skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you type "apt install openoffice", don't most distros install libreoffice instead?
The 87% -> 84% is disingenuous at best and probably not accurate in the first place.

It represents a massive uptick in China’s carbon energy consumption while places like the USA have been flat to down and transitioned nearly 25% of energy consumption to renewables
Adene, the 4th generation of decentralized game system
Adene, by Mart Metaverse Holdings, is the 4th generation of decentralized gaming system. This provides the traditional slot machine in the form of NFT, making it more fantastic and creative to earn money.
Here’s the thing: the religious believe that everyone on Earth, in that they experience reality alone, have sufficient evidence that reality has a creator. That elements of reality may be indescribable or that individuals experience reality in a subjective way doesn’t affect that claim. Resigning truth and falsehood into a single category is a nonstarter. The conclusion here from HL Mencken’s quote is a fallacy called inflation of conflict.
I feel like the point of standards to to provide more structure on top of an execution layer. Think about the browser's file picker dialog. Now imagine if every browser had their own file picker API, and each website only bothered to support one of those APIs. Now as you browse the web, the file picker only works on some websites but not others
If trends are telling, as the author seems to think, they tell of Libre's decline, too.

One thing I noticed is that the web based MS Office products are significantly snappier and less quirky than their desktop counterparts. Maybe that is part of it?

Unrelated: I also noticed that Visio, which I previously found quite pleasant to use, actually is nigh unusable (Desktop - no web version exists). Was it always this bad and have my standards simply gone up, or did it deteriorate?
Ah, I disagree. Google is a very good steward of personal data, IMO. And I’m pretty sure health care would be markedly improved if all the data were centralized.

So I guess it boils down to a difference of opinion is all.
My god, about time. Given the war on drugs' history this is just astonishing.
2% above the more reasonable parts of the Eurozone is not a small impact for everyday people - especially not those who have “done the right thing” and have savings.
Is it possible for you to share a video of a sample broadcast so that we can see this amazing quality and all the benefits compared to, say, a nice 4K webcam alone?
The cleantech struggle is real.
Look at his other articles - this guy is super disingenuous. Disappointed I didn't look at that first before getting baited into trying to refute his heavily inaccurate and biased position. From his other posts

"Natural gas provides the most cost-effective near-term solution for affordable, reliable, low-emission energy. Shifts from coal to natural gas have produced the biggest emissions reductions over the past 15 years. Natural gas produces only 10% of the air pollutants and 50% of the CO2 that coal does.[10] Natural gas also has many uses beyond providing power; fertilizers, computers, medical equipment, steel, plastic, mobile phones, cars, and most consumer products are currently made from natural gas and oil. In fact, even solar and wind require natural gas as a backup because they don’t operate most of the time.

Energy Capital Ventures (ECV) is one of the few VCs that sees the potential of natural gas. Instead of chasing popular trends, ECV correctly sees the path to achieving low-emission energy will come through investments in scaleable energy technology such as advanced leak detection and methane capture, process automation and controls, renewable natural gas, and synthetic microbes that absorb greenhouse emissions."
Mexico's President praises government peace strategy amidst violence in country
Not only that, but even ignoring the radiation, a nuclear plant is a single point of failure that will leave a lot of people without electricity.

And it can easily become a target in case of war, terrorism but also social unrest.

A decentralized network of both domestic solar and public solar, wind, hydro, geothermal sources is much more resilient / anti-fragile.

Also, centralization of political power around big energy companies is not good for democracy.
It's not about heat, it's about rays like that penetrating your receiver instead of setting up a field. It would also give 'side channel attack' a whole new meaning.
IBM discontinued Lotus Symphony nearly 10 years ago. OpenOffice continues because the Apache project chairs in place hate the GPL, and even worse, they hate admitting they lost. It's a moral/pride thing rather than a practical or business thing at this point. But IBM was the reason it exists in the first place.
It's funny how fast and profoundly "perspective" will hit you. When I was a young programmer I always dreamed of that promotion and comp adjustment. Constantly looking for that next step. That's not inherently bad, per se, but once you reach a particular place you come to find out what the commensurate responsibility looks like. Sometimes -- dare I say, often? -- it's just not fun. That's what they pay you for, though, right?

The friends and colleagues in my cohort, the ones NOW with larger financial and familial responsibilities, curse their former selves for not knowing how good they had it.

I guess all that is to say, as cliche as it is, "be careful what you wish for".
We’ve been BEGGING for more nuclear power for decades.

The world still uses coal for 40% of electricity and now Europe is firing up more coal plants because of the war in Ukraine.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/ukraine-war-europe-turns-to-...

Would it be safe to assume we lost at least a decade of time waiting for the windmills, batteries, etc?

