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"Not engaging at all" allows the engaging group to completely take over and expunge their opposition. The Python Software Foundation is an example. They have multiple former directors banned or resigning. They've defunded African Pycons that won't embrace certain ideologies. PSF employees and work group members are being purged of anyone not fully on board with the new ruling party. The discussion forums are censored and long-term contributors are afraid to post.

In general, in democratic organizations it is a failing strategy to not engage in arguments or to boycott elections. It is a recipe for an imbalance that is almost impossible to correct later.

So, I respectfully disagree with your suggestion to not engage at all.
If you consider tanking the UK economy to the tune of hundreds of millions if not billions of pounds, then yes, absolutely.
Building a tunnel through a stable and self supporting granite mountain is a bit different from building one under a river that is on top of a slab of clay and sand so I don't think the two projects are directly comparable.

And the regulations are really not that different here in Norway. What is different is that there is a less adversarial society. We are a little more inclined to thrash out the problems in discussion rather than litigation.

But there are plenty of infrastructure projects here that take longer and cause more disruption than they should. For instance the upgrade to the E18 between Oslo and Drammen on which 17 billion kroner (1.7 billion USD) has already been spent without getting halfway and the southern half of the project has been scrapped because of the cost of buying out the people who live in the way of the new route.

https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/ny-nasjonal-transportplan-...
To a certain extent I agree, however the head of state is only token position (albeit well paid!). It's not very different in the US, the "name" - Kennedy, Clinton, Obama, Bush, etc takes you most of the way there... Trump too I guess!
Easily solved via sane energy policy. Of course politics will likely make this impossible in the US.

In a rational environment you run your nuclear at 100% 24x7. The cost of the fuel is not material running at 10% vs. 100%. Letting parasitic intermittent power sources screw this up is simply financial engineering by largely bad actors. At least currently.

Then you use intermittent power sources to provide your peak loads during the day, and any excess you ideally start putting into storage - whatever that may be. If you have effectively free marginal power during certain peak times, I'm positive industry will find a way to turn that into money.

I still have hope sanity returns to the energy discussion, but it likely won't happen in the US during my lifetime. The cost of solar and wind is entirely politics - the storage cost is literally never considered when reading articles on the subject. The hidden costs are likely 10x or so what the marginal cost per kwh everyone loves to spew. Lots of folks getting massively rich off this disinformation so there is huge inertia behind ignoring it - even from very smart people that should absolutely know better after a few hours of reading on the subject. Just look at many of the posts here at HN.

The environmental costs of methane (natural gas) are simply not being considered. The methane leaks into the environment are underestimated by at least 10x if not much, much, more. Pivoting from nuclear and to natural gas has been an utter environmental disaster.
Yes, there's an option in the hamburger menu to edit queries manually, and that will allow you to type in (or paste in) the query by hand.

Re. the saved query restriction - I am planning to work on this app in the long term, which unfortunately means I have to monetise the app in order to sustain development work.

I believe restricting saved queries and saved connections is a good compromise to allow casual users to try out all the features the app has to offer, without imposing a time limit.
The real problem we ultimately face as humans is that the human dopaminergic system always resets so that what was great yesterday is expected today and not enough tomorrow.

It is why a windfall when young can be problematic. It won't be enough tomorrow and there just isn't enough non-chemical experiences to get that feeling back again.

It is also why people romanticize poverty because it is so much easier to go from nothing to something than abundance to even more abundance that would subjectively give the same "kick".
This is really cool! Great work. Thank you for sharing.
And thank-you for making the point that utilities should be socialized and not a profit center.

EVERYBODY deserves clean water, electricity, housing and food.
I truly don't understand your desire to remove Linux file permissions. I also don't get why you think it's difficult to do so. There are plenty of ways for you to enable yourself to hose your machine without having to enter a password.
But the price of energy can be negative, so a new nuclear plant might never pay off its cost, even if it provides the public benefit of cheap electricity.
I don't think this is about the number of civil servants so much as the attitude of running everything from the Imperial core. Becomes apparent when you ask questions like "now that there is a Scottish Parliament, what exactly does the Scotland Office do?". There's no California Office in the American government, no Jura office in the Swiss government, because those are federal systems with a clear division of power across different levels.

See also terrible attitudes to local government. Part of London's recovery is getting its own governance back after the abolition of the GLC. Ihe Assembly is also slowly imposing sensible ideas like Regent Street pedestrianisation on London's councils. Andy Burnham is doing great as mayor of Manchester.
Active probes are faster, https://www.wi-fi.org/knowledge-center/faq/what-are-passive-...

