skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We both know smart people among our acquaintances. We can tell just by talking with them.

If your smart friend was moved to the other group of people

would he still be smart?

Probably yes, probably not.

Smartness feels relative and contextual, but is this right approach to measure it? probably not
They've been doing this in LA for years already

https://la.urbanize.city/post/another-koreatown-office-build... (2017)
That only means that sales aren't your forté. Good friends and family members can be sold many copies each — which they may or may not read.
I quite like Ghostwriter: https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
That makes me think how people in many places live in tiny apartments and even if they could afford buy a laser cutter, they would have nowhere to play with it.
You would have a dilemma - save for a mortgage or rent a workshop - often times would cost more than you could have money to spare.

When I read today that someone has started a company in their garage, that sounds like some millionaire thing now. Who can afford that...

I am sorry for the rant.
Billy McFarland Is Out of Jail and Ready for His Next Move
I suspect that the elephant in the room is simply money. Who pays?

I would be happy for the government to pay me to save on my electricity bills by installing PV on my roof but I suspect they might not be so keen on the idea. Loans instead? Maybe, but there are all kinds of issues around what happens if you need to sell the property etc.

Same with industrial units. You could have an enormous room that would cost £500K to install PV onto which would be way too much money for most building owners unless the feed-in tariff would cover the cost quickly but why should it? The Energy companies don't want to pay for a feed they might not need at any particularly time of day. Australia had big problems with over-supply of solar at certain times and I believe the rate went negative to try and stop people feeding it in.

For me, solar thermal for hot water is a far more reasonable position, certainly on new build domestic properties. We all use a lot of hot water, even during the summer and having water heated by solar thermal apart from being really effficient, masssively reduces the (usually) gas burden of heating from a boiler or immersion heater.

I also love the idea of a partnership between, e.g. An Underground Station with a limitless supply of heat energy to remove to cool down the stations, and perhaps the hospital next door which uses enormous amounts of hot water. Heat pump anyone?
> a relatively small amount of electricity demand

Finland has the highest energy consumption per capita in EU. (over 2x Germany for example)

Winters are cold and we use electricity for heating a lot (gas furnaces at homes are very rare). Also bunch of energy hungry industry (paper, metal)
As it happens, I'm in the market for a cross-platform, database-driven GUI right now. I'd looked briefly at Lazarus, but the fact it still uses GTK 2 (when GTK 3 has ended development and GTK 4 is available) makes me worry about the longevity of the platform.

That said, my other candidates were learning Tcl to write a Tk app (it's gotta be easier than deploying Python/Tk, right?) or biting the bullet and trying to write a single-page webapp that can talk to a local SQLite database, so maybe GTK 2 isn't the worst thing in the world.
That is not how the system works. If you have extra production in case of high energy prices, you can make a profit by selling it to the eu. If prices increase domestically, it must mean, that the domestic production is not sufficient and energy is bought from the eu, or your domestic production plants use the opportunity to increase profits.
The connected network is and always will be a good idea, just like the open internet :)
The two words missing from the HN post title (“says minister”) give the crucial context. As everywhere in Europe, there’s a heated ongoing debate in Finland about the rising price of electricity, what should be done about it, and who is to blame. This is a political statement aimed at defending the government’s past and current policies, not more or less than that.

(At the moment of writing this the yle.fi title is “Finland will be self-sufficient in electricity within a year or two, says minister” whereas HN title is “Finland will be self-sufficient in electricity within a year or two”.)
I feel you. I'd really like a way for "as" to be transformed into "try_into().unwrap()", say in a later edition. Or even just "into()" which would throw a nice compile-time error - This is the Rust Way.
Wow. Nice piece of small print fact(?).
We need to expand the concept of food to modulation / reprograming of our bodies via alterations of microbial ecosystems; industrial food systems need to be reexamined with regards to their microbiome-modulating properties.

What induces food cravings and preferences, the body itself and / or an evolving microbiome?
Similarly for JS developers out there, https://js.org/ has free subdomains for anything related to JavaScript
> Given that premise, there's no reason to want Europeans blocked other than spite or embarrassment.

Yes, there is another reason: legal liability under GDPR.

if(maxmind.lookup(request.ip).isInEU()) { return 451 }

…is the cheapest and easiest way to meet their legal obligation. It is way easier than setting up some alternative revenue stream and ensuring that it is compliant.
> Can we create gas from anaerobic digestion? Sure. Can we do it to have an enormous amount of electrical power generated from it? Probably not.

Biogas is great if it is generated from waste. The main issue is that farmer end up growing crops purely for biogas and bioethanol production and it displaces crops we actually need to avoid starving. Same as wood pellets, which are a great way of making use of waste, but terrible if we just cut trees instead.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/europe/...
Your typical car lead-acid battery has 8-10 kg of lead.
The code for that calculator is generally not that bad, but it lacks clues what the symbols are. In Common Lisp there are conventions for example that +foo+ is a constant, that WITH-SOMETHING is a scoping macro, etc.

