skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so much green energy policies per se as the incoherency of banning onshore wind, due to .. NIMBY planning objections. And objections to the construction of pylons. And objections to the construction of new nuclear. And objections to the construction of batteries. And offshore electricity links.

The UK's energy crisis and its BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone) planning system are very linked.

(credit to the Economist some years ago for that acronym)
Putin's capacity to wage war is by no means unlimited. This war has the potential to bankrupt Russia (just look at its 21% key rate) and the US already has experience in pushing an adversary to collapse.
> ‘I think it's a matter of two or three days,’ - Michal Gramatyka, Ministry of Digital Affairs deputy, said in RMF FM's Morning Conversation, referring to the recovery of the POLSA' system after the hacking attack. The politician mentioned the ‘eastern vector’, signalling that the hacking attack occurred from the east. ‘Most cyber-attacks are attacks directed from Russia or China,’ - he added.

And it's worth mentioning that attacks occurred few days after the Falcon 9 rocket debris crashed in Poland in the end of February. Ministry of Defense stated back then that it has not been informed of this debris situation by the Polish Space Agency. We don't have procedures for dealing with such situations because this is literally something new and unexpected - nobody thought that commercial rockets parts will be falling into our fields. It's possible that adversary or adversaries were looking for the weak spot in the infrastructure and they found it watching our news.
Yeah, it’s been a while:

- Music (the app, not the service): almost unusable UI/UX, sync problems, two search fields, etc.

- Calendar is confusing, glitchy UI.

- Mail is a disaster… even the simple search filter doesn’t deliver as expected.

- Safari “Inspector”: will swallow async errors, unusable for development.

- Control panel: messy, ugly and slow.

- Spotlight: was good, doesn’t work so well anymore (web results, why?).

- Finder: visual glitches, extremely slow in some contexts (file list doesn't update).

- (pre installed) tools and commands slowly disappearing from Terminal/Shell

In general all the nice little touches and the refined experience are gone…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner

worth reading in full
You are assuming that stopping the aid will stop the war. It won't, not soon at least.

Unless one of the two party wins the war, the way a peace agreement is reached is for both parties to consider it a better outcome than continuing the war, which means that the quickest way to reach is to make it harder for both countries to continue the war, and more palatable the result of an agreement.

This is not what Trump is doing. He is not doing harder for Russia to continue the war, in fact it is going to make it easier. He is not going to make the peace agreement more palatable for Ukraine, in fact it made it even harsher.

In other words, Trump is not looking for a "deal" is looking for a capitulation of Ukraine, and to offer it to Putin, probably behind some agreement.

Ukrainian people are not going to like the idea, so they will not surrender soon. Putin will see this as a victory, so he will not stop there (he is trying to get US troops out of Eastern Europe, and I am sure Trump will obey), so any "peace" will be short-lasting. Eastern Europe countries already see this, so they will not stop helping Ukraine because the US did.
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I looked this up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_centre#Global_Financ... ) and I think you have got things wrong.
I just wanted to extend what you said, and give a real world example to support you. I didn't think you mock the OP either.

Who knows, maybe longer docs reduce misunderstanding, like how error correction reduces problems as the information moves through mediums. :)
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Same in Germany. Farmers (most conservative population group) love renewable energy. Every farmer I know tries to get wind turbines build on their land and have their roofs packed with PV. Yet the conservative parties are the biggest blockers for the energy transition.
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thanks, i didn't know how to respond to this as i never diff or use patch, but i know what they look like (@22,8 -/+ sort or whatever), and aider was outputting the green and red lines inverse video the same way github looks. It's a reasonable facsimile of "diff output", but i shouldn't have asserted it was diff output.
Could be... or readable by who, who do not know these languages at all? :P
"completely different" and "utterly irrelevant" are not the same thing. They also aren't completely different. They have things in common (killing and harming birds).

You're trying to turn "I don't care about that" into "it's logically incorrect to care about that" which is not a game you can win.
What you mean like hong Kong? That humiliation pales in comparison to the damage done domestically as taiwan's defenses would necessitate a gross loss of life. Then consider the diplomatic posture of every major economy on the China sea.
We're thinking of switching to an EV, and we're basically one of the anti-examples that people like to use. Central Europe (Prague), we live in an apartment, we park our one and only car on the street, no street charging options anywhere. I don't commute to work daily and my neither my nor my wife's workplace has chargers.

But it turns out that the Lidl that we go to has a charger, there are like 10 chargers on the 110 km trip to our families (and they both live in houses with driveways, so "granny charging" is available). Our last two holiday stays were in hotels that had chargers.

