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Utilities commissions and state regulators are enabling these plants to continue to run, even when they’re uneconomical. Consumers pay more than they otherwise would for local electricity due to ideology. That is what this earmark is to fight.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/states-fight-to-save-coal-pl... ("States fight to save coal plants as EPA cracks down")

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2023/03/06... ("Coal is expensive. West Virginia wants more of it.")

https://coal.sierraclub.org/coal-plant-map
There is no 'the internet'. As much as my cypherpunk heart would want there to be, in the end you have hosts (clients, servers) and subscribers (people) and those are located somewhere, and the laws of that place dictate what you can and cannot do.

This is also why bulletproof hosting never ends well.
If you sell a table, I am absolutely free to pirate that table by going home and making a copy of it. Totally legal. Creator gets no money for their work.

Digital goods have far more legal protection against this than physical ones.

They are not the same.
Already is capable to an extent, ive made orders with whatsapp chat based apps before

Usually to order coffee (powered by shopify stores typically)
I was going to comment the same thing. I’m not surprised that they have one, but this is the first I’ve ever seen it.
Propagandists versus everyone else

Once you have reached the point where every situation is reduced to a simplistic black&white view, the propagandists have already won: you've become one of them.
Linked from this excellent article is https://scenelist.org/, which is just the nostalgia bomb I needed this morning. Excellent trip down memory lane; highly recommended.
Lying to enrich oneself is the definition of fraud.
From the list of features it seems to have a web-app, iOS native, android native, and you can host it yourself... What... what more do you really want? Also, what does "application" mean to you?
Not really, that's just a manufacturer-recommended price for the seller to charge, the seller can put whatever they want on the actual price tag.
I used to sometimes get downvoted heavily for disagreeing with longtime HN favourite Thomas Ptacek, but that eased off a lot after one time I'm like "LOL, the transcripts for your show are so wrong" and Thomas misread that as me claiming the experts on the show are wrong rather than the transcripts so he was indignant.

Initially I got the most downvotes I think I'd ever seen†, and then Thomas realised oops, yeah, he's not saying what I thought he's saying and it shot back up over the course of an hour or so. IIRC the auto-transcripts for example transcribe PKIX (an RFC explaining how we shall use the X509 certificate system for the Internet, and the regime resulting from that RFC) as "Peacocks". Hilarious. But, not a criticism of the person on the show (Ryan Sleevi I believe, who I rather like although we've never met in person).

I have written things I don't feel good about, especially trolling groups who believe something I don't, and deserved to be downvoted even if they were strictly true. But those mostly get -1 or -2 or something. Thomas' fans just keep hitting that down arrow apparently.

Other than disagreeing with Thomas, the main way I got sizeable negative voting was being wrong and then going to sleep without correcting it. Say 2+2 = 3 on a Thursday evening, but correct it to "1+2 = 3" a quarter hour later? Probably get one or two downvotes. Leave it that way overnight? Wake up to 10 downvotes at least. People will kick you if you don't react.

I remember picking an erroneous example in one of the endless Rust v C++ threads, and then going to bed, and yup, very clear I was wrong when I woke up.
A closer look at .apple:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890187
Yeah, we have a reasonable good idea because we can not only see the past but also investments and plans etc.
In certain states, some customers such as disabled veterans are exempt from hotel occupancy tax. So the tax rate isn't necessarily the same for everyone.
In the recent past I have admitted I was wrong and switched viewpoints only to then be accused of disingenuously switching viewpoints to shut down the argument.
I'm not sure if you're able to comment, but my intuitive speculation is that institutions have ISP connections that are in what I imagine to be a "dedicated service" tier.

My hunch is that these accounts would be exempt from certain actions compared to residential accounts.
Thanks for the link. I did not know. Also thanks for your work on rust.

And to be fair, there was no reason givin for the dislike of headers, so all it contributes to the discussion is that there is an alternative view.

I like modules, rust has been my daily driver at work for a couple years now, with some cuda for things that are too slow, and usually prototyping algorithms in matlab.

I can see the viewpoint though, that headers made for an easy way to convey an api before c++ added all the inline stuff.
No they don't.

That clearly shows rates varying between countries.

Not within a country.

Which is fine, because prices are generally advertised within a country, not Europe-wide.
IMHO it should be similar timeframes to patents, for all media types, and network infrastructure should not bear the responsibility to enforce it.

For things requiring lots of research and development, I think some mechanism should exist to document and extend the period, or "pay per year" scheme, but no longer than 30 years.
I have worked with a lot of people who would smoke me on an aptitude test but there is often a littany of reasons you wouldn't want them anywhere near your development team.

In most cases they hang at average because what we are doing is just CRUD and they have little initiative to dive deep into requirements refinement, product innovation, mentorship and other things requiring business acumen or outreach.

