skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest I already thought programs like waze partnered with local metro area governments to reduce traffic. Guess I was wrong.

Open up an API for governments to drop in temporary blockers in the map (with appropriate lead-up times too).

Competitors could come to some agreement on using each other's apis for emergency or traffic jam alerts.
Germany also produced a multi year net electricity generation low in June.

The rise mostly results from this reduction because of the nuclear phase out.

These are not the actual numbers but an example:

June 2022: renewables 15TWh, total 40TWh = 37.5%

June 2023: renewables 15TWh, total 30TWh = 50%
If you enjoy that kind of peek into the past, there is a video of a tram ride through 1931 Leipzig on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CETIdLkJM4k
Windows used to be the only platform where even half baked graphics code could be assumed to run properly most places, due to its position as the primary OS for gaming. All the graphics cards had drivers, direct3d came bundled in etc. It was just easier.

Dont forget that most democoders want to make stuff. Something like Visual Studio, which you can (pirate and) install, and then you type code and press a button with a play icon and see the code run, that’s super nice and it’s had that UX for 20 years or so.

Compared to Linux at the time, which drew the kinds of people who enjoyed building up their perfect Gentoo from scratch and setting up their Vim just right, and making automake detect dependencies on all the distros. To your average demoscener, all that stuff gets in the way of getting graphics on the screen.

These days the difference is pretty much gone though, so it’s just momentum. You can install Ubuntu and a random IDE and code some opengl in an SDL window and things will Just Work just like they would on Windows. And I assume even Linux these days has a way to deal with dependencies that’s as easy for devs as Windows’s “just add the DLLs you need to the zip file”.
Those are not door-to-door times. Edit: and how about the cost? Especially if more than one person is going the same way.
Stopping sideloading will never fix this issue, just having one non-cooperative external website would mean the scheme falls apart, you need to start blocking at the network level and aggressively pursuing people who bypass those blocks, making an example out of the first one that hits courts would likely be enough to scare all but the most dedicated out of such pursuits.
There's too much insensitivity these days. People think it's perfectly fine to state their opinion as fact and be completely rude to anyone else. I believe it should stop.

So I'm sorry for this individual, but glad it happened. It needs to happen more.
Might be huge thermal mass?

It does need heating in winter like any normal house, but does not het hot in summer days
yes more downvotes please. Ignore the fact that you are psychologically vulnerable to click bait titles and the need to be right. The plane is 100% real.
BTW, looking at northern hemisphere vs southern hemisphere doesn't show just how unevenly it is distributed. To really see how unevenly land is distributed go to Google Maps (or any other online map that switches to a 3D globe view when you zoom out and search for Bora Bora in French Polynesia.

Then zoom out to the globe view. Then tweak the position to get North America to just disappear over the horizon, along with most of South America.

With sufficient tweaking you can get it down to the half of the Earth you are looking at just being ocean, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Tasmania, about 2/3 of Antartica, and parts of Argentina, Chile, Indonesia, and Philippines, plus a handful of islands.
What is meant by People? There is cave art and other relics dating back to 25,000 years ago. Do Neanderthals count?
In southern Germany, at the end of 2022, i got a letter from the electricity provider that prices were going up from 27c to 48c per kwh in a single bound.
Just that those things have no relation to each other. Coal is used to replace gas, not nuclear plants. And AFAIK in mid of April there is no winter any more anyway.

The question is valid, as there is a huge amount of misinformation going around those topics.
Absolutely, yes.

A tiny fraction of western weapons allowed Ukraine to hold against Russian war machine and even have prospects of counter offensive. I can’t imagine the hell on earth if it kicked in full force and went to war against anyone.
The poster can't know what is ostensible to you and what isn't, and nor does everyone here have the time to post sources for absolutely every single statement they make as if they're writing a university research paper.

