skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could have been spamming solar and wind all over the place for the last year using required emergency war powers. How many hectares of grouse moor do we have? How many litres of gas have we burnt this summer when we could have been using solar for free instead?

Instead we've been prattling about waiting for a few old people to decide who will be the next PM, both of whom have promised not to expand renewable elecricity production, and thus to increase gas usage.

Your proposal of marginal rates relies on people understanding what a kWh is and being able to measure it themselves. Only about half of houses have smart meters, and when people get a £3k bill at the end of the month they will simply not pay it, which will mean mass moving of people onto pay as you go (push of a button to do that with smart meters).

Better to charge the £2/kWh but give every meter a £3000 lump sum (or £300 a month or whatever).

That said, I'm on a fix at 20p until October 2023, and I'm on oil heating which is currently about 90p/litre or 9p/kWh. Was about to go for a heat pump (literally the only reason I didn't do it was because the company that quoted it couldn't be bothered to phone me back last week), but instead I've just paid what seems a ridiciulous price for oil (90p/litre) and will use the capital to fund (or part-fund) solar+storage.
In my experience you don't need a dedicated monitor an old android phone and a baby monitoring app will work fine (Search for Dormi)

Android phones are relatively hard to hack remotely and the comms will be over TLS.
I respect being given a conscious choice up front.

NPR used to do something similar for GDPR — either accept their cookies or view the site content in plain text.

(edit: probably not in line with GDPR but heyho)
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38167551

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/amazon-marketplace-conterfe...
What does this imply exactly? Europe acquiesces to Russia in totality, thus ending the war? What is Russia's completed goal in their current incursion?
Great little compilation of computer lore. Sort of like a Jargon file for the meme generations.
Maybe next step would be to make a tool which says if given website is clean or not? So we can start making whitelist.
>I guess America outside the South and Buffalo, NY doesn’t have access to wings that don’t taste like a salt lick. It’s a tragedy.

Or you make them at home. Which is very straightforward.
I'm not so sure that vertical integration is much more innocent than horizonal. Once a single company dominates an industry it has negative effects on the competitiveness of that and adjacent markets.
It is apparently already like that with Facebook, but the government has a layer of plausible deniability. If the FBI can show up and tell Mark Zuckerberg to censor a story, that means Zuckerberg is effectively a state actor.
Main link does, see footer.
Aha! That means it's already much improved from when I was still a student! ;-)
I don’t think people realize just how much of what is sold at restaurants comes from Sysco.

I’ve worked back of house at a “almost michelan star” restaurant (best rated in town!) and even though the chef did actually go to the butcher for meat cuts, we still had a Sysco truck stopping by every day.
Ask HN: Which Online Coding Bootcamp do you recommend?
Not really. As the owner of a site, the government controls its own speech and is not under any obligation to show “both sides” of an argument. Sure, it can’t only show your comment vs mine, but it can definitely choose which propaganda to spread.
Simple: realise that some extremely high percentage of the people you're asking feel the same way, and are on average probably about 10y older. (Idk if anyone's done a survey or HN poll or something, but 30-35 would be my guess for the median.)

They still have time, and you'll have just as much then too after spending the next ten years(!) doing something you currently consider meaningful.
My understanding of the big off shore wind farms is the government funds them at a set strike price of £x per MWh, subsidises anything below and keeps anything above?
Can confirm. Now in the US I’m frustrated at how hard it is to find parts locally
Spot on. Even in the midwest US (e.g. Ohio) high end contractors can pull in close to the numbers you mentioned. Definitely requires 50-60+ hours a week for decades to get there though.
You’d be surprised and the quantity of plate warmers and heat lamps even in very nice restaurants.
Just be glad you got out of being addicted to video games. Some people never get out of that and it ruins their lives, or at least massively wastes their potential. Unless you personally know someone who has a sibling or son or daughter with video game addiction you'll never really hear about it because it's the kind of addiction that doesn't cost a lot of money or cause deadly health or behavior problems and because of that never makes the news. It's just pathetic.
I must admit, i’m super curious to understand why nobody has pushed forward the idea of breaking down that pricing mechanism. My sincere hope is that there’s a good technical reason i’m not aware of.
I also flew on a plane that had an issue. It was an airbus and with a completely different airline but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was this very plane.
Good free IRC on mobile would be killer.
Your interests and passions will change over time, and every time a new interest comes up you will wish you started doing it sooner. At some point in the past I wished I started playing chess when I was younger (I no longer care about chess). I also was, like you, highly interested in reverse engineering. I'm not anymore. And so on. Focus on the present, on your newly found interest. Put time and effort into it and enjoy the journey. You can become an expert very fast.
Bots are allowed to make edits, if carefully monitored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy

For edits that require judgement, a common mode is to use semi-automated tools where there is still a Human-In-The-Loop.

