skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how much overcapacity? At what cost?

That's the point: as soon as you're talking overcapacity planning, the straight cost of solar and batteries (and for batteries it is not favorable) is out the window. You're now talking multipliers. And not small multipliers - big ones.

Because even with the assumption of regional stability, you still need to meet the Volt-Amps demand at every instantaneous moment of the grid. So how stable is your output regionally? How much overcapacity? 2x? 3x? 10x?

If you're overbuilding by that much, then suddenly does solar and batteries really look so good compared to nuclear. Is it even cheaper?

EDIT: And I'll note - you can't just pile all those electric cars into any calculation and say "these are free to have". They're not. I'm not selling you cycles on my electric car battery - why would I? I can barely make money on the cheapest stationary batteries I can find in the market, and my EV battery costs a lot more then that. It doesn't matter how many are made, you don't own them. They exist to run vehicles people want to use.
As someone who grew up with the term, the overly-analytical tone describing "thirst trap" is uncomfortable!

You're thirsty if you're horny, typically for a particular person but not always.

You're thirsting over someone if you're horny for someone in particular.

A thirst trap is an act (or video, or Instagram post, etc.) that intends to make others thirst over you. It's like a mating display, but with ulterior motives, if you want to look at it that way.
You mean his family name? He was born with it. Seems to be a legit old name from UK.
Maybe, but it could also add flexibility and make things easier to develop for since there's no protobuf compile step
I wish Godot allowed for smaller file sizes. The very lowest I've seen someone get a project down to is 10 MB. It's a little disappointing when your files work out to barely a few megabytes.
The most existential threat in pre-industrial times was a bad harvest. It meant starvation. That men used their de-facto monopoly on violence to start dominating their communities is a different story.
Sure, this is true in a purely free-market world. But this is also why a purely free-market approach doesn't functionally work in many cases. This problem is solvable by government intervention.
Wow, this resonates with me! I stopped doing full-stack development a while ago, and have since January been contributing to open source projects as a contractor (my next gig will be for ISRG, the makers of Let's Encrypt, :D). By working on open source libraries I get to tackle interesting problems without being bogged down too much by accidental complexity. It feels like the ideal solution to me (though it is difficult to replicate, as it takes quite some luck).
ok, nice, how much it costed when dams accidents happened, where also a lot of people needed to move, a lot more killed? Fossils also caused move of people (climate migration) and how much costs it provoked in healthcare system by making a lot of people sick or in costs provoked in other directions? Again, I understand, nuclear has risks, but we should look in perspective, are those risks(even cost) that orders of magnitude high compared to others when all important factors are considered? I can't say, I'm not a scientist, but I see France that has a LOT of nuclear plants and a reprocessing plant and it does not look that bad there? Or maybe China?
>>More a lesson that even things intended to be good can have weird unintended consequences in a chaotic world.

No that lesson here is that when you look at human history, human will always battle each other, and it is unfair to say Li-Ion batteries "invention unfortunately ended up fueling all manners of wars " as war is inevitable.
Microwaving tea makes it foamy and taste "weird". Not sure what constitutes better, objectively, but subjectively it can get in the bin.
> "handwaving eventual consistency" approach for a lot of things.

Which, for some systems translates to: It will be in sync when all the entropy in the universe is gone.
It is almost as if general kindness, helping someone carry something for example, is well received. Who'd have thought...
PC is regulated to provide 500mA,

Cheap Chargers are hard wired to deliver up to 2A.

As long as CP2102 can handle it, it's fine, but you can get a 500mA charger.
> The state shouldn't need to build houses (in fact it doesn't; it just uses your tax money to pay private companies to build houses). It should just make the building and zoning rules simple enough that it's possible to make money from building houses and selling them, and let people get on with it.

This is the modern wisdom in the west - it's the approach taken by many governments since the Reagan era (not just in the UK) and it's demonstrably unsuccessful in almost every metric except one: votes. Which is the only reason it continues. It panders to those who already hold assets, while doing very little to move the dial for those who need shelter.

Migration is not a new phenomenon; citing it as an excuse for the utter failure of modern housing policy is disingenuous.
A temporary replacement for programming subreddit
Since /r/programming is still not up, I created a temporary subreddit to read interesting programming stuff.

Not too sure if this submission is allowed under HN rules, though.
The earth is getting greener. There are a ton of untapped opportunities in farming but it's mostly unprofitable and mismanaged. People don't care and will blame the government for rising food prices.

