skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems likely that Moore’s Law will someday be resurrected, perhaps in a weaker form, but I wouldn't bet heavily on any particular invention being the one that resurrects it.

I say it seems likely because Landauer's limit works out to about 0.003 attojoules per bit erasure at room temperature, while current top-efficiency processors use on the order of 100–200 picojoules per instruction — say, about 1 picojoule per bit erasure. So we're about 10 orders of magnitude from Landauer's limit, even before we switch to reversible computation, or drop Landauer's limit by a factor of 75 by operating our computers at the temperature of the cosmic background radiation. Other fundamental limits on computation (Lloyd's "ultimate laptop": https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043) are even further off.

In 2D, though, we're actually sort of close, in the sense that the transistors TSMC and Samsung are mass-producing are only about five orders of magnitude larger than the
somewhat fundamental limit of single-atom transistors; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20273007 says silicon atoms in an unstrained lattice are 0.235 nm apart, so a 10-nm-wide gate is 40 atoms across. Single-atom transistors have been working for decades in the lab (IBM Almaden, maybe?) so we know there aren't any fundamental limits to computation in between here and there.
GP is talking about Tesla/Apple's business strategy, so clearly in this context a split by manufacturer is what they care about.
"For the past 15 years, the efficiency of converting heat into electricity with thermovoltaics has been stalled at 23 percent. But a groundbreaking physical insight has allowed researchers to raise this efficiency to 29 percent. Using a novel design, the researchers are now aiming to reach 50 percent efficiency in the near future by applying well-established scientific concepts."

^interesting part, the drone stuff is just click-bait
It looks like the free services provided by GitHub are still available:

"A selection of GitHub services such as access to public repositories will remain available to everyone, the company said in a statement on its website. “This includes limited access to GitHub public repository services (such as access to GitHub Pages and public repositories used for open source projects), for personal communications only, and not for commercial purposes.”
MuPDF supposedly supports forms in the latest version.

I’ve never seen it work though.
Plastic (and paper, for that matter) is a good energy store, for use when intermittent sources become unavailable. Incineration should not be seen as a failure, but celebrated as a contribution to an integrated energy system. Of course the plastic should be sourced from non-fossil carbon sources.
Open Plan Office Sucks
This is why I think that in addition to swift action to curtail emissions, we need strong international organisations for discourse, crisis management and mutual aid. If we walk into a new age of mass migrations and instability with the currently popular mindset of nationalist separatism, I don't see how we'll be able to avoid another world war. What will happen between India and Pakistan, for example? These are both nuclear powers.
> What if we _can't_ make the alternatives more appealing?

> We _need_ to start pricing in externalities

I might've been arguing the OP at crossed purposes, as my point seems compatible with yours, just framed differently at the point of delivery. We can't rely on the population to just decide "I'm going to do the right thing today". We make it a non-choice as you say. That can either be "it's cheaper/easier/better" or "you'll be locked up if not". It's quite a compelling narrative either way.

Just expecting large swathes of quite evidently moronic people (without delving too far into politics, if you agree the current political climate is as the result of ignorance, that's a sh*t-tonne of ignorant people out there - on the order of billions of people worldwide) to decide to look out for the interests of us as a collective is frankly wrong.

I agree with you - but I think we need to move past the "do it for the planet/species" argument as there's a lot of people who don't care and will be ridiculous in their stubbornness. The scale of it just doesn't work when trying to convince people. But show them how their heating bills will be cheaper and that they'll get a 6-month suspended if they throw a bottle in the sea, and things might change sooner.
Serbia: Bombarded by the USA and Nato - uranium bombs used. Cancer rates sky rocketed in the last 20 years since the bombing.

Get a sense of proportion.
https://pythonclock.org/ - 5 Months and 2 days to go. Do not do any new projects in Python 2. There is no technical reason for you to do so. If management is an issue, show them the facts.

Also, Python 3.9 is now out which means there's been more than enough time to migrate - https://docs.python.org/3.9/whatsnew/3.9.html
You could argue Friendster lost a lot of its early, first mover, momentum to MySpace and Facebook because of its initial implementation in Java JSP. By the time of its rewrite in PHP, MySpace had become the "in place", followed fairly quickly by Facebook (while MySpace foundered under Newscorp ownership).

You don't hear about the failures because they rarely get enough traction to be popular (and if they got traction then typically investors will pour money in to keep the startup afloat).

Also many survivors of such startups are under NDAs which mostly serve to protect the management teams.
GitLab is self-hostable as well, although I imagine Gogs is easier.
> Turned out people are dependent on cars. And they really are, to a degree that cannot be satisfied by public transport.