Nevermind that some of them are just grumpy assholes high on pedantry.
Friend bought a Toyota Sienna hybrid base model which gets 37mpg, he loves it. I think hybrids are a better way to go in the USA given the greater distances to travel.
Musk's plan X: keep users in the dark, feed them dung and watch sales mushroom
But having a character in novel use such a brand has to be a conscious choice and say something about that character. Why are they drinking an odd brand of cola, or using an unusual sort of phone?
> I'm not sure what your expectations growing up were but I remember always hearing "making friends as adults is hard".

What's weird to me is... does it have to be?

For example, I've been in plenty of situations where all it would take is somebody to turn to me and say "so... tell me about yourself. blah blah blah, wow, me too! here's my number, we should hang out sometime".

I can't even get people to do that lol

People just seem preoccupied with themselves/don't seem to care. But then I turn it into something against myself. Why do these people have other friends/care about others but don't want to extend their circle to include me? Is it something about me? Then you start thinking "wow... this person is rude, we've been around each other for 3+ years and they've never once asked me my name/anything about me" lol

I feel like you tried to explain this to a high schooler as "something that may happen later in your adult life" they would say... "there's no way/I don't believe you"
How are the consequences of an ice age related to current climate change?

Instead of dismissing other ideas - what should we do?
> Replication is the #1 important feature for any setup that is larger than one server

That's... just replication. And postgres handles replication fine in my experience, I could in fact say the opposite about MySQL. What issues do you have with it?
Support and also all-around enterprise readiness. Even on the enterprise tier, their permissions management is a pale shadow of what IAM grants you on AWS or GCP, to the point where you will put your compliance as risk. No documentation on setting up SAML/SSO for their management console. It's very, very clear that their internal growth engines are set to ludicrous growth rates (to try and justify their outrageous stock price) and the organization is coming apart at the seams. None of which takes away from the fact that the core engineering is top-tier and the core tech product is best-in-class.

We'll see if NET survives public investor expectations.
> lateral reading, in which one vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online;

I do all three things including this one, though this one can cut both ways. Leaving Washington Post to go verify this suspicious story at my trusted Daily Caller.

Generally I do this kind of thing a lot when you see a photo of some famous person, like George Orwell, and then a pullquote that seems a little bit too conveniently aligned to some current news event and not quite the thing you'd know Orwell to have said (like this one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-orwell-people-accom... I knew that Orwell was more likely to see people as victims, not accomplices), Snopes is very good for vetting these.

But I had to have read a bunch of Orwell to know this quote seemed fishy.
We are all extremely fortunate to be able to move to countries and states that for our beliefs and moral compass. That’s what I did. The important part is seeing all options available very very clearly. Please feel free to list more so people are more informed. Each system stratifies (that goes back to Chimp and Gorilla societies too). So your choice is to pick the ladder you want to climb:

1. US Capitalism uses money as priority for getting whatever you want. Those willing to spend more get first dibs at most legal things and the more money something costs, the faster you’ll see resourceful people find a way to make more of it - so if something is in shortage, that doesn’t last long and eventually everyone who wants it can afford it (assuming the scarcity is not deliberate like a rare location) . You have many legal and some illegal ways to make money and once you make a surplus of that, you can have the stock market grow your nest egg for you, so the older you get the more likely you are to have money. In countries without a stock market, seniors can live in misery and barely afford food on government rationed pensions.

2. Communism/socialism - point system is political connections. If you have them you get nice things, if you don’t you are assigned to
where you can live and where your kids can study and punished if you complain. Government rations to you whatever it hasn’t spent on frivolous stuff, while its officials can be partying every weekend with shared resources. You can get whatever is available, whenever it is available - cars in 20 years, for example, because everyone works as much as they want and is equally poor. Rich or educated/higher class people get fleeced or imprisoned. You can prioritize what you want with connections or money (corruption thrives after all).

3. The stuff in between gravitates to one or the other because your system either prioritizes getting more stuff supplied to its people or more people restricted to meet the available eternally lesser supply. If your birth rate goes up or you get immigration gets higher, the process accelerates.

Take your pick, or offer more currently available societies with different point systems.
Complex pricing is intended to impede price shopping.
> Then subscribe and pay for the service.

No thanks. Not so long as the service is owned by a corporation who does not respect users.

If I pay for something then I own it. Therefore I should receive a copy of it and can view it as many times as I like on any device I like. Youtube does not do this, so I won't pay for it. I see no value in paying for a delivery mechanism when the mechanism itself is hostile to owning the content.

