skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I have nothing against them doing that, I'm just saying that this is how Debian generally operates. Their extended support model still allows for backporting fixes into jessie of all things, which released almost 8 years ago.

It's really good that they do that, I respect the niche they work in, but Debian has the nasty knock-on effect of having a lot of guides made for it by third parties that recommend really outdated versions of debian which can be a nasty suprise for someone new to Linux.

(It also results in notable forks like Raspbian having a poor update cycle - I remember in particular that it took about 2 years to move from the regular EOL of wheezy to jessie.)
No, it's not. This is regulated industry insiders complaining about the impact of regulations on them--of course they're going to forecast doom and gloom.

Actually reading the details of the report, I don't think the power plant emissions regulations is actually a major impact; it seems that the lower efficiencies of power plants during extreme heat waves is having more of an impact on potential shortfalls rather than emissions cutoff. Except maybe for Texas, but Texas in general looks extremely screwed regardless.
I see a lot of TUI and rich-console applications that don’t require high performance are written in Rust lately, does it have especially good libraries for that, or is the ease of distribution the deciding factor to prefer it over scripting languages?
>Not necessarily for lack of trying.

Personally, I would disagree. The utility companies have had notice for quite some time that they are have very real capacity issues. However, the cost of bringing new generation on line is not worth it to them. They would rather keep things as is, and then ask customers to cut back, or issue rolling outages if they don't. Take the infamous Texas freeze as example where the utilities were recommended to take steps to protect against freezes, but they decided it was not worth the expense.

There's a difference between equipment and generating capabilities. Failed transformers are an issue, but it's not new. Not being able to meet demand is also not new, but it's only going to continue to be an increasing problem
Then read the article because you wrote nonsense
:) just thought it was a good idea to bring it up to make clear some major differences between the two communities
How not to build a video game (2023) [video]
The biggest problem for me in doing custom symbols is the measurements and the subsequent drawing. My life goal is as yours, manage to create a custom symbol and also build my own custom dev board. Unfortunately many things got in the way and the work kept delaying for almost 9-10 years now.

The reason I picked a particular SD card was because it was low cost. My country has crazy import fees and because of this I am forced to select low cost parts which usually have bad datasheet and documentation.
The best explanation I heard after the great financial crisis (i.e., not recently) was that during that crisis, the Japanese bubble economy of the 80's, and to a lesser extent the dot com crash, huge amounts of credit (marked to market) were destroyed. If you look at the total supply of money and credit marked to market, there was not much, if any, increase.

That was not true of the pandemic.
Everything is caused by regulation in one way or another. But your statements don't represent the reality of the report that was released: https://www.nerc.com/news/Headlines%20DL/2023%20SOR%20announ...

Links to detailed analyses can be found in the link above.

Key notes:

"... overall, the North American bulk power system (BPS) remains highly reliable and resilient. However, extreme weather events continue to pose the greatest risk to its reliability and stability"

"Today’s BPS transmission system is continuing to show improvements in reliability and resilience, despite more common and extreme weather trends. However, higher overall outage rates for coal and gas generation, as well as some utility-scale solar generation not operating as necessary for reliability, indicate that there is still significant work to be accomplished"

"In 2022, conventional generation experienced its highest level of unavailability (8.5%) overall since NERC began gathering GADS data in 2013 as measured by the weighted equivalent forced outage rate. Figure 3 shows consistently increasing outage rates for coal over the observed five years, correlating with higher numbers of startups and maintenance outages."

Yes, there are issues to contend with when implementing new power sources. But those issues are nothing compared to the lack of investment in infrastructure more generally.
She said her Bengali relatives tell her she says it with an accent. Becoming fluent wouldn't necessarily fix that. Teaching diction is a specialized area, and most language instruction doesn't go too deep into it.
Not doing any leg-pulling.

The passage you quoted is the following:

> Hacker News is awesome. It is probably my number one RSS feed right now. But it's getting too big. They've crossed the line that reddit crossed a long time ago. The value on reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now. If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot.

The statements that could have been interpreted as the subject of your "at the time he was completely wrong" sentence:

1. Hacker News is awesome.
2. It's getting too big.
3. The value of reddit now is on the subreddits, not on the main page.
4. Hacker News is wobbling on that space now.
5 A digest of the 10 best items from Hacker News would be a really good Slashdot.

Hey thanks for following the guidelines despite my "ignorance", but you're basically telling me that if you could, you would be insulting me right now.