> Current forecasts put generalized famines, all around the globe

I am not aware of any such forecasts and call BS on that. If we are having a famine, it's because of a war or a conflict that disrupted our supply lines. Climate change effects are really minor (beyond having a bit of a hotter summer).
ARC does static lifetime tracking (or maybe better: ownership tracking) to remove redundant reference counting operations (highly simplfied: it basically makes the decision for you when to use the equivalent of a shared_ptr or unique_ptr under the hood - which is at least nice for API design, since functions just take or return generic "object references" instead of raw, shared or unique pointers like in C++ (which then is usually not what the caller wants in a specific situation).

ARC is not perfect because it has to be fairly conservative (it can be manually tuned though), but ObjC still seems to give the compiler more static information than shared_ptr and unique_ptr in C++ which are purely stdlib runtime constructs.
You're saying 75% of Gen Z (assumedly in the US) are either drug users or obese?

Good lord, that needs a source.
Yep. This is how you end up with young boys/men admiring the likes of Andrew Tate.
Incredible! Thank you for the link. The page for the "Lady" in question adds that she preferred the milk first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Bristol

This makes sense, given some slightly more recent research into the "denatured proteins" hypothesis - https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jun/25/science.higheredu...

Orwell was not right in everything, it seems.
It’s the whole western world at the same time. The same policies, the same social outcomes. It makes me question whether there is any real democracy; did we all just happen to make the exact same decisions in lock step since the 70s by incredible coincidence?

And it’s not as if the eventual negative outcomes of housing costs continually outstripping wage growth weren’t obvious and growing year on year. Who is actually in control here? Is it blind forces pushing us to an inevitable outcome? The Illuminati? Lizard people?

Is there any free will or are we just doomed to follow this course to who knows where? Can’t we figure out what we actually want as societies, and make policy that matches it?
Planning permission was granted for 2.78m homes between 2011-2021. Only 1.6m homes were built[0]. I find it interesting, given the length of the article, that this wasn't mentioned.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/08/over-1m-home...
> Everyone runs liter (1000cc) bikes

That is flatly not true.

I watched several of this year's races from the trackside. I live on the Isle of Man.

There are multiple categories, and I watched the 600cc supersports and sidecar races, also a 600cc category. The classes are listed here:

https://the-race.com/motorcycle-racing/2023-isle-of-man-tt-g...

Don't forget that a lot of riders graduate from the MGP to the TT. The Grand Prix is on the same course and has 200cc, 400cc and singles categories:

https://manxgrandprix.co.uk/latest/page/classes-confirmed-fo...

It's an amazing experience, but your attempt to oversimplify it turns it to something that is not the truth.
So China has an overbuilding problem, right? To the point of demolishing apartment blocks, etc.

How does this marry up? Is it the age old problem of building too much in suburbs people don't want to actually live in? Or the old problem of new build apartments being too expensive for most people, so require a bubble?
> Something cannot both be a good investment and accessible to all.

Roads are a perfect example of a good investment that is accessible to all. It's called a "common good", and it exists.
To be fair dealing with subscription-manager is agony
This website asks me to enable JavaScript and cookies, here's a link that works.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626074746/https://www.thehi...

(Almost) 101 is impressive!
> I think these types of questions would be closer to real life programming if they had to be done in an IDE and included tests to check your solution.

You're contradicting yourself. In real life you're not given the tests that you must pass. So which one is it? Do you think it should be closer to real life, or do you think you should be given tests? I get the sense the real answer is you'd just want interviews to be easier.
This is really strange. How are there two people with the same rare surname who make history, and have not just the same first name, but even the same middle letter? I'm curious if that family name is so rare that they are actually related, and whether it's some custom in that family to name the kids that way.
Put more simply: to be a conservative, one must have something to conserve.
This is why I think all the "meatbags" and "hardware running on software" analogies are actually really primitive and silly, even though I know some find them funny.

If we reduce ourselves to a bunch of "computers" there's not much left for the stuff that actually matters, like the actual awesomeness that is having a body, which is highly sensitive and able to experience amazing things.
Nice, do you just use USB adapter for the DIN connector?

Did you consider the one from Unicomp?
How reliable do you find it? I suppose if it's just for catastrophic emergencies, it will probably work through needing to use it. I'm guessing it will fail to write before it fails to read.
This isn’t as ‘brutal’ as you can go because the point of data oriented programming is to organise data coherently in memory based on how it’s accessed. Linear arrays as blobs of data are fine if you have strictly linear access, but you can go further by considering how systems access data. So you end up with ideas like archetypes as ways to structure memory to minimise cache misses.
A change of government won't fix any fundamental problems with housing/infrastructure. These are long-term problems and government thinking is inherently short-term.
> smack our kid into submission

What does this mean? I never talk child care in any significant way on the net, so I feel there are way to many ways too misinterpret this. Even the nice interpretation of this would border on illegal here.