Just looking at the options, it doesn't seem like range will be a factor at all. And we're actually looking at cheap cars with 50 kWh batteries, not even the current high end.
It is very strange to see a grayed out comment on top of a thread that has about 160 non-grayed out comments. I thought that highest rated comments go to the top and grayed out comments are rated below zero.

Regarding your points. First the thing about used evs not selling has more to do with the rapid pace of innovation of evs rather than lack of demand. In the 90s it was very difficult to sell a used PC because PCs improved so quickly. That did not mean that PCs were not doing well, in fact PC sales were growing exponentially. And evs do improve fast.

Your second point is silly. Basically you are saying that EVs are doomed because EVs are already selling too much. Thats like the old joke that nobody goes to this restaurant anymore because it is too crowded.

Your third point is about rising electricity costs. That sucks for sure, but electricity costs tend to rise together with gasoline costs. It will be very difficult for those two to diverge so that a gas car all of a sudden becomes more economical. The fact that one can make electricity out of oil and oil products tends to mean that electricity costs will not rise very much in comparison to gasoline costs in a short period of time.
Because their argument, in which they do have faith, is that a cacophony of disagreeing viewpoints casting doubts on the common national project is hurtful, even if those doubts are unfounded and those viewpoints unsubstantiated.

I'm not defending autoritarianism or communism, but I think you're just not putting yourself in their shoes and looking at things from their POV. They supress other viewpoints not because they're afraid to be shown wrong, but because they believe it's best to supress them and not have people confused by enemy missinformation.

(Not an expert, but this is my impression from talking to both chinese and vietnamese people who defend or at least don't oppose their communist governments, and also spanish autoritarians who defend the Francoist regime. I used to think they were brainwashed/dumb/evil, and now I think their worldview makes a bit of sense, even if it's still misguided.)
I'm not saying they're selling all data put into the browser, I'm saying they're selling user data, and they were doing so when they were claiming they never sold user data. They (charitably) seem to have convinced themselves that what they were doing was not 'selling' (in a similar way to google 'not selling your data' because they don't just make it available wholesale, they only sell the processed results indirectly through their ad business), but California's new privacy laws makes it obvious they should be calling it 'selling'. They've obvious cocked up the communication of this fact, partly with an overly broad update to their ToS, but even with this walking back they should apologise for misinforming people on this page before.
"These problems are obvious to many British politicians. Leaders in the Conservative and Labour Parties often comment on expensive energy and scarce housing. But their goals haven’t been translated into priorities and policies that lead to growth."

I can't find this mentioned anywhere in the article, but the current imbalance of supply and demand and the resulting high prices is quite beneficial for parts of the real estate lobby which don't focus on building houses but on maximizing value from existing properties.

Approximately one in five Members of UK Parliament are landlords or have investments in the property market.

So while the article is advocating for the removal of "barriers that stop the private sector from doing what it already wants to do", it seems to be blissfully unaware of the powerful forces outside and likely WITHIN the political parties that rather prefer to maintain this imbalance...
Great read on bias in the hiring process
The difference is that China is on Trump's enemy list, whereas he considers Russia's oligarchs to be potential business partners for his own oligarchy. Trump wants trade barriers to China but wants those with Russia to be removed.
Have you seen Russia's laptops?

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16827/russia-to-build-riscv-p...
That they cannot be bugs definitely does not follow. One look at Windows tray icons, monitor recognition, sound volume management, and many other things will tell you that much. Broken since forever. So definitely big companies and tech giants can keep bugs in there for many years. Also note the bugs on iOS described by someone else here in this thread.
It is, but also read the discussion. The initial report keeps cropping up in places where folks hope nobody notices how slanted it was.
My hit game has been ripped off more than 50 times in less than a week
My web game 368 chickens went viral last week with over 500k unique players.

I've now found over 50 websites that have already directly ripped off my code or reskinned the game.

Some of them have just directly copy and pasted my code with some minor design changes whilst others are just embedding my original version in an iframe and running ads in front of it.

As my site is new these alternatives are also ranking before me in Google.

Is there anything I can do about this?
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Notes is so bad. Often copy and paste just breaks. It will copy some string of characters from a different part of the note than you selected, until you restart.

Reminders too. For at least 5 years, creating multiple reminders in a certain order will not create multiple reminders, and will just append the text to the end of the first one. Surprise — hope you didn’t set any important reminders in that batch!

