skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the framing that we were having energy shortages because of renewables and that renewables were somehow responsible for the high prices. That is clearly not the case.

1) the shortages stem from the failure of France's nuclear power to deliver

2) the high prices were partly because of shortages, and the wholesale prices were the highest in France all year

I am too lazy to post prices for lst year, but they can be easily verified - besides you are not really interested in facts you don't like. Another thing that can be verified is that those coal plants that were put on emergency stand by had a very very low capacity factor and all the coal that was stockpiled early in the year was basically left unused. Because for all the talk of base load and reliability, when push came to shove, renewables kept the lights on.

The high prices are not so bad overall, there is and was a big incentive to build more capacity fast. Next years will be transformative, and it will all be led by renewables.
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Yes to both of those.
What do you use to store food? I obviously need to go find some alternatives now.
The thing is, there are issues with handling a grid that go beyond the money aspect.

Balancing a grid that relies on a few production plants is already a non-trivial endeavour.
Changing the network is usually a slow process. Adding a new power line to fix some topologic issues can take years to plan and millions to build.
Having a robust grid means grid operators have to know details of the network, and be able to know how to reroute power when a line becomes too close to its limits or (worse) when a circuit-breaker opens. Studying the current network takes time.

That's why adapting to frequent changes isn't realistic, purely from the carrier's perspective, without even looking into power production aspects.
I've run around 5500 pages thru the HL-L2300D's using brlaser with no issues - I'm wondering what documents fail?
That’s misleading framing. Ukraine was in the USSR with Russia. Referendum asked if they wanted to leave.

Results in Crimea:

54.19% yes

45.81% no

It would not have been sensible to ask “would you like to join russia” as Ukraine was already part of the USSR at the time the question was asked.

Now, those are obviously not strong results, but it also doesn’t immediately suggest the handover was a mistake. The split is even.

My point was, to come to the framing that this was “Kruschev’s mistake” one needs some preconceived ideas about how things ought to be.
Yup: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/dan...
Radio is still a thing, and studios decide what goes on there.
Just some ideas that come to mind. I don't know how practical.

Would he be willing and able to follow a strict rule "never give your bank account info without me"? That need should be a rare occurrence.

As for credit cards, maybe you could set up an account for him and don't even tell him the card number. Sign up for everything legitimate yourself, Netflix, Amazon, etc. If those accounts need to be updated for whatever reason, he calls you, just like with the bank.

And then if he insists that he still needs a card for one-off purchases, give him a prepaid card with limited funds, or "virtual number" that you can change. That way if it gets compromised he has a lot fewer, if any, places to change the number.
Finland just joined NATO and added 830 miles of NATO border with Russia invalidating that Russian talking point.
Lol, the only non-NATO countries are being invaded and it's the fault of ...NATO apparently.

It became pretty clear in this war that refusing Ukraine was a mistake and caused the war.
Ex Machina, written by Alex Garland is brilliant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_Machina_(film)

It's a plausible story line that could happen.
>In other words, even if it’s true that working from home is less productive, people put more time into their work, so it’s hard to know how these effects balance out.

I don’t get this part, if people put more time towards work, how is that less “productive”, what’s productivity definition by those employers?!

I personally left my previous job a couple weeks ago due to mandating full time at the office, even though I was working more at home and sometimes 15hrs a day -and wasn’t even paid those extra overtime-, but it was less stressful than 6hrs at the office, less wasted time at commuting, can snack any time, using my comfy chair/desk, quiet environment, no distractions in the “open office” or even catching other illnesses as all my peers working full at office were getting sick week after another, other peers who have families they liked spending more time with their kids as before the 2020 they barely see them a couple hours in the weekend, and I’m sure there are more benefits as those from my personal perspective. I understand it’s not for everyone, but going full crazy demanding everyone cramped in an area that is not even suitable for a call-center job let alone other type of jobs require extra focus, how about making the office more favorable to lure more people back to the office, how about having own closed office for all employees, relaxed schedules so people won’t waste time in the traffic, and so on, but that won’t happen, corps want the same old way which’s way worse than how work environment was back in the 60s for example, yeah employees won’t thats not gonna happen again.
For the Americans. In the meanwhile, the rest of the world is so sick of your hegemony, it would rather see anyone else, or better yet, state of a never ending direct fight between the contenders while the rest of the world is left alone.

Something like Star Trek no involvement rule.
https://archive.is/J2Wfh
Mostly agree, but it doesn’t make sense to call Vancouver a big city, but Montreal only “maybe” a big city. Montreal’s metro population is 4.3 mil, Vancouver’s 2.6 mil, Montreal is a much bigger city than Vancouver, not the other way around.

