and it was not much higher than ten. You are welcome to call me lazy over it. :)
It’s common for homeless in the US to not want to stay at shelters at least due to not agreeing with the requirements (being sober) or they think they’re dirty and might have bed bugs.

I’ve always tried to get food for betters outside of grocery stores or pharmacies whenever they’re asking for money.
Yeah its unfathomable, we were inspired by an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel about the components of an electric toothbrush. Our dream was to follow the components of the pedometer all the way back to the mines, however, we haven't done so yet.
The issue isn't that we as a race can reach 100% renewable energy, it's at what cost? Right now displacing fossil fuels comes at such an enormous financial cost it's an all of humanity thing or none (or very little) of humanity thing. Also there would be such high costs for poor nations that rich nations would have to pay way more than their proportional share. Sadly it's wishful thinking to get the entire human population/their respective representatives and despots to agree to solve this problem. Our best hope is that a new technological solution with near zero marginal cost emerges and displaces fossil fuels as much as possible.
We do that frequently. "I wrote this code" -> audit while I use my code -> "OK/please fix this or that".

I am the customer of our IT, I don't know why it should be any other way. It's noteworthy though that I don't work in a tightly regulated sector.
But also at present, dealing with millions of routes at the packet-switching level gets difficult. Especially because the speed of links has increased so much.
You underestimate the "Guy from the future 'It's a trap'!" plot Deus Ex Machina.
I hate using it for chat, but we use MS Teams for all our meetings at work and it's pretty decent. We have Office 365, but there is a free version [1].

1: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/teams-for-ho...
Not the worst comparison. VS has enough years of cruft and legacy options that it is one of the more complex software you will ever use as a dev and with the right extension, Code could fly ;)
From what friends said who worked there in the early 00s it's been that way for a while. Hardware was the rockstar. This is part of why Sony Japan finally relented and let the eu/us do the software on the PlayStation and Japan focused on the hardware making an excellent parternership.
You appear to be an apologist for an insanely homophobic organisation, so I don't know how much help you'd get from anyone correcting you.
> inequality is NOT the reason people are poor

The US has far more poor than other countries with similar or even lower GDP per capita so it must be at least part of the reason many people are poor. Most rich nations produce enough that in principle there need be no genuine poverty (as in, inability to readily access necessities - having to make choices like buying food or obtaining medical care etc.). And one thing nobody's really noted is that a certain amount of poverty itself isn't necessarily a huge problem providing anyone who does find themselves in that situation can readily get out of it. I actually wonder if the world wouldn't be a better place if we all spent some percentage of our lives undergoing a degree of poverty. But financial mobility is at something of an all-time low in the US too as I understand it, meaning a lot of poverty is entrenched and intergenerational.
They made money on something that turned out to cause damage. It's only fair that they give back the money they've made to mitigate the damage they caused. It doesn't matter that it was considered safe back then.
This comment is some kind of spiritual gold. I would upvote twice if I could but since I can't...

The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.

They were careful
as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.

Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment..
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things.
I'm mentally ill, I am busy but will check out your YouTube video later.
It started out for mostly academic and high-end tech uses, so no.
Yes, that is definitely one goal of his, as well as in general to find out, how much Germany would yield under his pressure. So far Germany hasn't, quite contrary, the population in larger parts is in favor of delivering weapons to Ukraine as well as rearming the Bundeswehr.

He really should be considerate whether he wants to cut off Germany from gas supplies.
The loans are fairly close to an ARM in the US, and they're amortized on (typically) 25yr. They also tend to have prepayment penalties, which the US does not have for residential mortgages anymore.
Des Moines iowa. The utility that serves us has a lot of wind turbines. The other utility appearently has much less as the statewide total is less than 50%. Our utility just did a press release claiming 88%.
I agree that some more pubic accountability for chemical engineers and programmers would be great, but I hate the hostile, anti-intellectual "us good, chemists bad" vibe with which you say it. There's no need to threaten people.