We could be talking about carbon neutral by 2060 instead of 2050.
I don't think anyone is making a moral assessment of vaping, just a quantitative one. Vaping is bad for you. It is less bad for you than smoking cigarettes.
Why do you jump immediately to forcing their way, you’re talking the language of class struggle. A seat to negotiate with would be a good place to start, and it would lead to more cooperation, not necessarily conflict.

All companies collect employee feedback. Much harder to act upon it. Yes, workers can leave- but not always!- but isn’t it easier if they had a mechanism to negotiate with power, to talk it over like adults, instead of having to resort to quitting?
The purpose of the Sievert scale is precisely to to provide a measure that enables equivalent comparisons of radiation doses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sievert

Even if it's not perfectly accurate, it's probably quite close.
Arch has been handling minor releases on Chromium just fine. If Debian is having issues, it is most likely with them trying to backport fixes into antiquated code bases.
This is false[1].

PV produces 10 to 20 times as much energy as it takes to make, dropping all the time with improvements.

[1] https://reneweconomy.com.au/busting-the-myth-on-energy-retur...
Bitcoin slow? I make virtually free, instant, micro-payments on Bitcoin hundreds of times every day (Podcasting 2.0). I also accept Bitcoin payments on my e-commerce site that settle instantly for fractions of a percent in fees. I also route hundreds of Bitcoin payments per day using a raspberry pi which draws an extremely low amount of energy. Not sure which "reality" you're referring to...
This post violates a pile of posting guidelines. Please don't post lazy flamebait here.
Curious about the name...Schlüssel, German for "key", seemed possible. But Schluss or Schlüsse, or Dutch versus German probably mean something else.
> will use arena / bump / slab allocators.

While not always the case, it is often the case that a good GC will beat all of those. A generational copying GC with parallel collection will treat most allocations as pointer bumps. Giving them the speed of a bump allocator with periodic fragmentation fixes when collection happens. It will beat both slab and arena allocators.

> naive code and you don't get to write naive code if you care about speed / memory usage.

I mean, you can certainly always implement a GC in C (most GCs are implemented in C/C++). Which does suggest that anything you can do with a GCed language can ultimately be replicated in a memory managed language.

However, the point of a GC is that naive code IS faster and easier to reason about. You don't have to create and manage elaborate data specific object pools in order to get the same speeds as if you did.

The other thing to consider about GCs is they enable algorithms that are really hard to replicate in memory managed languages. Concurrent algorithms are WAY easier to reason about because you don't have to wrap your head around object lifetime with thread lifetime.
> In my experience, the time to make money selling mobile apps was 2008-2012 or so. The market is totally different now.

The market is very different I agree but I'd disagree on the money part. Subscription B2C business models are normalised and there's a lot of companies making a lot of money in both app stores right now. In fact I think you can probably make more money now than you could in 2008-2012. Granted it's all a lot more sophisticated and requires more up-front capital, larger marketing budgets and larger teams than it used to but the money is there.

As far as I see, people are installing less apps but the few they have they're spending more time and money in.
Damascus steel I've heard about over the years was supposedly named in one of the crusades (Damascus being in the middle east, and the crusades being in the middle east) and european knights encountering swords of vastly superior sharpness, strength, durability, and flexibility. This was noteworthy because ideal swords are strong and sharp, but flex so they don't shatter/become brittle (which is bad in combat...), with strength and flexibility being opposing properties when forging swords. Too

The Damascus blades somehow exceeded european crusade era steels in all three areas, which was thought impossible. And, superficially at a minimum, these swords had a pattern.

This simple etymology isn't mentioned, nor is the crusades, the sharpness/flexibility/strength/superiority, which seems strange.

I suppose you'd need a sampling of the crusades era weaponry and its properties, and try to find a real damascus blade with similar superior properties to verify the military advantage, and then figure out if it is just better. I've seen a lot of reddit/HN postings and I don't know if the superior swords were actually demonstrated.

I recall one post speculating carbon nanotubes forming back when "carbon nanotubes" was a very clickworthy headline term.

Can you take relics and heirloom swords and destroy them for testing? Probably not. Thus, the mystery. Are the "damascus swords" we do have actually the militarily superior ones? Were they just slightly better but more uniformly performant, while knight swords were a bit more variant?

Who knows. I don't think this article really cleared up much nor lived up to the central claim "we can do that, it's not a lost art".
That's been my experience moving from individual contributor to c suite exec. As an individual contributor, I was free to just do what I thought was best for the company and contribute to any project that I thought I could add the most value.

As a c-suite exec, I spend most of my time in meetings that lead to very little change and I look on with a bit of envy on ICs who get to improve things without asking for permission first.
Just for your interest, you just called a few recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics idiots.
I didn't ignore their reply. I responded to their expansion on the physical options for moving in the space.

The same argument for booting disruptive people could be made for conferences, too. Yes, it's much easier with smaller and more closely-knit teams, but it still happens. And your suggestion is _only_ any good for closely-knit teams. Once it starts getting used for more open-attendance events, that starts to fall apart.

