skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also Germany: repoens, I believe approx. 8 GW, coal plants.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliecoleman/2022/07/08/germany...

I'm sorry, but this is hearfelt: the German greens are climate criminals. And they were fully warned of exactly this situation decades ago, so no, they have zero "circumstances forced our hand" defence.

You knew, and you chose to burn coal anyway.
CDS Volumes now $6.6Trn higher than last year
That 1% would really matter a lot so that’s an argument in favor.

All the smaller things add up too.

Nuclear is back on the table in Germany afaik. Not sure if they really will backtrack, but even if they mess up the nuclear thing, this signage decision is 100% a good thing.
> This means out-of-home advertising displays at bus stops, train stations and in underpasses could still be operated according to invidis managing director Florian Rotberg. “Most contracts explicitly require outdoor advertising companies to operate backlit city light posters and screens well into the night to provide passengers with more security in the waiting area. Autumn will show whether and how the exemptions will be used,” he said.

Most contracts require lighting because otherwise people can't be spammed with ads without their consent at night and they're pretending it's for public safety. I hope whoever decides on this comes down hard on them for having the audacity to pretend lighting from ads is anywhere close to helping public safety. They can get bent about contracts, contracts do not supersede the law.
I wonder if the ubiquitousness of people carrying flashlights in the form of smartphones could be leveraged into doing away with street lights as an expected practice. I don't think I would actually support that, but I think that kind of shift in culture is a possibility right now.
I don't care, any time those billboards aren't flooding their immediate area with advertising and light the better.
10 half lives is only 1000x less.

I wouldn't drink a pint of dog shit. But I also wouldn't eat a grain of rice of dog shit.

A grain of rice size is less than 1000'th of the pint.
>"that Löwensenf is the same as Dijon mustard"

Well no.

It's a lot sweeter to start with, and not as strong as 'Amora Fine & Forte'.

Typical jam-tasting german senf.
Tell that to sanctioned entities like Russia. If they owned actual paper bills they could still use their money.
> So what is the point in artificially creating a test situation where the student is isolated from resources she'll have at her disposal in real life?

I can envision many scenarios where a person needs to be quick on their feet and does not have time to look things up. Drivers, pilots, doctors, etc. Certification provides a lot of value to society.

The other point of testing is to separate wheat from chaff. To see if someone is disciplined enough to learn the material or see a task through. There are issues of going beyond the ideal amount of testing here, but not totally useless in my opinion.
You have to trust a third party company either way, so I don't think you're closer by having the domain, from a trust / vulnerability standpoint. In fact I think that email is best hosted by specialists with experience - and I'm saying this after hosting email for quite some time.
Sauce. Goose. Gander.

Stuff like this rips the mask off the theocracy that exists in peoples minds or in reality. Sadly, while religious philosophy has admirable aspects it is used for staggering amounts of bigotry. Particularly when it’s adherents ignore it’s tenets that are inconvenient.
"Black people" isn't a genetic category either. So maybe you should follow these oh-so Orwellian ethics guidelines and define what you mean by that and note whether it was a class that was self assigned by the group or by yourself or third parties and how that assignment was made.
>what is the safest registrar?

Nominet (.uk)

Whilst not entirely without controversy[1], they do allow any man or his dog to become a member[2], you only need to have "an interest in the operation of the .UK domain".

Nominet membership gives you the ability to maintain your names directly and bypass the middlemen.

The alternative (as others have already pointed out) is to write out a (very big) cheque to ICANN and setup your own TLD where you are the registrar.

[1]https://publicbenefit.uk/
[2]https://www.nominet.uk/corporate-governance/members/
At the event they addressed this, and said they would work with anyone, and that the real issue is making sure that the data is correctly identified as messages and not generic data. This apparently would require back-end work between T-Mobile and the messaging app to identify the data in some way.
> The article addresses health care. Did you have a rebuttal to its specific points?

Does it? All it says is how awesome and universal health care is in the US without going to any details. How about this for rebuttal:

- Insurance is tied to your job; usually in EU it's a % of your income.
- Even with insurance, a medical emergency in the US can often be a financial catastrophe, specially if you have the wrong coverage;
- Chronic disease is a massive burden in the US and insurances only pay a small part of it.

So yeah, it's getting better, but is it acceptable for those who don't earn 150k a year?
You and he are using "science" for different things. He is talking about a methodology, and you are talking about social institutions. It's like the difference between "prayer" and "the Church". The methodology of prayer is independent of what social agenda the Church may pursue.
I know Valueflows from the Bonfire [0] implementation for the Fediverse. Recently learned about this other impl.

[0] https://bonfirenetworks.org
> it was waaay to strong for me.

