skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Norway has been self-sufficient for a very long time, but due to the Acer agreement with EU Norway is in practice forced to export electricity until the price balances out at both ends (https://www.nrk.no/ytring/energien-var-strommer-ut-1.1605630...). There's no way that the surplus in production can cover the current needs of Europe. In summer the domestic need is very much lower than during winter (no domestic A/C necessary, bright days etc), so normally you try to save as much water as possible during summer so that you have sufficient resources for winter. But now the hydro power plants are in practice forced to empty out the reserves during summer, and buy electricity from the continent during winter, completely reversing the practice before Acer - which was basically that the surplus was sold and exported, and when e.g. Denmark has too much wind power available you turn down the hydro a bit and import from Denmark, and when there's low wind you export to Denmark (Norway's hydro is one reason Denmark can rely on wind power that much).

The only thing (the only thing) that limits electricity exports from Norway is capacity. Prices in the north of Norway are lower than in the south, simply because there's not enough capacity to transport that much to the south. That's actually a good thing, and would be a good thing for the cables from the south to the continent and elsewhere as well, because what's happening now is insanity. It makes no sense to dry out the water resources during summer and buy in the winter, from coal and whatnot.
I recommend The Theoretical Minimum [0].

[0] https://theoreticalminimum.com/courses
You’ve described an onion domain basically.
Gas from waste is good because it's carbon negative (especially capturing methane that would otherwise be emitted is important).

But as you say, it might be limited in scale. However, we can now economically synthesize hydrocarbons from electricity, so that's an option, though doing it (and gas-from-waste) for chemical feedstocks is probably the long term destination. Burning stuff is simply not very clean or efficient, so there's usually a better way to do whatever it is we're trying to do.
Canned questions do not deserve an answer. If the person conducting the interview can't ask good technical questions, how could I hope to get good technical answers out of them. Interviews are both ways.

It's not a pride thing, I want to work with people who can think. Asking leetcode questions proves they don't bother.
I don't think she has the baggage to think about such complex topics. She's a singer. I think it's too much to expect her to rethink our society model. On the other hand, i think as an ordinary citizen, she knows that private jets pollute a lot. And that she can do something about easily.
“As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.”

- Peter Cook
> because renewables are too volatile to power a grid.

This isn't why.

Batteries stabilise grids. If every car was an EV, the batteries in the vehicles would be sufficient to stabilise a completely wind/solar grid. Heck, put PV on car bodies and you get 80-90% of their average demand, and that's one of the worst places to put PV.

Also, geothermal is not at all volatile, tidal is regular enough for a smaller storage requirement, hydro doubles as storage, and even with PV and wind larger grids are always less volatile and yes you can go global on paper.

No, the reason why grids aren't already renewable is that it takes time to build new infrastructure, combined with renewables only getting cheap enough to seriously consider that anywhere in the last two decades, and in most places in the last one decade.
Ah, marvellous - thank you!
You could argue that all domestic energy infrastructure could be nationalized and energy sold at cost to domestic users, but then where does the money come from for investment?
I've been curious to see what a stable diffusion type thing trained on blueprints and schematics could produce.

The magnum opus of such a project would be something that could produce the circuit from the text "a guitar pedal that makes a guitar sound like wet blankets and dry pickles in the washing machine."

The extension of your idea would be a piece of software that could generate the BoM and gcode to assemble the circuit, or in your instance the bricks.

The meta of that would be the circuit that could build circuits that build circuits.
We Solved Nuclear Waste Decades Ago - https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k

The safe long-term storage of nuclear waste is not a technical problem. It's a political problem. The public opposes even just doing research into safer storage methods for nuclear waste. In 2016, the Department of Energy test wells for deep borehole disposal were cancelled due to protests. The tests were not even going to involve nuclear material! The opposition feared that the tests might show that the area was geologically appropriate for the safe storage of nuclear waste.
There's plenty of calls to change the pricing rules but I'm amazed that there is so much political resistance. We could be changing this now.

See my other example of effects of the current market rules https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32798081

Something is wrong with how prices are formed in this market.
In my former company we had a small software project to write a small driver for remote command execution on an embedded processor. Dealt with many senior managers on the internally outsourced SW side, and after months what we got was terrible. Buggy, inflexible, etc. It eventually came to a head and we had a meeting where the guy actually doing the work was called in. He was fresh out of college, and way over his head. Layers of management meetings, deadlines, pressure, testing by the HW teams, bug reports, etc. Never once did that team get more senior devs in to re architecht (or even architecht in the first place). In the end we dropped what they had and rewrote it in a few days, and we're HW guys.
>More than zero is too many.

