skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hopefully the current energy crisis (in Europe) will further accelerate development in renewable energy.

Or investment into basic insulation and house upgrades. Single glazing and simple brick is still very common in the UK. Many houses could use much less energy if they didn't lose lots of it through the windows and ceilings in the first place.
Cache: https://web.archive.org/web/20220817133026/https://www.netme...
They have no interest in signing away their right to disclose the vulnerability at the behest of a private, for-profit entity, because they believe public disclosure of security vulnerabilities is crucial to improving security.
Unfortunately this is 2021 article. That was a year with virtually the lowest lithium prices, which right now are 5 fold higher putting unspeakable pressures on the entire industry. The rest of the materials are in even worst shape, just today few smelting plants are considering closing in EU due to energy prices.
>Not sure why you used Farenheit

People from Europe likely already have a vague idea of what the temp is like in northern parts of it, and 45% of HN is from US according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905
Not a fraud, but an interesting and tangentially related story that I imagine people born after 1980 may not know about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_free_flights_promotion
The only way to get around this, that has actually been proven to work so far, is to give a single body nearly unchallengeable power. Such that even if some mega-disaster happened because of a lack of quantification, nobody would ever dare punish, simultaneously, a super-majority of said body.

i.e. central committees of ruling communist parties.

Of course the downsides of such a system are familiar to many.
I'm very happy with the Tablo tuner + dvr device. You can place it near the antenna, since it has WiFi. Then, you use it from a Roku/FireTV/etc app. It's more than $30, but they do sell refurb models. And you connect your own storage device, so no markup on space.
Sorry, but that's not 'jumping at shadows' but pretty much a given.
This is great for German exports. Expect to see more Mercedes Benz in the streets of America.

It generates some inflation as imports are pegged to the dollar(somebody mentioned that it is hedged, it is just by some extent), but overall is actually good for the economic block. The EU needs to export to survive.

The EU has been fighting a possible deflation for most of the 2010s, this is actually not so negative as people might think.

If ECB would raise interest to the same rate as the FED, Euro would become too strong. Inflation is already decreasing in Germany even with that 0% interest rate.

The main inflation concern is the gas prices for this winter and this isn't fixable with monetary policy. If we have no gas, no amount of money will be able to buy it.
If I had damaged a small part of something I'd bought, I would be angry if the quote for fixing it would be nearly the price of the whole item new.

If you buy a car, hit a kurb and destroy a wheel, wouldn't you be annoyed if it was only the manufacturer that could fix it, and they would charge you 70% of the price of a full car?
> It's more like saying "a building in New York is now worth less than a business headquartered in Wichita".

Sure. There's no difference. A salable asset is a salable asset is a salable asset. They are all freely traded amongst each other. You can trade that business in Wichita to acquire the building in New York (along with some extras to reach parity in the transaction), just as you can trade your USD to acquire EUR (with some extras to reach parity in the transaction). If two assets have value parity, the trade can take place without any extras.

Comparisons of similar assets (currencies in different countries, houses in different cities) tends to be more interesting for reporting, though. If you are vacationing in a different country you're probably not going to trade your house for the foreign currency. You're typically going to trade your own locale's currency. Likewise, if you're moving to another city, you're probably going to trade your house in your origin city for one in the destination city, not your collection of comic books.

You could trade your house for foreign currency needed while on vacation and your comic book collection for a house when you move to New York City, but it is not nearly as common as trading similar assets when moving about the world. The media needs to attract a wide audience, so common behaviour is significant. Unfortunately, the beloved Comic Book Collector's Homebuying Guide Weekly didn't find the readership necessary to remain in business.
The demo song plays a decent version of Take on Me by Aha! [0]

I have not enabled macros in an xlsx for years, but this was worth opening in safe place.

It really is a functional basic sequencer. So freaking cool! But I don't yet see the option for recording audio, so maybe not a DAW. But it does export an Ableton file. So cool.

