skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually in Brazil the government has been providing tax-filling software for the last 20 years, and for its purposes it is quite good. If you just get a wage and don’t do anything too complex in your financial life like flipping houses, owning multiple companies, filling your yearly tax returns is a 10 to 20 minutes affair.

Also, the instant payments network that you can use to send money from any bank to any bank in seconds from your cell phone, the PIX, is government software.

Also, I am a small company owner and I can access a lot of government web applications online using a SSO with my optional digital certificate, or I can login into them by using my banks identity services as an oauth provider. No SMS funky business.

If anything, it is the private banks, that while in my experience have far better software than American banks, that is behind. I, for one can use the same digital certificate that I use for fiscal purposes to access my vaccination certificates, but I can’t use yet on most banks.

Of course there is a lot of government software that is basically enterprise software, bad software, but a lot of it, and usually the ones that I need to use more frequently are pretty good. They may not follow the latest flat design fashions, but they are accessible, ease to use, responsive, safe and fit for their purposes. And mind you, we are talking about Brasil, not exactly a model of good governance.
Originally UTF-8, then decoded as Latin-1, then re-encoded to UTF-8. You can recompute the exact bytes in the page with this Python code:

>>> 'Zürich'.encode('utf-8').decode('latin1').encode('utf-8')
b'Z\xc3\x83\xc2\xbcrich'
Google Duo is not coming back, but its icon has intentionally returned
Over a few millenia, certainly.
In Germany you have factories in the city and that is great. Many people are living just around the factory, and they benefit from the extensive public transport network that a city provide.
My example is Stuttgart, working for one of the big employer there. They have several factory, an old one in the city, and a newer one in a small town 20km away from the first factory. The old factory benefits from the S bahn and U bahn station and very few people actually needed a car. The new factory has no S bahn, no U bahn, and just one bus line connecting the old factory to the new one. A life without car there is barely possible and all employees there had a car, which then led to a parking space issue (they transformed two adjacent fields into parking).
So if we add the US that's 5/300+

Sorry, I don't know how many countries exist but that's a pretty tiny percentage
>but I don't think there's a single one of those large LED screens (like the ones on time square) in Hamburg

yes, I also did not notice any of those here in Hamburg. there is a smaller one in Harvestehude; even those are so rare that I clearly noticed this one.
The numbers cited here included electricity for warm
water and heating. Both are outrageously energy-intensive. The figured for electric appliances only are roughly in line with yours.
This is somewhat misleading because there have also been no classical time control human-computer matches since 2006 when Kramnik played against Fritz. That match more or less ended interest in these matches.

Every game was drawn until Kramnik randomly blundered a trivial mate-in-1 in a simple position. That mistake was undoubtedly driven by psychological reasons. Playing against an engine is nothing like playing against a human and it's difficult if not impossible to put oneself in the proper mindset to play well.

The following games were then also drawn until Kramnik decided to do the chess equivalent (when playing against a computer) of going for a hail mary, with black, in the final game to try to even the match score. Suffice to say, that failed and the match ended as a generally disappointing, for everybody, 4-2.

There have been a variety of gimmicky matches since (fast time controls, various odds matches, etc), but nothing serious.
https://appliku.com seems to be just a deployment service, you provide your own AWS servers.
Net neutrality is not a good thing in and of itself. It is one value among many.

If you're a firefighter trying to call for assistance from base camp, you don't care about net neutrality. You want your emergency phone call to have priority over everything else. You want the net to be extremely non-neutral.

On the general internet, where bandwidth is plentiful, net neutrality can keep certain pathological things from being a thing. On a specialized network where bandwidth is very scarce, it can be the cause of pathology.
Flags are probably somewhat common and I'd say it's a part of US culture to dial these things up to 11. (This is not meant as a sentiment.)
At 62k miles and 6 years, that would have probably been 6 to 10 oil and air filter changes, at $50 each would be $500. Brake pads would be $500.

Miscellaneous other might be $500. Easily less than $1,500 for most decent brand cars. Excluding the common cost of tires, of course.

How much extra did the Ioniq cost in 2016 over a Sonata or Acccord or Corolla or whatever the equivalent gas car would have been?
But why don't they just cut the connection at the plant. Agreed about demonizing themselves, they do.
Not mentioned in the article—> if Carlsen improves his play. Presumably that’s totally possible since he will free up enormous amounts of focus previously spent researching the few possible challengers to his championship title.
~2300kWh/year, including heating

And how do you achieve this? What is your energy source for heating?
It's the most efficient option we have, but that doesn't mean it's good.

In the 1800s the steam engine was the most efficient way of producing work from heat, but that still didn't make it objectively efficient.
> 1. Think what your website needs to able to do and choose the tech stack accordingly ##

There's a step prior, where things too often still go sideways:

0. Decide who your priorities are (i.e., hopefully users), stick to those priorities, and design an experience appropriate for the target.

