skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your down the dark road then. Going to blame a non-self selecting group of people for something.

The reality is the US plays the heavy while all the other countries get to have their cake and eat it too. They can vote endlessly against Israel knowing the US will be the single no vote. Which suits them just fine. There is no brink of Armageddon because no one that is anyone cares about the Palestinians in Gaza and despite their protects they are perfectly happy with Israel exterminating Hamas. Because if you're a political leader you instinctively understand Hamas is bad news.

Also you're ignoring that while unlike you, Jews in the US don't support genocide against Jews in Israel. They are more critical and willing to apply pressure than say Evangelical Christians, your politicians and your business leaders. So you're mostly blaming the wrong people because it conveniently avoids pointing a finger back at you.
Oh yeah I'm with you on that one for sure.
It can be difficult and in some cases impossible to vote out bad politicians under first-past-the-post elections. Too many people run against them, splitting the votes such that the bad incumbent wins. This is why I advocate for electoral reform, as not much will get better without it.
We are talking about 2 to 3 million MWh for Sweden alone (~120 million MWh yearly consumption so in reality probably a bit more then that as the consumption is higher in the winter).

The largest battery based energy storage in the world is 3000 MWh so we just need to build thousand of those (or a 1000x larger one). Good luck with that.

The largest heat storage under construction is 90000 MWh so that is a step in the right direction but still falls short by around 35x and even more if we have to turn that heat into electricity (While a lot of this consumption is district heating it is not all of it. And a large chunk of new district heating is just massive heat pumps)

And now that you have built these tools to make wind/solar work you have to factor the price of these into the price of wind/solar and suddenly they do not look that cheap when compared to nuclear. This is why the government and Vattenfall in Sweden want to build more nuclear.

Realistically the only cost effective energy storage on this scale we have available is hydro and pretty much all the places where it is cheap in Sweden have already been built.

In general I think Sweden is on the right track. They have a lot of wind and are building a lot more of it. They can also build more nuclear at the same time.

Though Sweden (just like here in Finland) are slowly reaching the point that when it is windy the wind farms don't really make much money as the price on the spot markets is very close to 0 so we also need a lot of new intermittent energy consumption (industrial processes that can be slowed down/ramped up cost effectively, make hydrogen, fill the heat storages with heat pumps, etc). This is the place where batteries can play a big role by being able to "move" this electricity into the future to a moment where there is more consumption/less production.
How many minutes could you last before you lost focus said, "Screw it" and stopped really trying? I think I'd last maybe 5 minutes.
That's another rabbit hole altogether: is water wet or does it merely make other things wet?
AWS isn't just IaaS they are PaaS.

So it's a fact that for most use cases it will be significantly easier to manage than bare metal.

Because much of it is being managed for you e.g. object store, databases etc.
That is not what base load is. Base load is about some power plants that needs days to weeks to start and stop. They are unable to follow load changes. You build them anyway because they cost much less $$$ to run, but you need non-base load to handle varying power demands as your base load doesn't throttle very well.

While wind and solar do not meet the definition of base load, they clearly are in the spirit of base load.

When doing wind and solar you need non-base load, not more base load.
Which evidently you need to be in some "developer mode" to have work??

I use this all the time just to improve websites I visit, change colors or adjust workflows to make them less jank. My work jira is reskinned with violet monkey.

They're called userscripts. Making folks have to enter a dev mode to use them feels abominable.

Also seems like this narrowly targets just userscripting cases, while ignoring any other use cases where we might want to have dynamic behavior. It still doesn't allow me to write an extension that lets me ship up code & run it. I get this is by design, to improve security, but it feels so much less like my user agent when I'm outlawed from running whole categories of code in the browser.

My best hope is that many of the dynamic code practices are enforced chiefly by the web store. And that we can sideload whatever we want.
The networks and the cable companies are both complicit with their demise. No one is arguing otherwise. I mentioned cable companies specially because they have the same legal monopoly that telephone companies had even post AT&T breakup in terms of location-based authority (it took widespread nationwide wireless for that to change in the U.S., which was like the early 2000s in terms of not having to get a regional wireless plan that could roam on a friendly network spectrum) and because like wireless carriers, cable companies have refused to acknowledge they are just a dumb pipe offering data and that they can’t continue to print money off of things that cost them nothing anymore. Oh, and because in the US, ISPs and cable companies are overwhelmingly the same companies.

The networks ruined their own businesses too — even if some were smarter than others (HBO being the smartest and also why it was the most valuable asset of the AT&T acquisition and the Discovery acquisition) — but I chose to focus on the cable companies b/c they are dumb pipes the same way wireless carriers are and they refused to disrupt themselves.
I literally started laughing at this. I worked at a bare-metal shop fairly recently and a guy on my team used a corporate credit card to set up an AWS account and create an AI chatbot.

