skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do have a point, and I agree that making the production-side clean should be a large focus, but there are valid arguments for reducing consumption, too, I think.

Supply of energy is limited, and so there is a market effect: overconsumption by some players can increase the cost to other consumers.

Market economics should mean that the resulting increase in profit margin turns into an opportunity for more-cost-effective competitive entrants.

Most of this assumes no collusion between players in the market. If, for example, company A provides a product that is knowingly energy-inefficient and half of their board members also sit on the board of energy company B that is experiencing record profits -- and could easily acquire company C that theoretically has a cheaper energy production solution -- then perhaps problems could occur.
I probably agree with this for traditional reactors, but I'm not sure if this holds for small modular reactors. A lot of our nuclear dialogue assumes a very narrow kind of nuclear. I don't think nuclear needs to be the only approach, but we should definitely diversify even if one of the options is more expensive.
> just derisive

Well, you've said it yourself. There's nothing a reasonable person can
add to that, or hope to gain by doing so. So, have a lovely day. :)
Maybe not. This seems like a very easy gap in Chrome's armor.

"Firefox - we still have adblock"

Part of why Chrome gained users was it's adblocking in the first place.
absolutely. i wrote this mobile allergy data thing and getting the data was mostly scraping from news websites that did terrible things with javascript to keep scrapers and ad blockers out. Beautiful Soup worked past all of that easily. Probably my favorite Python library.
I live here and I love them.
If you're doing any serious amount of work in any situation then I agree with you, but sometimes the best tool for the job is the one that gets the job done.

CircuitPython is special-built for this exact task -- to make microcontroller work more approachable and accessible for beginners and/or projects with a small scope.

Anecdote: I used it a few weeks ago for a project that was small and had a tight timeline. As a beginner to electrical engineering with microcontrollers it was nice to not have to struggle through language syntax as well. This solved my use case perfectly.
They're absolutely connected. Everyone knows it but they're afraid to say it.
Doesn't seem weird to me.

If you were my employee and I said you had a shift at say 8am and you never showed up then I'd just fire you _with cause_. There's no need for it to count as a resignation.
roblox.com seems popular with children:

"Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system . . . that allows users to program games and play games created by other users."

In some ways it is surprising and disappointing that HTML and CSS would be still significant to "web development" in that Justin Hall's call to arms "HTML is easy as hell"[0] was written nearly 30 years ago. The cycle promoted there is non-centralized, noncommercial and amazingly simple.

0. http://www.links.net/webpub/
Your local bar association almost certainly has a referral service. First consultation is under $100 around here.
I haven't! If I need to revive this particular bit of shameful spaghetti code, I'll look into it, thanks!
replit.com

glitch.com
You are eligible for unemployment in California if your employer significantly changes the terms of work, that includes changing locations to an unreasonable commute.
Kick-style but no, scooters on sidewalks in Tokyo would be terrible (for both pedestrians and scooterers).
> Most of society's direct expenses in their education is in the K-12 phase

True that K-12 costs more, but public assistance in higher education is substantial [1]. From grants, subsidized loans to directed money into public universities, it's a sizable investment at the state and federal level. It'd be more efficient to take that money and invest it directly in vocational schools if we knew people would utilize it and then swap careers due to burn out.

1 - https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...

Edit: Updated reference to 2019 version.
I don’t want to discredit the authors views but, as someone that has competed in sports at a high level and suffered injury, it seems as if they are going through the emotional roller coaster of recovery.

The read is all over the place and I understand they are attempting to formalize their thoughts, but I think it can all be summed up to this:

> I spent a large part of my life in a tight community, doing the one thing that allows me to escape the annoying nuances of daily routine and, for now, that’s gone because of injury. I’m now faced with a different reality that doesn’t fit the mold of my own.

Maybe I’m wrong - and that’s very possible. But this reads as an athlete struggling with injury recovery and trying to deal with the emotional negatives of losing something that has defined them.
That post said the main reasons that people have kids are "They don't want to "die alone". They want to show that they can afford it."

Which are entirely different reasons than the parent poster gave.

This whole meta discussion of whether it's done for "selfish" reasons is largely not valuable, as every decision one makes in their life can be framed as being entirely selfish.
For drug issues, jails solve that already by restricting freedom. However, the drug addict with socially provided housing is still free to continue using, even if they going to treatment at the same time. Economically speaking, most of these people will never be productive members of society again no matter how many resources we throw at them. Fentanyl destroys your mind fairly quickly.

