skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in Texas - an energy rich state (ignoring our problems in February 2021) in an energy rich country, and we already have the sort of tiering you describe from our local provider, so I'm surprised that isn't already going on.
>We're rapidly approaching the point at which the only thing that's going to work is rationing.

Or, get this, we stop shooting ourselves in the foot, and allow businesses to purchase russian energy again.
Under certain circumstances, the IRS will consider your business a hobby if it fails to make a profit. The consequence being that you may no longer write off your business expenses on your taxes.
Mark Zuckrberg Says Waking Up Everyday as Meta CEO Like Being Punched in Stomach
Reality is unfair towards people with lower incomes - that's what lower income means.
> or are renting and there is little incentive for landlords to make that investment

This is a massive market failure that needs to be addressed
What I got out of Poneranz’s book is that China started stagnating once it got out of wood to use, around the early 1700s if I remember rightly, I can’t remember that much of a discussion about England and about its coal deposits, hence why I particularly liked it (there are countless other books written by Western writers about England and its industrial revolution).
Eugenics was not the topic of their comment. You immediately assumed malintent. HN is a place of Curious conversation. Your comment did not reflect that. I suggest you read the HN guidelines linked at the bottom of this page.
sounds awesome, have been working on several such project as well. would be great to share experiences
I would argue that capitalism is exactly what the American system is. These terms are descriptive rather than prescriptive.
Ask HN: How can I come to peace with the years I wasted on pointless things?
I started listening the five hours (!) interview of John Carmack on Lex fridman's podcast, and he was talking about, among other things, about the fact that he's coding since he was a kid and spent hours upon hours in front of a screen and keyboard writing code. I find Carmack's, Romero's and the Id software folks work very fascinating and at some point i would like to dive more in depth on the history of their work and analyze their code to learn hopefully new things.

But that interview also strucked something that i'm battling with myself. I'm 23 and I spent my entire childhood wasting my time on Social media, World Of Warcraft, and other pointless stuff. Literally 10-14 hours a day. I don't regret my gaming interests, but i do regret the fact that i wasted so much of my life on games like World of Warcraft (I started playing when i was 10 years old) instead of finding and developing my future interests and «passions». I've always knew i wanted to study Computer Science but due to my life circumstances(mental health problems, serious financial hardships, etc.) i sacrificed a lot to get into university which i did and i hope i can finish it.

Over the last couple years i started thinking, how would my life be if i spent that time coding/reverse engineering/learning the internals of OS, reading books, or generally developing my interests instead of playing wow and mindlessly scrolling on SM? Would i still be in the same position in my life, the same person, as i am now? Honestly i can only guess but i don't know how to handle that i lost so much viable time. Time which could had invested on my future and develop my skills as a computer scientist.
No, you can do the analysis but if you end up with two competing theories like:

* we accidentally started our civilization on top of oil which would come in handy 2000 years later

Vs

* My ancestors were super smart and did this one thing that I am really overinvested in today

Then there's a kind of Occam's razor that leans towards the luck based explanation.
Yes newspapers suppress true stories that they don’t like. The difference is that small time media guys were trying to publish a true story that the government did not like and were suppressed at the Facebook layer.
If you assume that the lower band is set significantly below the level required for basic needs, yes.

That would essentially be no change from now.
Because in the conservative ideology when government has a plan, that's socialism
Believe it or not, this also applies to IRC bots. You can edit the code without breaking the connection.
There's certain topics on HN you have to pay the karma tax for broaching. It wasn't always this way but it is where we are.
Their post on mobile homes is worth the time too: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall...
At least the judicial system is adversarial, and the trial goes on before a jury, and you can present evidence, and cross examine your accusers.

When a handful of social media companies decide to block a story, there's no one to turn to. They're judge, jury, and executioner.
What did you find interesting about that?
Ultimately the why not will be because the platforms won't tolerate it. Having a kitchen so bad that it doesn't want a reputation listed lots of times isn't helping their customers any.
Isn't this literally just the Jupyter workflow but in a command line?
What is stopping such projects from scaling? Are the economics not there yet?
The freemium model needs to die. Entitled “customers” that dont pay are pita and thanks to their mindset we end up with stuff like facebook and generally speaking an ad filled internet. Sorry for the tone but i’ve had it.
Are you working on these? Got any links?
I also have the same bad vibe with discourse.

For me the issue is that there's too much white space. I find the website uncomfortable to look at because the screen is mostly white and very little anything is visible.

I would liken it to the effect of being in a room with a very tall ceiling, it feels intimidating. This is why they built churches with high ceilings.