The dude nearly got fired, but your comment hit the spot. You made my night, thank you.
Although if you are playing chess, obsessiveness with the game would probably be good. But of course it will vary greatly from person to person.
AWS was operated by holy ghost I assume?
They run all the "time" but they don't travel far.
Electric vehicles are less restricted by time than by distance.
> “Although the defendants accept they caused the damage, they deny that their actions amount to criminal conduct. Simply put, the damage was caused during a protest and the defendants say that they were lawfully justified in doing what they did."

This is sheer insanity. I hope HSBC has an avenue for further litigation.
If the biggest knock against Firefox is that it imitates Chrome too often, that's hardly a reason to stick with Chrome.

And they aren't afraid to diverge from Chrome in important ways. For example, letting you disable 3p cookies already.
I managed a 250 person engineering team at FANG. The number of times I had to explain to a jr or mid level engineer what our fundamental business was, was astounding. They would constantly argue tickets on a premise that was entirely self contained inside their code -- and be entirely oblivious to what the product was accomplishing outside in the real world with real users. Now this wasn't always the case, and frankly I ran into it much less there than I had at smaller companies. But it still happened a lot.

And these engineers would always boast the most about how they knew best about X or Y.

Maybe that was my fault as a leader -- but I couldn't fix the incurious.
They said that back in 2008 too. We also need the energy in 15 years. Of course nuclear will be costlier than your already provisioned hydro. Hydro is low hanging fruit and has already been mostly tapped out where possible.
RCS requires a data plan, and certainly Google's Messages app doesn't handle it well when there is no data. I know a lot of people who are too poor to afford data on their phones and they are regularly losing all their messages because of RCS.
That dual audio feature is why I own one.
I went to a conference at GE Research where I spoke to some QNX reps from Blackberry for a while. Seemed like they were hinting that some embedded computers in some of GE'S aerospace and energy stuff relies on QNX.
On top of that, at least 900 people had their identities stolen and attached to forged pro-fracking letters that were used by the commission to justify allowing fracking.

According to the article, the commission knows, and will delete the forged letters from the public record, but apparently won't take use complaints as a reason to reconsider their decision.
> QNX is used in vehicle infotainment systems no? Where else?

A bunch of similar embedded systems. And blackberry, if anyone's still using them.
Calling something out as ‘waterfall’ or holding agile up as the silver bullet of problem-solving isn’t particularly helpful. The truth is more nuanced, and both approaches are fine under the right conditions.
It feels like every comment on this article didn’t read past the first paragraph. Every comment I see is talking about how they likely barely made any money on the transition once all costs are factored in, but they explicitly stated a critical business rationale behind the move that remains true regardless of how much money it cost them to transition. Since they needed to function even when AWS is down, it made sense for them to transition even if it cost them more. This may increase the cost of running their service (though probably not) but it could made it more reliable, and therefore a better solution, making them more down the line.
Pure conjecture on my part, but I wonder how much of this is risk-based status-mongering. Challenging the powerful is obviously risky. But knocking someone weaker down a few pegs can solidify your status in the hierarchy at a much lower risk. From that perspective, it's arguably rational behavior to maintain your status within a group when you feel vulnerable.

(Pardon my reach here, I watched Chimp Empire not too long ago...)
string_constant<'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o'>

Sometimes I see C++ code, and I feel deeply sad for the people that are subjected to it.
> This is torture

I would like to ask everyone to stop for a moment and think if in their line of work they are required to perform tasks like this. Your job might be even shittier than you currently feel like it is
That's not how weight loss works- you don't lose a pound by "burning" fat.
Amazon didn't create it. I was there for the mass cloud migrates of the last 15 years. It isn't that AWS requires no specialist expertise, it's that it's a certain kind of expertise that's easier to plan for and manage. Managing physical premises, hardware upgrade costs, etc are all skills your typical devops jockey doesn't need anymore. Unless you're fine with hosting your company's servers under your desk, it's the hidden costs of metal that makes businesses move to cloud.
Unfortunately Signal makes it hard to backup photos people send you, and I know a few people who lost all their Signal chats and photos after switching phones (including myself).
We don't need to imagine that Newton was marked or dismissed for Principia at the time because we can take note of the actual history where he wound up surrounded by a circle of admirers (some of them famous in their own right) and president of the Royal Society (he had the good sense to keep the unorthodox part of his religious beliefs to himself). Although imagining something that fits a more exciting narrative than the actual historic record is kind of appropriate for a Graham Hancock subthread ;)

The cherry picking actually works the other way - for every great discovery that was universally derided by scientists (which isn't most great discoveries, not even ones that were controversial like natural selection) there are dozens of silly ideas based on complete misunderstandings and mountebanks painting themselves as brave challengers of the orthodoxy to an audience that doesn't really understand the orthodoxy.
Likely including benefits in this figure.
Amazon’s new AI playground that lets you experiment, learn, and build apps with generative AI.
The penalty for frivolous lawsuits is usually to pay the legal expenses of your opponent. This is an effective penalty to deter people trying to make money from filing frivolous lawsuits. It is not an effective penalty for filing frivolous lawsuits to delay projects.