The moral question of giving them a chance to recover even though it is unlikely to succeed still remains.
I would totally dig a job posting with only examples of actual tasks instead of "passion, drive, and bullshit"
That's 5-9% of global electricity, not global energy. Electricity is only about 15% of global energy use making IT around 1% of total energy.
It's lossless, offers compression, works with 16-bit images, and is well supported in a lot of software on all sorts of platforms.
What recommendations do you all have for alternatives?
Spam email and last Sunday was a holiday in most parts of the world, that's why no response.
Cryptpad 5.0
This SF district attorney recall thing is a really good example of the media's power to manufacture a story. Even if you accept the premise that crime stats rise or fall in response to DA policies, those stats mostly fell during Boudin's tenure.

But if you show the video of someone robbing a convenience store (in oakland! another city entirely!) enough times on loop, you can convince enough voters that Something Must Be Done.
There are zero Goldwind based turbines in Germany. ENERCON, Nordex, Vestas, Siemens Gamesa all the things!
Blender was one of those things that I got into when I was in my early teens. This was around version 2.3X.

It has always had a great community, and made amazing development progress.

Version 2.5 was a big ui shift at the time.

These days with 2.8 then 3, they have managed to make some amazing progress, in a much faster turn around time.

I commend Ton's direction and the amazing work by the devs :)
For those new to MicroPython or to the ESP8266 line of microprocessors here is a talk that I gave at a PyCaribbean conference in 2017. [1]

Its a bit long winded but I tried to touch upon everything that a new entrant to the space would want to know to start playing with the board immediately.

I am not a natural public speaker so please excuse my verbal (or other) tics.

I have also linked the presentation PDF. [2] You can scan the entire PDF in less than 10 minutes to get the gist of the 45 minute+ YouTube video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ctB8VMm6RA

[2] https://github.com/spicecoaster/pycaribbean2017
This happened to me with Google.

Apparently, 10+ years ago, I showed some interest in some Google product aimed at developers. It's been so long, I cannot even recall which one.

For the past 5-6 years, I've been receiving emails from Google recruiters. When I finally asked one where did they get my address, he said that I was labeled in their "database" as a software engineer, and that "database" is shared across the whole organisation.
It is amazing how propagandized people in the West are during this conflict. Of course this exists on all sides, but it boggles the mind to hear that Ukraine is "winning" this conflict. You know who else isn't winning and is hurt the longer it goes on? Europe, and Germany particularly!

Russia's currency is stronger than before the conflict, their trade surplus is larger, they are making more money from elevated energy prices, they have and will have more territory.

Europe / Germany through stupid sanctions, and talk of more, against Russian energy have inflated energy prices and now have to purchase energy in Rubles after they confiscated Russian Euro and USD foreign exchange reserves. Whereas before they could purchase all in their own currency and were in talks to expand gas supplies through Nord Stream 2, now they've cancelled that project and on the margins have to buy Rubles to buy energy.

Prediction: The pain will increase on Europe and they will realize their bread is buttered in the east, they will come to the conclusion that positive trade relations with Russia, compared to the US are more advantageous and eventually they will approve Nord Stream 2. They will do everything they can to regain the ability to buy all or most energy and commodities from Russia in Euros, meaning ending sanctions and not expanding them.

Good video describing the geopolitical dynamics of European / Russian trade relations after the war ends in Russian victory: [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/pdUYtvk4sqE
The article mentioned Akershus hospital in Norway. It is a big 6-floor building. For taller buildings deeper drilling is required, but still should possible. But I guess for really toll buildings one should focus on improving isolation as presently it may not be cost-effective just to install heat pumps.
He is Jewish, and his terrorist parents were Weathermen (Weatherpersons?), not Al-Qaida or their ilk.
Nope. Source: multiple friends who work in Intel fabs. These fabs aren't turnkey.
> then its really not their job to arrest people for that anymore.

Did they quit? If they are still recieving a paycheck then it is quite literally still their job.

Instead of doing their job, the police decided to try to do the DA’s job, which is deciding which cases should be prosecuted.
I wonder why nuclear fanboys always attack low-carbon, low-capital renewables with a ferocity that they spare incumbent and well-financed, carbon-spewing fossil fuel power providers. i don't know if we could ever figure out "cui bono"!
I get the sentiment, but there is also something to be said for having a consistent and stable starting configuration. Yes, you might end up removing Bluetooth modules from servers, but you know exactly what the starting kernel config is. When you have completely custom kernels for each server, you’ll spend half of your time just figuring out what the starting configuration is.

Compiling kernels is really a lost art that many people have never done. It’s probably best to avoid too much of that in production until it’s absolutely necessary.
*Then one always has
Scaling with common sense Part 1
> Regarding the original article's question Can you tell my how many steps . . . Ubuntu for example without Bluetooth support?, its not actually that bad

Finally. I'm surprised at how many posters here deflected this point, because last I checked it's actually really easy on major distros.

