skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How about when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow?

A rarity. Happens for a few hours a year, which can easily be passed with short-term storage.

> With too much supply renewables make no money and other producers have to make all their money in the winter months.

Renewables will have to recoup their investments in the winter, yes. Since it's predictable, it's not a big deal to have seasonality. Make a lot of money in winter to tide you over for the summer. Many industries work like that.
Because welfare cannot be boiled down to simply "More dollars are here".

My problem with this is the same as my problem with using the average instead of the median.

Imagine two situations with a small group of 10 people:

In situation #1: All ten people have 10 dollars to their name. Net across the group is 100 bucks.

In situation #2: 1 person (we'll call him Bob) has 1000 dollars, and every other person is 100 dollars in debt. Net across the group is 100 bucks.

Which one of those do you want to live in? According to our "Money is literally all we care about because we're morally bankrupt" maximization strategy, these situations are identical, and everyone should be thrilled.

In reality... Bob is living the high life and everyone else is too poor to matter. Great for Bob in the short term, terrible for social stability, because those 9 other folks are starting to think he looks mighty tasty right about now.
To anyone not already experienced with Lisps, there's varying schools of thought and opinions on what's important and valuable, within Common Lisp (CL), and within the broader Lisp family.

For example, although this writer doesn't think macros are important, the Scheme (and especially Racket) branch of Lisp ran with macros, then with various other DSL support that take macros further (like Racket `#lang`). Racket also moved towards a strict definition of phases, and a very nice module system that works with that.

That might horrify some CL people, because it moves further away from the dynamic REPL live manipulation strength of CL, but others of us have found the tradeoffs very practical for our needs.
Honest question. How do you stay friends with someone like that? Your friend holds a position of public trust, but he's openly corrupt at his side job. What are the odds that he's completely ethical and upstanding when he's on the public's time?
How do you prevent the straps and padding from getting nasty with sweat?
As others have said it would not be offside under current rules, but to answer your question the only realistic way to defend against an own goal would be time wasting, faking injury, geberally keeping the ball away from the 16 yard box.
Honest question here (that I have every time I see someone talk about memory safety in 2023), are you aware of Ada/Spark?
Yeah I did briefly look for zig game libraries and couldn’t find much.

I see the basic differences, but I’ll have to dig deeper.
Ha, I'm happy to see another Internet Historian connoisseur. Can recommend his other videos as well, highly entertaining and very well researched.

Also, for videos on video-games, he has another, "secret" channel, most don't know about: https://www.youtube.com/@IHstorymode/videos
Where I live, you basically can’t get without a referral. And primary care doctors are clueless about rheumatic symptoms, so they don’t refer.

You’re basically forced to suffer until there is visible irreversible damage (crooked fingers, permanent hunch, eroded joints, eye damage) for them to say “oh shit, yea, you should see someone”.

That’s not to say that the meds the rheumatologist will put you on will treat you any better.
I'm one of the maintainer of Hurl [1], an Open Source project on GitHub. I work at Orange, a French telco company, and the project is under the company umbrella. So we don't have any "Sponsor" information, it's rather Orange giving back to Open source community.

I can keep working on it provided there are indicators of adoption from outside Orange. In this case, the only KPI are stars and forks numbers. So stars are really important to us.

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
the innovation of lisp led to the innovations of scheme:

Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative

Lambda: The Ultimate Declarative

Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO (Procedure Call Implementations Considered Harmful)

https://research.scheme.org/lambda-papers/
As a barely related tangential thought: I've wanted to write a short science-fiction story about an alien life-form slowly colonizing our planet by invading human gut micro-biome through our diet. Through this process they alter our food preferences to choose diets most conducive to their own flourishing and then eventually effect our minds. We become convinced that diet choices are for the benefit of our own health but in reality we are eating foods that really benefit the alien bacteria in our guts.

The idea is very roughly based on the cat poop parasite (Toxoplasma gondii) that is theorized to alter human brain chemistry to change risk-taking behavior.
Indians are fairly culturally diverse if you only compare the major cities. You have much more ethnic differences in India than US as well. Immigration from the more "Middle Eastern" North-West India and the more "East Asian" North-East India is also widespread.

And it is also important to point out that regional differences are much more stark in India than in the US. Most Americans have only ever met ethnic minorities who have assimilated into being Americans. That would not be considered an ethnic difference in many racial philosophies.
The first two sound like core parts of Smalltalk as well.
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thank you for posting this here, wouldn't have found it otherwise
Southern Europe has much more visible minorities than most of the US, especially the smaller and medium sized towns. Not sure where you have been. Most Indians I have met usually have negative views about racism and diversity in the US.
Or you have the right to remain silent... Just give up on the exhibition platforms, nobody you care about cares about what you post, it can only be held against you.
The most surprising bit for me (because it really depends on the world being round) is Alaska - parts of which are closest to Tokyo, Reykjavik, or Ottawa. (No part of Alaska is closest to Washington.)

