skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Funny I wasn't aware of this despite 25 years of being an Internet user"

You're not alone… I been using the Internet longer'n that and I didn't ever think of converting an IP address to a decimal number either. It makes perfect sense now that it's been pointed out, but for some reason it just never crossed my mind to even try it.
Green without a proper plan? Germany/Europe will be the green poster children on how not to do it. Guess who will damage the environment more in the end.
> Everything you do is ultimately pointless
> the most meaningful thing we can do is through social interactions

Clearly you can see the contrast here. I agree that people are far more important than anything else.

I am also among the majority of worldviews on earth who do not consider 'everything is pointless'.
I am over 50 now. I started programming when I was about 10 years old and (probably not coincidentally) I made a career out of programming. I am pretty good at coding and I still love it.

Yet, when I look back at those teenage years spent in a room behind a computer screen I feel pangs of regret as well. Before I met my first computer and fell madly in love, I used to read, draw, write, collect stuff, play outside a lot. I was interested in astronomy, chemistry, history, archeology, painting, art, etc. etc. That all stopped with my first computer and I became a monomaniac.

Carmack once said: "being well balanced is overrated". After years of being not so well-balanced, I am not so sure of that.
Purely speculative but sounds more like greenwashing to me: sell grey energy on market at loss, buy back mixed or even green due to some loophole, collect subsidies which cover the difference or even more.
That’s the logic we’ve followed. However we rushed like little kids, making the same mistake putin did with ukraine: we thought by putting enough pressure, russia would explode in a few weeks.

It seems obvious now that the people in charge in EU lacked serious strategical skills. We followed our emotions, did a lot of communication, we made ourselves look good, but ultimately we could end up with the worst of all options: ukraine split in two, and an economical disaster for the whole EU.

Only the US will exit from the crisis with a fantastic improvement (like every time europe starts an internal war).
I don't wholly disagree but there are probably far simpler documents one could put together (and I imagine exist) with various voting/notification/debate arrangements most suitable for the given situation. Whenever I've been involved with creating bylaws for an organization, we've tried to be fairly specific about such things. (One thing I definitely learned was that being very informal about most things was fine--until it wasn't.) In the bylaws, we basically invoked Robert's Rules in the vein of--if we didn't think of some situation, use this.
The primary market of tech companies in Taiwan is not Taiwan itself.
I think a lot of people forgot how sketchy the laptop story seemed when it came out.

Even conservative media sources like Tucker Carlson and the WSJ refused to touch it because the idea of Hunter Biden just leaving a water damaged laptop with a blind laptop repair guy (blind so the repair person could never testify to who left the laptop) just seemed so absurd.
The 90 day limit is better for large groups. We have 12,000 students in a free slack chat and we can't see yesterday's messages because they're past the message limit.
Give up. You cannot win the fight at the level of the fight.
Dude, if you’re looking to do software development and especially game development, having 13 years of WoW experience will be especially beneficial to understanding what makes a game interesting, engaging and what provides a good experience.
Oh, son (and I say this because my son is also 23, spent a lot of his life on League of Legends and kind of regrets that, and is just now finishing college) - that way lies madness.

You know what I was doing with all my time when I was your age? Reading a whole lot of science fiction books. Sure, I also did a lot of programming, which later turned into a career, but the bulk of my time was spent in books that never paid me a nickel. I could have been learning more languages. I could have had a doctorate.

We all have that stuff. If you'd spent all your time learning code, maybe you'd regret all the fun times you had with your gaming buddies. If I'd focused more on math and logic, maybe I'd feel impoverished by never having learned about the Ringworld. I promise you there's always something you can feel you missed out on.

All you can do is decide what to do today. And then go do it.
A large diner, with no tables or wait staff?

Also classic diner food is generally pretty inappropriate for using more than a few times a month because it's not very good for you.

It's more like the backend of a large, decent company canteen[1] stuck to a milk-round front end.

[1] And I don't really mean the ones that are just buying catering trays of food from a wholesaler and heating it. I worked in a factory in China for some time and their food was great. Simple, home style food, cooked right there, from scratch, every day. Lunch for everyone and an option of breakfast and dinner (mostly for residential workers). It's the only food that's not homemade that I could imagine eating daily.
Why would you expect a business to provide a free service in perpetuity? Some people ar eso entitled and naive.
They actually split Ireland and AU/NZ more recently.
> "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?"

Most computer science undergraduates at many universities don't do a lot of this. A lot of people see computer science just as a way to a stable, high-paying job; it's rational and there's nothing wrong with this, but this means that you're not that much 'behind' versus many computer science graduates.

> 'Would i still be in the same position in my life, the same person, as i am now?"

You could have also burned out on computer science and switched career paths. Now that you've delayed it, you likely want it more.