I'm not typing all of this to be snarky or to do a "technically..." gotcha. I also didn't know which statement you were actually talking about when I read your comment.
Delaware north is another one of these corrupt companies milking taxpayers. They’re not as bad I don’t think but still…
I still don't think Android has a nice feature for this. I'd like to have a group of apps muted by a specific schedule, with the option to flip between states. None of the similar features do this in a simple way.
The naive solution to the "people stop paying monthly utility bills" is to charge a high hook-up fee that covers that capital cost of baseload availability and then charge for marginal usage closer to marginal cost. Right now the baseload infrastructure is covered by artificially high costs for each marginal kilowatt-hour to slowly recoup the capital expense. The billing structure doesn't match the cost structure.

But that would make actual use effectively free and disincentivize conservation. So it's a hard problem to solve.

You could perhaps raise the effective price of solar by writing in high per-month fees for any houses with solar, but also waive those fees for homes which prove they have a substantial-enough battery solution to help ease demand on the grid during the relatively high-use hours of 5PM to 10PM.
> It's also, as has been demonstrated, wildly impractical for Red Hat to continue exactly as before without others undermining its business.

How was that demonstrated? RH became, famously, a billion-dollar company under the old model; why would continuing that not work?
> Sometimes I have no confidence that a mature civilization is even possible if it's composed of human beings.

Of course it is, just takes some lawyers and PR to change the meaning of "mature"
I suspect what happened was rising prices because of the pandemic and the war showed companies they can increase prices without also suffering a significant decrease in sales. After all, when virtually all prices are going up, where are consumers going to go?
≈ is a loose approximation.

The fact is that `e * (n!)^(1/n)` is quite close to `n`.

But John didn't factor out the `e`, causing the confusion in this HN post's threads.
>Most designs were made by very smart people in the 50s at RCA as far as I can tell.

I am very interested to know this. Do you have any resources on this development work done by RCA and how it has shaped the modern world?
I don't disagree with anything here but it feels like it tiptoes around saying what's actually happening, which is that there isn't an effective competitive market anymore.

You say that prices go up because they can, and that's not wrong, but historically there were other providers also competing. It feels like there has been massive consolidation across industries, and that this centralization has created uncompetitive markets, where consumers don't have any option but to accept a providers price & profit increase.

That feels like the new thing, the new trouble: only the very large are left. Competition does not renew: even if there are fat profit margins waiting to be had, the risk of trying to start a new competitor is too high, too likely to get crushed, has too many personal risks (trying to provide healthcare for your family, not go bankrupt, etc).

The markets have ossified into a state where this ruin you speak is possible.
I mean.... daily blackouts vs nuclear... which kind of a politician would you want to be?

Yes, some people are stupid, a lot of "the greens" included here, but choosing unreliable and unstable power sources while demanding more power use (ban on ICE cars, ban on burning stuff for heat and cooking, etc.), is well.. stupid too.
> campsites having no online presence at all.

I don't think this was an improvement. It has led to fewer people being able to use the campsites, as they are easily and cheaply reserved. Thus, people who have plenty of money to spare reserve them on the off-chance of wanting to use it that day. But when that day comes, they don't show up.
This article breaks my heart. As a (now) adult man who received very little “emotional scaffolding” from my parents - I can’t understand how anyone can think that all children don’t have to learn about how to manage (not just ignore) their feelings.

It is hard to take a step back and empathize with your children when just getting through the day seems like a victory. I needed counseling to understand these things and that is a problem because not everyone has access to that.

I don’t know how we fix something that most people don’t acknowledge is a problem. How many of us acknowledge the trauma our parents endured and what that did to us? Hopefully articles like this help get schools, groups, etc to shift this trend in a better direction.
> chill worldviews

I haven't validated this thought but here goes: dive deep into any religion and I bet none of them have chill worldviews (i.e. accepting of all, etc.). In my mind the only candidate might be buddhism but I haven't dove into that hardly to see what lurks
This is helpful, thanks!

By "boring", I see that as a good thing; you want auth to be boring, is my point. Intellectually stimulating it is in any event (I enjoy learning systems), but I want the process to be me learning how it's done (the "boring"), not having to come up with novel solutions given my problem set (the "exciting").
They expect us to be swayed by a stock photo of a laboratory?

https://www.americanturmeric.com/how-we-test-our-turmeric ("Laboratory Results - Buy With Confidence")

https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-image-laboratory-image24729... ("Royalty-Free Stock Photo: Laboratory with many operated science instrument [sic] and computer")
I assume they said "government assistance" because they are limiting the idea of government spending to just giving money to help poor people. If they had said "government spending" in general, their point would be indefensible.
"go nuts" and "go bananas" mean the same thing - go mad.
It's really easy to explain? If you are conservative you think the world is going upside down with people just allowed to say they are whatever and you think that trans people are all degenerates or stupid and need to shut up and go away. You likely think that the 2020 election was LITERALLY rigged, and you believe that someone was shot in a peaceful protest at the capitol building. You believe all democrats are molesting children regularly, that they killed Epstein and covered it up. You believe that caravans of gang members are driven across the border regularly, and that democrats want to allow them to just walk into the country, collect benefits without working, yet also steal all the jobs. There's a million more things you are mad about, and you think we pay too much attention to the problems of black people.

