skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Load-following runs the equipment harder, indeed.

There are safety-related limits (power modulation proportion, duration of a pause needed after each modulation, modulations frequency...) to nuclear load-following capacity, and the very combustible status is a major parameter.

Pertinent document (French ahead!): https://www.sfen.org/rgn/expertise-nucleaire-francaise-suivi...

Quote:
« un réacteur peut varier de 100 % à 20 % de puissance en une demi-heure, et remonter aussi vite après un palier d’au moins deux heures, et ce deux fois par jour »

Proposed translation: "a reactor power output can vary from 100% to 20% in 30 minutes, then after 2 hours can go back to 100% at the same speed, and can cycle this way 2 times per day".

This is quite a good performance when it comes to load-following (French engineers are very good at this), however it is insufficient in the real world (save any ridiculously expensive over-provision of nuclear reactor, most idling) and very weak compared to gas turbines performances.

Even in nuclear-packed France (which exports electricity) fossil fuels are also burnt in order to produce electricity since nuclear's inception, for most of the load-following and peak (about 9% in 2021), and it would be much worse without hydro.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...

On the other hand green hydrogen (produced by intermittent renewables at over-electric-generation time) can be stored then used at insufficient-generation time.
Do companies use open source because it's free?

Cost may be a component. But not the only component, and cost doesn't have to be binary. You can charge and still be less than the alternatives.
You will be lucky in most small towns around here to get one person to run for any post.

For instance I'm running for Fire District Commissioner next month, for a seat that has been vacant for years, and maybe 10 people will come vote.

BTW, here are some other fun elected positions in my town:

- Constable
- Tree Warden
One of the problems I found with this is that actually taking donations is hard work.

I live in a country completely unsuited to making money from a hobby project on the side. To take donations I'd need to register as self-employed, and pay monthly for social security as long as I'm registered, even if I make no revenue whatsoever in that month. That's an absolutely awful idea for a project just getting started. I'd be losing a very appreciable amount of money, regularly. It'd take lots of effort to have enough support that I'm back to zero, and still not making anything. This is because this is a system made for plumbers, not for people doing rare jobs on the side which might some day grow into something serious.

Apparently the government sort of looks the other way until you start making minimum wage, but that's not a bet I'm comfortable making.

But finally, we (https://overte.org/overte_ev.html) managed. It took us a long time and a lot of effort to get a non-profit registered, and it absolutely required the participation of multiple knowledgeable people. This couldn't have been done as a lone wolf effort.

And after that hurdle of course you have to somehow get people to notice you exist, and convince them to donate. This is unfortunately a tough job for people whose main passion is software development and who threw all their effort into that. Going out there and figuring out how to advertise yourself and how to ask for money is a whole new skill to learn, and a big time and effort investment.

I highly suspect that the reason why libcurl shows up here every week or so is because Steinberg spends about as much time marketing it as writing code and it's clearly working. That project appears to be quite successful in getting donations.
There is no reason to believe that fusion will be cost competitive.
I wonder why it wasn't used. Any insights? IMO they should have just made the regular write calls atomic across the OS and have applications opt out if they want.
Replying to myself... looks like some Matrix homeservers support OpenID-style login. That's probably fine for family.
The site does not work well on mobile. I had to turn my phone into landscape in order to focus the email field.
We switched to the same POS system they used in Waitrose/Tesco's - it is Java based and ran on OpenSuse for clients and think Redhat on the servers due to IBM - being the I.T service provider.

Company is called Flooid/Vision Bean Store.
That, and the glossy blue theme, didn’t come until later and had to be downloaded separately from Win XP MCE (RIP) installs.
Have you ever told someone you code and they say "I have an idea for an app!", proceeding to explain in like one sentence the vague idea of an app? Would you call that person a creative? An engineer? An inventor? An entrepreneur? Do you really ever feel that they added any value to you? Do you not find them incredibly naïve? If you did create the app, do you feel like they did 90% of the work of creating this app, because the rest of the process is that meaningless? If you created it from their one line prompt of their idea, would you agree with the concept that the final result was actually all a direct expression of their idea?

The difference is clearly massive.
I am not a fan of SaaS products in the first place. The whole business model is rotten and disempowering the users. I can understand grouping features by user groups (basic users, pro users, enterprise users) so that each group doesn't have to pay for features they'll never use, but that's assuming those features actually cost anything; then the company could charge accordingly (Enterprise plan would still be a good money-maker, as you would charge for customer support).

General price segmentation, however, feels dirty.
You can't do that IIRC, because it is based on prior art in the public domain. Just like you can't patent a chair with 5 legs.

There's also no reason to patent that many things for the same thing. You only need to be sufficiently vague to how it folds.