We don't have to theorise about this stuff from first principles, we can see exactly this behaviour panning out for real in existing social systems today. Kick or leave as the two options doesn't cut it there, so why should it be sufficient here?
It is in fact illegal to confiscate for a private entity to confiscate a passport in most Western countries.

Unfortunately it's not well policed, many hotels and office receptions try to do so when they issue you a badge but I always refuse.
In support of this, we can even see the rapid changes in structural demands over half a century in a culture like the US. Suburban sprawl eats up spaces with any viable flexibility in a matter of years, and things like shopping malls fade out of fashion just as quickly as they entered it. In a relatively short time, we are left with brick & concrete hellscapes that are largely being abandoned because developers find it easier (and probably cheaper) to work with fresh land. This Disposable Mentality gets us into obviously environmental and economic messes so often that I am still flabbergasted that the US at large has not adopted a more Reusable Mentality, and incorporated some long-term thinking into their suburban planning.
Also, they’ve been targeting kids. And for some reason people feel that smoking e-cigs indoors is ok.
Also: In the middle, bad stuff is raining down on you and bubbling up from the bottom. You can only lose.

Source: Daily experience. :-D
> The code-search application is completely distinct from the IDE-assistant application

Ok, but how is anyone supposed to know that? There's no verbiage anywhere on those search screens saying that

I thought using the code search with its auto-complete widgets would be a "try it in the browser" version of the product, but what I'm hearing is no, it's just some separate toy trying to be beat Sourcegraph or something?
Is anyone using tailscale on an organizational level?

I'm curious to hear about some of the use cases, and whether some companies and organizations are attempting to adopt this instead of traditional VPN.
He’s partially right. Damascus was made from Wootz steel which was imported from India. The technique of adding carbon to the steel to harden it causing the characteristic bands was discovered in India.
I worked at a retail bookstore for a year a while ago, and at the time it seemed to me a good organization system. People's eyes & brains are really quick at picking out colors, faster than reading names or numbers. (Obviously that's not what bookstores do, but working there made me want it)
The Use Case of the WHATTHEFOXSAY Google Docs Easter Egg
Oil, gas and nuclear companies are among the most wealthy and powerful is the world and have been actively lobbying for decades.
A UART REPL is always the use case that advocates of Python and JS on microcontrollers bring up as one of the main reasons to use it. I haven't tried it myself but it does sound compelling.

So I think excluding that use case is a bit odd.

Maybe you could have two configurations - one with a parser and one without. Most microcontrollers are not restricted to 16kB of RAM these days.
The project chairs vote to close the project.
There is also the "closed loop DX" strat where the tools hosted with your code. For example, Mike Bostocks ObservableHQ, jupyter notebooks hosted for free (at least for now) on Google Drive, codepen, and a bunch more especially for server-side demos. And of course there's no way they will all become profitable companies. In fact I believe there is a "DX metagame" which governs the entire space, because devs can get fatigued by too much choice, and just say "fuck it, I'm coding my thing in notepad and pushing with ftp."
Is my transaction done yet? A study of transaction processing in Ethereum
That is also another "technically correct but completely missing the point" argument used by GMO proponents.

The problem is not with genetically modification, the problem is with the scale that is done.
But you also receive social security and Medicare, which are the two of the largest government expenditures. You’re not making a convincing argument that living longer is a revenue positive for the government.
You raise a good point, but not necessarily the one you intended. "Looming recession" is not an accurate characterization. "Possible recession" is, and frankly, the probability might not be that high. On the one hand we see stories about the great resignation and blaming the government for overheating the economy and causing inflation. On the other we hear claims, based on limited evidence, that we're obviously heading into a recession.
The median household and the median homebuyer aren’t the same. Median household includes a whole swath of people who need to live with relatives or packed in with a large number of roommates. So the median homebuyer already represents probably the top 25% in terms of income.
Another vote for doing it like this. I chose to learn Haskell by working through this book and they were a perfect match. One thing that really helped was trying to build things using a few different language constructs and seeing which ones worked well and which ones didn't. Really helped me independently arrive at a lot of concepts as I searched around trying to figure out how to make things work (a big one being an understanding of the kinds of ways you need to structure your code for a typesystem like Haskell vs. Java)
This article immediately raised a lot of red flags. Lots of rhetorical techniques to create false familiarity and empathy ("Feeling like you’re doing the right thing doesn’t mean you are. I just couldn’t admit it. My sense of identity was tied to my false beliefs about energy" ... implicity, just like you!). The repeated use of "false" and "untrue". The tie to basic propaganda levers like "security" and "liberty and self-determination"

You then find: https://briangitt.com/how-to-win-the-energy-war-tell-better-... where he basically admits it, "When it comes to ideological warfare, whoever tells the best story wins. Energy companies need to stop fighting a defensive battle and go on the offensive. Recapture the narrative high ground and craft compelling counter-narratives to highlight the essential contribution of fossil fuels to human well-being"

For another taste of this, https://briangitt.com/solars-dirty-secrets-how-solar-power-h... "In fact, solar panels require 10 times the minerals to deliver the same quantity of energy as a natural gas plant" Which is just a bald-faced use of misinformation there. I think a comparison to ongoing use of natural gas would look better, instead of "minerals". Intentional apples-to-orange comparisons are another part of misinformation techniques.

