skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
proposed solutions:

> Increased energy efficiency on component level

> Increased energy efficiency on data center level

Why no “Increased efficiency on software level”? Is it simpler to throw hardware (and money, energy, carbon emissions) at the problem than find better solutions?
The fossil fuel industry is not inherently bad. You understand that prior to the invention of the internal combustion engines and electricity, the world was a really rough place. Life expectancy has more than doubled in the last 120 years. And natural disasters aren't even in the top 50 ways to die in 2019. A 100 years ago, more than a million people a year were dying from natural disasters. Last year, it was 11,000 worldwide. That is despite the human population going up 8x in that timeframe. It is not the crisis that people are hyping it up to be.
> Delivering business value is a more desired and compensated skill

Desired for who? Your employer? Programmers are human beings that can do things for their own personal enjoyment, not just to increase shareholder value.
I had a grandfather who (to my eyes, as I got intermittent updates) started rapidly suffering a series of not-obviously-related health problems. I mentioned to my mother (his daughter, and a doctor in an unrelated specialty) that it seemed like he was basically just experiencing failure of everything. She was surprised and expressed that though there had been several problems, none of them were especially serious.

But he died shortly afterward.
Oh, God, I hope my almost two year old daughter turns out that way too, right now she seems most enthusiastic about me chasing her, dancing, airplaning her around; though I see some seeds of inquisity because she wants me to help her open up every drawer and appliance, pushing every button, opening every faucet and so on.

Her godmothers son, which is just 4 months older is so happy sitting in my lap for ages as I explain ilustrated books to him; my own daughter gets bored real quick with that.
That doesn't surprise me at all.

The download & cancel combo is more surprising, because it takes significantly more effort, and people prefer less friction.

Binge & cancel is the least friction for most people, so it makes the most sense for them. Especially when they don't want to track your subscription along with the rest of their bills.
History’s Greatest Sea Is Dying
The Spectravideo computers (probably all MSX ones too) had it aswell. :-D
Is that you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/eau0cx/japans_deep_c...
Does anyone know what the other side of the issue is?

The fact that this article paints a totally rosy picture, does not mention downsides to the system, only quotes government side sources (they couldn't even find a metal dectectorist to say "yeah it's not perfect but it's good enough"?) is setting off red flags for me.
In Scotland the 'administrator of treasure trove' role appears to be taken by the wonderfully named Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_and_Lord_Treasurer%2...

Edit: We had some indirect dealings with the QLTR recently over some shares in commonly owned land that didn't have clear ownership - the QLTR basically responded with "nothing to do with us" which was good!
Not sure why there are so many replies about this being dismissive.

It is just pointing out people likes to reinvent technology every once in a while with 95% of the same thing. And it is not apparent whether those doing the "reinvention" knew what the constrain or trade offs or limitation the previous technology had.

Sometimes these sort of Full Circle makes me wonder if software has really moved forward at all.
Nginx Copyright Changed to Rambler
Boeing considers suspending or halting 737 Max production
This should be a URL submission, not text.
...localstorage and important data should be mutually exclusive.

It seems like we could say "don't trust this" about any aspect of any platform. Categorizing every application as "really important, don't update the UI until securely written to three AZs" and "totally ephemeral purge every minute" excludes a lot of stuff in the middle. Sure, nothing made by humans is perfect, but many things could be improved. One improvement to localstorage would be to simply not delete all the data.
I have tried ProTools, Cubase, and few others but after finding Reaper I never looked back... my second option would be probably Bitwig, but pricetag is too much crazy.
Ok but how about all the carbon removed by cloud computing? Less commutes necessary thanks to video conferencing tools and work from home, less cars on streets due do deliveries (disputable, depends on how the city is laid out I suppose)...
If there were security guards sure. That's not exactly a given.
Always excited to see APL/J content on the top page.

