skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The International Fixed Calendar may start every 1st on a Sunday but the European Fixed Calendar will probably make each 1st a Monday. Agreeing on things is hard.
Hawking’s history of time actually anwsers this question with „we don’t know and don’t have any information from before big bang we can access to use in research”.
A solar charged EV will keep your house going for several days. Other storage solutions are available. With the right amount of square meters and storage, you could disconnect from the grid entirely. For most people that would be too expensive but it's perfectly feasible in large parts of the world. Especially the US. With the exception of Alaska, most of it is much further south than most of Europe. Plenty of sun hours throughout the year. Even in winter.

So, even in winter you'd be able to squeeze some kilowatt hours out of a few solar panels. Just install more of them until you have enough to charge up your batteries during the darkest part of the winter and you are good to go. Maybe add some wind to diversify.

For heating there are thermal storage solutions that use cheap materials like sand or basalt. Charge in the summer, heat in the winter. All you need is some pipes, mass, insulation and a way to dump energy in the system. There are various prototype systems operational already and they work as advertised. You might wonder about the cost of a silo of locally sourced sand. I'd say it's probably going to be dirt cheap.

EV batteries are going to be great for balancing the grid. Vehicle to grid charge connectors are already being standardized and multiple vehicles that support that are being produced already. Millions on the road in the next few years. Twh of power. A very tempting target for would be virtual power plant companies. Like Tesla.

The main challenge with wind and solar is bridging the few weeks a year where production of both may drop dramatically in the winter for more than a day. The combination of no wind, low sun and little amount of sun hours, and overcast skies is kind of deadly. In northern Europe that might last as long as a month. The rest of the year there is going to be either or both enough solar and wind.

Mostly the real challenge the rest of the time is actually what to do with the growing amounts of excess power. Plenty of answers to that but it's not a fully resolved issue. Mostly current wind operators seem to regularly disable their wind mills by weather-vaning them instead. They're not broken, they've been turned off because they are producing more than needed.

We're going to end up with way more power than what we need. People are installing solar panels on their roof that generate much more power than they need, even when aggregated over time. The current crisis is actually going to result in even more people doing that. This poses a serious challenge for energy produces still dumb enough to depend on burning fossil fuels. Most of the time they'll be selling at a loss or completely shutting down operations. And a few weeks a year they suddenly have to deliver a little bit of power. Not a great business to be in.
The disturbing thing is that Zone 4 has to pay export prices, when it would be fairer to pay pre-export prices.

It's already starting to bankrupt businesses in Zone 4, that are calling for immediate changes [0].

[0] https://www.di.se/live/efter-elprissmockan-skanska-foretag-v...
The marginal cost of production didn’t go up for renewables, but that’s not the price setting mechanism, the Austrian people demanded more electricity than renewables could provide, so the price rose until it was high enough to justify turning on the gas fired plants and where the Czechs and Germans would be willing to sell power to the Austrians…

Also the people that are “making all the money” now that power prices are super high, stood to loose money if power prices were super low, why shouldn’t they be compensated for bearing that risk?
Ooh, that's all I have to do to watch American capitalism die?
Same here. I've not had Chrome installed on my main driver for years now. Firefox is great.
Because despite what the commit message seems to imply to someone unfamiliar with the Clipboard API, navigator.clipboard.readText triggers the clipboard permission prompt. writeText is different in that there's no permission to grant to begin with, it was only gated behind user interaction, which was lifted.
>Unilever creates different brands with same exacting manufacturing standards

They absolutely don’t. Given brand of laundry detergents can be quite different between neighboring Poland and Germany, with the only visible difference being the set of languages on the label.
Facebook Footnote Systemization (FFS)
OK, you have confirmed my worries there is some well-connected mafia operating in that market.
I agree with this take. The more important issue is that there is no independent oversight on government secrecy, which is the underlying enabler of all of these "paperwork" claims.
https://archive.ph/gbPvx
Also because electricity market is bit special how it operates. Suppliers tell what price they will sell and and then buyer at what price they will buy. And the price for all transactions will be set at highest match of supply to demand.

Because demand side has no upper price limit the whole market price can raise to very high.

Ofc, this ignores cases of own production, futures and so on.
> I mean, the vast majority of vegans and vegetarians I know own zero private jets.

That is a personal anecdote.