I'll pay for the content by paying the producers directly if I see value in the content. I have done exactly this.
In the end, it's mostly about dollars and dense. Most coal plants are operated by large companies including Georgia Power, Duke Energy, AEP, etc. who have large coffers to fund lobbying effort to influence the public and regulators. They are mostly located in middle America and provide well paying jobs for the locals.

Even though no new coal plants are going up, they've made large capital investment building these plants in 70s and 80s, and they want to maximize the returns as long as possible, right up until the lifespan which is around 50 years.

So they're doing the minimum necessary to appease and avoid raising the ire of regulatory bodies and general public.
While YouTube is now commonplace enough that I could see an author use it naturally without compensation, I'm sure that payment happens. How often? Most books don't sell enough copies to make it worth their while.

I do know some local mystery novels who sell off the right to name a character at some of the local charity auctions for schools or other organizations. It's kind of cute.
> Realistically every time you see someone lamenting that telecoms aren't dropping scam callers and texts and policing that better, you're seeing an advocation against net/carrier neutrality.

I agree based on the strict definition of net neutrality but disagree based on implementation in practice. Spam can be made an exception to net neutrality laws.

I do think that phone service providers and internet service providers should be common carriers, but letting phone service providers drop spam callers is socially compatible with banning service providers from dropping calls from my hypothetical family member who is a terrorist on death row: some kinds of calls - such as phone calls from family members, work colleagues/managers, friends once removed, etc. - are the kinds of calls which people tacitly mutually agree to receive. I would want phone service providers to turn a blind eye to calls between people with a social relation. Spam calls, on the other hand, are unsolicited calls usually from strangers with no social relation to the receiver. (How to identify spam is a different question, but I'm only arguing about the motivating principles.) The same applies to fraud, which some spam is (your car's extended warranty, etc.).

With internet websites, the user usually wants the traffic they request from the website. So ISPs should not be allowed to voluntarily restrict such traffic, and government bodies should be prohibited (with very narrow exceptions) from making ISPs restrict traffic. Where government bodies could instead put penalties on users and website owners, governments should not also target ISPs. (Privacy-violating third-party elements such as ads are not always wanted by the user, but that can be solved with privacy laws rather than exceptions to common carrier laws.)
> "why do you even care about this?" or "why is this so important to you?"

This is my tactic as well. I'm in New England and a coworker was once distraught that someone dismantled a statue in the south. I asked if they had any idea that the statue existed beforehand? They did not.
Ask HN: How do I learn about productionizing a hardware product
I am learning how to build a simple hardware device where you can press a button and it will send a network request to my backend. What's your recommended resource to learn about how to productionizing such products (beyond the programming part)?

My background is in software engineering so I can pick up Rasperry Pi or something similar fairly easily.
Good thing literally every EV has an 8 year battery warranty minimum
We are.on a 2-3 by 2100 projection. That's not far away
So would you use it just before brushing? Or is it better to brush (with a toothbrush), then wait 30 minutes (for the toothpaste fluoride to take effect), and then apply GC Tooth-Mousse?
> If this is the current state of the art, are there generally-available/open-source libraries existing that implement this and practitioners use for this?

The authors of [1] do discuss and link to their own library in section 5.

However, in my experience, most people implement the math themselves rather than use any libraries (beyond e.g. Eigen).

> How did people use KF on physical objects before 2010?

The Multiplicative EKF (MEKF) was used since 1969 according to [3]. It's a hacky approximation of [1]. [1] is really just a generalization/unification of lots of application-specific hacks that were used before, including the MEKF.

[3]: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20040037784/downloads/20...
At least none I'm aware of that are bound to occupancy.
Fair point on the advertising. Perhaps a good compromise would be to mandate displaying the price with the taxes included in store/on the website so what you see is what you get when you checkout with no bad surprises.
Just try to imagine the ludicrous amount of energy required to heat up the whole surface - and probably a good part of the ocean - by 2°C.

I think it is in the order of 10^17 joules or so.
> T-Mobile clarified to CNET that those impacted can opt out of the move and stay on their old plans. In order to do so, you’ll need to call T-Mobile’s Customer Care support line.

And wait in the hold queue for someone at T-mo to answer. Get that done within the one week remaining before end of month. Then you're good -- until the next time T-mo issues another such diktat. And why would they wait any longer than it takes for the public reaction to the current move to die down?
Show HN: A ChatGPT clone to exploit Ukuhumusha translation jailbreak
This is JUST FOR RESEARCH AND JOKES please don't do anything illegal. Also this was made in 3 days so it's kinda half baked. Contact pikachusrfabulous@gmail.com for bugs and suggestions
I was in the market for an Audi RS3. I was ready to buy it off of the lot with cash. I called every Audi dealer in Maryland and VA. They make cars with seats you never sat in before, don't know what they feel like, and don't have any to test and want you to spend 60K on a car that you will drive for years. No thank you, I'll keep driving my shitty VW and fix it when it breaks.
I prefer to think of "shared responsibility". Biblical per "I am my brother's keeper". Modern per "reality is a social construct", including (but not limited to) truth, norms, morality, and esteem.
This. Management should be screened phsycologically for toxic self-centered tendencies and treatment provided.
What is the point of art entirely, in the context of telling me what I can do and watch with my own Internet connected computing/media devices? Should we fully subsidsize anyone who calls themselves an artist? Should we track all media usage for this purpose?
That’s a self reported study and doesn’t control for the effectiveness of flossing.