Happily, this coincides with a brand new release of the J interpreter, namely J901. It's so new that the homepage[0] still claims 901 is in beta. The install page[1], however, does have up to date information.

If you would like to taste a bit of the difference before deciding to jump in, Aaron Hsu has a really interesting talk[2] that compares APL and "other" languages via the lens of Human-Computer Interfaces.

I am just beginning my journey into J, but so far it has been extremely rewarding. Head on over to #jsoftware on Freenode. The channel is super small, but has some really friendly and helpful people on it!

[0]:https://jsoftware.com/indexno.html
[1]:https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation
[2]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Mt0GYHU9A
The risk is not only from natural disasters directly, but the changes in habitability that show up as a result, and the refugee flows and resource wars that are expected to happen.
Sure, healthy people do trip, but the last time I tripped and fell over was more than ten years ago. It's not that common.

(I was running down a steep hill and pitched forward onto the pavement face first. I ended up scraping one knuckle, leaving a very tiny scar. Yes, that would probably have looked a lot uglier had I somehow been 65 at the time.)
> Describe your relationship with your mother

I got this question in a personality test as part of a job interview.

I lied.
"offline no-connection available"

Probably the veterinary work is not taking place at Starbucks...
Rambler is an intellectual-property remnant of a big internet company. A troll.
Russian government more than once voiced concerns over gamers doing things online without government involvement and control. Sberbank is not just greedy business, it's greedy only when it serves Kremlin.
This is a common denialist point and is unfortunately a massive oversimplification, there is a hard limit to this increase. Plants are limited by far more than co2

https://skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm
Although Briggs Myers archetypes are seen as pseudoscience, I've found that I totally relate to the postulation that archetypes need to develop their less used functions later in life in order to become more complete human beings, and I've found that is totally the case for myself, an INTJ with having my daughter.
Making a Middleware API Layer in Go
"J might overly encourage programmers to use arrays when another data structure would be a better fit."

I feel this is actually a distinct advantage of the APL/J model: it eliminates boring data structure bikeshedding.

If I were Supreme Dictator of Tech, I'd mandate APL as the language for all whiteboard interviews. Everyone would have learn it, but at least it would be far more interesting to study than the "Leetcode / Cracking the Code Interview" type material that's currently being prescribed.
I wonder what the gamification effect would be if we paid everything by the second. I think for example transitioning from social support to employment would be more attractive.

Switching everything to any other system all at once would indeed be a huge waste of money.
When you can't make a profit on paper you have to piss that money away. Executive salaries and fancy pants facilities that the well to do like looking at are the typical ways of doing this.
Lamborghini and MIT double the energy density in super capacitors
That is their very nice slogan, while in reality WASM still has quite a way to go to compete with native code.

Some shits I see these days are that when code speed is measured, people compare that with JS but not native code, when portability is talked about, the comparison is then made against native code, not JS.
Sberbank is also behind recent Nginx extortion raids.
The idea that people that have autism need to be assisted to be more like neurotypical people (for example by augmenting their ability to perceive emotions) is in a very real sense part of the problem of the treatment that they tend to face. I don't think it's a great idea to take as a given that this is necessary or even desirable.
The Drug Epidemic Among Older People
Reddit is apparently better at figuring out that this is classic Nihonjinron:

https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/eau0cx/japans_deep_c...

I do think that identifying this behavior makes sense, but it's definitely not a uniquely Japanese thing[1] (just like tatemae, uchi/soto) and I'm sure there are existing terms for these phenomena. I'm not saying there isn't a Japan-specific aspect to it, but I'd rather learn about what that is than being described a rather generic behavior and link it to Japan.

I mean all these concepts were introduced by a single person and there's IMO so far been little deeper research into it.

[1] The article tries a little bit to not make that point but Doi says so... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Dependence
> I thought it would be simpler to start with a Game Boy Advance or an 8-bit processor like the 6502

The 8-bit processor will be much more approachable. I have worked on my GBA emulator for around one year now. Before that I tried the classic GB and its 8-bit CPU was so much easier to implement. The GBA's ARM7TDMI alone took me 3 months to complete, even with extensive testing [1].