I guess that tells us something about how many Linux users on HN have ever compiled their kernel, that most were like "LOL why?" and not "sure, it's easy".
a web forum for Amazon users to discuss the products they received instead of the product the ordered
It's possible that the feed reader attaches it itself based on when it appears in the feed since the reader will keep polling the same feed over time
Google did the same sang with G plus a couple years ago attempting to require people use their full names when signing up for accounts. There was an outcry and they backtracked on that but look where we're at now. In my view they're definitely moving the surveillance state forward in small increments. There was an article awhile back [linking Google to the CIA](https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...), not sure how true it is.
The fact that birds are killed in other places is not an argument for making more bird-killing structures when it can be avoided. Especially when the kinds of birds they tend to kill are endangered birds of prey. That is unless the number of bird deaths it causes are negligible.
More importantly the "Creativity" is expressed in different ways now - in the 90s if you wanted to make a "splash" you learned HTML; today you might learn video editing toolchains to post in-joke videos to Youtube or something.

Creativity finds a way - but the companies continue to make it simpler so you do NOT require or have to learn specialized domain knowledge to express what you want to.

A similar process happened with cars; the original automobiles needed even the driver to be relatively well-versed in how they worked (or have mechanics on call at basically all times) to now where they'll run 100k miles with very basic maintenance.
The problem isn’t the people, it’s the very concept of a school board.

I could go on all day about the Xtian school boards I grew up under. Athiests, Jews, non-whites not welcome. That’s still the norm in a majority of America.
The number of employees who quit the DA’s office because of Chesa was not manufactured, and is ultimately why I voted the way I did.
Offshore I heard it’s just a couple of years
Yes, the downside for the average person is that they cannot get any of those jobs because the union only hires via corruption or nepotism
Grade inflation is a counterpoint here.
Or check out his book “Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide”. It’s pretty short and the contents are pretty much that video.
I want whatever drugs the author is on
Oh great! Thanks! Definitely have a few things I'll use this for!
Some arguments are worth making, some aren't.

There is also an argument that people choose not to have kids because they are too lazy and self-involved to care for another person.
The device is going to come with at least one cord.

How many people can afford at minimum a $429 phone who can’t afford a couple of extra cables?

“poor people aren’t buying iPhones”. But they are buying Androids that are not being supported by their manufactures with even security updates shortly after they buy them.
…oh I agree
Of course, I'm not in your situation, so I'm not sure how exactly I would react. But what I think I would do is:

* Let HR/management know that you are unable to move until January 2023 due to personal constraints and the fact that you were promised a remote role when hired.

* Simply ask them for an exception to keep your employment but allow you to move back to the office in January 2023 and not by August 2022.

* If they disallow the exception, ask them if you will be receiving severance pay.

* In any of the scenarios, start looking for a new job that doesn't treat you like this.
For those interested in some good history of the punk movement in East Berlin, I recommend the book Burning Down the Haus by Tom Mohr. Really gives a window into the courage, creativity, and motivation of the youth, and their oppression by the Stasi.
If I could do that with everything I would.

Windows needs window containers in which house windowed "desktops" that house programs.

I want to put a project on pause I can just close the container and pick up with everything in it later instead of trying to document and remember where and what I was using and opening everything the same way every time
In most places, moving your place of employment such that it requires relocation would be considered constructive dismissal and therefore effectively termination.
> The price of running BSD in production in a responsible way is that you need a fairly sizable team of >4-6 people. Probably salary cost alone would run close to a million per year. That's a big commitment to run anything and hiring is going to be tough.

Not sure where you got your numbers from, but I have been maintaining FreeBSD servers for 2 decades and would estimate the attention a machine needs at about 10% of what a Linux box needs.
I think the reason it's unused these days is because it's largely been replaced by vscode
>> In the story itself, it says the EMTs were actively treating him. Not offering to treat him, just straight to it. No mention of them even asking if it was ok to treat him.

You're assuming they hadn't already offered to treat him and he said yes which is the most likely scenario.

>> In the story itself, it also says the activists just told the man his options. Nothing in that story indicates they tried to convince him of one option or the other, only that he had them.

He's a vulnerable person and they were offering him a bad option. They make the good option (treatment) sound risky just by suggesting he doesn't have to accept it. They did absolutely no good in this case.
I think the writing was on the wall for a long time.

Since it is only happening in 6 months, I wonder if the community will try to transition/fork it.

Do you know if there is still enough interest?
And Raymond tells the story in a fun and engaging way. I really look forward to a volume 2 of The Old New Thing book (a compilation of his blog entries)
With respect to the author, the article fails to show that in fact “entropy” is related to “complexity” and how the two are related.

Entropy should not be thought of as “overhead” or “wasted energy,” which is what I believe the author is getting at. Instead, entropy is the tendency to disorganization. So, the analogy could be the more stuff you have, the more disorganized it becomes; but this is a weak analogy in my opinion.

