skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there are fixed costs, and you need to pay for all the infrastructure in case it's a cloudy day.

Imagine there is a car that costs $10,000 and works every day, or there is a car that costs $3000 but works only every other day. But you need to drive every day.

Does it make sense to buy both cars and drive the cheaper one on sunny days? No, economically you only buy the reliable car and you don't buy the unreliable car at all. Notice the discontinuity -- until the reliability problem is solved, it makes no economic sense to deploy any solar. This is the economics of fixed costs.

Whereas what you are thinking of are variable costs. So say the unreliable car can be fueled for $1 a day and the reliable one costs $2 dollars a day. In the world of variable costs, it makes sense to use solar up to 100% of sunny capacity.

Whenever there is a battle between fixed and variable costs, what determines the winner is the interest rate. With low enough interest rates, you get to 100% solar on cloudy days. But with high interest rates, you don't go with solar at all because it is too expensive to keep all those fixed assets on standby and pay for twice the capacity you need just because your solar system goes offline.

So it is the relationship between interest rates and energy prices that determine when it makes sense to max out the cheap, unreliable producer and pay the reliable producer to be on standby, or when you only go with the reliable producer.

And interest rates and energy prices differ over time and in different places. There are many individual producers making these binary choices and in aggregate they never end up using 100% of one option or 0% of the other, it is usually something in between. But just because you see that there is something in between doesn't mean that lack of storage capacity is inhibiting the adoption of solar. It is the only thing inhibiting it. On the other hand, if you solve the storage problem, you can go way past 100% usage on sunny days, you can go to 100% total usage.

So because of fixed costs, it's totally wrong to focus on what happens just on sunny days. What prevents the adoption of solar is affordable storage -- and that is inhibiting the adoption of solar right now.

The unwillingness of people to deal with the storage problem, how they handwave it away or just pretend that it's not a blocker in the present is one of the most frustrating aspects of energy discussions. It is all about storage. That is 100% of the problem. Whether renewables succeed or fail is solely determined by the affordability of storage. The storage problem dwarfs every other consideration by a mile.
Yes - that's my problem - an interface should be stable. Disable selections, fine. Remove them, no. Reorder them, absolutely not.

The changing layout of buttons in Office - yuck - I just want to do it, I don't want to think about where it is.

Fixefox seems to randomly change whether it expands bookmark menus to left or right - yuck - if it's the same bookmark/selection as a moment ago, I expect it to be in the same place!
Have people started using kangri again?
The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11.
Still comes back to "can you sell enough keys on your own to make up for the amount of sales you get through Steam, even after the 30%?" It's great if you think you have a hot game or product that will be sought after by a large enough audience vs people seeing a game show up in their feed or on sale or a friend is playing it or however it ends up in front of you on Steam, a game that maybe you've never heard of before and now you're going to buy it.
I have got a bet with a friend going that by the end of the decade we will have found life, 500usd heh

I am feeling quite optimistic, the spectroscopy of jwst has me quite pumped... If worst came to happen, I might still be able to eek out a win on my bet with ELT in Atacama... But I think that jwst will be enough!
Kotlin has null safety, and there are plenty of ways to turn jvm into a binary
That doesn't seem that long ago, that's how I got my encyclopedia set.
Yeah, as long as the team makes the rest of the engineers 1% more efficient it's a win in terms of investment.
Motion Spell Deploys GPAC Open Source Software with Netflix
Motion Spell deploys GPAC Open Source Software with Netflix to build a flexible encoding and packaging platform
The weirdest part here is that the author worked on a migration from their NIH build tool to Bazel for 2 years and never once mentions why all of that was even happening, and by the end of his employment, it was still not done.

He links the pants-devel announcement and here is what it says:

> Twitter has made the decision to migrate from Pants to Bazel as our primary build tool, as we believe that we have unique needs that Bazel can better address

Pants was your own fucking build tool that you invented, controlled and maintained! How on earth can it not meet your unique needs.
Has there been a randomized controlled trial showing that this works and improves treatment outcomes?

That would seem to be important for a product that tries to help people treat a medical condition.
And each release is a release train
The Huxleys electrified evolution
This is true, but it creates a new problem: you have to find your multi-dimensional thing, which is tends to be quite difficult.
I think everybody has got something to add. It is a bit of a social exercise where people share how they think, how they solve problems
The code makes it clear that the --release flag is being used, but not the text. Sometimes optimization posts written by authors trying to up their skills end with a "...and then I turned on the release flag and tada - 80% improvement." It might be useful to point out that release mode is being used to compile.
>Free markets are not always providing perfect solutions, but I am absolutely sure government intervention could only worsen the situation, never improve it.