It turned out the taxes are not high enough. If people really were depended on cars, but were hurt by the high taxes, car makers would sell smaller cars. They don't. Extremely big cars, totally unneeded by almost anyone, are still the most popular models. Why? Cause the costs of having and using one are not as high as you make it sound.

> People in Germany advocating an additional tax have either never worked, payed bills, are stupendously rich, just insane or don't have responsibilities towards others.

Yeah, sure. Everyone who doesn't agree with you is one of the above. It couldn't be that they tend to have a bit more foresight than you.

> Sorry, there is a limit on how much you can use taxes and that limit is staunchly in the red because of naive promises made in the past.

Taxes in Germany have never been lower than in the last 20 years for significant parts of the population. The problem in Germany right now isn't high taxes, it's low wages. A problem which hits parts of the population that usually don't even pay taxes (or if they do almost none).
Trump has begun attacking his corporate enemies in the courts, namely Facebook and Google.

Microsoft is terrified of getting on his bad side, and Trump needs to stir hatred of Iran to make sure AIPAC stays on his side.

Basically, Trump said jump so Github dropped their drawers, bent over and grabbed their ankles.
Both, depending on the company. The great companies are play heavily in the futures market, as a result their production is mostly locked up when the boom comes and so they don't make any extra money. The not so great companies sell to market mostly, and make a ton of profit in the boom years and are lucky if they don't go bankrupt in the bust years.

Of course great and not so great are by my definition of great. You can do should do your own investigation.
> Mandating certain measures which sometimes can be used to circumvent the privacy guarantees of encryption doesn't mean encryption is banned.

If there's a way around encryption for someone, then there's a way around encryption for everyone (because it will get out)

If there's a way around the encryption, then it's not really encrypted.

If the Australian government has mandated that there must be a known way to circumvent encryption, then yes, they have effectively banned encryption.
I am not sure I could do it at all. The Linux Foundation is a US corporation, and that rules out nearly all my options for the work I personally do. (and, well working for one doesn't help it either)
How to Be a Learning Machine
How to add a loading spinner to an Angular Material button. Simplest way ever
Some recession indicators
>a lot of comments here seem to accept russian annexation

As with many situations occurring in nations where borders are arbitrarily drawn, the situation is more complex than you let on.

Everything is "fine" when there's a peaceful stasis between Ukraine and Russia, but with Ukraine cozy-ing up to NATO, Russia was left in a pinch: a) the have a huge Russian national population in the area now under control of a possibly hostile government, and b) they lose a huge piece of strategic geography, with the Crimea's access to the Black Sea. How should they have reacted?

Not every thing is so easily put into good guy/bad guy boxes.
Well maybe this is different in the US but in Europe electric cars are easily 20% heavier than similar models.

The traction idea is not absurd. Tesla owners claim the tires last around 25000 kilometers instead of 60000 when the drive 'insane' all the time.

Takeshi Uchiyamanda was always talking about the environment when he talked about hydrogen. And even now he sees that battey cars are taking off he still stand by his point.

But that is all marketing talk?
Would you mind defining self harm? Is it auto-mutilation strictly, or does something like smoking/drinking/other_drugs also count?
Have you forgot about USA bombing Serbia with uranium?
> Not sure if it has a stable interface

Their docs say

"The public/ directory contains header files for the APIs available for use by embedders of PDFium. We endeavor to keep these as stable as possible."

The rest are valid points though!
I don't know what the US certification will look like, but I'd bet on the European certification being independent and very rigorous.
time for volumetric cooling vias
>You are talking past the comment you are replying to, and Goedel's argument altogether. That is, you are referring to an entity that may have contradictory properties in the way you mentioned, but Goedel's philosophical God isn't such an entity.

Which is the point exactly. Even if Goedel's argument didn't have logical jumps based on non-essential assumptions, it still doesn't prove the existence of God per se, only the existence of something Goedel calls God, which satisfies Goedel's axioms ("every referent that satisfies the properties").

But the problem is that Goedel doesn't say he tries to prove the existence of "any referent that satisfies the properties" but of God.

Well, who (apart from Goedel himself) said that those are the properties of God, and not others?
I agree but how do you think this drastic lifestyle change look would look like? The price of emission certificates would be reflected in the products you buy, of course.

That is a huge part of the criticism against a tax for households that are just responsible for 1/5th of emissions and I wouldn't include them in the emission trade at all. Because even today people don't waste significant energy for basic needs like heating, so any instrument can only be that effective.

And corporations are currently the only ones paying for every tonne of CO² they emit. And you want to change that to be extended to everyone... You might argue that they should pay more, but...

Of course people in many political parties are rubbing their hands that you actually want to increase tax burdens. Money solves problems, right?
How we got our first 200 paid users for our SaaS app
You misunderstood. I was saying people can and do use the first four as practical guides.

