skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I for one also would like to see a real critique and not some vague comments again and again on "not being serious" without the slighest data.

Each time I looked it turned out legit.

Last check I did on two 100% RE studies with feedback from one author: https://twitter.com/lguerby/status/1562911969757106176

comparing https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100-per-cent-renewables-g... (2022) and http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/145Co... (table 4 for 2050) : wind 41GW vs 100, solar 58 vs 360. would be interesting to have both authors insights

Indeed in your work total produced is 267 TWh/y uncurtailed, in @mzjacobson
study table 9 is 3243 over 3 year so 1080 TWh/y. About a factor of four more. In nameplate factor of 6.2 for solar and 2.4 for wind so somewhat coherent

Also a must read IMHO recent survey paper on the 100% RE field:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910
On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research
That is an interesting point. I would also think that the degree of amazing actions from partners isn't uniform; routine actions don't warrant amazement and people doing amazing things for their partners isn't happening every time all the time. Your point stands valid though - we do do that.
Parent may or may not know this, but "billboards" are textured quads that always face the camera in a 3D scene. Trees and foliage are things that usually turn into billboards in a typical game if they are far away.
It's questionable how much better transfer capacity would help prices (it would help the grid, though).

I think it's more true that the situation you are mentioning insulates northern Norway from continental prices, than the opposite.
Photo touching and colouring by hand was a big deal for decades. my parents-in-laws wedding photo is B&W large format plate, with hand applied colours. I am pretty sure getting rid of blemishes was part of the deal.

Robertson-Davies fictionalises some of this in his 'francis cornish' series, the power to re-touch a neg to make someone nicer, or nastier as your fancy took you.
StackEdit has fully taken over all of my Markdown note writing. It's a fabulous free little PWA that keeps things simple and gets the job done.
Wind turbines cant be that far from where population lives
Luckily, the two options are not in any way mutually exclusive.

Lithium for e-bikes, golf-carts, trams and busses, taxis, ferries etc. are needed for the non-car-based city vision too, and the reduction in ICE pollution actually makes cities a nicer place to live.
Experts cited are Islamic or have Islamic leanings. Can you cite some neutral sources?
I had a hard time getting past the "399" out about 43. I wanted to round it to "4".

But these days I would rather memorize tau:

6.28318530717958647692528676655900576839433879875021

It has that "00" at 27 digits in that must be got past.
Yes, it's truly evil to want to save your neighbor from power shortages.
Norway is in the European Economic Area (EEA) which means that one strong party (EU) in that treaty dictates a lot of market rules for Norway.
> You paid a million dollars for it. Does it have any utility for you?

well, you have to ask why somebody might've paid a million for it. For example, if owning the asset means you can charge a toll, then yes, it has utility, and presumably, you've done the sums and found that the utility is equal to, or greater than a million dollars - therefore, you paid for it.

> There are assets that have no utility beyond short-lived novelty or bragging rights

perhaps those bragging rights are useful to those who are doing the bragging. Who are you to say that it isn't utility? Just because from your point of view it is useless, doesn't mean anything.

> The fact that you pay money for something says literally nothing about utility of that something.

and this is where i think we disagree - i am assuming a rational actor. I assume that anyone would only pay money if they feel their spent money gives the equivalent utility, or else they wouldn't have spent it!

Which is why i said fraud is irrelevant in this argument - if you were sold what is meant to be diamonds, but only got glass, then yes, somebody lost utility. But it doesn't mean the original thesis - paying for diamonds - wasn't correct.
Did you read the link you respond to? They are same volume, albeit heavier than Li-ion.

Still perfectly suitable for grid storage and even certain vehicles.

Hope we get Sodium Sulphur batteries soon. They'll be like 10x cheaper per kwh than current tech.
No, the person doing the shining isn't visible in the photograph. Did you actually look at it?
Really? Go and read the assembly parser and get back to me.
A Few Good Years
This! Unlike nearly every other editor it's not a PWA/electron. Brilliant editor
Compassion is of little value without policy and actions to back it up.
You seem to forget that 100 years ago it was also used much less.

billions of light polluters today is much worse than a couple of heavy polluters 100 years ago.
Ok, we've restored the minister. Thanks!

Ministers say a lot of things.
I think the discussion was any monopoly that serves as a cash cow to enable poor management.

For comparison, AT&T had a monopoly only on long distance, so people could choose drastically different behavior if they wanted to defund AT&T. I.e. you didn't need to move out of the region where most of your relations lived but it was a better deal to pay AT&T's tax (and regional monopolies charged more than true long distance on many regional calls). Potentially making a lot more money and having an entirely different life out weighed higher than market phone rates that made AT&T a successful cash cow.
"self sufficient" doesn't mean "pricing will not depend on external influences".