(edit) And if you look at their demo, the latter is exactly how it works. https://verifier.sideeditor.com/ . With a human in the loop like this, this could be a powerful tool.
I think there's room for a lot of possible outcomes worse than zero fuel from Russia and also better than total economic collapse of Europe.

I mean, Europe's got something like 7 times the economy of Russia. And two European countries also have nukes and are on the UN permanent security council. If the sanctions against Russia weren't enough to stop the war, this winter is unlikely to be bad enough to stop Europen support of Ukraine.

Conversely, if Russia finds that it can wield its fuel as a weapon capable of destroying Europe by either riots or total economic collapse, then Europe automatically has an existential threat that only ends when Russia can no longer play that card.

And America will do what serves American interests, not necessarily what serves European interests, and they're not threatened by Russia cutting off its gas exports.
Fortunately you're still in your early twenties with enough time for you to feel as though you can make amends. Don't waste your twenties on social media and other timer wasters because once you hit thirty you are on the downturn and will really regret your time wasted. Focus on positive stuff that sets you up to be a success in life because it get harder to get out of the starters blocks as you get older.
Norway made three times as much this year from gas sales.

It's a market, and the thing that is causing the price spikes is Russia cutting off their supply.

They'll still profit from the higher prices on the reduced supply, but so will everyone else who sells on the market at the market price. Basically war profiteering.
Yeah you launder with actual restaurants (and I’ve been to a few that I have to believe are such) and record cash from fifty tables when you only actually had two.
Self driving cars are indeed still not there. But the right question to ask about those is who has the highest chance of getting those working first? There are a few companies working on this problem. Tesla is by far the biggest of those companies and they are throwing some serious money at the problem. It's not a safe bet to make but the odds are still pretty decent that they might get there before anyone else does. Their strategy for this seems pretty sound. But obviously it's taking longer than they hoped. A much less safe bet to make would be betting it will never happen.

As for SpaceX, their reputation for getting things done is rock solid right now. If they manage to get starship going, that will be a major leap in launching capabilities. But even just getting the star link network operational, or delivering people to the space station have been enormous accomplishments already.

The only thing that's remarkable about this announcement is how unremarkable it is relative to Elon Musk's other accomplishments. It's a radio on a satellite that connects to a phone. Doesn't sound like rocket science. I'm sure the antennas etc. are amazing but that is essentially commodity technology that he's simply launching to orbit. Doing that cheap enough that stuff like this makes sense to even consider doing is the true accomplishment.
But then what if a bug in their code that only affects FF goes unnoticed due to testing, and causes significant problems for a big client, or a journalist reviewing it, or...

Personally I feel a "We don't officially support this browser, it probably works but we only test for full compatibility in <these browsers>" is a better option if you're going to go in that direction.

But I can understand why even that is a bit of a risk as if a user decides to ignore that warning and then some time later encounters a bug that, let's say, causes them to lose half a day of work, they're likely to walk away blaming the company (and maybe go round telling people they know what a shit thing it is) even if the bug wouldn't have happened had they been using one of the browsers that is fully supported and gets tested.
Feels like we're burying the lede here focusing on firefox/chrome or having to login when it's really damned impressive that you have an entire video editor in the browser.

So it seems like codec support allows viewing individual frames, and you've got some kind of ffmpeg script, and some kind of totally canvas based ui. There's a lot of cool tech in here showing some really interesting possibilities. Congrats on that!

What kind of ui library are you using for this btw?
Believe me or not, this is an amazing way to launder money.
I have found https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org to be an OK book substitute for my commute.
I've been getting spammed with these SMS codes. They've been baffling me because I use MFA, and didn't understand what mechanism could be sending me random codes. I'm glad I know now.

I hope PayPal fixes this shit soon. Not only is this a serious security problem, but the texts are incredibly annoying.

Oddly, I can't make it happen myself -- I don't get the screen being discussed -- but clearly some criminal somewhere does. Must be limited to certain geographic areas?
You can say you metsästää for mushrooms (and other edibles) in the forest too, though, can't you? So maybe it's actually more of a direct correspondence to "forage". And, is that perhaps derived from / related to "forest"? (Or fodder?)
Nobody is going to plow the land unless they are confident they will harvest the result a few months later. You can go with a bunch of friends and family and plow some random piece of land and camp there with a few pikes. You don't own the land, but if someone else shows up you ask them nicely to go to another place.

Is that place nice? Do you want to use it next year? Are you camping all the year and squattering it?

What if your group split? How are you dividing the spot?