[1] https://github.com/jsmolka/eggvance/tree/master/tests
Right!

I tried

SPC z x

in Spacemacs and got nowhere.

This was some years ago.
> I'm in the market for a starter 3D printer and I'm looking for a recommendation from someone who's used one in anger.

I built the Creality Ender 3 Pro. With a few mods it runs very well, and is super cheap (Under £200). Had it for 6+ months. I'm into model steam engines and use it (and a small chinese lathe) for making small parts. Accurate and works well with OctoPrint.
Yeah, that one surprised me too. I've read Flash Boys, but I've read a lot of pushback on it, including the idea that it's essentially a very one-sided pitch for IEX.
Did you read what I just wrote? Those commands are not specific to any language.
I was poor and using a secondhand "due to be thrown out" IBM 12" display (which despite being 12" had a colossal black border around the actual image on the screen, making the usable area even smaller than 12") and had a 486 DX2 whilst everyone else had Pentiums. I remember fumbling around to get my abysmal graphics card working under XFree86 whilst groping around magazines for appropriate commands and setting the configuration to various bad values that caused that monitor to make hellish screaming noises as I attempted to set it to a resolution and frequency higher than it could ever go.

I should have read the warning.
There's nothing wrong with LLVM itself, my point is we could've picked a lower level model which don't need a complicated setup like LLVM. Or one that you can direct shipped optimized compiled result of LLVM, that will be a much better world
I don't mean to nitpick, but wouldn't "as carbon neutral as it gets" be zero reliance on fossil fuels, even for backup?
As a burst of nostalgia, do you remember using Linuxconf on that machine? I kinda miss the early GTK+ and GNOME1 days, whilst I fumbled with fvwm under RedHat (before the Fedora split).
Yes, I would mind. A lot. You aren't hypersensitive. Run and don't even think about it twice.
Are they just located there, or have dedicated connections? If they're just close, but on the standard grid, does the location really matter?
"But there have been several times in Earth’s past when Earth's temperature jumped rapidly, in much the same way as they are doing today. Those times were caused by large and rapid greenhouse gas emissions, just like humans are causing today. In Earth's past the trigger for these greenhouse gas emissions was often unusually massive volcanic eruptions known as “Large Igneous Provinces,” with knock-on effects that included huge releases of CO2 and methane from organic-rich sediments. But there is no Large Igneous Province operating today, or anytime in the last 16 million years. Today’s volcanoes, in comparison, don’t even come close to emitting the levels of greenhouse gasses that humans do.

Those rapid global warming events were almost always highly destructive for life, causing mass extinctions such as at the end of the Permian, Triassic, or even mid-Cambrian periods. The symptoms from those events (huge and rapid carbon emissions, a big rapid jump in global temperatures, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, widespread oxygen-starved zones in the oceans) are all happening today with human-caused climate change. The outcomes for life on Earth were often dire. The end Permian extinction saw around 90% of species go extinct, and it left tropical regions on the planet lethally hot, too hot for complex life to survive. The Triassic extinction was another, one of the 5 biggest mass extinctions in the geological record. Even in the end Cretaceous extinction, in which dinosaurs were finally wiped out by an asteroid impact, a major global-warming extinction event was already underway causing a major extinction within 150,000 years of the impact. That global warming 66 million years ago was due to catastrophic eruptions in India, which emitted a pulse of CO2 that sent global temperatures soaring by 7°C (13°F).

So yes, the climate has changed before, and in most cases scientists know why. In all cases we see the same association between CO2 levels and global temperatures. And past examples of rapid carbon emissions offer no comfort at all for the likely outcome from today’s climate change."

https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-m...
One does not make the situation worse. The other makes it worse. That's pretty simple.

