skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Says whom?

I do and given the practice is pretty common, it seems like most people would.

To be clear, the incentive is: you make more money when you can produce energy cheaper than everybody else.

> In the electricity world, this kind of pricing only makes sense for electricity produced from fossil fuel as the marginal cost represents most the underlying cost, but it makes zero sense for renewable or nuclear where the cost is swallowed upfront and close to zero afterwards.

Are capital costs not real underlying costs? If I borrow money from a bank I have to return that money plus interest. I would argue that this is a very real cost. Also, renewables do require maintenance. That is not as expensive as the ongoing cost of burning fossil fuel, but it’s still a cost
Yes, I understand I was "using the API wrong". That is true. But the point I was trying to make was that I have used the PostgreSQL API "wrong" or "worse" and my data has never been corrupted. With SQLite I tried to open an SQLite database several different times where I got an error when dropping a table. If I simply restarted with a clean copy of the file, the code worked perfectly { fix bug, replace copy, restart }. And to be clear this was not data - like the row had a 3 not 2 - this was that running "drop table" on an existing table failed. Internal stuff in the file got broken. It happens when a process crashes.

My point is NOT that users should not adopt SQLite, just the opposite. I have found that using SQL helps me build things much more easily. And better. It help s you think about your code more effectively.

My recent adoption of SQLite and using it in smaller, lighter situations has worked extremely well and I will keep on using it. But... my limited experience and comparison of the two products suggests that as you would expect given the Lite, there are some differences that have real life consequences.
Putting Bounties on My Goals
Can you build small, tiny apps that can be genuinely useful? Absolutely, and I recommend it to everyone. I've been having great fun creating small apps, such as chess variant that makes the pieces obey gravity.

That said, this is not software engineering. It's tinkering, it's fun, and it can get you a foot in the door when it comes to approaching real work, but it's no way to build a business. As soon as the context window is not enough, you run into so many problems everything comes to a standstill. I don't think the article makes this distinction in any meaningful way, and the narrative is very quickly forming to say that we simply don't need any coders, any junior developers. This is false, and furthermore, this is dangerous.

Can you replace a junior with LLM? Probably, juniors are often a drag and a net minus. Should you do that? Absolutely not! You need midlevels, you need seniors, and both of those do not just magically appear. They need to be grown, taught, nurtured. We'll see the ripples of today's shortsighted thinking eventually.
I buy alcohol, I'm age verified. The govt didn't need to build a big fancy age verification system for businesses to use, they only needed to fine businesses who sell alcohol to minors. The businesses will figure out how to be in compliance.
FYI I updated the visualization. Credit goes to @jacomyal from @ouestware on GitHub who helped me out.
One of the reasons the Grenfell Tower disaster was so bad, is you had about 130 apartments with about 650 people in them. Illegally sub-let by the official council tenant.
> In February, the Bank of England reported an ongoing productivity slump so mysterious that its own economists “cannot account fully” for it.

The UK has seen unprecedented mass immigration from outside the developed world over the last 25 years.

250,000/yr non-EU migrants in the 2000s, rising to 500,000/yr non-EU migrants by 2022.

In 2023, the UK had 1.2M arrivals, comprising 968,000 non-EU nationals. Illegal immigration (mostly by small boats over the English Channel) is running into the tens of thousands (and those are the ones we know about).

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

Some of the main source countries have low literacy rates (Pakistan 60%, Nigeria 62%, India 77%, Bangladesh 74%) so it is no surprise that economic productivity has taken a hit due to wage suppression and a growth in the labour supply at the entry level.

Obviously, Bank of England economists suffer from institutional cowardice preventing them from joining the dots, for fear of being branded xenophobic.