If you are progressive, you think the world is warming up and imminent horrors are on the horizon, you see a class structure designed to keep you poor, you will never own anything more expensive than a cup of coffee, you see your friends and loved ones being physically harmed by individuals, and structurally harmed by the state itself for the way they were born, for no clear reason. You see women quite literally dying because doctors cannot legally protect them from a dead fetus. A few rich people have strong say on basically everything that happens in your life, and they are all bitching and moaning that their life is so hard. Meanwhile, all your conservative relatives are screaming that this is a liberal hoax, basic science is a liberal hoax, trans people are a threat, and that democrats deserve death.

People are living in two entirely separate realities and it doesn't matter that only one is closer to actual reality if the people in the other just don't care.
They laid off anyone competent enough to do it
This isn't to suggest money supply has no impact on inflation—of course it does. There's a reason Powell increased interest rates, after all. But the simplistic "MONEY PRINTER GO BRRR INFLATION LUL" meme can generally be chalked up to belief in conspiracy-theory nonsense.
Not quite the point of the article but fair enough.
My wife (runs a riding academy, works outside) and myself (goes outside a lot) both get an immediate inflammation response when a tick bites to the point where it is uncomfortable, thus a tick never stays on very long.

Maybe it's not the way you want to do it, but I think if you get bit enough (I've been bit tens of times if not 100 times) you develop an immune response to the tick itself and that helps you find the tick.
That is mostly due to the development of germ theory, and before that was developed, hospitals had worse outcomes than midwives, who due to 'tradition' would do things like sanitize their hands before touching the laboring mother.
At my previous company we used DeltaDNA, but they were extremele expensive, their interface was slow and queries were hard to build.

Apparently going to their website now redirects to: https://unity.com/solutions/engage-players

If I would choose again now, I would just send basic stats/events to a self-hosted analytics platform, then I would have direct access to the database and use the vizualization tools of my choice.
Absolutely. You can look online to see all sorts of cool loadouts that folks have, but the easiest way to do it is to just get a bunch of bungie cords and large panniers and stuff things inside. The trick is to distribute the weight evenly among your panniers so that you don't unbalance the bike. A huge loadout can have up to 4 large panniers (2 in back, 2 in front) along with stuff hitched to a rear rack up top. My partner and I tend to do 2 panniers each, where we each take our stuff and I take some of the heavier/larger common stuff (bear cans, tent.) There's a whole world of bikepacking and bike/backpack loadouts out there.
> The rest I have never seen carrying anything other than groceries or the occasional new TV in the bed. They are entirely unnecessary.

Imagine the quizzical looks and stares and sarcastic remarks that would follow someone who decided to hitch an empty trailer to their family sedan and haul it around every single place they go. To work, to the dentist, to the bank, to the grocery store, to drop the kids off at daycare. An empty box the size of a grand piano bobbing around behind them everywhere, complicating everything involved with driving, parking, and fuel economy. For no purpose except the same once in a blue moon haul of a television or a couple 2 by 4s.

And yet this is literally what suburban pickup trucks do all the time- burn gas hauling a giant empty box every single place they go, for no reason at all.

But because it's a "pickup truck" it's normalized and no one thinks anything of it despite it being exactly is ridiculous as the car scenario.
I can't square away this statement with the fact that all of the major electric utilities in California, and especially in southern California, are logging record-breaking profits and issuing record-breaking dividends.

I realize that in your scenario we're talking about millions of people no longer paying utility bills, but surely that could not and would not happen overnight, and I cannot imagine that these companies could not find some wiggle room in their billion dollar profit margins to adapt to a change that might for once lower monthly bills.
In a city, supermarkets should be in walking distance.
It depends what counts as a newsletter...
go is great at a lot of things but if you want a multi clustered websocket solution, elixir is the absolute best in this category.

go has go threads. elixir has the actors, futures, message passing, immutable data structures and the OTP platform. OTP is killer and gives you genservers with pubsub and the ability to have thousands of tiny stateful processors PER machine.