It’s generally accepted if you are flossing then generally you brush more often and more completely and in overall better mental and physical health than if you aren’t flossing because if you take the time to floss you are paying attention to your body.

But controlled studies haven’t found floss to be effective as mouth rinses and brushing.
If they had interesting hybrids I might be interested. The last interesting hybrid was the Chevy Volt.

Make a plug-in series hybrid with 100+ mile EV range and I’ll get excited. Parallel hybrids are just fancy ICE.
LLMs in My Engineering Workflow
Employer is one option, but free L2 charging isn't that rare around me in Southern California. A lot of grocery stores, pharmacies, department stores and similar businesses use free charging to differentiate themselves from competitors.
And this is why HN has degenerated into a homogeneous echo chamber for many topics.
There’s no real replacement plan for the coal mining jobs in the rust belt, so some people are somewhat justifiably against it there. Obviously we should move away from coal, but if that’s not addressed, a poor area is just going to get poorer. There should really be a plan to build alternative energy factories and train people in those areas
you think war between two nuclear powers is likely?
Much of the federal government's regulatory authority shouldn't exist in the first place, and stems from an overly broad interpretation of the Commerce Clause. Hopefully we will see Supreme Court decisions which overturn those precedents and eviscerate the power of most federal agencies. Most issues should be left to the several states, or if federal authority is really needed on certain issues then let's pass narrowly targeted Constitutional amendments to that effect.
Force people into the office so small businesses don't close? Sounds like communism.
Counterpoint. I just met someone who started telling me about their bipolarity within the first five minutes of meeting. It was pretty obviously functioning as a trophy for them. This is a pretty stereotypical kind of modern bore. See also https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/trauma-is-indeed-like-a....
In practice it works. Sales tax averages around 5% in US states, and over 20% in Europe. When I lived in the states, everybody knew what their local sales tax rate was off the top of their head, and most knew the last time it was raised. Here in northern Europe, nobody really knows. Out of sight, out of mind.
> Has the C++ standardization committee given a rationale why a module definition does not automatically also create a namespace with the same name? That would seem such a useful feature.

I'm not sure what the official rationale is, but I feel that would cause great namespace pollution. Some companies use one namespace per "logical" unit of code (e.g. a subproject), not for each small piece of code (e.g. a small module implementing a couple of classes.
I can't afford one. I looked in 2019, the cheapest out the door price I could find was 35000. I bought an Elantra 2018 for 17500 out the door.

I'll check again when the 10 year warranty is up and this car has run its life.
Adding taxes on at the end is 'junk fees' in this sense and should also be banned.

Here's the principle: The price on the sticker (or menu, or display) is the price you pay. Period. Additional fees or calculations on above simple summation of the items ordered is anti-consumer. You're the business, calculate the total up front and don't make me memorize the tax rate in every locality and do a bunch of multiplications in my head while I'm browsing your store.

If I were cynical I'd say this whole charade is intentionally designed to exhaust the customer with math to make them give up and not think about the price until they're at the register and have to face the embarrassment of asking to take things off. Making the real price opaque is the point. It's gross even if it doesn't work 100% of customers. There's probably even a case to be made that this disproportionately disadvantages people with mental disabilities.

And don't bother making some stupid argument about adding up fractional pennies. If you need more decimal places then use them, and the customer will decide up front whether it's reasonable to make them calculate 3-4 decimal places for the product you're selling.

They don't do this nonsense in Europe. Taxes are pre-calculated on every item, so you can walk through the isles of the grocery store picking up items simply adding up the sticker price and know that the cash in your pocket will be enough to pay the total.

Why we tolerate calculating tax at the end of a transaction is crazy.
Nope; the manufacturing skill required was exceptionally rare, it's a lot harder than riveting aluminium sheets - any housewife could do it. Carpentry requires years and years of skill build-up, wood is unforgiving material. Mosquito production always struggled with shortage of people who could be taught how to do it.
I think there are often assumptions made that we are talking to a single prompt via ChatGPT when it seems likely that there are preprocessors selecting from different prompts and, quite likely, post-processors too.