It also uses longer function names and single letter variable names. That's a strange mix.

One problem with the code though is the layout/formatting. This is not what I would expect as a Lisp user.

I would expect to be able to see more block structure from the code layout:

(define (number->neatstring n)
(if (not (##flonum? n))
(number->string n)
(let* ((s (number->string
(fl/ (flfloor (fl+ (fl* (flo n) 1.0e10) 0.5))
1.0e10)))
(sl (string-length s))
(b (substring s 0 1))
(e (substring s (- sl 1) sl)))
(string-append (if (string=? b ".") "0" "")
(if (string=? e ".")
(substring s 0 (- sl 1))
s)))))

If I have a function call with 2 args I don't want:

(long-function-name long-expression-1
long-expression-2)

because that's what macros with a body would be formatted.

I would want either

(long-function-name
long-expression-1
long-expression-2)

or

(long-function-name long-expression-1
long-expression-2)

Both tell me that both expressions are on the same level syntactically and semantically: both are function arguments.
> I can assure you: editing Wikipedia from a smartphone is not very user-friendly.

It's actually quite impressive how mobile-hostile Wikipedia is.

Not as bad as Wikidata which still literally can't be edited from the mobile interface.
Initial revision of “Git”, the information manager from hell
git's first self-hosted commit
boo !
I'm genuinely curious why you think the AI "steals" art from artists. That train of thought seems to imply that any material generated by any machine learning process is "stolen" from the training data. Why do you think that's the case?

Speaking of data and profits, if I were a digital artist with the ability to hand-draw images, and I decided to draw a unique composition that follows say the art style of Anne Stokes, do you think it would be the case that I "stole" from Anne Stokes?

It's unclear to me why you point to the need of me, the AI-Artist, to deliver some obscure "value" back to the artists from whom training data was referenced. The only value I have the ability to deliver is to the AI model and its authors, other than perhaps propagating the art style or work of the authors of the art basis.
Personally I'd say vim, but I respect those that will say emacs.
Which registrars offer that?
Wow really surprising how many folks here don't understand that lego typically comes in kits with instructions. By building a lot of sets using instructions, you can learn patterns that help you be more creative in free play. This app is not creativity inhibiting any more than coloring books or sketching instructionals inhibit kids from drawing their own things. It's just a different and also valuable activity.
Ask HN: Free online physics courses/lectures for non-physicists?
I don't know why but all of a sudden I am fascinated by the physics of everything again.

Studying this field inspires me creatively at all levels, hopefully something I make will positiviely impact life on Earth.
Ask HN: What kind of source license allows view but not redistrubtion?
I was watching old videos on the TI-94A where games were written plain text basic and distributed where you could conceivably make changes to the source but I presume not be allowed to redistribute it without permission.

Are there any licenses off the shelf that are defensible in court that can allow this today? I'm thinking of releasing a python tool kit but I don't want to go through the folly of trying to obfuscate the code and I would like users to be able to make their own customizations.

My tool kit would have to be distributed with media as the other parts of the program would are too big to host. It is also of niche interest and I'm not prepared yet to simply put the software in an open source orphanage. I spent considerable time on it. I only expect to make a few bucks on it by selling it on eBay. But If I release a torrent of it, I'm not likely to see any benefit of the effort.
Where do you stand on French farmers blocking ports by burning truck loads of sheep and cattle alive to stop rival imports?

It’s pretty cruel and brutal to me but it gets them what they want I guess.

The real question is, in a modern society, where freedom of speech exists, how disruptive should protests be allowed to be?

I don’t know the answer myself but I think some limits may be required.
Also the more luxury you make it means the rich people have to buy smaller places, freeing up more space for more housing in general.
Agree that children add life to the service, there is also something to be said for giving the parents a break from having to worry about their kids.

So, kids in the main service for the first half, and to "kids church" for the second half.
I really don't know to be honest. The universe is improbable enough as it is. And we humans can sneak around the liminal zones of animal perception without much difficulty. To think that we are at the top of the tree of life is ridiculously improbable considering the number of species out there, in the millions. We just aren't able to perceive the ones more advanced than us, other than confusing glimpses, no more than an ant can understand us, and gets confused when we put a stick in its path.
Dart/Flutter seem to offer this, modern language, GUI framework, and compiles to binaries or transpiles if targeting web.
Yes please, that'd be amazing.
However, it would be good to have some kind of system to weed out unused domains for other uses. Otherwise I imagine we'd have lots of occupied but abandoned domain names.
Slovakia will be net exporter by the end of the year. They just launched new reactor.
This reminds me of an old well in Co. Kerry, Ireland which was legendary for its magical ability to cure madness.

