skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same with electricity markets: at times there's so much wind and nuclear power that the spot price goes below zero in Europe as well as in the US: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266679242...

I still pay around 5 cents/kWh to the middlemen though so consumption hasn't been profitable to me so far.
Hello.

I am from the international church of record.

Do you have time to talk about our lord and savior `record classes`?

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/15/language/records.h...
That is incorrect, "The International Energy Agency recently predicted that solar power would become “the cheapest source of electricity in history,” and a report by Carbon Tracker found that 90 percent of the global population lives in places where new renewable power would be cheaper than new dirty power. " https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/26/magazine/clim...
> What was obviously completely underestimated was the elasticity of consumer demand for gas

I don't think it was evident that individuals and businesses would be willing to make some of these changes they have. For example, German companies are planning on shutting down factories for the winter. Cities are planning on ending night lighting.

In addition, winter so far has been fairly warm. It may still turn cold, so Europe isn't out of the woods yet.

Finally, the increase in the LNG supply was achieved incredibly fast. If someone had predicted Europe would have the LNG supply they do today at the beginning of the war they would have been dismissed as a utopist.
>and has people talking about climate change

Not in this thread so far.

Neither in this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33309661

There's a few comments in this one discussing the climate, but mostly they are puzzled by the activists' method: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33268174
Try to turn off your iPhone. It says right on the screen it will be broadcasting its location even when it’s off.
Over time I've discovered there are some things that happen every day:

* The review of pull-requests.

* Meetings.

* Some "tickets" I work on.

* etc

So with that in mind I have an emacs org-file, which has a standard set of headers which are inserted in a single file, beneath today's date.

I use the following emacs package to make that easy to manage:

* https://github.com/skx/org-diary

With that in place I get something like this automatically:

* 31/08/2022
** Desktop Setup
Updated my =brew= environment once again, this time it was =git= that required the update.
** Merge Requests Reviewed
None.
** Meetings
- 11:15-11:45 - Example Meeting
- Notes here
** Tickets / Stories / Projects
- JIRA-1 IN-PROGRESSS example-project
- Stuff I did.
- JIRA-2 DONE example-project
- Stuff I did.
** Problems
None.

On export to HTML/PDF any section that is empty, or contains only "None." is removed.
I use it frequently to calculate some basic statistics on log file data.

Here's a nice example of something similar: https://drewdevault.com/dynlib
I'm generally not a fan of the EU mandating technical decisions, but for me personally, Lightning connections have always been really low quality. Since my iPhone was about a year old, it often won't recognize a new Lightning cable that's plugged in, I have to unplug and re-plug it several times. Or it will charge for a minute and then suddenly think it's disconnected. Or you will bump it slightly and it thinks it's now disconnected. I have never had such trouble with USB-A, micro-USB, USB-C, or even the old 30-pin connectors.

It's especially annoying when I'm in my car, which unfortunately only supports a wired CarPlay connection. Sometimes I'll go over a bump, it'll disconnect my phone, and I have to mess with it while driving in order to get the directions going again.
That's people going back into the office and lowering production
Is this the thing I remember from Moonbase Alpha? Where you could just strap an astronaut to the back like they were luggage? Man, I loved that.
Lovelock's an interesting character for sure. Although the "Gaia Hypothesis" ended up having a few fatal flaws, it stimulated a lot of thinking and discussion in the field of earth system sciences (atmospheric chemists were a lot more interested than old-school geologists and evolutionary biologists, certainly). Much of what Lovelock pointed to can also be viewed as simple chemical and physical buffering, for example the fact that the a pH-buffered chemical solution responds to the addition of acid in a manner that 'pushes back' against increasing acidity. Likewise, a planet with an ocean buffers temperature changes because the oceans can absorb and release heat in response to external forcing. Biological systems can do the same (forests buffer erosion, for example) but this isn't necessarily selected by evolution, it's just a feature of the biologicol-chemical-physical system. Ultimately, the success or failure of an individual species in a forest (due to natural selection) doesn't have much effect on the effects of a forest on the local climate, say.