> The reason for client scanning is to determine a suitable AP to which the client may need to roam now or in the future. A client can use two scanning methods: active and passive. During an active scan, the client radio transmits a probe request and listens for a probe response from an AP. With a passive scan, the client radio listens on each channel for beacons sent periodically by an AP. A passive scan generally takes more time, since the client must listen and wait for a beacon versus actively probing to find an AP. Another limitation with a passive scan is that if the client does not wait long enough on a channel, then the client may miss an AP beacon.
As an AI assistant, I'm not equipped or trained to handle an ongoing nuclear meltdown..
Yes probably Russian far north is more likely I guess!
England your England by George Orwell is essential background reading for understanding why the UK looks the way it does in my opinion.
The last ~10 times I've flown have been completely maxed flights. I can't remember the last time I saw an open seat anywhere.
Can Office 365 Copilot do this too?
Page them :)
I was thinking the same.

They should at least make it an option to prompt the user when interactively redirecting to an already existing file. ZSH has this, except for the prompt (you'll need to run the command again using `>!`)
I am angry because if it had not been for her and the movement that rode on her coattails, we'd long have been weened substantially from fossil fuels and we'd be in a very different world today.

She caused this. She is not even owning it; though it can't be undone. She is responsible for more damage to the environment than GW Bush or Shell Oil. People don't realize the magnitude of the damage she inflicted.
The context of the discussion is Not In My Backyard-protests and blocking of plants. Are the people protesting one in their “backyard” not protesting the other?
Really curious, what ideology did the defunded African Pycons fail to embrace?
No blackouts, but it's now very expensive. The system management is quite good but the cost is a serious political issue.

(It's also an oddity that the Conservative government presided over a lot of green transition in the energy sector, but can't take credit for it because of their base)
This is nonsense. If you're going to cite arbitrary "N+1 days of bad weather" then I can cite "N+1 severe natural disasters" where the nuclear reactor is engineered to withstand N. And unlike the theoretical "disaster" due to extended bad weather taking renewables down, this has actually happened in recent memory with Fukushima. And this was a true disaster, not just a power outage.

Nuclear is not safe. Every time proponents say "new designs are safe" eventually a new disaster proves this lie. Then the nuclear proponents say "oh well that was an old design, new designs are safe!"

Nuclear is too expensive. Renewables even with storage are way cheaper! We can way over build renewables. We can distribute them, because "bad weather" is regional. All for much cheaper than nuclear.

Stop pushing this out-dated, unsafe and expensive technology. Its time has passed.
How do you do this in something where the only memory is the last few things it said or heard?
Meta probably publicly released llama to undermine the hype openai was getting at the time. They were seen as the incumbents about to be disrupted by the new kid and they needed to assure the markets that they were also leading ai and also to drain the perceived moat that was fuelling the openai stock price?
Isn’t the software for training end-to-end NN to be used in automation?
Just a first version that it’s used for cars, and they have been using it for their own robot.

So the claim still stands?
exception handling in GO makes it unusable IMO
I don't see anyone protest like that for Ukraine, or the Uighur population in China, do you know why?

Because of anything Iran is doing, no.

But rather, and very simply because their own government (and to some extent their colleges directly, via their endowment funds) is/are supporting the genocide in Palestine, while at least doing something about the other 2. That, and because Palestine resonates with their social justice narratives, and "strikes a chord" with them ideologically and psychologically in a certain way that the other 2 genocides do not. You can make of this fixation what you want. But by all indications -- those are the drivers.

Nothing whatsoever to do with Iran. And it's really very straightforward actually.

Don't let yourself be bamboozled by scare stories in National Review, please.
Dry Cask Storage
Is there not a decent contracts framework for R yet?
I've worked with Thibault before he could self-sustain on lichess donations, he's a professional software developer and sysadmin and one of the best I've worked with.

The people behind lichess are very much professionals, have worked in companies before, and know about everything you're writing. However instead of building a business they decided to run a completely free and ad-free non profit living off donations.

You don't get the same budget doing that compared than a subscription base / ad supported service. That's true for the number of people maintaining it as well as the cloud cost you can afford.

If you look at their track record, uptime have been pretty good. Shit happens, but if you ask me it's worth it to have a service like Lichess that can exist completely on donations.
Agreed. And since I agree, I wonder what those "ideologies" were
The bad part about asking them to re-cook a steak (assuming it's over, and they have to start with a new one), is that you've had your bread, salad, appetizer, and by the time twenty minutes goes by and they bring you a new steak, everyone else is done eating, you're probably no longer hungry...so then you take your $65 steak home to eat the next day.
There's a very active community on Discord that would have been happy to help you add support for your car assuming it has the right hardware.

https://comma.ai/vehicles has also been improved quite a bit in the past year.
Did you read the post you’re responding to?