Many prominent folks are painting themselves as green activists telling us how to live

While they take private jets everywhere
Own huge yachts
Own multiple huge houses
Giant consumers of fossil fuels, 1000x regular folks.

> That said, even if they did, and we all took the route of dismissing any change on the basis that the advocates of that change aren't perfect, as no advocates ever are, well then it seems that nothing would ever change

Basically, you are giving them a pass.
NARA handles all docs as required by law, not former presidents. This talking point has been repeated over the last few weeks and has been debunked.

> Presidential libraries are managed by NARA, and the documents therein belong to the agency, which also manages related public records requests.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-obama-million-document...
And when that screenshot was taken, it did not actually finish downloading all the adware yet. Normally at the end of a (non-business) Windows install you have around 6 adware programs, depending on the region. Disney+, multiple "games", etc.
> In others it's just the extra convenience.

I don't agree with 'just' , 'extra' in that sentence. Noone buys an electric car ( atleast in usa) without a plan to have an in home/garage charger. I wonder if there are any stats available around this, but I if i would have to guess it has to be over 90%. 'just' isn't a justified use of that word in this context. Its complete necessity to have in inhome charger atm.

closest thing i found.

> 70-80% of charging occurs at home or at a workplace parking lot.

> Charging occurs predominantly either at home or
at work and typically overnight

https://www.fuelsinstitute.org/Research/Reports/EV-Consumer-...

ridiculous suggestion that people without garages need to drive to state park to charge when people with their own homes charge at home.
Can't we just consider the heavy metal noise?
> only yandex.ru was still operational.

Maybe having Russia not being part of the same monopoly is actually a good thing for the internet.
An alternative approach which I was taught at an enrichment course at school but which became more relevant as life and career progressed - be the minute-taker.

A lesson also learnable from top civil servant (good grief, I sound like a headline writer) Sir Humphrey in "Yes, Prime Minister" (episode "Man Overboard"): "Ah, Prime Minister... It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection. Consequently we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes has not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials. And it isn't so it wasn't."
> constipation
I can understand the rider that allows the utility to recoup the expenditures it took to create the farm, however, a good portion of said farm should belong to customers after they've paid it off. Otherwise, its just another subsidy.
Come to terms with the following facts:

1. There are morons who are millionaires, and there are people who slack off through life and live in luxury.

2. There are genuses who are broke, and there are people who work their asses off through life and are still hopeless.

3. It is possible to fail upward every time you screw up.

4. It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. (a.k.a. the Captian Picard advice)

Life isn't fair--It just is. And before you beat yourself up over the time you wasted playing video games, realize there are people who did the same thing you did and are suicidally depressed, as well as there are people who did the same thing you did and are now happily married with kids and became wealthy by owing fifty dry cleaners in their state. None of it is fair. There is no justice, or reason, or determinism in the universe.

Carmack didn't become "The Great John Carmack" by cosmic fate. He didn't achieve because he studied hard or worked his ass off. He didn't get there by squeezing productivity out of 100% of his time. So much of it was luck and circumstance and fortuitous timing, and any one of us could have been him if the billions of dice rolls that happen every day everywhere came up differently. Coming to terms with this has made me a whole lot happier and more satisfied with my life's meandering trajectory.
> it might very well be worth having that sit-down with your employer where you lay out exactly what will happen to their infrastructure when you leave.

I don't think threatening your current employer about how in-disposable you are and how they'll have production outages if you leave shows you're a very good teammate/employee/team player.
or AWS copilot
I made a popular reader app for learning Japanese with unique word by word and kanji by kanji learning progress tracking functionality as you read: https://reader.manabi.io
We sometimes also rule out other ways it "could" have happened, because they're further from our current paradigm, or just harder (or maybe impossible) to verify. In this sense, it may not be a "religion", but there is an element of "faith"
That is predicated on the rational market hypothesis: that all agents have perfect information, make perfectly rational decision, there is no market friction, and goods are perfectly elastic. Of course, neither of these assumptions are true in this case.

Back in the real world, we can look at hard data. Margins for energy producers and retailers have increased massively in the latest quarter. Also, we know that markets don't react directly (and exclusively) to fundamentals. They react to panics, they react to extremely complex interactions of manual and automatic trading algorithms. Reality is far from the simple "supply and demand" that economics 101 textbooks portray.
Truth be told i've only hired juniors - this is half my problem.