Thinking like the brand and not the user too often leads to Step 1 trying to shove 20 lbs of experience into a 10 lbs pipe bag. This seems to be especially true of mobile, as in it's too often an afterthought.

> lazy-load images7 to only load images the user looks at

Yes, of course this helps but it's not a panacea. That payload still has to come down the pipe. Maybe the user isn't on 5G, and maybe they pay for data. Lazy load isn't an excuse for more. Lazy Load is who you call when you've done all you can to get less.
Not to pile on but I’ll second some of the other commenters who have said that not being able to charge at home isn’t that big of a deal.

I live in a condo in a major US city and don’t have the option to charge at home.

From a convenience perspective, it’s truly turned out to be a non-issue. We’re at the point where I live that there are enough chargers around that I simply plug in once or twice a week while I’m running some errands.

From a cost perspective, it probably would be cheaper for me to charge at home, but it would be small and would take years to pay off the cost difference of having a charger installed. I spend so little on charging that I don’t really pay attention to it as an expense.

Obviously your situation may vary but I had a lot of anxiety about this and it turned out to be completely unfounded. Figure out where there are (ideally level 2 chargers) near you and you’ll be fine.
> The Arabic text is meant to invoke Islam and some Christians’ discomfort with that faith, Stevens said.
compared to full-VMs-pretending-to-be-containers everything is fast.

it seems like everybody here is using Macs for development to the point that if you don't say you aren't, you are assumed to be on a mac. Windows with WSL2 is actually pleasant to use, I can recommend trying it out. while WSL2 is a VM technically, the level of integration makes it basically native (if you use the VM disk for your workspace, which you should.)
To me, having part of the chinese-speaking-ability be in an almighty dictionary always looked like a sleight of hand; surely if you’re talking to the whole system that is the room, the person, and the dictionary, it is the system as a whole that has intelligence and knows how to speak chinese? It takes advantage of our identification with just the person to distract from that.
Epic hired Simon-Peyton Jones to work on it (Verse), so I'm guessing more like Haskell.

https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573
Sure, but you were talking about options to avoid the crisis before it happened.
> they are 10x faster now

What changed?
Father of three small kids here. One thing... It's hard, but my life and basically everything that I can do now have sense. There is no time for b*s.
I've seen it too. It's a thing.

Didn't like the person and they were anti-social to a great degree. The company treated him like a diva and he was I guess. But he could go into his office, shut the door, and the next day we'd have some working component to the larger system largely coded.

So you can't argue he wasn't a 10x coder. But a 0.1x communicator.
Sounds like Maxwell's demon, only with electrons and holes. Not saying it violates the thermodynamics, but there's surely some interesting loophole.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
This is much more like migrating to a new server without the new server to migrate to, yes the old serve is gone forever.
Not when you consider that it's still heating the room with 3 of those watts.

If you asked me to build a house and I threw away more than half of the bricks you'd call me crazy. But when it comes to leds it's called "incredible efficiency". It's only efficient in comparison to the other options, not in any objective sense.
My original comment was from memory of reading a post about how it worked a few years ago. Looking at what you read, I think the gist of what said is right, though it seems they use a different algorithm than FFT.

Totally agree though. It is something that opened my mind to thinking of a way to solve that problem in a way that actually works. Shazam definitely looked like magic the first time I saw it work.
If this passes, would it be legal if I simply stop serving my sites to California-based IP addresses entirely?
You don't have to self-host it, you can point it to an email provider (Gmail, Fastmail, Zoho...) and let them do the hosting for you. If they ban you (like Google likes to do), just point to another service and keep your email address (and therefore access to other services).

I work as a sysadmin and I don't want to bother with self-hosting my own email. I happily pay someone else to do that for me.
Those aren’t TUIs unless they somehow work in Lynx.
> But it's all moot since org-mode is largely promoted by non-scientists (computer science is not a science)

