skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this relevant? Did you read JanisErdmanis’ comment I responded to?
Synthetic hydrocarbons can do that much better than hydrogen.

Also ammonia can do that much better than hydrogen.

There are also several types of flow batteries which can store energy for any time desired, without losses. Compared to hydrocarbons or ammonia they have a low energy density (which is not prohibitive for stationary applications), but they have a higher energy efficiency for a charge and discharge cycle, similar to the other kinds of batteries.

Hydrogen is the worst solution for long-term energy storage, compared to the many other alternatives, which are also already proven in practice, unlike hydrogen. Hydrogen is good only for rockets, when its low mass is more important than its high volume and all its other disadvantages.
CycleStreets route planner – how it works
You’re certainly entitled to your incorrect opinions, but there is no fraud there, nobody past the age of 15 would have been confused by “actual horsepower” (ch) being different from “taxable horsepower” (cv).

They’re simply two completely different units, historically barely related (although since 1998 the french taxable horsepower does depend at all on the actual horsepower which previously was not the case, and since 2020 it is only a factor of the actual horsepower).

Fiscal horsepower is a tool of taxation, incentivisation, and segmentation.
> engaging in trade wars against countries that do things they disapprove
> China has stopped buying a lot of stuff from Australia because of politics

They disapprove?

That's a fundamentally flawed gloss over an otherwise simple fact: Australia takes a political stance that fundamentally treat China as an enemy, the same way as what the West's stance towards USSR, at a moment China has not taken any political stance like USSR towards the West.

Imagine that you frequent a bar, often engaging in chat with all sorts of people. For whatever reason (let's for now not mud the discussion on why some countries decide to take the above mentioned political stance) some guys used to chat normally with you, suddenly reject you altogether, and are plotting to label you an unwelcome person to the bar, so that you are disallowed to enter the bar. Would you start picking the weak guys of this small clique and try to thwart this plot?

> I wouldn’t want to rely on China for chips

Sure, but you dont need to, you depend on TSMC.

And you still not answer the simple question.

Given the fact that depending on China for advanced chip manufacturing is security issue, why China herself depend on their own chip manufacturer a national security thing for US? Isn't that a thing has nothing to do with US national security?
It should be mentioned that warming climate means that the UK is getting, and will get, more rainfall than it used to. The main issue the UK is facing is not lack of water but lacking infrastructure to store and regulate water (it's all about drought now, but I'm sure it will be all about floods this winter).

Growing dry-loving plants in the UK is usually challenging because while it is dry right now, over the winter the ground can remain wet for months, so you often need to take steps to actually keep those plants dry in winter to prevent them from rotting (they also withstand cold much better when dry).
Portable devkit for CI/CD pipelines
I think you might be thinking of the Bill of Rights, which is the thing that really sets the US apart from those other countries you mentioned. Even the most demonic de facto dictatorships can have constitutions
It has been pointed out that this is apparently similar to Djikstra's algorithm although when it was written the author wasn't aware of that.

The inspiration for the algorithm comes from a solution to a problem set in a mid 1980s edition of A&B Computing magazine.
thanks for your comment. It's not about grudges but more about the anecdotal experience of the article. There are times when people would post how their post on Reddit helped them get their first sets of users but in recent time, even Reddit wont let you post your own stuff(self-promote) in majority of subreddits. So when there are road blocks like these, it becomes really hard to showcase your work you put so much effort into.
Yep, the "other" (inexpensive and indestructible) car was the Renault R4:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_4
We had this conversation at a startup for a feedback tool I worked for. We often had conversation with early adopters on how to improve the site. An external designer then stated the obvious to us, that we simply use _our_ tool to get feedback.
Most of the water is used by industry, I always find it amusing when we pretend 5 minute showers will have an impact.

And building all those chip foundries in Texas isn't going to help.
Street Debates and Interviews on Animal Rights
I do street debates and interviews on animal rights and veganism. The two signs I have used so far are "Being Pro-Life/Choice and Not Vegan Is Morally Inconsistent, Debate a Vegan" and "Why Aren't You Vegan Yet?". I believe animals deserve the protections of legal personhood and am an ethical vegan in the Southern US.
"Meshtastic" is a perfect example for the observation that as long as the first and last few letters of a word are in the correct order, the rest can be scrambled and your brain can still process the word normally. Unfortunately my brain read "Metastatic" (as in cancer) instead of "Meshtastic"...
Bleve – full-text search and indexing for Go
The project was started around 2008 iirc! XP and VX were out at the time, but the larger resolution and mapping limitations were dealbreakers for me. They've since fixed these issues in the more recent engines so I wouldn't choose that again.
I'm grateful for Gitea. It performs well even on slow computers (fitlet2 equipped with an Atom x7-E3950 and 16GB of Ram in my case). Gitlab, on the other hand, doesn't, which is a shame, because I love Gitlab (using it at work) :).
Well it's good enough to mention it on hacker news
In the context of a discussion about nuclear reactors bananas are not radioactive.
They certainly had monetised videos which they hadn't invested nearly enough effort into checking weren't of minors:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
Wikipedia has blocked editing ‘recession’ as people change definition
My guess is the same way color raster CRTs work: there's an aperture grille or shadow mask and three electron guns, and the grille masks off the beam of each gun except for where it's supposed to hit its corresponding color phosphors. Color mixing is performed by tracing over the same vector lines with more than one gun.