If you're using similar quantities as you would use for American/hot-dog mustard, you're just using too much of it. Use a small amount, spread thinly.
Overleaf is great, I use a self hosted instance with my company. Only downside to self hosting is that the git integration does not work
1. A lot of the core functions i.e. search seem to have better performance.

2. It opens quicker, whereas 1P 7 seemed to sometimes take several seconds to open. By comparison, 1P 8 is always instant, and that's important if you're trying to login to a website via the browser plugin and your Vault is locked.

3. It looks more integrated with Windows 11, as the UX and iconography matches. Also the bigger scale on text and clickable areas makes it nicer to use on a touchpad. I also prefer how the login screen covers the whole screen now. It wasn't always easy to see which monitor popped up the prompt in 1P 7 if you have many.

Some minor criticism:

It's less "nice" to customize your Login items in 1P 8. The label editor and UX to add extra items to Logins is not as good as in 1P 7, but I can't quite put my finger on it. I think it is because the editable parts don't clearly turn into text fields when you press them.
French people have clear directions on how to peruse US-produced wines:

- with good years, they're good enough to use as window cleaners.

- with bad years, don't bother, it'll probably etch the panes.
Do you know what we call countries where you need to be really rich to live in peace, safety and health? Developing countries...
Dude 1% being wasted on annoying your citizenry and creating light pollution is a huge deal. How is that micromanaging?
A "price signal" is artificial when the market is manipulated to set the price artificially as is done in Sweden where electricity prices in the south are tied to the European market while those in the north are not. This leads to extreme differences in price based exclusively on where you happen to live. In some cases people will pay 20-30 times more for the same electricity than their neighbours who happen to just live on the other side of the region.
Should I call this type of manipulation "left-wing" to counter your "right-wing" accusations? State-controlled markets are after all a "left-wing" phenomenon. But no, I won´t since I deem this type of polarised discussion counterproductive.
On the subject of building nuclear power plants it is clear to everyone and his dog that the reason why building new plants is expensive and takes a long time lies in the policies put in place by the same people who claim that building nuclear power plants is too expensive and takes too much time. The "wind farm" argument is just as hollow since it is not the lack of "wind farms" which has driven up the price of electricity but the fact that those same people closed down 6 fully operational nuclear plants, thereby creating an electricity shortage in the south of the country which has led to an enormous increase in the use of fossil fuel-powered plants - the same plants they accuse of causing "climate change". Top load plants which used to only be needed in extreme circumstances - severe cold snaps in the middle of winter - are now needed on a regular basis to keep the net frequency from sagging below 48.5 Hz.
Here in Germany, there was recently a leak in the news. It said that a single LED sign consumes as much energy as 10 single households[0]. Of course, the companies don't want to give any official information. That is pretty high for no real value for society in my opinion...

[0] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie/led-reklame...
Wind, solar and pumped storage gets you a long way, to be fair. We definitely need some nuclear, but it's far too expensive to rely on.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00797F...
This is the actual law, which for some reason Washington post and other MSM refuse to link to. It looks like the law actually does require to display "in god we trust" (if given such a sign), but it would be nice for MSM to link to the original source.
Ring signatures -based mixers for voting seems like a bad idea... how do you solve vote selling?
I doubt that using a foreign language is in the spirit of the law. Does anyone know a case where trolling was effective in this manner?
I had to hastily evaluate a bunch of online proctoring systems during lockdown. They went from dismal(1) to borderline scammy(2). I advised against using any, and got a lot of pushback from the department heads. Someone in the regional government must have seen the same as me, and after a couple weeks the regional education authorities had banned the damn things.

(1) one of them systematically failed to do face recognition on females with particular haircut styles

(2) Another claimed to be "AI powered" when it was pretty obvious after a couple meetings that they were just handing out the proctoring to real people quickly poring after the fact over a slideshow of the whole thing.
I was flabbergasted that even NS (Dutch railway) tries this shit. I subscribed to one of their products through a simple webform, and to cancel I had to contact their webcare people in some kind of webchat. No thanks.
Doesn’t Switzerland import all of their oil and gas? Maybe they don’t need as much cause there’s less heavy industry.
Really, they were looking for "looking for decentralized enabling technologies"? Why?

I'm suspicious.

What problem were they trying to solve?
The normalisation of poverty in Europe would much funnier so watch if I didn't live here.
I'm quite sure brand advertisers will not concur.
Personally i just use doom emacs
Usually at this point I believe the correct procedure is that someone shouts “I’m putting the whole system on trial” and then everyone is forced to acquiesce.
Solves the transmission of negative interest rates to all cash holders, not necessarily only to deposits. IF they ever chose to do so.
127.0.0.53 is the proxy dns server run by systemd.

Search specifies one or more domains, for instance ‘domain1.com’, and then if a program tries to resolve ‘host1’ if that doesn’t work it’ll also try ‘host1.domain1.com’.