As a reader, if you're unsure of something, use common sense and in the age of powerful internet search engines and LLM chat bots at your fingertips, it's up to you to quickly check for yourself, and only ask the poster for sources when you were unable to find the corect information by yourself, otherwise it's a waste of everyone's time.
Grams of CO2 per kWh:

France: 43

Germany: 398

https://abload.de/img/img_20230705_133511_84efdp.jpg

The reason? Germans hate nuclear and prefer coal as a stable energy source.
I reckon patting ourselves in the back because we have helped the Global South out of poverty is a very privileged Western point-of-view.

The large charity foundations billionaires give the money to are doing undeniably good work, but it is a massive circlejerk for rich people to imagine that thanks to their generosity they're now all singing Kumbaya.

How's the deforestation of the Amazon going? At least now the indigenous tribes can drink Coca-Cola now instead of plain water. Isn't globalisation just great?
you're late to the party... Assembler is the 5h!t !!!
Are you disagreeing with the numbers cited in some way?
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.
https://murat.bio
I’m talking about non-renewables.

I think (and I might be wrong, but the ballpark should be right), we will have 600% capacity installed in renewables and 100-150% installed in conventional capacity by 2030. So shifting to renewables means like 700+% installer capacity, which means that when sun shines and wind blows, you will only be able to use 1/7 of the electricity produced during the day whilst also potentially running the gas turbines full steam at night. We have observed this a lot this year in Germany (e.g. wind was taken off grid because solar produced too much whilst gas and coal only delivered a minimal (?) operational load).
Maybe this is my tech bubble, but try to find a country with higher Linux/PGP/OpenStreetMap use. I am still trying to put my finger on what the culture difference is precisely, but also outside of tech there's more thinking about what the right/correct/fair thing to do is, even if that brings greater net harm in the end.

Example: closing down nuclear because it's not a perfect solution and has risks and waste (ignoring their proportions), in favor of renewables, not caring that renewables are decades away and it'll be replaced by maintaining coal for more years than it takes the world to trip a couple (predicted/expected) points of no return in climate change.

By comparison, I found the Netherlands to be much more yolo. Live and let live, don't care as much if what they're doing is correct

All generalisations, of course. You can find nazis and climate activists in the Netherlands as well as in Germany or anywhere else.
Hey. Disaster Area is the hottest band in the universe.
> Do you even know what fsync is for?

I do, though perhaps an ignorant life would be simpler. "Alien" is a word with a definition. Perhaps "foreign" is a better word. Forgive me for attempting to wield the English language.

No one well will use your fucking disk if you mount it exclusively in a pod. Does that make sense? You must be a joy to work with.

> The point isn't that you cannot, the point is that a container runtime will only stand in your way when you try to do it.

I have no idea what this means. How does kubernetes stand in your way?

> No you cannot. Not through Kubernetes. You need to do this on the node that hosts kubelet.

This is incorrect. You can absolutely configure the kubelet to reserve cores and offer exclusive cores to pods by setting a CPU management policy. I know because I was waiting for this for a very long time for all of the reason in the discussion here. It works fine.

You clearly have an axe to grind and it seems pretty obvious you're not willing to do the work to understand what you're complaining about. It might help to start by googling what a container runtime even is, but I'm not optimistic.
somebaudy.com - since 2003/4 - all in french
If you replace axe with chainsaw, you can’t expect it will perform better if you keep the same workflow of smashing the thing into the tree. To get the advantages you have to adjust your workflow, otherwise it will of course feel like an obstruction.
This particular one, yes. However, most programs are a bit more complicated than that. That and Async is mostly used for io operations. In which case, the value here is not from non-blocking operations but from freeing up the CPU while this operation finishes execution. You can think of that as another form of executing this program on a separate thread (since the CPU will be freed to do other tasks).
Coal use is at a historic low in Germany, thus it is not possible that nuclear plants were replaced with coal. Statistics are reflecting reality, your facts are actually just guesses and opinions.
Async is a special case of continuations. If you have fist class continuations (and monads do notation in practice gives you that), you hardly need async as a language feature.
I think that’s a major simplification of what’s going on in software development. Alan Kay invented OO, and everyone says the same thing about OO - that it’s over complicated and slows down development.

