skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the crowd that trade-off that seemed too obvious to mention.
> can we please stop asserting without strong evidence that it’s the best ever or that it is the driving force of American success

Straw man. None of this was asserted. All that was claimed is that it worked for the last century.
Social obligation is missing in many today. Where there is a lack of obligation, entitlement will thrive.

Do not be so sure of yourself in the face of your grandparent's wisdom.
Yes. There is an example in the article
Windows has never had as many DE bugs as any Linux DE.

And Gnome is far from a perfect desktop experience out of the box. Once you add a few plugins it’s pretty decent but out of the box. No. Just no.

But the productivity of linux is so far superior to windows. The only reason I subject myself to windows is games and old .net framework projects.
cloudflare abuse department is really lacking.

Their abuse form is getting abused too. It sends an email to site operator and the server hosting company in single submit so its getting abused. It not even have a captcha.

https://abuse.cloudflare.com/
But how do you consider "full system costs" for something that needs people to manage the waste for 1000+ years even after you have closed the plant?

We can evidently not even predict inflation correctly from one month to the next so it seems unlikely that we can know what a nuclear plant actually costs.

France has certainly not known, they're currently over 40 billion dollars in debt for their plants (to be paid by taxpayers when they nationalize the operator), and they have over a million cubic meters of waste that needs manpower to manage for longer than France has existed as a nation.

Instead of nuclear plants in 0.1% of the Sahara, I propose solar panels on 10% of existing parking lots. Much easier, much faster, much cheaper, and coming generations will thank us instead of curse us. :)

//crashoverrideCIA ;)
Not really. Why would we be able to understand it? It seems implicit in your argument that "rolling dices" (or just any series of random events) can't breed the complexity of that of DNA or the human brain. I disagree with your stance and will remind you that the landscape for randomness to occur is the entire universe and the timescale for life on Earth to happen took 4-5 billion years with the modern human only appearing within the last couple hundred thousand years.
If it's not economically or practically feasible, then no, the technology doesn't exist.
Germany runs on about 50% renewable electricity and doesn't have outages at night.
The article spends a fair bit of time discussing the build speed and memory use problems with that approach. Like, the benchmark results [0] linked to from this post literally have xxd as one of the rows. It's not a viable option for embedding megabytes of data.

[0] https://thephd.dev/embed-the-details#results
We need storage now as we are burning coal and gas as replacement for energy storage.
> Even among people who control all the cards, they are in many respects fundamentally incapable of imagining a better world or seizing on that opportunity to try and create one, let alone doing so in a timely fashion.

That does sound soul-crushing. Congrats on this achievement!
Find me a comparable DC link (5GW * 100, 3000k+ miles). To overcome I^2 losses, a DC system would need an even higher voltage, and we're already talking about a 1000kv AC system.
I read a similar story on Reddit r/tifu. Are you the same person?
But you have to have build system stuff for that and it's obviously non portable.
Don’t we need quantum computers to crack cryptography in reasonable time? Could be useful for surveillance or espionage purposes.
Or use Brave search, which honestly from my experience is much better.
The difference between coordinating in meatspace vs a computer game is being under-valued in this thread.
This serves the same use as Rust's `include_bytes!` macro, right? Presumably most people just use this feature as a way to avoid having to stuff binary data into a massive array literal, but in our case it's essential because we're actually using it to stuff binaries from earlier in our build step into a binary built later in the build step. Not something you often need, but very handy when you do.
Incredible long form piece. I've read parts of each of those stories before, but some stark comparisons of experience when presented side by side.

Sailing and extended time (more than a day trip) on small vessels is a life changing experience. I highly recommend it to anyone who has the opportunity. If you can do it on someone else's boat, even better. I spent the last few years living aboard (mostly at dock), learning to sail, and training/crewing with a marine rescue org --- it completely reframed my views on simplicity, maintenance and planning, for all areas of life.
> It wasn't free, it was paid for by the university and it's revenue sources. There is a difference.

No. Free means that the end user does not pay for it. Not that nobody pays for it.
Chemtrails: What's the truth behind the conspiracy theory?
Developing across a local network with Windows RDP is pretty unpleasant over time, the latency and the low frame rate grate quite badly and its a lot worse over the internet for a box that is much further away. It sucks.

However if its a Linux shell and I am using a local VS Code and its compiling on the server as its backend and I can have local tools so I can use ssh file systems then it can actually be a very productive environment since the cloud can provide a lot of performance. One way I do this fairly often is with Go on ARM on a raspberry pi, the code wont run on Windows as the GPIO's aren't there and it can be quite productive, not as good as local but close enough.

