skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The baseline is not zero GW. If the grid planned for 35 to 40GW of demand for today and then sees 42GW load, the 0.125GW are over 5% of the excess load.

Serving baseline from batteries is unrealistic and will be for quite some time. Smoothing peaks or helping with unexpected high (or low!) load however is slowly becoming viable.
Is it possible to remove the 'rotary encoder'?

As someone who often carries his keyboard around in a backpack, I think this part can break very easily.
Piano has its advantages compared to others. For example, if you target a C and press the right key, you will get a C. To get this far takes continuous deliberate practice on a violin, cello, ... (However, it gets easier with larger instruments as the target zone becomes larger)
Another advantage is that 1 finger can create 1 note so it's easy to do comping for yourself and others.
It's no accident that in conservatoria everybody gets to learn the piano (even if it's not their first instrument)
A last remark: if you sing what you play on an instrument you improve your hearing and will eventually get up to a point where things are locked in so you can play everything you can sing.
Author of the article here:

I completely agree that the essence of a "program" is transforming data. In my previous article which I linked to in the main article, I specifically state "The purpose of a program is, and ought to be, something that transforms data into other forms of data".

But the essence of "programming" is different, and I stand by statement that "Programming is a tool to solve problems that you have in the domain of computers". And this article was an extension of the previous article meaning that taking it out of context has caused this confusion. But the term "programming" embeds the concept of "a program" already: programming produces a program. Programming does not start with hitting the computer with a baseball bat.
Had already reviewed that article; from the article, “This study makes it clear that octopus's arms don't behave totally independently from the centralized brain.”

Limb independence, is not the same thing as limb independent intelligence. Independently intelligence would mean when separated from the would the arm still shows signs of intelligence. Limb independence is simply central brain with limbs that are concurrently able to independently and meaningfully able to function, either in unison or separately; for example how a human drummer can use four limbs to tap out four separate beats, each with different timings, but that are in sync.
> We must get rid of all American influence in Europe, ban US tech, ban US military, get rid of the US propaganda, brands, social media.

I'm sure Russia would love this. Fortunately the rest of the world is sane enough to see this war for what it is and not fall for what the Russians want the world to think it is about.

If anything this war will lead to more US basses in the EU not less.
Thanks for your hard work on the Pinephone Martijn! I really enjoyed reading your posts about the Pinephone, Megapixels and Tow Boot.
I thought the generally accepted science was that humans can learn disgust reactions socially, so that they are more adaptable on a non-evolutionary timescale.

> The disgust system is a psychological mechanism for producing pathogen avoidant behaviour [10–12]. In previous work, we have stressed the universality of disgust, showing that there is much that is similar about disgust responses between animals and humans, between humans and over historical time [11,13]. However, there is also much that differs between individuals and between social groups. In this paper, we look at disgust and disease avoidance behaviour in human individuals and in human social groups as an adaptive system. Natural selection has produced a solution to the problem of hard-to-detect parasites by designing a system that is sensitive to local information about infection risk. This system responds to parasite pressure not just over evolutionary time, but over lifetimes, using what cues it can. This may be information about an individual's current state, its history of sickness and exposure to disgusting experiences, or what it has learnt from the local culture and from the hygiene practices of others.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013466/

I know a bunch of people who have gone off specific foods after being coincidentally sick and associating the two things.
Founder here!

Content marketing - look at common customer use cases and turn them into blog posts and YouTube videos.

Check out our blog, https://datafetcher.com/blog, and YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnED2FBe_jzntrCiB759y9w/vid..., for examples!

I've now hired 2 freelancers to produce these, so I can focus on product/ support.
> Edge also does all or almost all these things

I'm not a heavyweight user of bookmarks. But I do love vertical tabs and grouping, which can be collapsed. Moreover, they can be saved to collections (to get rid from tabs) and collection can are restored as groups. Notes can be added to collections or entries, tho I don't use it

Anyway, not that there would be some kind of search for collections - not even the URL bar detects items in there.

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/02/tab-groups-in-microsoft-ed...
well true but the advantage of the plugin is more that its not really that persistent.

For instance: when I research a new topic i sometimes have 20 open tabs out of which i really want to bookmark none, but as long as i am working on the issue i want to be able to use them still. This is where onetab shines, because it lets me remove all, lets call them virtual bookmarks, that have been gerated by one specific window. Henceforth i can use a window more like a topic of interest and am totally able to "hibernate" on research. and when i come back i just click "open all tabs" on the index and will be goot do go:

https://www.one-tab.com/

I believe my actual point was, that I have much more stuff that i like to store temporarily, instead of a "permanent bookmark" and the ability to remove bookmarks by "window" really allows me to ogranize myself better.
I Built a Ruby Compiler
https://opencollective.com/ankidroid
> literally every single bank allows you to use them for online payments too

Please tell me how the hell I should input a 19 digit debit maestro card into 16 digit credit card number slots. It even has letters.

