skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In between policy with quantifiable impact and sacrifices that make us individually feel good is… politics (at least in USA).

Arguably, the more people who are comfortable making sacrifices, the more politically safe it is to pass impactful policy (on any issue but especially those that impact the future collective more than the current individuals).

I do feel your cynicism though. For me, it’s the thought that any promising solution must survive culture wars or align with the “free” market, neither of which have any consistency or urgency in 2022.
Even if you assume ample clean electrical energy as a given, breaking up hydrocarbons is still the easiest way to get hydrogen.

Together, solar/wind/nuclear/hydro produce about a third of all the world's electrical generation. Despite this, only 4% of hydrogen production in 2020 used electrolysis; 95% was produced from fossil fuels.
One tribe's fact is another tribe's conspiracy theory. It just depends on which authorities you favor.

Otoh, there's always the empirical approach.
Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank
Very similar to my images for the prompt: https://imgur.com/8dw2brf

Intriguing that it's gone for a headshot for all of them. I suspect it says something about the source text
State AGs vow action against carriers that bring foreign robocalls to US
I suspect some of the people who've contributed to my Ko-fi (and Patreon before that) came through HN due to the short gap between a post and the event.
>The people who sell the fuels have approximately zero influence over the people who sell the trucks

I wish that were the case:

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2022/05/gas-war-republican...

> Last week, a group of Republican attorneys general decided to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its decision to reinstate the waiver allowing California to set its own limitations on exhaust gasses and zero-emission vehicle mandates that would exceed federal standards.
> This is sufficient for California, but not really anywhere else. Here in Finland, it would be literally 3 orders of magnitude too low.

Yes, but compared to California (and all the other very sunny parts of the US and the world where huge populations live), from an energy consumption perspective, tiny Finland doesn't really matter much. Or put another way, it matters far more to the future of the climate to decarbonize energy production in California than Finland.

That said, companies in Finland have been developing some neat grid scale heat storage batteries lately, so there is an opportunity for them to have a big technological impact that way.
Battery.. packs? The cells are the batteries.

It's like conflating gasoline with gasoline tanks.
I filed #11294, it's a non-issue for me now. Seemed like an API change stability issue, which happens. I think what a crypto-user might care about more in ZFS vs LUKS is precisely what gets encrypted: LUKS can be the entire disk, whereas ZFS is going to need some metadata to know what is there, which keys unlock it, etc on at least a per-dataset basis. It's not a tradeoff that affects my particular threat model, but it's worth understanding as a crypto user.
I’m can’t help but imagining a world where the papers on black holes become so large they themselves undergo gravitational collapse and become black holes.

Exercise for the reader: how large can a paper get before collapsing?

Seriously though, can someone comment on this and it’s significance?
Marketing Ethics
+1 for Gitea, it's super easy to set up to selfhost through something like Docker or just grabbing the executable from their site and running it on your machine. Been using it for personal repos & mirroring repos I use a lot and have I haven't had any issues or annoying errors in nearly 2 years.
People that think this fail to comprehend how utterly restricted the nuclear industry has been by bad regulation. We are not capturing any of the gains from scale or mass production in nuclear, we are not doing the work beyond the basic science to exploit alternate nuclear chemistries to expand usable fuel sources (there is enough fission energy in just the easily minable thorium to last thousands of years for example) and efficiently recycle partially spent fuel to maximize energy output and minimize actual nuclear waste. Even with the current nonsense in place doing what you describe is doable. Getting the regulators to use more reasonable regulation and doing the engineering to expand fuel capability and hitting 300 petawatt-hours will be very, very easy.
"Interesting how you can make claims without facts to back them up, but demand me to back up my claims against yours."

Yep, that's intentional. That's exactly how you started attacking me. And now I have you making the statement/point about the lack of evidence for me.
i am looking forward to this book _Designing Developer Documentation as a Product_ which should come out in 2023:

https://www.alejandraquetzalli.com/book-designing-developer-...

it might be a little more on the practical "nuts and bolts" side of things vs. "how do i write well", but it covers lots of areas that always seem to come up when producing documentation for developers.
This might be a very non American problem, but people forget that there are social pressures to follow when you are middle class that cost more money.
> such serious condition that the moon base doctor can't repair it on the moon

Imagine you are one of the first 100 people on the moon, how many doctors will they have, 1? 2? How much medical equipment will they have, how large does the base get before they ha e an x-ray? Will they even have a dentist?

Are they going to have an MRI to find out why you have persitent pain in the chest? Are they even going to have a surgical theater?

They definately won't be able to do a liver transplant. But they might not even be able to do something basic like fix a broken jaw and a root canal.
> I don't think I understand what you are trying to say here.

You're making the error of focusing too much on technological gizmos as "solutions."

> Point is, businesses need to keep up with the times. Just stating that lightning keeps thieves away is not going to cut it.