Even if you really are "behind," you don't need to be as good as John Carmack to make a positive impact in the workplace. There are a lot more niches than a top computer scientist. Many, many people (especially in software development, and even computer science research) started at an older age after a first career. You can too.
You can use DivKit with any network stack you'd like: from basic request-response to websockets or anything else.
Framework provides libraries to serialize and deserialize UI on the server and client side. The way you want to transfer and store the data really depends on the app you're working on. For example, you wouldn't want to use the same approach for a list of articles and chat app.
Everyone should be held to the same standard. That means me, that means Reality Winner[1], that means Hillary Clinton, that means Hunter Biden, and yes, that means Donald Trump.

But what we are seeing from what SHOULD BE our impartial law enforcement agencies is that small fish get the hammer, and Donald Trump gets his house raided. Why wasn't there a raid on the Clinton residence after the server scandal? Why hasn't Hunter been indicted if the FBI has known for years of how he's been a conduit for foreigners to buy access to his father? [2][3] Why haven't Ivanka and Jared been indicted for their suspicious overseas deals? [4] Why hasn't Obama been indicted for killing an American citizen without due process? [5]

Why are we forced to chose between two geriatrics for President, one with dementia, and the other an ignoramus blowhard? What do we have to fix so I can get a coalition government, with say Allen West (R) for President, Tulsi Gabbard (D) for Vice President, and a cross-party mix to flesh out the Department Heads and other executive staff? I feel like we are just observing a shadow war between two factions of barely-competent kleptocrats, who are so busy destabilizing the system that they aren't paying sufficient attention while China, the greatest adversary we've faced since 1945, rises. Xi Jingping is sharpening his dadao [6] and we're still arguing over who is the bigger threat to democracy, the NY real-estate charlatan/buffoon who enables his businesswoman daughter, and who thinks rules don't apply to him, or the cognitively-impaired lifelong politician who protects his "businessman"/crackhead son, who also thinks rules don't apply to him.

Cui bono? Either way...probably not the American people in the long run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner
[2] https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/legal-experts-blast-lack-of-pr...
[3] https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3616924-who-is-more-li...
[4] https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-approves-13-new-iv...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...
[6] https://chinesemartialstudies.com/2012/11/26/693/
IIRC they are mostly using nuclear power plants, i.e. from cheap Russian fuel rods stockpiles.
I've been to those protests. 3 hours of football hooligans and extreme nationalists cannot compare to however many months BLM was. I wouldn't call it rioting and there definitely wasn't any looting or burning buildings.

So don't tell me that it's the same, because it isn't. It's possible to air your grievances in a civilized manner, without stealing sneakers.
Oh lord! You’re 23!! You have a lifetime ahead you!
GraphQL is a hot smoking pile of garbage
Sweden has four zones and according to [1] tomorrow's price will be from north to south:

Zone 1: 14,25 cents/kWh

Zone 2: 14,25 cents/kWh

Zone 3: 108,64 cents/kWh

Zone 4: 201,63 cents/kWh

1 Swedish krona is 0,094 USD. So between 1,3 and 20 American cents per kWh.

Most people live in Zone 3 followed by Zone 4. Facebook's datacenter is in Zone 1.

[1]: https://elen.nu
Oh I agree, I’m just setting aside the typical whataboutism that springs to life when we’re talking about other ongoing criminal investigations.

“But Hunter Biden’s laptop!”

“But Hillary’s emails!”

Etc.
>No, no! this is the price of depending on foreign powers for fossil fuels!

Also, England rejected plan for tidal lagoon power plant in Wales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_Lagoon_Swansea_Bay
Holy shit, son. You are 23. I was _still_ doing "stupid shit" when I was 23 and most people are. The fact that you're in Uni now and you realize the value of it sets you in front of probably 90 percent of the other people there. People shouldn't go to college until they're at least like 25 in my honest opinion. College is wasted on the young. Anyway, you're OK there. Just keep yourself in a position where you 1) Feel OK about what you're doing (and check with yourself every few months to affirm that) 2) Are learning the most you can, even if you have to make less money. That's all you can control, anyways: The rest is an illusion people create to make you feel bad about yourself so they can have more influence.
As a software engineer, you don't have many options other than building yet another tech shovel for your fellow engineers.

I would want to build something that actually benefits non technical users. Not sure if it makes sense what I'm trying to say.
Apple and Globalstar Rumored to Announce Satellite Connectivity for iPhone 14
So were is the line? Is an Ape using sign language on our side of the line, or on the cat's side? At what age does a child cross the line?
Wholesale rates aren't fixed. I think you may be referring to where the government has invested a significant amount into a power station and so agrees a strike price/contract for difference setup for an agreed number of years, which were often woefully unfair to the taxpayer. Though, current prices even start to make Hinkley Point look like a good deal.
Ah 500mi - I misremembered, thanks
You must have omitted something in your example because it makes no sense.