IANAL, but I've gotten a few patents rejected.
It's not a "sex change", just cosmetic surgery to mimic the outward appearance of the opposite sex genitals. For males who undergo this, it literally does involve cutting off genitalia - the testicles are excised and disposed of. The penis is inverted to make a pelvic cavity, and the scrotum is reshaped to look somewhat like labia.

The absurd part is, of course, the belief that this surgery turns these men into women, or changes their sex from male to female.
There are many reasons for doing OSS. Perhaps the company you work for pays you to (the author mentions the many contributors to K8s at Red Hat et al). Perhaps you are building your resume, a student learning to program and interested in feedback, or you’ve built something for yourself and generously sharing with others, giving back to the community from which you in turn are getting valuable software. Or maybe it’s a passion project. Unless you are paid to, perhaps not even then, nothing obligates you to maintain the project, to offer free support. Consider a crude analogy: you are passionate about music, you practice, then start playing in the park (with or without your guitar case open accepting contributions). You’re good, people gather to listen to you. Perhaps a record producer will stop by and offer you a big contract. Unlikely. If you find you tire of playing in the park, it is taking away time from your job and your family, you are not obligated to continue playing…no matter how much your fans love your playing. And an essay “The Lack of Compensation in Busking is unsustainable” would be unlikely to gain you much sympathy.
Which advertisers would those be?
Yes, of course, but we're talking about jet engines, as per the comment I was responding to. No jet engine runs on "whatever".
Firefox is also implementing manifest v3, as per article.

I think this should push people towards DNS level blocking (I use nextdns, personally)
Even if it wasn't true, why would it matter? Hydroelectric power has no direct carbon emissions either.
> Wouldn't the time be better spent on something else?

Studying what makes people feel better vs what makes them feel worse is in some sense the only important thing to study.
How Communities Die
Same here. It's cleaner, faster and more reliable, which is something that cannot even be said about Gmail's IMAP interface. The removal of basic HTML view may turn out to be the last straw to make me finally migrate out of Gmail.
But that is just going to be the vanilla JS and React versions of the same thing. React doesn’t solve UI. It solves state management of UIs (IMO).
I don’t have a source for any of this, this is more of a rant about what I’ve seen over an extended time in my home country. I hope it’s a helpful base to dig further from nonetheless, I’ve tried to focus on verifiable matters rather than basing this too much on just my annoyance with the situation, but it’ll definitely shine through.

Politics. The sitting government sees nuclear power and electric airplanes as the solution to all environmental problems.

Because of a referendum in 1980, Sweden stopped investing in nuclear power and the now ageing reactors are going offline. In Sweden’s historical power mix, it’s pretty much a direct split between hydro and nuclear, with hydro having to go offline during critical ice forming periods.

We’re looking at a future where more and more electricity is needed, in particular as the crucial steel production is electrified. The left with the green party in particular has long been opponents of nuclear power, so the conservatives and liberals based their environmental policy on its brilliance and historical value to the country.

The opposition to wind power in Sweden is surprisingly strong for a scarcely populated country with a long coastline and lots of elevation. A lot of that seem to do with the politically important rural population’s resistance to hosting noisy and view-intruding wind powerplants. On the other side of that, when looking at the sea, similar arguments are being used, but also defense-politics. The perhaps most obvious wind park area unfortunately lies in between Sweden and Russia.

Solar is seeing quite some deployment, in particular during the summer it can be quite effective, Sweden has more sun hours over the full year than some of our southern neighbors. The winter argument is used against overreliance on it, but it’s still seen as a good thing to install solar on the top of buildings and in other otherwise unused areas.

I’m a bit tired of this all, because it seems like the energy production discussion has devolved into a two-sided debate where the only thing that matters is whether you’re on team redgreen or blue. Whether or not nuclear power is a good idea or not barely matter.
There we go again. It seems only yesterday we had the same thread.

I choose an unusual hobby, that other people seems to find useful. Hence people should give me money.

I don't get it, I really don't.

If you enjoy working for free, by all means continue doing it. If you don't then stop. Nobody is forcing you. If you think your time and effort is worth more then you get now, go closed source, paid-support or whatever and see how much value you really bring to the market.

(I'm taking a -4 karma hit for this post, I know. I got it last time, do your worst)
I made a picture frame that I can send photos to with Telegram. I've been using it for years and have made a couple for family members too.

But, I soon realised that it wasn't cheap enough or reliable enough to be a product. That would require a lot more work and investment.
It is the dose that makes the poison...
Who’s asking you to work on it?

All of the people who demand things from the maintainers are. Very few of them are willing to sponsor or pay consulting fees. If you give up they complain loudly, and then often pay a contractor to do the work they wanted.