The context here is banning the lighting.
I've heard https://www.consumerlab.com/ recommended a few times - they run a membership based service that reviews supplements.

No personal experience with them, though (and I am skeptical about supplements in general).
Learning to write with style, which takes not less than 10 years of practice. It gives you amazing satisfaction. You feel the power of your words. All sorts of people at work and outside respect you for it. Not sure it is for everyone, I started learning from a prized author in my family, not sure everyone can find a way into it, either.
For sure, my country (the Netherlands) was set to block use of gasoline scooters by 2025, but the EU blocked that [0, Dutch]. Anyway, about 50% sales is electric now anyway, they are quite attractive on their own.

[0]: https://tweakers.net/nieuws/199590/eu-houdt-nederlands-verbo...
Didn't the person you're replying to say:

> which are to allow them to navigate small streets
This is one example of a geothermal system leading to earthquakes: https://grapevine.is/news/2020/11/16/earthquakes-linked-to-p...
Near Real-Time Ingestion for Trino
> To anyone in the West using computers? Also yes.

The West buys billions of dollars of computers from China today.

Having Taiwan administered more directly by China won't change that.

A war blowing up fabs? That would change things, sure.

So: avoid war.
I looked up bahnization hoping it was a real concept. Did you just coin it?
> Advertising itself is not necessarily bad, but it is how it is done

As someone who worked in it for 7 years, nah it's all bad.
Interesting. If something as abstract as "intellectual property" can be a thing, then surely so can "attention theft".
A gui adds a lot on top of a git cli for me. Scrolling diffs/history and adding/removing staged lines alone is better.
Using a gui doesn’t mean you didn’t arrive there deliberately.
Not sure if you're just joking, but: Rob founded/ran several SaaS products, many of them solo.

https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/about
The point is that, investments into the climate technology achieves two goals:

- makes the West less dependent on energy imports which mostly come from hostile or potentially hostile countries, that use the money received mainly to subvert and undermine the West itself

- develop the technology to the point it will become cheaper than fossils (which is already achieved in some areas and is probably less than 10 years away from becoming the case in all of them), after which even the poorest countries will adopt them, just because it will be saving money
Serverless Tailscale subnet routers managed with Terraform
We're open sourcing the Terraform module that we use at my company to spin up Tailscale subnet routers in our AWS VPCs via ECS Fargate.
As an actual DSP (Digital Signal Processing) person I can only manage
a weary sigh at what looks like dog poop all over the tidy lawn of my
acronym space.
> While the game is my goal, i focus on the platform because i feel solo devs have a ton of overhead. I figure if i can optimize my the creative aspects of my work i will have better long term success.

I've been researching solo game dev for decades now, and that definitely mirrors my conclusions so far.

Just keep the end goal in mind and don't reinvent the wheel, unless you desire a career in wheel engineering. While you're working on your stuff, remember that others are also working on their stuff, and a lot of useful things are shared freely and continually popping up new.

Have the courage to recycle your ideas, and the ruthlessness to streamline your development process. Going solo is all about coming to terms with your limitations, and building solutions to work around them. Maximize the impact of work you like doing, while minimizing the necessity of work you don't. Sacrifice your creative vision until only the core remains. Resist the creeping scope of scaling it up, but also keep firm in your artistic requirements. Keep your "must haves" short, solve the hard problems first, manage your expectations, and above all be stubborn enough to tread through it.
How does every leaf blower in the world compare with one gusty day?
> The flat front and back are primarily to meet maximum length regulations, which are to allow them to navigate small streets.
We don't have to outright ban everything either. I would be absolutely delighted if my city enacted a "quiet Tuesdays" or whatever where any noise making machines above a certain decibel were banned. If people could just coordinate to make all their noise on one day instead of the "leafblower today, mower tomorrow, jackhammar on weekends" we have right now

Not to mention the very serious environmental and health impacts of constant noise pollution
I had to go to Singapore on business. This was when our clients knew I was gay but the thought hadn't really occurred to them to check Singapore's stance on that before settling on that location for some co-op development work.

Unfortunately Singapore is, in some ways, much like Dubai. The sad thing is that they're defended with "well it's pretty safe there and they don't really arrest people for that anymore even though they have the legal power to and they have a pride parade and stuff too so it's fine". So why don't they change their laws?

It's also another wacky country where being gay is illegal only for men. Like I know certain types of porn are popular with straight guys, but like, seriously?
Breaking new: capitalistic companies are capitalistic. I don’t give a shit as long as their corporate interests reasonably align with my own
> It actually knows what a giraffe is.

Every time I see a painting it does with blank biege swirls where faces should be I question that it does know what anything is or what the important parts are.
I think Amazon's shipping got worse in the last two years.