The website also gives me vibes of being a question and answer site like stack exchange, rather than a community.
I’ve found it interesting to see several different concurrency frameworks for Ruby over the years with mixed success (e.g. EventMachine), along with the multiple built-in primitive (fibers, threads, forks). The patterns I’ve seen most used in the real world essentially involve distributing the work elsewhere, rather than getting concurrency right locally, for example:

* Run a bunch of background workers (Sidekiq/Resque), and queue up a job for each item you want processed in parallel.

* Provide relatively granular HTTP APIs, and have your JS frontend call them in parallel with AJAX, instead of having the server handle concurrency.

I think this is just the nature of Ruby being widely used for web apps where performance isn’t a big concern. That said, I’d love to see Ractor catch on, since it’s a pattern built into the language everyone could standardize on.
As long as Russian companies cannot fly into EU (and I guess British) aerial space, never mind landing on the airports located there, any such discussion of “you see, this is a private matter only, there’s nothing the Government could have done about it even if it so wished” is besides the point.

They could have just instructed the Heathrow operators “assign X slots for companies A, B, C and that is that”, the same way they’re telling aviation companies “you cannot fly to Moscow, and that is that”, it is all about political will at the top.
> He’s an academic,I don’t think he “supports” like it’s a ball team.

Noam Chomsky is "an academic" in the field of linguistics and cognitive science.

Outside of academia he's an activist, and one which is very vocal in his anti-US sentiment.

This is not a negative trait. Free and open societies need contrarians and antagonists, as democratic regimes do not resist echo chambers. However, let's not pretend that just because someone is employed by a university that person is suddenly impartial and devoid of any personal opinion on politics.
What does 'unfair' mean in that dictionary system?
Why is the headline about writing to the clipboard when reading FROM the clipboard without permission is much worse?

Clipboard should exist at the OS level and web browsers should be unable to distinguish it from keyboard input.
So... Then you've learnt cases in half a day. How could that become any harder by calling it "cases", or easier by not doing so? You're still doing and learning the same thing. Would it become easier or harder to learn by calling it "strawberry jam"? Or "greedlebeflurp"?
> Your chat history should be a valuable knowledge repository

No, no, no. Anything important needs to go into a document with some kind of shared permanence. Chats are not not not documentation! Have been burned by this too many times.
No it isn't. The FBI said "hey heads up there is likely to be a lot of interference and misinformation for this election" and then considerably later facebook goes "hey this story looks like it fits the pattern the FBI told us about" and took independent action.
You start with "No, no!", and then go on to, as far as I can tell, agree with parent.
Hopefully property prices drop as i am on the market for buying.
The beeping while he types in the URL is completely unsurprising. That’s just autocomplete. Still, a neat tool. Does anyone know what triggers the call to Google whenever he expands a menu on the site? Google Analytics?
"McDonalds is piss poor quality fast food."

It's really not. McDonald's fries are generally held as one of the better french fries available anywhere among food critics. Sure, the burgers are basic and lack expensive elements, but they are a consistent quality and flavor and handily beat what most people can cook these days (especially in a microwave).

I can cook a better breakfast sandwich in a frying pan, but there's simply no chance I could do it in a microwave. And I'm a really good breakfast sandwich cook - I would prefer McDonald's to most of my friends' cooking.

I can cook a better hamburger for sure, but I'll spend a lot more money doing so. And it won't be cooked in a microwave.

When I think of "piss poor quality" I think of improperly prepared food: under/over cooked, stale or spoiled ingredients, etc. McDonald's isn't fancy, but it's certainly consistent. I don't think you can call it bad by any means.
Definitely, here in the Netherlands a law has recently been passed that mandates that all rented houses should have a minimum energy efficiency rating of D. IMO it should have been a C rating, but at least its something.
Solid is known for its performance, but the most underrated feature is its great DX.
Ok, completely unrelated, but here's a riddle: how many nuclear reactions are there in a thermonuclear bomb?

1. Fission of the plutonium pit

2. Fusion of a small amount of deuterium-tritium at the center of the plutonium pit (designed to be a source of extra neutrons to boost the yield of the plutonium fission)

3. Fission of Lithium-6. Yep, Lithium can undergo fission when bombarded with neutrons. It can't sustain chain reaction, but it's fission nonetheless. The main idea is to generate Tritium, which goes into the next phase, but the energy generated during the fission of Lithium is nothing to sneeze at. Pound for pound, it generates about as much energy as the plutonium.