We don't live in anything remotely resembling a free market. Tens of thousands of pages of government regulations govern every facet of our commercial markets. The only question is how these regulations should be written.
Nice but I'd prefer an FPGA implementation. ;-)
https://archive.today/aUrmy
Yeah there’s no way this is a Caddy nor nginx raw performance but ridiculously poor backend coding.

At a glance the issue the difference though is caddy reverse proxy defaults to keepalive and nginx upstream does not. Enable keepalive in nginx and you’ll see similar performance.
Of all this, I have chosen not going to work. I work from home as a consultant. I don’t know how people can possibly live and keep their families while going to their office jobs every day.

Since you already working from home, you might want to look for something more asynchronous than working 9-5 non-interrupted.
That being said, I think there is a general bias in American culture towards "making something of yourself", which results in the act of participating in non-productive activities (ex: "mindless tv" such as gameshows, infomercials) as something which you need an excuse to do. For example: "I need to de-stress so I can be productive tomorrow". When you get old, this excuse is no longer possible. Which is why folks refer to vegetating like this as "sad".

A hedonistic/utilitarian framework is a better model to look at these situations. Is that elderly individual enjoying themselves? Yes. Will their inaction today result in negative consequences (financial, health, etc.) later in life? No. In this framework, it's a perfectly good use of their time then.

As a redneck, I love America. But I think this question posed by the OP is interesting because it shows the tradeoff everyone must make in American culture between exercising individual freedoms and increasing social credit/value/standing.
found an edge case: https://contentful.com

it returns:

{
"title": "subtract-circle",
"image": "https://contentful.com/favicon-32x32.png?v=da79a33a7fc91be19..."
}
> will leave me the hell alone to do whatever I want to with the rest of my limited time here on earth.

Many elders are left to wither away alone, and loneliness of older people is a rampant issue - they want to feel loved or at least feel relevant in the family and not forgotten.
I know what you said. My point is that as long as there is a good supply of people wanting to argue pointlessly on the Internet, Twitter will have no shortage of same. I've had an Mastodon account for years; as others have pointed out, it's just not the same thing. (cf. the bien-pensant arguing over which is the "correct" server to join.)

The only way to fully replicate Twitter's ability for anyone to potentially address the entire world is to, well, replicate Twitter. No alternative (including, meta-speaking, Hacker News) suffices.
Unfortunately, developers who don't understand why click-and-hold was implemented then implement it in their own game for no reason. Valid reasons to implement click-and-hold include destructive actions or a lack of available buttons, but I've seen developers use it for non-destructive actions while the simple press is unoccupied.
Gods Have to Play Dice
Ya I didn't bother replying to them. I haven't tracked the PAC donations but I would be utterly shocked if only non-trump supporting republicans benefitted from the 23m. I would wager many trump supporting republicans got lots of money. I think the donations had to do more with where influence could be bought (crypto/finance related committees) than what trump thought of the politician.
RSS Reader in Google Sheets
Kind of amazing the sort of functionality that old multiuser/timesharing systems were able to deliver. 128K (words, presumably) of RAM seems a bit low though for 128+ users.
This bookmarklet does something similar and is browser-independent:

javascript:void%20function()%7Bjavascript:(function()%7Bvar%20a=Math.floor,b=document.querySelectorAll(%22p,%20title%22),c=%5B%5D,e=%22%22,f=%22%22,g=%22%22,h=0,k=0,l=%22%22,m=%22%22,n=window.open(%22%22,%22_blank%22);for(var%20d%20in%20b)%7Bvar%20i=b%5Bd%5D.textContent;i%26%26(c=c+%22%5Cn%22+i)%7Dfor(f=c,e=f.replace(/%5Cn/g,%22%20%3Cbr%3E%3C/br%3E%20%22),g=e.split(%22%20%22),h=0;h%3Cg.length;h++)k=a(g%5Bh%5D.length/3)+1,l=%22%3Cspan%20style='font-weight:bolder'%3E%22+g%5Bh%5D.substring(0,k)+%22%3C/span%3E%3Cspan%20style='font-weight:lighter'%3E%22+g%5Bh%5D.substring(k,g%5Bh%5D.length)+%22%3C/span%3E%20%22,%22.%22==g%5Bh%5D.substring(g%5Bh%5D.length-1,g%5Bh%5D.length)%26%26(l+=%22%3Cspan%20style='color:red'%3E%20*%20%3C/span%3E%22),m+=l;n.document.write(%22%3Chtml%3E%3Cp%20style='font-size:40;line-height:200%25;font-family:Arial'%3E%22+m+%22%3C/p%3E%3C/html%3E%22)%7D)()%7D();

https://www.locserendipity.com/Hyper.html
> I guess still quite sizeable given the heat output. Definitely not a single-family home device.

