skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Came here to say something similar and I was actually in a similar situation to OP. Was a 23 year old who felt I had wasted too much of my life already - had watched some sitcoms twice through already and while others had been programming for the last 10 years, I had been playing guitar.

So what did I do? I swore off everything that wasn’t going to be “productive,” sold my guitars, and tried to spend every minute of every day coding or reading. My girlfriend at the time would get mad at my book light cause it bothered her while she was trying to sleep but I had to keep reading “Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective.” Years later we would be breaking up and on the day she was moving out she wanted to talk but I had to go to work cause I was lead on a big feature that I thought would lead to a promotion that never happened.

Flash forward years later, I decide to pick up the guitar again during the pandemic. The only thing I regret now is having ever put it down. I’m frustrated at everything I have to relearn because I knew I could play something before, I’m frustrated at the time I lost not playing. Most importantly though, I’m still frustrated at myself for not letting myself enjoy playing guitar; sometimes I still feel guilty that I’m wasting time similar to how I felt at 23. Wasting time can be a bad feeling, but teaching yourself to abhor wasting time is equally bad and it robs you of the joy from anything that isn’t “productive” or productivity adjacent.

Try not to focus on regret and don’t over analyze things too much trying to identify how you could have made things play out differently. The past is gone - which is a good thing. I had spent some time thinking how my job at the time affected that relationship but the truth of the matter is it probably would have ended anyway. I learned a lot about myself through it, and have a much better grasp on my current relationship and a healthier/more stable work life balance because of it.

The other thing about Carmack or any other famous programmer is it doesn’t matter when they started programming. We all kind of plateau somewhere in terms of skill. Had Carmack been born 15 years earlier and started programming 15 years later he’d probably still be equally successful in some area of software development. He didn’t create Doom solely because he started programming in the womb with the first spill proof keyboard. There’s tons of other people who started programming that early and didn’t get anywhere with it. Don’t compare your journey and success with anyone else’s because there’s likely a lot of other factors in there that would be impossible to account for. Focus on enjoying your time on earth, work hard when you need to and make time for relaxation and joy as much as you can as well.
Looks like somebody beat them to the punch.
Most of our waking life is spent dwelling in the past or the future. It’s only through practice that it can be changed. I’ve practiced and can’t say I’m an expert but it helps.

Another way of living in the moment but without needing practice is by doing something that is engrossing, that thing we can “flow”.
Like the French pronunciation of "Bucket."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro
In Spain (and according to a sister comment, in Austria too, so maybe it's EU-wide) the price of every MWh is set by the last MWh that enters the market (apparently it works like an auction). The last to be sold is the most expensive, thus renewables are being priced like combined due to this rule. In fact there was some scandal in Spain I seem to remember because apparently energy companies were doing the expected according to the incentives set, which is manipulating production so that combined is always used, increasing profit by doing nothing.
I was browsing Carmack's twitter feed, and stumbled on some posts in there from his ex-wife of 20 odd years, saying he was an absentee dad and husband. Sort of opened my eyes a bit. He also famously took his work computer on his honeymoon. Yes, Carmack is a programming legend, and I respect him greatly (he is one of my personal coding heroes), but I think what we may see as outsiders doesn't always tell the whole story.

You only have one life to live. Do the things that make you happy. I think society pressures us to do well in career and this can put an enormous mental toll on us. And guess what happens when you get there? Zuckerberg just talked about how waking up each day felt like getting punched in the stomach. Yeah, you're not going to be any happier, as long as you are trying to conform to society/external expectations.

You gotta find what makes you happy. Maybe that's playing WoW 10 hours a day. As long as you can support yourself, maybe that's okay.
But in this case "... Prices aren't determined by costs and never have been. Prices are only determined by supply and demand. ..." is patently incorrect!

OFGEM (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) [0] imposes retail price caps based on what it considers 'fair' for the retailers, and this came about specifically because retailers were charging standard-variable-rate and pay-by-meter customers excessively as well as having far too many 'offers' that confused customers.

There's nothing to stop the government amending the legislation with a 1-clause Bill that gives OFGEM the power to impose a cap on the energy producers.

I agree about building wind farms. I'm on a farm where a neighbour wanted to install a single turbine for local generation but it was refused - due to NIMBYs in villages 2 miles away complained it would "spoil their view" despite the fact most of them are out at work all day and probably only see that view for 2 minutes a day, if that!

[0] https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/about-us/our-role-and-responsibilit...
I would add additional scales. You can learn a lot in 2 weeks, and so much in just 1 year, and an incredible amount in 5 years.

The funny thing is that I personally tend to overestimate what I can do in one day, but after 2 weeks, you can accomplish a lot.
>Intel Raptor Lake boosts performance, but the [power] requirements are staggering

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-raptor-lake-ma...