> That's not how this works though, energy abundance means industrial abundance, more energy availability (for cheap) would simply mean that demand will scale to meet the output.

If the price of electricity is negative, people will build stuff like aluminum smelters and desalination plants to use the excess energy, and electricity will cost money again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

> In economics, the Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.
Probably closest would be the Ig: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
Do people really have this simplistic mindset?
Level 2 driving assistance is commonplace on many new vehicles, often as a standard feature. They are just significantly more conservative in their functionality compared to the level 2 offerings from Tesla, and marketed as safety features rather than "self driving" features.

It's important to note that nothing we're talking about here is actually "self driving" per SAE standards. Openpilot, Tesla's Autopilot/FSD, Honda Sensing, Toyota Safety Sense, Hyundai SmartSense, etc are all level 2 driving assistance features.

This turns level 2 driver assistance features into ... nicer level 2 driver assistance features.
It adds useful context to the discussion and spurs further conversation.
> We know the probability that the sun stops shining and the wind stops blowing for N days, we can calculate it from historical data.

Exactly. And everyone is putting their heads in the sand over this calculation.

Seasonal energy storage is simply not a problem we have even begun to solve yet. We know the numbers, we're just not talking about them.
The main thing is choosing the right technology that will allow scaling if it's part of the plan. It's not that you need to build Twitter-level traffic scale from Day 1, but you should of course choose a tech stack and platform that you can scale if you need.

(Twitter famously learned this the hard way)

If I loved Ruby, why would I choose Rails for a high-traffic social media app? If I loved Python, why choose Django for an API-first service that doesn't have an Admin dashboard? Yet I see it all the time - the developer only knows PHP/Laravel so everything gets built in Laravel. Point is... why lock yourself into a monolithic setup when other options are available even in those languages? You can definitely choose the "wrong stuff" and for bad reasons, even if it works today. "Doing things that don't scale" seems frankly stupid whenever scaling is a big part of the plan for the company, especially when there are plenty of options available to build things in a smart, prepared way.

But go ahead, install your fav monolith and deploy to Heroku for now, it will just be more work later when it has to be dismantled in order to scale parts independent from others (an API gateway that routes high traffic, a serverless PDF renderer, job scripts like notifications, horizontal scaling of instances, etc.).

It's smarter though to just choose a more future-proof language and framework setup. The Node setup on my rpi4 has been on GCP, AWS, Heroku, Render in various forms (as a monolith, as microservices, in between) - repo-wise, it's a "mono server" of 15+ APIs, apps, and websites that separate businesses in town rely on, yet I can work in it as one piece, even easily move it around providers if I want, horizontally scale as needed with no code changes, and because of essentially the folder structure of the app (I copied Vercel) and how Node require works, any export can be either imported to another file or deployed as a serverless function itself.

There's nothing about the codebase that forces me to choose "not scale" or "scale". I even have platform-agnostic code (libraries) that can run in either a browser or a server, talk about flexibility! No other language is as fast and scalable while also being this flexible.
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Hey HN

I've predominantly always worked in Web dev but always had an interest in 3D graphics, modelling and games.

What are your best resources for me to go from 0 to being able to write my own (basic) graphics renderer, eventually I'd like to get to the point of rendering scenes but understand that might be a long haul.
You should, of course, have backups. And one form of backups which you should have are point-in-time snapshots; every ten minutes sounds good.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve deleted something I shouldn’t, but it’s never a big deal.
> Once you start adding nines, nuclear starts to be become attractive again.

Only if you ignore reliability issues with nuclear, such as France having to take a lot of reactors offline at the same time to check for cracks. The comparison has to be fair.
Without profit there is no reason anybody will provide those. Countries that tried socializing food - starved.

Capitalism is the only one that brought plenty - because there is an incentive to do so.
> Nor can austerity or the hangover from the financial crisis explain Britain’s malaise. The financial crisis was at least as turbulent in the United States as here.

Yes it can. For the UK the financial sector was a dramatically important one, more so than practically for any other major country. London was the undisputed financial center for whole Europe and beyond, a legacy of Empire days, the pound as reserve currency etc. This had serious distorting effects: Abysmal center-periphery inequalities; the fatal attraction of talented people to lucrative but mostly pointless financial engineering games; the neglect of "bricks and mortar" etc.

The financial crisis and Brexit demolished this fragile, hyperconcentrated economic posture. Not in the sharp and seemingly recoverable fashion that, e.g., COVID damaged the tourism industry of various countries but in a chronic, gentle decline kind of way.