> iDeal

Seems like it's only a Dutch thing according to the wiki.
The tweet search function has been broken for a few years (yes I reported it).
I agree with you!

I find other people's code difficult to follow due to all the abstractions that I wouldn't have inserted.

When I write Clojure code for example, the code just works. I somewhat understand the code I write.

But when I read other people's Clojure, I find it difficult to understand. I think it's my maturity in understanding Clojure, the mental model isn't there yet. Which is funny because I've been on two projects where we used Clojure.

I don't have the same problem with less metaprogramming languages such as C, Java or Python.
I assume for them, guix + a few proprietary bits is a better compromise than installing Windows
Democratic governments where the premise is "of the people by the people" I believe it is be highly undemocratic and corrupting to allow government to hold secrets from the very people that granted them power and are suppose to hold them to account via the ballot box

Democracy can only work when the citizens are informed about what their government is doing

The 1st amendment clearly states the Congress can not pass any law abridging speech. The espionage act clearly prevents whistleblowers and others from coming forward with information the government does not desire to be public which today is more often to be documents and evidence of crimes and embarrassing actions by government
How would I get emails past Google's filters with your solution?

I understand that's the main advantage over using your own mailserver.
An Unexpected Love Letter to Azure
Thanks Andy for jumping in.
Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-Based Science
That's because it is. Author is an OpenBSD fan/user, and have updated this article many times as the years pass.

Maybe time for them to write an article on OpenBSD's pros directly instead of indirectly by attacking FreeBSD.
HN has always been tolerant of this kind of fringe, it comes with the territory of its (right) libertarian bent. The fringe just didn't have as much political potential until a few years ago and has been emboldened to be more open about its views. They've also had years to test out ways to be open about their beliefs while hiding behind a guise of "civility" or "curiosity" and spreading blatant lies only to discard them and move on to the next talking point when caught.

HN is incapable of fixing this "problem" because doing so would go against its supposed neutrality and impartiality while the people in question are usually lucid enough not to resort to outright slurs or insults that would allow them to be banned for a breach of civility.

As a German I have heard many stories about the nice neighbor or uncle who just happened to actively go on to do war crimes despite otherwise being such a nice person. Civility is not a basis for productive debate, it's a shield for reprehensible views you wouldn't dare to spell out in polite company.
Author of the article here:

"Programming is not a craft." It is a craft and ought to be treated as such. Not doing so leads to the mess in software we have today. Software that is no more complicated than software from 20 years ago but runs 100x-1000x slower than its older counter part. This is the direct result of not understanding what art and craft of programming is and not treating it as such.

I highly recommend reading the previous article to this one posted (Pragmatism in Programming Proverbs) to get a better understanding of what I am expressing, since "The Essence of Programming" is a sequel to that article.
What's the purpose of the rotary encoder?

On a laptop the number pad is deadly because the screen and the keyboard are fused together and to have the touchpad / spacebar aligned with the axis of the body all the laptop is shifted to the right.

On desktops I seldomly use the number pad but as I can shift the keyboard to the right so I have no problem buying keyboards with it. Unfortunately it moves the mouse further away and makes it more uncomfortable (timewise) to use.

If I'll ever use a desktop full time again I'll buy a USB touchpad and keep it where it rests on a laptop and use the mouse for games, not every year.
A software engineer, coder and developer's responsibility is to manage technical complexity and solve technical, data or business problems.

I'm not sure if we are respected for this capability. Do people want to pay for what they do not understand why it is so hard?
> So, basically reinventing a credit card company, but on a blockchain.

I don't expect fees to be much lower for a third party human-in-the-loop escrow system. And there's nothing wrong with "re-inventing" either. I think it's critical however that you can have strong censorship resistance and opportunity for innovation. So personally I'm more interested in the unknown unknowns, rather than recreating exactly the same.
I checked out their site, their news section has this link at the moment:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-world-econom...

> Own nothing, be happy. You may have heard the phrase. It started life as a screenshot, culled from the internet by an anonymous antisemitic account on the image board 4chan. “Own nothing, be happy – The Jew World Order 2030,″ said the post, which went viral among extremists.

Well, that's reassuring.

