skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found myself using VSCode instead of Emacs when browsing a lot of files. Just recently I added treemacs to my Emacs setup so my use of VSCode is much reduced. I also took the small effort to setup GitHub Copilot to work with Emacs - for some types of work, Copilot is a real time saver for Common Lisp and Python work.

I would also like his take on Pharo, which I like and many years ago released an open source NLP library for Pharo.
If you live in an area populated by older people then yes.
The electric vehicles may be more energy efficient once they are ready for driving. But actually building all its parts not only consumes way more energy compared to combustion cars. It also needs rare earth metals which are mined by workers living the life of slaves.
Till Microsoft decides to block their servers.
I am basically in the "change or die trying" camp, I have become completely and absolutely incapabable of accepting a job creating problems for ordinary people.

Mostly it's because I have a pretty clear vision for what needs to happen but I'm stuck alone in a future that no one else seems to see and it is wearing me down tbh.

We can make things less painful by just doing the things that make sense for a little bit and then the whole house of cards will come tumbling down and work will be useful again... why no one else sees this idk but what is almost incredible is how incapable people are when it comes to trusting their own assessments rather than the ones made by economic/judicial/certification- systems, often they will acknowledge what I have to say but then are too comfortable to "rock the boat"
https://www.wartsila.com/energy/towards-100-renewable-energy...

Suggests Great Britain would ideally have only 1% solar, and storing 8% of the wind production as Green Hydrogen

Doing it without Green Hydrogen, just solar wind batteries would double the cost.

Connectors help too, though they also cost money to build. As renewables and batteries have plummeted in price, connectors have become less necessary. Once you have Green Hydrogen you can ship it around and store it like LNG.
Regulation works when experts really do have the answer.

But the problem here is that we just don't know. We know about a few worrisome problems and signs, but we don't have a clear picture like we do with lead or asbestos.

We could switch from "allow by default" to "deny by default", but I'm not even sure that would help. Often problems are hard to find even once its widespread.

We also don't want to foster a "chemicals are bad" attitude more than it already exists.

I think the right answer is more funding for long-term rigorous studies. That way we know.
> that doesn't exist yet.

Batteries exist, and estimates of how many would be needed are around 50TWh. We have over 500GWh of annual battery production, and the doubling period for that capacity is under 18 months.
Does production == having the resource?

Asking because I think it's possible that many places don't bother to mine it due to a combination of regulations and cost.

LE: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium...

So, Australia is where most of the uranium is :| Also, Russia does seem to have significant reserves that could be mined.
Especially when the final URL ends in a microsoft.com domain
Running the simulation is not going to use most of the power of your machine, in any remotely sane design:

- a huge part is going to go to rendering, which you don't need to do if you only care about the end state

- in many games, the simulation runs at a much lower frame rate than the game, so perhaps you see the game animated at a silky smooth 60 fps but internally the sim runs at a fraction. 10 and 5 fps for the sim are common.

- some sim architectures may allow you to run the sim at a variable frame rate and still generate deterministic results. So (ideally) you tell the sim to run a single step of 30 mins and you get the end result. In practice of course variable steps will be limited to much less, but Supercell mentioned reducing their server sim cpu costs by 80-90% with this kind of trick.

All added up with reasonable guesses for a well optimized case: 30 mins of sim run at 1 sim tick per second of game time, where sim ticks take say 2ms, could take 3.6 seconds to sim, not 30 minutes.
I agree it's unlikely anyone will ever care but you've got to admit it's insane and surprising that a dictionary app in 2022 looks up the results online using a gopher-era plaintext protocol rather than just bundling the dictionary.
I’ve been working on my “startup” (codeapprove.com) in addition to my full time job and busy social life for about 18 months now (no kids though, before anyone asks).

Finding time to build the thing hasn’t been all that hard. A few hours a week is actually a lot if you’ve already pre-solved some problems in your mind during downtime and you’re really just cranking out work with few blockers.

The hard part is customers. Acquiring them and keeping them can’t really be scheduled. This requires random bursts of time and energy when you least expect it that can be pretty incompatible with a normal job. Maybe if you’re really good at marketing and UX you can find ways to passively get self-service customers but most people who can build software lack those skills. And still, someone has to do customer support.

So I ended up with the classic hacker’s folly: a great product with few users. Oh well, I love building it.
What the hell are you talking about??? Technological civilization arouse because our ancestors living in "small agrarian communities" were tired of living in a nightmare in which their children died like flies and the starved to death periodically every time the climate farted.