Neither makes the situation BETTER. But one makes it WORSE.
Bad joke.
Yes, there are people out there using "overly technical", "confusing" and "ambiguous" search words. I'm afraid any company who wants to rival Google with have to deal with that fact; that's pretty much the whole problem of search in a nutshell.
Passive Aggressive Annotation Framework
"Harder to argue against that, is it?"

I'm beginning to think that countering illogical arguments with logical ones is actually some kind of tactical error in many situations - I have no idea what the alternative is but I increasingly feel that it is too easy to goad people (particularly those with some kind of scientific training) into types of arguments that really don't resonate with a lot of people.
Well, it depends on how you define "easily". And any culture that agrees a thing is offensive will probably not feel the offense is taken too easily, because by definition it's the norm.

I mean, I was chastised for taking a picture with a Buddha even while I did my best to be polite (I knew taking photos was OK but you had to make sure you weren't standing higher than the Buddha, etc.) - to me it seems kind of arbitrary, but I don't think the people offended ("annoyed with another dumb tourist" might be more apt) were being unreasonable.

In my case it was just a move to a different country and the social norms about what was acceptable, etc. are slightly different.

I've always advocated for a "refill the coffee if you find an empty pot" rather than "refill it if you empty it" approach since the latter means you _could_ be wasting a pot of coffee if you happened to be the last to want coffee that day, but I get that people have different views.
How Two-Sided Marketplaces Self-Destruct
It's not at all surprising to see this kind of Japanese exceptionalism about, especially on the BBC, which in various ways loves to show Japan as wacky and weird, without much understanding of the cultural context. While there are of course a great many things unique to Japanese culture, articles like this only serve to baselessly inflame Japanese exceptionalism. It doesn't help that nihonjinron ideas are very common in Japan too. The number of times I've heard "you wouldn't understand, it's a Japanese thing" in serious contexts is baffling.
The style is nice, but the choice of content is pretty limited. I'm missing a lot of important (IMHO) items. I do like the focus on some world affairs at least.
Electronic computers have become vastly more energy efficient since they became widely used in the 60s. On net, do we spend more or less energy on computers now than we did then?

That's the paradox. The cheaper energy becomes, the more uses we find for it.
I'd love to learn APL, all the symbols give it some mystic aura that make you feel as if you were reading a magic scroll, rather than mundane source code.

OTOH J is great because it's easier to dive into, no strange keyboards needed. Also it might be one of the best language to use in a phone. With their own keyboard and a nice app, it's the first time I found that while working on advent of code problems during commute the interface was not the problem.

But that language has a big big problem, it is not search friendly. Not on internet, not even on a page with solutions on different languages.
Errr...most systems (like Django) send passwords in plaintext to the server! (Over SSL of course).

The point of PBKDF-SHA256 is to protect the secrecy of passwords if the server is compromised and its password hash db is dumped.
> And it is not apparent whether those doing the "reinvention" knew what the constrain or trade offs or limitation the previous technology had.

I'm quite sure that very often the "reinvention" is literally a reinvention - that is not based on previous invention, but an independent solution that just happens to be similiar to something created earlier (without the reinventors knowledge of the existing previous invention).
With an abstraction level high enough, many concrete problems become one abstract problem with a few abstract solutions, and sometimes only very few "obvious"[0] solutions. This leads to a situation when many independent persons/teams come up with a concrete solution to their concrete problem that coincidentally happens to be very similiar to other solutions. If one of those solutions where created in the past, and others where rediscovered later, we then retrospectively call those later solutions as "reinventions" regardless of them being literal or just figurative reinventions.[1]

[0] in this context "obvious" defined as "most likely to be independently found/created by any sane person"

[1] "literal reinvention" being a solution that was consciously based on some previously existing invention and a "figurative" when it just happens to be similiar to something created in the past but the inventor did not (consciously) base their work on something already existing
One thing that's a bit different is it's relatively uncommon, in the wealthy world at least, for people to design and build their own home now, as opposed the vernacular (self-built) architecture of centuries past.

