skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What matter to me is that within one generation they totally de-carbonized the grid from oil and coal to nuclear and have successfully been in running it that way for decades.

Germany has been doing a Green New Deal style thing with Renwables for 2 decades now, in my opinion they could have easily been heading to 100% CO2 free by now if they had just started to build nuclear plants.

The French certainty made mistakes and unfortunately technology innovation and improvement and continued expatiation of the products on a global scale didn't happen.

Of course I don't want to relay on learning effects from these large complex projects, but its better then just extrapolating from individual first time builds.

We defiantly want to move to smaller AND more efficient nuclear plants, but for that we also need nuclear industry, nuclear education a competent nuclear regulator and a government that actually puts its resources in that place.

> The other issue is that for wind you only need an axle and a generator, for sun it is solid state. It is hard to compete with the economics of solid state power generation.

That is one consideration. The real question is all in, 100% making sure all citizens have as much power as they need at every moment no matter what happens. If you approach it like that, going a all nuclear route with some localized batteries for peak shaving would be the overall cheapest solution for a largish industrial economy. You just replace current coal plants with nuclear plants and use the same infrastructure.

Doing a fully renewable massive industrial economy is totally unsolved problem requiring storage, smart grids and so on. And even then, when you consider the loses of solar in the case of a vulcano for example, you probably need some kind of gas backup.

Had the world at Kyoto just said, lets everybody build 1 nuclear plant per 1 million people, we would have de-carbonized by now.
> Indigenous ideas like “relationality” and “reciprocity” can help us all challenge our outlook on nonhuman animals.

Fake meat seems a plausible solution, but a widespread change in religion just doesn’t.
A top researcher says it's time to rethink our entire approach to preschool
Yeah, it sucks that the US doesn't respect non-citizen data. But TBH I really don't think it respects citizen data either. Consider that Snowden discovered all kinds of ways the CIA and NSA were hoovering up data, in defiance of the law. But did the American people get pissed and force a change in those agencies, and call the leadership to account for disregarding the law because it was convenient? No: they successfully demonized the whistleblower who is still on the run. (Although I will say that excessive snoopiness is a lesser evil than censorship).

In the end, though, there is a high-tech solution here, and that's to migrate to 100% asymmetrically encrypted messaging, at the application level, regardless of underlying transport. This would force nation states to risk large scale hacking of devices, but that's more visible and easier to combat, as long as we remain free to make (and buy) the compute hardware we want to make.
A persistent web game written mostly in rust, with some js for the frontend.
I got into the habit of streaming my work to keep me focused (https://www.twitch.tv/sleepyteagames)
I'm mostly doing it for the fun and learning, though I'm hopefully about what it could be.
We know a thing or two about concurrency and Python. Take a look at our blog post [1] touching on what we do and how.

[1] https://www.edgedb.com/blog/building-a-production-database-i...
Creator of the shionkeys project (shionwong)
Yeah. It's great they were able to run rampant with no repercussions for years. And now we get to see real accountability. /s
Am I the only one who feels more comfortable in video calls? Don't get me wrong, I would rather be in person, but I have relatively high anxiety, and if I have to present or talk in a room full of people I always start out very nervous. On zoom etc it's completely different for me - I almost feel the opposite of the article writer, I can barely see the people and only ever a few of them, so I'm less nervous about the audience and can focus on what I want to say. I'd actually say I've been able to do much better at work because of the rise of zoom. Maybe I'm a minority.
Say what you will, Austin is still in Texas. It’s very hot, dodgy infrastructure and probably not a good place to raise daughters. But yeah, if you’re in it for the bucks, go for it.

I’ve lived all over n America and I can’t see it. It would beat “no other alternative” but that’s about it.
This seems backwards. Yes central banks have had a low inflation target but the biggest fight of the last 14 years since 2008 has been against deflation. Central banks have kept dropping rates because prices have stayed so low and were in danger of falling. Inflation has suddenly spiked up - everyone should be happy that at last the deflationary spiral has stopped. As long as doesn't continue central banks are happy.
“The Early Days of Unix at Bell Labs” – Brian Kernighan (LCA 2022 Online)
I suspect these social networks don't really care, but I block any and every "public" facebook page that gets shared in my feed. Of course, you still see "what was your first car? from 93.7 THE OCTOPUS Des Moines, or whatever page you haven't yet blocked, but at least it gets rid of the worst, most-often shared offenders like the ones you cite. I'm assuming Twitter doesn't let you do that, though. I wish Facebook would give you an option "never ever ever show me anything from a public page". I will never care that a friend shared or posted on a public page. I will only ever care about their own content, and the groups I choose to be a member of.

