skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regressive in that solar programs are not inflated, but do require distribution upgrades to realize their efficiency advantages over centralized power transmission. These distribution upgrades are costly to IOUs because they cut into their margins when the efficiency of distributed generation is considered.

Paying distributed generation export at retail rates or higher (DR, etc) makes plenty of sense because there are significant load, resiliency, and efficiency advantages to homeowners who are supposed to be the ones to benefit most from the grid.
What part of "the code was horrendous" did not click with your sentiment? It was horrible. The entire database was one table. Every SQL query was a SELECT *, and filtered everything downstream in the code rather than WHERE. It was absolutely horrible code that I am shocked actually worked with any kind of speed that actually felt responsive. Of course I didn't have millions of records, but the fact that it worked at all was encouraging enough to me that I'm still doing it to this day in the same language. Only now I've been doing it for 20+ years and I'm much less embarrassed about my code, or maybe more. At least back then I could use "I'm a beginner" as an excuse.
Been working with a Clojure, Python, and Elixir codebase since the advent of LLMs. It’s shockingly bad at Clojure still, but can get halfway decent with Elixir. Claude has always been better than OpenAI at Clojure, but that’s not really saying much.

I think Clojure (or any lisp) applications tend to lean towards mini-DSLs that don’t lend themselves to generalization very well. There’s also not much agreement in the community on any single problem or way of doing anything (one of the best and worst parts about the language)
True. You would think it's maybe not that hard to find a real dataset to sort somewhere.
One could say that Norway's flagship corporation has a horrible business model. The Norwegians have never held a referendum whether they should stop drilling , but they are so environmentally conscious that it's not unlikely. Should Norway stop drilling and let its sovereign fund collapse (along with the value of many global companies where it invests)? Is there any State that is purely moral?
And that wouldn't be great for performance.
> If the customers of online advertising platforms ever realise that much of their ad-spend is in vain and cut their ad-spend proportionally, do you think that the internet as it is today will change?

Oh of course it will, we're already seeing the first effects. Or rather, Twitter (now X) is - they lost pretty much all major brands as advertisers and the majority of their income as advertisers realized that appearing next to Catturd, porn spammers and dropshipping scams is not a platform that yields high returns.

The only platforms still offering decent ROI are Meta and Google's search results, and the real game for online advertisers these days is influencer marketing.
You are always welcome to go stay in a country where there are no lobbyists
My point was that the words are vaguer, and so less easy to comprehend. White is a colour, pink is a colour, green is a colour. Taking the words literally, everybody is a "person of colour". You can't directly intuit the meaning of the phrase, it requires acquisition of the specific cultural meaning.

But good point about the diversity aspect - you're right, that is a good reason to make the terms more inclusive.
Quite amazing solution. From the .hta file you can see it was inspired by VBScript (whose most popular software is ILOVEYOU I guess).

It looks like the ultimate hack, but why not ? It's very creative and the intention is good as well: TypeScript/JavaScript is a very popular language. Though C#.NET is great as well.

It could make sense in the very long-term that Microsoft themselves explore this possibility.

Ultimately "TypeScript.NET or JavaScript.NET"
Sorry, but I don't understand what you're describing. Can you maybe show it in jsfiddle?
Duopoly? One party is totally unelectable
This. I have never bought a watch for more than $300 and I would have to buy 33 $300 watches to get to $10,000. If I live 60 more years, that's one watch every 22 months for the rest of my life.
Also look for makerspaces or your library. Our library has a 3D printer and you can send designs via e-mail and they will print them and you can pick them up, you pay by weight for filament used.
Definitely the chromium
Interesting. The question that immediately popped into my head was: How does the secure boot system determine the “security generation” of GRUB exactly? Sounds like just based on the assertion of GRUB itself (and trusted signature of the distribution that built GRUB)?

The fact that the list of allowed GRUB versions is itself manageable via a Windows Update points to some other issues with this particular security scheme, given Microsoft’s own recent history of mishandling private keys.
It’s not a negative judgement. Everyone has different levels of entitlement in any particular context.

Lots of people feel entitled to free, clean, potable tap water. Lots more people don’t because they live somewhere without it.

There is nothing wrong with saying, “our product is not for people entitled to X”. There is no judgement there, let alone anything negative.
A win for Linux. I will always advocate Linux Desktop, and that Linux Desktop is the future. While proton may not be where we want it to be and game development is more geared towards and catered towards Windows development, Nvidia is opening its drivers up to open source models. Linux just gained a 4.45% market share increase recently (how long that will last with its learning curve is questionable) - The longest issue to date was/is DirectX and Microsoft Proprietary things are windows exclusive, I guess now shaders/ray tracing/new tech etc - I'm no longer a gamer, was in the past).

