skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The engine has to be pretty tiny for an old game like that, right? They could probably ship a copy of all the historical version along with it, just for replays...
Impressive! Just wondering, can this work with ssh? Using VNC for text based application sounds a bit overkill.
I haven't said that. They want to go back to status quo ante, hence "French President Emmanuel Macron has sparked a new wave of criticism and incomprehension over his calls to avoid humiliating Russia in Ukraine"

Also, that's the reason why Germany was relying on gas from Russia. They are not idiots. It was not a stupid single point of failure, but geopolitics.
Delve into ELF Binary Magic
We are fucking us sideways and have no plans to stop doing so.
In context your statement makes sense.

Though, this being HN, I'd like to point out that you are technically correct, the best kind of correct. There is no official declaration of war between the EU and Russia (even if one could figure out how to do that).

Of course in practice there is very much a proxy war going on on Ukrainian soil. It is being done fairly openly at that: Weapons shipments are mentioned on the news, and eg. the movements of EU-based AWACS and Drones (patrolling along borders and over black sea, peeking in and providing intelligence) are also not hidden.
While simple articles like this may not cover the effects of mining, many other studies and articles do. What we see from those is that the impacts of mining related to EVs is only incrementally worse than the impacts from mining the minerals (and oil) used in ICEVs. Nickel and copper are used in conventional vehicles and in many other products. EVs are not the major usage of copper. Lithium is mostly “mined” by flushing warm water thought salt deposits. (Those photos you have seen online of massive lithium “mines” are usually a photo of a gold mine in Australia https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/hanking-to-pour-first-gold-fr...)

Yes, EVs are not without their problems, but compared to the status quo they are a major improvement, in particular to the much larger problem of CO2 and climate change that dwarf the local impacts from mining.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap —- Leonard Cohen
> It would also be nice to implement the POSIX API to solve that part of the chicken-and-egg problem.

If you already have a microkernel capable of running Linux hardware drivers in userspace, it shouldn't be hard to also run userspace ABIs/personalities interfaces as userspace drivers; NetBSD rump drivers more or less officially support what you're doing, and I suspect you could modify user mode linux (UML) to provide ABI compatibility good enough to run unmodified Linux binaries.
There is a tendency to look back on midevil punishments as barbaric, but it's worth noting that they probably would consider our practice of locking people up for years, sometimes alone for 23 hours a day, as bizarre and cruel.
Climate change - the entire subject - is a really complex space, one in which human behaviors and attitudes are shaping the outcomes for which investors are now asked to fund defensive projects.

This is what I wonder: what if there was a way to tame human behaviors and attitudes and thereby reduce the need for such investments.

To me, that situation seems analogous to Ike's admonition to "beware of the military industrial complex" - to which we can now add "university". By which I mean that it seems like there are financial incentives made in heaven for reducing CO2 which is, in part, put there by human behaviors, some of which are incentivized by commercial activities (think: muscle cars, RVs, etc, vs public transportation, anemic electric vehicles, etc).

Which leads me to wonder: what about investing in those technologies which can contribute to the reduction of the human side of the overall equation. VCs seem to be chasing a "demand"-side which is created by an overachieving "supply"-side. Stocks and flows.
Even searching the "wrong" things on google can get you in trouble

"How Google searches for 'pressure cookers' and 'backpacks' led the cops to a writer's door"

https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4580654/michele-catalano-g...
Here's my notes on the subject:

- hisense q5 tablet
- hdmi input
- https://www.cect-shop.com/en/hisense-q5.html
- 400 eur
- android as usb display:
- https://superdisplay.app/
- waveshare
- https://www.waveshare.com/product/displays/e-paper/epaper-1.htm?___SID=U&dir=desc&mode=list&order=price
- pure hdmi, usb powered
- 400-600eur
- papertty
- python library
- streams terminal or vnc to raspberry pi connected SPI waveshare monitor
I like WAF. Scons is good too. Then there is Ninja and the whole ecosystem around that. Search the HN archives for many more suggestions.
How do you feel about rent control? That gives someone who was there earlier a market distorting deal just because they were there first.
> the Green Party (which was founded as direct result of the Chernobyl disaster)

Chernobyl was 1986 and the West German green party existed before that:

> Alliance 90/The Greens ... is a green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (formed in East Germany in 1990) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens
https://twitter.com/roshart/status/429501812740079616
Which is also an issue in the author's example, no? So the point would be moot.
Yeah, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish .
> You will most notably see it in your own social circle or family. People will put a spoke in your wheel in crucial moments or as soon as you want to take off. If you have not a strong will to move forward this will get you.