I've never hired at the level i'm applying and have 0 to compare against.
I think she justifies the "attack" towards the end of the piece, where she talks about the many theories that purport to explain how the universe began. Her point is that you can always create a coherent mathematical model that "explains" this, but since it is logically impossible to check it, you're not proposing a scientific theory.
Might be a cultural thing, but I wouldn’t want to work where I have to compete with colleagues like it’s some kind of Gladiator type of gig.
Failure may not be so bad. A company that doesn't want to invest in IT when everything is working likely will invest when things break. I would say just make sure your bosses know what's coming and put it in writing. Write a succinct report, with the headline up front, that explains exactly what will happen without additional resources and what you could make happen with which additional resources. Get them to sign off on it. When failures start to happen, point to your report and explain that you're locked and loaded with your plan to fix it as soon as you have the resources.

I would be very cautious about negotiating a salary when you're in the position of knowing you can't get a better salary on the market. Fix what's wrong with your resume, get a better offer, and then negotiate (or not). Just not a good negotiating spot to be in if you know you ultimately have to accept what they say.
The tracking is also present on internal Firefox pages like the add-on one, where Mozilla intentionally block extensions like ublock.
from what i've read, physicists gladly accept what they don't know and make a point to admit that
Should I panic enough in Germany to be wise to consider moving away? Where as a European?
Fuel is an insignificant part of the cost of nuclear.
Step one: believe them as they demonstrate how little they value you.

Step two: Do your job, as described in the job offer, and stop doing extra. They place no value on that extra work.

But in the long term, don’t stay, even if they do give you a raise or exceed another offer. After all, they didn’t value you before; imagine how little they will value you when you’re a bigger cost to them.
I explicitly dont want to reduce the price of gas. Because high prices make people use less and switch to alternatives, which is what is required when you are short on something.

But siezing the windfall profits is also basic economics orthodoxy.

https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/19/nobel-pri...

> The Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has called for a windfall profits tax, arguing the idea is a “no-brainer” that has been taken off the table due to the influence of big companies
> if you don't like an API, library or interface, you can just put a wrapper on top of it

We can also simply get rid of all that bloat and just use the system calls directly.

> you are not supposed to use the raw API everywhere

Linux system calls are a stable interface and the entry points are even programming language agnostic. It's okay to use them directly.

> e.g. you if don't quickly stop doing that with the BSD sockets API, you are part of the problem

Yeah it's not a good idea on other operating systems since the system call interfaces are unstable. We have to use their C libraries on those platforms.
This already exists in India - some ready-to-eat product companies have started these types of kitchens, and even supply to restaurants. And note that this isn't a new model - fast food industry has been doing this for some time now.
But, after all, who knows, and who can say
Whence it all came, and how creation happened?
the gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?

Whence all creation had its origin,
the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
he knows — or maybe even he does not know.

-- Nasadiya Sukta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasadiya_Sukta)
Self taught painter here who produces hundreds of works yearly without showing out to the world. I am enjoying the process of making art and the idea of showing selling has been pushed out because socializing takes too much energy leaving me with less for actual art making. There is an idea of maybe one day doing it full time, idea which will require some marketing and selling some work unless I get lucky in another way and can retire from full time programming.

However, there is a social aspect. Few people saw my work and were moved by some works which I immediately gifted to them. It felt like a full circle connecting: I enjoyend the process which generated the artwork but once done I no longer needed them and accumulating works is hard if you’re poor. When given out to someone it feels like a healthy purge.
> the big bang theory has started to falter in light of huge number of evidences provided by observations from JWST

'No, JWST hasn't shown "the Big Bang didn't happen"' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqfap3v0xxw&t=791s by

Quoting Dr. Becky Smethurst from that video, about the article that kicked this off: "Everything that's said in this article is also utter and complete tosh. ... to push their own narrative."

"He claims all astrophysicists are now panicking because of all the images and data JWST is sending down ... It's actually laughable the things that are like cherry-picking to try and fit this narrative. Like, they took a quote from one of my colleagues, Allison Kirkpatrick, from a Nature article, way out of context. ... She's is absolutely furious about this ... she's now changed her Twitter name to 'Allison the Big Bang happened Kirkpatrick.'"
Ha, autocorrect…
Nitpick: the iberian market is portrayed as "Spain" when it should be "Spain + Portugal".
The term of trade is "Levelized cost of electricity", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

Coal is about 2x, gas about 1,3x and nuclear is about 3.6x the LCOE of wind, in 2020, without differentiating between onshore and offshore wind.
I don't necessarily disagree with anything you said. The original point is that when companies have to spend their money more judiciously, front end is low-hanging fruit. (especially when there are alternatives to accomplish the same business objectives)
Is this satire? Or are you literally being so literal?
One could say the same about you. Or alternately, you could provide a reference to stupid statements by chomsky. He has been speaking for more than 60 years.