I’d think the 5MWe would be a hint. Standard residential service drop is like 40kW.
"Las Vegas pre-COVID"

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRC14TaE/

reference for anyone who doesn't want to click on a tiktok link:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/old-people-playing-slots
One annoyance, on the wapm website, seems you can't click on search results to open in a new tab. :-/

Wasmer seems pretty cool, and may in fact be a future for micro-services.
Why Svelte is our choice for a large web project in 2020
230k scrobbles since 2006.

I love last.fm, it still has the vibe of the healthy internet. It is cool to dig into my listening history. Last fm suggestions and recs are still the best. The wikis are great for fans.

I miss the times where i was finding friends by shouting to strangers profiles. Just in the love of music.

Long live last.fm!!
> bigfoot

That particular one offends me the most - we went from 0.3 megapixels to 300 and it's still fucking blurry
Not an edge case, I've been tracking this for a while: https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/issues/13

Someone else in this thread suggested a version for mobile Safari which made supporting this even more interesting. No promises, but hopefully I can get to this before the end of the year.
Okay deal, we’ll leave you alone if you promise not to vote.
It may not be an emulator in a highly specific & technical sense used by and useful to a small group of experts. It is an emulator in the general and widely-recognized sense of "software that runs software originally intended for a different, incompatible system."

You see this all the time when a jargon word enters the general non-specialist vocabulary. It doesn't make either usage wrong, though it can be confusing sometimes if the contexts can be difficult to distinguish. In this case that's unlikely so just give it up please.

Honestly the quirk where that is its name could be a really useful entry point for educating non-specialist readers on the different technical approaches used to solve this problem! I never see that though, this is only ever used as a wellackshully on internet forums. It sucks.
Catalyst – Web Component System by GitHub
Children are more stressed and have less free time than anyone else; it's not their fault that they're legally barred from doing anything "productive". They're not even allowed to vote on the laws that bind them!
Backend connections are not keepalive with that nginx config and benchmark is ran on a shared digital ocean VM. I suspect the author is inexperienced with proxies, operating systems and benchmarks.
Absolute heresy to say that on here lol.
I like Thamus' argument against the intrinsic value of writing — shallow reminding, rather than remembering, comprises the vast majority of internet dialogue.

"You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so."
It sounds fun, I'd like to give it a try to see what it's like (mail in profile).
This is a really good power play - the idea being that if you can get more eyes than Steam can through your own store, go ahead, keep the money.

But if you're getting the sale because of Steam itself, then we get the cut.

You can still debate whether 30% is fair even if Steam are providing the discoverability but still, it's a solid policy and they're putting their money where their mouth is.
any ideas on how to stop?
I've never met a single drug dealer who actually gave any drugs away for free.
> a litany of shows on ... consumer scams

That sounds like it could be good to be aware of, came across so many acams myself, most prosperous industry after brexit
This reminds me of CHECK CONSTRAINTS in RDMS.

The whitepaper Serializable Snapshot Isolation talks more of dangerous read-write structures.

My MVCC may be vulnerable to write skew even though it generates the right result. I am yet to generate a test case that exhibits that behaviour. The write skew occurs when there's two dangerous read-write structures
Comfy and nice and also packed with "features" that monitor all manners of your activity to phone home and report. I don't want a car that has tires that spy on me and report my activity to the tire company.
Original source of the PiDP kit that is being built:

https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
Have always used nginx, but I'm interested in the newer alternatives out there like caddy, traefik or envoy.

Is there a up-to-date comparison somewhere? Any personal experiences? Would be interested to hear if there are any reasons to switch. Performance has not been an issue for me, but there might be other good reasons.
The pornographic content became noticeable for me at some point in the summer. It was strange, almost all in Spanish and with no clear connection to the 4ish subjects I followed on twitter with that account. That account ran its course otherwise I'd go back on and check if that is still happening.

In general I wonder what levers get connected to ad targeting. Several years ago I started to get substantial personalized ads in Spanish somewhere else (maybe youtube?) after a year it went back to English. I also had an account that had a 50-50 mix of German and English for a while.
> Their are games that are free to play with Xbox game pass, but they would rather buy and play them under Steam.

Why though?
In the 80s, US AM radio was taken over by similar content. It is happening again with local news, both broadcast and "print".

Seems to be the fate of declining media modalities.
My work, office based in San Francisco, used a designated agent or something. It was strange. Anyone, including a family member, is asked to visually inspect and upload your id or passport and attest you are you. It was facilitated by our HR software, workday
“One parent as the homemaker” — this looks very unfair in 2022.
How many hours a day do you spend on various social media being manipulated by dark patterning, agitprop and echo chambers…eh, Sonny? :-) Are you sure you’re staying balanced and objective?

Just easier to ID manipulative media when you aren’t the target demographic (and it isn’t your flavor of conspiracy). It’s not necessarily age-driven, but you’re right that the isolation of age and the relative lack of trusted feedback makes it worse.