That way you can give your router for instance the host name router.domain1.com and it’ll work if you type ‘ping router’.
This is where version pinning comes in. Most base images use specific versions of packages.
It isn't the ads, really: They are realistically speaking of lighting in bus stops, underpasses, and train stations.

Lighting in those areas, which tend to be dark or populated, helps folks feel safer. Taking away the ads makes these places darker, and I can understand not suddenly having nervous folks not take the bus or train.

Though, I agree: They can get bent about the contracts. The proper response is to install proper lighting without the ads. Hopefully this is in the works.
Fly support Django with their launch command. Should just be a case of downloading their CLI, logging in, running `fly launch`. I haven't done it myself with Django though. https://fly.io/docs/speedrun/#deploy-your-app-in-three-steps
"We are going to have a severe lack of energy, so shutting down nuclear power plants is likely the least of our issues"?

I'm afraid I don't follow the logic here.
> How much electricity can plausibly be saved this way?

About third of what was used before.

> And how does that compare to the energy required to reprogram and possibly renew all these signs?

That's cost of doing business and a one-time thing.
San Francisco is not at all representative of the US in general.
Espanso Cross-Platform Text Expander
Really? You think protecting wildlife is more important than human life? Also, less light might increase the frequency of road kills.
Why stop there, just ban it inside too.
How on earth do you figure her peerage is relevant?
> Nuclear is back on the table in Germany afaik.

Not really, no. Just some irrelevant talk, not even the power companies want to keep those things running.
A lot.

A coder peddling the entire time required to adjust the timing would be lucky to power a single billboard for a night.
Glossary of Iranian Mythical Beasts
True - and there's certainly a line to be drawn between core knowledge and wider knowledge. A programmer, looking up what an if-statement is each time won't do well, regardless of the resources at their disposal.

But I'd argue that realistic test conditions correct for this automatically.

If your test is "write a program that does X within two hours" the programmer lacking core knowledge will fail.

If your test is "recite 20 programming paradigms from memory" you will have to check for "cheating"
> Personally I think things should be discoverable with an appropriate warrant, for example.

That sounds like the opinion of someone who never experienced living under an authoritarian government.
Buying USD stablecoins.
Any college degree. I started working when I was 14, finished high school when I was 16 and went straight into tech instead of uni.

Supposedly there's an exception where they evaluate experience vs credentials, but in my experience it hasn't been true, or it's used as an excuse not to hire.
Oh I see, I thought it was the actual font rendering you disliked, I hadn't considered the smoothing being an issue! Between Apple's high DPI displays and my own eyesight I don't notice it (although I do remember when I was younger hating subpixel anti-aliasing when it was still in use, because of the rainbow around characters)

For anyone who's interested, in macOS you can disable this font smoothing with:

defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
One thing many don't seem to care (or think) about is how your neighbors are doing.

Sure health insurance is not cheap, however I also know that whoever feels I'll in this country is getting the help they need without money every standing in the way.

If I see a person feeling bad on the streets, homeless or not, I just call an ambulance and he is taken care of. There are no implications, human health, whoever's health, is still the highest good.

One reason Switzerland is so much safer than the US even thought we have nearly as much guns in private hands is because people get help when they need it.
What gcc/clang does?
Exactly, in Spain the mandate for shops to turn off lights from 10pm started August 10th
> About third of what was used before.

How much is that as a fraction of the total electricity consumption?
The way I get around this is to start an IPython interpreter, and run .py files with `run -i file1.py`. This loads things into memory in the interpreter, and then I can run file2.py with the actual analysis, and iterate with file2.py until I'm happy. In the end, you can keep the files separate, or combine them into 1 file that will run top to bottom your whole analysis. As long as you keep the IPython session open everything remains in memory, just like in a notebook. The autoreload magic also works if you set it to the correct option, so if you are working on a library/package it will automatically reload them if necessary.
True yet probably irrelevant, because self driving and humans are very likely to have different failure modes. It's quite possible to have an overall safer AI driver, but its fewer accidents to be ones that humans don't tend to do. It's still safer overall, and thus desirable.

And a separate objection: I wouldn't be surprised if most accidents by humans were actually easily avoidable by an inexperienced 16 year old - if he was paying attention. If you watch a filmed accident you definitely pay attention, and it's easy to see what should have been done. It's not particularly relevant on how people actually drive day to day.
Maybe I misread your calculation but to me it seems you assigned to every "patient" (excuse the word) dedicated 24x7 on call and basically all that supporting stack, thus the 250k/person/year - not even the nursing homes for wealthy offer this kind of service. And even the start of the 131k is actually three persons manning the phone... so to me the calculations seem totally off, difficult to build an argument on bad math. Not at least, everywhere in the world there are functioning nursing homes so the concept can obviously work, so I really don't get your point.
A domain is an address. If you have a home address you are a citizen, if not you are homeless. That's is.

