skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a bit more nuance to this. The nuclear shutdown was a reaction to the changing sentiment regarding nuclear power after Fukushima (An overreaction in my opinion). It was decided to slowly phase nuclear power out (until 2020) and invest more in renewables. This was a rare occasion where basically all parties were happy. Greens because green and the rest because it made them look like listening to the popular mood at the time, with 80% being in favor [1].

Of course, as is tradition in the last decades, the law was done quickly, but the investing part was somehow forgotten. Instead, if investing in renewables, the reliance on Russian gas was increased (Insert joke about irony here).

Now it's 2021 and a new government is elected. Covid just ended and the war in Ukraine started. The nuclear plants are one-by-one shutting down, but the ones running are getting very costly extensions to have reserves. They are old, have not been maintained (because they were shutting down) and are too expensive, and energy companies don't want to keep them online anymore. The underinvestments so far take revenge. The reliance on Russia is now seen as a big mistake. In a years time, Germany changed that reliance (under a green minister's leadership, no less) by building LNG terminals and diversifying sources [2]. While still having the long-term goal of not getting in such a situation again.

However, Germany is extremely expanding wind and solar, with the goal of having 80% coming from renewable sources by 2030 [3].Right now, electricity pricing has nearly reached 2021 level and is continuing to fall. Gas is still higher but there is a big push for industries to change to hydrogen where possible.

> every german older household is forced to change their heater

Long term yes. If you need a new heater which can't be repaired, you need to get a heat pump. This will be subsidized. This will lessen outside reliance and be a part in taking climate action.

> It's just worse and worse, the largest power in europe is basically destroying itself.

I think that is a bit harsh. It's more that decades of ignoring problems and not investing have culminated in a bad situation. Neoliberalism has created immense investment bottlenecks, and Germany was lucky to survive that long. Now they have a lot of catching up to do. Which won't be easy, in no small part because Germany is not allowed to take on new debt (constitutional amendment) and raising taxes is a now go, because neoliberalism. So yeah..

[1] https://www.infratest-dimap.de/fileadmin/_migrated/content_u...
[2] https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...
[3] https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/schwerpunkte/klimasch...
> Unions are there to stop employers using their might to exploit their workers

in theory yes. in practice it gets murky.
They do pretty well, except the Room_641A in the building which is allowed to do anything they what with production branch without it being visible to ordinary workers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
There's coal, gas and nuclear for the base load. Nuclear went away and gas got too expensive. What replaced it if not coal?
> Plus now, every german older household is forced to change their heater, at a cost of 500bn-1tn euros over the next decade.

This is also simply not true. You are not allowed to install new heatings that burn gas or oil. Wood pellets, heat pump, etc, all allowed.

If you have a working heating, nobody is forcing you to rip it out. You are allowed to have repairs if it stops working. If it completely breaks down, there is also possibilities to get exemptions if i.e. a heat pump is not feasible. Maybe take a look at the actual law and not what some media is trying to read into the law.
Is it irony? I think the anti-tech sentiment is more pervasive amongst the people that enable it precisely because those people understand the sausage.
The chaotic beauty of street art
What a beautiful example of propaganda, in the truest sense of the term.

The guitar intro is folksy, the guy is warm and lovely, and _excited_ to
have us at this training.... it's about your "success".

Success of course, is not getting fired for being a collaborator with
counter-revolutionary "associates" who reject Generalissimo Uberführer
Bezos inspired vision and "history making" five year masterplan for
"direct working relationships".