All in all it was a bit of a spiritual-mystical 'Earth Mother Loves You' theme, which is nice but nature really isn't all that forgiving, as it's clear we can tip the climate system into a new mode, one which some forms of life will not have problems with, but which may drive quite a few others towards extinction.

Also, the article mentions his discovery of low levels of chlorinated and fluorinated organic compounds in the atmosphere with his improved detector, it fails to mention that Lovelock also stated at the time that they posed no environmental threat, due to their great stability. This isn't too surprising, as the chemistry that led to the release of the halogens into the stratosphere, where they destroyed the UV-protective stratospheric ozone layer, is fairly complex and unusual (ice crystal surfaces playing a big role over polar regions, radical reactions, etc.).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17778601/

Free Radicals Within the Antarctic Vortex: The Role of CFCs in Antarctic Ozone Loss (1991)

There's no doubt, however, that Lovelock made many people think about interconnections between apparently unrelated systems and that alone was a huge lifetime success story. Frank Herbert's Dune also introduced many similar concepts to a wider audience, although that in turn was preceded by Yale's G. Evelyn Hutchinson:

https://news.yale.edu/videos/yales-g-evelyn-hutchinson-and-i...
Does it save position now on an audiobook? For example if you listen to music inbetween?

Cause if not, it's still useless
oh, hey, sundar, I've got another way for you to save money: stop buying companies you're going to shut down and never make back the investment.
They seem to be deliberately choosing art that's behind glass. That gets them maximum visibility without causing priceless damage.

I still think they're probably doing more harm than good, but climate inaction has gone on so long it's unsurprising that a few people would resort to something showy, stupid, and useless. I get their frustration, and wish I had something more useful to say to them besides "Please don't make me look stupid for supporting your cause."
On my machine at least, Firefox seems to clip short audio samples (in general—-not related to this project).
The Yield curve, Mortgage Rates, Bonds and Asset Prices are all in bad shape. Combined with rapidly falling income (due to 15%+ real inflation) it's a disaster in the making. Homes will likely fall 30-35% in adjusted value in the next 12 months. A lot of people's net worth is in their homes. This will be the largest post WWII drop in home prices. Don't forget the strong dollar is crushing economies around the world, who are our trading partners (and creditors).
Shoot me an email to andres@movinglake.com if you are interested!
I'll try again using shorter words.

> You don't care whether you have almost no effective chance to actually get a job?

Grug care. Grug can't pass live coding interview. Grug freeze. Grug ask for take home test instead. Grug not care about "perverse incentive." Grug want job.
> how do we square this with the rates that Europeans have been paying for energy and natural gas lately?

Different markets. The price that went negative was for immediate delivery of gas (spot market), while utilities buy their energy way before it's actually delivered (futures market). The price on the spot market went briefly negative because it's unseasonably warm in Europe right now (so less gas usage for heating), and all the storage is nearly full. The price on the futures market is still high, because once it gets cold demand will pick way up and outpace supply.

An interesting sidenote is that storage being full significantly increases volatility in the market: in the usual situation, a storage facility would buy up all the surplus gas on the spot market at a cheap but probably non-negative price, store it, and sell it on the futures market for a higher price. This stabilizes the market, and creates some constraints on market prices. Now that storage is full, they can't do that, and prices can fluctuate much more.
Graph paper notepad and pen.

* Write down today what you want to accomplish tomorrow. Each item on a line.

* Check them off the next day.

* You could add meetings, but if your day is full of meetings rely on your calendar for that.

* If you did something meaningful, not on the list, add it. Cross it out.

* There will be enough space on the paper to capture some meeting notes or thoughts.

* At end of day, throw (recycle) or retain that page.

I use the Amazon Basics graph paper notepad and a simple gel pen.

Writing works better than most things if you need a list.

For long projects, I use Apple notes to capture the plan. When ready to be worked on, I switch to paper.
> it's about brain power and creativity

Part of the whole Hans Neimann cheating scandal is that he played too close to optimal as measures by his correlation to a computer. So no, it seems mostly to be about drilling positions with solvers and playing faithfully to that.