What you can't change is the reality of Intel's actions.
Exactly.
In most HCOL states, the land under the house is anywhere from 50% to the majority of the cost.
So if you somehow got the cost of build down say, 50% (unlikely given materials costs too), then your overall cost would still only go down 25% or less.

In most localities, you can get an idea of how the government values your land vs your home from your property tax statement (improved vs unimproved).
Alwaysdata has a free plan:

https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/
I feel like the way we spend time is always a tradeoff of one thing or another. Use those regrets to try to prioritize your time moving forward. You're only human so it's okay if you screw up sometimes. Keep your eye on where you're trying to go and do your best.
In this case wa modifies a particle to make it sound more feminine. It's not a particle by itself.

For example "yo" might become "wayo".

I'm not sure I know about "wa" being used in that way by itself (maybe in some cases you can completely replace the particle with "wa" when it's obvious) but I'm not a native speaker (this is information I'm relaying from by partner/teacher)
The supreme court applies the law.

I don't understand where this idea has come from that the court ought to be the provider of novel 'fair' legislation (as opposed to the mean legislation proposed by Congress) or the decider of punishments.

This law is set by elected members of Congress. It is their duty to provide proper punishments for it or to scrap it altogether.

It is up to the president to show mercy when someone faces a trial like this through his power of clemency.

Contrary to this article placing the blame solely with the judiciary, a case like this starts with the federal government starting a case. They don't have to.

The executive is the real one punishing us expats.

Stop making the court out to be some dictator.
A long time ago I developed a way to append that text you’re talking about as an in house feature so we didn’t have to use that service whose name is escaping me right now. Probably spent two weeks making it cross browser. It was fairly simple at the end of the day and didn’t require any exploits to the clipboard api, just some really good assumptions to and timing it just right to flip some selection. The hard part was restoring the users original selection without making it obvious. I still hate that I did this.
You do you, but it has little to do with her? Specifically, Greta Thunberg had nothing to do with invading Ukraine or, if we want to ignore the most obvious cause, the decision to phase out nuclear power.
We have to stop normalising the absurd
Agreed. One thing grammar books also ignore is that spoken Japanese skips lots of particles: nobody ever says を in casual speech, and が, は, に are often disposable. Okaasan mise itte pan katta, not *okaasan GA mise NI itte pan WO katta".
> Because US citizens, such as Brittney Griner, expect the US govt to help them when something goes wrong when they are working overseas.

Other countries don't seem to have a problem extending consular assistance to their overseas citizens.
All energy problem reduce to problems of energy transportation. We have a huge fusion reactor in the sky. The challenge is capture and transit. The problem is not incidental; it's fundamental.
The second best time to plant a tree is today, so adjust how you spend your time. Think of it like a life experiment. Commit to starting a new habit. If it sticks and you’re happier, do it again until the low hanging fruit (of a more meaningful life for you) is picked.
> Hackernews armchair linguists seem to think an ideal language for world communication can somehow be engineered from some small set of primitives, like Scheme -- resulting in suggestions like that we all start speaking Toki Pona -- but the reality is that human communication is messy and the most practical languages tend to be messy ones.

"So stop ragging on C++, you meanies!"?
Two of the things I repeat to my kids:
You cannot change your past but can change your future.
The success of others is not your failure.
"The issue is that physicists can’t accept the scientifically honest answer: We don’t know, and leave it at that."

This sentence jumped out for me. Is there some kind of crusade going on that I have missed the beginning of? This feels like a strange sentence in this piece and feels like a (misguided) attack.
To add to the agreement chain: completely concur that models > printed projections of these. Dropping to a paper based form will always result in information loss. The challenge is paper / pdf's are ubiquitous. Tools in the CAD space are built around vendor lock-in with non-trivial license costs. As a result there still needs to be a way to distribute that detail to all the people involved in delivery.
Electricity is very inelastic, which means that a tiny change in supply can massively affect the price. Only when it gets super expensive do people to start cutting down on their consumption, and supply and demand come into balance.
I came here when I was 8 years old, and to me the "real" Sweden is everything from south to north, not just some single isolated part. I don't find the notion offensive, but it's contusive and somewhat foreign.

It's great that your small urban household can take the hit. It's becoming a real problem for single parents in the south.
> Ethnic cleansing? Never mind that Russians and Ukrainians have the same ethnicity, what is this supposed to mean?

They really don't. Even ignoring the fact that it's idiotic to talk about a single Russian ethnicity given the Russian Federation is comprised of multiple distinct ethnic and cultural heritages, Ukraine has a distinct and independent ethnicity.

https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/mobile-people-and-diverse-soc...