I can honestly imagine this in a museum of the 21st Century one day,
like how you can go to the British Museum and watch 1938 films of
"doctors" measuring Jew's heads for criminal degeneracy.
If anything, watching the long version makes it even worse. Regardless of what one may think of unions, them portraying this video as some sort of objective (mandatory?) training session really feels dirty. You do not choose words such as "warning signs" and "vulnerability to organising" by accident. Personal "favourites" would probably be the "Is this comment a warning sign or an innocent interaction?" training and advice such as "By being silent at times in a conversation, an associate may divulge information rather than you interrogating them (which is illegal)" and "Be a regular in the break room so that you can not be accused of only being there to monitor union activity when it occurs".
> ‘charging ABSOLUTELY needs to get to a point where it's on-par with "splash and dash" in the petrol world’

People will accept some increase in inconvenience on a particular metric if the product is a lot better on other metrics.

Look at mobile phones. Before the iPhone, all of them had a detachable battery. When Apple came out with a device with a glued-in battery, a lot of people were saying they would never ever buy a phone whose battery can’t be swapped out for a fresh spare.

The argument was same as yours: “I can’t possibly wait ten minutes to charge if the phone dies!”

Presumably 99.9% of those people now carry a smartphone with a fixed battery.
> The iPhone 15 is the most affordable iPhone since 2007

For a new definition of "affordable". /s
Is something big happening in Mexico so that there's a need for a distraction like this?

I saw something similar occuring in my country. When the newspapers report about a scandal, a new distraction is created.
yep. Unreal has a much better deal. 5% of royalties once your sales cross 1 Million.
So if you are an indie dev, you can pretty much use Unreal for free. But if you are a decently sized dev shop, you pay a % of your revenue.
I cannot comment on the scenario that the roads here are worse than in other European countries, but from my observations of the roads in Hampshire I would guess that:

1. We have oversized articulated lorries running down smaller village roads. The ones that are extra tall, that we didn't have 20 years ago and which also damage trees. Other locations seem to do better with rules barring them from coming off the main motorways.

2. The local council has been defunded by central government, who also tries to take more locally raised money central for pet projects in London. As such we don't have the cash for road repairs. There are a lot of patch jobs these past couple of years that don't last, the roads need proper resurfacing. I see a lot of EVs around here, and I don't know what it's like in Czechia but the additional weight of the EVs are only making it worse when compounded with the other problems.
"Totally uncool dude!!!"
Unfortunatelt CodeProject is full of code like this.
ISO20022 is going to kill all of these intermediaries.

Systems like Australia's NPP and associated PayID/PayTo schemes, India's UPI, US FedNow etc replace all of the middle-men clipping the ticket with a close to direct account-to-account transfer, regulated by the appropriate reserve bank or equivalent.

It doesn't work across currency borders (yet) but as these systems ramp up, with their substantially lowered costs and reduced friction, even the big guys like Visa/MC are going to be affected.

And that's even before the central banks work on create their own digital coins (stable by default because backed by the fiat currency issuer).
As someone who has an uncanny ability to break at least one key (usually the E key) quite quickly on every keyboard he buys... I look forward to being able to type on a slab of concrete.
This maybe does stand up more than you think it does...

The Aygo is, in theory, categorised as A-segment, along with the VW Up! and Fox, as opposed to the Polo (B-segment) or Golf (C-segment).

i.e. maybe not directly comparable with a car considered to be two size categories further up the scale.
Nothing wrong with a good naming scheme.
Anyone who naively think so will only made them actually pay less taxes relatively to middle classes.
These tactics don't work because both sides will just go colonel Kurtz and spiral into endless depravity.
The CIA tried their mind ops from Vietnam to Nicaragua and their enemies never cowered.
I've never been this consumer, but I imagine the hangup is that by the time you've added a keyboard and display to your backpack, you could've just added a laptop instead at a similar weight/size, and while the separate laptop means foregoing the continuity of state, you gain the ability to start your "large mode" session by merely opening a hinge, which is less friction (literally and figuratively) than docking disparate components.
Target, Costco, and Newegg (for certain items) come to mind has having good prices and return policies.
Wait until you learn what happens to returned packages.
Whether the creation/generation of the universe created copies of highly specific configurations like our solar system, given an infinite volume of space, wont quantum fluctuations spontaneously produce copies of it out of empty space?
China is doing a massive renewable buildup. Yes, they are also increasing fossil-based production, but that's because their renewable buildup can't quite keep up with total growth. China is persuaded, more than most others. (unfortunately India is a very different story)
The reverse would be more beneficial since Typescript is going to be phased out in the coming years.
Perhaps we’re looking at different time frames or different locations, but as for your last paragraph, I’ve observed a qualitative shift in .NET job postings over the past two years. Several years ago, lots of jobs used to be posted by the proverbial .NET sweatshops and outstaffing agencies. These days, quite the opposite—lots of greenfield projects, lots of enterprise projects not even running on Microsoft software infrastructure, that is, not based on Windows and not related to document processing on the Office suites, not even on Azure. Great salaries.