I played chess competitively as a kid, before chess programs were very strong or widely available. We memorized maybe 4 moves in and that's it. After that it was all strategy, creativity, etc... Nowadays they're doing far more work with solvers and it's pretty much taken the strategy out of it. Which is why Go is increasing in popularity. Competitive gaming probably as well.
Looking into the funding of "Just Stop Oil" really makes it seem like the most likely situation is enabling insane and ineffective "activism" by well-meaning but misguided folk as a way to discredit the larger movement. Not quite a false flag op, but meaningfully the same.
> Those of us who grew or lived in the third world will recognize the current status of US law under Biden quite clearly: ...

What does Biden have to do with it? Are you implying this wasn't also true under Trump? He pardoned a bunch of his friends on the way out.
This function creates a closure with a private variable, "n". When invoked the closure will increase n by the specified amount, but there is no way to decrease it.

const incfac = () => { let n = 0; return m => (m > 0 ? n += m : n) };

A more extensive example due to Norm Hardy, presuming a multiuser Scheme interpreter that supports ocap security, is this Scheme program for voting on where to have lunch: http://cap-lore.com/CapTheory/Language/Lunch.html

(define (mocntr) (let ((x 0)) (cons (lambda () (let ((yet #t))
(lambda () (if yet (begin (set! yet #f) (set! x (+ 1 x)) x)))))
(lambda () x))))
(define lunchcrowd (list (lambda (x) (write (cons "for Bill" x)))
(lambda (x) (write (cons "for Bob" x))
((cdr (assoc "Mandarin" (cdr x)))))))
(define restaurants (list "Mandarin" "Casa Lupe" "Coffee Shop"))
(define (noontime) (let ((bb
(map (lambda(r) (cons r (mocntr))) restaurants)))
(for-each (lambda (e) (e (cons "Lunchtime!" (map
(lambda(r)(cons (car r) ((cadr r)))) bb)))) lunchcrowd)
(lambda ()(map (lambda(x) (cons (car x) ((cddr x)))) bb))))

You can translate this into current versions of ES straightforwardly but it doesn't get much more readable.

Norm explains:

> An invocation of mocntr is made each day for each restaurant. It returns a source of options, one of which will be offered to each of the lunch crowd. The second lambda in the definition produces such an option. The variable yet in that proc remembers if the option has been taken. The third lambda produces the getter for the count.

> bb is created each day for lunch and constitutes the ballot box. It is a list of pairs <restuarant name, <option source, count getter>>. This list is iterated over first to send each vote solicitation, and then later to count the votes.

Unfortunately he's vitrified now, so if you send him questions he will answer after a long delay, if ever.
This. As someone who analyzes ad spend as part of their job I cannot imagine a scenario in which we would turn down ad spend prior to a downturn in consumer spending? If we're getting good ROAS we aren't turning off the hose.

To give OP the benefit of the doubt. Maybe what OP means is that Ad Spend is one of the first lagging indicators to show up. Consumer demand weakens, companies turn down ad spend, and then a few months later the reduction in revenue shows up in the quarterly report. So as an indicator it leads earnings reports and share price drops but lags actual consumer spending.
You should try processing your photo dataset with a NERF based tool. They are much better at rebuilding the 3D structure from set of images.

EDIT: There is this for example https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio
Look at the 3-month (90-day) commercial paper rates. They're split into different data sets on the FRED site[0][1], changing in 1997.

I combined them into a single chart here: https://ibb.co/h7c7DJS

(Is ImgBB a good site? I stopped using imgur after too many dark patterns)

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WCP3M

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DCPF3M
Exposing EPEVER Tracer charge controller as an MQTT service in Go
Tracer is a small service written in Go that enables MQTT for the EPEVER Tracer MPPT Solar Charge Controller.
I wish someone calculated with some certainty how much the lifestyles in different countries would have to change if the world just had to drop production that emits excess gases. I bet that would show that there's no way people modify their habits for this, especially in the ‘first world’.