I'm tired on hearing entitled little sh1ts like you that have lived incredibly pampered lives and don't have a clue of what is like to have to live without a refrigerator, hvac or modern medicine.
The side effect of capitalism is that not only money becomes concentrated, but also power. Not only because money buys power, but because the one who ones the machines can dictate how the one who operates it works. Anarchism refutes the idea that one has power over another, and as such accumulation of money and not owning the means of production is antithetical to anarchism
East Germany was the fourth largest producer of uranium ore. After the reunification we just closed those mines, just as we shut down East German nuclear plants.

If there was a compelling reason we could presumably start mining and refining those deposits again.
Yep. We have all of our backtesting and analysis in the cloud. Python notebooks for analysis. Java for backtesting. C++ for performance critical or for where Java API is not useful.

I'm in HFT so we have software engineers available to our portfolio managers. Everything is in code.

Live strategies are deployed via a script that ultimately ssh to a machine, plops a set of artifacts in from storage, and then runs. But everything needs to restart together.
> some government agency divided the ‘allowable’ levels of these chemicals by 40 million

That's one way to put it, yes. Another way is that recent scientific studies have shown these chemicals are way more harmful than we once thought. Should we not adjust recommendations accordingly? Seems rather obvious and undeserving of a "Wut?".

How bad is bad? Check out how they calculate the HA values here: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-06/technical...
You may want to look into how many conflicts between how many parties there were in Europe prior to WWI, and since.
I have felt a sting many times over the years just below my palm on my right wrist. At first I thought Apple had just designed quite the sharp edge on the MacBook but over time I realized it was a slight electric shock.
When I plug the mickey-mouse connector into my Mac Studio, the inrush current regularly causes a brief arc to ground that trips the GFCI.

Very nice.
> According to the study, SSD's excessive carbon footprint compared to HDDs comes from the manufacturing process itself. The latest SSDs use multiple NAND, DRAM, and controller chips, each manufactured with cutting-edge silicon manufacturing techniques and multi-layer bonding processes, requiring both expensive materials and high electricity usage.

So it just comes down to… “too few nanometers”? If we manufacture the (non-memory) chips on older processes we’d cut this footprint? And was this compared to the HDD equivalent, i.e.: newer high-density Helium HDDs and such?

I thought it would be about the ecological impact of HDDs and SSDs when it comes to disposing of them, recycling cost and the amount left dumped in a landfill. On that note, SSDs are probably clear winners now that NVMe-s took over in consumer PCs compared to much bigger & heavier 3.5”/2.5” HDDs.
No, it means that the thing that Europeans have been feeling - that they need to get off fossil fuels before there is enough technology to enable an all-renewable grid - appears to be wrong. There is no doubt that European governments jumped the gun here, and they are now relying on dictators to cover their energy shortfall. I'm sure that many of them relied on the US as a supplier of LNG in wartime, but they didn't count on the fact that our government would cut production too.
> that all have a specific name, as an example.

Are these "special names" like the "100 names of snow" and actually are literally "dice diagonally", "slice laterally", "make small cubes" etc.?
The Midwit Trap
It’s easier to risk failure at things that aren’t important to you is one example. A great book explaining all the reasons why is War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
Did you google ‘is scratched Teflon safe’?

If you do, and you take the ‘first hit’ for the truth as parent suggested in a reply (it says it is not safe), does that lead you to believe that this issue is so simple as ‘don’t let your pan get hot’, or could there be other factors to consider, like, for example, exposing the pan to other chemicals, abrasion, etc?
I've spent the last couple of years at the two bottom levels of that scale. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize one of the root causes: my wife and I have fundamentally different personalities that are at odds with each other.

My wife is an extrovert. She is energized by going out, visiting places, doing things, meeting people.

I'm an introvert. I get energized by staying in, reading a book, watching a movie, spending time by myself.

This creates tension every weekend when we need to negotiated what to do. This friction is weary by itself, but then the outcome almost always makes someone unhappy. Most weekends rather than recharging for the rest of the week, I end up more tired than I started.

Not sure how well this will generalize but if you find yourself in those bottom steps it's worth it to do some introspection and audit how you spend your time.
France has less dependence on russian gas , it doesn't have germany's large industry that is also dependent on russian gas, their nuclear will be there in the future, they have 4 LNG terminals and they are quite sunnier. I believe france's nuclear is currently offline that's why the higher gas usage.
> floss I use apparently has PFAS

I too had no idea. Pisses me off.

After trying a handful of alternatives, I settled on bamboo floss.

For all I know, bamboo floss contains arsenic and midi-chlorians.