But the numbers don't lie.
It's just said that Apple seems to not care.
Just to add to this long list:

Open a link from an email on an iPhone or iPad, then go back to Mail by tapping on the top left corner. If you now delete an email, this email gets deleted but the view does not update to move to the next email. If you now hit delete again, you are deleting the next email without noticing it.
Compilation to small binaries has made great progress:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1006117/

It’s not always clear what is meant by “system programming”. I’ve begun writing utility scripts in Julia; it’s practical now because the startup time is vastly improved. These can be run like bash scripts, with a shebang line that invokes Julia with the desired environment (using the --project flag).
I have Sonos and they work perfectly, I love them. If you think Sonos is bad (recent app update included) go look at the HomePod subreddit, it is basically non stop issues. Having said that, I use Airplay a bunch and it is fine for me. I have had problems with Airplay in the past that were 100% solved by checking and improving wifi signal strength.
Man I just got a mini-itx case and use a full-blown windows desktop next to my TV. Bought a "fly-mouse" (wireless mouse that works with gyroscope), set screen DPI to 200%.

One thing I didn't expect is that my family ends up using the TV quite a lot for planning stuff, like doing google sheets, planning trips on google maps, booking planes/restaurants/concerts/etc. We have a small normal wireless mouse and keyboard for such occasions.

No regrets, open platform > closed junk. Can also play steam games on TV. Can't wait until Steam OS works well on desktop so I can ditch windows too. If you only care about media and not gaming you can get a case small enough that can fit hidden away in a cabinet.
Does "nuclear weapons" attach to the first half of the or in section 4? Seems they wrote it poorly...

"victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used"

You are also engaged in some sophistry, where you are acting as if the hypothetical obligation you are discussing is the only possible obligation. Selling aging weapons stock is pretty clearly assistance, and it isn't exactly boots on the ground.
Legally (according to their constitution) USSR was also a democracy. But that hardly meant much in practice. Of course the Chinese society is probably much "freer" than than the Soviet one was prior to Gorbachev's reforms but again.. an extremely low standard.
I've actually done the same thing with modeling my car at different speeds! I used linear regression though haha. I have the same car too!What a coincidence. Time to compare homework!
Land ownership really makes no sense if you think about it.

It’s the absolutely most valuable thing in the world. It increases in value constantly due to finite supply.

Yet you are allowed to buy it for a one time cost and own it FOREVER.

And there’s zero cost to owning it. Only upside of charging rent.

All the taxes we pay are for buying land or earning money. If you just already own everything, you pay nothing at all.
"Wear" is exactly right; most toasters have a pretty crude design involving hot glowing wires, springs and an electromagnet that jolts the whole thing pretty violently when it's finished. Just the glowing wires will fail after a while, even if you make them extra thick.

(That said we have a basic model secondhand toaster that gets used multiple times a week for the past six years and it's still fine... although some of the glow wires don't work).
The term is 'sane-washing'. The media, even the big media companies so often claimed to be left-leaning, do this. And I think its because the right is just so good at crying victim, that when a news organization just reports what they say, they shout that its an unfair portrayal and fake news. It has been remarkably effective.
Senior devs generally know how code works, and all senior devs started as juniors. I think the difference is that every annoying/stupid issue turned into a lesson. Now it's one message to ChatGPT and then forgotten about.
Doge wants to charge one federal agency millions of dollars for its work
The problem with your argument is that in current times it is much more likely that China acts rationally than the US does.

A better argument would be that when China has "good enough" chips then they don't care about chip production in Taiwan. They will only care about sea access. So if Taiwan ends up as completely destroyed rock, then that is ok for China. They will see it as a much better result than other parts of China breaking away and becoming independent.
Lucky then, that immigrants don't age. Otherwise you'd be turning your country into one hell of a demographic Ponzi Scheme...
China spans couple of timezones, Italy is a boot.
The major point here is that nuclear is controllable energy type while solar is not. So comparing only the price is apples to oranges comparison. Most human energy consumers need energy with a fixed rate and all physical metrics withing a tight margin. To prouduce that with only solar energy is impossible.