People don't become stupid if their world view doesn't match yours.
You may not appreciate it but we all learn from our experiences, somehow. I am by no means a Carmack but spent more time on code than MMOs (fair share of gaming though, NGL!)

I'm certain you have a completely different level of understanding of social dynamics and culture in those spaces. If I would be building a team targeting something around metaverse, I may prefer your profile over mine (depending on team balance and profile), given that you still pass the bar otherwise.

Many people credit MMOs with their ability to do effective teamwork online both synchronously and asynchronously even under high pressure and I believe it.

I'm certain you have something to show for it, whatever it is for you. Play your strengths.
You should definitely not move countries due to a post in hackernews.
There must be better recommendations for media library software.
While the statement is obviously true, relatively speaking 700 light years is pretty close when it comes to star systems.

It's only ~20 times further away than the closest star.
Was it ever anything else? I remember an XKCD from like 15 years ago joking about how awful YouTube comments were.
Are you suggesting there are no more unknown problems in mathematics, that "the list" will not be added to?
The west was not a more violent culture than others. There was as much war everywhere. And the idea that Middle-East people were peaceful trader and European aggressive warriors is not bases on reality : Just one example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
Economists have "hard science" models but those are empirically unreliable.

Honestly the boring answer is that e.g. liquidity is the ability to change your mind instantly, which also means that any prediction can become invalid at any given moment.

If you want to increase predictability, you would have to encourage people to make decisions as soon as possible and stick with those decisions for as long as possible.
France has a shitload of nuclear capacity and low dependence on gas. Why is their energy rising so much?
Actually for Sunday the day-ahead prices look quite low: https://energy-charts.info/charts/price_spot_market/chart.ht...
For modern topics, read the Monthly Review ( https://monthlyreview.org ).

This article on the 2008 financial crisis has lots of interesting references to government data. Then you can see if you reach the same conclusions as the authors.

https://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and...
I used that notation for fun, as most of people are not aware of it, and based on comments quite a few people learned something new :)

And it is a regular ip address, just written differently :)
Wow, that's interesting. In Dutch you would definitely use an article in that sentence:

ze heeft op/aan het conservatorium gestudeerd - she studied at (the) conservatory

hij heeft op/aan het hbo/de universiteit gestudeerd - he studied at (the) college/university
The recently released affidavit is the source for this. He was told to return the docs, claimed he returned them all, and in fact when the search was conducted it was found that he didn’t.

Trump was given 18 months to return them with multiple requests, attested through a lawyer in an affidavit that he did, and yet did not. Then when caught he has made claims that they were his documents and that’s why they were not returned. So far he hasn’t made any defense that is was an accident or an oversight. This shows the possession of the docs was willful, and intentionally not returning them was obstruction.
We are paying users with a growing annual account, this is not about free.

We want 1 product for chat, enjoy that Slack solved much of community side of chat (cross-company, ...), and Slack's UX is slightly better than Discord's + significantly better than Team's. Likewise, there is gravity keeping us there: text history + customer accounts.

My point is Slack's lead is tenuous, and they are steadily eroding their primary moat for us -- community-minded features. Our community account already has limited search and customization, and this update obliterates that further. If/when we move our free community channel, we will move our paid account too.
If your regular commute is below 200-300 miles (I hope so!) it doesn't even affect your daily use at all.

I'm not saying it's great, but just want to highlight that EV batteries don't fail as quickly and catastrophically as you may expect from batteries in consumer electronics.

EVs aren't cheap yet, but overall cost of ownership can make sense. Other components of EV drive train are usually more reliable (fewer moving parts, not exposed to outside elements as much), and cost of fuel can be much cheaper. And switch to EVs is also motivated by factors that have indirect costs, like air quality and energy independence.
Recording has been built into Gnome for quite some time (ctrl+alt+shift+r), but with Gnome 40 it's got a nice UI and pops up with the screenshot tool (PrtSc). Though it doesn't do audio either.
surely you’re human though, the ukrainian interest is to not be murdered by invaders…