If you look carefully at a Star Wars arcade machine, you can see the shadow mask in the vector lines. You cannot see this on, say, an Asteroids machine or a Vectrex; on those, the lines are smooth and sharper than a draftsman's straightedge.

Everyone should experience an original Asteroids, or failing that something like the Vectrex, at least once in their lives. It's indescribably different from emulation; the long-decay phosphor and direct CPU control over brightness means that shots and explosions glitter in the dark in a way not even MAME can replicate.
Probably not :)

The funny thing is that I implemented all the mechanics but burnt out on the pixel art, and I can't see myself wanting to grind that out. The game has 700+ scenes!
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Free AI bot to create any Microsoft Excel formula
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-...

freedesktop.org is that central documentation. Sure, there are applications that don't implemente that spec but it is not for there not being any documentation but either because the maintainers of those applications don't care or because the applications are older than the spec and moving configuration is not always trivial.
> Is there a good source for finding strict POSIX tools rather than just go digging?

Some communities(iglunix, kisslinux, carbs linux, wyvertux, oasis linux, ...) are actively researching alternatives to the "standard" coreutils. You could check what they use, perhaps you'll find something interesting and strict. But general source is digging of course :)

> But I guess this can be expected when you are dealing with a tool that has evolved in multiple directions since 1977?

Exactly. 100% conformance isn't always possible, especially when standard is unclear on some things.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium this is actually clear as mud and it seems Itanium was both a family of implementations as well as ISAs (thus variants of IA-64?). It's also the _only_ implementations of IA-64.

Going back to the original question (can RISC-V "become another Itanium"?), as long as there are people using/support/evolving it. Unlike Itanium, RISC-V has the support very many companies already and the membership list of RISC-V International just keeps growing.

The only thing that could threaten it would be a better alternative appeared or if x86 or Arm suddenly got the same unrestricted license. The former is not impossible, but it would be huge undertaking and by definition we would be in a better place. The latter seems essentially impossible.

As there's no technical reason why a RISC-V implementation couldn't have roughly comparably performance to an Arm core (iso-effort and technology) it's "simply" a matter of sufficient investment before we'll have the X1 etc equivalents. There are very many companies working on high performance implementations. One of the high profile ones is Rivos, but there are _many_ others.
He may of "claimed" he did so but there isn't any real evidence of this. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, so I'll be waiting for all that.
I've been using Docusaurus for a few years now and it's my top choice for making small-mid sized websites. Dark mode out of the boss is a killer feature!
MIT researchers develop low-cost, 3D-printed plasma sensors for satellites
> A nuclear reactor cannot be shipped.

There does exist an exception to this. Russia built a floating nuclear power plant. There is a lot of controversy around it.

However the main claim that economy is the center of the argument is true. Fossil fuels are exceptional cheap as a battery solution to be combined with solar and wind, especially wind which don't have 365 days of charge cycles. Natural gas in Europe play the central role of filling in when wind/solar production goes down, with oil and coal coming in next. Since fossil fuels aren't burned all the time, a much higher cost per kw/h is tolerated, even when the spot price reaches upwards to 10x higher than the average cost. This winter they are expecting prices to exceed that by twice or more, and the average this year is already looking to be twice of last year.

The economics right now is a bit funky. Nuclear has most of their cost attached to the constructions, so with energy prices being almost doubled compared to last year, nuclear is looking quite economical. If inflation continues as it has been then a nuclear plant built 30 years will start to look really cheap compared to a wind + gas turbine. The biggest winners in term of profit however are the gas power plant owners, seeing record profits as a result of being able to charge record prices.
Very few Mehari's were 4x4.

As a side note what was really interesting was the (very rare) 2CV "Sahara" (it was 4 wheel drive with two engines):

https://buy.motorious.com/articles/features/316288/this-citr...
Running a microservices architecture on a shared cluster is complicated.

* Because you are running multiple workloads on the same kernel, you need to protect them from each other, from both correctness and performance perspectives.

* Because the workloads have different scaling characteristics, you need to solve a bin-packing problem to make efficient use of the resources.