In more recent times, analysis of the water confirmed it was laced with lithium.

http://westkerry.com/blog/?page_id=271
How do you then type these characters? google, copy, paste? Or is there a better workflow?
> I suspect that the elephant in the room is simply money. Who pays?

This one is very frustrating. The core of the issue is the lack of long-term strategy. It has been obvious for decades that paying now is orders of magnitude cheaper than bearing the consequences of things like climate change and a dependence on a madman dictator hell bent on revenge with delusions of grandeur. But the practical solutions are screws that we can’t really use with our free-market hammers.
> When a vehicle comes to recharge, the spinning is slowed down to change that kinetic energy back into electrical energy and to flush it into the vehicle’s battery at such an intensity that the battery fully recharges in around 15 minutes.

Unless another car was there just before you?

This is not going to work in any location where cars queue up; it inherently requires a light duty cycle. Any high thoroughfare location will need to install many units.

> Of these, 61% were in the center of the country and, according to Weizer, most of them require anything from an hour to three hours to recharge a car battery fully. The number of ultra-fast 150-kilowatt chargers numbers just a few dozen, he said.

So if instead it takes three hours to charge a flywheel that can then dump the energy in 15 minutes, that's an 8% duty cycle for the best charging time.

So, of course, doh, it will have to be expensive to use these compared to slow charging. Drivers will pay not just for the convenience of the fast charge per se, but also pay a built-in "bugger off markup" which, through its price point, has the effect of deterring someone else from having taken the charge just before them.
Multiplatform Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
>> stubborn commitment to terrible policy

Would it be fair to summarise that policy as “bilateral trade will stop countries killing each other”?

>> Western powers haven't been seriously focusing on energy security

By security you mean self sufficiency? The opposite of stopping further world wars by opening global trade?

The idea a world historically proven to relish excuses for killing each other, would have been better served by following the ideals of self sufficiency rather than trade, it just doesn’t really hold up to any inspection. Are there any exceptions to the rule globally that conflict deaths decrease as trade intensity increases?

Almost all dead civilisations share a common marker before their death: greater self sufficiency (and consequently a loss of skills - which was counter intuitive to me but easily researched since it doesn’t appear to be a disputed finding as far as i can see).
I've been in a similar situation. I wanted to write a simple app for desktop and mobile, I didn't want to do a webapp. I'm looking into dart/flutter for this.
Obsidian and Bear are both nice, with Obsidian operating on plain text files and Bear being able to export to such.
Yes, they both fall under the broad category of randomized algorithms, and under "magic you can perform with hash functions" in my personal taxonomy.
This is — like so many promises in this field — rather unviable.

Charging stations, besides providing sufficient power to max out the inbuilt charger, have no effect on the time it takes to charge current EVs.

The charger and battery management system are currently always in the car. The charging station is just a power outlet with an energy counter.
GPS already has centimeter level precision. iPhone 14 will support the new L5 GPS signal
...until you consider systemic risk including social unrest, terrorism, nuclear weapon proliferation, centralization of power...
The point is they are searching for, and apparently finding, a mix of technologies appropriate to their land which will given them self sufficiency.

We should all be striving to do the same.
I guessed correctly by the title that the article is about coding a 3d image, but was waiting for the classic "two balls and a cylinder" scene, which college students naturally come up with in path tracing assignment in computer graphics courses.
Can anyone but google scrape the web? No. Tons of websites won't let you unless you are googlebot.

Can anyone put serve ads on Google SERPs? No, only Google. We don't even have any transparency how it works.

Google is turning into utility and should be regulated as such. At the very least we should regulate how their support is done.
Would recommend, have been playing with it for the last year or so and generally have nothing but positive things to say about it.
I recently discovered Zettlr and frankly I'm pleased enough with it: cross-platform, does the job well-enough. You can always use an extension for VSC or emacs,etc. but when simply wanting to read a markdown file I use this one. Previously I tried Typora and others but I'm not willing to pay for a markdown reader. Maybe for an editor, whenever I'll decide writing (though I'd use emacs 9/10 times)
Did you not consider Java, or did you rule it out for a specific reason?
One would hope so considering their newest reactor cost US$12.4 billion to build, the 8th most expensive building in the world according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_buildin...
India is almost 80% IPv6
Ask HN: Anyone Remember Deja News?
What happened to Deja News from the 1990s? Where can I go for usenet now-a-days? Some of the discussions there were first class..
That may be so, but population density is ridiculously lower than Germany's.

According to Wikipedia:

DE: 232/km2

FI: 16.4/km2

EU: 106/km2

They should probably be OK as far as GP's argument is concerned (space for wind turbines not bothering anyone), especially since I expect most of the people are living in the south. Not sure whether there's enough wind in the sparsely populated areas, though.
.feedback operates a two-tier system. The cheap domains have to use their web-hosting platform, which is pretty limited.