And then everyone replies with, “well that’s not _real_ OO - if you did OO right the software would be perfect!”

Except real OO cannot be done.

So, yea types are a tool and should be used wisely. But let’s not pretend like there’s some magical methodology out there that removes complexity from software.
Absolutely agree.

This is also why there will be a new vocation of "Prompt Engineering" (I think it's already begun).

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2023/05/07
There are solutions being developed to store energy which will address the grid issue.
Since religions come and go, there are hundreds, it can be empirically reasoned that it isn't Jesus, because Jesus is just the latest made up thing. IF there was one true god/religion, then why haven't we stuck with the same one for 200k years, right from the beginning. Why aren't we born knowing it? Why don't we know it from birth? Instead we believe whatever we were raised with. And that is a pretty flimsy basis to base some actual physical reality that exists after death.

On other hand, guess since we don't know what is after death, we can't also say with complete 100% certainty that it is nothing. But for there to be something, then that would mean there is something in this physical reality that gets transported, and we should be able to detect it. And since there has been nothing detected after a lot of tries (experiments), at this time there is nothing.
"This winter" the nuclear plants were still running. So...
Can you find some data to support your claim? Ideally one not cherry picked to a known famine/plague/war?
She attended the conference on behalf of her employer (literally the first line on her post), and insulted people at this conference, this is 100% work related.
The total amount of electricity generation is decreasing which is a sign that energy transition is not taking place in Germany (it's just displacement). In 2019 the first half of year Germany produced 264000GWh vs 224000GWh in 2023. In fact total electricity production is decreasing since 2015 when it was over 273000GWh. You can increase your renewable share if you are producing less. If you look carefully you will see that nuclear generation was just not replaced.
True, but Falcon 9 Block V adds the partial reuse capability; while we can say that each Atlas V flew reliably once, we can say that many Falcon 9 first stages have flown reliably several times.
Françafrique (France's Neocolonialism)
This is why Germany produces almost 10 times as much CO2 per kWh as France.

https://abload.de/img/img_20230705_133511_84efdp.jpg

It's mind boggling.
For something like this you must start blocking at the network level, simply allowing the traffic would make these trivial to bypass via even something as simple as a web browser.
> I did not boot from another disk, but a random sample of files from the LSOF list are able to open; they're not encrypted. `cat` on some of the .txt files reads out the plain text.

If you booted from a disk that may be infected those things don’t say much. Smart malware will silently decrypt files it encrypted on read until the moment it decides to make itself known to you.
Startup and business worlds are so much apart. One is all about execution of a vision at first, the other is all about inside politics with people goals in the middle. And as a startup growth, it will be englued in politics.

I believe AI will be a boon for solo founders at early stage, but anything else, requirements, change managements, politics are among the key successes and AI won't help there.
So years ago there was a corruption scandal in Brazil, where gambling is illegal. A guy named Carlinhos Cachoeira[1] found that fact a great opportunity and built a gambling empire, which involved financing corrupt politicians so that they would vote according to his interests. Among those on the payroll was a senator, Demóstenes Torres. Well, one day an audio of a conversation between Demóstenes and Carlinhos leaks. It went something like that:

Carlinhos: so I want you do vote in favor of [law X, which toughened restrictions on the kind of gambling Carlinhos promoted]

Demóstenes (naively): but, professor, that will make things harder for you, won't it?

Carlinhos: oh, don't worry, it's not going to be used against me.

[1] Loosely translated as "Charlie Waterfall" by the NYT
Apache 2 also doesn't forbid companies being charged.
One things is the phone apps. My mastodon apps (tootle and mastodon) don’t work well. They lag and sometimes don’t show me my notifications. Tootle can’t display ‘ properly and I see words like it’s turn into it&#39;s. The Mastodon app doesn’t show my pinned post when I go to my profile.