Perhaps they're not trying to "sabotage your efforts", but instead, they are the ones who know you best and can see the effect overworking is having on you. It's amazing how much perspective shifts from the person in the thick of it to the observer.
Land rights as a basic right is an unsolved issue in _all_ parts of the world. Without this root issue being solved every thing else ends up being a band-aid/patch work. Georgism, I think come closes philosophically to solving the issue.

Side note: Land rights are even more important than things like free speech. Also I'm not saying that land rights as a basic right is easy to solve, it is actually very difficult, but for me it a per-requisite to every other 'right'.
The cost to learn a new software is trivial. The cost to redesign all library components in the new software is huge.

It is very analogous to programming if you consider it like rewriting a program designed in Java into C++. Depending on the complexity of the program, you will become proficient in C++ long before you finish the code transition.

I use Siemens NX to design. It would take thousands of hours to recreate all the partfiles we use into a different CAD software. Some of the big guys write programs to make a transition easier (from Ideas to NX), but they are not perfect. They may work for some simple parts, but for more complex things... forget about it.
> Can any Germans on HN explain why Germany finds it preferable to give up their energy independence in nuclear and instead buy it from their potential adversary in Russia?

Because the only method shown to prevent war in Europe is co-dependence. EU is founded on integrating the belligerents of WW2 close enough that it would be unthinkable to happen again.

The same method, which at least has worked previously, was tried with Russia and now 30 years later, or more likely in 2014 with the invasion of Crimea we can conclude that Russia is different in some core way of thinking. Not too different though, looking at how the Baltic states have developed when given the choice and chance.

The alternative scenario, with a Russia still riding on the tail ends of soviet military might in steep decline not even given a chance in the early 2000s seems like a recipe for an even worse outcome than we have today.
Farmers know absurd amounts about the fertilizer they're using. Frankly, they probably know more about any given facet of the modern world than the average person. Having to pull multi-million dollar lines of credit and constantly staying up-to-date with any technology that touches your business will do funny things to people. That extends to most people that make things; they know who it goes to and how it gets there, but the person who gets it doesn't know where it came from and how it got to them.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lobbying seeks to make CFTC, not SEC, oversee crypto markets
Not romanticised — VCs rationally cultivate a standard of founders spending every resource, personal, spiritual, and financial, towards making their investment back 1% more likely. Having a life “Plan B” is taken as a Bad Sign. After all, necessity (and deprivation) is the mother of startup invention, etc. all the better of necessity is existential.

And after a day of meetings, the VCs lean back on their chairs and scratch their head over the dismal state of their founders’ mental health…
Except storage systems today don't scale and become more expensive when deployed at anything close to grid scale. Google told me that lithium ion batteries are $130-150 per KWh. But it turns out when you try to buy loads of them they become scarce and the price goes up. New York ended up paying over $500 for it's storage: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/new-york-battery-storage-co...

Keep stanning "Power-to-X" solutions. But until you actually have a solution for X that works at grid scale, there's no real solution. Just empty promises.

You edited your post after I replied:

> Power-to-X is using technologies that are mostly off the shelf. The particularly important one that wasn't, low cost electrolyzers, has seen tremendous progress. The Chinese are now selling these for < $300/kW, a fraction of the price assumed in the 2030 assumptions in that modeling site I like to point to.

Except none of those systems scale. If they did, the article would have actually specified the storage system. But then they'd have to stand up to scrutiny over whether that storage system can actually deliver at the promised scale. Because it can't, they use ambiguous language like "power to X".
I don't put measurements around frivolities
How did you come to the conclusion that I don’t think it’s meant as a joke, after having that openly explained to me on a public forum?

That kind of mind-reading is right next to gaslighting on the dark triad trait list.
Related and very interesting podcast:

Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KwkpTUbkg
This was one of the larger of many reasons I left my previous company, which was a holding company that owned several products with similar audiences and feature sets. They bought a new product at the beginning of the pandemic that was deemed the primary replacement for the rest.

Basically spent ~3 years as the sole developer on an application in "maintenance mode" that kept getting more customers since it supported a bunch of features the intended replacement didn't. That increased client base wanted new features in the maintenance product that leadership wouldn't turn down. The product still maintained a turn-around time an order of magnitude less than the primary replacements.

A few days before I tendered my resignation, the company had laid off about half the development team for the primary replacement (even though they had contracts promising work that was planned to take 12+ months with the full dev team), and declared a different product as the "primary replacement" for the other ones they held. Don't know how that will work out for them, don't really care either.

New place has a standing policy that basically says if we can prove a maintenance system is taking more than a few hours a month, they'll authorized repairing/replacing/removing said system. It's incredible how much of a difference it makes on employee morale not needing to constantly context shift to spend a few hours fixing some broken system over and over again.
Because you're buying the tax liability as well as the benefit of the potential rent. Under a perfect land tax those are equal, so the price of all land is zero.
Yeah, I think that's an interesting point - if the goal is just to have a roof over your head close to where you work, institutional involvement may be able to help there (large apartment complexes and high rises are the old school methods of creating housing units that are mostly the same as each other).