Just because they look alike to you and you can't tell apart which language is which, that does not mean they are not separate and distinct ethnicities. Hell, don't take my word for it. Just listen to what Russia's regime has to say about Ukraine and what they perceive their untermensch role towards Russia should be to understand how silly it is to not talk about ethnic cleansing.
I’m not sure what you are trying to say. The reasons for the energy prices have nothing to do with any European bureaucracy. If anything more investments into green energy would have put us into a better position.
Sabine H. That’s her horse.
You want what you want today because of the experiences you have lived. If you’d lived a different life, you’d want different things and the “you” asking this question on HN wouldn’t exist. Thankfully you do exist, so keep taking in new experiences, adjusting your goals & moving forward.
To add with more examples, the vast majority of the actors in the recent acclaimed television series Better Call Saul were not too well known before the show.

Most of them are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s [0]. For many of them, it's only now that they're reaching the peak of their professional careers. These people weren't major figures at the outset, unlike other actors.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=better+call+saul+cast+age&hl...
Why (and How) I Write Code with Pencil and Paper
Assuming that these statements are entirely true (sibling comments suggest otherwise), then "somebody over there" had the foresight or luck to install generating capacity ahead of tremendous demand.

If they hadn't done so, someone else might be getting even-more rich (per kWhr) by charging higher prices across an even wider geography.
Vonnegut: ”We are on Earth to fart around, don’t let anybody tell you different”
Annoyingly the GitHub comment box doesn't. Incredibly frustrating to copy someones name from the GitHub webpage and paste it and it pastes as a markdown link which doesn't trigger a mention.
You don't, it's one of the issues I have, trying really hard to scope the project. I basically try to replicate the features the likes of Greenhouse are selling, obviously on a simpler scale.
Look how many comments here are top level with no replies! I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like it in many years of HN-ing.

What does it mean? I suppose people are immediately identifying with OP and posting their own personal reflections. There's a lot of agreement among the posts, and many are expressly or implicitly Stoic.
It's because not all electricity costs the same to produce, but the price is the same, determined by the most expensive producer. There is a shortage of electricity because France is generating a lot less than normal and this is made up by other countries. I would guess the UK is impacted by higher demand as well, thus the more expensive producers are delivering jacking up the prices for everyone.
I knew exactly what I’d be seeing. That show was outstanding! It gets funnier the older I get.
Electricity map gives a more detailed view on the situation, including imports/exports:

https://electricitymaps.com/

Poland has an interesting story behind the price: the government passed legislation which switched from net-metering to net-billing with the start of April, so people rushed to build as many home PV installations as possible to get grandfathered into the previous scheme.

A whopping 4-5GW estimated was added to the grid in this period, almost doubling the installed capacity, creating a unique mix of coal and solar in the summer.

Now during the day it's what's keeping prices below €250/MWh because even with net-metering the price of this electricity is closer to €175/MWh.

In 2019 that would have been horribly expensive, but it's safe to say those times are gone for good.
I've spent a lifetime coding from a very early age. I don't dwell on it, but sometimes I think back and regard a lot of that coding as pointless. I wrote a lot of code for startups (successful and failed) that no longer exist.
The problem is getting the calculator registered for exams

This is a viable issue that forces a choice on the manufacturers, which you aren't addressing. Of course it would be ideal if they had a second version (perhaps in a different color) that was fully hackable, and had some hardware difference, but that would be costly for them and hard to police.

Cheating is sadly a massive problem. I was shocked to learn from friends who did architecture in college that smart students would hide their final project models (physical models of buildings) inside ceilings and the like in the days leading up to presentations and judging, to prevent rivals from smashing them.
Literally no one in this thread is acting with hyperbole like that but you.
Motion passes
Start today, my friend, start today!

No time for regrets. Take the steps toward becoming your most real and authentic self. You have lifetimes ahead of you to master any art and science, if only you start today.
Why single out Germany when there are 14 countries on that list with higher prices?

Gas as a transitionary energy source is something lots of countries have bet on. Meanwhile France is doing a great job showcasing the problems of Nuclear during heat waves (they will be the ones laughing in the Winter though)
Yes but you missed the beginning because the origin is almost as old as the age of enlightenment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
Are there any plans to build an infrastructure to connect both networks? It seems like a great idea in the current situation
Every good day leaves regrets of the past further behind.
Mediocre restaurants are very forgettable experiences. You may value running a good restaurant higher than optimising profits.
Null terminated string are never meant to use for large buffers. For all small strings that just locally it serves its purpose nicely. C designer realized that there is no way to have a standard way to deal with large performance-critical buffers , so they choose not to do it. Which is exactly the reason why C is so powerful - not necessarily fast but never get in your way if you want to.