If you have cables to the rest of europe, they will be buying any cheap energy off you.

Clearly, thats good for the economy as a whole (better to sell that energy and earn a decent profit for the country), but voters might still be unhappy at high prices.
That’s easier. Problem is when the word you are reading is constantly tossed back and forth. Following that makes your head hurt.

On the sea is low frequency noise it is much easier.
maui/xamarin is terrible( MAUI is xamarin renamed).

It can't build a macOS desktop version. This was found out a week ago in a "shipping to production" thus forcing a certain team to say no macOS version until v2.. Which is now flutter 3.x now. Flutter better? nah.. just it has a macOS desktop option now.
"if people treat me bad and call me racist by being white, then I'm racist" is not a definition of real racism.

Is another case of: "if all is racism, then nobody is racist". The term has been abused to defend thievery, so now is devoid of any real meaning. This is a big problem in itself.
Sodium Sulphide is going to be huge if it works. Dirt cheap. Basically salt + waste + magic.
This is an easy problem to solve, find the socks you like and then buy 20 pairs of the same socks and get rid of the old ones.
I have registereda few .ovh domains for next to nothing. Was it one or two euro a year?
Kind of ironic given how bad TCL itself is. Reminds me a bit of the CMake source code which is nicely written and easy to follow but... it's CMake.
I have been training for almost a decade to flag all experiences as positive. It works; things that were objectively bad (chemo, having covid, getting robbed, business partner stealing money from the company, horrible clients etc) are all positive memories in my head. The only thing that I couldn’t manage was my dogs death; he was mauled to death by a pitbull right in front of me. I used to be quite a negative person and many earlier memories that were not that terrible are all giving me over the top bad feelings: when my grandfather died, I was wallowing so much in negativity that I decided to stop doing that once and for all. It works: live feels very positive and nice even though it of course often is not.
getlazarus.org appears to be a fan site. The builds are unofficial, but unlikely to be harmful. Might be safest to get the software from the official site or your distro packages though.
So how is the country serving the people?

How can a contract mean you need to raise prices for the citizens? This can only be the case if the government is not acting in good faith, and has planned for this eventuality.

I'm still amazed how people think their government is there to help, especially in nordic countries, when it is plainly just an extraction and control device.
Better mass transit often requires reallocating strips of land from car lanes and parking. For example dedicated bus lanes are painted over what used to be on street parking spots. Or a station is constructed in the middle of the road. If we resist removing parking, then we're not going to get improved mass transit.

Should the market set the supply of parking, or should local government officials do it based on dogma? Right now most cities choose option two. Planning officials usually copy and paste traditional rules such as 1.4 parking spots per residential unit, or 1 parking spot per x square feet of store sales floor. These figures are set with the goal that parking is only maxed out a few days per year. This means there's lot of idle blacktop most days. Developers usually build the legal minimum amount of parking because the minimum number of spots is so high. Land used for low productivity use like parking comes at the opportunity cost of more affordable rent. When the price of something is set to $0, demand is without bound. People leave their cars parked on prime real estate instead of moving them to a garage a block away, store second and third vehicles, etc. Local authorities usually only charge for parking as a last resort. Time based limits are usually first implemented. Because 97% of parking is free people will drive around and around, or get there really early in hopes of finding a free spot. A significant proportion of downtown traffic is parking spot cruising.

Parking minimums can first be relaxed on streets well served by transit. When a new building is literally down the block from a station and a 1.4 parking spots per resident is mandated that's not a good use of scarce land. Developers won't build zero spots. Banks financing the project will have their own parking requirements.

Letting parking float at market price has the benefit of parking being easy. A city can set prices with the target of one open spot per block. If demand is low, let the price fall to $0. No more cruising around and around, risking a parking ticket, or trying to understand complex day and hour limits.

There is an good book on this (dry) subject. The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup.
So you are a veteran, compared to me, just started this year, really reminded why I should have been more observant in math class :)

The resources are really good, hadn’t found something like that yet!
Yep, I find articles about something visual with no to few pictures quite annoying.

Another thing that bugs me is reporting that doesn't provide links to the thing they're reporting on. Is that because sites don't want you to leave their site? If so, doesn't work on me - I end up having to search for source material, and I leave the site anyway, but feeling a bit annoyed by it.
But prices have fallen sharply in recent years, and may continue on down. 2016 is two generations back, in battery years.

Probably future decreases will come from better power density, requiring less physical material for a given capacity, as demand for materials soars. It is remarkable how little lithium there is in a typical Tesla.
UTF-8 is not "more restrictive". I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Love this.. Finally a phone I can get my highschool age student, that won't mess with their life.
They are a business and their goal is to make money.

Monetarily, both solutions are approximately equal: get fined zero dollars and make zero dollars. This is all they care about.