(Incidentally, this is more broadly my problem with the default-public nature of Twitter).

I just wonder at what phase of growth-and-bust the networks will start to care a bit more about serving the demands of their eyeballs.
I can’t interpret posts like this to understand whether I should care or not.

This kind of headline could mean anything from something benign to something which seriously threatens privacy.

Anyone who actually knows about this, what’s the TLDR?
>I have never encountered a more hostile website, or company for that matter, towards innocuous behavior.

Pinterest images in Google image search results would like to have a word with you.
> We don’t have a state media, and I guarantee you that whatever corruption people know about, there is some media member talking about it.

You can't be that naive. You think every piece of corruption has been exposed? Usually when corruption is exposed it's about something that's been going on for years. Yet somehow you think all corruption as of right now has been exposed?

When the government calls for censorship of all media that oppresses their narrative and the media hires former CIA agents and parrots their talking points, you might as well have state run media.
To continue with my devil's advocacy...

> It is just the natural result of passing state as explicit arguments.

But nothing you've mentioned here is intrinsic to mutable state. It seems like all that's happened is you identified a part of your program that you wanted to be configurable and exposed a configuration knob. If for example you wanted to make it so that there is a test mode that where you want to prefix "test-" to every string written to the DB that would also probably involve a new argument somewhere. There's nothing here special about the mutable state part of it.
Glad to see this thread come back! I'll share something of my own, though it's not a tech project.

I've been working on translating Japji Sahib - which is the foundational prayer of the Sikhs - into English poetry. The original is a poem, but most of the existing translations are in prose and use Western religious terminology that's not really appropriate to the original.

I just wrapped up a first draft of the translation itself. Also working on putting together an essay on why I felt another translation was necessary and why preserving the form of the poem is important to understanding its contents. Planning on getting it published one way or another.

Been sharing snippets from my translation here, if you're interested in following along: https://twitter.com/verseofpunjab
I can recommend a tablet set to a black background for this, sans candles.
>solutions to imaginary problems

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what patterns are. The GOF book is used to this though.

A design pattern is someting that will naturally crop up if you adhere to certain design principles. If you follow a principle of separating instantiation logic from other logic then you will start to see factories. If you combine multiple complex parts of your code into simpler ones then you will see facades.

GOF is a reference book for some patterns that have been observed as being common, with examples that are essentially academic. It is not a how-to guide for OOP.
Wait so should I upvote this or not?

Thanks for all of the work you do.
It's a custom material (since I'm using UE4) - there's small detail (grass, snow, sand etc) with their own normal maps, and that's all filtered to break up tiling and applied to the terrain.

The other part is the macro-level stuff that you see more of when you're zoomed out. I did the landscape using Quadspinner Gaea to simulate erosion based on a heightmap I drew with the basic shapes I wanted. Gaea lets me do a colour map based on terrain features, which I added on top of the small detail, and an 8K normal map which I blend with the detail normals based on the distance to the camera. The normal map adds a lot of little hills and valleys that are normally invisible since they're only small variations in the height map.
Is there still such a thing as a tech moat in non deep-tech startups?
You'd think someone with Elon's money would spend a few bucks on a public speaking course on Udemy or something.
If you get everyone on social media who plays Wordle to run shuf, I'll eat my hat.

I bet not even 10% of Wordle players know what the command line is, nevermind shuf...
What really pisses me off about this whole paradigm is that nowadays I'll go to what seems to be a quiet sit down restaurant and it will take me 45 minutes to get a meal because the kitchens, for some reason, prioritise their zero- or negative-profit delivery customers over patrons who choose to eat in. It happens all the time and for every venue that pulls that crap it's the last visit they'll ever get from me.
Thanks for that peek behind the scenes. It's good to have a sense of how things work.
Motivation to listen to his show? If you don’t listen this today, you might not be able to tomorrow!
That's not how Airtags work. From Apple's website:

> Your AirTag sends out a secure Bluetooth signal that can be detected by nearby devices in the Find My network. These devices send the location of your AirTag to iCloud — then you can go to the Find My app and see it on a map.

Airtags broadcast their ID via bluetooth and then any nearby iPhone with "Find My" enabled will be looking for these signals. If something is found, it sends the information to Apple and Apple then makes it available to the Airtag user.

The person or object doesn't need a phone (be it Android or iPhone) to be tracked. All Airtag needs is to be detected by someone else's iPhone.

Why are Android users vulnerable? Because iPhones will automatically warn you if a tag that isn't yours stays near you for a long time while Android users have no idea. Apple released an app for Android, but it requires users to perform manual scans...
This executive order was signed in 1981… Shows how afraid people are to mess with the CIA. They shouldn’t even be allowed to operate in the United States let alone collect information on American citizens.

