skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the link. Really useful.

I don't know the answer to your question for certain, but let me make an educated guess:

- Some electricity production in Latvia is natural gas based cogeneration, meaning it needs to run for inhabitants to have hot water.

- At Pļaviņas hydro station [0], the biggest in the Baltics with 894 MW, water levels were lowered from July 11 until August 20 for maintenance work. Production might not have resumed yet.

- Latvia has an extremely large natural gas storage facility at Inčukalns [0]. This might have something to do with it.

[0] https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%C4%8Dukalna_pazemes_g%C4%81... (sorry, Latvian only)
> What's wrong with meeting people IRL?

I think many of the institutions that support meaningfully connecting with strangers in person are in decline.

Some of them are being out competed by isolating activities, like screens. Some of them are being recognized as philosophically unsound, like church.
Amazon's problem here is that the head of the FTC (Lina Khan) does not like Amazon. See her 2017 Yale Law Journal article about wanting to break them up [0]. Many of the bureaucrats that Biden has hired into his administration do not like big business and will do whatever they can to stop them.

[0] (PDF) https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/e.710.Khan.805_zuvfyyeh.p...
https://ia801603.us.archive.org/12/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.4...

For aspiring high school students to follow Feynman’s footsteps
Please don't ask them to dox their wife.
Is it even possible to have speculative execution and not being vulnerable to related exploits?
Sure, a lot of people got very rich and that's OK since we can also develop so much infrastructure to support it.

What I say is, the problem here comes from restricting the markets in a way that blocks natural trade and things cannot stabilize.

See, flipping burgers for a week in USA gives you an iPhone that is made by countless people all over the worlds but doing the exact same job in Turkey for example gives you a MagSafe charger only and you need to keep flipping burgers for 30 more weeks to get the iPhone.

This creates an labour arbitrage that could have been fixed with people moving around like the way it happens between cities in the same country but instead we have capital movement only which results in wealthy squeezing out the resources of areas of restricted movement, thus perpetuating the arbitrage.

It's almost like a scheme to keep the property owners and the workers in separate classes without an ability to move between classes.
If I were hiring for a Python job the most important questions I would ask be around weeding somebody with this attitude out. If you are coding a little bit on your own account you can get away with this but if you are on a team you are playing to help the other team win if you think this way.
It doesn’t do anything that well, so this could be the chance!
My mother-in-law works an office job and is easily able to do her job from home with no impact on productivity. She also has had a heart transplant so is immunocompromised. Recently her bosses have started pushing her to come back 100% to work even though she has a note from a doctor saying she shouldn't be going into the office.
I like to think of it this way. Compare mathematical axioms and rules of logic to the starting configuration and rules of a board game, let's say chess. All moves in chess follow from the very simple rules of chess. Every possible board position, no matter how complicated, can be reduced to iterated applications of the simple chess rules. It can result in beautiful play that exhibits extraordinary human ingenuity reaching (arguably) the same heights as any art form! Yet, we don't think the rules of chess are a product of the divine simply because we can see something transcendent from their application.

Simple rules can lead to complicated and beautiful behavior. Doesn't mean anything beyond that.
This is the definition of “working smart vs. working hard”. Not everything about the CPU needs to be solved by pushing it to the limits of physics. TDP is not linear relative to CPU freq.
How to Deal with the Man-in-the-Middle?
Got hired into a senior leadership role at a fairly large corporation. The role is within the central IT/digital function, however the individual business units have their own technology sub-units that work as a man-in-the-middle. Think of e.g. logistics having their own logistics IT that is there to facilitate dialogue between the logistics operators and the central IT who is in charge of the actual delivery of IT development, deployment, and operations.

During my interviews it was coming through that there is a challenging relationship between the centralised IT and the business area IT units. That sounds understandable since facilitating a great collaboration between the end user and central IT could make them (business function IT) superfluous.

Has anyone been in a similar and has some words of wisdom they would be willing to share?
>How can other languages without a big corporate sponsor attract funding to help grow the language and build related libraries?

People will switch to new tools when they are roughly 2x better than their current way of getting something done. If you specialize in a niche and make better tool optimized for that niche, you might get all of the people interested in that niche. The internet reaches most of humanity now, so even the smallest niche can be enough to sustain interest.

Alternatively, you can bring a new approach to a problem, a better mousetrap. Since people are flooded with such claims, the best way to gain traction is to show the tool having successfully used on several non-trivial projects. You can then use a "these cool things were build using X" marketing strategy.

Neither of these requires corporate involvement, just persistence and authentically listening to feedback and learning from it.
Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen?
If someone is doing ML or video editing and the software is not using the GPU for most parts of the workflow, I'd like to invite that person to 2022.