If they paid $1 each, you would not hand thousands let alone millions of users.

You could though, if the mindset of open source software consumers were to shift to 'pay for things you get value from'. Even if it was $1000 and only companies that paid, the landscape would shift dramatically.
That's literally your opinion about features. And a possibly outdated one too, because current model keyboards are fine.

Also the fact that you chose window management as a major problem on Macs tells me that you have a strong dislike for things that's unfamiliar to you. There are some annoyances with Macs, especially if you're a dev, but window management isn't one of them. Macs have the best touchpad gestures and virtual desktop management UX. GNOME comes close these days, but Macs still feel a bit smoother.

As for your problem with "bloat," most of those are just stock utility apps. Any major desktop OS have had those since ages. You do have a point with Apple Music, but Notes, Messages, and Mail? Are you serious?
> Did I misunderstand you when you said you don't need generators, UPS, and multiple HVAC systems?

No, you seem to misunderstand how leased space works. If you rent a floor of an office building, the toilets flush without you having to own a water plant or redundant water pipes.

> when I worked there, we constantly had to deal with the unreliability of colos- not just that they were smaller,

It sounds like whomever was in charge of picking datacenters was shit at their job. The colocation market isn't what it used to be and it isn't just a dude with some warehouse space and swamp coolers. Colos are publicly traded companies or REITs and have good SLAs.

> I just don't thinnk they are prepared to handle disasters nearly as well as the megascale cloud providers.

I worked for a megascale cloud provider. I'm intimately familiar with the nuts and bolts of a few others. Some of it is the big owned and operated campuses you see in the glossy brochure photos, but a substantial part is also in the same colos you can lease yourself. They don't bring in any additional cooling or power over and above what the datacenter provides.
Google simply can’t be trusted on this point.

They’re way to conflicted and financially motivated to do the wrong thing for the user

They keep talking about privacy and security threats. Google is the threat here
Those are the share of nuclear and renewables in total electricity production, therefore this is quite real. In which way 'electricity production' isn't real, or not helping to reduce greenhouse-gas effect emissions?
Hinsightd a multi-threaded io_uring web server: benchmarks
hinsightd web server benchmarks comparing it with nginx, lighttpd, apache2 and caddy
If the author of the video wanted to solve just her particular case, she would make a diagonal cutouts on her dresser beam and hang the clothes at an angle using standard hangers. She has enough room for that, plus it would look stylish. Over time I came to appreciate solutions like that, you don't want to always solve a general problem.
If everyone's job becomes trivially easy, how do we all eat?
I love the mindset and the design process. But I never hung any cloths so it is not for me.
That is not true, at least not for all types of products.

I make an e-paper calendar. There is nothing like it on the market. Regularly, I have customers who say "wow, I have been looking for this for years!".

Some of these customers have googled for such a product before mine existed, and found that none exists.

Without marketing, how would these people learn that the product they've been looking for does now exist?
Me neither. Unless I am misunderstanding the issue in the post, a simple

static constexpr std::string_view filename = std::source_location::current().file_name();
static_assert(filename == "whatever_the_name_of_file_is");
static_assert(filename.length() == 28);

will do. Both the filename and filename length is available in the compile-time.
Thank you!

I have a few ideas about some tweaks we could make to support you and your customers with this.

We're up to 11 years and profitable with a small full-time team... so I'm very confident that we'll still be around in another 10 :)

I'll drop you an email to discuss.
The feeling of entitlement people have around open source is unsustainable.

If someone releases code then that's it. You have it. Do what you want with it (within it's licence). Be thankful.

Unless that guy specifically says he's going to maintain it for free you are entitled to exactly absolutely nothing more you ungrateful little git.

If you add this code to your project, you should fix and share any problems you encounter as a token of gratitude.
They'll do anything to weaken user's ability to ensure their privacy and block ads it seems.
yes but:

"What are we doing differently in Firefox?
WebRequest

One of the most controversial changes of Chrome’s MV3 approach is the removal of blocking WebRequest, which provides a level of power and flexibility that is critical to enabling advanced privacy and content blocking features. Unfortunately, that power has also been used to harm users in a variety of ways. Chrome’s solution in MV3 was to define a more narrowly scoped API (declarativeNetRequest) as a replacement. However, this will limit the capabilities of certain types of privacy extensions without adequate replacement.

Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available."

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...
outside of the US you could likely pay for two mid or three juniors for this though, e.g. in France a junior engineer in an average city would likely be around 46-48k$USD for the total employer cost and France is already expensive compared to a lot of other countries with talented engineers
Gallium Nitride (GAN) Game Changer for Aerospace and Military Communications
> I hope that you and the leadership team at Apple are already giving careful consideration to the effect of continuing to financially support such a platform.