I’ve been on mastodon for six years and it’s definitely got better, but still needs more polish. Also the performance of the site isn’t great, but that might just be because of it’s federated nature.
Some more stats (in german): https://www.pv-magazine.de/2023/07/03/atomausstieg-anteil-de...
No they aren't. Prices range from 26ct/kwh to 31ct for consumers at the moment.
In the meantime, Switzerland is installing solar panels on train tracks [0] instead of, I don't know, people's roofs. There is so much promising tech coming out in terms of energy storage and we're seeing almost zero investment from governments. Everything's backwards.

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/98944-switzerland-installing-s...
Industrial companies have been the backbone of the German economy for the longest time. They provided decent living wages for a large section of the blue collar workforce.

The reality is that not everyone is built for a office job, not everyone has the skills, education or intellectual capacity to work in a service-based economy. Yet, these folks could make a decent living for themselves.
Relax. You're just a Russian sympathizer. Easy travel partisan.
Too bad you're downvoted. I was a pretty active member of the scene back then (Imphobia group) but nowadays, everyone's getting older. I'd say it's a fact.

But don't underestimate the energy of nostalgia. It's still there and, AFAIC, the scene and I : until death us do part !
Procfile.dev, bin/dev, and Rails 7 – how they work, and why they're great
I write once in a while at https://www.outcoldman.com/en/

Mostly about the projects I have been working on, and some random topics.
"love the binary outcome set of Hiroshima/not-Hiroshima."

I never introduced any such binary concept. I only said that the environment damage sustained was relatively trivial, because some of the reactions seem a bit hysterical to me.
Cosine power approximation to Gaussian density
Propaganda works wonders as usual
Germany didn't replace nuclear energy at all. Germany is producing less electricity than when nuclear reactors were running.
Even if there's no compatibility between IPv4 and IPv6, there's NAT64/DNS64 which can translate IPv6 to IPv4.

MAP-T translates IPv4 to IPv6.
"He" is also used as a gender-neutral pronoun, much like "man" is used for "person".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/he#Pronoun
Woodturning. Projects involving AVR microcontrollers. Beehive maintenance. Long-range shooting/sporting clays. Coding toy projects to learn new languages or techniques. Amateur radio, mainly antenna building.
Someone is unaware/doesn’t care, so they sit in your seat before you get there.

You arrive and ask them to move, they apologize and say “oh but my friend is here, I see some empty seats up there you could take instead!”

So you go sit in those empty seats, hesitantly. Then someone comes in and tells you that you’re in their seat. You try to explain the situation but…

Etc etc etc.

This has happened to me multiple times on long-distance transit before (bus/train), it ends up being chaos if just a few people don’t perfectly follow the assignments.
They absolutely were counterfactually. If nuclear power hadn't been shut down, much less coal energy would have been needed.
I believe it was acknowledged that the lean of the rocket immediately after launch was unintentional possibly due to the damage of the pad, and later (for possibly unrelated reasons) the thrust vectoring failed completely. Given it took more than 30 seconds for the flight termination to take effect there was definitely non-zero risk there for staff or potentially even the observers a half-dozen miles away.
Well still, one could argue that if (hypothetically) scientists had been smarter than they were, there would have been less back-and-forth. There may have been less collective effort wasted on scientific dead-ends. It would have been a good thing.

I think where the comparison fails is that science is far more tolerant of alternative theories than coding is. Coding is almost a mono-culture. The choice of tools and acceptable approaches is really very limited and there isn't much tolerance for alternatives; this is especially problematic given the fact that none of these tools and techniques are backed by math. Coding tools and techniques are backed entirely by subjective opinions concerning productivity across a highly inconsistent range of environments and these opinions are riddled with biases and conflicting business interests.