[0] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18OkY-KUU6ewZOC1u-Djn...
> puritan Christians

I’ve lost track of how many people in this thread have blamed Christians. Why? Christian’s do not have a ban on alcohol. Where is this idea coming from, or are we just spreading hate?
I normally hyphenate such expressions when they function as adjectives: "white-collar workers". Obviously I'm a bit "old-fashioned" in that respect. (I may also be old.)
16^4 is not 256. 16^2 is 256. 16^4 is 65,536.
From the operations point of view: Rust code is usually fast, safe, free from data races, easy on RAM, possible to optimize very well, compiles to native binaries (easy to deploy). Unlike C, it's easy to test and provides good abstractions, so the code generally will be less buggy.

From the point of view of a developer: when it comes to extending the database, writing an extension in Rust might be a pleasant and welcome experience. Rust interfaces with C/Python/Javascript easily and compiles to WASM, so the code written in it can be easily reused on the front end.

What's not to like?
I’m with you - I just wanted to point out that despite the lockdowns, we’ve likely ended up killing even more people.
Really? These don't require any updates to run on Windows 10, etc? If that's true, why are there still industrial and military users running Windows XP?
Invoices are indefinitely postpaid; there’s no real point at which you can really 100% declare an invoice as having “not been paid.”

That’s why NET30/90/etc exist — without an incentive to pay sooner, invoices will just sit around on the receiver’s books until it’s convenient for them to pay (e.g. to make their financials for a particular quarter look good.)

Invoices under contract law are like PayPal’s arbitration process: “always favours the buyer.” A seller would need an explicit pre-existing contract clause stating a due date for an invoice, in order for a due date declared on an invoice to have any force; by default, it doesn’t. And because invoice billing is something companies tend to offer mostly to companies they’re trying to stay on the good side of, they don’t tend to sit them down for a binding contract negotiation when doing so.
The rouble is strong because the Russian state is burning through its foreign reserves to backstop it.
Amazon Prime Video requires a paid Amazon Prime subscription. You are paying for the content. You also paid for the TV you watch it on, and you pay for the delivery service to your house. There's money every step of the way, so, having advertising on top of that? Insane.
Hmm, that's strange. I guess out of warranty? Even still, I just walked in 3 days before the 3 years ran out and got them to replace the screen that only had some standard permanent keyboard imprints on it. Though it is a shame that the likelihood of encountering this does make applecare necessary.
As a counterpoint, at least for the WFH crowd, it's far easier to afford a space that accommodates 1-2 comfortable home offices in the suburbs than it is in a walkable urban environment.

Not to mention the other conveniences rarely afforded to urban apartment dwellers...

Point being - I'm not sure I see the suburbs disappearing just because car-centric development is suboptimal.
Not sure if it is. The article has a pretty good body of real-world evidence of the supposed curve, and I’ve personally had a colleague let-go because of the information gathered through “bossware.”
Well, according to the sidebar, it was "optimized for Netscape Navigator". It seems to have hit that mark.
> the aesthetic behind it

It could also have been practical: "Radius to circumference? Easy: double many times, then take thirds a few times".
> Not sure what negative side effects that could cause though, [...]

Sneakily use the other kid's device to browse?
> No price controls can account for the fact that energy prices are up a lot globally.

Sure, but how would these energy companies fancy being under the thumb of Putin.

If they want to benefit from the spoils of free markets with consumers who haven't died from covid then they must pay their fair share to maintain them. So whether it's a cap on the prices they can make, or a tax on their profits. Doesn't really matter. The burden cannot be met only by energy consumers.
It would be an interesting case study for leaders around the world - confiscate a huge chunk of liberty and you will have a fringe protest, lose a few thousand pounds from chequebooks and you will have blood.
Even for other reasons, why should a comment automatically reopen a ticket? Maybe you just found some addtional details you want to record for future reference but which don't need any additional action right now.
As many pundits have noted, the UK needs to negotiate good trade deals before its bargaining positions weakens further. Looking at the forecast, it might already be too late for that.
nothing tin foil about, these are all serious real world issues that have been documented and this is a good roundup of them.