In the US, the southwesternmost bit of Virginia is closer to 9 other state capitals than to Virginia's capital of Richmond (https://cardinalnews.org/2022/02/28/ewing-is-closer-to-nine-...). On a world scale these numbers can get quite large - it looks like 33 capitals are closer to Vladivostok than Moscow is (https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/159041/how-m...).
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The "condition system" is niftier than i've seen elsewhere.
No wonder when their production is full of diversity and LGBT propaganda. It's empty and not entertaining.
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> there isn't any reason we couldn't get the prices of longer range beacons down.

The electronics aren't why the beacons are expensive, it's the regulations. Your proposal is to add more?
somebody was asking in a thread the other day about some open protocol for forums/subreddits/whatever that different people could host, that could be fronted by independent clients.

well, there you go, NNTP still exists.

write some ios/android NNTP clients that can handle multiple servers w/credentials, and run some NNTP servers. no need to distribute the posts to other servers.
I'm curious, which very nice dress watch manufacturer won't replace the band for you? They went out of business?
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Video games and movies are part of the real world.
I thought this would be about a bug bounty program, which it isn't, but it did lead me to check if there is an OpenAI bug bounty program, which there is: https://bugcrowd.com/openai
Every time this is mentioned the usual counterargument is that not paying your bill does not free you of responsibility for it. You can still be taken to collectors or end up in court.
In particular, third party apps like Apollo are popular for moderators because the default tools from Reddit are just hard to use, especially on mobile. Thus, I think the big impact to reddit's model is to actually drive off a lot of moderators.

i.e., I've seen a lot of comments like this that makes me think this is going to be a real problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/comment/...

Personally, this is what bothers me the most; subreddits that are strictly moderated are usually useful, and ones that aren't are just not worth regular time.

This is also why I'm not really sure about usenet or any other replacement, because moderation is still the hard problem to get right.
It also consistently insists, breaks functionality and nags you to try and get you to use the app instead of the browser. Its barely useable from a mobile browser.
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The machine learning process is analogous to renormalization from QFT which in retrospect makes sense.

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For privacy to exist, you need a shared understanding of something effectively "sacred," where the ethics that stem from it are self enforcing. I have trespasser and loiterer problems where I live because newer people in my area don't recognize private property unless it has high fences or walls around it. Their understanding of privacy does not incorporate the norms of the society they have joined, and it creates tension with the locals.

Imagine some strangers decided your house was a tourist attraction and developed a subculture and social scene around it. This might seem insane to you, where if your sentiments toward them as the resident did not matter to them, but the symbol of being somehow associated with your home and property did, this would be an encroachment on your privacy. To them, legally they're just in public looking at things they desire (your property), and using the peace and effect of your property as their own relative privacy so that they can have sex in their cars away from people who might recognize them.

The lack of privacy in this case is a lack of shared norms, and an inability to enforce or resolve them without conflict. When it comes to electronic privacy, the same dynamic applies, where you're "just a user," and not a person, but rather an object that is subject to some process by an other.

Privacy also definitely breaks down at scale, and it might actually be defined as relating only in a context on a certain scale - or that privacy itself is an artifact of context in a given scale. It needs re-thinking because it's not a value that is universally shared, it requires an enforcement mechanism, and it also seems to require a certain belief in basic dignity that is separate from material concerns. It presumes some natural rights that are not natural to everyone, and I don't think it's something an individual has unless they can actually defend it.
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In my experience, performance concerns have rarely been priority or the primary blocking issue with software development. With Prolog, you can often write entire programs in just a few lines that would require hundreds of lines in another language, which would likely contain the same performance pitfalls of the Prolog code.
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Casual sex can mean multiple things, I suppose, from one-night-stands to consistent fuck-buddies/FWB situations. I tend toward the latter, because I'm picky and it's hard for me to get involved with someone I don't have a deeper connection with.
Because Reddit's web experience is shit. The apps exist to make using Reddit bearable.
More like WhatsAd amirite
Another way of wording what you just said: "What if cancelling the subscription is more costly than keeping it?"

Uh... then keep it, because that means it's providing value to you.
Wires on synapses, however, are very good at sensing exactly what's up.

They're too expensive right now, and I really hope Neuralink turns out to be as much of a business disaster as buying Twitter, because if it's as much of a world-changer as Tesla or SpaceX…

…well, if cheap-and-good BCI comes, there's too many dystopian ways for it to be abused for comfort.
I've never liked the English language trailers they use.
The Japanese ones are pretty cool and worth checking out. Here are a couple examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Lp3rRjtfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0nAHRtBDw
The problem with source tarballs is that you need to then manually watch out for updates and bugfixes for every dependency you pull in. You also need to deal with the bespoke build system of your packages of choice or manually build something compatible with your project. You can also choose not to and skip vulnerable, buggy code for a few years like some companies do, but that's hardly an advantage. You also need to ship (and possibly license) all of your dependencies.

Alternatively, you can let the system package manager do all the hard work for you. That works great, as long as you only target one OS or put in the work to maintain compatibility with multiple OS releases.

My experience with languages without package managers is that large, maintained projects all invent their own package manager (remote git repos? shell scripts downloading files? a two-stage build process written in the language itself?) in combination with some sort of Makefile generating hell script that breaks for a while when a new OS release comes out.