One thing I’ve always wondered is why Snowden exposed the NSA mass surveillance, but didn’t say a word about the CIA despite having worked for both agencies. It is, of course, possible he didn’t know about the CIA collecting data, but I find that pretty hard to believe.
I get between 8 and 15 emails from recruiters most days. They found my resume at any of a half dozen sites. It is rare for one of these emails to be even a remote match for my skills.

No, no one read it. They used some sort of keyword search and then sent out spam to the result list.

BUT, the phone calls are just as bad. Is it really that much trouble to look at the resume you got the phone number from? Java isn't on my resume FOR A REASON. (Or .net, or Wyoming, or something)!
They're critical at the surface but when it comes to the government's cute agents they are in lock step. They're really pushing anti Russia propaganda right now for example.
I think most of their other lines are reasonable and can easily be expanded upon with some sources.

Whether or not your ability to travel or have a job being tied up in bureaucracy is an unethical thing is kinda dependent on your perspective. As someone who grew up undocumented and who's had to deal with massive bureaucratic headaches whenever I got a job (even though it was legal), I'm quite critical of that.

As for the state-run media point... I'll try to do this without quoting Chomsky's Five Filters, but I do want to point out that what we consider state-run media in other countries is often much more independent than we realize and what we consider corporate media in the US is often much more heavily influenced by the state than we realize (an easy example might be Fox News' direct ties to the GOP).

But if you really want to see how much of a propaganda powerhouse the US really is, you'd have the best luck looking outside of the US. Read up on the International Broadcasting Bureau or the US' numerous state-controlled foreign media outlets like Radio Free Asia, Radio Liberty, or just the CIA's massive worldwide propaganda network:

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propag...
At this point, you're sitting there wondering if you should be working for yourself.
I don’t want some asshole who steals my keys to be able to look up my name. How is that a good idea?
That's the difference between state funded media, and state run media.

State funded media are news orgs that 100% run themselves, but are funded by the government. This is great for achieving good journalism because they're not incentivised to write clickbait or take advantage of outrage and bias generating sales to people that agree with the bias.

State run media is a terrible idea, for obvious reasons.

Plenty of well functioning democracies have the former, and it's important to identify if there's ever an attempt by the government to turn it in to the latter.

EDIT: apparently NPR is not majority funded by the government now, but was in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

EDIT 2: PBS is probably the better example.
I wholeheartedly welcome this. Because I am absolutely sure someone in about three weeks will figure out how to turn on all of the features.
He has Asperger’s syndrome
I think this actually will succeed
Inside a pair of argument parentheses and want to quickly select a specific argument or the whole lot between the parentheses? Try Jetbrains IDEs' Extend/Shrink Selection (Ctrl + W / Ctrl + Shift + W) feature.

You can also use it in other places and the IDE can evolve the selections smartly based on ASTs.
> eventually legally declassified and discussed openly

That's the idea, and by and large the system functions as intended. Critically, it's a "must take increasingly burdensome measures to maintain classification" configuration. So default / inaction is declassification.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_th...
This is a really strange site; it seems to have all sorts of information except for the actual documentation and software.

Is there a decent site for this system that has actual documentation scans and software that you can download and/or run in an emulator?

Perhaps there's a web emulator for it and a section on archive.org like there is for other vintage systems?

(Another Z-80 system post, but I don't see any 6502 posts today. There really is a lot to like about 8-bit systems because of their simplicity, the fact that hobbyists routinely built their own systems in the 1970s, and the many games created for 8-bit platforms like the Apple II and NES.)
Back when I worked in support and had to do a lot of chat/email communication, I did this for a lot of words - "environment" being one of the most frequent ones. Many years later, I realized that my "mispronunciation" for spelling it was actually closer to some people's pronunciation! I never realized it, but I was only familiar with the southern pronunciation, which totally lacks the second "n" sound ("in-vire-mint").
"It's gonna be cramped, dangerous, difficult, very hard work. You might die." -- Elon's sales pitch for Mars, in his own words.

I wonder if any billionaire (or their children) will be doing the early work. It's an interesting game of "Who values their life the least?" knowing that their sacrifice will make for a better future.

Of course, it's not a foregone conclusion that there will be a disaster. But over the course of 200 years of constant space travel, it seems incredibly unlikely that there won't be some kind of disaster. The question is, how will we react?

