skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In find it interesting that Wirth would accept needless complexity as jihad, and then put an object oriented programming language at the heart of his "back to basics" workstation Oberon.

Sweeping complexity under the rug isn't the same thing as removing it.
I'm disappointed that paper contains no cost estimates. Those are the key thing with energy storage.
Yes, the Wikipedia page lists their ISO numbers,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
> The MSDS for that jar of peanut butter says it's not an asphyxiant... as someone with peanut allergy, I beg to differ ;)

Just in case the sarcasm wasn't abundantly obvious, the precise term used was simple asphyxiant with the following regulatory meaning[1]:

>> Simple asphyxiant means a substance or mixture that displaces oxygen in the ambient atmosphere, and can thus cause oxygen deprivation in those who are exposed, leading to unconsciousness and death.

[1] https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
I find that substack has a lot of good authors on the topics that are relevant/interesting to me (e.g. economics). You can search here [1] to discover authors. If you find an author on substack interesting, you can then see a list of their recommendations down on their homepage (e.g. [2]). If you follow this process enough times and subscribe to a few authors, you'll get a list of curated content in your inbox each week.

[1] https://substack.com/discover

[2] https://www.apricitas.io/
I don't know about one feed but GitLab and GitHub both offer feeds for tags and releases. I use this to follow a handful of projects.

If you want a single feed there are tools that will roll multiple feeds into one so you can also that on top.
> Starlink is only comms system still working at warfront – others all dead.

> Starlink is the primary communications system of the Ukrainian army on the war front. If anyone else wants this job, please be my guest …

Didn't know that. What happened to their usual comms?
Paper Books
The first form called the "open if statement" and the second the "closed if statement".

The "open" variant is problematic once you have the "else" clause in the nested if statements, i.e. it becomes unclear to which "if" each "else" belongs, so the languages had to introduce some complex rules. With the "closed" form everything is straightforward and you don't have this problem.

The workaround in C-style languages (C/C++/Java/JS/TS/etc.) is to always put the else clause into the curly brackets, even if it's a single statement. Just to be sure put always both "then" and "else" branches into a curly brackets.

It can get even more complicated if you allow "if"-s as ternary operator inside the conditional expressions...

Another solution is merging "else if" into an "elif" keyword.

So just use "if-then-else-fi" / "if-then-else-end" with an optional "elif".
Yeah, after years of stagnation, the offers for X86 laptops are finally amazing and I expect them to get even better next year with mobile Ryzen 7000 and RDNA 3 APUs moving to 5nm, and who knows, maybe mobile 13th Gen Intel and RTX 4000 could also be good.

My current 13" Ryzen 5800 laptop is no slouch but its Vega iGPU is a bit too long in the tooth for any kind of games, screen could be brighter and battery life could be better. I'm very excited for a laptop upgrade next year.
Not really. It is part of the Swedish capacity reserve during winters, i.e. the national grid operator pays it to be in standby to ensure the reliability of the grid.

Its current operations are because even though it is an expensive oil plant it is profitable to run it for export on the European market.

A Swedish professor in energy systems looked closer at the electricity export compared to the operation of the plant, and out of hundreds of hours operated during this year something like 1-5 hours were not matched by equal or more electricity being exported than it produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGy0Vhgt7E

In Swedish, sadly without subtitles, but an amazing overview of the Swedish electrical system.
Because for some people, the notion of sovereignty is more important than human rights.

The problem is that then leads you to a strange place where you're ok with a government persecuting / murdering its own people because it's the law of the land.
>I'd gone in hoping I could remove my dependence on Copilot

You already depend on Copilot?
Does FIFA own a copyright on the word "football"? no
Does shipping 20 players from 50 poorer countries cost a lot? no
does FIFA even owns a copyright on the words "Football World Cup"?
Electricity, like an increasing bunch of other things, is part of the infrastructure. The amount and different levels of infrastructure pretty much define "civilization", do away with infrastructure and your civilization is done for. Which also means that the way a civilization treats its infrastructure tells you a lot about this civilization.

