skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embrace limits.

There's a limited energy budget at Earth's surface.

Humans have benefitted by ransacking a treasure store of energy which accumulated over 100--300 million years, and will quiet possibly not be recharged in the remaining span of habitable life on Earth (about another 800 million -- 1 billion years). Even absent energy concerns, we've also been ransacking rich mineral deposits some dating to the earliest eras of life on the planet (banded iron formations, the result of blue-green algae growing 3 billion years ago). Absent ore-formation through minerological and biological processes which concentrate minerals to levels which make further extractuion and purification viable, we'd be stuck with far fewer choices for materials.

The largest challenges in degrowth are not technological but political, cultural, economic, fiscal, and ultimately about shared beliefs, values, and vision.

Over nearly 50 years of awareness of, reading on, and researching this problem, that's become abundantly clear, and hopes of a successful negotiation of this particular transition are not high.

The energy landscape is largely known and has been for the past 70-150 years. Solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, and biomass.

We're already making use of much or all the available biomass (as food, with considerable fossil inputs), hydro, and goethermal resources. Solar can be ramped up, as can wind. Both produce power of a different scope, cost, and quality (availability, variability) than what advanced technological countries have come to rely on.

Nuclear is an option but faces its own issues: limite fuel (uranium and plutonium, possibly not so much in the case of thorium), major political and social-organisation risks, and of course a very long-tail disposal risk extending beyond the span not only of all our social institutions but of civilisation itself --- tens of thousands of years.

William Ophuls and Thomas Homer-Dixon are two authors in particular who have been looking at the political challenges of adapting to ecological limits.

I strongly recommend all Ophuls' work, though Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity (first published in 1977, revised ~1994) and Plato’s Revenge (2011) are probably the best starting points. The first secion of Ecology in particular makes one of the most cogent arguments for the Limits to Growth premise I’ve found anywhere.

At Worldcat:

https://www.worldcat.org/title/ecology-and-the-politics-of-s...

https://www.worldcat.org/title/ecology-and-the-politics-of-s...

https://www.worldcat.org/title/platos-revenge-politics-in-th...

Also available via Archive Org:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=william ophuls

Ophuls has a website with more recent writings, though the essays are missing from the present-online version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190311104851/https://ophuls.or...

Thomas Homer-Dixon is referenced by Ophuls several times and seems closest in spirit to his work:

https://homerdixon.com/
Why can’t insurance companies post the actual price they are paying and being charged by the hospital with proper billing taxonomies. They seem like they probably have these things well ironed out since they actually deal with various hospitals whereas hospitals only deal with themselves.
I hate Trump and am glad he was voted out, but you have to give him his dues.

This is 100% his doing, through executive action. The Dems could have done this but never did. It’s just another example of how neither side of the aisle is truly on your side.
I already have that when I type `nvim` in Alacritty?
But you're using it through a service that uses lightning and custodies your funds? Or you are managing your own channel?
Why? What do you think pays for the "hospital cost"?

(That's not to say there aren't MANY opportunities to reduce the price and cost, starting with complying with the law to post prices, which many hospitals don't adhere to because the current administration isn't enforcing the EO)
It's pining for the fjords.
Do you have this same experience outside of corporate meetings? Sounds like me with ADHD - but as always much introspection and perhaps a good professional diagnosis is the only way to know.
Meta Releases NLLB, New Open-Source Model Able to Translate 200 Languages
Coupled with embedded fonts that’s pretty clever and good foresight from Adobe.
As the space force still reports to the Air Force, and the NGA and NRO exist, I don’t see the need for yet another intel unit just to have one
can we please stop posting bullshit comments like this
> Surely you mean _large_ cash transactions. If not, could you explain how this works?

Originally, like everywhere, only large transactions were registered.

But in the mid 2010s some laws and regulations were updated then interpreted in a way that required businesses to start registering transactions in in a more detailed way.