I think the issue is that housing is intrinsically tied to real estate, and real estate (at large) likely won't become much more fungible. Land is just really complicated, and the uses for it aren't all that exchangeable.
I’d love to hear which lines the op felt were boastful I read all three articles only got the sense of damn I wish I had been lucky enough to work with him.
That's the very core of the issue, not knowing what is unsafe.

It's not that the concentration of these chemicals increases past what we thought was safe, what changed was our knowledge of his dangerous they are, making current levels unsafe.

Any notion for "objectively" deciding these things has to account for unknown information, which means assigning subjective risk to these unknowns. I don't find an "objective" framework a coherent concept because of that. Ignorance of the world must be confronted head on and taken into account, and those that do not incorporate that risk directly into their cognitive models will perform worse at achieving their goals.
This is nonsense. We have solved a ton of environmental problems in my lifetime. When I was a kid, there were legitimate worries about the ozone layer -- we banned CFCs and now it's a non-issue. Acid rain is vastly mitigated. Before I was born, we cleaned up America's rivers. And we've dropped per capita carbon emissions in the US by about 40% so far from its high in the 70s.
Apostasy for ex-Muslims is punishable by death. It makes it much harder to be really a "choice".
Unfortunately, I do need a lot of these redundant keys. I had the entire Numpad set up as hotkeys in AutoKey.

So yes, I don't need Numpad, and I don't need NumLock, scroll lock, insert, function keys, function key, Super key, dedicated backslash key where the return key used to be, maybe I don't need caps lock, right-hand shift key, I definitely never touch any of the mod keys to the right of the space bar. I don't know much about AltGr whatever that means. I don't need right click or a dedicated key for it. I should turn off the third mouse button altogether. There are probably more.
How do you assess "too much" when it comes to human population?
Comprehensive entry exams are being done away with a lot of schools. At the university I went to (before I dropped from the program for financial reasons) I simply had to have gotten A's in my last 4 semesters of CS classes. The last 4 semesters are graduate courses, and undergrads simply do marginally less work.

Comprehensive exams in my opinion are extremely dumb. You take some classes and to take more classes you need to take sometimes up to a year to cram 4 years of various CS trivia, most likely unrelated to your core interest, to sit a 4-5 hour long exam to prove you can regurgitate things. It really is trivia too. My advisor issued these exams and showed me one of the old ones. I am not sure how regurgitating the finer details of computer architecture will ever help me produce research in computational mathematics but apparently it was required.

It's just yet another shibboleth of academia. It provides the illusion of exclusivity for a group that is so smart, they're too dumb to see comprehensives prove nothing.
Satellite data finds landfills are methane 'super emitters'
First they nerfed it. Used to be able to redeem 500 points for $5.

Earlier this year they replaced it with discounts, so 400 points gets you 10% off. My most expensive ride in the past year was $30, so I view this as a 25% reduction in point value.

I guess that wasn’t enough?
So do you actually believe that only a minority of people revolve consumer debt on a credit card?

I’m sure it’s broken out somewhere in quarterly earnings but it’s not going to be a small minority of consumers paying credit card interest.
Remember how medieval scholars would argue how many angels could dance on the head of a pin and craft beautiful logical arguments relying on their view of cosmology?

These weren’t dumb people. These were likely the smartest and best educated.

Tying theories to empirical science is what keeps logic grounded in reality.
This is the Leviathan vs. Behemoth theory of geopolitics. It has explanatory value, though it’s distinctly colonial in its construction.

In this game, Europe is the swing vote. The Leviathan, a maritime power of Europe, the U.K., North America and Australia + Japan currently holds. Xi tried forging a Behemoth, a land power, in which Eurasia dominates Africa and the Americas. Behemoths, the thinking goes, will be army-driven and centralised; Leviathans, naval and decentralised.

The problem with the Behemoth is Eurasia is too culturally diverse to put under the sort of centralisation land powers (e.g. Rome, the Ottomans, Napoleon’s France + the USSR) require to stay stable. Maritime powers, historically trading powers (e.g. Carthage, the Dutch, the British and the United States), accommodate more diversity. Maritime alliances are inherently reliant on networks of local governments versus a central power dictating policy to the periphery. Put simply, the deck looks stacked against a Beijing-Moscow-Berlin alliance barring major right-wing shifts in Western Europe and social liberalisation in much of Asia.