I don’t think this is the correct way to look at it. That may seem harsh but humans certainly never have nor ever will think that way. For example, what is the risk of death associated with climbing up the tree to get the apple. How much are people willing to pay to buy a safer car? There will always be a tail risk. Mitigating the risk will eventually not be worth the cost, either it terms of resources or human years spent on reducing the risk. A much more recent salient example is that most societies on earth have decided that the risk from dying from COVID is worth it to continue living a normal life. If we applied your standard, we should never leave our house and do anything constituting a normal life.
What agile teams discuss in retrospectives
There has been a lot of talk about building more infrastructure between the North of Norway and the south. I personally don't think that it would make much difference except increase the prices in the north. The North of Norway produces about 17% of all the electricity in Norway in 2017 with about 10% of countries population. It's also colder for a lot longer up there. Ongoing joke: Missed the summer this year, had to go to the loo.

The latest news was that most of the excess capacity will be used up within the next few years because the oil and gas industry is mandated to connect their plattforms to the electrical grid instead of producing their own power from gas.
>you would need 5000 people to be able to maintain it

For 1yr.
EU regulations forbid most subsidizing of goods withing country borders in general. There are some exceptions, like for example agriculture.

There were a lot of reports made before the cables were created indicating that prices would not change much. I believe these were created in good faith by incompetent people.

People in Norway are currently paying full price, but the government is refunding 90% of the cost above ~0.7 USD / KWh.
I found the RetroArch source (https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch) very accessible, when I added a simple title sanitisation it was easy to figure out what I had to change and where the changes needed to be. The accessibility of the source was particularly helpful as it was the first non-trivial C code I had come in contact with.
Just use VS Code with a nice theme and some plugins. Or org-mode.
Seems he/she read the manual and memorised it. Hell that is a huge green flag for me. If they can keep that manual in their head, then perhaps the GOF or other books too. Snap them up.
Honestly wasn't thinking of maui...

https://avaloniaui.net/

I used this when I had a mac and it worked well.

I wouldn't touch maui for now.
"If I was from Norway or Sweden I would demand the national grid to massively invest into the transmission lines to make all the electricity produced in the country actually usable anywhere in the country. "
That would be fine if it was only about prices in the country. But due to the way the EU agreement works, higher capacity transmission lines only means that more electricity will be exported and more of those countries would suffer.
Norway currently exports more than the surplus. With higher internal transmission capacity Norway would export even more. Which will have to be imported from EU comes winter, at prices which have already closed a LOT of businesses in Norway.
i would like to have a permanent email for example .. a service for which i now pay godaddy though they dont actually do anything other than DNS
China had a plan to dominate tech. It's all gone wrong
Nuclear, appropriate to all lands and strengths of desire for self-sufficiency.
From my current reading of Dart/Flutter[0] the output is not a wrapped webapp.

[0] https://dart.dev/tools/dart-compile
The Open Source Software (OSS) Secure Supply Chain (SSC) Framework
> EU.org domains can be registered for free and do not expire.

But "eu.org" is not a TLD.

If I were looking to register a domain for 10 years, the last thing I would do is put myself at the mercy of a middleman peddling subdomains.
Nice.

Can anyone from India comment? I imagine a lot of this is mobile, what is the v6 like on fixed broadband?
...yes? In my very first comment I was saying they could do either and it was only unimportant petty motivations that made them choose.
Do you think europeans live in huts or something? Usually we suffer more deaths in heat waves than any winter. On top of that, any statistic will show you that "europeans" deaths from freezing in cold waves come mainly from... Russia!

I trust 100% in my home to keep me alive in the winter without using heat, even if I need to use gloves and double socks. But I've zero fear of freezing to death.
We had good free-market solutions that we didn't use either, so I'm not totally sure that free-market thinking is the root cause, unless you're referring to people using 'free-market' as an excuse to do things that help the rich and the powerful, while ignoring 'free-market' things that would help other groups, which is often the case.

Probably best to seperate people knowlingly lying about science/politics/economics to suit themselves from the activities themselves, though that can be complicated at times.
The Trouble with “The Big Bang”
Even after 10 years I still have anxiety looking at OpenGL code. I still don't understand why we needed to write ray-tracing during a BSc course starting from a blinking cursor. The professor tried to defend that at the time, but I firmly believe that it is the wrong curriculum for a 20 year old CS student. Computer graphics were and are niche programming, and should not be taught main-stream. Out of 100 graduates maybe one will ever use this, why not use some common sense and teach something useful?
I was wondering why people don’t do that in sf
All fiber to the home service providers here (Jio, Tataplay fiber, Airtel etc) support IPv6 "out of the box".
Have you heard of airbnb?
That contract you mention is basically that you transmit electricity from where it's cheaper until the price balances out at both ends. That's when you stop (unless capacity limits you before that happens). It's a horrible contract, there's no consideration for rational planning of e.g. seasonal availability (which is enormously different in Norway compared to the continent). Ref. a link in my other comment (nrk.no) which explained this (in Norwegian. Translate can probably handle it).
The sad thing is that politicians, including the former prime minister, seems to not understand the nature of the contract they signed. They still thinks it's about exporting surplus and importing from surplus, which it's not at all about.
Aptera debuts the gamma version of its 1k mile range solar electric vehicle
Since I've seen a similar thing in the 90s, I have a practical point to make.