As for Shakespeare, his plays still speak to fundamental, understandable human drama.
> Change what? You're asking for...what exactly? People to provide support for a deprecated platform?

Instead of trying to put words in my mouth and being hostile, try to address my concerns. What I mean is that nobody that is a dev wants to work in a slow boring sector, Which means no work gets done to Python 3 on the vendor side hence, studios like ours keep developing on it.

Nothing changes and no choice other than leaving.
How does this compare to D-Bus and when would you use which (apart from D-Bus obviously being Linux-only)?
and yet, that will be less than the war in iraq.

It's github. I would personally be inconvenienced, but not terribly so. I cannot imagine their life is going to crash in some meaningful way for not having access to github.
Even before the US withdrew a lot of financial institutions wouldn't allow doing any kind of transactions with iran.

It's not like the sanctions were actually dropped even though they were supposed to. That was the whole point of the critiques of the JCPOA.
> I saw that they made heavy use of XCMDs and XFCNs -- custom extensions you had to write in a compiled language (Pascal? C?). At that point, why would you bother with Hypercard at all?

Hey, don't forget about shareware culture! You didn't need to code up these XFCN/XCMDs yourself. You could try and buy them! There was a whole ecosystem of developers making these things (WindowMaker anyone?) and it worked pretty well for what it was.
So, you mean where the US at least kinda-sorta apologized and paid restitution? I hate the Regan years as much as the next person, but this is a false equivalence. I didn't see Russia/Donblast apologize after MH-17...
Since CO2 is mixed in the atmosphere on a timescale short compared to how long it's going to linger there, your argument does not work.
You can compile java to LLVM or create dll/so files.

* https://www.graalvm.org/

* https://www.graalvm.org/docs/reference-manual/aot-compilatio...

You only need to pass `--shared`. (You can also define multiple exports via public static ... and some annotations https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/substratevm/READ...)
of course it's a little bit akward to first create a "JVM" library and then call that library from native code, but it's not impossible.
>No it's not. It's saying that a God that can do two things, i.e. be rational and be irrational, is greater than a God that can just do one thing, be irrational.

Actually, the God that "can do two things, i.e. be rational and be irrational" is my description -- I was supporting that (e.g. see above: "unbounded by logical or physical constraints", "God that can be illogical or beyond logic (such us that logical and illogical make no sense as restrictions to him)", "God created logic and can break it at will" -- which means can also follow it at will, etc.).

You were going by a more restricted God that can only be rational.

Not to mention your own comparison is based on rationality. Even ignoring what I wrote above, from the standpoint of God "a God that can do two things" might not be greater than a "God that can only do one".

God himself defines not just physical laws and logic, but also the very meaning of notions like "greater" (that is, works on a meta level). "More if greater" is our undestanding of what's greater, not necessarily God's (like a child thinks more sugar in food is greater, but a parent knows better). It would be constraining to assume of God the constrains of greatness than we are bound to.
Doesn't display well on mobile. How is it different than workona?
"biggest sponsor of terrorism" ???

Citation needed please because by any metric at all, the US is the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism. Where do you think the Taliban and Isis got their weapons? What about Contra? Learn your history.
The whole modern city life is based on impatience and quick satisfaction. You shall buy flavour enhanced shitty premade food so you can do more. Obvious economic bonus right ?
100% agreement with how you put it. I believe it’s crucial to empathize with everyone. Sympathy is fully separate, and not something that I have for the relevant management staff at Boeing/WellsFargo/etc. But empathy is what allows us to understand why somebody wants to do something, which is pretty necessary if we intend to alter that behavior.
> These people often have kids, and they do a lot for them. They need to understand that it is all in vain if they don't do anything.

And yet, lots of those same people with kids are the reason we're in the current political climate. Deliberate choices designed to cause outweighted impact on the younger generations.

I don't want to veer too much off course here, but look at the demographics around the Brexit vote. Those are large swathes of parents across the country who've made a decision that they wont live to see the ramifications of, with those younger generations almost entirely voting in the opposite direction.

Personally, I believe it's because the issues at play are far too large to comprehend. We need to change the message, and it needs to be localised and individualised as much as possible. However, that's expensive, and the people with the money are the ones less likely to want to help get that message out there...
I was unclear how this differed from what I would traditionally consider as solar power (photovoltaic power) as I had never heard of thermophotovoltaic power. After a quick search I found the following helpful:

“The basic principle [of thermophotovoltaics] is similar to that of traditional photovoltaics (PV) where a p-n junction is used to absorb optical energy, generate and separate electron/hole pairs, and in doing so convert that energy into electricity. The difference is that the optical energy is not directly generated by the Sun, but instead by a material at high temperature (termed the emitter), that causes it to emit light. In this way thermal energy is converted to electrical energy.” [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermophotovoltaic
The number of stars in the Milky Way is supposedly about 250 billion, so anything in the trillions is well qualified to be considered an astronomical number.
None of that is going backward, it's the blowback of maintaining an unsustainable growth way past the equilibrium point. We call that "instability".