This means you have to build other energy sources into the grid like gas turbines to be able to control the grid. So if you really want to compare energy prices than you have to look into the TCO.

https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/11q58pe/price_trend...
The incompleteness theorem is plausibly applicable to human reasoning. How do you prove "this sentence is false"?
Oh! That's nuanced! I was just thinking that what we call non-zero sum thinking today is the basis of both capitalism and socialism. [1]
So if you reject it, I thought you must have some really interesting alternate economic theory you adhere to.

That said, do you think it's more likely that every single interaction between humans would be an exact -1/+1 value exchange, or do you think it'd be a bit more messy like -0.45/+1.213 . If the latter, couldn't -1.1/-4.5 or +2.43/+3.14159 also be possible exchanges?

[1] both capitalism and socialism (despite their many differences) share the premise that economic organization can create more value than would exist without it. They differ primarily on how that value should be distributed and who should control the means of production, not on whether value creation itself is possible.
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Tools/languages/applications - Java (J2EE) - Servlets, JSP, JDBC, EJB, JSF (Java Server Faces) , Java 8, Java 11, JavaMail, Core Java, Junit, ANT, Jdk, Maven, log4j, SQL, T-SQL, PL/SQL, stored procedures, data structures, algorithms, cron jobs, Quartz, HTML, HTML5, XML, XSD, DTD, REST, SOAP, SOAP UI, Web Services (SOA), WSDL, CXF, Axis, Jersey, XPath, XSLT, iText, iTextSharp, AJAX, VoIP, SIP, JavaScript, EXT JS, CSS, CSS3, Object oriented programming, Data Structures , Collections, Common Algorithms, Optimizeit, javadoc, Popchart Java, VtigerCRM, Smarty, jQuery, JQuery UI, phpMyAdmin, ASP.NET, .NET, Visual Studio.Net IDE, NetBeans, Eclipse, VJ++, VSS, GIT, SVN/Subversion, Dreamweaver, TOAD, Winmerge, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Mantis, Java on Android, Android SDK, AVD Manager, Android Emulator, Android Debug Bridge, Spring Boot, Spring REST/JSON webservices, API design and development, monolithic and microservices architectures, Spring JMS, Spring Zuul API gateway, Struts, EJB, Hibernate, Wireshark, Apache Camel, OSB, UC4, Clearcase, Splunk, Crucible, JMS, VB script, bash script, Python(beginner) Active MQ. MQSeries/WebSphere MQ/IBM, Kafka, CI/CD, Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy, QuickBuild, Sonar Qube. Checkmarx, Fortify, Apache JMeter, Mulesoft API Designer, Swagger, OAuth 2.0/Okta/Jwt, LINQ, DHTML, XHTML, ASP, PHP, C#, Windows Forms, Crystal Reports, VB6, ActionScript, Flash, Camunda Modeler, Camunda Engine, Work Flow Engine, BPMN,

Databases – Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgres, MS Access, SQLite, NoSQL/Mongo

O.S – Primarily Windows and rest Unix (AIX, Solaris, HP) and Linux (Centos / Servers and Android)

Cloud - Kubernetes, AWS( EC2, EBS,S3, RDS, lambda etc.) Google Cloud (Data Store, Storage Bucket, Pub/Sub) Docker

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This happens to me if external monitors are connected. It was way worse last year when I literally had to wair for the monitor to "light up", and after a recent update the situation got better but it's still there if I type fast without "waiting" for the external monitors.
I used to spend quite a bit of time in the US. Left the day after Trump was elected the first time. No plans to go there again until sanity returns.
> Only a Fuscia first editor would do this.

The difference is in that every single one of those other operating systems, applications just have network access. By default. No capability needed. This would not be the case in an OS centered around capabilities.

Multi-platform software develops integration with local OS APIs all the time.

Like I said, your thinking is way too black and white. Your inability to see a different world doesn’t make one impossible to exist. What is even the point of thinking this way? Your entire mindset boils down to “nothing can ever be better”.
That wouldn't be ideal for FAANGs, but good for Europe.
The root cause of there not being enough homes is our failure to build enough homes, decade after decade.

