skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> up to 8.7GW (and probably never less than 1GW).

And then we would also would have had to build ~8GW of new gas/oil/coal plants or dam more rivers for hydro.

Electricity is used for heating in Finland. Not having enough electricity in the winter is not an option. We need ~9GW of constant production with peaking to around 13GW to survive winters.

edit: Or some absolutely insane amounts of storage to store a week or two of that ~8GW to handle the worst case scenarios.
I don’t use Emacs these days but I still enjoy keeping up with it.

The performance issues with elisp keep it from “conquering” more of the world.

I expect to wake up one morning and read on HN that they’ve finally fixed it.

Then the Ultimate Editor Construction Kit will win over another generation.
Our earliest ancestors found plants to heal wounds, cure diseases, and ease troubles with the mind. We can use these qualities today to spare first aid kit supplies and meds in the prepper kit for more serious issues
GOP senators led by Graham slam Trump Jan. 6 pardon promise
The recursive stuff is pretty cool. In general, I like CTEs a way to break queries into pieces to improve readability and understanding (among other improvements).

Also, integrating aggregate functions along with row_number() and similar functions to perform more complex work with less code.
Obviously, because s/he, the languages, stack and software he uses, his software development practices etc are all way better than the WordPress ones. Thats why they are bad. And that's why it is his language, stack and app that is 50% of all websites and 30% of all ecommerce sites in existence. Not WordPress.
How about this:

Translate "${input}" from English to French.
Cloudflare seems fairly expensive for on-demand (that is, uploaded ahead of time) video. They list their prices as $1/1000min delivered plus $5/1000min/month stored. I presume transcoding is included in those rates (since I don’t find any other line item).

Translate Bunny’s pricing <https://bunny.net/stream/> to these numbers: $1/200GB delivered (assuming the volume network—the standard network is 2–12× the price, but I would not expect it to be justified) plus $5/500GB/month stored, and transcoding is included in those rates.

Bunny is cheaper to deliver below 26⅔ Mbps, and cheaper to store where the sum of all transcoded forms is below 66⅔ Mbps. This will almost always be cheaper, normally much cheaper. It depends on the content, but your 1080p60 video is almost always under 10Mbps, probably under 5Mbps, not uncommonly well under 2Mbps. Your bill with Bunny will probably be less than a third of your bill with Cloudflare, and for typically more static sorts of content (e.g. programming tutorials), probably less than a tenth.

(I am presuming the products are roughly equivalent. This may or may not be true. I have used neither.)

I should also mention that Cloudflare’s sample pricing uses grossly unrealistic rates: they translate “500 GB of HD videos” into “1,200 minutes of video content”, which means 55 5⁄9 Mbps. “HD” tends to mean 1080p these days, though it does still get used for 720p too. (Some label 1440p and 2160p/4K as HD too, but I’d say they’re beyond it.) I accuse Cloudflare of using a rate that’s around four times too high. They don’t go into detail on their “typical public cloud provider” costs so I don’t know how realistic the rest is, but given how they’ve started with something that makes them look implausibly cheap, I’m not impressed.
Do you know SQLite is a few years older than Git?
My concern is more with Amazon making the repairability of roombas non existent.

I own a non WiFi enabled roomba it's 7 years old and in that time apart from the brushes etc I've had to replace the bin and motor which cost a tenth of the cost of the whole unit.

I love the fact you can buy just about any part that might fail and fix it yourself. I don't see that being the case if any of the major tech corps buy irobot :(
> That is not true. Nuclear power has been used as a dispatchable / regulative source of power to compensate solar and wind power intermittency for decades in France.[1]

You take the most expensive energy source and run it at a lower capacity factor leading to even higher costs per delivered kWh. That is the issue.

Say you run Hinkley Point C [1] at a capacity factor of 50% because renewables crowd it out of the market half the time and assume marginal costs of running the plant at ~€20/MWh. [2]

€(120 - 20) * 2 + 20 = €220/MWh.

That would be expensive even by Putin energy crisis standards, that is the issue with mixing nuclear and renewables.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

[2]: https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
The single file repository is super convenient for one person projects, but just a word of caution to fossil users - backup the repo file often. A while back I downgraded the fossil binary (by accident) and committed a change to a local repo which caused it to be corrupted. It was a repeatable thing, and was annoying at the time, but not a showstopper. I only lost a day's worth of work. I wish fossil had done a version check between the binary and the repo to refuse to alter the repo if the binary version was incompatible.
That’s a shame, it’s a fun show. I mean, using math to fight crime and solve mysteries is a great concept, and the whole point of Charlie using ridiculous metaphors and analogies is to try and make the concepts accessible to his FBI brother and colleagues (and by proxy the audience). Who cares if they are a stretch or not accurate? It’s math on prime time TV, how else do you get it there?
> I think people are very slowly coming to the realization that all the free love stuff didn't really make their prospects of a good family better, and after all, for the most part that is our biological drive.

