skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're using a black swan event (russian invasion of ukraine) like it's a baseline of what to expect in the future, ignoring that the world has invested more money into renewables this year than ever before

No I'm not. Coal went to record highs almost a year before Ukraine was invaded and before any disruption to fossil fuel exports from the region, and many many years after renewables were said to have killed it. Do you really not remember? Stranded assets? Coal is not price competitive at $50/tonne?

> The world is definitely moving on from coal and gas and I reckon this coal crisis will be the last, I expect to see a lot more articles like this coming up around the world:

Not moving on, as record production and demand shows. Will one day in the future move on and won't move back, hopefully according to experts and random internet commentators who said it was definitely dead 10 years ago -- is not going to cut it for climate change though. We obviously need more baskets to put the eggs into.

> South Australia’s remarkable 100 per cent renewables run extends to over 10 days

One tiny state with almost unlimited solar and wind resources in one small country? That's great. Doesn't change the fact that we've run out of time waiting for wind and solar and they've still barely cracked 10% globally yet.

That's it's also hilariously weasel worded -- obviously that state is still burning a lot of gas to generate electricity. Strange why they don't feel they can be honest and up front with the public, why are they still trying to fool people about those things? Doesn't really lend a lot of credibility or confidence to what they're selling.
Renewables are cheap when they produce. The problem is when they don't produce. Wind cannot be predicted, and the sun disappears for several hours during the day.

How much does some renewable energy cost me at night when there is no wind, +infinity?

Just look at the average capacity factor of renewables, on average it is as if 60-70% of the time they produce nothing during the course of a year.

In contrast, a nuclear plant can easily reach 90+% capacity factor, which makes it very reliable as a power source.

I am not saying that renewables suck, but to say that they cost little and are the solution to all problems is simply false. Some countries may go 100% renewable, but to claim that everyone must adopt renewables is ideological propaganda.

P.S. It is useless to talk about batteries and storage systems, which do not exist on a large scale, except through dams, whose existence is highly dependent on the geology of the country. (By the way, these would be projects that would greatly increase the price of renewable energy, but they are always omitted for idology)
Feeding the Poop Log: A Catalan Christmas Tradition (2013)
An SQL query goes into a bar, walks up to two tables and asks: May I join you?
Kitchenaid, Cuisinart, these are the kinds of brands I'm talking about. They had their moment last century but the brand has been transferred to a new owner, or they've switched to volume sales in a big box retailer, or both.

Kitchenaid is not a good brand. They haven't made top-of-the-line anything in decades
So what happens when you apply the brakes? Don't similar displacement forces occur to the tires? Are they saying that it doesn't apply here for non-EV vehicles?
> Be aware that survivorship bias may fool you when comparing the quality of new and old items.

Indeed. So I skim the article and wind up agreeing with how some things seem to be built to fall apart or under perform (modern HE washers, I'm looking at you). Then I get called to the shop floor to check a machine and the operator, an older gentleman gets to talking with and starts the same conversation! He is in his mid 60's his you'd think he'd go on lamenting the loss of the sturdy goods from his youth but nope! He too said there was plenty of cheap flimsy crap to be had.

Though one thing I will say has changed: the ability to repair stuff. Computers stuffed with proprietary code have taken control of even the simplest appliances (washers, stoves, refrigerators). Things that were made from multiple pieces of stamped or cast metal are now made from a single piece of plastic that is less sturdy which melts or deforms under heat (some eventually become brittle and crumble). I can see how it makes things cheaper and easier to make but they don't sell the plastic bits separately requiring me to toss everything over a single broken piece. And even if something is made of metal, the stamping or casting is so thin that it might as well be made of plastic (e.g. the tin foil harbor freight stock carts.)

But the retailers and consumers are adjusting to this model: goods are so cheap they are disposable. Don't bother returning it, just toss it. This has lead to people buying new items and tossing them right into the trash because amazon will ship another. Or maybe return the broken item in its place. Or you buy a new item to take a part off and toss it because amazon told you to. Consumers get to keep buying cheap crap and companies keep the money rolling in. This low effort thinking is filling landfills with unused or barely used items at an alarming rate which is a great example of unchecked capitalism. Whats worse is I guarantee you most people could live happily without most of the shit they buy.
Fair, but this doesn’t take into consideration the biggest financial impact for these income levels - taxes.
It's a property of basic RC but real-world RC based GC systems can often collect reference cycles. For example Python and PHP do this.