France has over 4 million more homes available than the UK, as stated in the report linked in TFA.

> With almost identical population sizes, the UK has under 30 million homes, while France has around 37 million. 800,000 British families have second homes compared to 3.4 million French families.
> you have to be completely self sustainable when the need arises

The last few days have also laid bare that there is no sovereignty without nuclear weapons. A civil nuclear fleet is a stepping stone to nuclear weapons stewardship.

(Even absent nuclear weapons, see the special treatment of Zaporizhzhia [1] over Ukraine’s other power infrastructure.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_P...
Building 2 NextJS websites at the price of 1, by hacking the dark/light mode
The most strange thing is that no one pays apple to put all the crap on the dock by default. At least HP gets money for bloatware.
The problem with nuclear in Italy is just one: how many time have you read about a public bridge fallen because of bad construction? Same for roads, houses and so on. Most of the time the reason is the company building those, trying to spend less in materials and avoiding regulations - something unfortunately not so unusual in Italy.

So imagine what could happen with a nuclear plant...
(nuclear is safe, building in Italy is often not)
The greatest housebuilding period was in the inter-war years, mostly driven by private development. This collapsed after the war with the creation of the post-war planning system that tightly rationed land.
fasm is indeed great. It has many features, it can do all the code size optimizations, it even knows the sizes of variables (e.g. `mov myvar, 5` depends on `myvar db 0` vs `myvar dw 0`). NASM and fasm syntax are quite similar.

NASM supports more output file formats (i.e. .o files for many systems), and it can receive macro definitions from the command line (e.g. `nasm -DDEBUG`).
A website isn't comparable to a physical storefront. What an absolute boomer thing to suggest.

What tech discipline are you in? Policy? Because I have serious doubts you have any technical experience.

A website is mediated by computers. Computers make copies of information that is sent to them because that is how computers work.

Tech companies also like to collect and sell personal information.

What do you think will happen with records of people's fetishes in the hands of companies that like to sell personal information?
For any energy intensive industry there is always the option to build new wind and solar for relatively cheap. But labor is cheaper and less regulated in the US and we make it easy to hire skilled immigrants. Having a pro-coal president probably doesn't hurt (but having an anti-wind president might).

I think the bigger reasons are the security and trade issues. The US has embraced protectionism and is withdrawing from security obligations, yet Taiwan requires both US trade and US security guarantees to survive. Unlike with Ukraine, no other powers look capable of filling those roles if Trump keeps pursuing his America First agenda.
Relevant excerpt:

[Ben Buchanan]: A canonical definition of A.G.I. is a system capable of doing almost any cognitive task a human can do. I don’t know that we’ll quite see that in the next four years or so, but I do think we’ll see something like that, where the breadth of the system is remarkable but also its depth, its capacity to, in some cases, exceed human capabilities, regardless of the cognitive discipline —

[Ezra Klein]: Systems that can replace human beings in cognitively demanding jobs.

[Steve]: Yes, or key parts of cognitive jobs. Yes.

The interview was really interesting, and it's very revealing to see what's in the head of somebody advising on the future policy. That said, most policy-making actors have some kind of stake in the results. That should probably be kept in mind when looking at the narrative that's coming out.
Geothermal energy is already exploited in italy. About 1/3rd of Tuscany energy production happens thanks to geothermal, which is also used for heating purposes [1]

There are also new plants in the making [2]

Being tuscanian, I visited the museum or geothermal energy in larderello once, the area of larderello is quite uncanny, in some parts the ground is literally fuming steam. There's also a smell of rotten eggs lol

https://www.enelgreenpower.com/stories/articles/2024/10/geot...

https://www.lanazione.it/cronaca/geotermia-patto-regione-ene...
By your logic, Apple would never get bad press. And neither would any other brand, since all of them have fans. Both of which are obviously and provably false.
That's not poor.

There are homeless people.

People who are barely able to rent a room in a crack house.