If you look at Europe, they messed things up big time. Firstly, running infrastructure like a company will never work, by design. So this whole privatization is a big sham to begin with. It is made worse by the fact that there cannot be a market as such, so they defined rules to create a market. Humans being exactly that are too stupid to include the human factor into rules, so this whole "market" is completely and utterly broken, and pretty much a money transfer machinery (like so many others) from the bottom to the top.

Which means in the end, while I can understand your idea/approach, but it will not solve the problem with energy cost.
If I had a ready one I wouldnt be talking with you. In any case, blind fanatism for the current economical system is what is killing us, it's obvious that more fanatism is only going to make things worse.

It's like having a cancer and pretending the only acceptable solution is to improve the conditions of the patient without treating the cancer itself.
Nice propaganda piece. Nothing to do with reality.
Interesting short story The Egg explores an similar idea: http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
I think you live on a different planet - on this one our market is selling bloody dictators weapons and parts that they will use against us.

The market has no concern for our survival, and by extention it's own survival, past 1/2 quarterly reports
Me too. But unfortunately my uncle passed away two months ago.
I mean it can be brilliant and dishonest. But it's not that brilliant. I don't know if that's what he was accused of fraud for.
> Besides: Are they going to buy Uranium from Russia as the US are doing for their reactors?

Sweden has been anti-nuclear for several decades, and one of the laws that has been passed is to forbid Uranium extraction, even though Sweden has quite a bit in its soil.

So if this development is any sign, maybe they'll do away with that silly law as well and make it so Sweden doesn't have to buy it from someone else?

Also, Russia isn't the largest exporter of Uranium.
Did not expect Doctorow to be posting on Medium. I wonder what my biases are.
Being skeptical is all well and good but pragmatically speaking, people do not have enough time in the day to verify all the information coming their way, so they must be selective about what they are skeptical about and figure out how to establish trust with authorities to remove some of that burden from themself.
any suggestions on who to follow on Mastodon?
1. Books. My readings are thematic. I read 2-3 books simultaneously per topic

2. To supplement above I read the referenced papers. And long form articles.

3. I have created a nice Twitter bubble which serves me as a catchment area. It also enables me to engage in thoughtful conversations.

4. HN.

I stay away from mainstream news in all forms. I’m typically behind the current affairs by about 6 months.
Pooh was into Edge computing?
We are like coal to be burned as fuel for capital
Just follow individual people and check what they read?
From an ex-Emacs/nvim and happy SublimeText user. Don't switch. Both (vim in particular) will eat a lot of your time to master and (Emacs in particular) to tweak. Ultimately, neither of these made me more productive. IMO there are so many better ways of spending the time :)
Solar isn't economically feasible in Sweden. Too far north, too much snow, and during winter it's dark for months. Might work better in the far south, but not good enough.
Taking a step back, it's worth understanding why there's so much clickbait. Turns out that if the business model of a publication is selling ads, they're interested in reach. Generating reach is easier by having large quantities of shorter, and easier to produce stuff. This is true for videos, articles.

So if you're looking for more thoughtful things - which take time to produce - your options are:

1. Pay for publications that produce these. Ad-supported publications are unlikely to be able to budget for in-depth content. Just look at how eg BuzzFeed shut down their investigative reporting (which was unusually good). It just made no business sense to produce those articles when a meme piece or two would generate more ad revenue, while being 100x cheaper to produce.

In the tech world, publications that fall into the “paid and in-depth” category can be likes of The Information, IEEE, MIT Technology Review, and many newsletters, tech publications etc. Look for ones where ads is not their main business model.

2. Another source are people who do this for free... because they have a main job, and it's not a business for them to share their thoughts on things. These will typically be blogs, YouTube channels and other places. Based on your interests, you should be able to find plenty. Also, see this Hacker News thread about interesting blogs [1]. The only real downside is you won’t get these on a schedule, as it’s not a job for these folks.

