<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Brakenshire</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Brakenshire</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:27:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Brakenshire" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Tell HN: The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The AT protocol I was looking at the other day has a concept of choosing your own algorithm to aggregate content. I think that’s an important option in order for a dominant platform to be useful to society.<p>I think the submission is exactly wrong, the culture of an online space is heavily linked to the technology of the platform, interlinked with its business model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:18:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33423335</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33423335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33423335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be much more useful to search using the “people you follow” filter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:49:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399138</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399138</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33399138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most popular with the membership but too radical for the MPs. It’s the same as Corbyn with Labour members and MPs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:37:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020439</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The members weren’t allowed to choose Badenoch, she was eliminated at an early stage by the MP vote, probably because she was too radical and lacked ministerial experience.<p>Rishi Sunak was claiming to be resident in the US while Chancellor of the Exchequer, while his wife was claiming non dom status to avoid paying tax. He was also hated by the supporters of the previous PM because he wielded the knife.<p>It’s not a shock that elections are not won on competence.</p>
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<p>The most popular candidate with the party members was Kemi Badenoch, a black woman, so it doesn’t seem credible that people voted against Rishi Sunak mostly because of race.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:41:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018740</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rishi Sunak was claiming to be resident in the US while Chancellor of the Exchequer, while his wife was claiming non dom status to avoid paying tax. He was also hated by the supporters of the previous PM because he wielded the knife.<p>Also, the most popular candidate with the Conservative membership was Kemi Badenoch, who is black, but far more radical than Rishi Sunak, who was forced to defend Treasury orthodoxy.<p>I’m not convinced it has much to do with race.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:31:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018678</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Ask HN: What Is Happening in the UK?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, at a moment of inflation, they announce significant tax cuts which will have a big inflationary impact. The Bank of England was already behind on interest rate rises, and now the government is relying on them to not only counter global trends (high rates in the US causing devaluations basically everywhere), and also the inflationary effect of energy cost increases, but also extra inflationary tax cuts. That will force rates high (apparently the market is pricing in an increase to 5%), which will then cause big reductions in housing, and negative equity.<p>The thing I am confused about is why this happened at the announcement. The big measures had already been announced, an energy price cap (£60bn or more depending on wholesale gas costs), and reversal of planned tax increases in National Insurance and Corporation tax (about £40bn). The additional unannounced tax cuts were small (for instance the cut in top rate tax was £2bn). So it seems that most of the drop should have happened before.<p>Apparently the PM wanted the announcement to feel radical to distance her from the previous government, so maybe the markets were responding to the feeling of the announcement, and the implication of future radical ideological action, as much as the numbers.</p>
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<p>I think that tax credit withdrawal still exists, so now the effective tax rate is 40% from £50k to £100k, then 60% from £100k to £125k, and 40% above that.<p>Also, despite 10% inflation they’ve frozen the tax bands, so all workers earning above about £12k will have more of their income pulled into higher tax bands.<p>So they’re left with that artificially high rate which blocks progression, and most workers up to about £150k will pay more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:59:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018410</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33018410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Researchers: World can reach 100% renewable energy system by/before 2050"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi, are there Jacobson papers for 100% renewables looking at geographical distribution of generation, storage and interconnectors, then modelling them against weather and demand, or are they cruder than that? If those papers exist, can you recommend an accessible way to understand these models, and their outcomes? For instance, are there areas for wind generation which are more valuable that others, to provide a balance to regional lulls, and is that data published?<p>Is model code available so that it can be run by any of us?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2022 14:35:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32450290</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32450290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32450290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Researchers: World can reach 100% renewable energy system by/before 2050"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wind has higher average output in winter and at night, but even in winter and at night, it has lulls which last for many days. Look at the wind and solar generation numbers for Germany for a month last winter:<p><a href="https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&stacking=stacked_absolute_area&interval=month&month=01" rel="nofollow">https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...</a><p>If you connect wind production across regions the lulls can be averaged out, but I want to know how reliable that is and what distances are required.</p>
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<p>Has anyone seen any good explanations or visualisations of how long term storage would be achieved? For instance in Britain solar in winter has 1/10th of the output in summer, and we can have lulls in wind output for many days at a time. Using these resources to reduce gas use makes sense, but our current plans call for about 30% of electricity generated from gas using carbon capture and storage. How would this be handled under a 100% renewable scenario? Is it just generating Hydrogen?<p>Or it is that these intermittency gaps can be closed using long distance connectors? Has anyone done studies showing exactly where resources would need to be located and the length of connectors, modelled against weather and demand patterns?</p>
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<p>Thanks for both answers, I use Calibre, so that’s the reason why I’m getting that.</p>
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<p>From someone reading with a Kobo device:<p>* Have you considered putting the books onto the official store? It would make it much smoother to get books on the device. You could charge a small fee to pay for the effort, I’d pay the extra to support the project and avoid the hassle of doing an upload. I just saw above you now do bulk downloads, which will help also.<p>* Although your covers are beautiful, they only appear in a small corner of the screen for the Kobo devices I’ve used, even using the Kepub format, is that a known issue?<p>And also to thank you for the effort. This project plays a really important role and has been a source of pleasure for many of my friends and family.</p>
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<p>Does Linux work well on those M chip Apple laptops?</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.notebookcheck.net/" rel="nofollow">https://www.notebookcheck.net/</a> also seems to do a lot of their own testing.</p>
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<p>How do you build your intuition about creating queries in a way to avoid this?<p>Is it a matter of having a conceptual model of relational algebra and the way the different db engines work, or is it more an accumulation of heuristics over time for what probably will cause problems, and an iterative process of using EXPLAIN, adjusting the query and seeing what happens?</p>
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<p>Do these issues not still apply? Have they been fixed?<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllTrials" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllTrials</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:17:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797279</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Nasal spray could prevent Alzheimer’s disease, brain inflammation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought circumin combined with pepper was to increase bioavailability, which has since been found not to be useful because the effects occur in the gut, and don’t require absorption into the blood stream.</p>
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<p>It’s not too distant a dream, the Rolls Royce small modular reactor designs have just been submitted for approval:<p><a href="https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/rolls-royce-submits-modular-nuclear-reactor-designs-for-wylfa-and-trawsfynydd-10-03-2022/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/rolls-royce-submits-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:07:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653890</link><dc:creator>Brakenshire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Brakenshire in "Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The obvious thing to do was continue to invest in Servo. If they could have produced a parallel layout engine, which could provide app like animations without fiddling on desktop and Android, and then make that easy to embed, they could have made real inroads into blink/webkit.</p>
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