But most companies are talking about the first model and its pretty horrible for real work.
This seems like an absurd claim to me (as a Western European social democrat). The comments on Hacker News skew very far to the right on everything from fiscal policy to taxation to gun rights to employment rights to unions to data protection to corporate regulation.

The only areas where HN could be considered centrist is the hot-button social issues in the States like LGBT+ or abortion rights. Certainly not left-leaning, anyway.
What would be the point? Even getting 5% of our power from desert solar would be astronomically expensive, and a logistical and political problem of historic proportions. All for a tiny fraction of our power usage. Just build nuclear!
The fact that this has been going on for several years makes me believe Google either doesn't care or the problem is particularly hard to fix (less believable)
I'm not against them, but I think they should not be specially subsidised. Just pay what ever the market rate at the moment is. If it is not enough to cover investment too bad.
I don't know how to describe it in cognitive science, much less programmatic terms.
If intelligence is an emergent phenomenon, you might get things like boredom without ever having accurately defined it.

I'm assuming that a general intelligence wants to consume more information through various experiences. Maybe a delay in acquiring that information could be defined as boredom.
Imagine actually being so self-absorbed as to think that all of the folks who actually possess the technical skill to build the thing you’re daydreaming about couldn’t possibly do their jobs without your ‘leadership’… as if the only hand that doesn’t need held is yours… the guy who can’t actually build anything.

Ego is a hell of a drug
Huh, looks like I've been using Gnome for most of its history (since Feisty). Replacing the default window manager with xmonad has gotten a little more complicated over the years I've been doing it but I'm still happily writing this from my Gnome-monad setup thanks to the magic of autostart and `--replace`.
A post about releasing the source of the editor from 2018 says "the main engine will remain proprietary for the foreseeable future."
Your calculations are interesting for day to day peak shaving, but as you noted yourself, these batteries are way to expensive for seasonal storage. Depending on the insulation on your house, one of those would maybe contain enough power for 0.3-1 hour of power-use in the winter.
cool!

now s/\.it/every TLD/ and you solved domain spam forever.

/s

You might not know that 99.99% of .it domains with urls ending up in .html are completely legit, including some official government one.
If users have to use debug flags because your software has no customizability whatsoever, the fault isn't with the users using those flags, the fault is with the developer not offering proper solutions.

WTF Gnome, why do you hate your own users so much
Does anyone keep a list of "goto" Vue codebases?
Sadly this is more truth than it should be. There is usefulness in understanding someone's past. The emphasis on "being tough enough to forgive" in the thread is visible in how often we see public opinion turn on politicians for things in their past that are (sometimes) irrelevant to the role ahead.
Z88DK v2.2 Release
z88dk has just released version 2.2. It is the first release in nearly 18 months.

z88dk is a collection of software development tools that targets the i8080 and z80 family of machines. It allows development of programs in C, assembly language or any mixture of the two. What makes z88dk unique is its ease of use, built-in support for over 100 z80 machines and its extensive set of assembly language library subroutines implementing the C standard and extensions.

There are lots of improvements to digest.
I've pasted the release notes below for easy reference.

z88dk-gdb - IDE debugging is now supported using CLion/VSCode with MAME, or FUSE (Spectrum Emulator).
z88dk-z80asm - Is now a MACRO assembler, supporting all of the classic macro assembly key words. Additionally many synthetic instructions have been added across all platforms. A new FLOAT directive allows the assembly of floating point numbers in any one of the library's formats. The Intel 8085 undocumented instructions are now supported, as are all Z80N extension instructions.

z88dk-zsdcc - The latest stable release SDCC 4.2.0 has been patched to support z88dk and is included. The traditional z88dk calling conventions (__z88dk_fastcall & __z88dk_callee) have been retained.

Further integration of the classic and new libraries has been completed. To a large extent Z80 machines now share the same code base across both libraries. For the other machine types found in the classic library (I8080, I8085, and GBZ80) code has been organised for hierarchical inheritance, rewritten to be re-entrant, and provide callee support wherever possible.

The floating point maths libraries have been extended, with the Microsoft mbf32 library receiving code optimisation paths with I8085 and Z80 specific instructions. The IEEE single-precision math32 Z80 support has been further performance optimised. The am9511 APU maths library now works with I8085 CPUs and the classic library.

Improved or new support for many machines including the GL6000, the homebrew Micro85, the Radio86 family, the SAM support was extensively reworked, the Sharp MZ800 video was reworked, and support for the PTC Sol 20 was added. Support for the RC2014 using the I8085 CPU was added, making use of the tighter integration between classic and new libraries. The CP/M target has been extended to support disc creation for Amstrad, Televideo, and Bondwell systems, and Amstrad PCW Graphics support was added. A generalised CP/M GSX graphics library is also now available.