Viva, Linux Desktop.
The idea that you get things done at Hackathons at crazy speed is at odds with the idea that you start from zero without any preexisting code.

The royal road to fast development is to have a framework ready for the kind of application you're developing, maybe best expressed in this book

https://www.amazon.com/Software-Product-Lines-Practices-Patt...

which was written by the developers of one generation of Visual Studio about the product they wished they could have built (which would have been much much cooler.) Granted there is a problem of training and bringing people on board quickly but that might mean you end up writing a lot of documentation and explaining things to people.
Pseudonyms lets you practice agency
> I thought flatpak would fix this on linux, but every time I flatpak itself updates half of its apps break with mysterious error messages and refuse to launch until they're also updated.

Linux oldheads could've told you this would happen before the project was even created. We solved package management and dependencies in the 90s and no one has improved on it since. Just stick with stuff in your distro's repos. If it's not in the repos, don't use it. Problems gone.
I initially didn't take the "drain the fuel" advice when I got my snowblower, because I never did it for my lawnmower and it was fine year after year.

And in its second season, it utterly failed to start. My friend gave me a tip to drain the fuel and put some fresh gas with a little jet fuel in it, and it started immediately.
Luckily data centers have this thing called “air conditioning”…
> When it comes to the realities of dual-booting

The sad and depressing part is that along the way we lost all possibilities of running coreboot or libreboot as an open alternative.

The only real option is to buy a used laptop from before the T44x generation (if you really want it secure)... or newer machines that come with other perks like soldered-on batteries that destroy the mainboard along with them when they leak out eventually.

I am not sure what the consumer rights protection agencies on the planet are doing, but seemingly they've been asleep at the wheel for way too long now.

> (Tinfoil hat) (...) I think part of the reason MS is enforcing TPM2.0 and now this SBAT update is that there is widespread rootkit level malware and they are trying to stay ahead of the curve.

The only vendors that seem to do something against it are somewhat System76, Frame.Work, Purism and maybe Starlabs. But the huge majority of devices is under the absolute control of Microsoft's signing process now. So I would argue that this isn't a tinfoil conspiracy, but a strategical decision that MS made to re-grab their lost power on x86 systems.
Disappointing the article goes for the usual "congress is corrupt" instead of getting into details of who within the US congress is corrupt and being controlled by whom.

It's like the DJ-3000 automated DJ inane chatter bot from the Simpsons

"Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns."

"How's he keep up with news like that?"
BMW Pulls Ahead of Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time
"Easy estimate does the rocket-sciencey math of your project's ETA based on the current work trends (project velocity) for the project."

How does that work exactly, some more detail than handwavey "it's magic" would probably gain more traction with this audience.
I don't regret skipping college graduation and I barely remember high school graduation

I do regret that I didn't join any clubs in college until my last semester, and that I didn't make the kind of friendships I wanted
What do you see as mistakes? I see some weirdness, but the spec is just not complete - there was no requirement for rewinding, multiple users, etc. in the request so it's not implemented.

The only thing I'd call an actual mistake is using an empty list to mean both an empty file and an uninitialised value.
Look it's a 1950's Craftsman I got from a guy who wired the hot and neutral backwards when he replaced the original motor. They did things differently back then.
The trouble with hackathons is they don’t solve the other blockers to innovation, such as resource constraints, internal politics, and poor incentives. I’ve done dozens of hackathons and hundreds of innovation challenges. Earned my university tuition in prize money from them kind of thing. Even the supposedly guaranteed interviews didn’t materialize though. The outcomes were purely cash and resume material.

As far as I know, none went anywhere. Not a single idea went beyond my presentation.

People see them as a magical way to unlock new ideas, but the problem was not really a lack of ideas in the first place. Rather, the new ideas people already had got stuck and all the hackathon was doing was adding more stuck stuff.

> that we haven't had the time to work on due to other commitments

This problem doesn’t go away by hosting a hackathon. At the end of the hackathon, resources would need to be allocated.

Don’t get me wrong, I love hackathons. I spend a lot of money every year flying to attend hackathons. But they don’t produce much for the sponsors it seems.
> Which is exactly what GPT is amazing at.Brainstorming, rewriting, suggesting new angles of approach is GPTs main stength!

No, it isn't. It just increases noise. I don't need any more info, I need just to make decisions "how?".

> Prompting GPT to give useful answers is part of the art of using these new tools. Ask GPT to speak in a different voice, take on a persona or target a differnt age group and you'll be amazed at what it can output.

I'm not amazed. At best it sounds like some 60+ year old (like me) trying to be in the "age group" 14 while after only hearing from someone how young people talk. Especially in small cultures like ours here (~1M people).
Windows updates are too dangerous to trust automatically. I've been burned to various degrees too many times to think otherwise. If Windows is too dangerous to use without automatic updates, then it's just too dangerous to use, period.
This argument may well have some truth, but it shrinks the debate to
individual choices about "money in my wallet" versus "privacy".

