skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And more than compensated their nuclear plants

The moment they shut down their last nuclear plant they had several quiet nice in a row. The total output of renewables was about 4% of the installed capacity.

So Germany had to burn copious amount of coal, and gas, and buy energy from France
Finland much colder than say, the west coast of the U.S. The incentive to follow the rules to keep your apartment so that you don't freeze to death is high.
Indeed, but this "too late to change course" just emphasizes Germany's poor (and fear/emotional based) long term energy strategy.
Hard agree with the YAGNI conclusion. There's a certain minimal amount of complexity needed to build your system, you need a good reason to build out another layer of indirection / abstraction here, something like needing web + mobile for the MVP or offering users direct access to the API as part of the MVP. Remember: if you think there's value in a REST-style layer, you don't need to build a separate API to support that. You can just write a getUsers() method on the server instead.

What do you get when you throw out the API layer? Easier refactoring (no wondering who all the consumers of GET /users are). No implicit contract with users who have reverse-engineered your API (and complain if you break it). Easier security (who needs API tokens?). No organizational footgun that leads to a frontend/backend team split and then requires a group manager to get new features shipped, because of course your API doesn't actually expose feature-specific data for features that Product hasn't dreamed up yet.

Sure, if you're FAANG scale, it'll be easier to work with APIs. You'll have some Staff+ Engineer architecting everything and coordinating between Product and a half-dozen teams that'll take months if not years to ship, and everyone will be happy with that. Strong fences make good neighbors, and contracts keep teams independent of each other. But in the early days? Feel free to ship things that don't scale.
It might be that he thought he was being clever by using an inflated price that was used against him to inflate the claim he and Allen were making that they deserved to be paid. That's pure speculation but it would fit in with his later ruthless reputation in business dealings.
I believe the question should be, “what is the cost of the emissions delta of early turndown of these plants vs continuing to run them until retirement (whether due to economics or longevity),” in both fiat and emissions. It is not as simple as “we should’ve run them until the doors fall off.” That is a simple idea for a complex problem.
>yeah I think Germany and Austria have it right.

What do you mean by "do it right"? They tax you to death as a self employed contractor while you carry the risk and don't benefit from pension and any kind of state benefits like sick leave. You're basically fucked from both ends, you pay the same amount of taxes as an employee, and receive nothing from the state. That's absolutely mental.

>things that are possible in some eastern EU countries can be easily considered tax avoidance at best and deliberate holes in laws that benefit certain people

How is it tax avoidance when they're just following the local law? The law is made to tax self employed people less because they usually work more hours, receive less social benefits, and take on more risks than regular employees.

You want talk about tax avoidance? Ok, let's talk about the cash driven underground "Schwarzgeld' economies in Germany and Austria where family small business owners, especially in rural areas, don't issue receipts and pay no taxes on their business dealing in cash, while amassing missive wealth and real estate empires.

I was recently in some villager festival in Austria, it was 10 Euros for a cheap fast-food schnitzel served from a trailer, and 10 Euros for a cheese sausage that costs max 50 cents from Metro in bulk, basically over 1000% markups and all took only cash, and issued no receipt, while the family had several houses here and in Croatia and drove Porsches and other expensive sports cars.

Now that's tax avoidance, and the holes in the city/government budgets for welfare are taken out of the average salaried worker who can't do cash drive tax avoidance.
I’m always impressed when I see them cross a double yellow to go around something. How do they know if it’s a temporary stop or not? The other day we were in traffic and it crossed the double yellow to go around a bus as if the bus was parked. Ended up between both ways awkwardly when it saw that it was just traffic and there was nowhere to go.
No, it's not. It's a useful mindset for driving social change.
I think you are confusing terms. You are saying latency, but I think you mean the time constant of the poles / zeros. When one speaks of latency in a control system, they general mean a real time delay, like a digital processing delay, communication delay, etc. When you speak of something having low-bandwidth, such as due to the thermal mass and heating element you are describing, then one would say it has a long time constant. I have never seen these systems any harder to implement with a PID provided you select the proper terms to keep it stable. If it is just a linear PID, it is going to need to be a slow loop in this case.
I don't understand the problem. Canadian government agencies can continue to freely post information about the wildfires on Meta platforms, and users can share those posts or share links to government web sites. The legislation mentioned in the article doesn't prevent any of that. It seems like they're conflating two separate issues.
The clever part, at least the only one I know about, is that each string is muted until it gets fretted, which completes an electrical circuit to unmute it.
'Christchurch, on the other hand, is known locally as 'the last resort' because of the large proportion of retirees in the population.'