There's no evidence of any biological drive for family life or having children. (There's a cultural norm for it, for sure.) There's a biological drive for sex, and that's all evolution needs to keep it going.
It’s a fun joke.
If your wages track inflation, then you were previously underpaid for your skill set.

In reality, higher costs may eventually be followed by compensating higher pay, but in the interim everyone just works the same for the same (devalued) pay with a steep drop in discretionary spending because the step function to 'unemployed' is so painful that everyone would rather handle the price feedback through attrition. And in the meantime we get the shittification of all service that wasn't previously operating at high margins, because everyone is making do with understaffing.

And, of course, tomatoes are ridiculous equivalency to attempt. Transportation, energy, and agriculture all lie directly downstream of oil/methane costs, to name a few obvious examples.
Performance Regression in Linux Kernel 5.19
There is an element of click bait but for many young developers Git is the only VCS they ever knew so Git in the title would give more hints about the article content.
Yeah, pretty much all data jobs are mostly ETL, unless you're a researcher.
The jobs employers just can't fill
It works for SQLite because SQLite is tiny. A quick check[1] shows that they have just 1360 commits over the last year, 76% of them from just one author (and just five authors total!).

You don't need complicated branch refactoring tools when you're only sharing with a handful of people. It's like working with RCS back in the day: history is still linear and no one needs to worry about cross-ports between feature branches.

[1] Ironically done using a github mirror, because those are the tools I know and they're fast.
ITER itself costs $21B (over a decade).

Globally we are definitely spending $10B+ per year.
Just yesterday I was looking for how to do this too, and came across this article on how to create videos suitable for streaming (there’s even a Python script). https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2018-self-hosted-videos
"Clearly, not every home can be checked and the police will have to rely on other measures to identify infringements."

How quickly we forget the lessons so recently learned.

I don't get it; if it's "rationed" the entire "using more than reasonable" doesn't seem to be an issue. Don't they track usage at a billing level?
A bigger issue I think is Java's need to box values, primitive or otherwise. For example, even an ArrayList of integers creates an object for each one. IMHO, the Java runtime has many of the design hallmarks of a dynamic language, with strong (generic) types somewhat bolted on.
Ok then. Tuesday at ten it is.
> the Ladybird browser, based on the LibWeb and LibJS engines from SerenityOS.

So, the project does _not_ cover rendering web pages and tracking the HTML, CSS and JS standards. Those are separate projects.

What remains, then? I guess that would be the user interface and user experience.
Surf[1] is merely a Webkit wrapper. If you mean NetSurf[2], it's actually doing OK in resource constrained environments, although it's been a while since a release, which is a bit concerning.

[1] https://surf.suckless.org [2] http://www.netsurf-browser.org
Self-Hosted Videos with HLS
I met the author, Jim Bell, once or twice, when he came by the computer store I was working in as a kid.

He seemed OK, in the few words we exchanged, and maybe a techie/radio hobbyist (IIRC, his car had many antennae on it).

At that time, in the 1980s, someone remarked that Bell had "had one good idea" (the SemiDisk persistent storage card).

Later on, it looks from Wikipedia like Bell had a lot of troubles.

The light joke about "one good idea" IMHO took on new, darker meaning, after some of the choices during the troubles, including the horrifying idea that's the topic of the post.

I suppose a good SF writer could've started with that idea, and explored an (IMHO likely) scenario of it playing out as a tool of the most corrupt and the most insane, and then the dystopia that results in.

I haven't read much of Bell's writings, so I don't know whether at some point he shifted to a cautionary "we should figure out how to prevent things like this, because they would be bad".
Maybe the universities should teach them to code or something...

If these universities survive and operate without this staff, I see no reason not to fire them. Clearly they are not doing productive work and I don't believe in supporting such work.
9000 pounds is 4.5 tons.
Meta Quest Pro leaked after headset left in hotel room
The reason after you make a purchase you still see offers for the same product is because you are still statistically more likely to purchase a vacuum than average. What if the vacuum doesn’t work well, it’s too heavy, the package doesn’t arrive? You’ll be turning around and buying another.
Some other thinkpieces of similar value

"We should link generational wealth to national service"

"We should wire up SkyNet's power button to national service"

"Pogger's Game: Reinventing e-sports for national service"
I live in an area with symmetrical internet, so I host my own videos for mainly one reason (perhaps I am doing it wrong, but hey): I was uploading class videos during the pandemic. Youtube was taking so long to transcode, that by the time it was ready the class date had passed. I literally gave up trying to upload a 50min video. I am not going to beat up on youtube, but I followed the directions and it just did not seem to work.