If a two-tier app sends out emails, PLSQL/dbplugin does it. Now every ops task for sending emails involves the DB and by extension, your data is at stake. To launch a new parallel process, or to roll a new version, or to spread to a different location, or to kill a frozen process, or to measure much RAM a new feature has eaten, these are all DB tasks despite the fact that the task was just for a send-email feature.

Anything happening server-side (i.e. not on a user's device) needs to pass DBA middlepersons.

To put it back on feet, the architecture might be: the DB is one of the services. A frontend can talk to a database, and the two can work out the protocol, the authn/authz, the load balancing. They don't need any CRUD "backend" that is not really a "back" "end" but just a glorified boilerplate SQL-to-JSON converter.

The tradeoff is that you lose a lot of implicit trust. An email service cannot trust the frontend with the business rules. If user is allowed to only send to a set of recipients - it's an email service that needs to query that set from the DB.
System Design Mind Map for Building Distributed Systems
Won't the amount of variations possible in the bricks be very limited? A full size brick, a half brick, a 3/4 brick and sizes in between. Isn't the app then going to give the same set of recommendations for almost every brick pile? In that case is it even a brick scanning app anymore?

Post read edit: Facepalm. This is about Lego bricks!
> For example, crypto enthusiasts often imagine a world where individuals control their own wallets directly — storing the cryptographic code on their local computers or phones, not using a third party, like MetaMask.

MetaMask is a local self-managed wallet though, not a third party in the sense that the MetaMask service company manages your keys.
> I would argue that most larger Western nations have the ability to be self-sufficient in electricity.

If I recall correctly granite by virtue of its uranium content has more energy than coal does by combustion. And everywhere has granite if they dig deep enough. If you’re willing to import uranium you have even fewer non-political problems if you have the requisite engineering skills. Among European countries that probably excludes places like Malta and Luxembourg but if Finland can do it there’s no reason to believe e.g. Ireland couldn’t.
Tried it. Not being random, I earned some virtual money fast (iteration 39: I guessed left (wrong). You pressed right. My guesses are correct 28% of the time (overall).)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n46fda7nmm0wi0e/20220911_112422.jp...
Architecture for Flow with Wardley Mapping, DDD, and Team Topologies
> higher capacity transmission lines only means that more electricity will be exported and more of those countries would suffer.

Build better transmission within the country but not between countries. The transmission lines between countries is how you limit how much electricity you can trade with other countries.
This works remarkably well in that you might think you'd end up throwing away a lot of good socks, but in my experience socks are surprisingly prone to either design flaws that sees many socks from the same batches wear out in the same way around the same time and/or similar wear from your footwear etc., so when they start going odds are you'll see a series of rapid failures, and you're not losing much by replacing them all when you're left with few enough.
I don't understand the obsession with either side of significance or insignificance. People ought find out what works for them - and it's individual. Personally, I loved Ray Dalio's book Principles - not as a discussion of finance (which it also is!), rather as a means to help me solidify the idea of codifying my life principles. These in turn, provide tremendous meaning and support to my decision making process.

Everything, every action, every step one takes has some form of an impact on something. The question is merely whether or not as individuals we care about it. Significance is in the eye of the beholder, and measurable on a scale that you determine.

Am I insignificant compared to anything in space - absolutely. But what if my generations learn the lessons I deem important for them to learn? I might argue my impact is massive, it's now generational. Remember my name or not - but instilling and living ideals.. sounds like a large impact to me. That may not work for others. YMMV.
There's also a lot of land that is suitable for solar that is too dry or the soil too poor to be suitable for agriculture.
Is it just me, or does the Brave Browser (Version 1.40.113 Chromium: 103.0.5060.114 (Official Build) (x86_64) on macOS Catalina 10.15.7)
have trouble showing this web page, constantly trying to show a subscribe message and having it blocked causing lots of flickering?
Markably would be it for me, it's a Progressive Web App, so it works offline.

[0]: https://app.markably.io/
There are groups trying to solve the problem of drilling deep enough to tap into geothermal in countries that don't have fissures useable enough for this like NZ and Iceland. At the depths we can currently get to, we are looking at heat-pump technology rather than the ability to drive steam turbines.