And finally, building z88dk from source on ARM64 (AArch64) architecture (eg Apple M1, or Raspberry Pi 3 or later) is now supported, enabling a new generation of host systems.
Correlation, not causation.

My personal experience is that unreliable or unpredictable teams end up with mandatory estimates to ease the burden of managing them.

Overperforming teams will organize themselves and management may choose not to interfere to avoid jinxing the winning combo they have.
And even if the data is small enough, not every C programmer uses Unix or knows their way around it.
If you're on a farm, then vertical bi-facial aligned west/east, or even north/south, or some mix, can radically shift the power output as required.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266695522...

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S26669552220002...

The summer peak drops but the winter rises to compensate. Daily peak is spread out too, which helps match heat pumps that like to run continuously and battery storage can cycle twice per day.

Figures for Germany, but Norwegian researchers suggest it has benefits at their latitude too.
There has been a huge influx this year with the amount of sites that simply scrape SO and then have the exact content on their site. It's a pain, and there is no official way to remove them.

I thought that this was a massive nono from Googles side, has something changed?
Yes but what about the second law of thermodynamics. I mean the law of entropy. Now that’s not something from the Bible or anything but it’s a law accepted by all scientific communities out there and still it breaks with us being here. In fact us being here like you said bilions of years after the Big Bang makes it all upside down since from that point less order and more chaos can only emerge. Even with bilions of years and rolling dices.

Also I don’t think you can create something sentient without understanding it. (And I don’t even think we can create something sentient at all). But I mean it’s like building a motor engine without knowing anything you are doing and then being like oh wow I didn’t know what I was doing but here it is a motor engine. Imagine with this with aspect of sentient. It’s like too much fantasy to me to be honest like a Hollywood lightning strike and somehow live appears type of things.
#define end_element() \
while (0); \
do { \
if (xmlTextWriterEndElement (xo) == -1) { \
xml_error ("xmlTextWriterEndElement"); \
} \
} while (0)

Talking about the first while (0);
Quick google shows that to be not entirely accurate. It’s a complicated system in ways I wouldn’t want to go near.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/Justice
A variation on 32 wide Bagwell hashed tries last time I looked. Scala was too. Those are much more annoying to implement without garbage collection fwiw.
You just make your array type uint8_t or whatever you need as long as it supports integer literals. See section 4 in https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3017.htm#i...
Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances
I would never even consider buying an Apple product due to the price.
It also scales up law enforcement's efforts to catch you, and pushes the criminal act you would perform up to terrorism. There are not many who would be willing to throw away their lives for acts that mostly just cause a bit of economic damage.
Well, congratulations, you now have a build dependency on Vim. (xxd is not a standard tool, it ships with Vim.)

It's also only suitable for tiny files: compile time and RAM requirements will blow up once you go beyond a couple of megabytes.
That's a non sequitur if I've ever read one.
The article definitely isn’t a glowing praise of C/C++. In fact, including this simple, useful feature that rust has had for a decade now has taken an immense amount of effort and received so much pushback from various parties, in part due to the strangled mess of various compiler limitations and in part because of design-by-committee stupidity.

C/C++ seems to be kicking it’s own ass.
Ah, yes, a reaction.

Can you show me this actually in use literally anywhere on earth for this job, 125 years later?

Where would I go to buy some atmosphere derived gasoline?

You're confusing that something could theoretically be done with that it's a real thing that can be relied on today at scale to save the planet

If this was a real, practical thing, it would be in use. We fight wars over this stuff.

If the thing you want to use to save the world hasn't been done at scale, you probably can't get it there in the ten years we have left.

In all of history, only one of these has ever been made at the megawatt scale. Audi built one in 2013. They took it down three years later because it didn't actually work. It was supposed to provide fuel for 1300 cars, but it couldn't produce 1/10 of what it was supposed to

Yes, I see that you can find things in search engines

No: this is not a real option for saving us from climate change
How many maker spaces are left in the Bay Area?
Any live AIs out there with online learning?
as HN evidences, this stuff is all still there (possibly more than ever), it's just drowning in an ocean of content aimed at pleasing children, Google's algorithm, and the less intellectually-inclined
I have done this twice:

The first time was a complete failure. I walked into a place and hand-delivered a fancy paper application. The office lost the application because they weren't expecting to receive anything like that at the front desk. I know this because I ended up working there after applying online.

The second time, I flew across the country for a final interview where all other candidates were appearing by zoom. I was hired for that job. I'm not sure, but I think that (a) I was less qualified than other candidates and probably should not have been hired, but the organization really valued dedication so flying in was over-weighted; (b) I was more inclined to ignore red flags with the organization because I had committed so heavily to the interview process.