Meanwhile, the actual content on the WEF site is monumentally boring:

> Greater action on food loss to ensure more food is preserved for human consumption

> According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, globally 13.8% of food is lost from harvest to retail. And, of course, mitigating food loss also brings cost savings and economic benefits, while reporting can help assess the efforts to minimise food loss.
Does it require Google Services for push notifications on Android? (like e.g. Pushover)
> not usable at work for me (lack of MacOS support - just 4 of my eng org's ~25 folks use Linux)

In case you're not aware, you can easily create a Guix pack[1] in the Docker image format that can be run on MacOS.

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pack....
Ask HN: Why does USA have lower sales tax than the EU VAT rate?
Any claimed "essence of programming" has as much validity as an "essence of art". It is each generation's responsibility to overturn their spiritual parents' essence and invent a new one.

Of course nothing is lost, and we are all richer for the adoption of new ways of seeing and thinking.

The experience of the '90s and the then insistence on primacy of "paradigms" should stand as a red warning to us all. Programming is nothing if not a creative endeavor, with as much scope for original thought and insight as any other. If you are not learning new "essences" on a regular basis, you are wasting your life.
Protons contain intrinsic charm quarks, a new study suggests
Thing is, Scrum doesn't work for most of the organization.

Sales use a sales funnel as their guiding organizational tool. IT operations and support do reactionary work on incoming tickets, and some rather routine and planned projects. HR is almost all routine paperpushing. Legal has to take the time it takes to answer the questions they get, because they have to answer correctly. Market analysis is timeboxed analysis - a spike in agile lingo. Hardware design is innately waterfall. Hardware production is just mindless repetitiveness as fast as you can go... and so on...

They're all different!
I was amazed that you were making $10/hr as an open source contributor, and I looked at your profile and found that you develop AnkiDroid. That's a wildly successful project, props
> at the moment firefox only searches for bookmarks, not folders

Yes, annoying. I've set Firefox to export bookmarks to .html each time it closes and then use scripts to search in that HTML for folder names. Messy, but beats manually scrolling around in a very long list of bookmark folders in the Firefox UI.
"Knowing you are a dumbass is the path to doing a bunch clever shit" - Sun Tzu, 1999
Founder here! Happy to answer any questions people have. I'm also building in public here: https://twitter.com/clokehead

A couple of people have been confused by 'on Airtable' in the title. Data Fetcher (https://datafetcher.com/) is an extension built (with code) on Airtable's marketplace in the same way you'd build on the App/ Play Store. It's not a no-code app built using Airtable.

MRR is up to $9400 since I did this interview, and should hit $10k in the next month.
The 3rd presentation (PICTURES, Crafting & Beholding) has some great slides, interesting material.
How is eating bugs to satisfy the scalability and reporducibility goals of a software developer who spends hundreds of billions lobbying governments to change what i eat because it meets both his pseudo moral and investment portfolio agendas "the upward course of human history."?
I've always wondered why architectural renderings were so austere. This explains it.
"the low level stuff is just conveniently hidden or abstracted away. "

Yes. This this is exactly what I want.

When I write an engine or framework, I will deal with low level stuff. But for basic tasks, I don't want to. But I have to, even where it would not be necessary.

"But the long textual code that makes the button work, eventually exists somewhere in there."

Also there exists even longer textual or even binary code that makes the code for the button work, etc. etc., but I still do not want to deal with it on a daily base.
When I make an button, it should be as simple as possible.

Where is it positioned. How is it styled. Where is the onclick method to handle it. Those 3 things I want to do with simple clicks in the IDE.

Everything else is only distracting.
Saudi snitching app appears to have been used against jailed Leeds student
Indeed, and dog’s vision is not very good to begin with.
"I, too, am extraordinarily humble."
The most interesting part - at least for me - is how unapologetic such conspiracies can be expressed in these "no more meat" threads, whereas other conspiracies in other threads are heavily downvoted and countered through comments. I slowly tend to believe that at least a vocal minority of the Bay Area tech bros are really creeping out on the idea that they might be loosing their beloved meat.

Just for disclosure: I eat meat myself, I love it and I want to continue to do so. But I also see the need to reduce meat consumption generally and personally, for health and ecological reasons. But billionaires wanting to forbid meat consumption to follow some new world order? Please stop the shit-chat. At least here in Germany meat production is still heavily subsidized [0].

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/tierwirtschaft-erhaelt-13-...
What the heck is happening with startup valuations?
Normal for who ? There are 11 official languages in SA, the population is very diverse, and indigenous people have different habits than city dwellers.
I actually dont mind bookmarks being hidden away but I would love an interface similar to spotlight but for opening bookmarks I never know where i've put them only that they have blah in the name!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...
Founder here. Airtable have a pretty generous free plan. In January, they changed it to let you install extensions (like Data Fetcher) on the free plan.

