skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's usually at least one ice storm or very wet snow event at the start and/or end of winter now and it's very likely that in our wooded area we get trees into power lines and boom the buckets go

That's where a large, sparsely populated country is a real disadvantage. "Trees into powerlines" isn't really an event in Germany, since high voltage lines are 150 feet up in the air and kept clear of trees (they'll just cut a line though a forest for them). And everything smaller is generally buried. But that would be very hard to do in Canada. And of course we don't have to fight with ice on our transmission lines.

> How does coal make sense there?

Lobbying. And saving the jobs of hard-working coal miners is more romantic and appealing in election campaigns than saving the jobs of wind turbine manufacturers.

It used to make economic sense in the sense that coal plants were cheaper to run, but that has changed in recent years so what you see now is mostly inertia

> And how is shutting down their own nukes a thing when it's OK to use French nuke power?

Oh, there are lots of protests against French nuclear plants too, especially those in the border regions. We just can't do much about them. But the people who don't like nuclear plants aren't the ones running the energy markets.

On the future: Before 2022 the idea was to transition all coal capacity to gas. This was mostly happening on its own anyways due to gas outcompeting coal on price, and new pipelines like Nordstream were going to accelerate that economic pressure to transition. The Ukraine war was a big setback for that.

In the end I believe we are still moving to a future where a lot of power is coming from solar and offshore wind, with natural gas peaker plants to offset times without wind until grid-scale battery technology moves a bit along (molten salt, hot sand, pumped hydro in abandoned mines, etc). In addition to that obviously hydro and pumped hydro from the Scandinavian countries

We are far enough into economies of scale that the generation side is mostly going to sort itself out on economics alone. Solar is becoming dirt cheap, offshore wind is becoming profitable, natural gas is cleaner and cheaper than coal. The bigger issue are transmission lines. Building transmission lines takes decades because every NIMBY fights against them. But the existing transmission lines are built around a somewhat even spread of supply and demand, versus the new situation where we want offshore farms in the North Sea to be able to supply lots of electricity to the South when there's good wind, and the solar panels in the South to help power the North. And politicians from certain parties love to side with "their" NIMBYs for easy political points
Then I don't understand the point you were making in your first post.
It's a useless waste of resources - if there's no genuine dispute whether a violation occurred, in this situation, effective deterrence (which, as psychological research shows, is generally based on the likelihood of getting caught, not the size of punishment, so ticketing as many offences as possible is the key part) is the desired result, so why shouldn't society do it in the most efficient means possible, i.e. with as little wasted labor as possible?

If we want people to obey a certain restriction (especially a relatively minor one like parking in bus lanes), any obstacles that make enforcement time-consuming or inconvenient tend to result in it not being enforced and not being followed - and if we're okay with that, then we should instead totally repeal that restriction and any fines, as if it will be enforced only sporadically, then it will be turned into a tool for arbitrary punishment and not for actually getting that law followed - if we want the latter, we do want mass enforcement.
> I've never personally bought the idea that the health of the entire planet

It’s not the health of the entire planet that’s at stake. It’s the habitability of the inhabited parts of the planet for humans. The earth will be just fine.
Python's absolutely fine to use for a "serious backend thing" at a telecom firm.

It's a language that attracts casuals, but that does not mean it's incapable of being used for serious software engineering. The only scenarios where I wouldn't use python for a "serious backend thing" are scenarios in which there are dramatic cost/performance/etc consequences resulting from the overhead of using python which would be substantially reduced if using $lowLevelLanguage. Even then, there's always the option of outsourcing specific units of functionality to say, c++, anywhere the performance difference actually matters.

I would say that for the vast majority of use cases, acceptable performance could be easily achieved by simply writing better python.

Writing this reply brought to mind some absolutely atrociously inefficient ORM code I encountered in a python codebase recently. If you don't have an understanding of how to utilize SQL efficiently, it doesn't matter what language you're using to construct the SQL queries, the software engineering equivalent of warcrimes is possible in any language.
Hi everyone,

I wrote a post on YC's famous "tarpit ideas" term and how those can apply to product features, in a concept called "tarpit features". Would love to hear your thoughts!
> I think an overwhelming majority of users aren’t technical enough or well enough versed in UI/UX to be able to put a finger on the frustrations they experience with software

They're ok with it because they don't know it could be better. A spinner every 2 minutes? 12 minutes to open slack? They accept it as fact of life until a better software comes in, and now they're wondering why they haven't come across something like this sooner.
The company I work at is fairly large, with thousands of engineers, and we use monorepos. It works extremely well. What about them makes you think it can't work?
I am pro-nuclear as a concept but it seems to not economically viable -- look to the last plant to open in the US - Vogel being billions and over budget and in no way cost-competitive: https://www.powermag.com/blog/plant-vogtle-not-a-star-but-a-...