My academic training is in physics and mathematics. I was introduced to programming in my computational physics class. We used emacs as our editor
If you work with something visual, interactive then this workflow is so super awkward that I never end up doing it. For data-driven workflow you have to analyse the data, note down your thoughts, analyse a bit more and then come to a conclusion. Your conclusion might be code living in .py files, or another type of data then consumed by something else. But this will result in a significant part of the "thought-process" and relevant code living in those notebooks, with all their problems. I can't just switch to some .py files because I want to change the axis for some plot, or look at it in log-scale. But then where do you draw the line? A .py file for only 10 lines of code generating the resulting .csv? That's also a pain to maintain because you have all those disconnected files. We need those notebooks, they have to get better.
What are some of the reasons you expect a $4.25/week digital subscription to have fewer ads than a $20/week newsprint subscription?
Why would you compare Texas to Iran, and not Mexico where most of this Catholic immigration is coming from?
This is not an either or proposition, we can do both useful & not useful things at the same time.
My village recently switched to LED street lamps, and I hate them. The light pollution has definitely become worse here over the last ten years. The village lights switch off around 1am, but that doesn't seem to make a jot of difference to my astrophotography, because the town 4 miles to the South and the city 10 miles to the North keep theirs switched on.
Not especially, since a life peerage gets you unelected upper chamber rights to draft the UK's laws - Kidron heads a pressure group on censorship, and was given the ability to vote on the legislation they suggested, and was allowed to sit on the Parliamentary group criticising the Online Safety Bill legislation which didn't even invite any critics of her plans.

That is sinister.
It doesn’t take that long to wire up new electrical stuff. Just the will to do it. We’re talking 3.3kw to 6.6kw a drop unless it’s a fast charger. (Edit-the wider spread the slower chargers probably the lesser need for fast chargers, too.) 3.3kw is about 120v/27.5A. Not negligible but no one worries about hooking up hair driers to the grid and they draw tons of power. Reference the places putting chargers on light posts and similar.
Winning chance is basically 0.0% against current strong engines for a human. There are possible draw lines but if engine is configured correctly draw chance is also 0.0%
>It said that a single LED sign consumes as much energy as 10 single households.

I guess it's good to reduce energy consumption where we can. And political decisions only work in small focused steps.

I wonder what happens when they find out how much energy probably is wasted for advertisements on television and the internet.
Visa and Mastercard battle to give bitcoin exposure to its Latin American users with Ripio and Binance.
My 0.02CHF: I studied at ETHZ from 2008 to 2015, and I've heard about Oberon once or twice back then, and read about it at least twice that much on HN.

Never used it, never knew anyone who used it, never knew anyone who worked on it (though I believe the chair had slots for theses available at the time).
That's not why Pascal compiles quickly. Resolving undefined symbols isn't difficult or slow, it just means that you have to keep track of what's resolved and what's unresolved and that takes up memory, which was very precious back in the old days of Pascal. Pascal is designed for very fast single-pass compilation, but symbol resolution is only a small part of it.
It all depends on the context. In academia it is a great tool. I can set up a couple of notebooks on our GPU server and give many students access to powerful GPUs without having to worry abbout shell access etc.
Aditionally they are ready to go and do interesting things immediately and don't have to install the environment on their laptops (which might be win/linux/mac but at least these days that's easier but still extra work for them).

I also use it a lot for experimenting, parameter tuning etc. It's not too bad to have it explicitly distinct from production level code. Run/tune/experiment in notebook, once you're happy with the model -> code it up in .py file(s).
Also great for quick presentations :)

However, the fast.ai team is actually doing a pretty solid job running everything off notebooks. So if I wanted to go that direction (and skip the .py files) it's that project I'd look at for how to do it.
> Anyway, it seems like the clickbait here is "British" and the article would have taken exactly the same angle if her title was Senator.

Would it? Senators are elected and have democratic legitimacy, which Life Peers do not.
Flags yes, but none of those do flag worship like the USA does.
Not only that they can just shutdown your account because you shared picture of your son infected penis with your pediatrician.

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/billboards-seen-in-LA-a...

And now their reviewers are also supposed to be wannabe doctor. I quote "The company has consulted pediatricians, she said, so that its human reviewers understand possible conditions that might appear in photographs taken for medical reasons."

and

"A Google spokesperson said the company stands by its decisions, even though law enforcement cleared the two men.
"

Ok this time I'm really off Google.
I can see this degenerating into some sort of efficiency metric that will be engineered around. For instance, it wouldn't be too hard to take the Google logo and make it a proper "light" with some LEDs. Or simply write out the name in white LEDs.
A Brief and Biased History of Computer Architecture (2021)
>My first is due 3 days ago.

Congrats!

>I'm told that I'm going to have no time any more and good sleep is a thing of the past.

My daughter is awesome and is rarely a problem. She was a great sleeper. Yet this is true. Currently going on like day 8 of fevers and multiple doctors saying nothing.

>I'm worried, I don't work well when tired.

Me neither, I find meditation helps a ton.

>I'm just starting to get in the habit of investing in myself as a developer and am reading a lot, practicing a lot. This has made me, in my estimation, a much better programmer. Does this end when you have kids?

For 3 years so far yes.

>What was it like for you out there that have gone through this change in life?

When I was researching how to dad. 5-6 years is what they say, then school, friends, etc will be what saves you. You then get to do adult things.

Here's the thing, all this is not a big worry at all. Its other things you dont expect to happen that will get you.