As for wave generation, the problem afaik is simply the hostile environment of the sea and how long the equipment will last in what is basically a large electrolyte! There are a lot of experiments and some small scale production north of Scotland but after a few years, the equipment simply corrodes away. One example: https://www.offshore-mag.com/renewable-energy/article/142032...
Not neccesarily. They could choose to implement a two-tier system for pricing. One system for internal use (within Finland), and only making the rest available for export (and thus Europe) after the finnish needs have been covered.

The full market integration isn't a natural law, as some free-market enthusiasts would have you believe.
EU is not used as a scapegoat except for those who use EU as a scapegoat for everything - there's always someone.

The 'scapegoat', if you will, is the Acer contract - and that's not really a scapegoat, it's the real issue: Exports must continue until prices balances at both ends.
In the Nordpool market area/nordic grid, Norway and Sweden dominate production and hence prices in the nordics & baltic area. They tend to export a lot as well to the continental grid. But this may still lower the prices a bit.

live stats: https://www.svk.se/en/national-grid/the-control-room/

(Interestingly Norway is as of this writing importing electricity from continental Europe despite being a big hydro exporter usually - they are I'd guess conserving hydro for more profitable market conditions ahead, functioning as a battery for the continental grid.)
When Norway sells electricity across the new cables to the UK we share the profits with the brits. Makes sense, since the risk and cost of building the cables was shared.

It reminds me of the App Store model where Apple takes 30% of the revenue instead of charging a charging a fixed fee of some sort.

Would be very interesting if there was a transfer fee for the new cables instead of a profit share model. Even more interesting if there was a bidding process for the transfer capacity like there is for actual electricity.
The analog parts provide some interesting undocumented features. It’s possible to play 4 channels of 8-bit samples, filter them and still have 2 of the 3 SID channels free for other audio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6mXLxUZvzg
Historically there was a risk of pretenders trying to seize the thrown. And it was important to have clear continuity to avoid this. So much of what you see is about securing the new king and the queen is coincidental. Just look at the announcement message for an example of this.

"The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.

The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow."

The important bit is the second sentence where they proclaim Charles as king. And within 24hrs the key figures will have made an oath to him.

Also, prepping for this kind of thing is a good task for a slow day.
> the user doesn’t really care if they start over.

This user certainly does, and, unless there is strong evidence otherwise, I’d go out on a limb and assume that most users would dislike having to “re-scroll” to the point they were in the list.
> Certificates?

Not a technical requirement. Subject alternative name (SAN) certificates support IP addresses.
Even the state-run broadband ISP goes as far as to offer DHCP prefix delegation: You can get a globally routable address for all your devices.
The price for .stream seem to have been adjusted. Now it costs $45.90 for 10 years on Porkbun.
What is interesting is that microselectronics seems to have improved almost every aspect of our lives except the ability to drive down the cost of semiconductor fab machines.

They were saying that a single wafer etching machine could cost $100M. Yes, one machine. I assume this is why people aren't jumping on the bandwagon, the initial investment is enormous. I also suspect that the people who build these machines can't simply ramp up production of something so specialised.
I find it clunky and verbose. I wrote Pascal and Modula-2 during my VAX years and honestly don't want to go back 30 years or so... But I do find go to be an interesting alternative, as long as no web components are involved.
> In Indian film, an utterly ordinary character in "office job" physical condition will catch bullets, run faster than a full speed train, etc. No pressure to explain the seeming contradiction with ordinary reality. The film could be considered a romance, having ordinary people as protagonists, and these characters would be doing the above-mentioned stunts as part of the plot.

Kind of like anime...
Because graphics is fun. It's a good way to engage with students. Beside, what's important is not the outcome but the journey. You learn to read documentation, to design, to debug and more importantly you learn to learn. Which is what higher education is about.
Thank you - excellent feedback. At first I read it as slightly harsh, but once I put aside my ego and really appreciate the feedback.

Really excellently put.

FWIW stepping through the breakpoints can go forwards AND backwards, and it's embeddable within FAAS environments like Lambda which don't have the debugger available. It uses clever compilation to emulate it in impossible places.

And it's 100% on me that I didn't put this in the site ^.

Thanks again.
What happens if the sponsor or administrator of one of these gTLDs disappears? A lot of them seem marginal and I wouldn’t be too surprised if some were not around in 10 years.
When are two birds in the bush worth more than one in the hand?
I understand where you’re coming from but do understand that in about three months time Nordic politicians will be trying to explain why they’re bailing out foreigners for their poor planning at the expense of their countrymen. Not generally a vote getting line of argument.
There is not just one way to have a free market. The market rules determine market outcomes, and different methods for how prices are formed could be used.
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