It will be years before the lawsuit gets to that point, and if you are willing to trade money for a delay, the prospect of having to pay 2x the money for the same delay is hardly a deterrent.
Is RCS a thing in Europe? I don’t think I’ve ever seen this mentioned anywhere. Does the carrier sell you an RCS package? Does it apply to messages to other countries? If that’s the case, I don’t see how it could compete with any internet message service that exists today in any capacity.
Microsoft will allow uninstalling Edge, Bing, and disable ads to comply with Act
Agreed. I hate that we pretend Google is somehow altruistic with their support of RCS. They have many, many incentives and pretending otherwise is naive and obtuse.
In other words, if Firefox becomes popular enough, there's a chance that Google will deliver a nail to Mozilla's coffin in pulling their search deal and other funding which is the backbone of their business in a financial level.

Another example is that Mozilla has a LOT to lose if the DOJ wins in the US v. Google antitrust trial just for those deals.
As Google demonstrated, carrier support for RCS is not necessary.
Nice work, just saw these pop up on the official CVE feed
I don't think I am. You seem to disagree that things like where to branch are worth talking about, but you haven't given examples of what you mean by the big picture that is worth talking about. In this thread, you've told a few people they don't understand what you're saying - so what are you saying?

Re: SQL. Maybe? Maybe not? It's a lot easier to do bad things to a database if you let an ORM generate the query. Writing SQL directly is not an anti-pattern, as long as you parametrize the query. But then again, maybe an ORM is not what you're suggesting - once again, you're saying what you don't like, and others are left to draw conclusions about what you think is good style.
One of the biggest value proposition would be that Microsoft will take care of keeping it working and backing up your data. That's a huge sell if they can make it work.

You would probably need a very good network connection. I don't think this would work for non-stationary laptops.
For me the cure came from the sense of control provided by knowing everything that was going on the plane. All the sounds, sensations, and movements I put a what and why too. That and the literal control I get from being one of the people responsible for keeping that pile of parts in the air. It's some small comfort to think that if I'm ever in an crash, I could've done something about it rather then having died through no fault or inaction of my own.

Also it gives me something to do other then sitting in an airport terminal because the plane is delayed due to maintenance issues.
If you can't afford a data plan then it just essentially blocks all your incoming/outgoing messages when it enables itself.
ChatGPT throw together that game in a few seconds if you want to play it.

https://github.com/zulln/misc/tree/master/lettergame
https://zulln.se/misc/lettergame/
If nothing else, I am grateful for the introduction to Selah Sue (music that plays when you press, well.. the play symbol in the top animation).

Spectacular vibe! Combined with the fullscreen animation is almost reminiscent of the demo-scene. I enjoyed the rest of the actual web page much more after that.

I salute thee whoever made this. Much appreciated!
I feel this is romanticizing office spaces. I understand speaking with people face to face is better, but coworkers are not always friends or people you want to socialize with. With all the "diversity" and "inclusion" talk, I have no desire to interact with people more than I really need to for getting work done. Navigating the social space at work feels like a minefield where at any moment someone will get offended and add it to your review, and we all know companies will not hesitate to let go even the most talented if it means they crossed some kind of social line. This is one of the main reasons I work remotely, to avoid the soul-crushing pretentiousness of socializing with coworkers in the age of political correctness and cancel culture. Perhaps cynical, but I would argue we're living through cynical times.

Once I can start cracking a few jokes without considering everyone's historical background and emotional preferences, I may consider commuting every day again (unless it's SF, but that's another matter).
I am pleasantly surprised how good combo Debian sid / Steam Beta / Proton Experimental has been for gaming (converted from OS X for different reasons and then discovered the gaming experience is great too)
Perhaps relevant background, the HN posting on Oct 14, 2022 titled "Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built" has 539 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33208156

It points to a Bloomberg article at https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/sweden-s-... .
There is no Chesterton's fence here, the history and current regulatory environment surrounding auto dealing is well known.

Dealerships exist in general because early 20th century people liked buying from specialized stores instead of department stores or mail ordering them. Dealerships exist today because of regulatory capture.