* Because of said bin-packing, workloads move around a lot, so you invite a service discovery problem much more intense than classic DNS is meant to solve.

* Because normal software only knows how to use DNS, you invite the need for sidecars and virtual network overlays.

When you have this set of problems then k8s seems appropriate. I work at a company with this set of problems but no Kubernetes, and boy is it a production. But my takeaway from that is less "use Kubernetes" and more "try not to have those problems." Use relatively monolithic architectures, one or a few services on their own stable pools of nodes, with boring old reverse-proxy load balancers and DNS, for as long as you possibly can.
I've pretty much stopped commenting after finding better forums for discussion now. So many of the comments are from angry people with nothing constructive to offer. I have a lot to say about this subject, but it's not worth the effort to deal with all the drive-by shitposts.
It's all trade-offs.

Flatbuffers trades off encoding speed, programmer ergonomics and binary size (it produces many bytes and it's awkward and still pretty slow to encode) for decoding speed (almost a no-op if you forego buffer verification, which you shouldn't most of the time). Imho it's not a good choice for network wire formats, but for storage it's pretty good.
New stamp-sized ultrasound stickers that can see inside the body
I can't really tell for sure, but it seems the author makes the confusion that the authors of the Wayland protocol are GNOME developers. That, of course, is not true.

Wayland has it's origins in members of the X11 developer team, and AFAIR Kristian Høgsberg is the sole author of the original protocol spec.

At present the protocols and extensions are discussed and merged by a group that, as far as I know, includes GNOME developers, but they are not in majority nor can they do as they wish overruling the other stake holders (wlroots, KDE, etc).

Now, to the main premise of the article: plenty of applications (at present) make use of client decorations vs. compositor decorations, and it can be easily experienced with Chrom[e|ium] in sway, by enabling/disabling "Use system title bar and borders".

I think the whole piece is a misinformed piece that builds on top of a faulty premise, and the author didn't bother to do minimal research before putting words to paper. I would expect more judgement on the part of the HN crowd instead of accepting it on the idea that conforms their biases towards Wayland being somehow "bad".
Okay, check this out, apparently distribution of pornography is illegal in Bulgaria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Bulgaria

I had no idea, probably no one has. As it is stated in the wikipedia article, authorities tolerate porn on TV after 23:00. On our TV cable network it was 00:00 but on others apparently it starts earlier.

As you can see, things don't work according to the laws in Bulgaria and the switch to porn at 00:00 has nothing to do with the laws.

The attitude is, this is not governments job - no matter what the laws say.
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I thought Xenocara was about running xserver without root, but otherwise a normal x11? Because I’m talking about something completely different: the fact that, due to x11 design, every app can do anything to any other app, which means it can just wait for you to run sudo(8) and then inject whatever keycodes into the terminal.
> I will be quite happy to move elsewhere if the place I live isn’t willing to take my concerns as a sufficient priority.

that's your prerogative.

But until public transport is financed through taxes paid by the population (in Denmark that's particularly true, given the rate of taxation) the priority must be the public interest, not your personal one.
Ha! I absolutely love solving stuff like this, automating it many times is more fun for me than actually solving a problem. But I'm always dissapointed/bored when I have automated it, suffering from success.
Those sound like big numbers but unless my napkin math is very wrong it's not even an order of magnitude more than existing Californian water projects like the California Aqueduct [1]. 1 m/s flow through a 40 m diameter pipe is 1256 m^3/s which is less than four times that of the CA aqueduct at 370 m^3/s and the distance is five to six times depending on how you measure it at 2000-2400 miles compared to 440 miles. Just one of the pumping stations along the CA aqueduct pumps that water up about 2,000 feet at 2,000 PSI so the elevation change is barely a factor of two more.

The California Aqueduct was a megaproject that started over 70 years ago and the aforementioned Edmonston Pumping Station was turned on in 1973. At this point, the biggest challenge would be the right of way and litigation since the engineering has long been a solved problem. Those in California can go see the aqueduct exit the Sierra Nevada mountains at the edge of Bakersfield [2] and hiking trails around Lake Isabella intersect with open parts of the aqueduct where you can see all the water rushing by (don't fall in!). Imagine that, but like five or six times bigger.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Aqueduct

[2] https://a.scpr.org/69978_86cbed2aa8b2e426383678de0f659072_or...
> A reasonable guess but ultimately wrong. "Proofed" is not a word

And if it were I’d certainly assume it was a reviewing / publishing concept related to proof copies and proofreading (as in, a proofed copy would have gone through proofreading and no error would’ve been found).

Not related to the logical concept.
Java’s ecosystem is in eons better shape, its build tools are actually working so I really don’t get your point. If anything, the JS ecosystem could learn quite a few things from Java.
Sure!

https://www.classification.gov.au/classification-ratings/wha...