Fortunately, he has a sloppy social media history - https://mobile.twitter.com/BrianGitt/status/1516098825449971...

"Thanks to
@AlexEpstein
I had an amazing weekend discussing the future of energy with
@peterthiel
,
@ShellenbergerMD
, & other energy leaders.

I'm excited to watch Alex's book Fossil Future open people's eyes to the critical role energy plays in making the world a better place"

It's clear if you go back in archive.org and look at his podcast history, it seems that he is very interested in communication and media. I would not be surprised, based on his site and social media presence, if he was being compensated in some form for improving the image of the fossil fuel industry.

I don't disagree with him on every point, either. He's not wrong about nuclear and he's not wrong that renewables are a cure-all. That's the point of good misinformation, mixing truth in carefully to create certain outcomes.

This is frightening though, it is crafted misinformation for a HN audience.
> When it comes to technical questions like energy it should be logic, math, and real data or go home.

If those questions have real implications for human beings, you need to consider more than just the technicals.
Autoimmune Protocol Diet is big in the autoimmune support place.

I've tried it myself and try to stick to it. When strict on it my horrific whole body burning pain stopped.

Not everyone, but many people are either cured, show no symptoms, or have reduced symptoms.

I've also noticed a lot of people that have never heard of it eventually rediscover it via trial and error on how their body responds.

Funny enough in contrast to the article. Potatoes (nightshades) are not allowed. Sweet potatoes are.
There can be more than one logically sound way to approach a problem.

In general people want to solve problems. We just disagree on the implementation because everyone thinks their approach is the only solution.
FHIR provides a structure for communicating these data, but does not solve the hard problem in the parent comment about the massive heterogeneity of health care data across institutions (and even within institutions). The same messiness of the original raw data in the proprietary EHR data format can be replicated in FHIR. But at least the mess is available then in an open data format and a bit more regimented on canonical elements (i.e. things like effectiveDate/DateTime).

Have you used HAPI FHIR in production at any scale? Our experience is that it completely falls over under any reasonable strain. Try working with a few thousands patents and ~100M Observations and you will see HAPI work very poorly. It's great that HAPI is very feature rich on the API side--they've implemented most of the spec. But JPA and how they're using it is not a healthcare-scale technology. Google's (Spanner based) and Microsoft's (CosmosDB & SQL Sever based) FHIR API are better at scale but have far fewer features. I'm actually ok with that because the FHIR spec's query functionality is actually much more limited. Google's BigQuery integration really helps here. I'm interested to see where AWS is going with Health Lake. In talking with them I believe they have the best paradigm for their technical implementation.

It is a shame that the open source FHIR servers haven't been great. I think they will probably improve once a scalable paradigm for working with FHIR emerges.
More Companies Start to Rescind Job Offers
If we could reduce our energy dependence on burning things to use cases where it actually makes sense to burn things (such as heating in extreme regions), we could basically consider the problem solved.
It would be interesting to see a Deno competitor run on Lua!
Testing is not one size fits all

https://biggestfish.substack.com/p/testing-is-not-one-size-f...
I agree with you. Saying it’s “slightly less terrible” is disingenuous. Sure, not smoking at all is the best thing but some can’t do that on the whim
What's wrong with criticizing things one doesn't believe in?

Especially if, as the parent noted, that thing one doesn't belief in has—through the actions of people that do believe—negative impacts on one's life?
A fine reason for them to bork the useful-java-links case, I guess, but your argument falls over for the 3rd link: https://github.com/MovingBlocks/Terasology/blob/develop/LICE... and the sidebar widget correctly says "Apache-2.0 license"
The problem is almost all apps are just a wrapped webpage anyway - I want apps that keep working (to the best of their ability) offline, which very VERY few do. Kindle and HERE maps are some of the ones I can think of.
Why do cats love catnip?
>Google will succeed at healthcare only after medical decisions can be reduced to A/B tests. That is to say, never.

Never, or literally tomorrow if they take over.
"Personalised medicine" decisions made with "AI" will provide a perfectly unaccountable black box to blame when (if ever) the general public realises that vulnerable and poor people have been getting the B end of the A/B testing.

I agree with the rest of the post but god have mercy on us if these companies take over healthcare. I never thought I'd be living in such a totalitarian state in my life.