skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One lesson from this disruption of energy markets seems to be that it renders visible the incredibly inflated value attached to service economies. I strongly remember the "Russia's economy is the size of Italy, what's that going to do?!" arguments in spring.
> To me, it would seem that the ETH PoS centralisation of power (to the already wealthy) makes it less free than, for example, BTC.

BTC also suffers from centralization of power to the already wealthy so the claim that that there is equivalency between PoS and PoW centralization sound about right.
This morning on our local public radio station here in Santa Fe, I heard a report on salaries in education. Private tutors were the highest paid category, above all "actual" teachers in terms of mean salaries (median would have been better). Apparently Santa Fe was rated #2 of all US metro areas in this category.
Australia did pay, and we now have one of the highest uptakes on residential solar.

... too bad utility companies then reduced the feed-in credits to zilch to make up for lost margins.
The Canadian system is a mix of private and public, with a mix of national and provincial funding, some national standards (tied to funding), and provincial jurisdiction.

For procedures covered by provincial health programs, doctors in private practice (GPs, at least some surgeons) give the service to the patient and then bill the government for that amount. For services that aren't covered by provincial health programs, GPs/surgeons bill the patient.

Provincial health care programs cover anything medically necessary. My general understanding is that you cannot pay to have a service done which is covered by a provincial health program. The intent is to prevent the establishment of a two-tier health care system.

It's probably less complicated than the US system, but it's still complicated.
I really appreciate that you put those up, there's something about the silhouettes of the two figures (2) that I really like.
> If one million people came together to put solar panels on roofs - that would be cool!

That would be “cool” and actually great. The problem is that people who cannot get through the month because the bills have skyrocketed, cannot afford the upfront price of installing solar panels. So unless there’s government intervention, I don’t really think this would be feasible.
Storing a year's worth of U.S. electric production in a way that one could then get it back in a similar time span is not merely challenging. It is infeasible. For one, because of the efficiency issues you mention, we'd need a lot more than a year's worth of electric production to "charge" the "battery", and since we can't dedicate all our energy production capacity to charging that battery, we can't charge it in a reasonable amount of time. Further, we'd need to have the production capacity that could consume that battery, if that battery were fuels made from CO2, say, and we'd have to have it idle except when we need it on an emergency basis -- that or we'd have to use the same kind of fuel as our primary source of electric power under normal conditions, but we're not really allowed to. Moreover, we cannot re-create fissile fuel, so this wouldn't be very dense fuel -- it would have to be chemical fuel meant to be oxidized with atmospheric oxygen. Chemical fuels are not dense enough that we wouldn't notice the storage facilities for them -- they would be enormous, consuming enormous amounts of materials and labor to build. The economic cost of all of that would be staggering -many many times the cost of equivalent amounts of energy that we currently produce-, and that cost is what makes it infeasible.
Europe must regain its independence from the US. Only after that, Europe can defend its interests in the best way possible.
You don't know about dijonman2? He's a legend around here. He has a stupid amount of cash. His house is definitely enormous.
Point being: a project needs updates to remain useful in contemporary contexts. code that happily built -Wall, pedantic, error... in April 2002 may fail miserably in today's tool chain.

plus it may not benefit from contemporary advances in silicon architecture, etc.
This kind of campaign would not be possible in the US because the provider can simply turn your service off with no questions asked, where from their FAQ it sounds like turning it off is heavily regulated in the UK.

On the one hand, solar panels will not fix this problem. Sun and wind both die down in the UK in the winter. You need hydrocarbons.