(FWIW I think I agree with you on all accounts and I have had it easy)
Headline could read, "Generate a PDF for a single fixed template."

I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is not something that the author would have posted to HN. It's just https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ingve submitting another post.
Regarding my own case, it was a Google Nexus 5X. Performaed a factory reset, but the phone is still super-slow.

100% sure that this is not perception. I'm talking about seconds-long delays.

Regarding the acquaintances, I don't remember (or know); I think a couple of them were old Samsung Galaxy S models. Again, factory reset didn't help.

I guess that as parent posted, this problem affects some models more than others. I'm still really curious about the technical cause :)
Poptop: Chart system metrics like CPU load, network IO, etc. in the terminal
> EDIT: And I'll note - you can't just pile all those electric cars into any calculation and say "these are free to have". They're not. I'm not selling you cycles on my electric car battery - why would I? I can barely make money on the cheapest stationary batteries I can find in the market, and my EV battery costs a lot more then that. It doesn't matter how many are made, you don't own them. They exist to run vehicles people want to use.

The term you are looking for is demand response, it has the same effect on the grid as V2G.

With a variable rate contract it is cheaper for you to charge your car either at night or when the sun is out because energy is more abundant. Or even skip charging for a day unless truly needed because the prices are high.
How bad must the cups actually be for this story to have any relevance at all? In the 40 years that I have been drinking tea and other drinks that go into a cup, I have never witnessed one breaking because of hot water, never.
Direct Lithium Extraction: A potential game changing technology [pdf]
> To be fair, you can't "build" a dentist or a doctor like you can a home.

Sure you can. When you build an office block or a shopping mall do you put in toilets or do you wait till the shoppers start shopping then see if their demands include going to the bathroom?
I don't live in London any more. Probably won't again, for reasons of housing cost.

But I also live in a real world where most developed countries have significantly cheaper housing but nowhere near as many rail lines as the UK as a whole, and where it's a lot easier to build more affordable homes than to ensure there are enough roads for nobody to ever experience a traffic queue.
I am polish, but was raised in germany. I can confirm the observation about eastern europe, at least regarding poland. Man are man, and Woman are Woman. In general, (non-trans, non-homo and somewhat binary people) seem to have a healthier relationship with their core-gender identity. People in western societies certainly should take an example when it comes to modern gender roles. I would not glorify the situation there, though.

Of course, this already implies problems with people with non-traditional orientations and identities. But I wouldn't regard those as the main problems. They even seem somewhat easy to overcome when compared to the usual sexism in Poland.

I find sexism in Poland to be a very different thing than sexism in Germany for example. With regards to both genders. It is more reciprocal, with more obvious sexism against man than in germany. It would be a too big subject, to even outline it here.
It's funny that editing the registry is considered black-magic in Windows world while elsewhere we often edit untyped unchecked text files.
I am inexplicably reminded of the airport scene in Meet the Parents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IOE4pN8Zro
JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records
Toxic masculinity is clearly defined in dictionaries. Use google if you don't believe me.

"ideas about the way that men should behave that are seen as harmful, for example the idea that men should not cry or admit weakness"
This article is ridiculous and emasculating from the first paragraph.

Old ways of educating boys existed for so long because they worked.

If boys are extra sad nowadays, it is because of articles exactly like this one.
He should indeed get one. RIP.
> People aren't having enough children

People, who have enough resources (financial, educational) don't have much children. I don't think that this will affect this group.

People, who have no access to education or anticonception, have disproportionally more children. Many of them are unwanted. Some are irreversibly damage due to abusive susbtance intake.
Also depends on the average number of people per house, and rate at which houses are destroyed.

Why are we still building houses like it's 1800 though? Hand crafted houses built by local artisans are always going to be expensive
Also presumably he had more charge cycles than that, as I doubt he only had one meal a day.

I won't stop until this joke is dead as a doornail.
Add a demo on the front page.
Japanese Crypto Issuers Won't Pay Taxes on Unrealized Gains, Govt. Clarifies
Land is fixed, but only valuable because of the location it is situated in.
And what happens as the location is not fixed.
You cannot make more land, but you can alter the value of locations with incentives and taxes and government programs.

Part of the solution could be governments shifting people and jobs around to secondary less popular cities.
There's very little solid steel in your text.
Not the OP, but I came across this and it sounded like something people here might like :)

It's pretty impressive work, explained in a very accessible way in 15 minutes. If you don't know much about how processors work, you might even learn a thing or two!
The exception for emergency vehicles is just another rule. And even that rule can be more complex, like a police car could be not allowed to drive on railways. Or military rules that are above emergency vehicle exceptions. A police officer is not above the rules.