They were making noises about speeding up delivery to a lucky few people in chosen urban areas but in my rural area Prime shipping has slowed down considerably and they seem to make no effort at all to get Prime deliveries to me in two days. It is irksome because sometimes I've decided to buy something at Amazon rather than another store on the assumption I could get it in two days instead of two weeks, so it is an unfair form of anti-competition.

Contrast that to shipping having sped up for most other major retailers (say Best Buy, Walmart, ...) such that I often get things in one day with free or low cost shipping.

My falling out with AMZN started when I saw obviously fraudulent product listings and contacted AMZN only to be told they didn't care unless I had bought the product and been defrauded.

What they don't seem to get is that when they have this attitude it calls into question whether I can trust ANY product listings on AMZN.
Motor vehicles weren’t critical before the invention of the internal combustion engine
Love the concept, and could see myself really benefitting from this as a self-taught developer.

That said, I agree with most everyone's assessment that the price-point is a bit too high.

Is providing different pricing schemes for companies/hobbyists/students something you're looking into?
Related comment thread. The OP is a former CTO of a Canadian geothermal company

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24854216
If only the market cared about this and not soley leetcode.

Looks cool though, I will likely try this out.
Please continue reading the comment, the sentence right after says the exact same thing you do, without your unnecessary snark.
And don’t blame others for not finding this satisfactory either. Many many mathematicians think abstract objects exist outside of physical reality. Chomsky says “physical” hasn’t been well defined for 200 years. And finite physical processes do not seem adequate to explain the infinite character of language and mathematical infinity. Or if they are, then go inform the mathematical realists infinity isn’t real because all proofs are finite yet Godel believed in actual infinity.
My girlfriend and I just did this and had a lot of fun!

There were a lot of times where I thought I figured a word out but ended up having to go through about 5 or 6 really good guesses before landing on the right one. Sometimes little word games like these really can test my vocabulary.
Starbucks to unveil its Web3-based rewards program next month
Reason why they are not taxed heavily is that at least internationally the purchase of fuel would just move to countries with lower taxation. So unless the scheme was global and in every country it would not be perfectly efficient.
Ask HN: Low-Carbon VPS Hosting?
Recently, we (a small digital agency working mostly with non-profit orgs) are getting asked more and more often about low/no-carbon hosting. We currently host all our production sites on Digital Ocean and staging sites on Hetzner, I've reached out to DO in the past about green hosting options but it's apparently not something they're particularly interested in. I know of some green hosting options for bare metal, but I'm having a hard time finding anything DOish, VPS that we can spin up and kill at will. Anyone have any recommendations?
Can I cool my house into the well during the summer? With surface heat abundant during the summer, I'd expect storing heat downstairs should make sense even if the efficiency of the underground reservoir is not exactly stellar.
Higher costs being passed on to you?
Godot, Defold, GameMaker.
Wow, good eye! I see you're one of the OG people who tried it out. If there's still a product area you'd like to see fleshed out more, do let me know. It's been a whirlwind of a year trying to maintain a high development velocity as a solo dev working on nights/weekends, but in the grand scheme of things it's easy to do when you love what you're building.
WARNING:

Not the great animated spinoff of the Matrix. Rather, this is a rubbish anti-Jewish raving.
Almost all posts related to my blog https://ruky.me where I make a small amount by serving ads. It’s not a life changing amount, but the feedback I get from HN motivates me to write.
> And it’s strange I pay more of this “CO2 tax” when filling up my car to drive 10h, perhaps $50 in CO2 tax alone, than all 100 of us in the cabin of a 737 pay together when taking one hour flight the same distance.

It's interesting that you make that comparison. Inverness to London fits that definition and from the last time I checked this,it's about 0.12 Tonnes of CO2 per seat to fly that distance, and roughly the same (actually slightly more) to drive the distance. For long distances like that, particularly if you're travelling in a small group, you're often better off flying over driving.
sounds like a win for everybody
I upvote the whole upstream thread every time I respond just to make it slightly more likely you people read my two cents.
Wouldn’t this exhaust the server resources with storing all the tokens? Which you would need to do significantly longer than 3 secs? Banning the IP may help but then you could just do a simple fail2ban instead?
If you look at my post history. I am quite pro public oanershio of nessesities of life.

However in this case I was making a point about the stuation we were already in when covid hit.
When my son was small I remember him getting some junk toys from a relative and crying "Why don't people in China want kids to have toys?"