There's chemists who make the world better and chemists who make the world worse, like with every other profession.
People can also visit and go up the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building for free in Shinjyuku. A neat view of the city. Walking through Meiji Jinguu is also pretty nice. I like walking from Shinjyuku, through Meiji Jingu and getting to Shibuya (~1h)

https://www.yokoso.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/tenbou/index.html
Planned economies haven't worked in the US, either. For example, before Reagan deregulated the airlines, the airline schedules, routes, and fares were set by the FAA.

The result is airliners often flew nearly empty.

Once that was deregulated, a titantic shift occurred, such as the emergence of the hub-and-spoke system. Airplanes have been packed since then.

The FAA bureaucrats proved incapable of efficiently setting routes, schedules, and fares.

In the 1970s, the Energy Department decided a gas station's gas allocation. They did this for every gas station in the country. The result was simultaneous gluts and shortages of gas. Reagan deregulated that with his very first Executive Order, and the gluts, shortages, and gas lines disappeared literally overnight.

Planned economies just don't work.
> Well, how about producing highly skilled teachers, that seems important in a technological society, where mathematical skills are in general critically important. Hence, a critical part of the PhD student's job (and the professor's) is the instruction of the undergraduate population. This article doesn't even mention the importance of that role.

That makes zero sense. If you want to make teachers and lecturers, why not create the path of a pedagogy bootcamp or a MSc if you like fancy titles and wasting time? Why would you push people through PhDs? PhDs spend 3-5 years mastering a single narrow domain area, it has absolutely zero utility wrt teaching unless we are talking about graduate-level courses that PhD students take…
Except building mild hybrids to avoid that problem might be more efficient than us building the mass production of lithium metals needed to make mass BEVs.

If we are battery constrained today, we need to consider the most efficient use of our limited battery supply. Start/stop idle technology is much cheaper than 1000lbs of lithium batteries in each vehicle.

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It looks like the most efficient solution involves like 50lbs of batteries, rather than the gross 1000+lbs of batteries that BEV fans want to use per car.
I am living in apartment block next to this river in Wrocław.

Oder was always considered dirty river here. On hot days it smells like something rotten, its absolutely defeating to cross it by bridge and I thank god my apartment’s windows are on the other side.

But people still fish in it in center of city. I can only hope they do it for sport and not for food.
I am interested in where/if this bioaccumulates, like mercury does in marine life.
How do you fight it?

I had COVID in March 2020 and I feel like ever since then I'm more tired all the time, even if I sleep enough.
It implies that some people think it's bad, but not necessarily that they're right. It's not like every science article shared here is accurate or reflects scientific consensus.

There's no heuristic shortcut for actually learning about the subject. Without doing the homework, all we can say is that it seems plausible that there might be a problem.
It's kinda slow and bloated for being a terminal emulator
> Well more of Europe's Uranium comes from Russia than Germanys gas.

Nope. Pre-Ukraine conflict, 55% of Germany's gas came from Russia [1]. In 2021, 19.69% of Europe's Uranium came from Russia [2].

And fundamentally, the relative energy density of enriched uranium means that it's much easier to shift from one source to another versus gas.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/how-reliant-is...

[2] https://euratom-supply.ec.europa.eu/activities/market-observ...
They used to put lead in everything. Just because it’s traditional doesn’t mean it’s safe.
EU endorses right to repair as a circular economy essential
AI Generated Artwork Is Flooding The Art Subreddits
So, no banana for you, eat potatoes instead?
Or copper pipes soldered with lead-free/SAC. Those are rather pricey though.
Not far enough. If people feel strongly about it, they need to be writing to manufacturers and politicians, demanding change.
That's entirely fair, but shouldn't other types of plants be expected to do the same things? My understanding is that they aren't currently (could be different in Germany).
Billionaires sounds like too high a bar. Have you done the same sums for everyone earning, say, 500k+ (well over >10x the median)?