Your spouse will suddenly not want sex anymore. I thought it was a trope/cliche but it's true. I dont know about you but in a monogamous romantic relationship, sex is the first and most prominent indicator for health of relationship. No sex means something is very wrong.

The one that really gets me. We were at my sister's for a party and I was inebriated for sure. I went to play with the kids instead of sitting around with adults, I dont know, talking bullshit. I had like 6 kids playing with me in the sand. My spouse comes up to me and says she cant trust me to be alone with our daughter. I still cant figure out why. Yet here I am alone with her every day for hours and nothing ever goes bad.
Stream the construction of your project on twitch, discord, or make YouTube videos. You would be amazed how well it keeps you going. Also write about the project in a journal of some kind
I find people’s continued use of tumble dryers pretty surprising.

The air will do it for free!

We have a space-efficient drying rack so we can dry indoors.
Eventually, perhaps, but I see fully renewable as just slightly less sci fi than fusion or thorium.

Instead, I'm seeing countries like Germany restart their dirty, old, lignite fueled power plants (due to lack of natural gas, another, slightly cleaner, fossil fuel), because "environmentalist" organizations have been fighting against nuclear for the last 40 years or more.

Germany has TRIED to build up a lot of renewable capacity, but have hardly built up more than the electricity provided by the nuclear they shut down.

What I want is for us to SHUT DOWN all fossil fuel plants ASAP, stop using natural gas for heating and oil based fuels for most transportation.

This should and could have been started 40 years ago, if it were not for the scaremongers.

I welcome all renewable initiatives that are able to prove they can deliver stable power at a competitive price, and wish them the best of luck. I do NOT welcome the Utopia-chasers that promote renewables as part of their virtue signaling, while either being unrealistic or deceitful about motives, costs, challenges around stability, etc (both before and after investments are made).

And this is especially bad when they spread lies about the safety level of nuclear (either direct lies, or more likely when talking about "radiation" as something dangerous regardless of intensity).

I do realize that such behavior exists in all camps, but I find it especially bad when so called "environmentalists" have promoted policies that have had the net effect of NOT being able to reduce emissions nearly as much as we could have, while still causing prices to increase and ALSO maximize our dependence on Putin and various Arab dictatorial kings and princes.

And btw, while you seem to be charitable about nuclear, only arguing from a cost perspective, there are plenty of organizations out there that still place nuclear in the "dirty" camp alongside fossil fuels when arguing about strategies for the future.

So, while I'm certainly supporting most initiatives that aim to improve renewable power production, I think we (and especially Europe) should invest in a relatively large number of new, reasonably priced nuclear plants, for instance based on recent Korean designs.
I am trying to do something similar here: http://cwerg.org

Starting with a very efficient compiler backend.
Part 2: https://www.sigarch.org/a-brief-and-biased-history-of-comput...
The difference is: You're not standing around waiting for my car to charge. Your parked to do something else.

Depending on where there is, there may well be enough density. Here, we have 129 stations, and half of them are free. It goes up to over 300 if you include the rest of the metro. We're not that large a city, either.
A spectre silently fixed the spelling, thanks for the feedback ;)
> All that said: can someone point me in the direction of a hosted email service that is reliable (this is a must, I don't want emails to bounce and I don't want spam), has native mobile apps w/push notifications, has a good web ui, and generally just works? And can anyone confirm that once I pull my email from google apps that I could then use it for those google services?

Fastmail does all that, I'm using it for years now:
https://www.fastmail.com/?STKI=/u226717
I was wondering how this was done technically, i.e. how it gets the current text content, and how it would do the text replacement.

From a quick glance, it looks like for getting the text, it listens to all the keyboard events globally. I can imagine many potential problems and shortcomings with this approach, but on the other side, this is probably the most simple and most generic solution, working for almost every application.

For sending the text, it does sth similar, i.e. it just injects global key events. Probably first some key backspace events to delete the old text, and then the keys for the replacement text.

https://github.com/espanso/espanso/blob/dev/espanso-inject/s...

But maybe I understand the code wrong. I did not delve too deep into it.
> Nobody buy smartphones based on adv

What?? If there ever was proof that HN is completely clueless about reality not empathetic of their fellow humans. Ads are not brainwashing.
> Software is not really random.

Software fails in unforeseen ways, as the goal is for it to not fail but fails anyway. I'm not sure what point you tried to make

> Mostly, they all fail or none of them fail.

No, not really. There is a reason why one of the very basic deployment techniques is to add health checks for each and every service, run a blue-green deployment, and only switch to the new deployment when each and every single health check points to a successful deployment.

The pseudo-code example fails to even do the most basic checks.

Hell, even Ansible supports those.
Yeah I assume so too, but I'm not sure.