3. Books and podcasts. Books are straightforward enough: they're meant to be deep, and reviews help do some justice on them. Podcasts are usually based on ad-based models, but most ads are less intrusive, and the format lends itself for thoughtful commentary. It's more time-consuming to listen to them over reading, of course.

I collect RSS feeds of both my paid publications, and thoughtful blogs using a reader (I use Feedly) and find this works pretty well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27302195
But it's always unknowable. The only consciousness/suffering one truly knows is one's own. We just use heuristics like "this human/animal behaves like I do when suffering". Where we draw the line is completely arbitrary.
GP is correct that OPs post makes no sense. Most validators around the world seem to be under no under legal obligation to exclude TC transactions from the blocks that they mine, and in particular to follow TC sanctions - their local laws don't require it, US law likely doesn't require it, and morally they are free to ignore US laws.

Whether those in the US are/will be is clearly uncertain. If OFAC or the DoJ wanted to, they could state their opinion on the matter, and a court could decide if they are right. That this very normal process of a rule-of-law based society is not working in the US (the government embracing vagueness coupled with insane punishments) is an issue.
There's a story [1] about russian soldiers at some points of war being assigned one rifle per two infantrymen. The idea was that one guy would get the rifle and the other one would be a "spare", waiting for the first one to die. He was also free to pick up a rifle from one of other people already dead on the ground.

BTW I suspect that the widely portrayed in media horror of being in the attack boat on D-Day was something of a common occurence for Soviet soldiers. They were routinely ordered to perform near-suicidal attacks, as Stalin's strategy was "strength in numbers". That's how he "achievied" the record number of casualities across all countries in the war.

[1] Can't find it right now, so I can't say how accurate it was, or how widespread.
Here is how the dot notation works in Pyffi:

1. o.f access field f of object o
2. o.f1.f2 access field f2 of object o.f1
3. (o .m a ...) invoke method m on object o wth arguments a...
4. (o .m1 a1 ... .m2 a2 ...) same as ((o .m1 a1 ...) .m2 a2 ...)
5. (o.m a ...) invoke method m on object o wth arguments a...
6. (o.m a ... .m1 a1 ...) invoke method m1 on resultof object (o.m a ...) with arguments a2 ...

The notation works nicely for method chaining:

(foo .somemethod arg1 arg2
.someothermethod arg3)
There is no legal requirement to perform this kind of censoring. It's being done out of excessive caution.
That's the thing. You might just end up with Big Blue coming after you.
I am mostly settled for some sources on gopher because no ads, limited number of users, no tracking all and users are very much there because they despise the way the web turned out. For deeper research i mostly start at wikipedia for a brief intro in what i am searching for, the next step after this is usually my local library.

For some topics i also found out that there are really interesting deeper discussions in the FidoNet
Or having the wrong nationality, race, religion...
> Either way, how can you make it a requirement to provide, what is not a requirement to have?

You simply make it a requirement to provide it if you have it. That is not the same as optional. If its optional then you aren't lying to immigration if you leave it blank. If it is not optional then you are.
Yet you've participated in it and got paid for that.

Worth to mention paid very well and still receiving retirement plan benefits.
I've been using Obsidian for a while and have some plug-ins, but nothing like you're talking about. Would you make some specific recommendations on the plug-ins you're referring to?
You mean Svenska Kraftnät (SVK) instead of Vattenfall, they're the ones making money from electricity distribution. Vattenfall is an electricity producer, it's not responsible for this kind of distribution across borders. It is responsible for some distribution within Sweden (regionnät), but there it is not the only player. SVK on the other hand is 100% owned by the state.
Agrivoltaics.

1. https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2022/growing-plants-power-...
> a Lisp transpiling to Rust would have to figure out for every function call whether it's a standard function call or a method call.