Dealerships in the US do not play any role in determining the ability of the purchaser to operate the vehicle. It is legal and possible to purchase a vehicle without a drivers license in all 50 US states.
They can't sunset it until the networks include unlimited data for free in your plan, otherwise you would never be able to receive any messages.
I mean the comment I replied to mentioned refusing dates from people with green text bubbles.

If it's a boss or someone I love and they want to ignore my messages that's on them. If it's a work issue possibly HR could be involved as discrimination or outright ignoring messages based on device wouldn't really fly.
> Back in my day, you used to pay per minute for calls.

Hello, fellow graybeard!

This is something I pull out every once in a while to let kids these days know how rough we had it: we had to pay 10-25 cents per minute for any in-state phone calls that weren't "local", where "local" was an arbitrary boundary on the map not even related to area code.

If we had to call out of state, charges started at $1 per minute. Every year at Christmas, we'd have an event where the local family would gather to make phone calls to out-of-state family. Because the cost was so high, we had to strictly ration time. Each kid (I was a kid then) got 3 minutes talk time.

This was late '70s/early '80s, and the figures are not adjusted for inflation.
There's ucan too, which fills some similar-ish roles. It's definitely not quite as comprehensive & featureful as ocapn, but worth mentioning. https://ucan.xyz/
Or if you frequently message people in other countries where they charge you who knows what
> The current model increases safety.

How? Are Tesla's more dangerous as a result of direct sales? Do you have data to show this?
For the most part I agree with your quote save for the “stuck in the past, unable to adapt” part, I’d replace with “lag behind”.

If the things continue to develop the way they are now, the new features will be eventually incorporated into DNR (in somewhat different form, but anyways). Basically, the “innovation” should be requested via the W3C group from the browsers and only then (after quite some time) it can be used as a part of DNR.

Is it worse than what we had before? Absolutely, adding anything to DNR is now a many-months process.

Do we get anything in return? We actually do, the changes and improvements that are being made to the extensions platform are significant.

I’d say that the situation changed from “MV3 is bad, DNR is unusable” to “MV3 is good, DNR is useable-but-limited”.
It is insanity. They were filmed causing actual damage. The case is as straightforward as can be.

There is absolutely no "lawful justification" for what they did. Well if there is I am sure they wouldn't mind if someone did that to their house, would they?
Phillips Hue and having multiple presets. Now that the DST is over, it's darker in the morning for me, so I have a Hue scene to turn on most of the lights in my office bright, but not at max. In the afternoon, once the sun starts to set, I have another preset that plays well with dark mode, but still somewhat bright. Then I have a more dimmer preset for later in the evening. I've noticed it has improved my circadian rhythm.

Another great buy was the Cal-Digit TS4. It's hooked up to two monitors, a WD SSD for Time Machine backups, and Ethernet.
Same rules, different formatting:
https://github.com/0xNF/lawsofinsidertrading.com
i dont think you grasp the scale difference between seconds and minutes correctly.
and it will add up quite fast.
> savings plan even more which would apply to egress and storage

Wait, is this accurate?

If so I need to sign our company up for a savings plan... now. We use RI's but I thought savings plan only applied to instance cost and not bandwidth (and definitely not S3)
> We need the energy now, though, not in 15+ years.

Well we will also need it in 15+ years.

The best time to plant a tree is 15 years ago, and that will still be true in 15 years. The world (hopefully) isn't going to blow up within the next 15 years, so there's no reason we shouldn't consider 15-years investments anymore.

Fossil fuels reserves are going to collapse in the coming decades; even if solar energy prices keep falling, it won't be enough to compensate; any given country has a fixed capacity for hydro power, and it's rather small.

Right now nuclear may not be the cheapest options. But in 15/30 years we're going to desperately wish we'd explored absolutely every realistic option we had.
Thank you for the link. I am pretty sure following comment is more on the side of reality: https://cml.news/g/cml-general/message/10540

But good there is awareness about using equipment with old, faulty hardware and the need for measuring uv levels as part of technical checks.
I was alive during 9/11 and my dad was in Iraq as contractor for the US military.
> I’ll run through a bunch of broad categories of applications, and describe how to make use of these features.

i love these kinds of taxonomies of apps, because then you can get specific about tech stack choices. just offering a couple more that i've come across in my years:

- more prototypical: 7GUIs https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/tasks

- Application holotypes: https://twitter.com/arthurwuhoo/status/1470489178186170374
Read their third paragraph. They completely agree with you
There has already been challenges in balancing out the extreme fluctuations from wind with the current amount (leading to the need to start gas turbines which were meant for emergency power multiple times over the last few years, and even oil plants), and expanding it would only make this worse, as there would not be enough easily balancing power sources close by (hydro can be used to balance to some extent, but are hundreds to thousands of km away, with limited capacity in the extremely long power lines, meaning that it can't account for all of that).