I’ve found Microsoft’s developer-targeted marketing campaigns rather annoying. But it’s been professional and even fascinating from the point of view of marketing proper. What I disliked was the few occasions of overreach against the community.

I think .NET has been gaining traction, albeit not uniformly across the world and not at a fast pace, which is reasonable due to the already huge community—you just don’t get to grow that fast in relative terms when you’re already this huge.
HTML isn't turing complete, which, along with other limits make it very limited as a programming language, but it does support programming behavior to some extent without resort to another language, so it certainly makes sense in that regard to call it a programming language.
ah yes, my first job was at office depot and most of my training video was this, basically. they also taught us how to profile people and had us follow poors around the store incessantly asking "what may i help you with today?"
It looks like in Europe they're using a different prompt:

https://twitter.com/mjhere/status/1700219703522725968

I got that one as well.
Costco in particular, treat their employees quite well.
Hope German gas station tenants make more in their main business because of that. Sweets, snacks and drinks...

They're doomed no question, this will only speed it up.
>"Lily" and "yaoui" on successive lines
But no lossless audio support yet!

Different colors and lossless audio, there’s the home run
To be honest, in my ideal world, mshta, Electron and the like would be discontinued and, instead, there'd be a cross-desktop-platform HTML/CSS/JS app-runtime (_not a browser!_). This runtime should support a sensible, large subset of modern Web APIs plus a set of cross-OS and OS-specific APIs so it's easy to work with for developers. To be easy to use for users, it should be installed by default on all major consumer-facing OSes. So yeah, it's probably not gonna happen anytime soon...
If you’re using an Apple case, you might not even get prompted, as the communicate their identity to the phone already (to show their color on screen).
There is the separate question - should people in apartments with public parking spaces be incentivized to even own vehicles? (Talking about dense cities like mine, I'm in this situation) Currently EV seems to be an upper-middle class sort of thing - for people with houses.

I would venture a prediction that it will be exponential - we'll be seeing charging for EV's popping up everywhere, even in standard public parking spaces. It already is - I'm surprised how quickly it's happening.
> which seems to be the main reason for a speedup in this model

I wouldn't agree with this as there are substantial perf improvements on GPTQ models of ca. 20%.
Ok, this article seems to have a nice more approachable explanation[0]

[0] https://towardsdatascience.com/4-bit-quantization-with-gptq-...
I've felt the same way about several employers, actually. I'm not anti-union in principle, but I was anti-union at specific jobs and pro-union in others.

The line is about whether management treats employees fairly. If an employer has reasonable policies, feedback channels, wages, benefits, etc. and employees have reasonable bargaining power, then unions are usually counterproductive. If an employer abuses employees and employees don't have individual bargaining power, than unions are usually helpful.

Union needed: Major local factory is the only employer in an area. (reason: no individual bargaining power)

Union harmful: SWEs in Silicon Valley during a boom cycle (reason: extensive bargaining power, good workplace conditions)

Amazon sweatshops and delivery services are, pardon the pun, prime examples of where unions make sense. Things like the Google unionizing efforts make no sense to me, though.