Increasingly the debate is moving to national security. We hear that
the US government has lost trust in Microsoft. In the UK the choice of
GCHQ to use AWS has caused consternation. A much more complex and
nuanced landscape is emerging. Two of the links in the Techdirt
article reference national security issues.

National security and economic welfare of citizens are not separate.
Private profit of a few global surveillance and data trading companies
creates a problem that affects more than individual rights.

So even if one ignores ethics and rights and takes a purely economic
perspective, one has to ask whether the damage to a nation caused by
big-tech surveillance companies outweighs their net benefit to the
economy.
It’s honestly top of mind question for someone like me, who loves Clojure but doesn’t want to be disadvantaged for this reason. Like I wonder if the “Blub paradox” is still real or if we’re in a world where “if Blub isn’t the answer you aren’t using enough of it (spat from an LLM)”.

Like try finding YC job posting without TS and/or Python in the requirements :-/
I am just saying the columns of the grid can be dynamically sized depending on their contents.

Tracks is a grid term for rows or columns, as it works in both dimensions.
I've been playing World of Warcraft for over 15 years now, and it's incredible to see how much the game has evolved since the early days. I remember grinding through Molten Core with 40-man raids, struggling to coordinate everyone on Ventrilo, and the satisfaction of finally downing Ragnaros after weeks of attempts. The game has come a long way since then, with countless expansions and changes that have kept it fresh and engaging.

These days, I still play regularly, but with work and other commitments, I don't have as much time to farm gold as I used to. That’s why I’ve started using services like the best WoW gold site (https://wowvendor.com/shop/wow-gold/) to help me stay competitive and enjoy the game without the grind. It’s a different experience, but it allows me to keep up with the content and continue enjoying the game I've loved for so long.

I'm curious to hear other stories from longtime players. How have your experiences with WoW changed over the years? And how long do you think the game will continue to thrive?
TheBoringNotch: Not so boring notch That Rocks (macOS)
I think the global north doesn’t really line up with human instinct in a lot of ways. Climate, day length pattern, vegetation.

I guess somewhere in Africa should per perfect? I doubt the humans who split off and went north have had their instincts change enough to not prefer that sort of climate, and that explains the draw to sun rich areas. Not to mention those who left that region much more recently.

It’s interesting that I haven’t seen any groups with a Darwinian Zionism, so to speak. An ancestral claim to the region where humans evolved.
So what's the surprising cause ? I couldn't find it after skimming the article twice.
I bootstrapped a side project into a 5k customer B2C SaaS over the past 3 years. I just finally started getting help with support, and wow -- I wish I had done that sooner.

Instead, I let it build to the point where like 60% of my day (and night) was fielding questions and requests.

Can't recommend enough getting a good system in place for support early, with as many self-serve help resources as possible.
> In this study, the researchers asked about 200 non-lawyers (native speakers of English living in the United States, who were recruited through a crowdsourcing site called Prolific), to write two types of texts. In the first task, people were told to write laws prohibiting crimes such as drunk driving, burglary, arson, and drug trafficking. In the second task, they were asked to write stories about those crimes.

How does one draw the conclusion that the chosen prose is “magic incantations” from something like this. If I ask you to write a story about a chair, you’re going to have a much more comprehensible description of the individual chair envisioned compared to if I ask you to legally define what is and isn’t a chair.

A story about something doesn’t need to capture edge cases or define hard boundaries on otherwise open ended terms
I think the argument is that people say they care about privacy, but they really care about money. Online privacy laws will cost at least some people some money, and those people vote too. And their representatives know they vote.
Right now, the thorniest issue is the integration with the organizations’ business processes. Liability is a big headache and besides some clearcut use cases, organizations still need to figure it out. But as a cognitive tool, I don’t think AI will ever die out. The current incarnation of LLM perhaps, but not AI in general.

The next generation of AI will have the ability to reason, to plan and execute according to the plan. And we will watch how it is going to transform humankind, forever.
> 100% sure that all of the chemicals involved in Solar manufacture are less toxic to the human body than handling Plutonium. So, we can probably design enough protocols to make it safe to manufacture given we did it for far more toxic materials.

So?

You have to look at the amount of chemicals required to produce 1 Joule (or perhaps to install one 1 Watt of capacity).

For example, 1 kg of coal is much less dangerous than 1 kg of uranium. But you need much, much more than 1kg of coal to replace 1 kg of uranium.

Similar for solar power: you need to normalise the amount (and 'badness') of waste by the amount of energy produced. Semi-conductor manufacturing isn't exactly like organic farming, you know?

The best example is perhaps hydro-power: 1 kg of fresh water is basically the most harmless substance you can think of. But you need enormous amounts of water to produce reasonable amounts of electricity. And in these huge quantities water can become dangerous.