Also, if you’re listing Ottawa and Calgary, you should list Edmonton too, all have metro populations in the 1.4-1.5 mil range.
... but is it malice, incompetence or simply tweets about Ukraine don't generate as much "engagement" as cat photos?
Why do people demand from themselves anything less than greatness?
Most of the people I encounter in my life don't want to stress out too much and just want to live a happy life as they say. Where does one meet outliers who ready to fight to achieve greatness?

Your thoughts?
thanks for your message & sharing your first bounties today, MJ - super excited to have you on algora!
More than half the data there is available on Breached and other similar forums and telegram groups freely. These clueless cops do not know this and just have to make some headlines to keep the budget flowing.
Straw man.

You ignored the content of my original comment. If you don't think "invaded their neighbor" is jingoistic, that's fine, but you didn't address that. I'm not commenting on specific ethics of their invasion; I am commenting on that specific phrase.
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Not bashing the conclusion, but I seriously thought it was common knowledge that Oral B glide and equivalent products were PTFE based.

It’s also annoying that people lump PTFE with other PFAS when it is pretty clearly less of an issue (note: not completely trouble free) in most cases.
I have the same problem, need to really push to actually think properly. Not only for work but just in general.

I’ve taken a break off work for ~7 months but it seems that wasn’t enough to get back to the level I was used to before.

While this sucks, I’m kind of happy I’m apparently not the only one that experiences this
Finland just added 830 miles of NATO border with Russia. The US and Britain both approved this extension of NATO's border with RUssia.
Glass, metal, ceramic, old fashioned plastic. The problem is generally packaging materials not things like Tupperware or glassware.
What is the purpose of re-posting a comment in the linked thread here verbatim?
You know, I find that for my parents, this is the thing that is saving them.

They were never very outgoing people, weren't highly skilled at English being immigrants, and didn't engage in the polite courtesies that prepare you to be a well adjusted and sociable kid growing up in the USA. They had no cares for my arguments about being felt left out of activities or such.

But you know what, it's perfect for them not being scammed now, decades later. They just don't pick up the phone for anyone, or if they do and don't understand anything, they just hang up. They don't pay attention to emails or feel like they're missing out on some amazing deal that comes their way. All they have is a tendency to forward news articles that are slightly "oh I saw this 5 years ago".

Funny, it's like some evolutionary niche. Things that are a detriment in one environment turn out to be a saving grace and success in another.
Next time someone tells me that there is no problem with the bloated state of modern software, I'm going to point them to this video where a multimillion dollar development team congratulate themselves on reaching Windows 3.1-tier performance.
Sure. I as a musician that practised for years to play the right note in the right way the right moment will truly appreciate it when the unique style I developed with my band over years of work and sweat will be cloned in mere seconds by a multi-national corporation and their AI. Or it could be a 13 year old teenager that has the AI create music in the style of someone else.

Not that I am against sampling and remixing, but I have yet to see that AI based cloning of music can truly become an artform with it's own merits like sampling has become — or whether it will destroy the filaments of reality to such a degree music will have to become something entirely different than it is now.

What I am sure of, is that those who have power today will find ways to hold that power tomorrow.
To me, it sounds a lot more like "not using screens as a default babysitter." Support. Who cares if it's sustainable at 10+? If you get ten years of low threshold screen time for your kids, you've done well. You've probably done well to establish an activity prioritization that helps you for the tween years and beyond. The playground bit doesn't sound great and I don't know anyone who does this (I know many parents who attempt to minimize screen time).
My father (85) similar scenario falling for scam emails and phone calls. Walked in on him installing rdp software as the "Microsoft support tech" instructed him to do when he called the number in the email that told him he had a virus.

Changed his desktop pc so his account is no longer admim (can't install software). Additionally, the websites he can visit are now allow-list only with everything else blocked.
Key takeaways from the quest design of Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3
I’m not an expert on the situation in Canada but I grew up in a rural community, “the farm” that many people in town worked on was a pretty sizeable operation you’d drive to. I was definitely thinking more of the industrial-size agricultural operation than a small farm. I definitely don’t automatically equate “agricultural worker” with “farmer”.
Won't the browser just interpret that as an HTML document then?
"Tweeting Praise for Putin Ally, Musk Wades In on Ukraine Again" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-21/tweeting-...

"Russia Praises Elon Musk For 'Very Positive' Tweets About Ukraine War" - https://www.ibtimes.com/russia-praises-elon-musk-very-positi...