For array bounds checking, if you want it, just a write a structure with buffer length and a getter setter and it is done. People complain this write zillions of getter setters in other languages but just choose to complain in case for C.
The British documentary series Connections (three series, one in 1978 and the others in the 1990s) do an amazing job of showing all the strange and different paths that led to our modern world.
Wow that is really neat.

Is there ever a problem with everyone wanting to move to all the good places haha? I wonder if they will get really expensive to live in like California and New York. Not that I’m saying CA and NY are the “good” places of USA but many perceive it that way.
She's fantastic. She doesn't hesitate to call out the physics community on its idiosyncrasies. She is a necessary check and balance on the mainstream body of researchers.
I don't mind that. People should be allowed to shoot themselves in the foot with their favorite Dogecoin.
One way I have looked at it is in terms of those 'Memento Mori' wall calendars [0]. There are only ~45 July Saturday nights in your 'youth' (14-25). There are only ~80 Christmases and Thanksgivings. You only get ~2 more years of total time with your parents. ETC.

You can only take your memories with you, if we're judged at all it's by how we treated others, and the only real high score in life is the number of people you could recognize that are at your funeral.

[0] https://stoicreflections.com/products/memento-mori-life-cale...
From what I understand, the reason why we are still able to run newer macOS through OpenCore on older, unsupported Intel Macs is because these newer macOS are still supported on older Intel Mac Pros. Once Apple starts releasing ARM only macOS, we will no longer be able to run it on any Intel machines (except through virtualisation).
> electricity generation has not become more expensive

A lot of generation in Europe is using gas, so it very much has. It's more or less a normal market experiencing a jump in price on inputs.

If you can produce cheaper than the market price then you make lots of money. That's normal.

The market is telling buyers to use less electricity and sellers to produce more. It's how markets work.
Pretty sure the pricing mechanism was cooked up by economists to encourage investment into renewables who will be making stonking profits right now.
Unlike gas plants...
Spending a lot of time worrying about the past is just as much of a waste.
I obviously do not know, but do you know that Russia would have done those things if Ukraine had just handed the country over on day one? And just to be clear, I am not suggesting that is what they should have done, I am just suggesting that the death toll and destruction could be lower than what we have now. And again, it could, I am not even saying it would, maybe there would have been an uprising of the population or whatever and the situation would have turned out even worse.

My point is purely that surrendering is a possible course of action which might provide some benefits over other options and that making such a suggestion does not imply that you are supporting the aggressor even if this would give the aggressor what they wanted.
> IIUC, prefab construction is a labor arbitrage.

Industrial construction utilizes pre-fab all the time. Jackets, topsides, pipe racks and modules made in one country then shipped to the installation country (or territorial waters).
> Without being able to observe the governance boards activities, the general public cannot exercise agency over their own rights

i'm not sure that really applies?

facebook is private property of its owners, users don't have control over it unless they can also collectively claim ownership...
We generate a lot of this electricity by burning gas which we have to buy from the market where prices are set relative to global supply and demand.

This is why we originally stopped mining coal - because Russian gas was so cheap at the time that it was a no-brainer.

What could possibly go wrong?
That very much sounds like you're calling for the collapse of the integrated european energy market. This is not meant as an attack on you, just an observation that these nationalistic calls will continue growing louder from every part of the continent, and it is not even September yet. Already Norway has publicly commented on the possibility of rationing exports.

We have yet to even scratch the surface of the effects of this crisis
I agree. But the comment I was replying to suggested it was a safety concern.
Literally this entire thread is full of people bloviating about the destruction of freedom of speech (without understanding that freedom of speech is precisely what protects a private organizations right to not be compelled into speech) and accusing faecbook of mind control. All of the top posts are precisely as I have described them.

You obviously know I'm being hyperbolic (you said it), and so your unwillingness to realize I am mocking the very real attitudes here is tiresome.
The purpose of science is to try to understand the world. Even if we never can answer how the universe began, I hope we never give up trying.
" This is another giveaway; Windows reports drive capacities in gibibytes (1,024 mebibytes) or tebibytes (1,024 gibibytes), while drive manufacturers use gigabytes (1,000 megabytes) and terabytes (1,000 gigabytes). This is why a 1TB drive normally only has a reported capacity of 930-ish GB,"

Another vendor another scam. I am looking forward when they will sell 64 bits processors with only 60 bits. But with SaaS everything shall be possible.
So if you have an iPhone 14 on T-Mobile, will you have dual satellite connectivity, through both Globestar and SpaceX?
Depends on the country. Certainly this applies to a country like France that produces most of its electricity through nuclear, which they are in the process of fully nationalising.

This gives them a lot of leeway to control prices without actually costing them anything.