> Germany and France wanted to build the Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok with help from Russia

The Arctic Sea is becoming navigable. Push for an independent Siberia, et cetera that exports via Arctic ports, not pipelines, and they get what they’re looking for without requiring a global reälignment. (Not advocating this. Just saying it’s a better play under that geopolitical model than trashing Ukraine.)
Show HN: Bog Gobbler Word Game
Two years ago my pandemic project was an online multi-player variant of Scrabble named Crossword Island Hopper where you capture territory by placing words on a board. It proved to be wildly unpopular.

More recently I have been working on Bog Gobbler, which is a variant of Boggle where you capture territory by finding words in the grid. The territory-capture element is much more relevant in the multi-player game, but also affects the mechanics of solo games.

This one is a little more popular and there is a daily solo challenge where everyone plays the same grid, with a global and personal leaderboard.

You can go directly to the daily challenge at: http://crosswordislandhopper.com/dailyChallenge

If you know how to play Boggle the one thing you need to be aware of is that after the first word you find, all subsequent words must include at least one letter that you already "own".
Walkaway safe nuclear reactors change EVERYTHING.
In what world does heating up a river even remotely come close to the environmental impact of, say, lithium extraction? https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/the-env...

Trying to shut down nuclear because a river gets too hot is the kind of faux-environmental that's hampering out efforts to combat climate change.
The last 409A price, when it's fresh (for the current tax year) and there has been no funding activities or other definitive material effects (such as a pending merger) is de jure the FMV.

Asking for options granted at a strike price other than FMV is bad for everyone. Negotiating on strike price is kind of silly anyway. In a succesful exit, the strike price is going to be pennies on the dollar (I had a cost basis of like 9 cents per share on shares I sold for $33-60 dollars), if you halve that, it's still nothing. If it's a mediocre exit, then it makes a meaningful difference, but still pretty small. For an unsuccesful exit, it makes little difference unless you exercised.

You could ask them to do a new 409A valuation, but they're time consuming and expensive, so it's likely not worth the trouble. If you want to negotiate for something, negotiate for your options to be canceled and reissued in February if the Jan 2023 comes back lower.
Ask HN: Go to mobile and back end stack?
I’ve done a lot of rails development. I had an idea for a mobile app, but never having done mobile app development, the options are overwhelming. I’m thinking of flutter + supabase for something quick and dirty. What do others use? With supabase how do you track DB migrations and add an app later if you need it?
https://www.techpowerup.com/297760/intel-asks-xe-hpg-scaveng...
Regarding the floss, the study doesn’t seem to have been corroborated. Instead I found this: https://www.ada.org/publications/ada-news/2022/february/ada-...
Did Will ever run SRE teams tho? This book applies to engineering teams building software iirc
How can we have a guideline for ALL PFAS? They are all completely different molecules with different Hazzard levels - likely many safe.

These generalizations make conversations about them useless.
I didn't hear a call for killing people. People die without any extra help. We should just stop having so many babies.
The Common Lisp condition system[1] supports this.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node312.html
XMPP and the Effect of Providers.xmpp.net
Even better when an alternative proposed solutions is “give me and my rich friends more power”
Water leakage is not a problem. The water goes back into the aquifer, where it should be anyway. It's a minor waste of energy and treatment chemicals, since it's drinkable water, but the water itself is not lost.
What I don’t not get is that people are often way more productive in their job than when they are trying to do something on their own...

I don’t get it insofar that the latter (your own goal, e.g. becoming a writer or your own business) has way more potential in the long run than the former.
How is jitsi between asia (cn) and europa and us?
Yep. Life is too short and I am in command of it. Heck, I’d quit on the second day if some dire red flag happened.
It comes down to whether or not the person you're asking has the power to change things. If not then it's a fairly soul crushing question. Exponentially more when it comes from the same people that have not granted you the power to change things.

Like we were handed a solution to implement that architects and product folks had been talking about for most of this year. But they didn't include anyone that was day in day out hands on with the systems they wanted to change. To do that and then ask the people implementing if we can speed things up would be quite annoying.

It's asking them to contradict the design decisions that people 1-3 levels above them made. Risky business for sure. Even moreso for technical folks that in general aren't as adept at sussing out the difference between someone really asking and someone looking for a rubber stamp on a decision already made.
This should be the top comment. It's like criticizing a tutorial page on pythonguy.com titled "Python techniques for copying data structures" because the author didn't explain that the same techniques are used in Julia.

Maybe readers are inferring some nationalistic element to a cooking tutorial, where people assume that a description of techniques used in Japanese cooking is some kind of claim to ownership of them?

I think this article is interesting on its own terms, because regardless of your heritage, if you haven't studied cooking you might not have experimented with how you cut vegetables. I always used to just straight chop everything when I made a stir fry, but now I try to be more creative.