(As for myself, I'm living on less that 400 bucks a month, including rent, use transport once a month; and most energy I use is probably for central heating in the winter and for pumping water—otherwise it's the fridge and boiling water for tea. But idk about the ‘footprint’, probably still not good.)
Well, 8 hours later, I just see my typo. s/can/can't/
If I'm interactively composing something I do very much like pipes and shell commands, but if it's a thing I'm going to be running repeatedly then the improved maintainability of a python script, even if it does a lot of subprocess.run, is preferable to me. "Shuffling clunky objects around" seems more documented and organized than "everything is a bytestring".

But different strokes and all that.
> They don't care about the open nature of podcasts and they want to lure people in then put a wall up around them.

This is key. "Podcasts" and "podcasting" were created to refer to an open medium, but Spotify's intentional adoption and perversion of those words to refer to their proprietary platform has worked brilliantly. We're further down the embrace/extend/extinguish path than most people realize.
Create the disease so you can profit from the medicine
Yeah just like how the 5th amendment prevents your funds from being stolen by law enforcement for baseless suspicion. Those amendments are iron-clad, water-tight, and applied evenly to all citizens!
Well, yes. But it is another way of saying that we think in analogies.

At the same time, forms are also vectors… and vectors are forms of the dual… So it is not that easy.
A single camera adapter had USB3, everything else on that device is USB 2.0.
That is correct but personally I like to be able to decide the backup intervals and not have to create a whole script to connect to GCS.
By "we", I meant society and the authorities/academics who are researching this.

I don't there is a way in there without some amount of drilling. I was personally thinking of a fibre optic camera that could be somehow sent in there but there would be still some kind of damage caused to the Pyramid, though I am no expert on this topic at all.
That's a pretty uninformed thing to say.
So exactly what did it accomplish? Did it affect Facebook or Google at all or any adTech company?

When ATT was implemented by Apple, many ad tech companies announced it impacted them. You didn’t hear a whisper after the GDPR. Websites just started putting up annoying cookie banners and life continued.
Maybe I'm not seeing it, but if you want public access to a private variable, why not set it to public? Just saying.

I code primarily in Java, and I can't really say the last thing I wrote a getter or a setter, except possibly because I wanted a functional reference.

Accessor methods is part of a style of code Java that was unfashionably outdated 10 years ago.
Spot prices are just that spot prices. Just like oil prices dropped below zero for short period during shutdown. Now this happened with gas. Doesn't necessarily tell too much for next months.
On the contrary, I think focusing so much on emulating the real world is one of the core problem with modern VR, as the more you emulate reality, the more you are locked into the constraints that reality provides. Simple acts like picking up an object from the ground become a chore when you have to do them realistically. Just pointing with a laser pointer and having the ability to interact with distant objects gives a much better experience.

What VR is still missing is a well defined set of gestures, tools and UI elements to perform actions in the virtual space that go beyond what your body can do. There are only a few common ones, like snap-turn, teleport-locomotion or the laser-pointer, but even those have to be reinvent each time, which leads to a lot of inconsistency.

That's not to say that haptics wouldn't be nice to have, but that technology is very far from being practical for mass market VR.
>you want to be able to smooth out fluctuations in supply and demand.

Can you say a bit more about the "you" mentioned?

I can imagine "you"s who care only about having heating during wintertime.
They need to perfect the capture and storage technology and force all the Bakken oil field flares to use it.

Billion of cubic feet every DAY just burnt off into the atmosphere because the oil makes them more money. Over $100 Million per MONTH

Our country/world is insane with waste while people freeze and starve.
Zelle is a direct bank transfer system.
Yes, your signal identity is tied to a phone number. But attackers can't tell who you are talking to, or what groups you are in. So why does it matter?
I wonder why only Western art is being targeted?
So the low interest rates for the past decade that reduced unemployment must mean that they love labor right?
Yeah but I am hoping they do this for all iPhones and not just EU ones.
Houses aren't. :)

(Inflation watchdogs only come out when he price of butter rises, not when the price of their house does...)
The counterpoint being that the cultural similarities aren't a line in the sand on being separate. There are plenty of places that are similar and separately sovereign.