If the issues are tin-foil, please point us at the articles that debunk the issues described..
>Tax those who can afford it to help those that can't.

So...tax those whose income is higher than Latty's income - 1 pound? I am sure you can afford it.

A new progressive tax regime requires a lot of research, consultations, political capitals, and most importantly, time. We don't have a lot of time right now.
Why not both? They certainly aren't pricing RAM and SSD upgrades from the goodness of their hearts. And I do wonder if continually making the base models have sub-par amounts of SSD and storage for the price gets people to upgrade the entire machine earlier.

Doesn't help that you can't easily get a 1TB MBA either, that BTO, but you can pay an extra $1000 and get a 1TB 14" MBP right now.
This is basically an inverted 'trickle down economics' argument which has been shown time and again to be bunk.

Taxing rich folk more doesn't hurt poor people who don't pay those taxes.
Return it as defective. If enough people do that they'll get the message. An internet connection should not be a requirement for buying an appliance.
> I don't see any positive outcome for the Union no matter what happens in the war

If you put zero value on European unity, and the security and economic benefits that brings, of course you aren’t going to value the EU. If Texans didn’t care when New York was attacked, it would be reasonable to ask why the U.S. is a thing. For what it’s worth, France building nukes while Germany snubs them is analogous to e.g. Kentucky burning coal while California puts down solar.
The Black Box of Peter Thiel’s Beliefs
Schema modelling framework for decentralised domain-driven ownership of data
Have you heard of the plight of an even larger European country? Hint: it rhymes with Burmany.

It's bad in the UK, to imagine it's the worst in the UK vs Europe is to show your ignorance.
Explained: Steganography
Even better (for this goal, maybe not in general) would be some kind of "use it or loose it" provision. Your copyright expires after 20 years, or 5 years after the last time your creative work was reasonably accessible to the general public, whichever is greater.
Writing Ethereum Contracts the Hard Way
We have precedent for mental and emotional harm.

I'd argue that invasive advertisements including but not limited to ads that make you remember catchy jingles, billboards on highways, ads that specifically target you based on profiling ("addictive") etc. are or can be emotional and mental harm. Ever hear the phrase "stuck in my head"? This happens with commercial jingles all the time. What if I don't want it to be stuck in my head but I happen to hear it? Seems akin to assault, especially if I'm not explicitly opting in to that behavior. It seems strange only because being blasted with advertisements 24/7 is normalized.
Kuwait has the biggest tire dump in the world, now it's on fire
Does kodi / librelec have decent Netflix/Prime/HBO Max/Apple TV+ apps? I was under the impression they don't really support the big streaming apps and aren't really of use outside of watching torrented content.
The article is well-researched and sourced. Lots of blue underlined text that you can click on to learn more.

Reality is stranger than fiction.
It mentions rust 3 times on a very very long landing page, and once is in a list of languages it has bindings for. That's really not "the number of times" your comment implies.

It is worth mentioning in my opinion mostly because that you should care that it isn't written in

- C/C++, because of security concerns

- Java/Scala/<JVM family> because embedding these languages (and this is available as an embedded database) is a pain, also because of common (though not inevitable) memory bloat.

- Python/Ruby/..., because of common performance issues (DBs being performance sensitive software)

Obviously there is perfectly good software written in all those languages, and terrible software written in rust. The the odds of it being good however are substantially increased when you find out it's written in rust because for this domain, out of the common programming languages, rust really does have the best set of tradeoffs. A landing pages goal is to give you as many signals that "this software might be worthwhile" as possible, and being written in Rust (or really not being written in pretty much every other common programming language) signals that right now.
22 Examples of Major Technology Advances That Stem from Federal Research [pdf]
Neither one will be held accountable for what they ultimately do so what does it matter what they say prior to appointment?
It is indeed expected that if asset prices collapse, the Great Unresignation might become a thing and in a very ugly way.