If nuclear is going to ever succeed economically it would have to be via Small Modular Reactors that can be built en mass rather than bespoke power plants. And even there, the price pressure from renewables is making that debatable.

An irony here is that nuclear promised energy that was "too cheap to measure" but renewables are actually delivering on that.
Btw this is how kakoune works all around. Multiple selections are first class citizens

Also since there is no extra visual mode it is very easy to select something and then operate on it.
> A key issue with the bill is that it criminalises creating a model that someone else uses to cause harm.

Build a model that is trained on the corpus of gun designs.

Should be an interesting court case and social experiment.
That is assuming all batteries are lithium-ion, but the state is going for a larger mix of storage tech.

As just one example, iron-air batteries:

> The CEC is supporting this project through its Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) program, a fund dedicated to accelerating the implementation of non-lithium technologies offering 8+ hours of energy storage. Form Energy will use the grant funds to develop and operate the project, and PG&E will provide land and an interconnection point at the substation site.

https://formenergy.com/form-energy-awarded-30m-grant-from-th...

Stationary storage is a different ballgame, with different trade-offs

i.e. you can trade density for cycle count or cost
I think flatpak is closer to .app bundles. So, the argument is a little unfair.
I created buckaroo [1] as a better dataframe viewer for jupyter with built in summary stats. It's built to bring a better dataframe experience to people already using pandas/polars. All of it is extensible [2] so that you can customize stats and transformations to your workflow.

[1] https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo

[2] https://youtu.be/GPl6_9n31NE
Curtailment is often a decision of the generator (I don’t know CAISO specifics but I would be surprised if it wasn’t ultimately a generator decision).

If I asked you to generate power for -$15/MWh, you would refuse to do it because it would cost you money. 0 > -15.

The utilities not charging negative time-of-rates is a separate decision.
Slight bug: there's no road past about 280m, all cars fall into an endless pit
This is also called solutioneering.
I'm not sure what you are even saying. This has nothing to do with police or putting body weight on a person. If anything not using sedatives would lead to more EMTs putting body weight on people.
In the docs for my own project in this space, I created a whole related projects page. I figured if someone makes it to my docs, and buckaroo doesn't solve their problem, they should find something that does help them.

https://buckaroo-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/articles/rela...
Does no one remember what happens when we don’t have effective pharmaceuticals at all?

I balance vague dark assertions of conspiracy against the clear issues obesity can cause the health of the population. I’ve got a loved one who needed a gastric bypass; I’m glad there are less invasive options available now.
All mainstream apps are vast on recent Android phones. Most everything on recent Ubuntu is fast.

Most mobile sites in general are fast, maybe not "2kb of HTML" fast, but fast enough I don't notice or think about performance when browsing.

Although, I suspect a lot of programmers can think faster than average and seem to be bothered more by small delays than the rest of us, since they're able to do things like figure out a Vim keystroke sequence instantly.
Hmm I don't think so. Most comments are pretty positive.

I think the articles are just not really upvoted unless it's really big news, makes sense because HN is for more than just AI.

But I don't think it's anti-AI like most people here would be pretty anti-cryptocurrency (and for good reason IMO)
Hi there, long time.

I'm a big believer in crafting whatever you personally need, whether interpreters or generators.
I assumed it was the hut used by the PoW officers. Japan did not treat PoWs particularly well (though British PoWs were treated much better than Chinese) and did not follow the 1929 Geneva Convention on the treatment of PoWs. Under that convention, officers are to be treated with due regard to their rank and part of that means being quartered separately from the other ranks (as well as not being made to work). I think officers would also be separated in PoW camps in Japan.
In my country anti-spam regulations are very strict and politicians cannot bother us with massive advertising. I understand that it is a matter of regulations that govern and stop these types of practices.
AI Sticker Generator – open-source sticker generator for web application
I’m actually not. I’ll check him out. Thanks.
> The bossware problem is a boss problem, in other words. It follows that fixing the bossware problem is the workers' job, and indeed, the Times feature notes that Amazon has been dismantling its bossware surveillance in a bid to reduce its workers' support for unionization, which promises to ban bossware from Amazon workplace. Bosses deride unions as reducing "freedom" – but just the threat of unions delivers more freedom to workers than any right-to-work law ever could.

Nice reminder unions are underrated.
Coal is easily accessible on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/121215404611
Another good option is Neptyne. Integrates with Google Sheets (provided you're comfortable storing your data there)
There is a balance here.

Good domain modeling can enable making illegal states unrepresentable.

Sometimes, there needs to be more flexibility because of a lack of understanding.

However, other times you can put in a little effort and get the understanding needed for a good data model that simplifies future velocity and correctness a ton.
After 20 years in the air force, I think this may be the dumbest thing I've ever seen and I saw a f16 tip over on taxi
> This has absolutely nothing to do with the point being made (which was why the mention that the train is slower now was even mentioned): a gross miscalculation of general politically relevant public opinion for long distance rail service.