"White House Freaked Out Over Elon Musk's Selfie With Top Russian Propagandist" - https://futurism.com/white-house-elon-musk-russian-selfie

"Elon Musk Fans Horrified as He Suggests Ukraine Give in to Putin's Demands" - https://futurism.com/elon-musk-fans-ukraine
Such discussions are dime a dozen on any major GH repo, no need to follow the latest, most fashionable, scandal.
It's not so much UBI as a supply issue with housing at play regardless of UBI.
Ha! From your surname I'm assuming you have some ties to India?

There are companies that specialise in medical tourism but I wonder how feasible it would be for an individual who was completely unfamiliar with India.
but think of all the benefits! now i can write emails faster, and have a custom novel written for me with any scenario i choose! /s

people will call us 'AI doomers' and act like our perspective is completely unjustified, and then turn around and disregard clear examples of this technology being demonstrably dangerous.
You know, we really don't need this disposable culture. Everyone just expects to get a disposable container everywhere they go (in the West, anyway). But we don't need disposable everything. People can carry their own set of utensils, and even their own food packaging; it's not uncommon for people to bring their own tupperwares to restaurants (wrap it in a decorative cloth to be fancy). Restaurants could also give out more robust packaging that costs more, or take a deposit to encourage returns. Personally, I keep the stronger plastic chinese take-out containers.

Back in the day, the disposable container was food. You'd get a portable pie (meaning a meat pie, usually) in what was called a "coffin" - basically a bread bowl or pastry shell that was mostly thrown away after you'd eaten the inside of the pie. Summer rolls and spring rolls have their own wrapper. Meat on a stick was pretty common. Rice balls could contain fish or vegetables. Samosas would have vegetable or meat fillings.
The people who live in Egypt now are not any closer to the writers of the Rhind Papyrus than the people who live in Norway or Argentina. The Rhind Papyrus belongs to the world heritage, not to the Egypt heritage.
Why should we care what MLK thought about UBI?
i vote for someone like dang to handle these open-source drama episodes.

i have limited knowledge on what is being discussed but i echo the "ego-driven" comment below. because it's Sunday. and the replies are coming in so fast that it's certain, they are not giving enough thought to the other side's argument. and already talking about forking, not accepting collaborators, etc.
But you should quote it completely, else it's manipulation:

> You are no longer welcome as collaborators to the project. I know you really care about it and only doing it because you really want to make it better - I'm 100% sure about this. But in fact, you are doing the opposite. And if you fail to see this - I'm sorry
On the converse, having developers use absolute cutting edge machines with 64GB of ram and gigabit Ethernet connections ensures they will never even understand how much their app sucks.
> There’s definitely still some who believe in the American dream idea

America is objectively and statistically one of the better places to succeed in this way, despite the shortcomings. If you believe that nobody or very few people think the “American Dream” is real, you’re probably in a bubble. This kind of out of touch cynicism is only really rampant on social media.
There could be a role for AI here. Anyone working on this?
Perhaps, more precisely, it's a shame that governments turned research funding into a private sector game like start-up funding.

It seems no mystery why western governments are saying insane things like they need to be competitive in the quantum computing space: their frontal-lobes (the research industry) has been hijacked by the hype machines formerly constrained to the private sector.
Isn't it just economics? How can a US company compete with the cost of labor?
One thing I didn't see listed on the home/feature page: ability to send a random article/link you might be reading to a 'read later" folder (like Pocket for Firefox).

It's a feature that naturally fits into RSS and helps keep everything in one place. This would probably require browser extensions for best integration/ease of use.
There was also instantbird - an IM client that let you connect to various IM platforms (MSN, AIM, Yahoo!, Facebook before “Messenger”)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instantbird
For me it was serious black-outs and lots of migraines. The ones where you start seeing scintillating scotoma [0].

On top of that both anger and anxiety attacks, you know all the fun stuff.

Of course this is different for almost anyone but I’ve spoken with some folks who’ve had similar-ish symptoms.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma
>They predicted them

No, Steve Jobs cited Star Trek directly as inspiration for the iPhone and iPad.
This is reverse engineering, not divination. I just gave you a number of other algorithmic functions that would be just as likely to use such a list.
The gist is that people runing proprietary operating systems without the capability don't benefit from the change and don't want it to be the default.
A lot of amp modeling software allows you to place the mic virtually in different positions because it affects the sound. I think when using a Kemper to profile an amp, it models the microphone + amplifier
See this site: https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/fccmigex
Doesn't really change the point. Current infrastructures are rarely built to have distribution networks feed back into the HT grid. They are also not as monitored as the HT grid is.

This may change in the future, but until some politician cares enough and passes the cost on to the taxpayer, there's going to be friction for these changes.
> The moat is so vast that I really doubt any current provider will ever catch up.

While I agree AWS is king today, this notion that no one will ever catch up have been said many times of other businesses throughout history and truthfully only time will tell if that remains true.