>Every film and computer game has to be classified before it can be legally made available to the Australian public, unless it is exempt or is being shown at a registered event.

If they refuse classification then it is banned.
TL;DR: The developers of XMMS gave the domain to a company which sponsored many individual developers of the XMMS program. A while after development had slowed down, the company unceremoniously sold the domain to a another company which was adding fake links and ads on many such old and trusted sites.

…

When you place a tangible value on trust, trust becomes a commodity to be bought and sold.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27432186
Don't know if the owner will ever read this comment, but please add some sections on:

* Its design goals and rationale
* How those decisions are translated into the actual performance
* What is the trade off made to achieve that
* Why should/shouldn't anyone else use it

Rather than just a vague performance claim that it's ten times faster than something else. It's not just for this specific library, but applicable to any libraries seeking for broader audiences.
> They originally bought cars due to marketing.

That seems like a wild claim. Everyone I know (and myself) bought cars for the need to get from here to there and back in a pragmatic way.
I think we agree so I'm not sure what you meant. My point was that you could have made the stated "budget" all-SSD much much cheaper than what he did. A pair of 980 Pro would easily beat it on bandwidth. How close it would get on IOPS I don't know, but if you stay away for 128 KiB record size you should be in the neighborhood.
Bought a Prius five years and it's been a great buy as a transportation appliance. It can get up to 1200 km/42L tank if you're just cruising at 90kph. Nobody here in Western Canada either wants to climb in to it or thinks its a car that a conservative (in the MAGA sense) would want to be found dead in.
I think you're describing a tipping point - where the association is so strong that it inhibits other uses. The association in this case is "a Prius is a minicab" - which seems to be mostly true in London. I'm sure it's a practical vehicle, since the choice of minicab vehicle is necessarily a very practical one, driven by factors such as Return on Investment, carrying capacity, and finding a vehicle that one can comfortably spend double-digit hours per day inside.

But now, we don't want one since it's going to be assumed to be a minicab.
This is complete rubbish, bad faith duplicity.

1) You have to back 25 years to find an accident which you contort and completely turn upside down?

2) This was not an act of 'propaganda' by NATO. NATO hit the train and literally admitted to it the next day. There was no claims that the Serbians 'did it to themselves' or 'cover up'. There is no 'propaganda' or 'information' issue here.

3) It was assuredly an accident. There is absolutely no reason for NATO to hit arbitrary trains with civilians otherwise, even cynically. In fact, as they admitted the mistake immediately - it was hugely costly in terms of bad press, winning hearts and minds. Why would NATO do such damage to itself for no reason?

4) NATO intervention in Kosovo/Serbia is obviously nothing like Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Kosovars were being killed by Serbians and are very, very happy to have the protection of NATO in that regard.

5) Your repulsive implication that somehow Ukraine is similar to Kosovo in that it's a 'breakaway' area that wants 'independence' is disgusting Russian propaganda: Ukraine is a sovereign country, not a wayward Russian territory.

While Serbia/Kosovo is a complicated situation, Serbians will have to stop killing Kosovo citizens, thankfully NATO achieved that, and at least we have that.

Russia has no business being in Ukraine - full stop. Russian forces in Ukraine will have to leave or be killed, and when it's over Russians will be responsible for paying damages to Ukraine, and be forced to recognize their atrocities.
This implies that there is nothing lost when someone is executed unfairly, or at least that the compensation might be worth more than their life.

Perhaps you could argue that people would rather die than be locked up for 20 years, but I'm not so sure.
> I also don't believe nuclear waste would pose a significant problem. There are many ways of containing waste as well as reducing.

And than all you bring up is some technology which is in testing proving OPs argument.

Sure there are ways of reducing highly radioactive waste...at the cost of creating more waste you still have to store...and yeah sure you can dispose some of it in the sea. Also it costs a hell lot of money.

> Fossil fuels release about 33 billion tonnes annually

Nobody questions the bad side of fossils.

The topic is renewables vs. nuclear though.
Changing the license would be very difficult, AIUI they would need to convince everyone who had already contributed to consent to the change in licensing.
Also related & interesting:

- https://frippery.org/make/ (inspired this post -- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32300356)

- https://github.com/casey/just (Make with less footguns, written in Rust)

[EDIT] A side-note -- I personally use Make with just all stacks I create with (front/back/infra/etc). I think it's quite undervalued but maybe because I've never dealt with an industrial-strength terrible Makefile setup that would turn me off to it.
So it's the same way we do it in Europe with single phase, but I think it's easier to split three phases between single phase loads (most AC loads in a hosehold), rather than three phases between two phase loads (a few AC loads in a household). I still like the 120V plug connector with a key on the hot wire. In Europe I always wire the hot on the right hand side of the Schuko socket, as most standards have it on the right.