It does get more expension if you have lots of collaborators ($24/ month/ user), but if you can use a tool like Softr to build user-facing portals without adding all your end-users as Airtable collaborators.
The difference as I see it: computer science (sorry, "informatics") is a mathematical discipline, and hence tends to concern itself with, out of a given class, the minimal (and maximal, when existent) object(s). Programming is an engineering discipline, and hence tends to concern itself with, out of a given class, the intervals within that lattice that are optimal by some suitability function.

In principle, the suitability function would be evaluated over the entire lattice; in practice, that function, whether explicitly or implicitly, includes a strong weight for "distance from existing solutions". In either case, this split in focus between the interior and the boundaries of the solution space means that programmers are often highly concerned with specific details that do not even appear (because they have been abstracted away) in the objects with which informaticians work.

As an example: theory people love to use 1-ary trees (induction steps cost nothing in proofs, but cases are expensive) and they will use 2-ary trees (sometimes even without pressure to sympathize with the machine) but systems people and programmers use k-ary trees (where, if it's been determined by measurement and not by compatibility, k depends upon "the" bandwidth-delay product between the storage hierarchy levels for which the tree is optimized ... or at least what the bandwidth-delay product had been at the time of writing).
Also - the first geodesic domes were designed by Walther Bauersfeld over 2 decades before Fuller.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dome_Jena_UnderConst...
So I've written an example in a comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32507364 , but to try to emphasize the difference between waterfall and, um, non-waterfall is that historically (as far as I know) the scope was fixed in waterfall (and releases just got delayed more and more), whereas agile (based on "extreme programming" right?) says the opposite. Release often, in time-fixed increments, and try to always release something working that slowly but surely approximates the end goal.

This of course implies that there's an end goal (so it's not surprising that there's a rough plan with so and so many milestones already laid out), but allows for moving that goal. Of course, as I vehemently argued in that comment, doing this by force in a top-to-bottom way, spending more time chasing this constantly moving end goal in planning session, than actually working on delivering something is a folly.

(Of course there are very turbulent situations where a small company/group fights for its own survival, pivots every second week to something else, throws out half of the existing stack every quarter, etc.. etc... but in that case the problem is not with "agile". The problem is trying to do something that has clearly no market traction without sufficient money and a sane business plan.)
editing and creating bookmarks, as well as organising them into folders, as well as opening multiple bookmarks/folders simultaneously and bookmarking multiple tabs at the same time all work fine for me on Firefox on Android
You clearly don't get the concept
Some of the apps I download on a fresh mac.

==> Casks

1password

anki

bartender

bitwarden

brave-browser

calibre

cryptomator

deepl

docker

exifcleaner # Cleans images metadata

fantastical

firefox

flux

freetube # Privacy respecting youtube client

imageoptim

karabiner-elements

keka

knockknock

libreoffice

little-snitch

microsoft-teams

obsidian

oversight

postman

protonmail-bridge

protonvpn

raycast

rectangle

shottr

signal

slack

spotify

tableplus

thunderbird

tor-browser

transmission

tresorit

vlc

vscodium # Microsoft-free VSCode

I maintain my mac's configs in a dotfile repo, feel free to check it out for more configurations: https://github.com/mansour-ahmed/dotfiles
There's a point, or should be one, where you realize your hobby is actually your vocation - because you love being excellent at your craft. Loving what you're building is worth more than all the money in the world.
More like: running machine code compiled from Rust on an emulated ARM-like CPU.
‘own nothing and be happy’ sparked a misinformation campaign targetting WEF
>but European settlers managed to hunt all but a handful of Bison in early America.

Old Story..

>>New Study Says Ancient Humans Hunted Big Mammals To Extinction

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/19/604031141...
After having read the book, I can’t kill a spider anymore.
Trivial quantities at the scale of the global population today, not at the scale of local indigenous people for millenia.

If we want to know if insect consumption can be adopted, just looking at industrialized insect farms production given to city folks is going to give us a partial understanding of what's possible.

We need to know things like:

- are those parasites massively more presents in farms than in nature (it's the case for fishes) ?

- what's the probability of the parasites to infects the average consummer ? (We eat parasites all the time)

- if this probaility is high, can a population adapt over time so that this probability goes down ?

Etc
It's a "collateral" damage to lives of 40+ million people, which I suspect many people find a tad too high to treat it just as a statistic.
Airbnb is launching 'anti-party tools' to stop parties in the US and Canada
Thanks Andy for clarifying. You are moving way too fast :)
I Made a Tool to Cancel Sent Instagram Follow Requests
A simple desktop app to remove all or specific sent follow requests on Instagram. Based on Instagram private API. Works on Linux and Windows.