(I'm sure you knew this, just adding to the discussion)
Sounds like you're lucky. I'm unlucky and average. I would be afraid that I wouldn't get another job if I got fired.
> The US is continuously escalating by now supplying Patriot missiles - just the most recent in a sequence of more and more destructive weapons

An anti-air system is not really a destructive weapon, it's for self-defence. And saying the US is escalating is really weird considering Russia is the one invading and escalating with brutal attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure.
Idk if I could stomach the cooking oil, but extra virgin olive oil or preferably some salted butter would be more palatable. Cheese sounds even better still but not as calorie dense.
Autocratic countries with natural resources being dangerous and unreliable is not a black swan event. That's their normal mode of operating. Russia has always been behaving like they are now. The west could just ignore Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia, and Ukraine (the first time). This time around the west woke up and pushed back. But we could have had an energy crisis and economic warfare from multiple of the other russian conflicts. If we had minded to intervene.
>Or does every team doing microservices silently expect that one day a data team will start querying for a massive number of records-by-ID from every service, and the veterans in each team plan for this load pattern accordingly?

I assume here by "data team" you mean reporting. Reporting and operations groups are very different with very different needs.

Microservices are useful in operations settings where the flexibility of taking modules out of a monolith and putting the network between them outweighs the performance hit.

Reporting directly from microservices is a recipe for disaster. To support reporting, the microservices need to contribute data to a data lake, data warehouse, or other repository.
I don't think Elixir's deployment story is difficult. It doesn't result in a single executable, like Go compiles to, but it's easy to deploy Elixir apps and the compiled package contains everything necessary to run (meaning you don't have to install Elixir, Erlang, etc. manually in production).

The biggest benefits of Elixir over Go for me are:

1. Pattern matching.

2. Easier concurrency (with less resource usage).

3. Piping.

4. Easy to hire and train Ruby or Crystal developers.

5. Phoenix is an outstanding web framework for Elixir.

6. Excellent tooling.

7. Supervision trees.

8. Actor model.

9. Elixir's concurrency is done in private memory, whereas Go uses public memory.

EDIT: Fixed formatting.
Cross-tenant network bypass in Azure Cognitive Search
> SQL is still treated as second class

Agree so much. And if you've ever seen a real SQL wizard in action, you realise how much can be done with it. Like most of the business logic of a system can be in the database, with an interface that's a set of stored procs/functions. And fast.
I wish something similar would work for Safari. Would be great if I could share bookmarks between my personal and work computers.
In that case I suggest installing efficient panels in some large installation somewhere else. Like, a power company solar farm miles from your warehouse.

<digression>
It's such a strange magpie impulse folks have to want solar on their house. Look at my stuff! I'm doing things!

From a societal point of view the efficient installation is in bulk, serviceable, unobstructed. A rooftop is comically not these things.
</digression>
As a suggestion for finding mentors, maybe just track down some senior software engineers at OpenAI and the like and drop them a cold email explaining that you're curious and would love some time to chat about how <some new tool they're working on> works?

If you email ten, at least five will probably ignore you, three will say they're too busy, but two might be up for a chat. You lose nothing by asking, and if someone's "offended" or something because they received a cold email... well, that's their problem.

That's the start of a mentoring relationship. The first two probably won't be good AI mentors but you'll have learned something cool, and maybe they're curious about distributed systems. But maybe the second or third or fourth time you repeat this process, you find someone you really click with.
Ever since reading William Gibson's /Pattern Recognition/ I've wanted to own one of these. I inherited a much less sophisticated mechanical calculator from my grandfather. It is a flat rectangle that has slots cut in to both sides, about the size of an A5 sheet of paper. One side is addition and the opposite is subtraction. A clever use of space, but not half as clever as a Curta.
try https://cdn8.openculture.com/2017/12/17225415/monkgigtips4.j... for most of it.
Not saying one is better than the other but there were other costs too. Like the people displaced from their homes, the environmental clean up costs, etc.
AI text transformer with arms

https://youtu.be/Ybk8hxKeMYQ
The Many Faces of Resilience
I guess I should have said most people. I'm sure there are some high performers who aren't worried. I would think most average folks would be the ones who are concerned. I know I am.
"Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. One."

Especially compared to the 19.700 deaths the tsunami took all in all.

But it is still not so simple. There are long term effects of radiation, many people likely will get cancer sooner and the whole mess is still not cleaned up.

And here where I live in germany, it is still advised against regulary eating mushrooms from the wood, because of one incident that took place 36 years ago.

But yes, the coal plants around here contributed worse, so I also believe it is wiser to not replace fission with coal.
> He often gets lumped together with continental thinkers and post-modernists like Foucault that he has nothing to do with.

He has a lot to do with them. One of the themes in Derrida’s “The Truth in Painting” revolves around the maxim, “there is no passe-partout (a master key that opens all locks).” Foucault’s “Madness and Civilization” is partially about the lack of a single axis of “Reason”, which would presumably be the antonym of a similarly univocal “Madness”.
Replaced my 30yo appliances. My electric bill dropped in half.

Sure you have the resources to burn all the electricity you want for convenience, you do you.
I think the article takes the "discrimination is important" quote as cryptic and philosophical when it has a very real meaning. Compare it to an interview with the great Dizzy Gillespie:

> Interviewer: What’s it take to make a great trumpet player?