This approach works if you're the entire system. SerenityOS can do this, because it's basically an entire operating system and userland all inside one repository. ChromeOS can probably do it as well, since the app portion isn't running OS-native code anyway. For everyone else, it's just making someone else do the work of the package manager manually.
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Small newsgroup services that use NNTP, like Usenet, still exist as well—not to mention the “big” services.

Tilde operates one, as does SDF, the two *nix communities that I belong to.

https://tilde.wiki/wiki/NNTP

(SDF is member only access)
My suspicion is that the reason they don't just sunset the "project" is because there's some sort of back-channel agreement where they agree to keep it around to try and fragment the possible competition to the juggernaut that is MS Office.

That said, this project is the perfect job for a lazy programmer looking for a dead-end job that doesn't require working but does require looking busy and attending meetings. Imagine, all you have to do is just surf the web and do "clean up" commits here and there.. no heavy-lifting like introducing new features or anything because they're not allowed to begin with.
I absolutely disagree. I have been travelling for almost 2 years and feel more at home on the road than I ever did back "home". Here's some reflections in case it is of interest.

https://kaveh.page/lessons_solo_traveling/

In particular, #6 and 14.
The game is pretty basic and buggy tho.
For one part. IIRC, there's 11 "new" parts this year.

Which is even more hilarious, considering the ISO is already being funded by the tax dollars of member countries.

A bit like having to pay a journal to get access to research papers: ridiculous.
-> People with guns don't give up their liberty when tyrants and fascists try to tell them...

If you hold a gun as a protection against your gonverment, something is seriously wrong.
> If this tool saves that person 90 seconds a day finding and tweaking things in a design then it's saving more than $30/month worth of their time.

As pointed out elsewhere, it's saving the business more than $30/m, not the developer.

The developer doesn't get to pocket the savings. Their reward for "saving" 4 hours a week is an extra 4 hours of work per week.
> waste time

I guess if people aren't working 24/7, they're all wasting time. While we're at it, let's also go and burn down all the art museums, take sledgehammers to all the sculptures, burn all fiction novels, rip up all the film reels, and so on.

To step away from the hyperbole and actually discredit your opinion...

> using GPU's for gaming has been the single largest waste of computational progress

GPUs were invented and improved precisely because of video games. The pursuit for ever improving real-time visual fidelity at ever-increasing frame-rates and ever-increasing resolution has immediately facilitated and necessitated the immense performance of GPUs today. Video games and game engines are still amongst the most complex suites of software written today, perhaps only bested by the OSs they run on.
How about Reddit minus the overzealous censorship by admins and sub moderators. I think this is easier than recreating facebook or youtube. Reddit can be fixed by changing how mods are appointed. The major problem with Reddit is that there is no way to remove bad or corrupt mods. This has been a major problem with popular subs.
So, the REPL mentioned in the article differs from, say, the Julia REPL[0]? Is it simply using the same term for slightly different things?

[0] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/REPL/
Right, that's why I said "essentially". My memory is hazy, of course, but I remember that a whole lot of people stopped using usenet after that purchase. Some because they felt sold out to Google, and some because they saw it as a sign that Usenet was going to get absorbed into the borg. A system being decentralized does not make it immune from being that sort of thing. Look at what gmail did to email.

Whether or not that was most people, I don't know. But it was more than a few.
It looks like the naming was likely intentional, allegations about Cosby go back to 2004. Although Hannibal Buress didn't start talking about it in his routine until 2014.

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/bill-cosby-trial-comple...
After years of watching my kids, I am not sure the refs always know what is offside either.

Growing up I always made fun of soccer and considered it a game for uncircumcised foreigners, but I have to like it now because my kids play. The worst thing about soccer is that no one, outside the ref, really knows how much time is left in the game. That and flopping in the box to get penalty shots.
> The opposite approach would be setting it up so the money goes to an organization whose goals you disagree with.

That's hilarious, but could be really dark & depressing!
This was not the intent, people could have just looked at the website without signing for anything and write something on how to make it better, point errors on the website, share ideas, etc, but anyway cover letter not mandatory...
+1, the information density needs to be majorly increased. My above-the-fold view on mobile only shows 2 stories. HN shows 7.
and it can also be a one-way ticket to schizoville
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Unlikely that this will happen. Companies rarely go bankrupt, they often just float along. Even if it did release the source code, will you really go and make it compile? There's also a lot of credentials involved; for example for getting an app on the App Store, you not only need the source code but all the developer certificates. Releasing them would violate Apple's App Store T&C.

It's just not that simple in practice. Then again, that's not unique to software: imagine being a car company and looking for suppliers. You're not gonna rely on some new unknown company for components that you need in your long-term planning. But if you do, you pay them so that they can survive.

My main gripe with subs is that there's no central place to manage them and it's easy to forget how many you have. That is the one thing that Apple did well in the App Store.
No, this is for the Mac.

They seem to be teasing the Apple VR as well for later, but this is "all about the Mac"
Disinfecting an old US mineshaft saved a colony of little brown bats
Remind them that while whatever they just said is nice, you're here to solve problem <X> by date <Y>. And then remind yourself that (from the very fact of their arrogance and attitude), at the end of the day they just aren't that smart.