Now Dwarf Fortress, that's another beast with no cure...
I'm not sure why you keep steering the conversation to Rust. It doesn't matter how doomed Rust's Read trait is. Zig is a totally different language. Zig is not bound by the same design tradeoffs. That is why it's possible for Zig to have generic functions in its Reader interface, such as today's `readInt`, or tomorrow's `readAllArrayList`.
Imagine being so guilty about your piracy websites that you think going after coordinated harassment is a threat? I'm sure it's just the author's incredibly high-minded.. oh yeah, the article is trash and mostly answers nothing except lending credibility to shit journalism in mild centrist support of said coordinated harassment.
Supposedly from northern Sweden, according to a Swedish friend. Take this with a grain of salt.

They have a lot of power generation in the north, but not enough transmission capacity to transfer it to the population centers in the south, so they have to sell it cheaply to their neighbors, and buy expensive electricity from their neighbors in the south.

This all worked fine when they could buy cheap electricity from their southern neighbors. But now they have a problem.

A few weeks ago there was 10X or more electricity price difference between north and south Sweden.

Take a look at:

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

Pick, for example, August 26, 2022, at 11:04. Prices up north are 14 euro per MWh, and 750 euro per MWh in the south.
I guess you should Google it but the point is not about if NPP is slower or faster to build than PHV.
I've heard similar reports. I've also directly suffered very malignant management in the past before covid. We're talking people who were outright awful to the business and some who were ultimately fired.

There needs to be better management of management.
Currently self-hosting a PeerTube video as a backup for my Twitch VODs, maybe as a backup for the eventual YouTube account that I might have to make.

Even with low end hardware (e.g. 200 GEs as homelab servers, with 1 CPU core allotted to transcoding) generally transcoding is faster than the video itself. E.g. 2 hour videos will take less than 2 hours to transcode (1080p, 30fps, going from a bitrate of 7000 to closer to 3500 using H264). On an unrelated note, buying a Seagate HDD is way cheaper than buying that storage "in the cloud", as long as you have backups figured out.

Using my desktop (even kdenlive with CPU encoding, on an old Ryzen 5 1600, 6 cores and 12 threads), it happens even faster than that, albeit it's nice to be able to drag a video file into PeerTube and have it be automatically transcoded to both 1080p, 720p and 480p, for various devices/connection speeds.

I tested out VP8 (libre) a while ago but it was still somehow slower to encode and had larger file sizes than H264. I guess YouTube just doesn't give you as many resources given the large volume of videos that it needs to deal with.

In case anyone is interested:

Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org/en/

PeerTube: https://joinpeertube.org/
In my experience, the only people who "look behind doors" are those who stand behind them. If you have time to determine who among your co-workers is slacking you either do not have enough work to fill your own job description or should be in HR.
Heh, my screentime went up this last week because I also recently discovered this rabbithole during a downtime from regular game night. Reading through old Zine-Quest (https://www.kickstarter.com/zine-quest) entries has been particularly fascinating.
The issue is not WFH. The issue is that you work with incompetant people. Even if those people were sitting in a chair at the office, they are likely procrastinating all day, talking to everyone, not doing anything done. Sure they are harder to reach with WFH, but the reality is that they were very bad employees in the first place.

If someone can't be reached on a day they are supposed to be working, well their manager should be addressing the issue and ask them what the fuck they were doing at that time. WFH or not, those are bad employees.
There are software companies outside of FAANG, and programmers at software companies, by and large, are seen as more essential that "just" cost centers.
To be honest, I hate Git. The commands don't really make sense outside some basic stuff. For certain organizational setups it seems like overkill. I am not a full-time programmer but I do programming for my job and for personal projects sometimes and I never enjoy using Git.
I had a LAN party at my house in 2012 and one lunatic brought his 1KW+ PC and tripped a breaker which has seemed really twitchy ever since.
>then high level decision makers can interact with low-level leads

Not my experience at all. There is no "slack" or anything comparable. There is no communications that skip levels. Why would a manager allow that? They would lose their power.
Coin operated Game systems lol. We have come in the whole circle.
Intel CPUs have better idle power consumption that even the latest Ryzen CPUs. It caught me off guard when I switched from Intel to AMD and the idle draw of my PC went up by a significant amount.

Given that our computers spend more time idle than at 100% peak load, my AMD CPU draws more power (and therefore heats up my room) more then my Intel setup. That wasn’t an outcome I was expecting, but then again I was only looking at peak, not idle, numbers at the time.