>Czechs produce electricity at 0.1EUR/MWh

so far so good. Now you have -0.1EUR and 1MWh of power.

>then sell it to an exchange in Germany

suppose the market price is 400EUR. after selling it to an exchange you have 399.9EUR and 0 MWh of power

>and buy it back for the "market" price.

so you buy it back at the market price. Now you have -0.1EUR and 1MWh of power. That leaves you off... in the same position as step 1? What's the point in selling it to the exchange and buying it back?

Moreover, I don't see anything interesting happening here. You can replace "electricity" with "oil" and you basically describe how petro states work (ie. pump oil out of the ground, sell it on the global market for far more than it costs for you to pump it out of the ground).
In Croatian electricity prices have only gone up 15% this year because of government intervention. The actual costs are something like 10x.
All it takes then is for the majority to mine three blocks in a row at the precise right moment, consistently enough that there is lower gas available in minority blocks than demand from sanctioned transactions.

If that's what it comes down to (and there is reason to believe it won't), I imagine sanction addresses will still transact, just with higher latency and at higher cost than others.
Privately owned public squares exist.
23. gtfo
That would almost certainly be the price per kilowatt-hour, not megawatt-hour, which would make a MWh ~100EUR. Anybody that is getting rich on the energy markets right now is either because they're better at betting on future energy prices than their rivals, or they have the ability to produce electricity when demand for it is extraordinarily high (both of which would qualify as 'a reason').
I stand corrected, sorry. Emulating some other proprietary software really shouldn't be a paragraph in something we call an "open standard". Thank you for the links.
The estimate of western nuclear generation is around 330x the cited figure.

https://www.nei.org/news/2018/cost-of-nuclear-generation-rea...
I think last time I renewed was pre-pandemic, but post-Trump, which I don't recall what that had to do with it, but do recall that passport renewals were already seriously slowed down -- I think I had to wait about 6 weeks.

I don't know for sure what it was before that, since the last time I renewed was 10 years before that.

But being without a passport for even 2 weeks makes me nervous. It's a security blanket to know I have it to make last-minute international travel possible if necessary.

An online renewal where you don't have to send your old passport in and can keep it until your new arrives is a huge thing. (Granted, your old passport will probably become invalid at some point before you receive your new passport, but after it's actually been created. Still the time without a valid passport will be minimal).
Respectfully, it's about what I expected.

A mostly earnest man addressing the real problems of the military/industrial dystopia, the world's break from reality, with a bit of wisdom and a lot of snake oil. Cannabinoid snake oil ("It's an aphrodesiac, but not like in Reefer Madness, it's more cosmic than that."), lysergic acid diethylamide snake oil. Back to the Garden of Eden lures, generational politics (one's age determines one's potential for spiritual advancement?), dulcet, lyrical, hypnotic sales pitches. It was "don't trust anyone over 30" until they turned thirty, then their mind expanding experiments led to "don't trust anyone under thirty and grab a big pile of money, depriving the subsequent generations of their livelihood". What did they learn during their acid trips?

By Leary's measure, at the time of this recording, Jack Kerouac (a pioneer himself in examining the modern world) would have been 44, past Leary's 40 year old age limit. In Leary's Cyberpunk I learned yesterday that he appealed to "silicon snake oil", the world's current obsession. Dropping out isn't a ticket to Eden, I know through personal experience. No Harvard endowment paid my or Kerouac's bills, nor did free software. "Tune in, turn on, and drop out" if you have to, but "pay attention to what you are doing and who you listen to, and what you are dropping in to" would be a corollary.
I have no clue about Czechia but that’s basically happening in Austria. Austria mainly produces energy from renewables which did not go up in price buy since the price on the exchanges is determined by the most expensive source we still pay exorbitant prices. Producers are making all the money right now.
No matter what magic plan anyone comes up with it would take years to implement. Nuclear, more insulation, hydrogen, new gas fields. It's almost winter already.
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. -Epictetus

Doesn’t matter when you start, only matters if you ever start.
Italy has a high percentage of gas power plants and also relies heavily on imported electricity from France.
I don’t even know who Macron is — besides his title and the fact he is clearly rich. I try my best to not know anyone I can’t shake my hands with. I’d rather know the sound of wind, streams, trees, the expanse of night stars, and the people I can share meals with next to a fire enjoying the same things.

What I do know is that it is universally hypocritical to tell a people the gravy train is over for you, while you continue to ride it. That is not leadership and that is not someone anyone should be elevating.

A leader in this climate should give up ALL private possessions. Their riches should be used directly to further the goals of the human condition. They should not live in richness but in similar conditions to the least fortunate — so that they know what population to target with policy to lift them out of suffering.

You might be used to these charlatans people call leaders, but it doesn’t change what they are regardless how “normal” it might seem. They are not leaders. They are frauds. They are impoverished of spirit, and no amount of riches can overcome that.