Honestly, if it were me, I'd ask them to turn my gas off and just heat a few rooms with electric heaters, and buy lots of blankets. It's not very convenient, but wearing a coat indoors is free. That feels more honest than stealing their gas and then not paying for it. Sure, they're probably ripping me off. Doesn't mean I should do the same.
CCJ: "You may get a county court judgment (CCJ) or high court judgment if someone takes court action against you (saying you owe them money) and you do not respond." https://www.gov.uk/county-court-judgments-ccj-for-debt
Juice is the especially bad one. It terms of sugar, glycemic load, and feeling full, it might as well be soda.
There's no real reason. I suspect it would be a very small change to some SQL implementations to allow the various clauses of queries to come in any order.
Well, when your military is a joke after 30 years of underinvestment, this is what you do - watch by and squeak your teeth angrily.

On top of that the will of actual Europeans regarding Ukraine is completely different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Dutch_Ukraine%E2%80%93Eur.... I forgot that in the "free" world, democracy and referendums don't really mean anything.
AI content generation most likely.

The DALL-E/GitHub Copilot conversations are a nice hint. They were mocked for being if/else statements or "a solution looking for a problem" 1-2 years ago. Today, we're having conversations on whether they're moral; a hint that they actually represent a threat to artists.

I think they'll probably become similar to tractors or digital marketing in the future. Despite tractors, farmers still have to do hard labor, they just make more output from their endurance. Digital marketing didn't kill offline marketing. But they'll all still change the nature of jobs.
Like so many bad movies, it had terrible direction. Just look at George Lucas's SW prequels. Having a great cast is useless if the director is bad.
By lowering acceptable living standards, the haves, aka the landlords, would be able to cheaply produce bottom of the barrel, barely acceptable living spaces and then since there is a housing crisis they could charge a premium for the have nots, aka the renters, in order to live in those shitty, barely acceptable homes.
There was also a lot of piracy. And it is repeated with shorts
This can be looked into and maybe a windfall profit tax is a good idea. In any case, for a country where the rich still spend their money inside not siphon it outside (plus lots and lots of other countries' rich bring in theirs to spend), it's like moving from one pocket to another. There will not be any net change in the economy.
I've not been reading good reports about Julia startup times and base memory use for simple programs.

In Common Lisp you can make a program that starts in milliseconds, from scratch; no Lisp stuff in RAM, other than your OS's buffer/file caches being warm. The same was true twenty years ago or more already.
What you're looking for is rare. It's basically coconut water.
Yes you can look at the lower-end cores from both ISAs and compare.
Higher end riscv will come eventually though, it'll take time just like it did for ARM
PoW is an openly leaking system that requires participants to leak system value to external ASIC producers and external electricity producers.

The PoS system keeps value in the system. PoS also has more ability to reduce influence of malicious miners/validators by slashing what is needed for a bad validator to continue to participate.
epic pain in the ass for a 4.1% yield

Isn't the yield dynamic? If it is dynamic, then it will simply adjust to whatever price makes staking as painful/lucrative as any other investment. There is no free lunch.
> I'm not sure what your URL is showing?

What most people mean by query parametrisation in my example (as pseudocode) is something like the following:

conn.Query( "SELECT * FROM Foo WHERE id BETWEEN @From AND @To ORDER BY " + HttpRequest["sort"],
new { From: HttpRequest["from"],
To: HttpRequest["to"] });

In typical SQL or DB client libraries you can parametrise literals, but not queries. The queries are almost always built up as strings. Any time you see "sort=DESC" in a URL, there's like a 90% chance that code like the above is floating around in the codebase, just waiting to be exploited. That's because there's no way to use a safe parameter for "sort order", or "which columns to sort by", or... anything else for that matter. You just have be eternally vigilant. And by "you", I mean everyone everywhere.

Thankfully, most pen-testers cackle with glee when they see "DESC" or "ASC" in a URL, but what if the code above does some sort of simple check to see if the string is one of the allowed two values?

... I can tell you what happens: the pen test report will be ignored as "not actually vulnerable", and now you have landmine in the code. Any junior dev updating or rewriting the queries may forget the sanity check and... Boom!

Building up queries as strings is a pit of failure into which developers have been falling en-masse for decades and decades. Millions of them. Entire industries and products have been built out to detect, mitigate, and protect from this pit.