If you want to use it as a real domain, you have to pay a premium price.
Not to pee on your party, but I wouldn't want to the users who click on that title expecting...something else, to be disappointed. Therefore I have made the minimum viable edit.

(For anyone wondering: the submitted title was "Rendering my balls in a fragment shader" and the article title was changed from "Rendering pool balls" to that.)
Haven't we done enough harm to the oceans?
Doesn't matter; the domain is "forever". Because if you want to expire it upon death, none of these assumptions/calculations are needed - put that in the clause and done (enforcement is another thing though).
Flutter is almost certainly the answer you are looking for here. You can see what the developer experience is like here https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/codelab
Some subgraphs are really incredibly rich.
Euler advised Lagrange.
D'Alembert advised Laplace.
Lagrange & Laplace both advised Poisson & Fourier. Poisson & Fourier advised Dirichlet.

Poisson & Cauchy advised Ostrogradsky. Poisson also advised Liouville and Chasles.

Chasles->Darboux->Borel->Valiron-> Laurent Schwarz

Also Chasles->Darboux->Picard-> Hadamard & Weil & Julia

Hadamard -> Fréchet & Lévy -> Mandelbrot

Isaac Newton, Weierstraß or Gauß are good starting points too
this, I use it to write my CV since some years, works perfectly
You’re right! I had to go pull my copy off the shelf and check, but it really is TeX: The Program.
I thought this is the official page https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ leading to the official binaries https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

OP's link leads to a totally different download system
Absolutely no chance of the flywheels coming off the axle and flying out, I presume all has been thoroughly examined.
/s

>17,000 times per minute. Each wheel weighs around half a ton.
Did you not consider .NET, or did you rule it out for a specific reason?
> It is most definitely not some sort of obvious solves the whole problem slam dunk idiots in government are ignoring because they're stupid.

The thing is, there is no slam dunk obvious solution. But every bit that helps could be part of a more global solution that has a chance of working. Public transport, better insulation, electric transportation, solar panels and wind turbines where it makes sense, large-scale carbon-free baseline production, etc. We need to do all of that.

> And yeah, I'm really disappointed in Elon's solar roof tile stunt surrounding this.

Elon is not on the right side of this. His pseudo-ecologist speeches are just window dressing.
There is LiveCode from https://LiveCode.com

I have been enjoying it to make bespoke gui apps for more than a decade.
You mean a system with heavy dependence on global state yet allowing for arbitrary command/code chunk execution order?

Where significant parts of the display remain out of sync with said global state?
Most of the Uber cabs work in urban settings where there are bunch of Wi-Fi enabled. Could they use the Wi-Fi to pinpoint the location instead of relying on GPS? Probably they can setup some relay nodes on their own for coverage.
> some are using the EU as a scapegoat

What's the argument there? I'd think that since Norway isn't fully in the EU, they'd have more leeway in internal matters?
Side-topic: I wish popular markdown renderers used indents and more pronounced v-margins for different levels of headings, and/or some more visual cues. Long md docs are so hard to read and skim through because h4-h6 are indistinguishable from text or are even less visible than it.

E.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-session
> What happened to Deja News from the 1990s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News

> Where can I go for usenet now-a-days?

https://giganews.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giganews

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/giganews
I felt clickbaited after reading the article. It's interesting to read, but if you're actually looking for the answer to the question then it's not in the article.
if(maxmind.lookup(request.ip).isInEU()) { return $body_text }

Wow look I coded a version that still has the article with no more effort.

> It is way easier than setting up some alternative revenue stream and ensuring that it is compliant.

The premise of this comment chain is already that we are NOT setting that up. My previous comment was NOT suggesting we set one up.
Large parts of the east one is not allowed to build anything very tall (including wind turbines) due to national defense. The turbines mess with radar.

But still we got our own NIMBYs who like to complain a lot.

edit: And the best places to build wind is at the coast so west and south parts of the country. It just is more windy at the coast and/or open sea pretty much always.
It's the latter. Domestic users pay the same as those that Norway export to.
Well, I expect this sort of activity to escalate over time.

Unfortunately our government advice appears to be that we should comply if we "offer goods and services in the EU", or "monitor the behaviour of individuals in the EU.": https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/guidance-and-advice/australi...

I have no idea what would actually happen if they decided to fine an Australian entity.
Writing a book in 2022 is like opening a DVD renting shop...
There has been massive investments into transmission capacity in Sweden. The capacity has not increased that much though. One of the reasons are that nuclear power plants have been closed. Large turbines contributes to an increased transmission capacity. All the big investments have been necessary just to ensure that the capacity doesn't get lowered due to the closing of the nuclear plants.
Anyone who has seen the environmental effects of lithium mining first hand will never want to drive an EV again. Sad, but true.