I must be getting old since Barton on Sea is becoming more attractive as residential destination by the day...
It would be nice to put the source on GitHub now and update the links on the article, that way it could be easily browsed.
That UK -- Norway link is (or was) the longest undersea electricity cable in the world[1] at 450 miles (720km).

How do the exports and imports balance; Finland is importing 800MW from Sweden then exporting 400MW to Estonia, is it possible some of that is the same power? Norway is importing 425MW from The Netherlands and exporting 1.2GW to the UK and 200MW to Denmark?

Why does the UK export 73MW to Northern Ireland but then import 286MW from the Republic of Ireland, i.e. why doesn't Northern Ireland import from Republic of Ireland and skip the overseas bit?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58772572
I'm not the person you're replying to, and I've not compared them myself directly, but I've heard a few people describe it as the difference between writing with pen (Supernote) and writing with pencil (RM2). At least on the Supernote side, that matches with my experience - it's fairly smooth, but it does feel like you're writing on paper rather than, say, a glass screen.

There is almost no noticeable lag while writing, and even while doing more complicated things like scrolling through my Kindle list, or resizing a block of writing, the screen keeps up very well.

Purely from my perspective, I find the smaller screen size (roughly A5 dimensions) of my Supernote a lot nicer than the more A4-proportioned Remarkable, but that's just a preference thing - I like writing in smaller notebooks in general. You can also get the Supernote in a size closer to the Remarkable if that's more what you want though.
Have the lawmakers considered paying Facebook for providing emergency awareness services? That would be fair
The big thing seems to be less about GCC, and more a question of, "what should a compiler be?"

He'd be better looking at smaller, less-known compilers, like the Portable C Compiler or the Intel C Compiler. If you want hyper-optimized, better-than-assembly quality, you pretty much have to give up predictability. The best optimizations that are predictable can't be written using modern compiler theory. They instead involve a lot of work, care, and attention that can't be generalized to other architectures. It can require a love for an architecture, even if's a crap one.

It's a tradeoff. Not every compiler needs to be optimized, and not every compiler needs to embody the spirit of a language.
Why do all these serialization frameworks like protobufs, flatbuffers, capnproto, etc. have bespoke schema languages? Why not just use JSON-based schema so that you don't need custom parsers for it? It would definitely make metaprogramming easier as well.
Ask HN: Is API business model overtaking (web)apps?
I've been out of loop with B2B models but it seems that right now APIs are a huge money printer. I've only used OpenAI's and Ginger's APIs so far but recently wanted to purchase some data from another company and instead of receiving a link to a database or a Zip file, they do it in their API portal. Looks like the API model is widely spread. I wonder if companies who can do it will ever launch their own apps anymore. Apps can be a liability. It makes sense to build the thing that other people use to build apps.
It’s also consistent with their attempts to copy America’s past success

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institute...
Morals are learned like everything else. Nothing is entirely a moral judgment (especially taxes?). “indoctrination” is just flat out the wrong word. Being presented facts and views from different angles then reaching the same conclusion most other people reach isn’t “indoctrination”, it’s just education.
I can hardly imagine being as afraid of "MBAs" as some HN users.
I read that this morning. She said she was pretty happy at the start of her most recent stream

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1884973353

Said she was running and climbing and the happiest she's been in her life.
They do. For nuclear, they also include cost of decommissioning the power plant completely.
The South Coast towns got pretty badly run down in the 80s and 90s but mostly it recovered or is recovering.

Brighton reinvented itself as a party town and creative hub thanks to Norman Cook and its large student and gay scenes and its fast links to London.

Worthing and Eastbourne became popular spots to raise a family for London telecommuters (two days a week in a London office is viable from there, and property is a fraction of the price).

Margate and Folkestone became artistic hubs, after the last of ex industrial inner London got redeveloped.

Whitstable became a foodie mecca and well-heeled daytripper spot, Borough-Market-on-sea or so.

The Suffolk and North Norfolk coastal towns do a nice line in second homes for the Range Rover and XC90 set.

Many, if not most of these places were pretty desolate in the 90s. Others are still to turn the corner. Hastings is on the way up but still a lot of junkies and the generally down-on-their-luck in temporary B&B accommodation. Herne Bay is still rough as. Lots of South Essex coastal towns are grim and deprived, maybe not as bad as Blackpool but definitely struggling.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/us-corn-based-e...

It's the same for the sugar cane based ethanol made in other countries.
And every time I see things like that, I feel like the person must be unaware of perl.

I've made this point before, but I still find it hilarious. For more than a decade, awk was dead. Like, dead dead. There was nothing you could do in awk that wasn't cleaner and simpler and vastly more extensible in perl. And, yes, perl was faster than gawk, just like gawk is faster than shell pipelines.