4. Fusion of the hydrogen (tritium produced from the previous step, and deuterium that's stored in the form of Lithium Deuteride from the beginning)

5. Fission of a rod of plutonium in the middle of the cylinder containing the hydrogen (fission is returning the favor and boosts the fusion reaction)

6. Fission of the uranium temper. The main point of the uranium temper is to be heavy and contain the nuclear reactions for a tiny bit of time, so more generations of reactions can happen, but the secondary outcome is that some of the U-238 nuclei will undergo fission when bombarded by the neutrons from the inside of the bomb.
How about if instead, we nationalize Facebook. The public square should not be owned by a private corporation. If that's not possible, yes: Facebook should be destroyed.
I think the key part of the previous comment was about land ownership rather than agriculture being bad. Of course land ownnership is just another version of inequality. And massive wealth inequality leads to massive power imbalances when negotiating fair wages.
> then what's the point?

There's no point. Moreover, passing the length separately is annoying and error-prone.

You can have both your models in a single type. That's what my buffer lib achieves : SSO + slicing.

https://github.com/alcover/buffet
> Unlike English, which if first discovered today spoken by a people in the interior of New Guinea, would lead to accusations of a linguistic hoax.

+1 Funny because it's true.
Didn’t listen to the podcast, but that seems right. The world’s oil producers have everyone by the shorthairs, and it will be undeniable in a few month’s time. I think Russia will get away with whatever they please because of this. It’ll be interesting to see what the narrative looks like this time next year.
Why does a vest have no sleeves?
the git codebase internally does this, has quite a nice library of C functions to work on them
I'd say mostly the reasons are non technical. There are a lot of amateur house builders that only build their own house. For them, building a house is a one off project. There is no scaling. You build the house and you are done.

For big real estate developers, this is different. However, they have to deal with building codes, NIMBY's, and local contractors, building permits, and the occasional bit of bribes, corruption, nepotism, etc. that is ever associated with large real estate projects. There are a lot of people getting rich from the status quo.

So, standardizing practices is challenging and every project is bespoke and different. And as the article actually suggests, even larger developers don't actually build that many houses either. So, the gains from economies of scale aren't that high for them either. And they in any case have to adapt to local situations in every project.

That being said, prefab housing components are very much a thing these days. And with laminated wood, CNC cutting machines, there is not a lot you cannot construct pretty quickly. Also, it's kind of insane that e.g. a large camper van can be built in a very short amount of time (hours?) and is actually very suitable for living in. And yet we don't have a similarly efficient way of producing housing units. And of course plenty of people end up living in trailers that can't afford normal housing. And some of those aren't necessarily that bad even and they can be pretty roomy and comfortable.

I don't think it's a technical problem. If it was, it would long have been a solved problem. Society simply does not allow people to do cheap and efficient things here but forces them to buy housing at extremely high prices. Otherwise, people would do the obvious thing of getting some old trailer, container or other form of cheap shelter and use it. It's not that hard technically to build something nice that provides a decent level of comfort and shelter. Nor is it very expensive. But it's simply not allowed to do that in a lot of places.

Silicon Valley doesn't have a housing problem but a legislation problem. The same is true for Berlin where I live. Plenty of land here. They could build millions of houses, apartments, etc. here. Nice ones even. But it's not allowed.
Meanwhile, Putin is burning off gas that would have been exported otherwise:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62652133

"They say the plant, near the border with Finland, is burning an estimated $10m (£8.4m) worth of gas every day.

Experts say the gas would previously have been exported to Germany."
It's sad that the only workable solution has become politically untouchable.
Maybe, but the first X units should be 0p/kWh, then the next X units 30p/kWh etc. Everyone gets their basic needs covered and the heavy users pay extra.

Special rates for those that use electricity to power medical devices.
I know a number of very loud Republicans at Google who post regularly on internal discussion boards.
What does “not accepting it” mean in this context?
>This is a massive market failure that needs to be addressed

The entire real-estate market in the west (both buying and renting) is an intentional failure (but economic success for the owners) designed to be a zero sum game to squeeze newcomers and prop up existing landlords, asset owners, and banking profits on the backs of those trying to enter the market. And then western governments wonder why millennials and younger stopped having kids. Because you priced them out of home ownership, that's why.

Good luck getting the governments to break this vicious cycle and stop making real-estate an investment vehicle designed for huge returns, and good luck getting existing property owners in voting for policies which will lead to a devaluation of their homes.

I feel like if this trend keeps growing, sooner or later, eating the rich will be the only solution.
He tested positive for explosives residue, he was brown, it was Ramadan and he was flying in the US. It’s not okay, but that’s the reason.
You mean the Russian propaganda that there wouldn't be a war right now with Ukraine capitulating to the Russian aggression. Unfortunately for you and Germany back in 1939 this is not how it works. The European people and it's descendants don't just roll over when tyranny knocks. Sorry, not sorry. Most of us would gave up a limb or two before letting some ghoulish dictator tell us how to live.
> uncorroborated claims were enough

ah but they were uncorroborated secret claims by a secret policeman acting under “politically neutral” state authority

When someone is accused under the law “due process” means that the government has to explain what the charge is and provide evidence in public court.