> Dizzy Gillespie: (long pause) Well, the first thing is to be a master shit detector. Detect what is valid and what is not.

And to the well-known Feynman quote:

> The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

What Monk is getting at is that when you're woodshedding (practicing by yourself) and trying to build up your playing and improvisation, you have to be your own critic a lot of the time. Are you really playing something hip, or are you playing something corny? Are you swinging? Are you making the chord changes? Are your time and intonation as good as you think? Amongst all the other musicians you hear, live and recorded, are you selecting the influences that are really going to build your playing in the way you want? If you're coming up with ideas on your own, are they really fresh and valid, or are they just the first thing that came to your mind?
Alfred on MacOS.

https://www.alfredapp.com/
Maybe, but I would prefer they just sent me a proper pair of jeans. I do agree though, sewing appears to be a dying art in laymen.
More about Ferrocene, the safety-critical Rust toolchain / specification that is in the works:

https://www.adacore.com/ferrocene

https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/

https://spec.ferrocene.dev/
iPhone naming will have to be restarted soon. Purely from marketing I feel going from iPhone 14 to iPhone 15 doesn’t sound as impressive as going from iPhone to iPhone 2.

After a while these large numbers feel like minors on a software patch and not big leaps that drive sales from average consumers.
> That is a sort of unity that is awfully hard to find today.

We sacrificed that sort of unity -- for exactly what I still don't understand, but sacrificed it nonetheless. For a misguided sense of diversity, perhaps? American society can no longer even agree that working hard and being punctual are virtues, with a not-insignificant minority describing those characteristics as white supremacist.

More broadly, as Kemi Badenoch of England put it eloquently, there is a loss of epistemic authority in the modern West, maybe especially in the Anglosphere. When people no longer believe that anything can be true, there can be no rallying cause around which we form a sense of unity.
+1

I work at a bigcorp and have had great mentors, and now that I'm an old fart, I try my best to mentor others. It's a huge plus to have access to a large community of talented engineers
Tbf, it seems this could happen anywhere. Imo, seems it would be more prevalent in bigger, more established businesses where you’re further away from the core of the technology. I’ve done consulting and seen tons of bad practices. This is ofc selection bias though, lol.

I totally get what you’re saying though. It can be a situation of the blind leading the blind.
Yes, we thought that was strange too but it kind of makes sense if the process is unaware that the GPU exists because of the OS settings.

As an aside, we also discovered that `powerPreference` is only a hint according to the spec, so there's no guarantee that an implementation will adhere to it: https://registry.khronos.org/webgl/specs/latest/1.0/
Australia is a gas supplier to Japan and has headed down the road towards nationalising its gas sector recently, indirectly through local supply mandates and price fixing. Exploration projects have been canceled and frozen there in the last week. Japan may feel uncertain about its ability to source gas on the open market.
The problems stated in the article are real, but marginal. The underlying problem is that Elon overhypes in epic fashion, and hopes his promises are fulfilled. Sometimes this works. As the article points out, he made electric cars fast and stylish. He made reusable rocket boosters.

But, and this is an enormous "but," he ran out of luck:

- Starlink is what gives SpaceX its valuation. But Starlink viability depends on many more 2nd gen satellites that are bigger and more expensive. Those depend on Starship for cost-effective launch. But Starship is turning out to be a Space Spruce Goose.

- Tesla's valuation, and bullish analyst targets like those from ARK, depends on robotaxi revenue, which depends on FSD. Nobody knows how to make FSD work. Nobody can say if or when it will work. Except Elon: It will work next year. In reality, Tesla is a car company and will get valued like every other car company, just like meat alternative companies are just food companies, and get the same valuation. Non-meat that tastes good is good for the planet, but it is still just food.

- He thought he could do an LBO, with no experience in LBOs, and "flip" Twitter, at a minimal loss compared to settling the suit against him, and maybe even a profit. Turns out, he can't. he is also stuck in the job of running Twitter. Nobody will be his meatshield for when it crashes, probably at the first interest payment, certainly by the second.

Elon ran out of luck. maybe he saw this coming and wanted Twitter as a way of shaping reality to extend his runway for his other hype-driven projects to mature. But now, none of that is working.
> I'm worried that "just" mixing it with flour and water might've created pockets when dough is saltier and kill it or just be non-uniform

I omitted some details on this point:

Yes, adding the (active dry) yeast and the salt directly to the dry flour would also have me worry about "non-uniform".

Sooo, I try to have steps that promise to give a nice uniform distribution of the yeast and salt ...:

I don't try to get the yeast to grow or generate CO2 before it is mixed with the flour and is set aside to rise.