So for some years every purchase over US$ 100 has required an ID. in practice the threshold is lower though.

For example in banking transactions even depositing a one cent coin is linked to an ID card. Previously the threshold was $500.

Utility companies do something similar too, like registering not only the account holder name, but also the ID and name of the person who pays the utility bill for any amount. So paying a $2 water bill with coins requires and ID.

A new reporting requirement was added last year, in which businesses and 'tax-contributors' are required to upload every month to the Tax Ministry a CSV containing all transactions with other tax-contributors.

So if Alice's Medical Supply Store sells $5.00 to Bob the Doctor, the Tax Ministry will expect Alice to report in an individualized way the sale to Bob, and to Bob to report the purchase to Alice. Including their IDs, amounts and invoice numbers.

It is still not required to report the ID of sales to 'final consumers', but the change is just one CSV column away from happening.
All politicians are crooks. Left or right, doesn't matter. They are both accepting bribery under "lobbying".
It's complete nonsense even when you're conscious and fine!
Peripherals are behind a DART.
phi = protected health information

pii = personally identifiable information
There is no actual price. Its rent extraction. They can change how much they charge you for 18 months.
Limiting options is exactly the point. Elevators are supposed to be easy to use for the entire population, including the very young, the very old, those with disabilities, those not able to read or write the dominant language, etc.

In these cases, it is simply the best UX to keep everything really simple.
Why wouldn't the person reciprocate? I never would have imagined that emotional honesty exists in that type of relationship. Aren't people paying for the relationship?
The health insurance companies are now required to publish this and in fact the rule went into effect July 1 2022.

Look up price transparency by CMS (the data will be published in this format: https://github.com/CMSgov/price-transparency-guide)

Note: the data being published by payors in machine readable format (MRF) is MASSIVE - terrabytes of data. Example: https://transparency-in-coverage.uhc.com/
Do they kill more people then police every year (only including shootings)? Police shoots more then 1000 every year...
I've long advocated for a few variations of this:
1. fines must conform to a percentage of the targets earning wealth (e.g. someone who makes 30K a year gets fined $3000, someone who makes 300K gets a 30K fine etc)
2. flat out just as you said, fine must EXCEED by a multiple, the amount they gained (however, determining the gain is in many situations, requiring a lot of forensic accounting to sort out).
WTF about, not just the compensation, but the fact that some of these show a salary of $200k with $2.X million in benefits. Like, what?

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2021/gateway-comm...
He does a lot of media analysis, especially of other YouTube channels. His views are definitely not unbiased, but in this case he provides a counterpoint that people interested in The School of Life might benefit from hearing.

If you're not interested in The School of Life, then it's not worth an hour of your time.
Security is not black-and-white, it's shades of gray. This feature aims to make exploitation harder. Formal proofs and certifications are nice but what I just said remains true even in the face of such things. iOS is regularly tested in the real world against highly resourceful attackers, and the results there are far more indicative of how well its security fares than anything else could be.
Could be a function of anti-discrimination lawyers focusing on the most high profile, deep pocketed carmaker.

But as it happens, Ford, along with probably every one large American company, has been targeted numerous times by discrimination lawsuits:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ford+discrimination+lawsuit&...
meanwhile, Intel CEO is paid handsomely for a languishing company, even more than Apple's Tim Cook.

https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-earned-1711-times...
Is he?

No offence but if someone can't get basic terms right, then maybe they should speak with a little less confidence.
London Underground originally was kept cool because of its thermal mass. Over the last 100 years, it has now turned into a giant heat store, and there is an emerging airconditioning problem. I believe its the resistive heating from the trains passing through, over time, plus the sweaty exhalation of millions of people.

TL;DR ground heat is remarkably persisting and takes years to dissipate, if deep enough. Coolth, the absence of heat, is really the same in this regard, because the heat transport through the ground is not rapid.