Then python got big, people decided that they didn't want to use perl for big projects[1], and so perl went out of vogue and got dropped even for the stuff it did (and continues to do) really well. Then a new generation came along having never learned perl, and...

... have apparently rediscovered awk?

[1] Also the perl 5 tree stagnated[2] as all the stakeholders wandered off into the weeds to think about some new language. They're all still out there, AFAIK.

[2] Around 2000-2005, perl was The Language to be seen writing your new stuff in, so e.g. bioinformatics landed there and not elsewhere. But by 2015, the TensorFlow people wouldn't be caught dead writing perl.
i read your book cover to cover it was amazing

edit: https://www.amazon.com/No-bullshit-guide-linear-algebra/dp/0...
I think the exclusion of car/home maintenance is based on the sexist belief that the people doing these tasks must enjoy them, and thus they are "hobbies" and not chores. I ran into this mentality with cooking and a previous partner: I like to cook as a hobby, so naturally the time I spend doing it because food needs to be produced must not count as a chore.
A short to a structure is likely to be a ground fault, and it will trip an RCD, and the arc current and energy can be controlled.

A short to another phase wire can happen, but it’s less common.
That's a really fun idea. I got that working here: https://til.simonwillison.net/bash/go-script

Now you can run this:

cat file.txt | ./goscript.sh -c 'script.Stdin().Column(1).Freq().First(10).Stdout()'

Or write scripts like this - call it 'top10.sh':

#!/tmp/goscript.sh
script.Stdin().Column(1).Freq().First(10).Stdout()

Then run this:

chmod 755 topten.sh
echo "one\none\ntwo" | ./topten.sh
She created the Nivenly Foundation to run it, and removed herself from the admin position a few months ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRxRNe6yeg0&t=1237
Major 'Population Correction' Coming for Humanity, Scientist Predicts
Many of the "27 numbers" have fairly wide (relative) error bars as well. We literally do not have exact values for several of these.
Citations below, it really comes down to it being uneconomical to load follow when capacity factor declines below a sustainable threshold, which will surely comes as renewables scale up. You can see this today on the daily graph for France when solar production ramps over the day, pushing down nuclear generation.

https://www.renewable-ei.org/en/activities/column/REupdate/2... (“France’s New Nuclear Power Plans and Techno-Economic Difficulties”)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00963402124710... (“Nuclear power and the French energy transition: It’s the economics, stupid!”)

https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-revises-up-cost-... (“EDF revises up cost of nuclear power plant outages”)
Unless the attentiveness is driven by neuroticism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
The cosmic microwave background radiation didn’t appear until the universe was about 380,000 years old.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background
This really saddens me, RIP.
Aside from competency as a reason there is also cost. Dropping all that old media reduces storage cost.

The connection to the link preview subsystem might be, that they tried to get rid of the old media system.

Just for speculation ...
Speaking as an ex-IBMer, even if you reskill they'll still resource action you in favor or someone younger and less well compensated because experience isn't on the list of check boxes they care about.

All the talk about reskilling is just so you stay calm and comfortable while the cows in front of you get a bolt to the head.

Reskilling is useful to help you find an external job more than an internal one in my experience.
Still sounds much better than back history changes.
This is really timely for me, thank you. I’m ignorant when it comes to web dev best practices (data engineering background mostly) but find myself suddenly having created a couple small backends for some of our internal (non-customer facing) tooling, and running into basically all of your questions.

One of these I struggled with right away was “how do I ensure the front end and back end have consistent data sourcing and validation”, e.g. for various forms, dropdown selectors, etc. I have found surprisingly few resources for general patterns here. So I did your anti-pattern of having an endpoint for each little thing (e.g. /api/v1/country-codes or something like that).

This has felt… ok at best. One challenge, perhaps entirely imagined, is coherent namespacing. Part of the backend is also a public (internally) API. We auto-generate all our docs with swagger, and I was finding that the few meaningful endpoints I had were diluted by the mess of individual endpoints for the frontend. So I threw these under /api/v1/config. Feels like a junk drawer but at least it cleaned things up.

I like the idea you’re proposing here for having one API per page, I think it makes a lot of sense. It also eliminates the “I guess I’ll add another endpoint” and changed it to “let me add another field”. Feels more granular and scoped. I will be giving this a try!
my understanding is that women can literally see more visible spectrum than men, so that stands to reason
Russia’s Luna-25 Spacecraft Crashes into Moon
Kind of cheating, if the "9 rules" have numerous bullet points. Rule eight has 18 non-specified bullet points. Rule nine, 27.
Isn’t a large factor the cheap vacations to Spain and the like sucking away a lot of the tourists? Some areas will still stay afloat, but the ‘tide has gone out’, as it were.