However there are few issues we have anyway even being Netizens:

- some DNS hierarchies are NOT domestic to our country so in case of political issues between countries or in case of legal issues we do not have much domestic legal protection, witch in Democracy is the protection of our people between us;

- there are too many intermediaries who only resell, they are a danger. Registars MUST BE national and international public bodies ONLY, not private companies and domains must be NOT allowed for sale, people can register them, de-register them but no commerce on them;

- a minor, but no so minor, email issue, is that with modern anti-spam or to be more precise modern bully-sheriff companies hosting their own mailserver is hard. It works of course, but some giants often simply drop your mails.

Personally while I'm a fierce against PRIVATELY controlled digital IDs I favor public ones, not mandatory of course, BUT if you are a Citizen than choose a domain name, it will be on your ID card who happen to be a smart-card PCSC/Java/something OPEN in both middlewire and hw design itself. That's yours and you can use from your homeserver as you wish. Then you are perfectly free to use anything else not much tied to your identity.
offtopic, does anyone know if there are plans to somehow not use pgbouncer like may be in postgres 15?
> I'm sorry, but this is hearfelt: the German greens are climate criminals. And they were fully warned of exactly this situation decades ago, so no, they have zero "circumstances forced our hand" defence.

The Greens have not been in government for the last sixteen years. It was the conservative governments under Merkel and particularly the environment and later economy minister Altmaier who openly celebrated reducing buildout of solar power [1].

As for nuclear power: any talk about lengthening their operation is utter madness. There are no fuel rods and the reactors haven't had their security checkups because they were scheduled to be shut down - and just look at France just how catastrophic nuclear power actually is (ETA: I substantially detailed that in a daughter comment, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605337).

The government has little other choice than to keep the coal burners running at this point, as the Merkel governments have done everything in their power to hinder renewable energy buildout, and the Bavarian CSU has sabotaged cross-country high voltage power transmission lines.

[1] https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Einbruch-bei-der-Photovoltaik-ar...
What do you consider „effective“? This will not change the law. It‘s about raising attention to a stupid law and that happens all of the time. Pastafaris, Birds aren’t real, … are doing the same thing. They confront stupid ideas by exposing them. If it makes a few people think about the issue, if it makes some aware of the problem, then it can be considered effective.
> The operator claimed they don't run them in the dark

I think the following progression of events leads to many of those blindingly bright digital signs at night:

Original sign conforms with regulations and comes with a light sensor to dynamically adjust brightness. It's bright during the day, dim during the night.

After a few months the light sensors gets gunked up with dirt. Display now thinks its night all the time. It's way too dim to see in daylight.

People running the display don't like that you can't read their ads during the day. They realize that cleaning the sensor every X days will be expensive, so they get someone to defeat the light sensor altogether and get the display to run at full brightness all the time.

Result is a sign that's still making money during those valuable rush-hour traffic times, at the cost of beaming deathrays into driver's eyeballs at night.
I think one major piece is consistently missed in those articles. Yes, the chances of him hitting 2900 do not depend only on his performance against other players, but from their elo as well. If the following 25 players in the world where all 2800+ Carlsen would already be 2900+.

Thus, Carlsen's best chances largely depend on elo inflation to widen the elo distribution itself.

One example of this: Louis de Bourdonnais which was #1 in the world in the 1800s skyrocketed his elo rating from 2600 to 2650 mostly as a result of the following 10 players moving their average elo from 2350 to 2450.

His winrate against them never changed. And what is required for 2350 players to go higher? That the players below they skill also raise their elos giving the top 10 more points when beating them. The more players will be fide rated the more Carslen's chances will increase but without a sufficient supply of 2700s, those at 2750 won't raise in elo, etc, etc
> The chilli plant evolved in such a way that humans don't like chilli pepper.

The hottest chilli cultivars were deliberately bread because humans like them.
Dont put words in my mouth, spirited away is more a horror flick than anything resembling a masterpiece
I disagree. from ground level it could be 15-20% higher, which would make a real difference. facing outwards also means not having to transmit and receive through your leg or butt
It does compound though, 20 half-lives is 1 million times less, and 30 is a billion.
The Re-Enchantment of the World
> but it would be nice for MSM to link to the original source.

They won't link it since they are always starving for your clicks and outrage first before anything else.
No, but you can power something like 70% of a country with wind power alone. Add in some solar and a few hours worth of storage and you can go 90+%. Add a few days of storage and you reach two nines. A few weeks for more nines.
If you build enough renewables, then there comes a point when at times you're generating more than is needed immediately. That surplus electricity can be used to make hydrogen gas by electrolysing water. The gas can be stored indefinitely and burned to generate electricity when needed. So with enough renewables, no fossil fuels are needed.
It's just useless light pollution.
Turn them off for good.