Here is a link to another article that discusses the link between complexity and entropy. The two are indeed related: entropy is necessary for complexity to emerge. Entropy is not, as this author suggests, a result of complexity.

https://medium.com/@marktraphagen/entropy-and-complexity-the...
> The reality is, a great many jobs make us sick. Depression, anxiety, heightened aggression, sedentary atrophy, getting overweight because there's no time for the gym... the modern office workplace is no heath-farm. And Google throwing a few coloured bean bags around, or providing healthy food and gym equipment is only a sticking plaster if the foundational culture is toxic. What is the cost to society? I have no idea, or how to even measure it.

Are you positing that there are loads of healthier jobs or healthier ways to do office work (without foregoing the actual productivity)? Or maybe that work itself is inherently unhealthy (which I kind of believe, but at least until we have automation meeting our physical needs 'work' seems healthier for society).
I told you a lot. You tell me something in opposition...
My only experience with FreeBSD is running a TrueNAS server, and there's some weird bug where once a month or so all the RAM (literally like 70 GB) gets eaten up by FreeBSD Laundry which crowds out the ZFS cache causing performance to tank and then never goes down again. I've not installed anything "weird", just running a few basic jails like FAMP.

I've taken to periodically running a task that allocates craploads of memory and lightly dirties it to force the OS to "collect" the laundry.

Googling it finds a random smattering of other people who have the same issue but no solutions.

So my take on FreeBSD is that it's pretty nice but without the larger user base of Linux it has more weird bugs that don't get teased out.
All my friends built customized MySpace pages back in the day, but none of them are coders now. It gave you just enough tools to make a really interesting profile, but you would quickly hit a ceiling. During the same period, I was learning HTML using Dreamweaver and Arachnophilia (a combination of WYSIWYG and IDE). So I disagree w/the premise, even if there may have been some people that kept going, I doubt that it was a large contributor to the devs we have today because if you want to start coding you will probably start with something that gives you more flexibility.
“Sunsetting” an open source project seems… unfitting? Hand it off to the community, look for new maintainers, donate it to the Apache Retirement Home for Veteran Projects, sure.

But saying that you’ve decided to “sunset” or “archive” it, telling users to plan for their migration, seems counter to the notion that open source software forms part of a commons - something that Github, of all companies, should understand.
Visual Studio Code is the most obvious.
I actually forgot Atom existed. I move from it to VSC because Atom was just such a resource hog.
Neither are landscapes filled with houses or roads. Or filled with farms, for that matter, or with tree plantations. Germany isn't exactly full of virgin forests. There isn't a single square mile outside of a few inaccessible mountains that isn't completely redesigned to support the human population. All the supposedly unspoiled landscapes nimbyism cries for are really just green (or not quite so green) factories designed to supply human needs. Adding turbines to the mix is hardly more than a tiny tweak.
This is why I love HN, stories like this.
VSCode seems to be the go-to for most.
Sublime I guess. I made the switch awhile back because if just how much snappier it is, but it’s sad to see Atom go with all its nice add-ons…
It seems that the people of SF don't agree with you. Crime didn't fell, prosecutions did. It is like the Trumpian 'if you don't test, then covid doesn't exist'.

There you go the clear graph:
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/06/05/why-san-f...
>became the kind of figure...

Imagine that.
> And I can guarantee using a more sound (and more complex) type system like Elm or Rust would have never succeeded

Both Rust and Elm have a much simpler type system than TS.

Well, for Rust it can maybe be argued to have its complexities but Elm is dead simple. In fact the most common criticism of Elm is that it it lacks more complex features that people from the Haskell world are used to.

Allowing for the gradual typing of a dynamic language like JS is extremely challenging requiring stuff like structural typing which is not at all common in most mainstream programming languages. I don't thing there are many mainstream languages that have a more complex type system.

The value TS offers is ease of gradual adoption and access to the huge JS-ecosystem and for that you absolutely pay a price in complexity. It is absolutely trivial to design a language with a much simpler, sound type system that offers higher productivity and a smaller learning curve than TS but that wouldn't have much value for most people as the access to the JS stuff and gradual adoption.
Women Who Preserved the Story of the Tulsa Race Massacre (2021)
Maybe if you spend that in a month and only play for a month. Whale territory isn't even affordable for average people.
I moved to Boston. Those things you describe I saw daily in SF - broken car windows, theft at retail stores, and rampant homelessness.

I can go months in Boston without seeing a single homeless person, drive around all winter with all my skiing gear in the back of my car, hell even leave my car unlocked with my laptop in it while running into a store, and never once seen a robbery or violent attack.

No, what happens in SF is extremely disproportionate to normal around the rest of the US.
Climate change will kill way more birds than windmills ever will.
People don’t have a choice but to buy iPhones?
First party support for models hosted on HuggingFace for optimisation/conversion! Pretty stoked about playing with it