But let me make it less absurd to you:

"Hey Republican House and Senate, trade offer: California gets sovereignty, you make the democrats lose 55 electoral college votes and essentially never have to hear from them ever again for all eternity"

I honestly think they would bite.
Without all that immigration it would cost a lot more to build houses.
While I'm against forcing a company to use a specific connector (especially Apple where every millimeter counts), I think this was way overdue because of terribly slow USB 2.0 speeds even on "Pro" models that shoot ProRes and 48MP raws.
The at Protocol – Bluesky
You're probably right. It was a few years ago and after trying a couple of alternatives, just went with what I know.
One aspect I find interesting about HN is that most of the posters there are involved in adtech, data-gathering, FAANGs, or adjacent businesses, whilst reaping very high rewards for their troubles. At the same time, they have an enduring interest in adblocking, freedom, liberal or libertarian values and so on. This creates a situation where their economic wellbeing and working life is directly aimed towards enforcing surveillance capitalism and authoriarian tools, while at the same time they receive enough resources to avoid the brunt of the consequences, and their mental landscape deals with the cognitive dissonance to maintain an identity of progressiveness.

It directly mirrors the feudal system with a tiny portion of the population living in unimaginable luxury and employing another much larger but still small portion overall to keep the hierarchy running. In other words, billionaires supported by well-compensated SWE vassals who devise ever more sophisticated tools to extract value and data-powered obedience through surveillance from regular workers.
Don't the ToS already basically say they can just take your money any time they want for no reason at all?
No one will care about the temperature when there is no one.
> you know what you are doing will result in harm, and you choose to do it anyway

No, you _don't know_ the consequences and you don't bother finding out before doing it.
I've had iPhones since the original came out with the big ol iPod connector on it. Generally upgrading every two years, except the last one which was an Xs to a 14 Pro.

I have never had this happen. I welcome the USB-C change, but I have never once had what you're describing happen in however many years the Lightning connector has been out.. feels like 8+ years, but without looking I wouldn't know. I've had, I think, one Lightning cable fail to work and that was because my cat chewed on the cord.
Yes it needs an RSS feed. Otherwise it's just an mp3 file.
Ask HN: How many ML generated articles made it to #1 on HN yet?
What do you think? How many ML generated articles have made it to HN front page #1 yet?

Would you recognize it?
Right, the matrix product rule comes from our choice of the representation of a linear operator (it's what you call a functor). But we are free to choose this functor. I didn't want to complicate things in a comment, the referenced notes have this moment.
How do roads prevent speeding, drug trafficing, human trafficing, fraud, etc?
> Why not? This is exactly what needs to happen.

No, it's not. Because there are actual legitimate reasons for organisations and businesses to ask for user's consent.

> Either that, or allow cookie consent

You keep missing the simple fact that GDPR is not about cookie consents. How many times do I have to repeat this?

> not with a bespoke, intrusive UI on every. single. damn. website.

Again. In as simple terms as I possibly can:

- GDPR is about user data everywhere, not just in the browsers

- GDPR does not mandate cookie pop ups. This is entirely the work of a greedy industry

- GDPR cannot ban asking for user consent. Because that is a) over-reaching, and b) makes legitimate cases for asking for user consent illegal

- And again. GDPR is not about browsers. GDPR is not about websites. GDPR is not about cookies. GDPR is not about cookie popups

Note: if websites actually respected the law and user privacy, you wouldn't even see those popups. But sure. Tell me how it's the law that is responsible for them.
> As far as I can tell PayPal can only get away with this nonsense because they hold your money anyway.

And they're not subject to banking regulations in the US. If they were a bank they wouldn't be able to pull this sort of BS.
Are you saying that by holding onto so much gas that there’s less in active circulation therefore it leads price increases?