I'm a bit grumbly but it's frustrating to see planning boards make decisions about what fits local architectural character, as though we decided to stop changing what we liked when we started introducing planning requirements.
I've been a Cubase user since the v1.0 for PC arrived on one floppy disc. Over the years I've tried to switch to Logic, Ableton and Reaper but found I cannot be as fluent as I am on Cubase. I also noticed it's like a religion - users of one Sequencer/Daw are unlikely to switch to another permanently and will swear by their platform of choice. Pretty much like the old Amiga/Atari or PC/Mac arguments. I wish it was an easier learning curve to switch because I'd love to diversify but every time I try it's comes to a point where I'm either creative right now or learning. But not both, so I revert back to the church of Cubase (albeit an old version I still use).
Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?
Any great books you cannot wait to read next year? Maybe something you wish to learn? Curious about all kinds of great book suggestions for 2020. Thank you for sharing! (And I wish you all a great, educational new year)
Should've been `bitxor`
Knowing what you're getting into and having the rest of your life in order are golden, I guess.

I resent my wife for sort of slowly forcing it on me with promises of "nothing will change, my mother will help", I also resent myself for falling for it, but I wouldn't trade my daughter for anything in the world.

I've come to terms with the duality of being a parent, loving your children and raising them sucking at the same time, something I see non-parents completely unable to understand.

Great moments of being a parent, like 10% of the time, and sucking for the rest of 90% of the time.

Whenever I tell this to non-parents, they take it like "what, then what's the hype of being a parent, you must be broken somehow" or "there, that's another reason for me not to have children" -- both of which are far, far of from any conclusion I would take.
We usually get a few news articles a year about either someone not declaring treasure to the coroner (and occasionally ending up in prison for substantial lengths of time, see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-505...), or about landowners and detectorists fighting over who has the right to finds which can be worth a substantial sum of money (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-11510037 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-48366616). This seems to indicate to me that the system is broadly working as intended.
with all that shit on the news pages, I use RSS (kriss RSS on a RPi-zero server) and read the articles on spot, plus -on the RSS ,again- the articles are clean from ad crap.
I disagree on irrelevant. The fact that they stayed in the US definitely makes it harder to be anonymous (friends, relatives, language, police presence, etc)... it also makes it easier to be caught.
I've banned such keyboards in my office (open space) and I've heard about some coworking places that banned them as well.
I don’t see a way to see what’s listed without logging in.
Why would I suppose something that's not true in the US?
I have a Unicomp (which is based on the IBM Model M) Sun Unix Spacesaver USB keyboard: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/40PSA

It's great, and what's not to love if you're a POSIX guy? The Ctrl and Caps Lock keys are swapped, so the Ctrl key is on the home row like God intended. It has buckling spring, positive keyclick action and it's so good if you do a lot of keyboard input or use Vim and/or Emacs. The bottom plate is steel and it's heavy, it won't slide around on my desk.

Sure, for custom mechanical keyboard snobs, the keycaps aren't anything to write home about because sometimes the key characters aren't properly centered on the key surface. But my keycaps look OK, maybe I just happened to get a good one. And it doesn't bother me anyway because I never look at the keys when typing.
They should have never made the Max. They need to make a new plane from the ground up. The 737 is ancient.
> Is there a fast wasm runtime available for non-JIT platforms?

Yes, Wasmtime can do AOT. Many other runtimes can do AOT as well.
Corporate VPNs Are Dead
The Challenge of Replacing Internal Combustion with Batteries That Don't Combust
Isn't the issue a hardware issue that they tried to patch over with software?
BitTorrent was much more commonly used for podcast distribution in the first half of the 2000s, so there is some precident.
Tesla Hacker: The Rogue Mechanic Taking on Tesla [video]