An alternative more rosy scenario is that the Great Resignation becomes even more entrenched leading to a radical change in society such as 4-days week becoming normalised or mass support for UBI.
I like the design but it's a bit difficult to link to I find. One of my favourite web sites with a lot of well thought out content.
I think this is pretty much exactly right with the caveat that "fast implementations" is probably "the overwhelming majority of implementations". `libpthread` on GNU has been doing this since smart phones were quite the novelty. I'm sure it exists, but I'm having a hard time imagining who wrote a C++11 compliant standard library and didn't do this optimization.
Unikraft unikernel SDK releases v0.10.0 (Phoebe)
Yes? That's why I was very specific about who should pay it. This is such a common response to any taxation. It is true that any solution done wrong can make things worse, but that's not a reason not to try and solve the problem, it's a reason to do it right.

The alternative, not taxing anyone much, has been tried: it gets us here, with public services collapsing and the country becoming less and less desirable to exist in. We are so far on the left of the Laffer curve it is laughable, even if we ignore the insanity of assuming that the value of having a society that functions isn't relevant.
Had AWS payment issues at one company spending ~$20k/mo. Had some technical issues trying to catch the bill up. Contacted support, obviously concerned. It was entirely a non-event to them. Basically just said as long as you're in contact with us, we're not gonna shut anything off don't worry about it. And... they didn't.

At other companies where we've had an active and involved account rep literally just shot off one email and got back a "no worries, I put a block on the account so it can't be suspended without my approval".

I know in the past I've had personal accounts go a couple months in the red when a card expired and I wasn't staying on top of the emails.

These sorts of things are really only an issue with one specific provider.
I can’t say why. But work seems to have no “gravity”.

Like in my brother’s government job, coming into office was a given. You could have serious career repercussions if you were slacking off.

Then the lockdown happened and work moved online. Everyone was slacking off, including the managers.

Now they’ve got in-office mandates again but some of the workers just don’t come in when they don’t fee like it and just log in from home. And no one seems to care or even mind.

Work has started feeling optional, not essential.
Sounds good, but for now that store they provide only has "iPhone" in the list of supported products.

I hope I’ll be able to purchase a new battery for my wife’s M1 Air (without buying the whole top case).
Hi techn00! It's definitely taken a while for us to get to this point. We initially starting planning to build SurrealDB back in 2016, and started building on top of our initial database prototype (built in Golang) back in 2018. Over that time we've made many changes, both to the system design, and to the code, and architecture. it's just the beginning of our journey, and we've got some really stuff planned.
Would hosting your own be an option? You can get a VM in your cloud provider of choice for say 10 USD a month, then add a control panel such as hestia, ispconfig, mailcow (and many others), and then you have full control over your email. Add as many domains, email accounts as you like.
Aha! That makes your question make sense. I haven’t used or even read it and don’t know whether it’s up to date, but you may want to start at https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma..., and then, probably, click the “Kernel and Device Drivers Layer”.

That, at least, should get you an idea about the terminology.
> or, more formally, "any target becomes a measurement" (AKA Goodhart's Law).

nit: it's better stated as "any measurement becomes a target".

Reading the article, I had a pang of hope. If it's really as anti-effectual as described, perhaps just everyone needs to buy mouse jiggling dongles and the push behind the immediate trend will lose momentum.

Or really, it's just another step in the corporate-Keynesian make-busy-work economy that has gobbled up most of our productivity gains for decades.
General attitude is obvious, people just don't care as much about their jobs as they used to.

The WFH thing is an example - people have started to treat going to work as some sort of optional annoyance.
> the Russian state is burning through its foreign reserves to backstop it

Half of Russia’s reserves are sanctioned. They’re earning bumper returns on their energy exports, mainly oil, despite the ~20% discount they’re forced to offer. And they’ve been seizing exporters’ hard currency.