Programming ideology is built on flaky foundations (vague, inconsistent and biased beliefs about efficiency and maintainability) and yet there is intolerance towards alternatives. This is at odds with science which is generally built on far stronger foundations supported by mathematics and yet is more tolerant of alternative theories.
Show HN: SMSgpt is a PoC SMS gateway built with adb, ChatGPT and a phone
The US does invest in it, almost all new capacity added is renewables, has been for several years now, and this will not change unless something happens. The fastest grower is Texas of all places simply because it's really cheap.

Birds are not an environmental issue, it was just a made up talking point that was debunked. Windows and cars are responsible for an order of magnitude more bird deaths.
The follow-up article should be about Google.

Google saw the bandwidth glut (global fiber deployments were over-provisions and under-utilized) and took advantage of this. While earlier starts were in a "bandwidth is expensive" mentality, Google designed in a "bandwidth is cheap" mentality. It gave them a big advantage both in cost of operations and ability to design large scale systems differently than previous competitors had been able to.

There was also a datacenter/colo glut. Google was buying up every datacenter square foot they could find. They could get it at pennies on the dollar just like bandwidth.

This lasted until around 2009-ish when both gluts were exhausted. Google turned to running their own fiber and building their own datacenters just in time.

TL;DR: Google's insight into the economics of global bandwidth and datacenter gluts became an advantage in the early years.
*This keeps me in the cozy echo chamber of my subscriptions.

Fixed it for you.
Coal is 30% currently: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/06... and I don't see this going away soon.

The argument is that we could have kept nuclear running and shut down all coal. In 1990, nuclear power plants were producing 153TWh in Germany. Today, coal+nuclear together is producing about as much.
"Source" also was a term and idea predating the first ever computer source code. Definitions can change.
wow thanks for necromancing the actual and the correction. <3.
Yeah, this reads like cope. So, all software engineering? Then you must have a pretty narrow view of the problem space. Quite a lot of problems have a pretty well defined set of requirements that can fit on one page. It's the technical excellence that delivers on those requirements.
Ditching nuclear doesn't make wind less important for Germany. I also do hope that this situation also changes, nuclear > coal.

I don't doubt the veracity of the article. We've been seeing similar and growing numbers for years. I don't get the hate to wind and how energy generation can easily become a political subject.
If you could leave nuclear, and "replace" lignite with wind and solar instead, you actually replaced nuclear with lignite.

>The decision to phase out nuclear has long been made (for good reasons).

No, it was made for bad reasons.

>Keeping them active or even building new reactors of that kind is not an economically viable solution. The price Germany pays for this is higher carbon emissions for the time being until renewables push coal out of the mix. What Germany gains, on the other hand, is the removal of the most expensive form of energy

_Existing_ nuclear reactors are the cheapest possible source of electricity. You already had to build them and will have to close them. Left is the cheapest part, of actually operating them.
Probably not.

It's questionable whether we will ever stop using fossil fuels. And if we do, Hydrogen seems like a poor replacement (low energy density, expensive to make, inefficient).

The only advantage seems to be that for some uses you can replace some of the existing fossil fuels (eg replacing some natural gas with hydrogen in stoves).
That is exactly what I’m saying here. Perhaps not expressed explicitly enough.
Temporary or not, coal is being burned to produce electricity in Germany

> and mostly not for nuclear plants.

electricity is fungible.

It doesn't matter what electricity the coal is intending to replace, as long as _any_ coal is being turned into electricity, that's coal that could not have been burned if a nuclear plant was generating that electricity instead
Fascinating, although especially the communications section shows the (2011) vintage: V24 circuits, pagers, and other miscellanea from a bygone era...
It can take weeks for project managers to realize that a programmer misunderstood the requirements in a deliverable. It will take seconds for managers to realize that AI misunderstood the requirements. Managers will be able to rapidly iterate on requirements in ways they've never been able to in the past. And it just so happens that distilling requirements is actually something that AI is really good at.
There is a Walmart Supercenter close to where West Palmetto Park crosses US 441. I don't know it that is outside the city limits.