It is tiring to see people lead by these poor, peasant souls who are wealthy in money only — when there are so many noble souls on Earth without an avenue to share their gifts.

So no, until he lives on the streets and sees the conditions of common people, he is not allowed to raise the issue. Until he stops flying on private jets, he is not allowed to raise the issue. Until he gives up living in luxury, until he cooks his own food, until he washes his own laundry, until he experiences what people experience, he is an insect in being able to say anything meaningful. As is anyone like him.

As an aside, it is astounding to me how quickly people rise to defend these men and women who they have never met. Is anyone so quick to defend their neighbor? Is anyone so quick to defend a beggar on a street corner? A man losing his job to outsourcing? How is it that people have so many opinions on those they have never shook hands with, never shared a meal with, never even exchanged gazes with, but leave their fellow many around them to die for all they care?

Sad.
I've read somewhere that Earth has 4 corner simultaneous 4-day, and that was from the wisest man on earth.

Best not to believe everything you read :)
He knows that people like to say it's possible, promise mitigation, and he knows what it feels like to come back later and see the devastation left by not implementing it to save costs.
Ideally I would prefer to sustain myself from one of these projects. There are a lot of projects that are successful. Sure they aren't making a fortune, but they enough money to support their maintainers.
Try not to think about that too much, you can't change the past and you only have the present. Once you realize that you can start enjoying the present moment doing whatever you like and can.

If you start coding everyday now in a few years these worries will seem silly to you and you will have new worries to think about.

In the end it doesn't matter, whether you are the most productive person even or a drunk homeless outcast, your time will run out one day and you will be gone. If you can accept this you can free yourself of regrets.
> Prices will moderate over time as inefficient producers are pushed out and as consumers reduce their usage due to high prices.

Electricity isn't optional. "The market" didn't make water, or housing, or waste, or healthcare, or telecoms, etc, cheaper once privatized. In fact, it didn't make energy cheaper in the countries that privatized it.
Note that Heroku and Slack are both owned by Salesforce.
Yes you normally need to pay a lobbyist to lobby - because you need permission to access the lobbies.

Lobbying isn’t a bad thing. Charities, unions, NGOs all lobby, and they use lobbyists to do it.
Dwelling on the past also smacks against the sunk cost fallacy from economics.
At least the scandinavian prices are from Nordpool. And they are only 24h averages while the real price of course varies every hour. I merely checked the price for Finland and it was correct.
Yeah, that's an important observation especially in today's unicode world. It just strengthens my point that these "string" functions are really just bytes/memory functions in disguise.

Honestly "string" is a very harmful word that we've all grown used to. As an abstraction it sits somewhere between raw bytes and properly encoded text with proper unicode functions such as those provided by ICU. Python 3 finally forced people to start thinking about this stuff and nobody liked it.
However, the API should also be able to support crypto payments, by getting a crypto address and then forwarding the request to e.g. a local instance of Metamask, instead of my bank.

Perhaps if the user has multiple bank accounts linked, they would have to choose one, to avoid leaking to my bank that I'm making a crypto payment.

Of course, a crypto transaction has a significantly lower chance of being compatible since there's no foreign currency team working at the bank - if the website wants a payment in BitWhatsits and my primary wallet is in DOGEMONEY 20000!!!!! then it's up to the user or at least the extension to figure out the routing. Probably, the website would offer a different button to pay with each supported cryptocurrency, so the user would choose. They'll be accustomed to that, being a cryptocurrency and all.
Please don't cosleep. It can kill your infant. It's "heretical" because it's been shown over time that it leads to higher rates of infant deaths.

If you want to sleep near your child, a bassinet near your bed is just as close but much safer.
That’s because they can. Every country in the world would gladly do the same (Who doesn’t like some extra money?), they just lack the economic and military power the US have to enforce it.
OK, what's the truth then? I am not an expert on this, though just today I saw some LinkedIn post of some trader explaining merit price on energy market and in the chart the nuclear power was two orders of magnitude cheaper than gas/combined power but the final price was at the level of gas/combined power.
But why does a rich text editor need to talk to a website?
> Like didn't he sleep with his brother's widow and stuff like that?

Why does that matter if they both wanted to do it?
It is literally the same story with drastically different results for the participants given their relative actions.

The abuse of whataboutism has rendered it nonsense.
Think about what you want to do in the next 5 years, then do it.

After that, you will learn that those other 5 years playing were just 1/16 (or more) from your life.

So, focus on the next 5 years learning from the last 5.
I use a somewhat similar perspective when I feel guilty about certain things in life which I have been unable to pass on to my children. I barely know the cultural lineage of my ancestors up to a generation; in a generation or two, my descendants most probably won't know anything about me. We attach way too much importance to things that are emotionally important to us; in the flow of time, very few things are really important.