At one point in time it was hard to ever imagine someone dethroning Google search. Now I can only imagine it’s a matter of time before people prefer asking AI questions they use to query Google for in majority of cases.
‘Common’? I suspect a sampling of random people on the street would approximate closer to zero
Ask HN: How to deal with coworkers who love rules, don't produce functional code
Hi all,

throwaway for obvious reasons. I work at a deep-tech startup that's been struggling to find product-market fit for a few years. Funding is obviously getting more scarce, and there is a crunch for us to finally make a product that works and brings value to customers. The general product approach is very good and feasible in my eyes, but we just can't seem to make it work. I joined the company about a year ago after previously only working at larger enterprises. At the beginning I thought that there was just not a very good leadership culture, but that engineering made stuff happen anyways.

I've realized that there is a non-trivial number of coworkers (>50%) in the company that is in love with processes and rules. They make everything slower by making sure that everyone sticks to their processes and rules. I don't take issue with that if it works - the problem is that it doesn't. Clean code, unit tests, integration tests, plannings, refinements, reviews, etc. I don't have a problem with that per se, but they are religious about it yet nothing comes of it. They discuss for hours (!) on end about the naming of one function or class, take days to write tests for simple functionality, and weeks to finish a single feature in a team. They take feedback from others in a review meeting and then continue as if nothing ever happened. Their code doesn't work. Not simply not run, but it does things it shouldn't do, and it doesn't do things it should do. They also aren't able to debug things quickly when they find these problems, taking days or weeks to resolve simple issues. And they don't care when customers aren't happy with what they produced because "that's not my problem". Product owners are super rigid with their roadmaps, telling customer-facing people that they can get their feature in the roadmap in 6+ months, everything before that is already planned. Meanwhile individuals who ignore these rules have been the main driver in actually implementing major parts of the product that is well-accepted by customers, by talking to people and getting quick feedback.

I'm at a loss about what to do in this situation. I deeply believe in the product we're trying to build, but I fear that if the company works like this, we're not going to get enough traction before money runs out. Any recommendations for how to rally people around the idea of producing something of value using common sense vs. just following the rules and ignoring customer wishes to stick to processes? Is this a common pathology in startups?
I recommend a Chromebook for him. As long as he doesn't install apps/extensions he should be fine, with the exception of uBlock Origin. I'm not saying Chromebooks are bulletproof, though. Also since I gather he's not tech savvy, it would be worth configuring some handy bookmarks for him, with official URLs so he doesn't get phished. I'm tech savvy, and even I do that. I drag things like `mail.google.com` to my bookmarks bar so I always click the official URL.

Also have a small chat with him about not clicking on e-mail attachments, & not installing extensions. As an extra measure, turn on 2FA for all his accounts too.
Who are 'we'?
If you squint maybe you can argue that mmap will leave things in the page cache. But, you know, it doesn’t matter and not even munmap will save you there so I have no idea what they’re getting at.
This doesn't really seem like a real issue. By eschewing domain names, you've already killed any chance of a mainstream audience for the site. That's fine, but it's also not particularly complicated for the users to support an alternative protocol where you don't need TLS if it's already so niche.
Input to ChatGPT: Summarise https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1509482/FULLTEXT...

ChatGPt's disappointing Output: The paper is a study of the factors affecting the adoption of smart home technology among homeowners in Sweden. The researchers conducted a survey and analyzed the data to identify the significant factors influencing smart home adoption. The results indicate that perceived usefulness, compatibility, complexity, and cost are the most important factors that influence homeowners' intention to adopt smart home technology. Furthermore, the study found that perceived usefulness has the highest impact on homeowners' intention to adopt smart home technology, followed by compatibility, complexity, and cost. The paper concludes that in order to increase the adoption of smart home technology, stakeholders need to emphasize the perceived usefulness of the technology and address the concerns related to complexity and cost.
It is scraping jobs at the moment, you are right.

I'm afraid these kind of job postings asking for experience longer than technology will always be there.

I have removed the post now.
Spending 5% of the government budget for ten years on measures that reduce energy consumption by 20-30% for a third of the housing stock forever is a bargain. The 20-30k figure was based on my experience with German houses, I have no idea how much it would cost for the typical old finish house to come up to standard. Based on the very few rural finish houses I've seen I would guess it is less, because they would probably tend to be smaller, but that is pure speculation.

Also, of course it is worth investing 20k over 10 years into a 80k house in many circumstances. Why wouldn't it be? Yes, some people won't be able to afford this out of pocket (though I maintain that this group is smaller than you'd think). But again, the government could (and should) support this group, making it financially feasible.
if a couple million teenagers need to die so that my life can be more convenient and my technophilia can be satiated so be it /s