What about the group that is nearby? Does that steam separate the part you don't own and the part they don't own? Who can use the water from the stream?
Your computer also runs attacker controlled code, especially in browsers.
I think of it as art itself being the goal.

While artists may hope their art will also fulfill other goals, I wouldn't want to live in a world without art, where those goals are instead fulfilled by expending equivalent effort to turn the crank of some machine. I suspect neither would the author of this article.
You should read masters of doom.

And you are very young still.
Huh, what is https://2899908462 ?
>Does Slack even care if folks not planning to pay are pissed?

I think a fair amount of their actual sales come from non-tech companies reluctantly paying for it because their developers are pushy about wanting it. Those developers want it because they were exposed to it in some context where it was free.

Lacking that pressure, those companies will just tell their developers to use something they already have...MS Teams or whatever.
Depends on the dictionary you're re using and where you look, in a Dutch dictionary a 'vest' can be a knitted button-down sleeved sweater ('een kort gebreid jasje met mouwen').
My advice? Don’t define yourself by your work. Your work is simply something you can do to live. You are trading your time and labor so you can do whatever it is you want to do.

At your age it’s common to think you’re going to change the world. Some people get bitter when this doesn’t happen. I’ve seen this and it’s not pretty. Almost nobody changes the world.

In tech you see this with people who have were the smartest in their high school, went to a great college and have basically been told their entire lives they are amazing and smart. At some point they get to a room where they’re not special and that can be a hard pill to swallow.

So if you want to change the world it just do something really meaningful you have to commit to that. But why are you doing it? Will it make you happy? It is that simply something you feel like you should do rather than something you want to do? And do you really want to make that impact or do you just want the adulation that entails?

Life is short. Consider yourself lucky if you have a skill that will let you live comfortably. Enjoy the ride.
You can't change the past.
> Ghanians?

Good that you called for possible correction here. It's "Ghanaians", not "Ghanians". Being Ghanaian myself, the spelling is one way I can tell if an article about Ghana has done its homework and is more likely to be accurate.
Yep - they’ll say anything to get in and once they do they’ll do whatever they feel like. Promises are cheap, more so those without details.

She could get herself elected, deliver a tax cut worth £1 in absolute terms to every tax payer and claim she delivered under difficult circumstances.

Rishi at least isn’t lying about the challenges but honesty doesn’t work so well during elections as he’s sadly learning. But crocodile tears from me for his plight.
I agree, but what's happening here is largely not businesses behind the exodus, but loose organizations like open source communities.

You could argue that these are freeloaders and not Slack's problem, but I'd be wary about sending so many users running into the arms of their competition. Part of the appeal of Slack was that I could use one app for everything, which is increasingly not the case.
Google has achieved high economies of scale in many areas but mainly in skirting taxation and government regulation. That's corrupt cronyism, not capitalim. The positive quality of capitalism is it's efficiency, good luck finding that inside bureaucratic google.
There’s a specific class of “reheat Sysco” restaurants that are quite popular - Dennys, Applebees, etc. their menus are designed to have something for everyone and so are an acceptable middle ground when people don’t agree on where to go.

Same reason you’ll find a burger at the local Chinese/Mexican place, so the kids will shut up (one fo the absolute best burgers I’ve ever had was from a small burrito shop so appearances can be deceiving).
It’s more like publishing who actually wrote legislation. Often it’s lobbyists who write laws and politicians put their names on them.
Since most of the northern nordics consists of relocated southerners it should be no problem for you. I was working in a small village a few years, in the middle of nowhere. Talking to some old people long out of working age turns out most of them were from Stockholm or Finland moving up for work and got stuck. The unemployment numbers are lowest in the country at the moment. What is missing is a proper food culture, the new people are wrinkling their noses when the neighbours starts opening the herring boxes. And yes, it really smells as bad as they make it look like on youtube. If not worse.

The bigger cities tries to keep the roads bikeable during winter but it can be a day or two in a row that you will have to take the bus to work because they just can't clear 40 cm snow before 7 am during a snowstorm from 200 km of bike roads.
>The expectation and contractual requirement of sole employment goes against free market principles.

What "free market principles"? The wikipedia article for "free market" says:

>In economics, a free market is an idealized system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

In this case, two parties (employers and employees) are voluntarily entering into a contract without government coercion. I fail to see how that's against "free market principles".
I thought the Global Interpreter Lock limited how effective concurrency could ever get in a single Ruby runtime (excepting maybe JRuby). My understanding was that you could ever only get green threads.

My info may be dated, I haven’t kept up with developments in Ruby 3. Is the GIL not going to be a thing any more?
The use of perfectly good farmland for solar panels is wasteful. Have you not heard of the current Netherlands protests about the same, which is likely to cause food shortages in the years to come?