Please post your viewing habits so the Elders can assess whether they should send someone to perform preventive percussive maintenance on your skull. :-)
Probably all of the experience they gained by getting a degree and becoming certified to teach, for a start
> I wouldn’t ascribe your MiL’s attitude or behaviors primarily to on-line videos or TV

The social network rahe machine feeds your inherent fears like a drug dealer feeds off those in desperate or dead end life situation. They are somewhere between exploiting for profit an existing condition, or creating / worsening it.
None of it is good for any group, and I'm not sure what the main insight is because I had to stop reading her first-draft article. Perhaps an editor could have turned this wall of drivel into something profound? We will never know.
I recently procured the highest specced out XPS 15 Dell offers, and some modern websites manage to spin the fans to an insane degree.
Ask HN: Anyone had their Cloudflare credit card information stolen recently?
I just noticed that there was an unauthorized charge on my company debit card that was only used at Cloudflare.

Thankfully it was declined because they had the wrong expiration date, but it's really strange to me, especially since we haven't used that card in months (we use one card per merchant, this one was dedicated to CF), so I'm really curious to see if anyone had that happen recently? Whoever found the number tried to spend 15$ at zulily which I'm guessing they are using to test the card.
There are many people who are commenting that this is so much work for 20m lines of code, they're reinventing the wheel, they should have just bought something off the shelf, etc.

Two things to consider:

1. It is sometimes hard to buy things that works well: https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

2. The productivity gains of something like Bazel and Pants are pretty amazing if you are working within a monorepo.

It is very difficult to understand how big these two things play into these decisions. Having ~20 people manage build tooling, build caching, source control, CI (build+test), and building release artifacts (which it sounds like Pants did) is not a bad deal.

Consider:

1. GitLab will charge you $20/month/user.

2. If you have 2000 SWEs you'll pay 40k/month just to have access to the website.

3. You'll still need to hire a person or two to negotiate the purchasing of the GitLab.

Now remember that GitLab might not be prefect for your use case. GitLab doesn't increase the performance of builds on your laptop by sharing a cache with all engineers. There's also a limit to the mount of data you can store for source + build artifacts (50GB). The CI runners they host for you are very expensive for how slow the machines are ($10/1000 minutes).

Sure, you can do things like run your own GitLab runners but now you're back to running your own infrastructure which is an engineer's job. Sure, you could save money by using Gitea or something that if free but again hosting your own infra. As soon as you have someone managing that infrastructure they're bound to say "how else can I save time and money" and at a certain scale these things become reasonable or even required.
If the speed limit was 25mph it would be even safer. And if cars were abolished all together nobody would ever die from a car accident. But life isn't about maximizing safety.
For anyone unsure whether to use flex or grid, the mental shorthand that I use is whether the container or the elements in a container should have more control over the layout.

I guess I’m wondering why it’s any more complicated than:

* Flexbox is for formatting in one dimension (or axis)—a row or a column.

* Grid is for layout in 2-dimensions—columns and rows; a.k.a. a grid.

In fact, you can use flexbox and grid in the same layout, each doing its thing.
Still Entombed: The continuing twists and turns of a maze game [pdf]
The Reality of Being 40, Single and Childfree
Hah, you can't make this stuff up.

6.
Socrates on the Forgetfulness That Comes with Writing (newlearningonline.com)
33 points by indy 1 hour ago | hide | 5 comments

7.
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information (stackoverflow.blog)
329 points by TangerineDream 7 hours ago | hide | 189 comments
Makes sense! Let me know if you want to try implementing this :)

How would you expose the setting in the extension UI?
Spotify recommends me tracks that I have already added to my playlists. It knows me really well.
> This is interacting with "the world".

To each their own, but no, it's not the world. We're made for real, in person interaction. Huge chunks of our brains are made to discern subtle facial details or body movements.

I remember there are studies that socialization is good even for introverts. They think it isn't, but it is.

We're social creatures by design, it's built very deep into us. To try otherwise is foolish for 99.9999% of people. Of course, everyone thinks they're that 1 person in a million:-)
that’s not what the Axum example does. The function you’re linking turns an opaque run of bytes into an http request object. What the Axum example does is turn an http request object into a value of some other type T.
From Robots In Plain English [1]:

The Curiosity and Perseverance rovers each carry an old kind of power supply: a nuclear power generator that runs on radioactive plutonium dioxide.

This generator has been used on many missions since the 1960s.

It produces a steady 110 watts of electricity. The decay of the radioactive material also emits heat, which helps keep the electronics onboard warm through the freezing nights on Mars.

Supplemented by rechargeable batteries, the generator provides enough power to let the rover pull all-nighters for years to come.

[1] https://www.robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2020-08-09-nuclear.ht...