> ...whole host of rare medical conditions become common when my generation gets older.

You mean like how leaded gasoline caused populate wide cognitive and behavioral problems?
Especially if your OS is compromised or in a FUBAR state and you really need a simple ISO.
Try the vscode-neovim[1] plugin instead of the more popular vscode-vim plugin. It runs an actual neovim instance in the background and works so much better than vscode-vim, which I also found was "not quite right" and very laggy. It really is excellent, pretty seamless and can't recommend it enough.

1: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...
> the deck looks stacked against a Beijing-Moscow-Berlin

As of this movement, yes, but in the future USA won't be able to keep the hegemony. Right now there is a leverage on energy (oil and gas from middle east) and the cheapest from of transportation (maritime). USA can block both via Ormuz and Malacca. In 20-30 years China and Europe will be energy and resource independent. If land transportation* will be more cost effective than ships, USA hegemony is gone.

*hyperloop/magnetic rail/other
So it would be more ethical to take the 4 unit building I live in and make it a single family home?
Seems like your first posted link says the opposite actually:

> TL;DR Chargers are grounded to neutral. The tingle you feel is the few mV of potential of neutral to actual ground due to slight misalignment of the three phases (R, S, T) which are combined into neutral. Your equipment is fine. This becomes life threatening only on ancient indoor electrical installations without an earth leakage relay which are illegal in most of the world and, frankly, can kill you in many more ways than a freak failure of the power distribution to your building. And no, Apple can't sell you something that's not following your local laws regarding equipment requirements.
Tried `rm -rd /` as root on a Mac once. I didn’t expect it to boot just fine after :)
Gerhard Schröder certainly demonstrated that there is good money to be made in testing this theory.
Oh, so you put a deposit down a year ago? /s

They're incredibly hard to buy right now, I've been on the waiting list for months.
It makes about as much sense as saying watching paint dry defines the experience of having decorated walls.
I'd settle for 0 ppt.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological arguments. Those are extremely repetitive and therefore off topic here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
problem is germany uses russian gas for electricity
The fact that we are commenting in a thread about a report on something that has an implied "this is bad for people" suggests experts know, to a good enough degree, about certain things that should be regulated better.
Makes sense - I am 71 years old, and when I get really used to software I don't like to change. For example, I am celebrating my 40th anniversary of having paid Common Lisp work. Using Mosh (sometimes) instead of SSH was a worthwhile change though.
The major driver of renewables costs is investment. The wind blowing and sun shining does not cost anything.

Sadly regarding renewables, there is no twice cheaper available right now. Maybe through innovation somewhere in the future. Right now only hydro power is close to fossil fuel energy density. But it is only available in a few places around the world.
I can actually read the code when someone shares screen and scrolls. With google meet (whichever version), when sharing small dense font, things get mighty blurry when scrolling is happening. At least for me.
Also pumped hydro storage exists, and isn't too picky about where it can be placed (as opposed to hydro dams)
(2017)

I would expect a modern tutorial to focus on x86-64 (syscall/sysenter) instead of the old int 0x80 conventions for 32-bit x86. int 0x80 syscalls still work in 64-bit mode, but use a 32-bit calling convention, which might be confusing - see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46087730/what-happens-if....

If you want to build a really minimal ELF file (on Linux), this is perhaps the possible minimum: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht...
The social structure and how you view friends or make friends are different in all cultures including Japan.

Japan does not have the concept of "casual friends" or "light hearted friends" in the same way that places like the US have, but more similar to the way friends are viewed in the UK maybe, and friends take a lot of work and time to make.

In the middle of this is that most of your social life and work life are merged into one, which is different to countries like the UK and US, and you will be expected to work very long hours to show your love of the company.
Every MacBook with metal enclosure from the last 15 years had the "buzzing". Quite a few people reported it to Apple, but nothing ever came of that, so Apple doesn't seem to think it's a problem.

It happens with both USB-C charging and MagSafe, but the intensity varies.

I would consider it slightly unpleasant, but have never heard about anyone getting an electric shock.
I mean they sort of did / do. Once you use them a lot you get to know drivers and you call them directly and they would give you better prices and pickup times. Calling dispatch would often not even work on busy nights. Obviously this isn't for placed like NYC where you just get a cab off the street. But in a lot of places you could establish relationships with a few cab drivers if you used them regularly.
s/to consumers//
When was the quality turning point for Vectorworks? My wife uses it and still experiences regular crashes, though to be fair she avoids upgrading because she doesn't want to learn a new set of bugs to work around.
In chargers with a ground the negative DC rail is connected to ground internally for suppression. In chargers without a ground the neutral AC pin is capacitively coupled to the DC output for RF suppression, which is what people are complaining about in this thread- the small amount of leakage that capacitor causes.
People absolutely have and occasionally do rush active shooters, which is what happened in the second part of the situation.