You are NOT POOR if you own a single family house in Englewood. End of discussion. Sorry.

Sell your house and live off the annuity for life at > median income after taxes in perpetuity. If you don't, there is literally no excuse for your situation other than your own choosing.

What's different here - that is critical - the actual poor HAVE NO CHOICES.
Brexit.

Making trading slightly harder with 27 non-English speaking countries in a stagnating political experiment (roughly 30-50th percentile of worldwide GDP growth rates)

Making trading easier with 168 other countries, many of them English-speaking nations, and who comprise the largest and most dynamic economies on Earth.
So the plan is to burn all of our current allies who joined us under a framework we devised largely for our own benefit so that we could maybe gain the favor of someone who is even less trustworthy and reliable than we are at this point against China? You really think this is smart? Trump is delivering the Russians their number 1 strategic goal since World War 2 by destroying NATO and trading this for seemingly nothing, which at this point again raises serious questions about what his actual motivations are with regard to his otherwise unexplainable deference to Putin and Russia in all things.
That chart used is very low information dense, reducing cars to "electric" and "non-electric", but that's an oversimplification. There's hybrids and plug-in hybrids like you said, hydrogen, pressured air (ok that one never took off), and of course different types of fuel like petrol, diesel and LPG.
I'm a foreigner in Europe and my assumption is that people don't live in a country based on what the President or Federal government decides...

But what kind of life they have there.

If it gets much worse and start to affect them personally or the people they know (like a new Nazi regime), it's obvious that they will go back to where they live.

But if its stays the same way for themselves, they will continue living in America.

Life happens in the local level, not in the federal level.
I think people didn’t want to believe it when they blamed DEI for the helicopter crash.

The algebra looks like this:

Privatize FAA = x + y

Where x is any discovery or event related to the FAA, and where y is any red meat justification (dei|immigration|trans).

There are many such equations:

Strategic bitcoin reserve = x + y.

Long two years, just going to leave this here. They will always find x and y to complete their equations:

https://www.cato.org/commentary/privatize-faa
Having just bought a hybrid minivan, there are few choices and high demand but low supply. ICE only vehicles are in ready supply at all our local dealerships.
And if more federal employees quit because of the poor conditions, it’s just more people they don’t have to worry about laying off.
Then, as duly, you ask "what is under scrutiny and test wrong with the draft proposal, and fix and improve, iteratively"... There are a number of clear weaknesses in the above post already.

Repeat: there is a whole academic discipline about optimal voting. But it must become a real concern...
MoonBit [0]

It's still being developed but on man the language is good.

You read its documentation and pretty much every-single-thing is right decision (from my PoV).

Beautiful language if you like OCaml, Rust. Primary target is wasm, but compiles to native as well.

[0] https://www.moonbitlang.com/
Most people do not understand this and think that we can reall talk about nuclear vs solar when we really need to talk about an energy mix where you pick one point (for example you pick nuclear or solar) and the rest depends on this choice.

Than you can calculate the price.
Does that mean he gets a link to access all the classified data, from home?

Kash: I'm working from home, I need to access these databases.

FBI: They are highly classified and sensitive, you can only access them from the office because they are on an air-gapped system.

Kash: Connect it to the internet so I can access it from home.
>Isn’t this a pretty much solved problem though? Just add a battery to your house?

In winter the days are short, the sky can be covered in clouds for an entire week, the solar panels can be covered in snow also.
I have solar panels but I do not have a way to export my data to show you the summer vs winter GIANT difference.

So people like me with solar need the other people in the area not to all go for solar, then we will need to find a way to burn the excess. Is the same with a country, we can't store the energy from summer for winter and also resist for say 2 weeks of snow and clouds. The EU market might be so in demand that the rich countries will bid for the energy and the poor will have to burn their things to survive.

I am wondering if it would happen that with so many solar roofs we will either have to pay for people to use my energy or I will need to actually throw the excess in the ground safely somehow.