I have not worked for many employers where I've wanted to be in a union because I try to do due diligence on workplace conditions before taking a job, and usually employers compete for me and not the other way around. In retrospect, the place where a union most made sense in my career was as a graduate student.
I suppose you're right and my expecting an entire dissertation in an off-hand blog post isn't reasonable. Maybe I just disagree with "retributivism" (I find the concept barbaric and uncivilized fr) and so my standard for justifying its adoption is unreasonably high. Still, "balance the scales of justice" seems a rather weak justification.
Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022 – report
Why would that be more likely an explanation than any other?
The common wisdom is that gas stations already make most money on sweets, snacks and drinks. Becoming charging stations might even improve it.
NSA, U.S. Federal Agencies Advise on Deepfake Threats
PDF: https://media.defense.gov/2023/Sep/12/2003298925/-1/-1/0/CSI...
Dr. Ruja Ignatova: The Blockchain (2016) [video]
Is the LLM local hosting community big enough for Nvidia to release something equivalent to a 4070 but with 40-80 GB of VRAM? A small group of Microsoft Flight Simulator enthusiasts might also like such a GPU.
Before employees, partners, and associates it was workers. All part of the same old euphemism treadmill. "Städare" (cleaner) becoming "lokalvårdare" (environment caretaker) is a personal favourite from my childhood in Sweden. Same darn job and pay; that fancy new name cost your employer nothing other than a new badge of course.
Ah right. I seem I am not able to edit my question to add more context.

Yesterday there was a lot of discussions about the section "You’re in good company" from https://rubyonrails.org

Some companies from there are not using Ruby on Rails anymore. Some are using it with other languages, some are using it fully.

I then took a look at https://toprubycompanies.info and it does not seem to have more up to date data.

Thus I want to know who is still using Ruby and the size of the company. If I get enough relevant information I promise to make it public via either my newsletter (ShortRuby) or via a blog post.
> The energy prices will remain high for many decades

Bullshit. You can get a new contract for 30 Cent/kWh right now. That's the same price as in 2017 [1].

[1]: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Wirtschaft/Preise/Publikat... Page 47
You're extremely rude.

Nonetheless, upload the file and I'll try on Linux.
Yeah, I don't understand that the lawmakers in Europe have allowed this horrible situation to develop. Every EV charger should be required to just tap your credit card and start charging. I don't care if they also have their own cards with accounts and some sort of subscription *additionally*. But the accountless payment with just a card should definetly be a requirement on all chargers.

I hope the EU steps in and solves this.
This doesn't surprise me. It's not unusual to find completely different results from "accredited" labs despite the test methodologies being the same.
wanted to kudo for the refreshing design
hurts all the advertisers, but Google the least

How so?
Steam was universally hated when it launched, even more than other launchers are hated today (uplay)

The perception changed when Steam started allowing 3rd party games and had cheaper prices (through blink-and-you-miss it discounts of course, so they can still milk launch-day hype) than boxed copies and the indie explosion that digital distribution allowed
Cars last decades, so the vast majority of USB ports in cars are USB A.
Having a lot of direct reports is probably a symptom of Huang knowing what he is doing. And from that comes the right bets and money.
Person who earns money from exploiting labor says labor should be cheaper. Shocking.
It would be interesting if it were used to cool laser sails, which might enable very high power levels for interstellar travel. This of course is not currently possible for multiple reasons.
That won't be healthy for your fingers though.
This is the worst website I’ve ever seen, don’t click unless you want to be forced to close your browser tab to get away from it.
Only about 7000 of those are HPCs (150kW+)[1]. This proposed law mandates at least 150kw per charge point, so it would more than triple the amount of HPC charge points.

In general, it makes a lot of sense to differentiate between slow chargers (usually AC, 11-22kW, installed at home, at work, in parking lots), DC fast chargers (50-100kw, often installed at grocery stores and similar) and HPCs (150kw+, often installed along highway corridors, enabling longer trips). They all serve different purposes.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/germany-added-35-more-ele...
There is no center to an earthquake - it is like an average.