Instead, I put the (active dry) yeast in the 650 ml of water just to soften. So, it is plenty wet, starts with plenty of water, when it is mixed in with the flour. I suspect that this step, to soften the yeast, is not necessary, to give it a drink of water, enough to soften it, is useless and pointless.

Then, just before combining the water and yeast in the water with the flour, I add the salt to the water and yeast and mix it in. Sooo, the salt is nicely uniform in the water, and the yeast has a good start on being uniform in the water. Then, in goes the ~2/3rds of the flour. These ingredients can be mixed with a spoon and are still essentially a liquid. And I do that -- use the spoon to mix the mixture into what definitely looks like everything is uniformly distributed. Soooo, this spoon mixing is likely doing a good job achieving uniform distributions of the water, yeast, and salt.

Then I add the remaining ~1/3rd of the flour. Now the mixture is too stiff to mix well with a spoon. Sooo, I just do a little mixing. At this point, the flour is NOT, is no longer, nicely uniformly mixed with the water, salt, and yeast. Just from an accident, I discovered that it can be good, for the final texture, to let this mixture rise some. Actually this rise step is optional.

Then on to the kneading: Coat the outside surface with some flour so that your fingers don't get too sticky with the dough. Then, for the kneading, press the dough out some, enough to be able to fold it in half. Then, fold it in half, and repeat -- press, fold, press, fold .... During this, may have to add a little loose flour to the outside surface to keep too much dough sticking to your fingers.

Here are, with this kneading work, sure, "developing the gluten", etc. But to me what is more important, are achieving a nice uniform distribution of the water, yeast, and salt with the flour. That is, you can pretty well tell that the water is uniformly distributed in the flour.

Soooo, since, from the first efforts with the yeast and salt in the water, the yeast and salt are already uniformly distributed in the water, and now the water is uniformly distributed with the flour, no doubt the water brought along the yeast and salt uniformly and now the salt and yeast are ALSO uniformly distributed with the flour, thus, addressing your concerns!

I omitted all that but include it here!
have 51g of drugs is very very different from selling 51g to someone.
Hostname can have many orders: if it's a technical/location name like "dc-room-row" then it's in order. If it's a character name, they could follow the logic of the characters: some are leading (frontend), some are smarter (backend), some are...

If you had more than 20 children, you would clearly want some logic in naming. People often apply that to twins for example.

Anyway, that applies better to "more than a few" groups; Ubuntu did well because they release many versions, and you really rarely need to check against versions from 13 years ago with that release speed. Microsoft didn't need it for Windows because they only had 4 or 5 versions in 20 years.
To move from point A to point B quickly without having to face traffic jam, for example.
And obviously, being able to fly is super cool.
>Weird how whiny comments like these are always top in HN threads.

I prefer whiny comments about the topic at hand over whiny meta comments about other commenters.

And yes, I'm aware of the irony of choosing to post this.
It’s hard problem that can only be solved through attempts and iteration. The fact that a wealth tax is difficult is not a good enough reason to not try, because the problem of wealth inequality is so severe now.
I think you'd be better served by a different argument served with a lot less bluster directed at me (forest for the trees, blind defense, etc...).

What you are arguing is that an industrial sector that was created with military funds, has a market far bigger than it's original military application. Nuclear is no different than nearly every other industry that relied on military research money, then early purchases that fueled initial industry growth, followed by growth where the sector's market grew to dwarf it's military purchases. In all cases, the military does benefit from less expensive chips, or pre-built utility communications infrastructure, or even less expensive fuel for submarines -- it is a simple and natural economic effect of scale.
There would be no point in competing with someone who has the same genes as you since it is the genes that drive evolution. Going further, the more different the genes the more you would want to compete.

So this means that you would cooperate most with your parents then your siblings, then your family, tribe, race and species.
> Pumped hydro has been in use for decades around the world

They were used last time in Europe when there were an energy shortage. Almost all was decommissioned quite quickly afterward when they became economical unsustainable.

They are generally expensive. They are generally located in places where there already exist a lot of hydro power. They generally need a lot of land and connecting power infrastructure. They generally tend to compete with hydro power. They generally need a lot of subsidies.

With energy prices skyrocketing in eu there is some lukewarm interest to restart those old pumped hydro (those that still exist and with existing power infrastructure in place). They are however not a drop in replacement for existing nuclear power plants nor existing natural gas power plants. There is however a energy shortage and so any source might be economical viable if used correctly.
What kind of bulbs are you using? LED bulbs should last a decade.
Nuclear power needs storage on the scale of a day or two. Wind needs storage on the scale of a few weeks. Solar needs storage on the scale of 3-6 months. You can work around this a bit with demand scheduling and it's much less of a problem in the tropics, but we're talking about Japan: it's northern, densely populated and cloudy.

If you can turn a nuclear plant off (summer) and on (winter) once a year, the storage requirement for solar drops by a lot.