And the great thing about their standardization between iOS and macOS code means the exact same bugs exist in both versions. Yay.
What is vibe coding? I can sense what it could mean, but I'm not sure.
This reminds me of a Dutch song that was fairly popular in the '90s (loosely translated):

And a child prodigy at forty,
That is a sorry case.
Who could have been so much, yet
Will never leave a trace.

(The song is based on the life of the poet Halbo C. Kool. Dutch lyrics here: https://genius.com/Boudewijn-de-groot-een-wonderkind-van-50-... )
I think many people believe this is an absolute bubble

I wonder why. I've never came across a product that changed the way I work and get information for the better as fast as LLMs.
> At some point people know if you don't care about them. If you cannot care about them why would they "follow you into battle?"

That's true, but it also works both ways.

If the "problem" person is impacting others on your team, you owe it to them to address rather than ignore the issue. After all, why would _they_ follow you into the trenches if you've shown that you don't care enough to deal with an issue that they're saying is making their lives difficult.

(Good) management is about striking a balance - between the business's needs (otherwise you're all out of a job anyway) and the welfare of everyone on the team (which IMO, should always benefit from a bit of priority over the other).

Sometimes that does mean making a hard decision about someone who's very technically capable, but damages the wellbeing or efficiency of the rest of the team.

As an extreme example - I once worked with someone who was a pretty good engineer and knew where a lot of the bodies were buried in the codebase (i.e. keeping him around would be beneficial), but one day he started regularly talking, quite inappropriately about schoolgirls in the team skype group (and even defended doing so). Good engineer or not, sometimes things have to change.

All of that being said, I think the article is too hardline, at least if those are intended to be the opening gambit. There's a ton of people engineering that you can do before you need to reach the point of making it sound like a PIP.
Tell me to fuck off.
Why? This is what the American people voted for. And it's not any more radical than what the otherside has been doing the past four years.
I've been getting around on acoustic bikes for 35 years. 7 of them have been stolen in that time, yet still I've saved tens of thousands of dollars relative to the cost of relying on public transit, and hundreds of thousands of dollars relative to the cost of buying and operating a motor vehicle.
I agree it’s a huge disgrace and half of the US is living in a fantasy land. However polls show that Americans don’t like Putin. A poll two weeks ago[0] actually showed 81% of Americans do not trust Putin. Finding 81% agreement about anything is hard.

This is something that is unique to the administration and those who deeply agree with what it’s done.

Not that it matters… clearly people don’t care enough to vote for it. My heart goes out to the people of Ukraine.

0: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5153611-quinnipiac-...
Tyranny of the majority is not democracy
Good point. I'm not really interested in farming animals, I really don't know enough about it. In the Netherlands we still slaughter little under a million of them per year, on a populations of circa 17 million that should still mean they are worth something.

But maybe grazing isn't worth anything at all and its only cost-effective if you put them in a big box and feed them grains or something. I don't know.
I don't understand this sort of response. The context is the average person. What do you mean in that context?
I remember discussing docs length with some seasoned technical writers (TW) when I was a junior TW. I believe I was expressing doubt in the idea that we should always aim for short docs. They of course had a wise and pithy summary of the correct (IMO) course of action: make docs as short as possible, and no less.

Sometimes you have a meaty topic that takes many words to cover comprehensively and accurately. Don't beat yourself up over it. Providing full and complete information is usually more important than some arbitrary limit on length.

With that said, it's also a fundamental truth that there almost always ways to make your docs more concise without a loss in information. And in general this is worth doing because it really does improve the odds that people will read the docs.

The article's prescription to use short, self-contained pages that link extensively to each other is right out of the playbook of my favorite TW book ever: Every Page Is Page One (don't judge this book by its cover, literally)

I would have liked to see the article focus on more of the SEO and LLM arguments for short docs, which I think are compelling. Short docs basically give you that Stack-Overflow-style SEO boost, because the main content is tightly relevant to the page title. Small docs are easier to embed, and probably easier to do automated updates on with text generation models.
Electing Trump twice makes Brexit look relatively wise.
Well, "break on exceptions" can be very powerful when used correctly, i.e. when the scope is narrowed down. It should never be a flag that is turned on all the time -- that's guaranteed misery there.

> quickly work your way to the first err != nil while debugging

I doubt you'll spend any less time debugging in Go. If you disagree, I'd love to see a "side-by-side" comparison for code that's functionally the same but written in both Go and JS, and see some explanations why it's easier in Go
We should have a rule/button for rejecting links that talk about technology, but don't contain any technical details at all. For all that I know these guys could have just trained some logistic regression that is surprisingly useful in aligning the fragments. Or maybe their system is some transformer that is larger than GPT-3. Or maybe it computes directly on the DNA sequences using some custom exotic enzymes that contain convolutional layers. Who knows?
Agree. It's funny how the internet gang reinvented the summary by calling it tldr. But on the other hand tldr is often like a summary of the summary.