I really hope AMD can start bringing their idle power consumption down in this next gen.
And a significant portion of being in the office isn't actually doing work but pretending to since management often values that more than actually getting work done.
I don't know how to respond to this other than to reiterate that you seem to be using different definitions of terms to everyone else. Obviously supply need to equal demand at all times in order for the grid to work. The main idea I'm objecting to is that there needs to be some magical flat line somewhere in the breakdown of how that demand is supplied (This is what most people refer to as 'base load'). Yes, the conclusion of how you meet demand with a bunch of intermittent supply is you build more supply than you need on average, you distribute it geographically and increase how much energy you send long-distance through the grid, and you build lots of storage (and think about what you're going to do with all the leftover energy when potential supply exceeds demand). But this solution does not contain anything which resembles what most people mean when they refer to "base load".
Let's be real - a lot of tech companies over-hired from late 2020 to early 2022. Many need to cut staff now that the capital markets have dried up. The easiest way to do that without an actual layoff is to reneg on the promise of being able to work from home. A lot of people will just deal with it, but a small amount won't, and will quit. This is the easiest way to go if you're the executive team, since a lot of this 'soft layoff' will happen voluntarily and will save a lot of the expenses (not to mention the negative signals sent to the market) that come with a real layoff.
Ok... a Chevy Bolt has a curb weight of 3,600 pounds as well. That's comparable in size to a Honda Fit at 163", but the Fit weighs 1,000 pounds less.
> Based on the evidence presented, it is possible that some (how much?) of Einstein's most famous work was a collaboration between Maric and Einstein, and they simply didn't include her in the credits, because it was easier to get published as a single male author (and they needed the money).

Honestly, seems kinda revisionist.

"Hey we discovered radically exciting things that fundamentally change how we understand the universe. It's literally going to be called miraculous. Too bad the sexists just won't publish it if there's a woman's name on it. Also we'll never bother to correct the record once the status of the discoveries is established. Oh well, all credit to Einstein then!"
Très bonne! :-)
I mean...yes? That's just supply and demand. People in the office need places to eat lunch, maybe some stores where they can run some errands before heading home, etc. etc. and if there are enough people there will be enough demand for several businesses to service these needs.

Obviously the last few years have thrown everything out of whack but a bustling urban core is a beautiful thing.
I would argue that not all managers necessarily need to be experts at whatever it is I do all day, as long as they can get me what it is that I need to do my job effectively.

I do find it incredibly frustrating when I need to explain repeatedly what it is that I do, or when I tell them what I need and they don't make it happen. Or, try to sidestep it by repeatedly asking for "just one more meeting" on the topic.

The worst is when I raise a concern, they raise a counter, and I have a series of counter-counter points to support my concern, but it is still ultimately dropped because they "don't agree". This predictably leads to issues months later, which leads into the very same people asking, "Why didn't anyone bring this up?" where I can then either mention it and humiliate them, or pretend that it never happened and make myself look like a fool.

Basically, the way I see a good manager is someone who doesn't necessarily need to know the in's and out's of how my job works, but is able to trust my assessments and support my requests, when it comes to getting things done. A manager who is an expert in that subject might be able to draw the same conclusion, but if that trust and support are fulfilled, their level of personal expertise on the subject is largely irrelevant from my perspective. As long as they can fight to get that thing supported, and don't do so in a way that undermines or ignores professional assessment, I don't care what they do or do not know about the topic.
As long as they deliver on schedules they commit to and are agreed to then it's not a problem to have down time.

Even when I worked in an office I would take long walks or leave early, because a rested and happy mind is a productive mind.
This is great! SerenityOS comes up on HN quite a bit and I've always been super impressed. Last time, he almost offhandedly mentioned it had its own browser and I thought that was so notable in itself that I started sponsoring him on GitHub. I'm thrilled to hear his goal has become to make it cross platform now!
It was definitely a breach of the peace, because the opinion is controversial and disrupted the event.

But there's a limit to arresting those speaking out, because it can so easily be abused.

That's the gist of the discussion. What further observations can we make?

They used the death of Elizabeth as an excuse for suppressing the speech during a different event - the solemnizing of a new King. One is related to the other, but I fear this excuse can be used to suppress anything (Have some respect! The Queen died just last month! Stop protesting oil prices!)

And let's admit, this was a goofy event about an imaginary aura being moved from one person (who is dead?!) to another (related to her? Nepotism!) It's up there with witches and demons (belief in otherworldly powers invested in humans). So maybe not of big import to most of us.
Yes and since the earth is large enough to be locally flat a parabola is a great approximation of what happens when we throw a ball.
No, by number of pieces.