Why play on the cold, stone covered beaches on the few days of sun a year when you can fly for a couple hundred UKP to Spain and have reliable sunshine, warm weather, and sand.
That's what the author meant when he said "The shift of the C language from “portable assembly” to “high-level programming language without the safety of high-level programming languages”"

Back in the 1980s, C was expected to do what hardware does. There was no "the C abstract machine".

The abstract machine idea was introduced much later.

> The arguments in this blogpost are fundamentally flawed.

The "fundamentally flawed" comment is revisionist idea.
BraveNewPipe – a NewPipe fork for the Android Kitkat 4.4
When John's co-founder Chuck Geschke died a couple of years ago there was a similar thread posted here [0] and someone in the comments mentioned this 2011 CMU lecture by Chuck, "The Adobe Story", which was a pretty great overview of their work and mission: https://youtu.be/apHqb0V3VAM

> It's incredibly insightful, full of personal stories from his time at Xerox PARC, under the leadership of Robert Taylor, working with Butler Lampson and so much more about the founding of Adobe and Silicon Valley in general.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26849131
The homosexual argument does not checks out at all. All around the world and history, making kids to reproduce was not an issue at all. The rather small amount of homosexuals not having sex with opposite gender would not be an issue at all for them. Keeping kids alive was an issue. Preventing yet another kid after you had 7 and little resources was an issue. Surviving childbirth especially first one, was an issue.

We ceased to have many kids only after contraception.

So you do not hear that argument, because it is historically unlikely to be true and is just a rationalization.
It's the we're using algorithms of EE.
> OWS, MeToo, Arab Spring, etc, all used Twitter.

They wanted to happen,
they would have used something else. Plenty of history happened before Twitter.
I used to watch some of her streams. RIP
Because people lust for power, we are all slaves.
These kind of world maps with 'live' data are some of the coolest things in the modern internet. This kind of electricity map, windy.com the weather site and other sites linked when that came up on HN yesterday[1], https://www.lightningmaps.org/ and https://www.flightradar24.com/ and https://www.submarinecablemap.com/

Is there a collection like an "awesome maps" list anywhere?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37187760
Well, apparently some people care as some people have noticed.

(I myself have some old tweets I cite from time to time, sure I can copy, but providing sources is a good practice)
>how urgent is this particular treatment?

Consider that recent headlines indicate Malaria is occuring in Maryland: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/08/18/maryla...
Theo Jansen's Strandbeest [video]
The market didn't go to war; the government did.

The market didn't put billions in some politician friend's pocket; the government did.

The market didn't put people in jail because the system has failed them; the government did.

The market didn't decide that drugs are bad while financing the very drug lords in tropical countries that are dealing in our streets; the government did.

The market didn't pass a law to permit themselves to skirt the law. They asked, but the government signed.

--

What you call the market is the combination of economics and politics. But the market itself, the free trade among people, is a neutral party and a chaotic self-driven mechanism. But if someone has the power to dictate what is a valid trade and what is not, to put tariffs on A and not on B, the market stops being a neutral chaotic equilibrium and instead tends to accumulate money on one side rather than the other.

Because in the smaller scope, where government action is not as heavy handed, the market works beautifully. Every shop in my high street thrives and dies the same way: good products = profit. Bad products = death, and get replaced by someone better.

That is, until someone that got huge thanks to government action (i.e. favour and corruption) can just destroy this equilibrium by opening a Walmart causing every shop to die.

What you call the market, almost as a slur, is the same mechanism we have had for thousands of years. Monopoly, exploitation of labour, squeezing money from the poor to make the rich even richer is governmental action. You don't become a trillion dollar company without many good friends in the palace. Nor it is the "division of labour" that money and trade enable that made the trillion dollar company.

The market is the convenient scapegoat for the thieves running the show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_anarchism

> The unstated suggestion here seems to be that the government is not already THE (and best) system of control.

There are many form of government. Which form do you speak of? We must've lost so many idealists and visionaries in the past 150 years, that we have stopped dreaming a better, fairer world for everybody, and just decided that this is the best we can do. Maybe voting for the other colour next time will help, who knows. Whatever can one do?
Also mapped on OSM with the name Millennium Maze: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4940708
> the output is particularly good or bug free

The same could be said about most of what is sold as “enterprise” software. With LLM assistants the floor has simply become lower to the point where one need not even pretend to be able to code to produce something useful.
Ah, a maze where the 'left-hand rule' doesn't help.