This is also why deep hot rocks need fracking to get thermal energy working unless its happening naturally. Rocks all around the place "down there" are hot. Very hot. A lot of ground water comes out hot. Bath (uk) for instance. its hot. So how come the rest of bath is cold and wet? Because ground heat doesn't move fast.
Looking pretty good for real! Also doesn't seem to have a ton of dependencies, so maintenance should be easier.

I think Barfi can be a good aid to kids & beginners, and you should probably position it that way. The UI reminds me distinctly of Labview - with the virtual I/O pins having little 'bubble-heads' and action definition within the block.
Have you ever seen a film or a TV show that had screen tearing in it? I haven't, it would look awful. For anything that needs to animate smoothly at a stable frame rate, tearing is a bug. It makes it look really choppy. You can do various things to eliminate a lot of tearing in X (like using an X compositor, and only using clients that implement double buffer vsync), but the default in X is that clients can send drawing commands at any time. Wayland changes this and makes it so you're practically guaranteed to never see tearing by default.
Should the Marines get rid of their intelligence units since the Navy has them already?

P.S. I don't mean this facetiously: what I meant specifically was - what is the bar for maintaining an independent Intelligence apparatus with this opinion? Do we consider a Secretary/Department to be the cutoff? I'm of the opinion that if the two deviate enough, then there is no reason for them to be conjoined.
It's certainly not the worst, but I take issue with how overconfident de Botton is, and consequently, how convincing his work can seem to many viewers who take it at face-value without more critical thinking. He's academically inclined but largely self-taught, and his hypotheses are not always as well thought-out as one might expect from an "academic".
or is escaped where it shouldn't be
> because it also makes clear that IRC is not an ideal medium for many forms of messaging.

Back in the day where people used to differentiate between IRC and IMs (more importantly, chat vs messaging), I don't really think this is correct. In today's era of Discord/Slack/SMS though, it certainly would seem like a detriment. I do agree with those other people, though. What was nice about IRC (to me) was how imperative it was. You could post a cool thing, question or discussion topic in a channel and have responses coming through within the minute. When you're done, you just close the window and it's like it was never there. I remember feeling like I was using a secret spy communicator when I had IRC downloaded in middle school, the whole ephemeral nature of it was the coolest to me back then.
Shotstack
What do you mean about GCC shooting itself in the head?

What do you mean about its license?
> CMS's price transparency law, which requires all hospitals to post their prices online in a single, machine-readable file

Whoever got this legislation through deserves a pat on the back.
> IIRC it's US-based so subject to acts of intervention from on high.

Sure, and they have been open about what information they give. If you're talking about being forced to introduce compromised code, well I'm not aware of the US government being able to force a company to do that. Signal has said before they'll shut down and then move if this is a requirement and on top of that[1], the code is open sourced and constantly scrutinized by the security community. So sounds like a pretty difficult thing to pull off.

I don't think handing your phone number to Signal is as big of a security issue as you're making it out to be.

[0] https://signal.org/bigbrother/

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/signal-earn-it-ransomware-securi...
Yeah, I wish I’d known about archive.org when I was in a position to help them capture the sites I worked on (ibm.com, the Deep Blue chess sites, etc.).
Happened after BTC lost $30k in value. Seems North Korean crackers are busy lately
I just can't understand why it isn't supported. I thought the M1 was an oversight that they would correct with the M2.
I am really tired of the hijacking of concepts like "bot" or "robot" to mean "small magnetic particles which form a virtual scrubbing brush, and we make them move by rotating a magnetic field"

these are lumps of magnetite. they have no autonomous element, no programming, no decision logic, no ALU, no FPGA, no WiFi, no data, no analogue computer, nothing.