> as the energy propagates from the source (at the epicenter)

That just isn't how earthquakes work.

Let's assume a slip along a plane cutting through the ground. The earthquake waves are generated at all parts of the surface slip (all parts of the plane). At different times as the rupture propogates. There is no center - that is merely a simplification.
Osama being outside Pakistani Westpoint style officer training school really did make me question why Iraq and Afghanistan were the targets. You can say it's because Pakistan has nukes, but so did Iraq allegedly, and that's why we invaded them.
I doubt it?

Not every alien story is a psyop meant to distract people from "the truth." It's just a goofy story for clickbait.
It's a job in the end, if this person didn't take it, someone else would've. If they can't find anyone, they'll just pay more or do it themselves. After all, it wasn't just the voice actor, but the animators, the script writers, and all the chain of command that was involved in this.

Morals are flexible especially when money is involved, which is a major problem with capitalism. I too would lend my voice to a clip like this if they offered me enough money.
I think you're looking at it the wrong way around. The question isn't whether you have access to the Internet; the question is whether the server on the other end is up.

Products that require an Internet connection to function are effectively time bombs that stop working at some future date, due to an incident or a change in someone else's business.

I didn't say that was a "problem", but since it's harder to write a tool like this that fails when a server is down than to write one that keeps working... the question is why?
If you are concerned about environmental impact of your travels, then fewer long-distance flying would have a much much bigger effect than futzing with clothes packed or not.

Not saying you shouldn't travel the world if you can (personal choice). But the CO2 impact is right there as a result of that flying. CO2 compensation? Ehm.. whatever. Mostly greenwashing imho.

Interesting concept though. I'd be up for the logical extreme: travel naked, at destination obtain clothes as needed.
"Godwin himself has also criticized the overapplication of the law, claiming that it does not articulate a fallacy, but rather is intended to reduce the frequency of inappropriate and hyperbolic comparisons. "
This week has to be Christmas for people who developed an engine not named Unity.
If Grote Reber could do it in 1937, so can you!
I wonder how much money they have in the bank compared to Nintendo.

Main problem of being too successful is that you can't let money sit in the bank, especially if you are a public company.
The advantage to the company with rewards is they get to keep your money while you think about how to spend it and you might never spend it. See gift cards & book tokens too, what a scam.
> and "...100% backed by the safest sorts of short-term collateral".

Tether also claims to be backed by something.
The unsupported part of your comment is the "ruining your economy" claim.

Did someone with connections to the fossil fuel industry tell you that Contracts for difference would do that? They seem to have worked well to provide cheap alternatives to fossil fuels via market based incentives in many other countries and industries.

You didn't explain why you think they'll be such a disaster in this instance? Do you actually have a reason for thinking so?
> there is now an EU public prosecution

That only prosecutes the misuse of EU funds (and perhaps the EU VAT border regime?) and even then only with cooperation with local prosecutors. In addition, the EU prosecutors are from the participating member states - several EU members are not yet participating.

> EU Commission probably does 80% of the work it would be doing if the EU were.

It's very far from that; notably health-and-safety enforcement is largely in the jurisdiction of members states.
I don't think this will be useful unless that find a way to provide tactile feedback, too. Otherwise, you'll probably have a lot of ghost presses due to fidgeting movements.
https://archive.ph/GDBfu
Too much noise on HN, no one sees articles like this.
Interesting, I didn't know that utilitarians had figured out a way to oppose Omelas. (Doesn't make me change my mind about not being one, though.)
but I’ve slowly come around to thinking that only those who substantially share a moral framework with me deserve to be treated in that framework, and those who choose to act in a radically different moral framework probably deserve to be treated under that framework. In other words, I refuse to let my moral framework be used as a tool to harm me.

It's incoherent to exclude this from your own moral framework.
Why does a third party app have rights all files without asking? The Android app rights system integration into linux and windows is way overdue