I'd rather instead nuclear power plants since they're a fraction of the size compared to solar, or solar panels on top of existing buildings, or more wind turbines since they're more space-efficient and can alternatively be placed offshore.
If they asked an economist, they'd say that the system is fine (you still don't want people using lots of gas and electricity made from gas when in a gas crisis) and you should just transfer the money to the people.

Right wing governments really don't like that idea. See their reaction to COVID, they really heavily depend on the idea that the people with all the money 'earned it'.

Much easier to blame renewables.
Okay, for the first two. I didn't think of those as actual non-joke options.

About IRC you're obviously wrong :)
So... it's a pidgin?
In my 40s now and I still love playing video games, which I have been playing since I was 5 years old, starting with Space Invaders on the Atari 2600.

I’m doing alright, and don’t regret a thing as I have found that play is as important as work in life! Here’s John Cleese from Monty Python speaking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

You are you and your life is your life. Try not to compare yourself with others and you will be happier!
Hi dev!

I am a PHP developer and love minimalistic, one file projects. I love wikis too.

My comments here is not intended to be negative, just some feedback, so you can improve the program (and maybe fix some things).

I tried to bring your wiki online at my localhost. Doesn't worked because you are using short open tags. Since many PHP installations have this Off by default, I think you should use the non-short open tag "<?php" instead just "<?".

I changed it but faced another issue. The Syntax <?php=$variable?> was giving me some render issues. I don't dive in to find why, but I changed it to <?php echo $variable; ?>

It worked! Well, so-so.

A page with a textarea rendered. I typed something and clicked on save, but the page reloaded and nothing happened. Tried filling the password too. When I click on "Wiki" link, nothing happens too.

If you need some more info to help you find why the app is having this behaviour, just tell me.
Not a led zeppelin though
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”

Kurt Vonnegut [0]

You have nothing to regret, and don’t look back, only forward. There is no such thing as wasted time as long as you are enjoying yourself.

People like Carmack are the exception to the rule, they are the 0.0001%, trying to compare yourself to them is irrelevant.

0: https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2017/11/18/we-are-here-...
I also spent most of my early life close to computers but as far as programming I only remember learning actual programming (in C) in my late teen years. It’s really hard for a 10 year old kid to really grok stuff like that. So if you are comparing yourself against people that you think had a head start then at most you are a couple of years “behind”. But also, as a 23 year old your learning pace and ability to focus should be higher, so you can recover lost ground very fast. In summary, the best time to start something was yesterday, the second best is today. Realize you are not much “behind” and get started. But also take the time to enjoy it.

Another thing is comparing yourself to Carmack… c’mon man, you have to cut yourself some slack. He is one of greatest programmers to ever live, he is _not_ a realistic yardstick to measure yourself against. You should only compare today’s you vs. yesterday’s you. That’s the only comparison that matters. For as long as that comparison trends positively you are in the right path.

And finally, you will realize that it takes time to digest things down and progress to mastery. As you grow older and get exposed to more and more fields you will start seeing connections that you can explore. But this takes time, as much as for Carmack as for yourself. This is how you grow and it is inescapable that it will take time. You have to understand it and accept it.
Better moderation.
My guess is that really it’s an acquisition of engineers unless they already have some kind of market dominance in this space.

I don’t see any novel tech here, but I’m not the target audience.
They only focus on unreal and unity, but there are other closed source 3D engines out there which can reach AAA class (horizon engine, square enix lum-something, valve source[12], etc)... Since I am an elf/linux user, I would prefer to see godot (with a mature vulkan backend). From my perspective, godot is far from being technically "good", but at least it is open source, so it is a "less worse" alternative. Additionnaly, godot are well aware of the ABI issues elf/linux OSes because of the c++ static runtime and glibc manic symbol versioning and do propose mitigations (they cannot afford to go proper full libdl because they would need to fork the gcc static libstdc++ and third party libs to "libdl"-ized them, this is too much for them).
Its a full footprint measurement. Coal miner deaths for instance count against it. A study attempted to aggregate fatalities from atmospheric effects from emissions.

It does make nuclear look particularly good, but this is also because it is so energy dense that effort is efficiently allocated. It makes everything except oil and coal look good on a chart.

Most of the deaths attributed to nuclear are more steam plant accidents that also happen in coal plants. Operators are far more likely to die from steam, rotating equipment, or hydraulics than radiation doses. But the energy density of nuclear more efficiently allocates fatalities.

Nuclear power is not dangerous in the same sense that parachuting or commercial flight is not dangerous. You are exposing yourself to lethal forces, but with proper procedures, engineering, and training these activities are safe, even at scale.
Exactly. You don’t search “pizza” when you want “burger” and charging a bit more actually works out to a discount to the cognizendi.