What we need is something more like the bytecode used by the JVM or the .NET Framework. A set of binary primitives that must be built up via a fluent API such as:

conn.Query("Foo")
.Where( new ColumnRange( "id", params["from"], params["to"] ))
.OrderBy( params["sort"] == "ASC" ? Order.Ascending : Order.Descending );

Even if "OrderBy()" allows a string input, it'll just be doing the same kind if parsing logic instead of just "appending" to the end of the query blindly.
> "freakishly"

In another post, GP discussed how "wax-like, otherworldly" white skin is a signifier of supernatural goodness. My brain translated that into "freakish". If he had said "ruddy, tends to tan in the sun" or no adjective qualifier, I'd have just in turn said "white" without qualifier.
Energy costs are high because there's not enough energy (oil, gas) to go around. Prices go up as people compete for the hot commodity. People have an upper limit that they are willing to pay, so usage is curbed. I am not sure how lowering fuel/energy prices at the beginning of fall is not going to cause life-threatening shortages by mid-winter. If prices follow demand/use then there ought to be enough fuel to last the winter. You cannot strike to create more energy, unfortunately.
Unfortunately, Julia has a number of correctness flaws [0]. Just based on this alone, I can't use Julia simply because I can never be sure whether my code is wrong or the compiler itself is wrong. In scientific computing and machine learning, these problems are very important, unlike in other types of programs where it's more tolerable, because they deal with vectors and tensors with potentially billions of parameters and computation/training time might take several days. If I get an incorrect result, my time has just been wasted, not to mention money via compute resources.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861
> Including disks with the latest MKB?

AFAIK, it appears so. Also AACS LA appears to have given up and stayed on v68 for a few years now. Maybe there is a new one at last... maybe. AACS 2.0 it sounds like started from v72 and counting up.

> Sure, but that distorts sound, which people dont like.

True... but if I just burn a stream rip instead to the disc, problem solved. Plus most discs do not have Cinavia.

> Its still present enough to be a little annoying, which is much better than early predictions thought would happen.

From what I can gather... you can just download MakeMKV and rip Blu-rays on any PC Blu-ray drive, no problem, no internet connection required, latest MKB, BD+ completely defeated. It's only annoying if you are trying to actually copy the disc.
Whenever a comment seems too ridiculous to be a serious take, look through a couple pages of the posters history before replying seriously. It helps you waste less time.
You can’t make oxygen out of atmospheric CO2 on the moon.
JR East Train Simulator
There are several. Here's one.

http://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2016/08/lunar-sky-hook.html

https://hopsblog-hop.blogspot.com/2016/04/liftport-lunar-tet...

There's also a wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure)
It doesn't stop Nazis from existing though (or even knowing about, visiting and supporting the site). If we do the same thing with KiwiFarms, we just make it harder to monitor and easier for serial-abusers to collaborate. The majority of KiwiFarms users simply aren't solely enabled by the website existing, either.

I simply don't believe in deplatforming, and it disappoints me to see Cloudflare shrug and cave in.
I chose the Qingping Air Monitor Lite ($100) specifically because it can connect to HomeKit, but it doesn’t require it and you can use it totally fine without ever connecting it to the network! Though you might need to connect it once if you want to modify default settings like changing it to Fahrenheit. I actually find the device to have a really responsive offline interface that you can use by swiping the top of it.

To give you an idea of why I wanted a “smart” one because I know on HN it’s a polarizing topic: I can include it in my HomeKit dashboard and see it from the other room or when I’m not home, get alerts when it reaches a certain level, record data automatically, and trigger automations like turning on my air filter.
Those sites still existed last I checked, which was a few years ago. Once in a while I get nostalgic for something I grabbed on one of those sites around 2005, I'll run a search for it and find three new blogs posting pirate links to an eclectic mix of music they consider cool.