They say they’re down 10% (20% sanctions adjusted) from February [1]. That’s a decrease, but it’s not burning. (Obvious disclaimer: they’re probably lying.)

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/foreign-exchange-reserve...
GrapheneOS.org, use sandboxed webapps &/or profiles.
Inflation isn't causing this. Inflation is devaluing of the currency. What's causing this is increased acquisition costs due to public policy.

6K seems reasonable for a family's annual energy bill. Frankly, it seems on the lower end for such a climate. What's really absurd in the UK is property prices. You'd be able to afford all the energy you desire if you weren't paying 10x what it should cost for housing.
If you glue yourself to a road, you could be supporting an end to pedophilia, but I'll still cheer the coppers arresting you so I can go where I want.
Its both really.

In Europe you can’t do innovation, or it’s an order of magnitude more expensive.
Better buy some warm clothes. Or otherwise you can always hope for global warming to save the day ;)
Truss thinks trickle down economics of cutting taxing to business will generate growth and stimulate prospects for poor people.

Sunak thinks taxing businesses and the well off so that we can fund support to the less well off is the right approach.

Labour and Lib Dems are further left in that they want to cut off any growth in electricity prices and maybe nationalise electricity firms.
This thread is about the subject of ceremonial artillery.

> "Guns fired at the funeral of Queen Victoria in London in 1901 were heard in Scotland"
Following the right to repair movement, Apple seems to only be providing coarse-granular self-repair, meaning that a large amount of small issues need expensive fixes. For instance, display cable broken due to normal wear -> replace entire display assembly @ ~50% of MSRP on an older model. Apple themselves are often doing the same thing when repairing in-house, replacing larger components and charging a premium. And why wouldn't they? Sure, they lose a bit to independent repair shops, but they win massively by having people buy new instead.

In other words, democratizing the Apple-grade repairs is not enough, we need individual components to be replaceable, like with a car. Apple quite literally HUNT anyone selling those right now.

This new stunt is an amazingly smart way of confusing legislators for a few years. It's even confusing tech enthusiasts. But apple is very much against proper repairability (like a car), no matter who does it.
V8 Torque User Manual
Previous discussion from 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11031303
This is a non-sequitur. EU has shown plenty of effectiveness enforcing consumer-facing regulation especially in tech/internet.

Dieselgate is a case of corruption in Germany, a particularly horrific and embarrassing one sure. But the existence of corruption in a single member state is not sufficient to disregard EU-wide regulatory efforts in a broad swath of consumer-facing industries.
I wonder what the possible reason could be to not sell OEM batteries for non M processor MacBook Airs.

It is just a screwdriver and a replacement battery. And they do it themselves for a large fee, so they have the supply of batteries.
Ways that mathematical biology is helping to change the world
I give up. If you don't see any ad-hominem in the parts I quoted for your convenience, then nothing I say will change your mind. If this is the least hostility you are capable of deploying against a person, thanks for trying I guess. Go forth into the world and yell in people's faces; some might benefit from it?
> Nobody wants to work.

True since at least 1894 https://twitter.com/stephenlautens/status/155123736437847654...
It doesn't take authority to effect change. You'd be surprised at what you can accomplish once you figure out how who owns the various fragments of the solution.

OP – My offer to help still stands. I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience. Sorry doesn't fix it. I realize that. But I want to make it right.
Right because the virus caused Russia to invade more of Ukraine?
You don't think that this will be a factor? Managers will favor those they know are not dividing their time or attention over those they suspect, or those of whom they are unsure. That's the crux of my theory here.
The downfall of smartness: from promise of power to subjugation via data extraction.
The thing is that almost none of what I'm talking about are marked as stolen. They're just old devices bricked because they weren't removed from an account.