Having a good summary at the top at least doubles the usefulness of your document
Was this also your response to the forced social reforms including government-mandated racism and sexism pushed by the previous administration?
> Approximately one in five Members of UK Parliament are landlords or have investments in the property market.

Ah, the class-based society.
Why on earth would you want to keep serving requests you can't log?! That makes about as much sense as serving empty pages when your DB/file storage with site contents goes away.
You are right, the stdlib is not the highest priority right now. There are major improvements coming in 0.14 though. The new default allocator for example. I think the problem you describe can be solved by having more contributors focussing on the standard library. With the compiler, there are bottlenecks which make onboarding new people hard. This is a smaller problem in stdlib.
Or get rid of parking lots and build other infrastructure. Solar roofing is quite expensive and it is also much easier to do on an existing building which requires less investment.(Thus is done first). I've seen some happen but only as trail-by-subsidization or because the owner didn't care about the cost.
Need to ban propaganda that benefits our enemies on social media, news, etc.
Close, think more northern.
> Which is fine if resources were infinite or distribution was equal, but neither are true and the private sector will not safe guard the public sphere of the environment.

On top of that there is a part of the private sector which currently benefits tremendously from the imbalance of supply and demand.

Approximately one in five Members of UK Parliament are landlords or have investments in the property market.

So a part of the private sector is ALREADY "doing what it wants to do", and surely supports the political direction in its favor.
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What if football championships were lineal?
Unofficial National Football Championships was born to answer a simple question: who would be the reigning national champion if football worked with a title-based challenge system?

Inspired by UFWC, which determines the unofficial world champion, I wondered if the same concept could be applied to national leagues. The idea is straightforward: starting from the first official league match and considering only official games with clear participation rules, whoever defeats the reigning champion claims the title and must defend it in future matches.

However, implementing this system turned out to be much more challenging. Initially, I manually reconstructed the sequence of title matches in a spreadsheet, thinking it was just a fun project to share with friends. Then, I stumbled upon a post on r/Italy from another user who had done the same research. Comparing our data, I realized I had overlooked title defenses and needed a more structured approach.

The real turning point came when I had the opportunity—both professionally and personally—to explore new technologies and apply them to a concrete project. I transferred the records to a relational database and built an initial web interface, featuring dedicated pages for teams, matches, and an interactive timeline of "title reigns."

After months of work, I refined the site and integrated a tool that automatically retrieves match data from online sources. To make things even more engaging, I added achievements for teams based on unique statistics. For example, Como, the most recent champion, earned the "Sleeping Giant" badge (for the third time in its history) after reclaiming the title against Napoli following a 10+ year drought (23 years and 32 days, to be exact).

If you're a football nerd and a stats enthusiast like me, check it out! Which league would you like to see next? I’ve already planned the English Premier League, but I’m open to suggestions!
I am not saying it's a solution to your housing but a solution not to get hurt or potentially "killed". I don't have a solution to any of them. I am just saying if you really believe your life/safety is at risk, you should move now regardless.
> How would you bock China's access to the sea along it's 14000 km coastline?

With missiles and submarines presumably.

> That woulde be a heck of a blockade, with or without Taiwan.

Of course, due to China's military build up around the sea. Due to their being afraid of said blockade. The one they want Taiwan and other disputed islands to help counter.
It's funny that you mention IPSec, since that would have made most of the application-level encryption we see today obsolete. They did have good intentions, and if it was widely accepted, it would have meant that barely any applications would have had to deal with the details of encryption, including the ever-looming possibility of doing it wrong (doing encryption right is hard!).

Now we have a slew of protocols that either implement TLS, or roll their own custom thing, or have X-over-HTTPS protocols, including SSTP and DoH.
It's easy to be a hero behind a keyboard.
AFAIK Fushia stay specific to Google HW in front of Linux that is thinked to works for all.
Irish police used newly updated Cellebrite system to bypass security on murder suspect's locked phone. Suspect immediately changed plea to guilty.

Irish government has banned purchases of military equipment from Israel, but the ban doesn't extend to purchases by the police force.
A business is a legal construct for organizing work, it's nothing more. And that's always present. You can't tell your boss that he should have known you weren't going to do the task you were asked to, because you rolled your eyes in the meeting. If you didn't communicate it verbally or in writing, then you haven't communicated it at all.