I hope we don't give up. And I hope billionaires risk their children alongside the working class.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard him speak. Is he always this awkward? Based off of the 5 minutes I watched, he clearly hasn’t gotten to where he is through charisma and public speaking skills. I’m just wondering if this is typical for him.

Also, a million tons to Mars? If each starship lifts 100 tons, that is 10,000 launches. I think he said launch windows only come around every 2 years. He is either planning on building thousands of Starships or taking many years.
Yes, that would be better. But it is also nice that, despite not having that, we do have a system where we can see what was done.

Obviously it's tricky. By delaying things people can mentally bias towards "that was then". It wasn't that long ago that the US government was kidnapping and forcibly drugging US citizens, but "that was then".

But it's also really important that at some point that information does make it out.
"Oaxaca" isn't Spanish, it's a Nahuatl loanword.
No mention of the CO2 buildup in a bedroom or buildings in general.

When I camp in a tent, more airflow, I sleep better.
In a bedroom, the air is stale after a few hours, the UK has small houses unlike Europe and US.

Plenty of discussions on CO2 levels on here already:
Higher Levels of CO2 May Diminish Decision Making Performance (2013)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14738010

Literally Suffocating in Meeting Rooms, A Little
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237875

On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18959796

Is Conference Room Air Making Us Dumber?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845029

No mention of Tryptophan intake, tryptophan into the brain can become serotonin and melatonin.

Blue light stimulates serotonin production in the brain, a jap study on school kids found when all things equal including diet, they found those with highest serotonin levels walked to school and got more blue light from the sun than those driven to school.

Melatonin has an antioxidant effect 4x greater than vit c, it also increase the release of mesenchymal stem cells so the body can repair itself better, which is important when thinking about plastic molecules in the body, because a study suggests plastic binds to stem cells and inactivates the cell making it harder for us to repair.

Light pollution within the bedroom from clocks, phones etc can also reduce melatonin compared to a completely blacked out bedroom.

The serotonin hypotheses about sleep duration ie little sleep mania, more sleep depression didnt look at CO2 levels.

The author needs to be careful what scientific studies are selected and ignored, sleep is massively complex, but I am also aware even google scholar doesnt always present the links to everything on a topic. Just like SEO can manipulate business website ranking, scientific study ranking can also be manipulated!
> There are a lot of passionate people willing to put content up online just for the feeling of helping others and getting their work recognized.

They already are, but since they think about content rather than seo you can't even find them.
For the user, there's little difference.
It's troubling that those that would openly break the law face no consequences, I guess having a place that doesn't equally apply the justice system to everyone be visible about it is better than being invisible about it.

They're supposed to enforce the laws equally against everyone, though, so the fact that certain powerful organizations in government are exempt and open about it is a little bit more terrifying than if they were exempt but quiet about it.

It's a bit of a flex.

There's literally a part of the US government that can torture people, get caught, get investigated by US Congress, hack into official congressional computers to delete evidence, get caught doing that, and then... face no consequences whatsoever.

If that isn't the most powerful organization in the world, I sincerely don't know who else might qualify for that title.
> implying that Elon's speaking style is bad

It's a relief that it's not some slick slide deck.
What if social media optimized for human values? A Facebook case study
I'm disappointed on you open sourcing it.

Now I'm not against OSS movement and in fact I'm working at a company doing exactly this, but releasing your bread-and-butter as an open source project leaves you vulnerable to peer plagiarism.

Instead, you should just release the core version so others will build an open ecosystem around your mainline product. This will secure your market fundamentals by making sure no one could overshadow you especially in a fiercely competitve market of database.

So please stop open sourcing too much, I don't want to see the same ill fate again and again for great products like RethinkDB (and its downfall) that could change the world
In 3 month no one talks about it anymore. And until then use waybackmachine.
Their abuse team only seems to be reactive instead of proactive. I've reported tens of phishing sites that are just reskins over the same steam password stealer. Instead of realizing they are serving a phishing site they wait for someone to report it.
Crazy how this super simple webpage went insanely viral and is still light enough for anyone to copy and re-host.

Glad that some remnants of ye olde internet are still out there.
After quite some time with OOP, I rather just use it without inheritance (at least in business logic; inheritance is still useful in libraries).

In which case, it would be nice if the language supported ADTs
Easy things work until you have to extend them or do anything the least bit complicated. Think of SQL or most "easy" declarative APIs. Or even worse, ORM engines. Simple things are normally also easy to use, but you may have to write some more boilerplate and there's less "magic".

Steve wrote a simple CRUD API that gets some data and returns it. Bob tried to be clever and write a loosly typed declarative cluster fuck that nobody understands, but it's "easy" if you dont do anything interesting or useful with it.