<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: Epa095</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Epa095</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:02:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Epa095" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Epa095 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the actual effect you get out of that? Even half, 12 kW, would be an absolutte beast of heating (for a home), even with 'dumb' convection heating. With heat pumps 2-3 kW should really be enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:20:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627718</link><dc:creator>Epa095</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Epa095 in "Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The usual carbon payback period for solar panels is 1-4 years.</p>
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<p>What makes comaps better?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:23:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487940</link><dc:creator>Epa095</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Epa095 in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What usually happens is that that competitors then gets disappeared. Either by a happy ending (it gets bought up), or it gets squeezed out.<p>Monopolies arise naturally unless we work hard to avoid them.</p>
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<p>Progressive taxes hit wage earners, while its the owners who will reap the benefits of AI. We won't get a share of the fruits without solving how to properly tax wealth(in a world where money is power, and its trivial for rich people to move to a different tax regime), which unfortunately seems tabu in large parts of the western world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:34:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486430</link><dc:creator>Epa095</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Epa095 in "The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this not just a linguistic issue, where people say normal distributed but actually mean approximate or assumed normality? Its not like height is normally distributed (there is nobody 8 feet tall), but its not like the distribution bares no resemblance to the normal distribution either, and in a colloquial sense the term seems to he used more freely than the mathematical defined term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:40:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437253</link><dc:creator>Epa095</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Epa095 in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As I said above, I explain the cultural norms making it seen as acceptable. I am not trying to convince you, and I am certainly not interested in a bunch of random tangental discussions.<p><pre><code>  Maybe the poor kid would rather not tell the trainer that he is poor and face paternalistic attitudes? And the rich kid wouldn't be reminded all the time that he is guilty of having richer parents? Add race/migration and you'll quickly tolerate bullying because of "social reasons".
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It would be the parrent who ask the trainer to have it waived, not the kid. No kid, rich or poor, would know if they received help in paying the bill or buying equipment. The whole point of the example was exactly that while peoples contribution is public, their requirement for support is not, so there would be no cultural acceptance for the arguement "since taxes are open so should healtcare-usage". And again, this is a explanation of the cultural context, it is irrelevant if you feel like that culture is good or bad.</p>
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<p>First, lets me clarrify that I am trying to explain how this practise is justified in Norway, I am not arguing for or against it. Some of the justification is pure cultural traits, which you can try to understand even if you dont agree with them yourself. Also note that this is not completely non-controversal, but it seems like the current setup (where you need to log in to search, in addition to the public lists in the newspaper) has reasonable strong support.<p><pre><code>  This has also the effect of fueling envy
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Yeah, I guess the same feeling can look like both "envy" and "sense of justice", depending on where you see it from. But we can't protect everyone from their feelings.<p><pre><code>  and allows employers to discriminate you if they see that you have side income (or if you don't). 
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I have never heard about this, and I don't really see the dynamic here. What definitely IS a effect is that it makes it a bit harder for employers to give employees with equal tasks very different salaries.<p><pre><code>  Why make all of this fuss about RGPD if private data is in the open?

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Because this is seen as, at least partially, public data.<p><pre><code>  And why not include medical data as well? The "tribe" has the right to know how much each one costs, right?
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No. And this is where you must just belive me when I say that this is just a truth about the cultue, most people (in Scandinavia) would not agree with argument. Your contribution is public, your weakness is private.<p>Let me give an example: The local kid socker team is organizing a cup, and the parrents need to help organizing, making and selling cookies, etc. This is organized through an app, where you sign up for tasks, and everyone can see what you are commiting to contribute. The same team also have an arrangement where the(small) membership fee can be waivered if you can't afford it, or you can get help buying equipment(shoes) for your kid.  This is handled by you letting the trainer know in private, and he will discretely handle it.</p>
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<p>Yeah, tail call elimination, is definitely doable.<p>Python famously does not have it because "Language inventor Guido van Rossum contended that stack traces are altered by tail-call elimination making debugging harder, and preferred that programmers use explicit iteration instead".
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call</a></p>
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<p>I don't think there's anything like ratsit in Norway which would let you do this query anonymously.</p>
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<p>Because tax is not your bill from 'government Corp ', its your contribution to the community, to your tribe. And we have explicit goals for this, besides bringing revenue (like the strongest back should carry the heaviest burden).<p>When we have communal contributions in other settings, your contribution is usually not a secret.<p>It is meant to give the tax system more legitimacy, that you don't gave to wonder if people sneak out of their contribution, you can check. It also leads to yearly debates about the tax system as the list of the richest(usually inherited) is published together with what they pay in income tax vs wealth tax.<p>Previously you could check up anyone anonymous. These days you have to log inn, and they get a notification. But the list of the richest and their tax contribution gets published in the newspaper.</p>
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<p>Thats not at all a leason I learned during my years with game theory. It sounds like a life-lesson completely orthogonal to game-theory.<p>And wrong I must add, ignoring people who have made an actuall change in the world (although its true that most people end up making very little difference either way).</p>
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<p>Its not in their DNA, the don't get that large by making that kind of decisions.</p>
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<p>(I agree with your comment. To add). Fairphone can be gotten with stock Android, but also "/e/OS", which is a fork of LineageOS, and presents itself as both more privacy focused and de-googled than stock Android.<p>So it also comes down to what kind of OS you want. I find SailfishOS interesting, but I also really like the hardware of the Fairphone.</p>
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<p>Honestly, Openzl looks even cooler! It would be cool to have it integrated with parquet and avro encoders. If I understand correctly the compressed files should be decompressable with standard tools.</p>
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<p>Given the outcome in Venezuela (and Trumps relationships with dictators in generally), it don't seem like that is something Trump necessarily sees as a bad outcome. As long as the dictatorship trades oil and let some American companies in, they can be as dictatorial as they want.</p>
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<p>From the english letter:<p>To achieve a better digital world, where technology works for people
rather than against them, several steps must be taken:<p>1. <i>Rebalance power between service providers and
consumers.</i> People should be allowed to control their digital
experiences and decide how they want to use products that
they own. It should be possible and practical to switch to
alternative service providers, or tweak services they already
use to suit their needs and preferences.<p>2. <i>Tackle dependency on Big Tech.</i> To lay the groundwork for
innovative products and services and pave the way for
alternatives to Big Tech, competition in digital markets must be
restored. Technology based on principles such as openness,
interoperability and portability must be advanced through
strategic investments. For example, the public sector should
leverage its power as a major procurer to support alternatives
to big tech through exploring options for ethical procurement
of technology services.<p>3. <i>Double down on the enforcement of existing laws.</i> Far
from hindering innovation, regulations provide crucial
guardrails to guide innovation and ensure a level playing field.
Weak enforcement allows big tech to continue its damaging
practices at the cost of freedom of choice, service quality, and
innovation. To remedy this, enforcement of existing laws must
be strong and vigorous. This includes the DMA and
competition laws more broadly, but also other digital rules
such as the GDPR and consumer law.<p>4. <i>Close the existing legal loopholes by adopting a strong
Digital Fairness Act.</i> Increase legal certainty and address
loopholes in the legislation to better protect people for
instance against deceptive and addictive design, and unfair
personalisation.</p>
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<p>But selfhosted Gitea, which OP chose, IS good for closed source. And codeberg is not.</p>
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<p>My point is that this is the norm, not the exception in legal systems. It's good for laws to be clear cut and unambiguous, but in practice the world is not, and laws gets interpreted as courts use them.</p>
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<p>In general the justice system don't care much what your idea of the law is.<p>If its not clear through the actuall law or the accompanying comments what constitutes hate speech, it will be cleared up by the court itself.</p>
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