I remember reading that Google did something to derank them, so they may finally be dead, but they continued on for a long time past when I visited them daily for hipster cred.
it's not really apolitical unfortunately.

"We believe in holding the Chinese government accountable for changes in regulations and poplicies that can prevent another laboratory accident. "

why not focus on international standards?
School isn’t a proper place to socialize children. It completely breaks the natural model by segregating children rigidly by age group and limiting interactions between children of different ages. Instead of older, more knowledgeable kids helping socialize the ones below them, you get kids learning from equal aged peers who know nothing themselves.

It’s the reason we spend a lot of money to send our kids to private school. I don’t actually think curriculum, etc., makes a tangible difference. But our school puts K-12 all on one campus with small grade level sizes and lots of opportunities for older kids to teach younger kids. (E.g. summer camp activities for elementary school students where most of the counselors are high school students.)
A lot of the people working on Flipper Zero are Ukrainian, not Russian
Yet another reminder of American Exceptionalism
10 trees worth would be 150% of an astronaut’s consumption though, no?
One thing that makes conversations with doctors about regulations around board certifications easier to understand is that anybody who is currently a doctor in the US is heavily disincentivized from improving or changing the system in any way. The absurdly onerous restrictions on becoming a doctor work to the benefit of current doctors by artificially restricting supply and thus keeping wages high. Why would doctors want to get rid of those very regulations?
This really sucks. I don't mean to diminish it. But

> Since he was traveling and was relying on @Citibank, he was screwed.

Does anyone actually do this? I don't know anyone who'd rely on a bank. You just have like 2 or 3 credit cards. Pre-war, one of my friends was actually in Russia and lost their wallet, and Visa (yes, Visa, not the bank) actually hand-delivered him the card. Blew my mind.
Because the web is for hypertext, which means static content.

Thats what hypertext meant originally but it's evolved and moved on. The spec is literally called "HTML The Living Standard". You don't get to claim it's fixed and can't change. It just isn't.
is it possible to save the composition?
Citi is a dumpster fire that I swore off as a teen. Only company to ever send me to collections, since I refused to pay their 'fees' after closing my account, which of course accrued late fees. This was in the overdraft fee era when banks seemed to have fun finding ways to extort you.

Now, I'll churn their credit cards time to time just to feel like I'm doing my part to stick it to them.

Rant out of the way, I've had something like this happen to me. What's more, all bank security I've dealt with treat you as a liar, always condescending, and are generally not allowed to provide any information as to why they are doing what they're doing.

I highly recommend spreading some amount of cash among at least two financial institutions. No matter how great you think they are, they can turn on you in a heartbeat for some esoteric reason.
> People or those who sell...

Those who sell apartments are also people!
I remember certain US President warning the Europe this kind of thing may happen, some years ago. And some Europeans very independently and openly laughing at him. I wonder if they are still laughing. I also wonder whether their electorate still think they were defending their interests in the best way possible. I also wonder when and how exactly US forced the dependent Europe into rebuilding their energy structure in a way that led to the current conundrum.
1. You can if you make the reasonable prediction that the overwhelming majority of protesters won’t (or can’t) stick to their pledge in the face of actual service shut-off.
> This gives a huge benefit: The social culture isn't defined by the kids. You have highly engaged adults acting as role models and vetted by the community. There's no critical mass of same-age peers defining the culture despite the best efforts of a handful of overworked administrators