So is the author going to send a letter to Tim Cook and Apple about their relationship with what China did to the uighurs (which almost everyone forgot about) [0] and that their devices were built with child labor then? [1] I bet he won't.

> At the top of Apple’s “Ethics and Compliance” page, above your name, is the statement: “We do the right thing, even when it’s not easy.”

Everyone knows that forced labor against minorities in concentration camps AND child labor is a very abhorrent thing to support and there is nothing ethical about that. So mentioning Apple's empty statement on ethics is quite frankly pointless.

Once again, crazed people driven by headlines and outrage since they are still married to corporations to ethically 'do the right thing', even though they are morally bankrupt in the first place.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-forced-uighur-labor-ip...

[1] https://www.thefp.com/p/your-iphone-was-built-with-child
Gitleaks regexes are fairly accurate. For example, the regex to find a GitHub PAT is "ghp_[0-9a-zA-Z]{36}" which mean it has a specific number (36+4) of characters from specific group (alphabet+number). And I try to filter out the obvious non-secrets (like 'abcd','xxxx' and '1234'). However, as I stated in the article, most of the data is not actionable: most people just revoke the token, use an old one, change some random letters, etc.
What's different than China's internet?
Williamstown Massachusetts entrusts our select board to appoint our fence viewer.
They are listed on our website describing our town’s government.

https://williamstownma.gov/boards-committees/#officials
I have a stammer which I think stems from severe social anxiety as a child. I used to be part of speech therapy program that has a similar ethos. 90% of stammering if just psychological so they say the only way to beat it is to face your fear e.g stammering on purpose but in a controlled way. Easier said that done though and it's easy to regress.
Huh? Is this implying that Galactica was there “first” and yet meta lost out because they wouldn’t tolerate hallucinations whereas OpenAI does?

Does venturebeat realise there was GPT3 before ChatGPT?
This looks nice. The website is a bit thin on description/documentation. How much does the display weigh? What's the power usage (Watts)? Presumably the device connects via Wifi? Does it support WPA3? Does this work with private iCloud calenders (e.g. as described in [0])? Is all processing on-device, i.e. doesn't involve any cloud services and would work in a closed home network if the calendars are served on that network? What's the update frequency/interval? Can it combine multiple calendars (i.e. private and work)? Is the frame user-replacable?

[0] https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-find-your-icloud...
> All of the people who demand things from the maintainers are.

I think OP's point is that the maintainer is under no obligation to deliver on these demands.
Yes I do, because I don't think the attitude is the reason, the choice of technology is the reason. If you want to control for UI latency, you don't use a generic kitchen-sink layout engine, you write a custom interface. You can't eat your cake and have it too, even though most web developers want to disagree.
It's a disgrace that we're not able to buy cheap and light cars in the EU anymore. I just want a ~2010 Fiat Panda :(
If you think capitalism like whe have today, using the government as regulation platforms, sure. If you think capitalism as a system where you free to pursue your capital, not so sure its sustainable to keep a monopoly.
If <user-avatar> starts to provide something else, and depends on compiling a code base to alert that it's breaking something, an automated test(?), then that suggests everyone's working blind and hoping for the best while the application development methodology's broken.
I agree although prerender land has it’s issues. Mainly it is hard to make forms that work both with/without JS, especially with validation. You need separate code paths for both. At least in NextJS. The latest version is very close though. Sans validation and with experimental features I think you can have a server action that handles both form and JS submissions the same way.
No need to be systemd, but emacs can already run as /sbin/init:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325308
IMO Posts like this always basically boil down to "Hey, I did follow every best practice and did everything as I was told and yet it's not working out like how it was promised"

This is because the core premise is simply wrong. Sites such as opensource.guide are not written for you. They're written for people profiting from you thinking they're written for you.
If you follow their guidance, you'll end up unhappy and writing posts like that.

The only way to escape this is to ignore that con and instead pick a sustainable business model. That can mean not open-sourcing at all, but I'd wager that most of the time, it just means saying no, setting boundaries and knowing your worth + the value you provide.
In the US, people often argue against electric cars saying that the cars will still get their electricity from coal plants. I've always held the view that even if they get their electricity from coal plants, there are reduced particulates in the air & in case the grid ever migrates to a better power supply, then cars are compatible and take advantage. Seems like Uruguay would be in a good position to have electric vehicles go mainstream since there wouldn't be that arguement against them available.
It might be insane, but also totally to be expected.
So.. we’re back to self-hosting your own services?

And IT does another cycle.
It only happens for Apple if the phone is destroyed or similar.