I'd say though that there are some vendors in China that are very proud of what they make and who very much want to have satisfied customers. It's not most of them though.
Not really close to horses at all. It's an even-toed ungulate, closer to deer, cows and sheep. Many, many tens of millions of years from horses.. the even-toed herbivores are closer to dolphins (!!) than they are to horses or rhinos.
It's also an American problem. I notice it most in the pressure to have a nice front lawn. In some American neighborhoods, if you don't regularly cut your grass, people will call the police.
Introduction to Radar Using Python and Matlab
Smarty is still around and well supported, but Twig is the top choice these days. Symfony is the 2nd most used "framework" these days, Twig is part of Symfony; then on top of that Symfony is really just a set of components (that work hard to adhere to current PSRs) so even projects that aren't Symfony projects will usually incorporate Symfony components as best of breed. Even Laravel relies on Symfony components.
https://imgur.com/ggnm920

"a photo of 6 kittens sitting on a wooden floor. Each kitten is clearly visible. No weird stuff."

Like, lets start with the fact that there are 7 of them (2 of the 4 images from the prompt had 7 kittens). Now lets continue on with how awful they look.

It is startling the difference in image quality between DAlle-2 asked for a single subject vs DAlle-2 being asked for a group of stuff.

And its obvious, if you know how the tech works, why this is the case.
One thing that really pissed me off living in Los Angeles was the fact that leaf-blowers were technically "banned" but there was zero enforcement. Leaf-blowers are literally everywhere and at all times of the day. The noise pollution is just ridiculous. Especially offensive when I would watch a gardener using them in the street blowing cuttings into a, progressively, smaller and smaller pile, all so he could scoop them up to take them away. Basically the leaf-blower was just being used a a lazy man's broom.
I also use LÖVE 2D. I like it as well (just use Sublime Text for dev, don’t need IDE), but I would guess it’s slower to get results compared to Unity.
This looks great!

What languages are supported? Are the tests language agnostic, or is the coursework specific to a subset of languages? I see reference to Rust, Go, Python and JS...but am unsure if this would be useful for something like Clojure, where I can produce JS, JVM or compiled code, that could be tested against, but wouldn't expect an imperative pseudo-code explanation of an algorithm to be helpful for explaining a functional solution.
They're already doing things that Mac OS users from lets say the era of Jaguar would find utterly tasteless.

I use iTunes match for my music but for 6 months last year once a month opening their music app it would force me to dismiss an Apple Music trail before I could play MY files.

App Store already has a pile of ads and paid placements before you get to the exact name match.

End of the day they don't have a product visionary at the helm they have a bean counter.
I already upvoted your first comment and just upvoted this one.

I wasn't telling you what your comment meant to you personally -- only you know that. I was telling you how it came across and likely the reason it was downvoted significantly. I think a lot of people here don't have a lot of time to give feedback when they see an off-putting comment. And usually if someone has a counter-argument they'll say something instead of downvote. It's a good rule of thumb to consider how a tweet comes across that you may not have meant if it is just downvoted and not replied to.
This looks cool but I would expect a big section on the home page about why I should trust you and upload my bank statements on your website.

I don't doubt that it works but I'm frankly amazed that people have paid for this service and happily uploaded such sensitive documents without any kind of reassurance (hell even just some plain old marketing)
My gripe with this is that it has no understanding of what the objects are beyond "the thing that's supposed to be output". Its a textbook case of the Chinese room argument [1]. Sure it can follow translation rules, even infer some sophisticated rules and patterns about the slips of paper that are passed in, but it still has no idea what any of it means.

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

Dalle is very concerned with the 2d shapes of things we call objects, and has correctly inferred some rules about those shapes, but it neither knows nor cares about the things we call objects and how the shapes it has learned are representations of them. It doesn't do reasoning about the round peg fitting in the round hole. It just glues a few pegs and holes together in a way that's mostly consistent with our expectations and says "is this what you wanted"?

Its a student that cares about passing the test, not learning the material.
If it was up to me the from field should only work with ablative forms, and the to field should require the accusative form, but the author is probably more broad minded.

Definitely agree about the roads!
For them to actually work the energy needs to be replaced, flowing from the hot areas to the (relatively) cold areas, mostly coming from the sun.

If you have a small area and continually pump the heat out then you end up with the inside of a freezer, which uses the same tech for exactly that purpose, but also intentionally insulates to prevent the heat getting back in.
> Are spammers deserving of having their whole digital lives compromised?

Yes
The book seems to be well-received (judging by the comments on Amazon, at least).

Do you think it’s impossible to write a useful book on this subject? If you don’t think that, is there something about this particular book that makes you think the author is a swindler?
I would think laptops get replaced often because they’re more likely to get damaged, the battery will go bad, and I’m sure the average user never cleans the dust out.
Isn't that experiment currently running?
Same. I'm a web dev since mid-twothousands, and I gave up on understanding advertising lingo lately.
I do have nautilus installed, and I use it for exactly one directory: my images stored in Dropbox. Occasionally I'll be looking for a certain photo or screenshot or something and I won't remember the exact name, so it's easier to scan the images visually from preview icons rather than try to figure it out from the entire list of names.
Right, but it's the reason on-line advertising is efficient.
Ask HN: What does it mean if you pick up patterns fast?