The secrecy is the key and the biggest concerning factor.
They are - renewables investment is at an all time high. But it takes time to build and bring online and investment in storage hasn’t kept pace with investment in generation.
Honestly the conservatives are such an awful party in their current form.

Short sighted cost cutting and focussing on ideological issues like Brexit while doling out lucrative contracts to connected parties during a pandemic.

So horrible that in the current leadership contest there’s not much either candidate can say that’s positive about their last 12 years in government.
I like to use vscodes code blocks.

Add in # %% and it makes the code executable in isolation. Like a cell in jupyter. This means i can write a py file. Execute bits indepentantly and when im ready to check it in just remove the block comments
I swear a god, when I read the name I though MS have released a game featuring Clippy as the main character. Must be getting old, I guess. :-)
In Austria D isn't really much. Those are basically uninsulated buildings from the 50's. That's a really low bar and I don't know what building can be worse than D. A garden shed maybe? Making D mandatory by law seems like pointless political posturing. But then again I don't know buildings in the Netherlands.
Am I misreasding it? The parent says that effort to reduce our fossil fuel consumption have resulted in rising energy bills

I am saying that it's the opposite, our complacency in switching to renewables has caused this situation
> the no true scotsman defense

How is this a 'no true scotsman' defense? I don't see the relevance.
These are owners, not employees. Basically contractors that manage all the subcontracting in a construction project.

It can be physically exhausting work, and long hours for sure. Still, it's impressive that they can pull in those kinds of figures.
You seem to be thinking of author, not publisher. Lots of publishers publish material they didn’t write themselves, they’re still publishers when they do that.
Genius! And I'm sitting here and debugging Google Analytics tracking with developer tools console.log and networking panel. On my next project I'm going all out and integrating TTS to debug Google Analytics events.
Why is electricity spiking in Europe? Is this compensation for Gas being scarce due to the war?
> The UK government has cost us billions by denying permission for privately funded renewable energy projects simply on the basis that they look ugly!

The issue I have with that article is that it doesn't say how many were accepted.

It could just be that overall there were more applications to build, with rejections rising proportionately.
who cares… if you’re so worried about where your food comes from, don’t order it from the internet. go get it in person.
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What is your evidence of Facebook’s pro-republican bias?
I’ve remapped ⌘V on my work laptop to paste as plain text which works great everywhere except Outlook, which disables that in email metadata (recipients, subject).

So bloody annoying, thanks Microsoft for continuing to make my life harder than it needs to be.
I think if you are on a free tier and your business depends on it, you should anticipate for changes in said free tier. If you want guarantees, you need to be a paying customer.
Like I wrote: covering the cost of establishing and maintaining the tower.

It's essentially a matter of declaring that the towers themselves, and the infrastructure that connect and power them, are not to be a profit maker for anyone. Can be made a condition during spectrum allocation, for example.

There's still plenty of other areas for providers to distinguish themselves.

And there's still an incentive to increase coverage. The only coverage increase incentive lost is the incentive of becoming a local monopoly. Good riddance, I say.
yea that's what i mean. why would anyone use an app like that lol. i don't understand markdown guruzzzz ..I wish someone made a joplin copy with different look but everything remains same.
They didn't say it was impossible, just hard. Do you have a thermometer in your fridge? Did you specially modify your sink to add an airbreak? I agree, they are quite reasonable requirements, and also requirements which one does not meet if they just have a grill and two picnic tables. They would also want to have a small trailer for proper food storage.
I agree. Screens are the problem, not the solution.
Just FYI, I wasn't saying you were wrong or disagreeing. Thank you for addressing some of the points.

What would you have to say about the author's contention that long-running American over-investment in health care kept the system up and running during the crisis, where European under-investment has led to excess deaths (especially in the UK, which the author claims has suffered 500 excess death/week because of this)?
Virtualdub
This is somewhat like deciding that the reintroduction of slavery is the only workable solution to rising labor costs.
What are some unsolved energy-related challenges?
What are some meaningful problems that you'd solve or are solving in the energy industry through software or hardware? Anything that would facilitate clean energy generation, distribution, management, or maybe expansion or maintenance of existing infrastructure, marketplaces for renewables, analytics, machine learning / computer vision applications or something else
stop shooting yourselves in the foot so you can shoot ukrainians in the back?