You may have a preference for one solution over the other, but this doesn’t mean they do.

I think that the solution that they chose demonstrates quite well that they just simply don’t care.
It's interesting to speculate about why they don't use this much more powerful technology to stop ytdl but instead use this much weaker yt specific thing.

Most likely the reason is that they keep the botguard system for the stuff that matters to them a lot more like account signups and click fraud, and don't want to incentivize the ytdl guys to break it on behalf of spammers/clickfraudsters.
I think it would be helpful if you read the book Hindutva by Vinayak Savarkar, the founder of the RSS. You’d be surprised by how closely they’ve followed the blueprint of hate and division set out by him 100 years ago.

Here’s a review of the book - https://reddit.com/r/india/comments/qsdvhb/understanding_hin...
Right, so here is one example of what happens in southern Sweden and why prices are pushed up. This is an example to show how the mechanics work.

Sweden is divided into four price regions for electricity, SE1..4 from north to south.

Demand for power in SE4 (most south) comes from domestic use, and from export from SE4 to Denmark, Germany, Poland (typically, flows can also reverse).

The most expensive supplier sets the current price. Let's say domestic supply is 2 GW. Domestic demand is 1.7 GW and export demand (Denmark, Germany, Poland) is 0.7 GW.

The missing supply is solved by importing from Lithuania to SE4 (1.7 + 0.7 - 2 = importing 0.4 GW); this becomes the most expensive power supplied at this instant and sets the current electricity price in SE4 for domestic users and for those that receive the export. (So we have cheap Swedish electricity for the most part, but the expensive Lithuanian production sets the price in this example.)

In this way, SE4 has enough domestic supply to cover domestic demand. Imports are smaller than exports, but the imports still push up the price for everyone.

Note that import/exports are both on the synchronous grids where applicable as well as using HVDC connections.
This reminds me, Epik markets a 'forever' domain registration. Not what you're asking though as they just renew a domain perpetually so depends on domain operator remaining active (as well as Epik itself).
> On top of that we see articles (this isn't the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nuclear look more advantageous.

Indeed. Similar articles compare mortality rates or co2 across energy sources under a very narrow set of assumptions, ignoring systemic risks and so on.
A professor comes around and criticizes it as it is about to become law:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

- https://www.straightdope.com/21341975/did-a-state-legislatur...
Not quite there with the scanning part, but https://supercook.com comes close.
In this case not a lot happens since it's only used for Z rotation.
You just have to love HN, thank you!
Most AI apocalypse scenarios can be easily recast with "corporations" in the place of AI and then actually just sound like recorded history.

AI taking over a country so that it could use their vital resources?

AI murdering people who stand in the way of their plans?

AI destroying the natural world?

AI creating a ficticous world that people believe in while being exploited?

AI enslaving nations of humans and using them as slaves.
And power storage for solar panels..?

France has buses that quick charge at every second stop with batteries size of Tesla (70 kwh IIRC).
Your second sentence answers your first. On HN, let's stick to the intellectually interesting topics and steer clear of the ones that are mostly just drama.

This is particularly important here, because both of these languages are popular topics already. We don't have space for all of them—frontpage space is the scarcest resource on HN—so we need to be discriminating about which are the best ones.
Also seems pretty hostile towards KDE's MauiKit from an ethical standpoint, as it is both older and trademarked afaik.
In the 90's, texture maps were a luxury for anything. As a result shaders (for offline rendering, realtime shading languages didn't exist yet) were doing everything procedurally.

Here is the only image I could find of the RenderMan Shading Language VIDI SPORTS SHADERS Makina Works sold at the time (you got no source, just bytecode understood by Pixar's implementation at the time, AFAIK):

https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~matt/courses/cs563/talks/renderman/S...

What is interesting here is that the shaders did everything on a sphere primitive.
All RenderMan implementations at the time (there were more than just Pixar's) were micropolygon renderers. I.e. displacement was almost free in terms of compute overhead.

Even the football operated on a sphere that the shader deformed into the resp. shape. All patterns, stripes etc. were procedurally generated. Each shader had texture slots to apply custom logos.
OP insisted on _native_ desktop apps, not wrapped web apps. Otherwise Java/Swing would have been a no-brainer.
I gave a handful of talks/presentations at various local meetups that has resulted in most of my inbound requests.

Also participating in hackathons has been good ways to get a network and to be noticed.
I’m drawing a blank on how many wars have been fought over oil.
I do not think that effective transfer of energy from the north to the south would matter much. The price in the energy market is set by the actor willing to pay the most at any given moment.

If energy from the north was enough to influence the German or British prices then maybe, otherwise it wouldn't really matter.
> This can only be the case if the government is not acting in good faith, and has planned for this eventuality.