Its all battle tested too.

comparing go to elixir in this particular case is like comparing a piper cub to a jet liner

source: 5 years of experience building an elixir startup with realtime sync between devices over websockets as a killer feature.
Based on my own familial experience (hard to get many others), my grandfather was not an aberration. Actually, if we look at cultural products of various times (songs, poems, etc), it seems quite clear that it was expected that a good father would be playful and intimate with his children.
Found why the redirect, Unity acquired DeltaDNA in 2019: https://unity.com/our-company/newsroom/unity-technologies-ac...
Redhat offers self-supported versions though, for half the price.
The purpose of the closet is to store your things. If your closet is a mess, that's a problem, but it's a better problem than the one you had before.
I live in a place with similar temperatures to Las Vegas, and, I think the trick might be to have a very sealed up house, with very good insulation. And then, suck in as much cold nighttime air as you can, perhaps even running the AC at night since it is more efficient, and then try to ride that cold air through the day.
You have to choose: they're either greedy or they cannot do anything about prices. If they are not driving prices to increase profits, then you can't say they're greedy. They're just doing whatever they can in a situation they don't have any control (they should also be fired and replaced by someone who can improve pricing).
Did this one feature entice Robinhood to acquire X1?
I found an article on it: https://techieinspire.com/how-to-access-the-internet-via-ms-...
rip lipo packs
Web content that's viewable using Safari on a Mac or iPhone will be viewable on a Vision Pro.
Jello Biafra Nostalga For An Age That Never Existed:

https://youtu.be/wx5XS6uXP-g
define trauma. sometimes kids need to learn hard lessons. where is that line?

define repression? given that this is HN I'd imagine the definition will be different than from someone who was from, say, Malaysia or Saudi.

what does neuroticism mean? at some level we can agree what "crazy is" but where do you draw the line? ditto for insecurity.

most of this is NOT easily measurable, outside of suicides, which are discrete events. definition of things like sexual assault, child abuse, or repression vary by state, and even more so by country.
Kor: a half-baked prototype that "helps" you extract structured data using LLMs
Wow are you the author of Kiwi? If so I want to say thank you for the great browser. Initially when I heard about a Chrome-like browser on Android with full extension support I was skeptical, it sounded too good to be true. But it turned out to be exactly that good.
I think it's less that 12 or 24 is more efficient than mains, but rather that not having to convert DC -> AC -> DC and also not having to step the voltage up and back down is more efficient. That's 2x 'rounds' of conversion you don't have to do anymore.

(though I'm not an electrician, I'm just guessing)
"oh the poor poor police with zero accountability for literal crimes we have on camera, won't somebody think about their poooooooor situation"?

Come back to me when I can just refuse to do my literal, contractual job and have the supreme court rule that it's fine, and I won't even get a negative mark on my record.
Can't read the full article but the headline seems to say that the fed is hoping for wage increases to slow, but that would be because they have tightened monetary policy. That's different from the fed chair getting up and saying "Workers, please ask your boss to pay you less so we can fight inflation."

Note that the main transmission mechanism of monetary policy in fighting inflation is basically putting people out of work, to the extent of provoking a recession if need be. So yes the fed is looking for some pain in the labor market to see that things are working, though they would love for inflation to come down without a recession too.

But high inflation is also bad for workers, because wages in general don't keep up in real terms (re-negotiated infrequently, leverage imbalance between company and worker, status quo bias, etc.). The higher inflation is the larger you can expect companies profit shares to be (case in point, the original article). Also really high inflation seems bad in general for the economy, both workers and companies.
Since Covid Started.

My company had a sublease for 2 years; but Google says the average is 8 years for commercial leases. 2020+8 = 2028; which could align with the ~30% increases in vacancy rates; and climbing in 2023.
Of course inflation is "just" businesses increasing their prices, how else would prices increase - they are decided by humans after all. It's STILL the fault of loose monetary policy. Do you understand that?

Many people mention corporate profits drive inflation like that's the end of the conversation. It's the equivalent of saying your house got flooded because the door broke open (allowing the raging hurricane outside to get in). It's pointing at a barely relevant proximal cause to ignore the real issue (the raging hurricane).

The economy is a system of individual actors. Everyone is constantly trying to raise their price (employees and employers included). When you do the equivalent of doubling the money supply in under a year, combined with covid supply chain issues, you create an environment where actors in the economy are able to dramatically increase their prices - often out of necessity because their competitors and suppliers are doing the same. The consequence is inflation. This happens if and only if you dump massive amounts of money into the economy above and beyond what can be absorbed by the rate of production.

In a sense, both are technically true: inflation is because Biden among other world leaders flooded the economy with money, and the economy aka the system of individual actors reacted to this and found they were able to raise prices because the economy could sustain that. The difference is that one of these is a massive unforced error with easily foreseen consequences that caused significant suffering, and the other is human nature (wrapped up in a prisoner's dilemma).

The blame is still rightfully entirely on people like Biden who greenlit this objectively terrible policy.