> > You can live right next to a nuclear power plant, or even work in one, and your radiation exposure will be indistinguishable from background levels.

> So they dug up and replaced all the surface soil around Fukushima for no reason?

Huh? Fukushima was not a normally operating nuclear power plant. Yes, accidents happen. That's why I'm suggesting to look at the impact of accidents per Joule produced (or per Watt of installed capacity, depending on context).

Nuclear power has had only a handful of accidents and lots and lots of Joule produced.
I believe it's an argument for representative democracy instead of direct democracy. I feel that representative democracies allow for unpopular things to happen (e.g. taxes), if the alternative means the economy or country crashes. I'm not an expert in this field.
Privacy of majority of population is more important than income of a bunch of corrupt SV engineers, isn't it?
Safety laws, anti-child labor laws, environmental laws, worker protection laws all could cause economic harm to flag ship corporations.
oh wow, SOAP/XML is somehow worse. Websocket is a binary protocol, but you're probably slinging HTTP reqs or JSON over it. The downside is the protocol itself is stateful so you have the overhead of doing an HTTP upgrade + managing a stateful TCP connection. Idk why you would use either of those technologies for LAN-only transports, though I could see it being the best option for talking to the mothership.

I guess that means it's entirely engineering practice or maturity. That just makes me sad :(
You can always stabilize your fuel too and it will last into the next season. However, depending on your climate it may be worth it to just buy cans of fuel at the hardware store. It's much higher quality than what you'll get at a gas station and doesn't contain additives, which are very problematic for carburetors when left in the tank until the next season. It cost more but if you're not blowing snow too often you probably won't even notice the cost. They also come in smaller cans so you can store nicely if needed.
So just in case people occasionally vote for shortsighted policies, we should preventatively remove their democratic autonomy altogether, replacing them with corporate puppets just to be safe? The enlightened shills will lead civilization to a new golden age of personal prosperity and financial prudence.
I have seen cool ones, where hackers shared cool personal projects, people contributed to them, had shared learnings and fun together. others were really lame 'make an AI app' type of boring corpo stuff. it really depends on the organizers and participants.
As parasitic as the advertising business is, the "legitimate" commercial surveillance activities provides a nice cover for other types of surveillance, obfuscating the operations of state actors who can run their own programs or tap commercial networks to just buy whatever data they want.
Sorry, are you saying it takes 20 years for a self-taught developer to learn enough programming, especially when they start as kids? No offense, this is a you problem.

I dabbled with PCs since I was 8, around 14 I had enough brain to start to understand BASIC and enough free time to get good enough to write half a decent mini OS by the time I was 17 [1] and got my first paying job (sysadmin and PHP dev) at 19. I'm 37 now.

All you need is free time and being interested enough in the subject matter. And kids learn 10x as fast as adults anyway.

Not sure why you are trying to discourage people from learning on their own based on your time line.

1: https://github.com/1player/klesh
> because of how often I decrapify customer machines.

In the last month or so, one of the recent crap-loaded Win10 updates reinstalled the crapware after a reboot. Usually twice.

As in: WU, clean, reboot. Login and the apps are back. Clean again, reboot. After 5 minutes the apps reinstall again. Clean, reboot.

I had this happen on about 8 systems - about half of the ones I updated. These were clean installs and established systems.

I discovered this by accident. I normally don't reboot.
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> no resolution is anticipated or planned

This is the real problem an automated close addresses. They are are afraid to tell their customers this.
LiveIntent APIs are being misused to identify website visitors identity
Yes, this is the correct solution.

Which underlines the original point, that CSS is a hodgepodge of different ideas with no overarching system behind them. A simple task like this needed 3 different positioning systems:

1. flexbox for positioning the middle item

2. absolute positioning for left/right

3. and the translateY(-50%) trick for vertically positioning the absolute positioned items
HN does not have extensive server costs. Last I saw (~10 years ago) it was running off a single machine in a closet. Apparently they've since moved to two machines at a hosting company.
Interesting. FWIW, it immediately registered to me (in the US) as inappropriate.

I realized I don't know why they would do that, but regardless of why, my first thought was hotheaded stereotype: how quickly an 'escort' could arrive, of boats/aircraft capable of sinking them.

My second thought was that the escort boats could play Queen's "We Are the Champions" [1] over loudspeakers. If it can be many sailors impromptu singing it, all the better.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04854XqcfCY&t=33s
> the commercial internet tries to raise the price of bandwidth somehow

This is already happening.

They wanted to make us pay more because we are using netflix and other streaming services so much.

Everything important like internet and streets should be built and maintained by the gov and not some random companies, f*ck Telekom.
> Exactly how would you propose starting software securely from an unknown environment?

Accept that it’s impossible?