Your point didn't come across very clearly. I'm sorry about that; I also get frustrated when my points don't come across clearly. But I'm operating in good faith here.

I don't understand the relevance of the point that the Syracuse to Chicago train is slower than it was 100 years ago. You can fly from Syracuse to Chicago in 2 hours. No train is going to compete with that--maybe a maglev or hyperloop, but not a train. So if the train service between Syracuse and Chicago is going to compete with air service, it's going to have to compete some other way.

> And here's the thing, many of these routes do sell out or come close to doing so on a daily basis. With a few notable exceptions, they're not running light trains around. In the case of the aforementioned train averaging about 500 pax in each direction.

That's great. If those passengers are willing to pay ticket prices that cover the full long term costs of maintaining their share of the infrastructure they're using, then you could have an economically viable privately operated passenger train service. If not, then the ticket prices are artificially low and should be raised. If raising the ticket prices makes the ridership disappear, then it doesn't have economic sense to run a passenger train route.

> It's not my job to convince you that the majority of these 500 passengers are not train geeks. Yes it is hard for me to comprehend that is the first thing someone would think critically, as if the majority of those using Greyhound and the Chinatown line are "bus geeks".

No, you're right. You've convinced me that the widespread public support for Amtrak doesn't come from people naively romanticizing passenger rail, but rather a coalition of people effectively freeloading off the American taxpayer. As a result I am now even more opposed to Amtrak.
CPUs are fairly orthogonal in terms of capabilities; if the instruction can encode it, the CPU can interpret it. Coprocessors (GPUs, NPUs, etc.) have ISA where the legal encoding space is much larger than a the legal instruction space: the set of valid instructions is not dense in its own encoding space. This smaller legal space is defined by a set of constraints on the set of legal encodings.
in most of US the cost of residential power is almost entirely in the delivery, not the generation. If folks knew how much they were being fleeced they'd lose their minds.
Sure, I'd still stand by my statement making that substitution. I don't think the ecosystem humans specifically depend on can be boiled down to a single metric.

We've leaned extremely analytical in modern times but doing so puts us at serious risk of missing the forest for the trees. We have a habit of trying to quantify everything and missing the fact that doing so loses context and greatly increases the risk of over confidence in our ability to understand and intervene with a complex system.
No, they certainly should, and according to them they are trying to. There is currently an unknown level of demand at the current price point, all we know is that it is probably far more than current supply. There's every reason to believe that they will increase production as fast as possible and still only meet demand over a year from now.

Once demand is met, there starts to be an argument for lowering the price and growing the market. Getting the price down to half the current price is when we start to see health benefits that outweigh the cost of treatment and an obvious win for insurance companies to start covering it for everyone.

But until there is supply, lowering cost just means more people fighting over the same supply, not more people getting access.
Leninism doesn't quite depart from Marxism really, Lenin expanded upon Marx's ideas and applied them to the evolving material conditions of Tsarist Russia. In a manner of speaking he departed with Marx in the way that Marx thought revolution would occur in developed industrialized nations like Germany and France and not rural agrarian societies like Tsarist Russia. Another thing to note is a lot of what Lenin wrote was scathing and sort of exaggerated polemics against others who he often worked alongside strategically, but argued with for the purpose of directing the course of action correctly. His ideas, the conditions and people he was responding to, evolved over time as well, so it's very important to understand those contexts going in, and this book does an excellent job of synthesizing and condensing some of that well:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26268757-revolution-mani...

I think this does a good job too:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50284837

I would also recommend The People's Forum / The Socialist Program's recent class on Lenin:
https://m.soundcloud.com/thesocialistprogram/sets/lenin-and-...
1lb/day isn’t sustainable at all, that would require a 3500 calorie deficit. You’re losing water weight.
Market cap refers to size. Whats confusing you ?

> No one refers to the 'size' of a company is referring to market cap

Market cap is certainly used to evaluate the size of a company.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketcapitalization.as...
And it's hugely expensive decommissioning isn't even factored into the business model (because then it would be even less viable), the state is left cleaning up the mess.
DynamoDB? The one table solution? Amplify sucks?
I learned to code through building my startup using a React Native Expo AWS amplify stack. It’s been about 1.5 years since I first started. I always knew that there were many things going on under the hood that I didn’t understand. Crucially; dynamoDB. I ignored it mostly because I already started and I just wanted to get into users hands which I am now. This way of learning is interesting because I can implement something and not quite know how it fully works but as time goes on, I was forced into knowing how it worked eventually. 1.5 years in, I’m working with about 5 tables through amplify and now that I’m getting more users it caused me to do a deeper dive into DynamoDB. Since I have no prior code experience; I also have no database experience to reference. I never got to use sql. I often heard it was tough to write data to DynamoDB or the syntax was weird but it seems straightforward. Know your access patterns. State the types for your partition keys and sort keys and Perform your GET, PUT, UPDATE and DELETE actions. Putting all the tables into one table seemed weird but after using the DynamoDB workbench to visually map my access patterns, I fell in love with it. Right now through amplify, I am essentially scanning the whole table to get to get to the data. Now, with one table solution and setting up my access patterns, I can get to my data like a sniper. Perhaps it’s because I have no prior experience but I also think it’s because amplify allowed me to easily make changes to my data models which in turn resulted in me understanding my access patterns deeper. Thoughts?
GitHub Actions, ARM64, and the future of automotive software development
I'm not seeing that at all on gridstatus.io. Although solar capacity is growing, ERCOT mostly and increasingly seems to use natural gas.
Nor Linux.