We got used to it but it doesn't mean it's the way to go. We're acting like spoiled kids discovering that no, you can't have it all, all the time, for free.
this is true for a lot things.

They're called keyboard warriors for a reason.
You are quoting an economist that publicly said that the internet and crypto currency were worthless.
While I believe in the GNU definition of free software, how are we to maintain a community that's truly open-source when the parties you speak of don't believe in free software themselves? Are we really to give them the best our world has to offer so they can use it to suppress people and act against their interests? Do we let them use our libraries and tools to make their world smaller for their citizens? Do we let them steal our code to change it to hurt others and then not reciprocate it back in? Do we let them take the best we have to offer with such obvious mal-intent?

If it were a difference of culture or opinion that's fine. But you're allowing rogue authoritarian states to use our technology while taking an adversarial stance to our primary purpose; the free transfer of knowledge and information. We don't need to accommodate that. They need to accommodate the freedom their people are entitled to.

Think about it. Which developers in North Korea or Iran are using Github? Answer: The ones the government lets use Github.
At the range of direct contact to the head, the explosive force of a powder load is deadly whether or not there's a bullet along for the ride.
It's weird that decentralized architectures are becoming what the racoons and quants are now flocking to via means of block chain via means of cryptocurrency. Seems like they are getting pulled down the buzz word rabbit hole and we are the only ones the wiser
There is Hy, which is to Python as Clojure is to Java.
These countries are run by some of the most violent and oppressive regimes in the world. Let’s not pretend that the US is responsible for the quality of life of the people living there.

These sanctions are entirely non-violent. The actual word you’re looking for is harmful. They’re designed to be harmful, economically. Responding to regimes like this with economic pressure is most certainly preferable to actual violent conflict. Which would be guaranteed to kill thousands of innocent civilians.

Given recent history, if you think electing to use non-violent methods to sanction these governments is disgusting, then I really don’t think there’s anything I could say to you.

If the regime in Iran falls. It won’t be because of US sanctions. It will be because that country has been operated by a brutal dictator for decades, and the Iranian people grew tired of being the enemy of their own government.
Would there be grounds by which it could be legally challenged?
Except, when I define templates code I need to handle classes that haven't defined <=>, and it isn't automatically created. This is, to me, the biggest problem with c++. Some stuff would be great if it had been there from the start, or you are working a code base. Which can require all code (including all libraries) make full use of all modern c++ features. But new feature, in my experience, never stop you having to handle older features.
We also started moving to a more home-cooked approach in the last couple of years. I'm trying to use boredom with the few dishes I know to drive me to learn more about cooking.

One "rule" is that we try to eliminate most things that requires freezing, canning or shelf-stable packaging. I've grown a much better understanding of what fruits and vegetables need to be used quickly vs those that can sit for a week or more and it's helped with meal planning and shopping. We shop more frequently, but stock up much less.

I've actually ended up enjoying the "multi-threaded" nature of cooking a nice meal. Learning how long each dish will take and planning my prep around that is actually an enjoyable challenge. Bonus if the outcome is tasty.

The goal wasn't necessarily to eat more healthily, just to eat more fresh. The side-effect is that you end-up eliminating tons of garbage from your diet anyways. Another interesting side-effect is that since we're starting with raw ingredients, we're finding that we're being much choosier about the quality we're selecting.

Ever since then we went with a pantry full of stuff and freezers packed with "heat-and-eat" premade food to a few cans, some dried seaweed and noodles and virtually empty freezers and a fridge that's packed full of vegetables.
> We need to do this together, as one human race

As per my other comments here - we need to do that 100%, but I don't believe that's a compelling way to get individuals to change their own behaviour.

"I don't have to do my bit as other people are much worse than me. Why aren't the other 6,999,999,999 other people doing their bit too?"
You're exactly right about the current stance on long-term storage of radioactive waste.
Surveillance, spying, communications. Such drones could encroach a lot into roles currently assigned to satellites.
But caring for anythings else than money is socialism!
That’s horrible. I was unaware of this until now and I’m deeply upset by it. :(
Yeah. I'm not even that old but that it's become more and more fashionable to hand wring about the danger of every activity that is more hazardous than typing at a computer, things that people did and have done for generations, is something I'm not a fan of. Like, god forbid someone walk on the mud flats. The fact that this was a regular daily activity once upon a time is a pretty good indication that it's not all that dangerous.

Edit: I forgot that this is the internet where it's impossible to be too conservative about safety.
Or it would clear the playing field, at least in the US.