In the long-term one would think that the immense cultural heritage of Britain across pretty much the entire knowledge spectrum would somehow translate into a way forward. But as we increasingly get to know all too well, the problems of modern societies are self-inflicted and they reflect fundamental breakdowns of social contracts. Yes, despite what that British lady said, there is an emergent phenomenon called "society" and if you deny its existence you will get devoured by demons of its own creation.
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It makes no sense. Bill Gates is a huge nuclear proponent for bad reasons and I'm sure somehow this is related, wherher it's just that Microsoft decision makers have read his bad takes or because he actually pushed for this terrible idea.
Since it's just in preview I haven't been able to get much done with it before hitting the limit. So it's true value to me remains to be seen.
Maybe the lead time is faster because refurbishing a plant is easier than building one from scratch? Just speculating but that comes to mind for me. If their need is immediate term then this could be the "throw some money at the problem to make it go away".

Also maybe good for PR?
Hah, good one.
The legal system also isn't well equipped to deal with the conceptually roughly equal case of someone stealing your car and running people over with it, but it deals with it anyway.
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Reactive Relational Algebra
No affiliate link = less likely to be a star pick?
Not for me. I find radar detectors wrong. Speeding has risks, mainly for others, and pollutes. If you want to arrive earlier, leave on time.
Practically, a lot of nuclear power plants can be down at the same time for maintenance etc., so you need to overbuild quite a bit there as well then
Plus if it's not sunny/windy in one part of the country, it may well be very sunny or windy in other parts of the country. We have a whole freaking energy grid!

This isn't aimed at you, but more at the people dismissing the utility of solar and wind power.
>>Did you know that chrome gives an unfair advantage to its user sites by giving system information (core usage etc.) and some other things which are not supposed to be seen by browsers only to the websites starting with *.google.com ?

Yeah so using chrome based browsers like Arc is giving more power to Google to do shady stuff while also being a victim of the third party unsafe code.
> A corporation getting its way, irrespective of the democratic will of the people, or rather, those "insane NIMBYs". Corporatocracy truly is a beautiful thing.

Generally a NIMBY is anti-progress and very selfish, putting themselves ahead of everyone. My dad was called to help resolve TMI during the meltdown and was part of the engineering design group the the Beaver Valley nuclear power station. People were complaining they had cows dying of radiation years before the plant was completed. NIMBYs suck.
First off - plenty of people are against coal plants for health reasons in addition to the environmental reasons. There is nobody cheering coal and blocking nuclear (and please don't bring up the Germany decommissioning of nuclear plants and keeping open coal plants because it doesn't speak to what I just said). Secondly, Three Mile Island represents the path to a possible outcome. Just because disaster was averted doesn't mean that the thinking about safety shouldn't be focused on the worst case scenario instead of the one that actually happened.
So a marketplace kind of app? (if so, you now have to build two audiences!) Do they self host after the sale? (Friction for b2b side). Is it enterprise (eg high touch sales - leads to long sales cycles)? Pay per post?

At the end of the day, it comes down to marketing and sales. Marketing:

- Craft the messaging around the pain point you're solving
- word of mouth
- advertising (there are different kinds, not just cpc/google adwords: guest posts, external content sites/blogs/channels in your market/demographic, etc)
- organic search (content marketing - this takes time - AND you have to promote the channels you are publishing too)
- cold calling

I follow a fee for service financial adviser on YT and they have content marketing down: 2 videos every week and a newsletter. These channels show they understand the needs of their potential customers, demonstrate domain expertise, etc
My brother had a hip replacement in Paris this week. He booked the operation two weeks ago. His angiogram (required for the surgery) was performed 3 hours after his consultation with the surgeon. The clinic is considered the best one specializing in joint replacement surgery in all of France.

Total cost for surgery, follow-up, and 3 days in hospital (he lives in a French Overseas Department so he gets reimbursed): 18,000 Euros.
Any information on how much it cost to do this? There’s also no mention of how the data is being read, at least not by this source.
It's often queer stuff that gets called "ideology" by it's opponents so I'm guessing it's this

https://pythonafrica.blogspot.com/2023/12/an-open-letter-to-...

> We understand that the argument against support for DjangoCon Africa was that the host country, Tanzania, is not a safe place for the LGBTQIA+ community.

That's not as simple as "woke ideology" though. If you don't find the convention, Africa doesn't get a pycon. If you do fund it, you're funding something that excludes queer people.

Without knowing any details, I guess they should have been more eager to fund it. then at least some people would benefit
> it's just an artifact of having to appease Apple during WebGPUs development

To appease Google most likely. WebGPU is based on original work by Apple and Mozilla which based it on Metal.

I doubt Apple would be against whatever Metal uses for its shader language.
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They refuse to say who funds them.
But at ground level it seems to get less done, less well. Just look at the dreadful state of repair of the average British town compared to comparable French towns.