Hosting my own is/was not too bad. The students had to wait a little longer. I did not hear too many complaints (really thought I would have heard a lot more "why can I not watch this on my youtube app on my phone").

Did not put too much effort into this post-semester, but I still do wonder what the heck other people do. I consider myself a serious veteran IT person, it is my (accidental) profession for decades. I have no idea how people upload 50+ min videos to youtube. I think I left one transcoding for 48 hours. It was not 50% done. I ensured I was using a codec youtube wanted, and even tried more. Ah well.

On the flip side, hosting on your own, you miss out on CDN reach and breadth and POPs that will cache for you. You will also dramatically miss out on speed. Then, if you have more than a few, what about indexing and search-ability? I do not like "big-corp" internet any more than the rest of us, I guess, but they have the infrastructure that we just do not have. A few videos for a class during a pandemic is one thing... but I would ask what your long term goal is in terms of the number of videos. This might change your mind as to how you want to distribute them.
I don't know how to get there, but most people live in an area with enough density to support most people living without a car (leaving only those who need a car - plumbers for example). However it only takes a few to use a car anyway and there isn't enough demand to support the transit needed for everyone to live without a car. These areas mostly don't have traffic, so there is no real negative to using a car in those areas unless you are very poor (at which point the expense isn't choose which luxury to spend money on)
Yeah i'd love to drive a battle mech that'd be amazing. And imagine how jealous the Moms down at soccer pickup would be!
> Java can be very fast, however, it can be well worth avoiding object creation.

I would be extremely hesitant about taking this as general advice for your program. Java object creation should be treated as “fast enough until it isn’t”, at which point you can try applying an optimization technique like this.
Look at Julia. Excellent for numerical simulations, but struggles to reach adoption. Scientific calculations are performed in Python, a slow and verbose language that is inferior for this purpose.
Yes. I agree.

How do you do that with 40% less gas in 1 year? You can't, because you will have rioting in the street, you will have people literally freezing to death, and no green politician will ever get elected again.

Oh, and btw, what's the answer now to this gas shortage? Burning more coal and firewood. So your proposed vision is doubly going in the wrong direction.

This isn't like switching from windows to linux. It takes years, and people actually die in the meantime if you get it wrong.
The problem with the parts is once the machine is no longer being made, they stop making the computer board for it, and the part inventory dwindles.

And when it’s $300-400 for a computer board, you might as well get a whole new machine.

The only way I’ve found to counteract that is to look for commercial or commercial-based units that share parts for years or more. But this can be harder for some classes of equipment ( commercial ovens are NOT at all like residential - they’re usually not insulated) but it can be a start.
I realize that is a bit of a topic change, but do you think that ideal reflects the reality of patents today?

I've read a lot of modern patents, and not one of them was written to convey useful information. They're all dense legal writing, and as vague as the author can get away with.

Most medium/big companies have patent attorneys whose entire job is writing patents. They don't care about the patents having any useful details to make it a useful reference. Usually the attorneys aren't subject experts on the patent topic, and couldn't make it accurate even if they tried.

Modern patents are a game where you file a whole bunch and then wait for somebody to step on one by accident with a parallel invention. Then you sue them unless they have enough patents to also sue you.

Patents don't promote innovation at all, at least not any more. If anything, they're a tax on our industry and they stifle small players - exactly the sort of person who they're supposed to help.
There are entire fields of math that have nothing to do with describing reality. As an example, category theory is completely detached from reality.

You're still thinking of math as a tool, but it is much more than that.
Solar and wind is ~4-5x cheaper than equivalent nuclear power. Complementary pumped storage to account for the intermittency is ~2x cheaper than nuclear power. Combined pumped storage+solar+wind ends up being about ~3/4 of the price and being able to do load following.

Nuclear power's output stability isnt worthless but it requires some pretty impressive mental calisthenics to convince yourself that it's worth quintupling the price tag when you can just build a battery.
For example, you search for decorative pillows and they filter based on those that match the style and color scheme of your living room. That would be an advantage over other retailers, and is just one simple example. OTOH implementation is everything and that wouldn't work well if you just ordered new furniture from somewhere else and are looking for pillows to match that.
This is one of the situations where the proliferation of standards is preferable to technological superiority. I far prefer USB-C to be ubiquitously available over having marginally higher transfer or charging speed.
I think this is horrible behavior from Carlsen. He flubbed the opening and got into a bad position, then throws a temper tantrum insinuating that his opponent was cheating. If you make an accusation like that and it's proven to be false you should be suspended from tournament play.

There is simply no proof, or even a hint of proof, that Niemann did anything wrong. Carlsen, however, is a drama queen with an enormous ego who is using his power to slander another player.

I think Carlsen should be suspended, not Niemann.
I think the Kindle browser runs at least basic JS. In any case it refreshes maybe every half hour or so, which is plenty for weather.