Its not smart dust: its dumb dust and a rotating magnet. Its not a bot.
You Don’t Have "Plenty of Time" (2016)
You'd probably like https://reddit.com/r/superbowl
> "Why don't companies invest in better managers?" …

Because the more you invest down at the levels where it really matters, the less you have left to line the pockets of the ultra-rich alphabet soup at the upper levels. Gotta pay for those multi-million dollar "bonus/severance packages" and all that junk somehow right?
Not really; where would you put it inside the []?
> Threading in CPython doesn't allow 2 threads to run concurrently (because of GIL)

It does allow threads to execute concurrently. It doesn't allow them to execute in parallel if they all are running Python code (if at least one is rubbing native code and has released the GIL, then those plus one that has not can run in parallel.)
Fixing that typo can be an expensive correction.
I’ll just leave this video here: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRNqQCvF/?k=1
The top salaries in that database match the people's names in this article: https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/east-county-superintenden...
CMS took administrative action this year to try to improve those situations:

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/consumers/new-protections-fo...
That really helps me appreciate the power efficiency gains! So much improvement in so short time...
Many hospitals and providers are ignoring it, perfectly willing to eat the fine, if it ever comes.
It may be that irc is used by 0.0001% of the general public, but approximately 90% of open source developers use it, me included.
Ask HN: Is SQLite a good fit for text editors?
The SQLite website mentions it is the mostly deployed SQL database and found in:

"Every Android device
Every iPhone and iOS device
Every Mac
Every Windows10 machine
Every Firefox, Chrome, and Safari web browser
Every instance of Skype
Every instance of iTunes
Every Dropbox client
Every TurboTax and QuickBooks
PHP and Python
Most television sets and set-top cable boxes
Most automotive multimedia systems
Countless millions of other applications"
Building better ice towers for drinking water and irrigation
I can not help but wonder if it can translate any non previously seen language like protoindoeuropean.
I am a bit older and have worked in IT now for almost 2 decades. (44 years old)

I honestly think the general premise here holds true and perhaps applies to many of us here in computed related occupations.

It seems many of us focused on STEM STEM STEM or COMPUTERS COMPUTERS COMPUTERS in education but perhaps are emotionally infantile to an extent.

How many of us write programs, support infrastructure, design gadgets … for what? What is important ? Our job… buying gadgets… traveling..

I don’t have any answer but it’s worth pondering. How many of us work countless hours for companies whose missions we don’t perhaps even agree with… how many of us ponder what is important to us and why we act the way we do?

Just My two cent
Show HN: iCal style UI library built with React, 99% headless components
This is the essential part of Calendar component generalized from my daily job, hope this helps building Calendar UI for your react app
I would have thought convincing people they’ll just have to use Go or Rust or Elixir would have been an easy sell around here.

Turns out they just want a better Python.
Same. It is a way to incorporate it into the daily routine.

Also, I tie my floss into a big loop.
I can tension it with my whole hand while still using individual fingers to get it where I need it.

Takes practice to get a quick easy knot that doesn't slip, but now it is like tying shoelaces - automatic and quick.

I honestly think "floss loops" is the next "sliced bread".
District heating can use cogeneration in nearby power plant, so it essentially reuses waste heat from electricity production. There are even district heatings that use heat from nearby nuclear power plant.

Also note that modern systems does not use steam distribution, but high-pressure hot water distribution.
I've... Never had a problem that was catastrophic in my adult life. Only real issue we've ever had was someone hit the ac unit with their car.

Curious what sort of load you put on yours to have such terrible luck.
as a non-American not familiar with how these structures work, is there a particular reason why these institutions are grouped by domain rather than by function, i.e. why so many branches seem to have their own intelligence agencies, rather than say, combine the intelligence agencies themselves? It seems very redundant and complicated to share information.
Python is also the dominant language for machine learning which does care for performance. The person who made recent nogil work is one of the core maintainers of key ML library. The standard workaround is ML libraries, the performance sensitive stuff is written in C/C++ (either manually or with cython) and then uses python bindings. But it would be much friendlier if we could just use python directly.

It's also commonly used language for numerical work in general. Most of the time numpy is enough and then occasionally you'll need something not already implemented and then have to do your own bindings.
As I understand it from news articles a few months back, the Biden administration was letting the enforcement of Trump’s healthcare price transparency law really slip.