> Stein analyzed 20 years of scientifically-designed, statistically based litter surveys in the U.S. and Canada and concluded that total plastic bag litter was less than 1% (by number of pieces). Combining these data with the estimated
annual production of PRBs of 100 billion bags (U. S. International Trade Commission, 2009), and assuming that all of the plastic bag litter resulted from only one year’s production and use of PRBs, leads to the conclusion that less than 0.5% of PRBs end their life as litter
Yes, but the language would be better if correctness and maintainability were not so at odds with performance.
Yes. LibWeb and LibJS were written for the SerenityOS. As mentioned in the article, some work was done to make them buildable and usable on Linux in a headless environment. The Ladybird project is then taking that work and adding a Qt GUI on top of it.
> €(120 - 20) * 2 + 20 = €220/MWh.

No idea about Hinkley Point but TVOs 2 earlier reactors have costs in the 15 to 20€/MWh range with average market prices around 30 to 40€/MWh they are making healthy profits with the reactors (and have for decades now). Once OL3 is running their target combined operational costs of all the reactors are around 30€/MWh. It will be tight but they should be able to make it profitable especially as they don't have to sell all the production at day ahead spot prices but higher fixed rate contracts far into the future. Obviously nuclear also produces at the moments when wind does not and the price spikes.

(https://www.tvo.fi/material/collections/20210713150018/7Rllf... scroll down to page 7)

edit: And TVO does not actually sell anything on the open markets but instead at production costs to its owners based on the % of investment into each reactor. Those can then either sell it or use it themselves.
What do the advanced options mean?
Serenity and Ladybird aren't written from the perspective of the user though. They're written from the perspective of the developers, who write functions they'd like, and that they'd like to learn more about, or as the Serenity website states:

> This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.
> Why are we still generating video signals as if there is a CRT on the other end?

Because it's extremely simple electronically. It was designed to be simple to work with very slow electronic hardware made of discrete components. So it's basically child's play to generate it with a modern FPGA as there are huge error bars even if you make some small mistakes.

Also blanking areas are still important because at the end of a pixel row there is still some amount of extra electronic stuff happening that is slightly slower than jumping to the next pixel. Even on LCDs or OLEDs.

Even 4K HDR HDMI 2.1 still has something akin to blanking intervals.
In Italy the Law is different, AFAIK there are no prohibitions on filming in public (be the target ordinary people or police/law officers) the limitations come into place when/if you want to "diffuse" the filmed material (i.e. post the video on social, youtube and similar), you need either an authorization[1] from the people filmed or you need to make them not recognizable (i.e. pixelate/obfuscate their faces and/or other recognizable areas).

I believe there are some exceptions, like public gatherings and similar and the purpose for which the video is published/made available but I think it is a fine line to walk on.

From what I understand about this specific device, the whole idea circles around Meta/Facebook (i.e. to publish the taken videos) and from a legal viewpoint it is likely to open a large can of worms.

[1] this takes the form - in theory - of a signed declaration by the subject including name, surname, address, etc. all "sensible data", I don't think anyone has ever done this outside professional filming
To those who want to try NetSurf on Ubuntu, I recommend installing from Flatpak. The default Ubuntu package seems to be broken on HTTPS sites; or at least was when I checked it the last time.
I find this to be a pretty lame analysis.

> People in the 1800s did have diets that were very different from ours. But by conventional wisdom, their diets were worse, not better. They ate more bread and almost four times more butter than we do today. They also consumed more cream, milk, and lard. This seems closely related to observations like the French Paradox — the French eat a lot of fatty cheese and butter, so why aren’t they fatter and sicker?

Lard doesn’t make you fat. If anything it fills you up so you eat less and gain less weight. A lot more of the prior generations were also laborers which this acknowledges but really underplays.

The section on why hunter gatherers aren’t obese is answered by the fact that they are hunting and gathering.
Why Self-Host Your Open Source Applications on Kubernetes
They are losing the process manufacturing game so need to make up the lost ground somewhere.
A friend of mine works for the state. She was told to return to the office. The office is in another city. She is having to buy a condo in that city in order to make that feasible.
I'm using it on a Pixel 6 with Android 13.
I've seen the same with people at the office disappearing for a long time. I even found out once we had a coworker taking naps in the toilets seat and one that got fired after years of setting up fake meetings while he was playing golf or running errands.

You can't be on everyone's back all the time anyway and this do not really happen in a well managed company where everyone has a real purpose, goals and has to report on the job done.
Can you give some details (components and consumption)? I'm interested in the topic, and I've done some wall measurements as well, in the past and present.
Since noctua nh d15 air cooling has been on par or surpassing any aio and even all but the high end custom loops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeQX1uhb0iQ
In my experience talking to customers without having domain knowledge tends to not end with the best outcomes.

edit: Which is why you've got sales engineers, solutions engineers and so on at most competent companies that do external sales. Internally you've got product and project managers with technical backgrounds.