Come to think of it I think the Kindle browser is based on WebKit, so it probably runs any JS that the version of WebKit supports, but given the low-power processor and the 0.5 FPS display, you probably won't get anything too crazy to work.
The whole thing just sucks. I think Hans probably didn’t cheat in St Louis. I think his past online cheating has cast a cloud over what would otherwise be an amazing win over Magnus.
I have a few sites I use AWS Elastic Transcoder to upload the videos to S3 and put CloudFront in front of it.

It works amazing. No ads. No third-party tracking. BUT it is not the cheapest solution. I have one site where there is an auto-play 5 minute HD video on the homepage and it costs $70 a month for just that video. But that's an extreme case, other lower traffic videos are very low cost (< $0.10 / month).

Obviously my workflow is very AWS centric. You could also successfully replace Elastic Transcoder with something like FFMPEG if you are open to doing more work to automate.

Still, you may want to consider one of the services optimized for video as they tend to offer lower cost and have transcoding built in.

To all the people saying to use Nginx or similar: you can do that. I strongly recommend putting a CDN in front of it, though. Because with video buffering a small change in latency can have a big effect and the CDN will make sure the video is served from geographically close edges.
My understanding is that China doesn't have an effective Covid vaccine, thus has to resort to Covid-Zero policies to try to contain infections. This means that most of the Chinese population has no natural immunity, nor will they ever have it. I don't see how this can end well.
For a whole minute before throttling.

Warning: required power station not included.
This combined with the fact that women rate the average man way below average and the average man rates women normally.

https://mobile.twitter.com/stevestuwill/status/1053677226003...
Small set > 98%
Although I agree with the general concern

> it would allow Amazon to jack up the prices for amazon.com queries from the same IP address if the place, say, is really big.

Afaik this sort of airline-style price discrimination is not something amazon engages in ever. Maybe I’m misinformed
Interesting. Not debating the definiation of base load, I always thought we got used to base load.
The name is not the person. The map is not the territory.
This is true but what is more shocking is that the powers-that-be in each of the major countries haven't been able to sit down and say:

Nuclear option: Environment cost, land cost, resource cost, availability of materials etc.
Renewables option: Requirement for the correct geography, unbalanced grid, storage options, increase of energy efficiency etc.

Then at least work out that currently in situations a, b and c, only Nuclear is viable, whereas in situations d, e and f, renewables make sense.

In almost all cases, it will need to be a mix and I'm unsure that anywhere has so many renewables that have a massive problem. Australia struggled with too much solar but their grid is still alive so in many countries, we could probably scale renewables more quickly for some capacity. Nuclear is longer term and might be needed where you don't have Norway's water or Iceland's geothermal, great.

Why does everyone have to be an extremist on these discussions?
Are they unreliable? They break down unexpectedly and require a lot of maintenance? I don't think so. Furthermore, when they break the risk is spread out - a whole lot would need to go out at the same time to cause issues.

You probably meant their output is unpredictable. But even this is wrong, since weather forecasts allow for a very predictable output.

Nuclear is neither - it requires extensive maintenance (see France), and they can go out unpredictably, taking out a lot of capacity at an instant (see France).

And turbines also take a lot less space than say parking lots.
Because it needs Bluetooth and/or WiFi to connect to the vacuum. Those both require location privileges
Just a further note: "AI" is a completely misleading name. No one (sane) in the "AI" business thinks of it as being intelligent. It's just automated statistics (it IS probabilistic) which can find patterns in data. So an An A' pattern won't fit.
Also it usually has much less than a single hundred layers.
Embedding external styles may also violate users privacy and may not be okay with the European GDPR. To be on the safe side, you should only load external resources after the user agreed in a consent dialog. Or just host them on your web server!
Yes, you should copy it and include it in your project rather than pointing to an external URL.
Or you could do nothing and let Wordpress rot until nobody uses it anymore.

Problem solved, nothing to do for 60,000+ plugin developers.
It’s even scarier - you don’t need any conspiracy or communication at all - companies trying to move to “aaS” models with subscriptions will naturally cause this with no collusion at all.
Well, we will have to. Russians already cut us off the gas. That's done.

EU leaders have to start behaving like we are in an economical war, because we are.
https://archive.ph/rmlCA
> I don't think it is super great for the receivers of those likes either

It’s great for users looking for ego boosting via popularity and vanity metrics.
> - No user-defined types. A few good types is better.

> - No higher-order functions.

I'm not creative enough to understand how you can do anything useful without these 2. Can you clarify?
I loved the Civil War, and I think the quality of Vietnam was great too, but it made me so angry I had to stop watching it. I am not of an age where I was in danger of going, but I had siblings that were. They luckily did not go.

I liked his Jazz one too.
No more than 1kW