And if you don't ever believe that confronting an active shooter is ever the correct thing to do, why do you think having a gun will help you? Take your own advice and run away, you don't need a gun to do that.
Sort of...Green Acres seemed more to exploit that difference to create an absurd environment in general. (Filmways had a lot of trained farm animals around anyway.) The recurring joke was that Eddie Albert had an idyllic vision of being a lawyer retiring to farm life, and all of the objectively insane things people there did made perfect sense to everyone except him, including Eva Gabor.
Bolt (the 1-click payment) company tried this, and immediately after (justified) layoffs you saw articles about people taking out (relatively) massive loans to buy now-worthless options: https://www.wired.com/story/bolt-stock-loans/amp

Had Bolt made it, those employees would have become investors...

It's all about luck IMO
If you’re comfortable saying, could I ask which meds you were prescribed?
May I introduce you to a long list of Linux breakout and privilege escalation CVEs.
That's the thing. Under capitalism the only way to measure something is money. Millions of tons could be sold, profit was made, so it's OK to throw away a few tons.

Environment, living and working conditions, resources and materials being taken from non-renewables sources, all of those are unimportant under capitalism, all of those are unimportant with capitalism and are the reason why no one asks themselves whether it's really worth shipping fruits from the other side of the world. Sometimes even by plane.
Waxed seems almost as good too.
Also if Russia stops the war tomorrow, is Germany not going to return to their old arrangements?
I'm going to disagree here, we were only 19. It was just too much for even me to handle, I did have another friend and she was very supportive but I absolutely don't blame my first girlfriend for leaving.
What was your solution to the problem of negotiating with your wife about what to do on the weekends?
The Western name order is what's a bit awkward to me. I don't like starting my name with my given name when it's the other way around officially. In a catalog of names you wouldn't start with the given name either. The most formal way of addressing someone would be using their title, and their family name. You wouldn't call someone Dr. John, and yet with the Western name order you would call them Dr. John Lambard, but also Dr. Lambard.
Or the sky has already fell and no one has noticed yet because our sky-watchers told us it was fine
"If the landlord has to pay 4x tax they will pass some (all) of that increase to the renter. Also, a 4x increase in tax != 4x increase in rent."

How much of a tax gets passed along to the consumer is modeled in an introductory macroeconomics course. It depends upon the elasticity of supply and demand. A tax falls primarily on the side of the transaction with the lower elasticity, because they are less able to adapt behavior to avoid the tax.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...

The reason economists like a land-value tax is because the elasticity of supply for land is effectively zero: there is a fixed amount of land, and regardless of what the tax rate is, landowners are either going to seek a return on their ownership or will sell it to someone else who'll get a better return. Elasticity of demand is pretty low too, but it's not zero: people can double up with roommates, move in with families, or become homeowners. So a tax on unimproved land ends up falling almost entirely on the landlord, with relatively little long-term impact on rents.

In practice, we're likely to see pretty severe reallocations of land and short-term price dislocations, as existing landowners find that their usage is not productive enough to pay the tax and so they need to sell to new firms who will use the land in different ways. But this is working-as-intended: the goal of an LVT is to incentivize better usage of land through high-density development of desirable parcels, individual homeownership (when density makes sense), and commercial activity.
I am a fairly energetic person. Yes, things have been slowing down as I age but my spirit is young.

I switched careers several times. About 2 years into my dev role I realized that I do have a relatively fixed amount of cognitive stamina. Took me a while to actually get it.

1. Partying all night has an extremely bad effect due to several factors I better not mention directly

2. Competitive gaming is sucking the life out of me. I have taught myself to avoid playing seriously anything Quake or StarCraft as these high skill 1vs1 games naturally attract other wannabes just like my younger self. It's all very demanding and I always end up either taking a beating or 10, or sacrificing the next few work days.

I have learned to take the ego hits and suffer horrible humiliations in the games that I love.

In any case, what never fails to charge and heal me is going to nature. Does wonders to body and mind
I can download Windows 11 iso from here:https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

even has a checksum.
> And, a system an order of magnitude more costly, as fusion would necessarily be, would certainly be far from competitive, even were regular nukes honestly viable.

This is a strawman.

We don't even have fusion. We don't know what it would cost.

It doesn't have the environmental issues, so decommissioning and insurance are lesser issues.