The only Java desktop app I've ever used (on any platform) without frustration was Slay the Spire, and it only passes because it's a game and doesn't require desktop integration of any kind.
The focus is on decarbonization, which is why the focus is on renewables, as they are the fastest, least cost route to decarbonization (along with efficiency).

Nuclear? Why would you want to slow down decarbonization and make the process more expensive? It's almost as if your words of focus on decarbonization are lies.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1837-pre/verse/v...

Angry with God. Makes sense it’s obvious to any real believer. You can feel the Envy and Anger dripping from his words. No submission to the Lord, no respect, no Love.

Obviously he has to try and ban religion also. Very interesting. Thank you. I never knew about this somehow.

—-
The Fiddler

The Fiddler saws the strings,
His light brown hair he tosses and flings.
He carries a sabre at his side,
He wears a pleated habit wide.
"Fiddler, why that frantic sound?
Why do you gaze so wildly round?
Why leaps your blood, like the surging sea?
What drives your bow so desperately?"
"Why do I fiddle? Or the wild waves roar?
That they might pound the rocky shore,
That eye be blinded, that bosom swell,
That Soul's cry carry down to Hell."
"Fiddler, with scorn you rend your heart.
A radiant God lent you your art,
To dazzle with waves of melody,
To soar to the star-dance in the sky."
"How so! I plunge, plunge wihout fail
My blood-black sabre into your soul.
That art God neither wants nor wists,
It leaps to the brain from Hell's black mists.
"Till heart's bewitched, till senses reel:
With Satan I have struck my deal.
He chalks the signs, beats time for me,
I play the death march fast and free.
"I must play dark, I must play light,
Till bowstrings break my heart outright."
The Fiddler saws the strings,
His light brown hair he tosses and flings.
He carries a sabre at his side,
He wears a pleated habit wide.
Time comes for us all
Show HN: YC Co-Founder Match Not Working Out? Try Buildbook Instead
Co-Founder and I got tired of finding another technical Co-Founder at our last startup, so we got to work on Buildbook.

Step 1: Register your info

Step 2: Wait for confirmation (like everyone else from the 40 diff universities so far).

Step 3: Blurb your idea(s) with everyone else and find other projects you might even be interested in.

Note: Buildbook is only for university students (all levels), as long as you have a student email to register with you should be big chillin'.

PS: We know the job market is pure dog water right now, regardless of where you went to school;

We hope your experience on buildbook will enable you to create some quick projects for the resume with others in your position.
In the case where you want to have a startup after college, this is the place to dial in those early founder dynamics before committing to anything.
>Maybe this is just an attribute of genetic algorithms

It happened to crocodiles and it could happen to you too.
California isn't exactly known for water management practices, though sure there are storage systems that use kinetic potential as a battery. In theory that can be used at very large scales, if the water and elevation is available for use.

Is be really curious how the math works out with regards to how much water would be required for say 3 days of use in LA. That may even be an over estimate of storage needs given how few rainy days they get.
Yep it’s very much a prisoner’s dilemma. If I choose a smaller car then my family is in greater danger.
There were several Geneva Conventions prior to the 1949 one; the "Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War" was signed in 1929.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gc-pow-1929
The struct. OOP tries to combine the struct (data) and functionality (methods) into one and it is a bad idea.
Interesting idea, would have signed up if it was available for non-students :) all the best!
Will do, thanks! I must have just missed it if the original page linked to it.
Is it really an apt bug? It looks like they move some packages from apt to snap, and misconfigured dependency. That's beyond the design assumption of apt. Also, what ultimately failed is snapd.
Chains were raising prices way before the minimum wage hike. Everyone is, that’s inflation.

WSJ desperate to make it sound like California’s initiatives are backfiring.
"We have if/else statements in our code, yes we have AI"
FDIC says Republic First Bank is closed by Pennsylvania regulators
"The early Mediterranean iron smelting started around 12th or 11th century BC. It is assumed the pioneering metallurgists sourced their coal off eBay."