You could use slightly different syntax, such as (foo x) versus (.foo x).
Did you leave before the lsp-mode revolution? You mention Python like you used elpy when it was effective. I don’t find myself needing to leave eMacs for development for anything besides debugging
An army marches on its stomach. Without a standards organisation to ensure high-quality peanut butter, the nation will slowly fall to ruin!
Optimistic scenario: Mostly wind power by 2050.

Pessimistic scenario: A mix of mostly fossil fuels (natural gas) and wind power by 2050.
Looks really good!

What’s been the most interesting use case you’ve seen so far?
Ask HN: What do you do for SEO?
Excatly. Keeping instruments calibrated and true.
The proficient people you see rely on customizations that they have slowly improved over many years. No two of their setups are exactly alike.

You can't discover everything by exploring and reading help. The way you make radical improvements to how you use tools like Emacs and Vim is to identify pain points with what you're doing and search for solutions online.

There is a Vim StackExchange site, and Vim questions are also topical on StackOverflow.

For instance, one day I got tired of the clumsy buffer switching commands in Vim, so I researched into buffer management; are there better ways. I discovered buffer management plugins. I found one I liked and then customized its silly keybindings so that to bring up the visual buffer list, I just have to type \\ (backslash backslash).

I got tired of reloading files after quitting, so I researched into sessions. Then customized my ~/.vimrc with some useful things for working well with sessions. I can save a session with just :S <name>, and save with +. Sessions are great. I have sessions named after Jira tickets. When revisiting some ticket, I just "vim -S sess/<ticket-name>" and there is the edit session from three weeks ago with all the same files.

I replace Vim's configured grep program with lid, which is a tool from GNU Id-Utils. It uses ahead-of-time indexing (performed by a tool called mkid which builds a binary file called ID) for instantaneous grep-like searches of large trees. In some situations/projects, I also replace Vim's grep with "git grep".

Tags are important in Vim: they are the basis for "jump to definition". The Exuberant Ctags program has a lot of options. You can have it index filenames so that they become tags: :tj foo.h will jump to a foo.h file somewhere deep in the tree.
In Abrahamic religions it is common I believe to say thank you to God before a meal. This is a key difference between these religions and religions like Hinduism.

The thanks is to the object that has helped us in anyway. This stems from the base of Nature/Environment worship that religions like Hinduism are derived from.

All things in the Universe are seen as a manifestation of God or Parmatma (Supreme life force) than God as a third entity.

As to whether it is useful, it is upto each individual to decide for themselves.

Note: I am a practicing Hindu and we just finished this ritual at home last week, including saying thanks to my Laptop :-)
Since its previous version, Meilisearch is offering a finer control over typo tolerance https://blog.meilisearch.com/typo-tolerance/
This article is kind of a wrapper for the linked bloomberg article, which is more interesting IMO.

Driving of cars is a massive cooperative game with high stakes, and autonomous cars essentially need AGI in order to play to a degree that is safer than a human with other humans. Fully autonomous cars would be sick, but IMO you'd need massive infrastructure changes (realistically restricted to cities/urbanized areas) if you want autonomous cars to work with anything less than AGI. Until companies start pursuing that, they are actually unknowingly using all that money to push for AGI and obviously coming up short because they don't even understand what they are trying to do.
Oura ring can't measure more than 65535 steps in a day
These two legitimately changed my life by exposing me to a myriad of topics I never would have considered interesting in my day to day life. I am a more considerate and content person as a result of these experiences
He is posting it everywhere: twitter, medium, […], but, as usual, he posts it on his blog too ! https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/
This is literally what the entire article is about.
Show HN: A app that generates a Tailwinds CSS site template once a week
Sounds like you’d enjoy wsl at work. Wsl1 is necessary for file system IO
I think he's into building the ultimate surveillance state nowadays.
I'm impress by the number of objects (well mainly starlink) passing over my head every minute
This is the better and canonical link then, in my opinion. Medium is not pleasant to use as a reader.
What are some good wifi cards for "wardriving" nowadays? Something USB, with atleast AC standard (2.4 and 5ghz support), and with a good linux support (monitor mode, etc.)?
This is rather unfortunate but at the same time I think it’s time we think about ending the war. People are losing here and Putin and Zelensky don’t feel a thing. Let’s put people first for once. War and borders are the opposite of prioritizing people.
Secular urban-Turkish-style Muslims are in the minority though. I agree people shouldn’t make sweeping statements, but the majority are indeed patriarchal conservatives.
I can't find any primary sources for excessive deaths during construction. FIFA corruption is completely unrelated.