Absolutely. This is completely dysfunctional and unnatural and I don’t know how anyone thought it was a good idea.
Far left extremism took the lives of over a hundred people and caused billions of dollars of damage during the summer 2020 riots, and we're not even allowed to talk about it.
They cannot get through the month, but they have time to start a fight with the legal system by withholinding their due payments and then deal with whatever trouble comes from it?
Why has software supply chain security exploded?
In Canada, they'd probably just freeze (hah!) your bank account and take the payment from there.
Ask HN: Does your browser display .md files rendered or as text?
Does your favorite browser display .md files as rendered markdown, or plaintext? If markdown, does it use your system styling or a browser style?
As a non-geologist, it seems plausible to me that gold that was somehow subsumed into the mantle in New Zealand could migrate to Iceland in the span of thousands of years. As Sméagol pointed out, though, gold coming up in the magma would be more diffuse and not create an identifiable layer on the surface of the lava rock. You're right, though, he's hardly a reliable narrator when it comes to His Precious, so that could be a misdirect. And perhaps there's some attribute of magically endowed gold that causes it to behave in unexpected ways. I searched Google Scholar, but couldn't find any peer-reviewed studies on the physical properties of magic rings.
So following that logic we should eat more meat to reduce global heating and keep it below or at 1.5C increase as urged by the IPCC?
Which decision are we talking about?

That the UK doesn't import Russian gas, but is impacted by other countries that do which has increased the wholesale cost?
"This one trip to the gym is not going to make me super fit, so going is pointless!"
Yes the US government agrees, and has been urging European countries to take responsibility for their own defense instead of depending on the US security umbrella. And the EU probably should have done more to compromise on UK demands in order to prevent Brexit.
$599,000 for this SF house
> It really is not that far off from Common Lisp if you squint really hard

This made me chuckle.

But this post did help me understand how Julia is Lisp done right in some specific ways, and also understand the appeal of Lisp as a programming language.
Oh this can only go good places long-term and never end badly.

** mainly Intel!
> I think the sheer size of Amazon has allowed them to build a really pro-consumer platform

I thought it is the other way around. Because they are really a pro-consumer platform, they became this big.
> because there were no documented cases of live bats or live pangolins being sold in that market.

Was selling live bats or live pangolins legal?
Mass timber 101: Understanding the emerging building type
Will the public accept going at war with Russia any easier than higher energy bills? I doubt it. We need Russia to become unable to exert any sort of political influence over the West, and two ways of doing it they had were the thereat of cutting off energy supplies (which has been realised, in case of oil and coal, from our side, and in case of gas, from their side, so it's no longer a threat and thus no longer a tool that can influence us), and the threat of invasion (which turned out to be a bluff because they can't even properly invade Ukraine).

Now all we need to do is to go through the end here: finalise cutoff of all remaining Russian energy supplies and bring energy markets back in balance after that, and achieve a full victory in Ukraine. Both is a lot cheaper than anyone could assume to "solve" Russian question once and forever: then it can simply be seen as a Russkistan we can forget about.
Provider turns off utility for 100 people, those 100 people have a problem

Provider turns off utility for 1 million people, the provider has a problem

Collective action works.
With today's inflation rates, I'm surprised crypto is in a bear market.

I think 2018 was a legitimate run when we were all thinking of legit use cases and arguing whether they were practical. The last few years were more of a bubble, with NFTs and shitcoins all over the place.

Crypto seems like something that would benefit from Gustafson's Law. Digital finance infrastructure is not yet good enough to make it useful. Like Instagram relying on web and app tech, crypto still needs lots of changes in how we deal with money and how governments treat it.
does even one browser renders markdown?
But any such tax would merely be passed onto the consumer and exacerbate the existing problem.
It explains some aspects and obscures some other ones.

It explains how the documents at arm reach on the desk are faster to access than the things in the cabinets. It obscures the fact that stuff on the desk dissapears if the power supply glitches even just a little.

In fact we invented these batteries with electronics which sense if the electricity is about to go out so the computer has time to carry the documents from the desk to the cabinets before they dissapear. And we think this is normal and even necessary in pro settings. (I’m talking about uninterrupted power supplies of course.)
Totally agree. I've found the recommendation engines on all the major content platforms to be pretty annoying - it's the echo chamber, basically recommending stuff I already know I like. It feels like eating junk food: I enjoy it when I'm eating it, but ultimately I end up regretting it.
I don't know... I can't look up the circle of fifths if I'm in the middle of a gig and the singer wants to change key.