And in the given case we had none of them. It was just one simple rule - no vehicles inside the park.
Show HN: Android Chat SDK for Customer Support
I've always though that this was the role that eventually Evolves to Devrel.
That article has one chart in it that isn't emphasized enough - home ownership in the UK is a new thing, and historically not typical. Perhaps it's going to become the 'new normal'.

Britain isn't flat, especially compared to Belgium and Holland, or even France, which is twice the size. And everyone wants to live in the South East because London is the economic centre, for better or worse.

The situation in the south east where we can either grow crops on flat land, or build houses, on the same flat land. And then house builders have the bare faced cheek to name the streets of the new estates after things they've destroyed or you'll never see again.

Which brings us to the spoke (and no wheel) arrangement of railway lines into London. HS1, and soon HS2 allowing more dormitory towns further out from London where the land is cheaper.

London also had a historic height restrictions on buildings, and even now, has restrictions if they block the view of St Paul's Cathedral.

When the 'new tallest building', the NatWest tower was built to a colossal... 600ft (183m), it was controversial [1] in the 1970s.

At least now there are tower blocks getting built in London that are tall. Except they're expensive, get bought out by foreign investors. And then left empty. So they're not much help to anyone other than speculators and developers.

It feels like something is going to break in the UK, but it's been like this for at least 30 years. It seems like far too much of the UK economy is based on this Ponzi scheme of property. You get better returns on property than any other kind of investment.

There's whole industries based off of the back of it too (personal investment, and corporate investment, and pension investment funds, estate agents, legal, builders, development, architects, etc.) and the vast amount of tax the govt. takes from all of that.

If the UK somehow gets the property market under control (whatever that means), it would have serious implications for the economy as a whole.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_42#Design_and_developmen...
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You know it won't happen.
People who want something similar may want to look at Arq [1]. Similar to restic, it provides incremental encrypted backups to most cloud providers (or a machine with SSH). But it is a Mac app, making it easy to configure and maintain. I never had issues with data corruption so far.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them, just a happy user for 9 years.

[1] https://www.arqbackup.com
His name was "John B Goodenough"? And John was good enough? You can't make this up.
It can't be excluded. I remember a friend of mine overclocking his CPU (around 20 years ago!), and notificing that the maximum clock they could achieve, would decrease over time.

I guess that when put under thermal stress (which may be the case for some phone, for whatever reason) may actually have a measurable effect.
Optimizing a ring buffer for throughput (2021)
Ask HN: Can I log in to MS Teams on Android with a Yubikey?
I am a MS365 admin and have configured my Microsoft account to require a Yubikey to log in. Is it possible to use Teams on my Android phone (USB-C or NFC)? I tried, but it hangs at the beginning of the login process.
... you probably want to just use Debian or Ubuntu instead of random fork that might or might not exist in 5 years
That's interesting.

A little nitpick : you seem to imply that buying a book is having an influence on parenting skills. I'd argue that's its correlated but does not have a direct influence.

As you said, if you're buying a book it means you're ready for self-reflection, which is what has an impact on parenting.
Hate that the term "rock art" is still being used. These are pictographs. Calling them rock "art" frames the context in the reader's mind that these represented something aesthetic for the creators, which is highly reductive for the purpose/s they more likely served.
Housing, housebuilding, planning etc is such a divisive topic, where everyone has anchored in to a heavy bias that there is little rational conversation. The problems are so poorly diagnosed that the solutions (that people then double down on) only worsen all the problems.
> I inherited apartment in Kiev which I was hoping to use for retirement, but I won't be able to go there because of somebody decided to claim their rights on the country.

I just fail to see how that's the US fault

You'd prefer that the "west" close their eyes and let your country be absorbed by Russia ? To save your retirement flat ? Would you go back there to retire under Putin's regime or whatever will come next ? I frankly don't get it

I understand that it's war and it's hell, but regardless of the US intervention Ukrainians were going to pay a very high price.

It's probably the only US intervention since ww2 that can be explained without too much mental gymnastic. They're far from being angels but they didn't invade you country, regardless of what they did in the middle east.
A magnificent invention from a brilliant mind and lived long enough to see his invention and contribution(s) really change the world.

Thank you Dr. Goodenough, RIP.
Microsoft claims to have achieved milestone in a practical quantum computer
I'm not sure that's fair. The HN site guidelines encourage the submission of Anything that good hackers would find interesting. This is quite interesting, and the guidelines also suggest assuming good faith as to other's intentions.

The purpose of this tool is for generating invoices, not other documents. And it doesn't use a template, it writes a PDF using a Go library.
OTOH I was the only male in my daughter's classes whatsapp group for parents. Most fathers seemed to be glad the mother was handling that shit.

And I doubt I was the only divorced father with shared custody.