And it was severely under reported.

Recommend sending Biden a message (I guess via whitehouse.gov) that you’re tracking this issue.
Even just adding a little inuslation to a pipe will drop the heat loss down to a few watts/ft when dealing with a pretty large delta T. If you’re using 20k+ watts to heat a home the losses on the pipe are minimal. And I’m guessing these homes are all pretty close together. Not a mile apart.
I’m guessing you’re serious. Can you link me to more info on this specific thought?
Not to disorient, but to force you travel past most isles, increasing the chance of impulse buys.
The neat thing is those parts of Cryptonomicon were largely based on things that actually happened:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra#Safeguarding_of_sources
That's not been my experience much at all work or research wise. Tensorflow, pytorch, jax are still very dominant. I've worked at several companies and interviewed at several dozen for ML roles. They have 100% been python/c++ for ml. I'd be impressed if even 2% of ML engineers used Julia.
This may interest you

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-i-built-my-blog/
How about if you can’t post the prices, you simply aren’t allowed to bill for any services?
Tool is an adequate word, they just need to apply it correctly. Vim is a tool. It’s used for writing code.

A framework is not a tool. It is previous work that you build upon so you are not starting from scratch. It is a canvas, already assembled and sized.
That's my interpretation. Modern JS engines have multiple tiers of optimization, which they apply in different ways based on how "hot" a piece of JavaScript is. JIT is the highest level of optimization, but also means generating and executing native code on the fly, which I assume leaves the door open for worse exploits if there's a bug in the engine. This is in contrast with bytecode interpretation, which is slower but available.
Do you have much hope that dentists would cooperate in studying this, possibly disrupting the drill-fill-bill model that supplies their income?
> the exponential growth thing mathematically cannot continue indefinitely.

It's not continuing indefinitely. Since the 1960s, women have been drastically curtailing their reproduction when given education and access to contraceptives. Fertility is above replacement only in Sub-Saharan Africa and a couple other places. Global fertility is projected to drop below replacement in this decade, leading to a population peak and decline a few decades later.

People are constantly predicting doomsday because they think humanity deserves it. Maybe we do, but by my reckoning, there is no guarantee of our imminent demise just yet.
There are thousands of cases (including two genocides - 1984 sikh genocide, and 2002 muslim genocide of Gujarat)

Here's one example: https://cjp.org.in/mohammed-akhlaq-lynching-case-timeline/
Researchers seem to stumble across an electrolyte for a sodium battery
In the example from the end of the earlier post:

y
for x in xs
if (y:=x.ComputeSomething()).IsFoo and y.IsBar
That may all well be true, but nevertheless, virtually everyone understands and uses the “Mac vs PC” distinction.
I get them. Replied to one for a principal role for $900k/yr. Turned out they wanted what I consider a principal II and I was a tad shy of what they were looking for.
I don't do it personally, I would if I was paranoid about germs.
>So I guess I should shop around by moving cities

No, the solution to most social ills in America is to simply not be poor. If you are poor, stop it. Then you don't have to worry about any of this. Consider abortion, a procedure now outlawed in many US states. If you're not poor, you can just pay to travel to another state or country, have the procedure, do some sight-seeing, and come home. The law has no de facto effect on you. Same with every aspect of healthcare. So, just don't be poor and you'll be fine. (Even better if you are connected to the wealthy and powerful in your city & state. It is very nice indeed to be a VIP in an American hospital, court, or anywhere else.)
If google has 10 million servers then a 2% improvement would be like freeing up 200,000 servers. That's a significant amount of value added!
Swamps Can Protect Against Climate Change, If We Only Let Them
For those who still serve "premium" apps it is (e.g gaming or industry specific applications.).
I wonder if one could automate finding the hospitals that don’t do this and filing a complaint that leads to a fine

like patent trolls for a cause
Who are the rich and how might we tax them more? (2019)