The Qatari government is only being questioned about the 34 of 37 workers dying, and there's no evidence of a coverup either.

If your general point is "I don't like the Qatari government" that's fine. If your point is hundreds of workers died at work but was covered up then a lot more solid evidence is needed to back that up.
Came here to say "why no fussel refs" and checked the author before posting.

A similar vibe to Fussel is in Farlay Mowatt's war writing, or arguably Spike Milligan's pretty bizarre but also honest autobiography of his PTSD
AV is basically level 4 or 5 in the SAE classification ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car ). And those vehicles are either not existing yet (i.e. just marketing ploys), or far from it (requiring remote drivers, for example), or just research prototypes that have not been really tried at scale.
In my experience this is irrelevant because Oura ring is the worst step tracker I have ever heard of. The data is worthless.

Because of unsolved issues when using a mouse and/or keyboard, you can easily end up with 25,000 steps at the end of a pretty sedentary day. That's the biggest issue but not the only one.
They were fighting over who said what and twitter and were paralyzed to the point that they couldn't do anything about Roe V Wade.
Kindle on airplane mode is my savior.
Which actually makes Nuclear a great idea.

Take the hydro which is currently doing baseload, convert as much capacity as possible to peak loads. And replace the lost baseload with new Nuclear.

That way you can unlock even more capacity for more solar and wind (well... that far north, it will be mostly wind)
First, this is further proof that the Apple iOS permission model is just better. There's no laundry list of permissions. You get asked for very few things and they're the things users care about (eg app running in background). Less is more. Very few people understand these laundry lists.

Second, Qatar is one of those places that you should realize what you're getting into by going. It is a religious monarchy with essentially sharia law. Insulting the ruling family will get you in serious trouble. Drinking will get you in serious trouble. Homosexuality or even out-of-marriage sex will get you in serious trouble. There are lots of rules and the punishments are harsh. Personally I wouldn't go. If you do, you have to accept a bunch of things you wouldn't wherever you're from most likely.
US has infamously heinous border controls, what they do should not be the acceptable way. It also doesn't excuse that other countries behave in similar and disgusting ways.
Bulls. Hawaii was in clear and direct danger.

I presume the famous American educashun kicked in and geographically spoiled the slogan of bad bad America.
I don’t follow your logic- my statement was that that the nazis openly considered themselves socialists and class warfare was a huge part of nazi ideology. Your state that’s probably false - but then don’t prove either of those statements false. It’s entirely possible to fight between factions of the same side of politics.
Mark Twain made what I consider one of history's greatest puns when he described the American role in the opium trade as "Taels I win, heads you lose."

(A tael was a unit of Chinese silver bullion; heads references the death penalty for drug running, which applied only to Chinese subjects for most of the opium years.)
Older laptops tend to have all sorts of hacks, master passwords and whatnot, because they realized these scenarios happen and with physical access and enough time it's generally game over any way.

I wish this were possible with current-day phones. I've had multiple instances of a friend or relative either buying or getting handed an older iphone, and if the previous owner did the responsible thing of resetting the phone beforehand, it will refuse to get past initial setup without a stable wifi connection and the previous owner's icloud credentials. Tracing down the previous owner and getting them to change their password or disable the "find my" feature for this one time operation is harder than you'd think, especially if it was passed down multiple hands or the account is from a different person (and the original owner was never aware). In some of these instances we've had no choice but to throw the brick away.