Strategies like this are risky because you need to know yourself well in order to judge whether e.g. you might interview better remotely. It can also lead a person, as it did me, to distort their normal decision-making process in ways which are not immediately obvious.
> Sometimes maintenance involves shooting the shark.

My fave quote.
This is a option that shouldn't be discounted. Listened to the excellent Popular Front podcast on CLODO (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-anti-tech-militant...).
These were very sophisticated, probably computer scientists themselves who were horrified at how the tech would be used and sabotaged a lot of the infrastructure. Seemingly just to make a point in the history books that the way things went was not without resistance.
friends of mine divorced recently. they were on good terms, but were getting egged on by their lawyers. the lawyers very much preferred a long drawn-out divorce. luckily my friends were on good terms and they discussed about what their lawyers were telling them. which were mostly falsehoods. stuff like “are you sure the other party hasn’t hidden funds from you?”. so i’m sure there are horrible divorces, but i’m also sure there are horrible lawyers as well.
You can also check out https://sitefast.live/, which does something similar. The difference is that it offers a drag-n-drop page builder.
In the US at least I think it would be better to describe the rate at which we add solar to the grid as limited by regulatory and grid management issues. The backlog of projects waiting to be approved, in terms of capacity, is about as large as the currently installed solar capacity. One problem here is figuring out the transmission issues related to adding new capacity, so it's not just a purely regulatory issue, but the way in which grid capacity is added assumed new plants would look more like coal plants so there are regulatory aspects to it.

But of course, if you're going to just use your solar field to make hydrocarbon when the sun shines you don't have to care about any of that.
Oh they will move. Just not voluntarily, but move they will. That's one of the biggest effects of all this climate stuff: people will end up displaced. Millions / year already.
> vendor extensions ... were now a legal part of the syntax. If your implementation does not support a thing, it can issue a diagnostic for the parameters it does not understand. This was great stuff.

I can’t be the only one who thinks magic comment is already an ugly escape hatch, adding a mini DSL to it that can mean anything to anyone just makes it ten times worse. It’s neither beautiful nor great.

> do extensions on #embed to support different file modes, potentially reading from the network (with a timeout), and other shenanigans.

(Emphasis mine.) My god.
Gnome was created in part as a response to kde using the Qt toolkit which at the time had some licensing issues. This is why gnome was based on the gtk toolkit which was free as in speech.
Not at all. The protocol has a very well defined structure, and one only has to foul the handshake packets to block connections.
Can you update ASICs with new firmware?
SpatiaLite is a great extension for spatial functions, it is very useful for implementing location-based services. And I like the idea of extending SQLite just for the simplicity of file base DB.

A slightly related problem I encountered several times is reverse geocoding: given a point, a map, which polygon the point is in? I figured out that the problem is solvable via rasterization and run-length-encoding, which doesn't need a spatial library, and works efficiently with any SQL DBs without GIS/spatial extensions.
I created a website (https://reverse-geocoding.com/) to demonstrate the idea, which has a GPS-to-country DB in SQLite format.
Google has at the very least neglected its search for many years now and recently has also actively made it worse through all the censorship and thought control stuff. I find it rather surprising because essentially all of google’s success is lynchpinned by search. All it would take is for a narrative to dominate that the best results can be found elsewhere, which does not seem particularly remote, considering how much damage google has done to its search.
+1 for trying to guide society toward a Trekian future.

Live long and prosper.
Slightly off-topic: Does anyone know what happened to Angularis [0] at https://angularis.mondaybits.com/, or how to contact the author? The page went down a couple of days ago. I hugely enjoyed that Tetris variant.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30213972
@dang, would it be possible to automatically redirect all Twitter submissions to a thread reader? I know that there are several to choose from and I don't particularly care which one, it's just that Twitter's UX is dreadful.
I can’t reply to your immediate child, I just wanted to mention that Muv-luv Alternative (the #1 rated visual novel on vndb) grapples precisely with these questions about what is sentient and what is not. An “inhuman” race called the Beta invades earth and conflict ensues due to a lack of mutual understanding of what sentient life is (the game flips the theme on its nose in a clever way, too).

You can find the game on steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/802890/MuvLuv_Alternative...
Can’t you just add binary data into a custom section of your ELF executable?
As far as I know, around 1,000 Euro / sqm is a good estimate for bringing a 200+ kWh/(sqm * a) house down to about 85-100 kWh(sqm * a)
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"You cut I choose"
I don’t think you have - 25 years means Gnome has been around since 1997, while Feisty was the 7.04 Ubuntu release, so about a 10-year difference.
Since uBlock is run on the client, unless you’re Italian or interested in Italian sites it doesn’t really seem like much of an issue.

I could block all .it sites on my network and I’d likely never even notice.