Because during normal times it actually leads to cheaper prices. It has only really been an issue now due to the crisis.

Also this is mostly a consequence of the free market. In the late 90s and early 2000s the Nordic countries freed the electricity markets of the very tight government control. The markets then over time decided that they can make more money by combining each other by joining nord pool (originally a Norwegian company)
Soviet fleet on the Thames (2020)
Find beautiful images to illustrate your blogs
The White House Has a Plan for Big Tech
People buy rolex to imitate "successful" people. Very few buy rolex because it's useful to them or they are into clock engineering. Rolex doesn't output ads that explain how the clock works; instead they pay celebrities to show up with their watches ostensibly.

Look around you at society. People buy brand cloth like $300 white tshirt because of the brand logo on it. I think it's pretty established how humans behave on that regard. Now if you're not convinced (it seems), i suggest you google some sociology studies and look into something more scientific than my example. Feel free to share if my observations are proven untrue.
We have nuclear weapons for those… Nuclear power doesn’t necessarily ease weapon proliferation, weapons where there first!

Wars are dangerous by default, our biggest issue with Ukraine war is definitely not the power plant but the war itself…
The Queen Mother Dies at 96 ,World mourns death of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II , RIP
As those domains will be expensive compared to common ones since it's expected you'll be paying the equivalent of a number of renewal years, squatting will be a much more expensive business to do.
Sounds like what I'd heard about first PhD in CS was wrong, according to:

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/159591-who-earned-first...

I'm still going to keep a couple light anecdotes...

At Brown CS, beloved professor/statesman Andries van Dam once joked that, if he knew he was going to be the second, he would've worked faster.

When I was later at MIT, I was in a research group with Wexelblat's son. When I told him Andy's joke, he thought it was hilarious, said Andy was a family friend, and something about the only reason his dad was first was because his mom did the typing for his dissertation.
IIRC the trend, including the obligatory cutesy avatar (and PL as a life-style choice /g), started with Java. And Java was ~coincidental with internet breaking out of universities. So my guess would be that it's 'an internet thing'.

p.s. 'Rotary Club' popped into my head after posting this. Possibly this is a manifestation of "learned" (lol) and professional associations for a domain that famously lacks professional credentials, so 'birds of a feather' naturally form around the specialized tools and their users. And we get PL feel good conferences, the language hero (Gosling, Pike, et al.), the stuffed animals, and the rest of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_societies#History
Yes, but:

”Your simple script goes from being small, simple, self-contained, and elegant gem, to requiring a full browser, specialized drivers, and/or daemons running just to work”

Complex problems cannot be solved by simple scripts, but they can be abstracted away to vendor libraries when/if they are well maintained, such as in this case. While it can break with time, at least someone else fixes it for you.
Transmission capacity is a classic example of a neat economics problem.

If there was a benevolent dictator making ideal decisions, they would build enough transmission capacity to minimize generation+transmission costs while still serving all users in the country.

However, if there is a private company building a transmission line, they have an incentive to under-build capacity to maximize their profits - since if they overbuild, then the price in all the regions is identical, and their profits by transporting energy are nil.

Yet, due to the nature of transmission lines, it doesn't make sense for 50 companies to build 50 independent transmission lines on the same route to compete on transmission pricing - the total cost of fifty 1 megawatt lines is far higher than one 50 megawatt line.

It's a good example of an economics problem where the free/restricted market doesn't work anywhere near as well as the benevolent dictator model.

There are lots of similar problems - for example shipping goods from a place where they are less valuable to a place they are more valuable.
While working down there, we could use the opportunity to remove some plastics.
True, retrofitting will always cost more than outfitting during original construction, and having the builder involved enables economy of scale when many (near-)copies of the same house design are built.
Why does it matter if anyone remembers you when you're dead?
Vibes-first payments experience – Venmo for 2000 EU banks
Org mode with markdown export through pandoc
> certainly the best static analysis textbook out there

During my PhD I really felt stupid reading Muchnick and not getting data-flow analysis.
Nielson & Nielson literally saved my PhD and enabled the creation of the company. I'm so grateful.

Do you have any contact? It'd be cool to invite one of the authors to our weekly internal meetings.

> the authors have written a prequel

Oh crap, that's great!

Honestly, we use Chapter 2 a lot, it already provides so much value. And in fact, you could write a whole book only about that.

Here's our C++ implementation of MFP:

https://github.com/revng/revng/blob/develop/include/revng/MFP/MFP.h#L66

Having infinite time, it'd be nice to rewrite some LLVM analyses using it.

We joke saying that we'll open a new company when we start using Chapter 3 effectively. :)

Btw, if you're in a CEST-friendly time zone and are interested in what we do, drop us an e-mail :)