skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> true commitment to a low-carbon ‘green’ economy, and was on its way to achieving it.

I'm not sure what "true commitment" would entail, but China is generally doing really well on this front.

The world could be doing better, and so could China, but almost all the noise about China is from people trying to deflect attention from their own lack of action.

Since the author is in Australia, they're probably soaked in the meme that "renewable energy is hippy feel-good stuff and burning coal is the economically efficient thing to do". From that viewpoint you would be worried that China would do the "smart" thing that Australia is doing.

If on the other hand, you view Australia as throwing away an incredible advantage in renewables for no good reason, then you're less worried.

The guy that China lured back to found the first solar power unicorn was doing PV research in Australia and had got citizenship there.

"What if China saved the world and noone noticed?"

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/what-if-ch...

> In the world’s popular imagination, China is a machine built on coal. At the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow in November last year, China – along with Australia and India – declined to sign a pledge to phase out coal use. In the wake of the pandemic, it stimulated its economy by ramping up coal production so much that climate observation satellites detected new plumes of methane emissions leaking from mines across Inner Mongolia.

> For years China’s reliance on coal has been used as a rhetorical device by those in the West opposed to taking effective climate action. It was the excuse Donald Trump used when he abandoned the Paris Agreement in 2017. “China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants,” Trump said. “So, we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement.”

> But the coal haze has obscured a more crucial truth about China’s energy expansion. If pending US efforts on renewable energy are extraordinary, the revolution under way in China is truly staggering. Last year the US boasted that it was on track to deploy about 30 gigawatts of new renewables. In China, the figure could be as hight as 180 gigawatts. Last year China alone accounted for 46 per cent of the world’s new construction of renewable energy infrastructure.

> Last week Bloomberg NEF reported that China’s renewables investment for the first half of 2022 included large-scale solar totalling $US41 billion – up 173 per cent from the year before – and investment in new wind projects increasing by 107 per cent year-on-year to $US58 billion.

> This is not a product of altruism; President Xi Jinping is doing it because he intends that China will dominate the critical industries of the future.

> As international energy analyst Tim Buckley puts it, while China leads the world in coal use, it also leads the world in “wind and solar installation, in wind and solar manufacturing, in electric vehicle production, in batteries, in hydro, in nuclear, in ground heat pumps, in grid transmission and distribution, and in green hydrogen. They literally lead the world in every zero-emissions technology today.”
I've tried them all. I use SBCL with emacs and slime at the moment, but Corman Lisp is a simple MSI installer with cool demos and a nicely integrated environment. I am sorry, but even though I have used emacs for many years, getting a friend to load Corman Lisp and start playing and learning is much quicker and smoother. I am not saying to use it for general CL development. Fun, learning, and play.
We were discussing banning people from social utilities, not setting prisoners free.
Do you have some more supporting evidence for this, without me having to waltz into a blackhat forum? I'm not trying to be the "citation needed" guy, but as someone who regularly reports internet abuse to blacklists (and is sick of all the attacks that "neutral" places like Cloudflare send to my sites), I'd like to know more.

I've seen your previous 2020 HN submission on this about Namecheap hosting the domains used in SMS scams: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24231307
True. Came here to say that. QCAD is somewhat of an alternative to AutoCAD. OpenCASCADE is a foss alternative to e.g ACIS or Parasolid.

It's potentially important as there aren't that many projects from the 80s in the list, so maybe has an impact on the trend line.

(a trend line that would look similar if you look at time between proprietary alternatives I guess... a fact of the increasing amount of time spent on software engineering?)
Duplicate from 11 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32623908
But I thought we were talking about compilers here, and defining what a compiler should do when it comes across a string literal, and not about what people should or shouldn’t do with strings on 4KB RAM MCUs.

String parsing is sometimes necessary, and it could be as simple as formatting and sending logs lines through an UART.
When shut off from the world above, the city was ventilated by a total of more than 15,000 shafts, most about 10 cm wide and reaching down into the first and second levels of the city. This ensured sufficient ventilation down to the eighth level.
Sorry, just use the top "index" link to the main blog website. At the bottom you find the imprint and my contact details.

I'm going to look into the error need probably to catch it.
I don't really see how this competes with cockroach.

Cockroach is meant to be sql compatible, whilst Aerospike is nosql.

Is that why you commented under a different username, because you are affectively spreading misinformation?
While I was using MBP keyboard, I used to think that shorter key travel was better and more ergonomic, because it required less finger movement. After using mechanical keyboards for years, I’m very surprised to discover how much strain bottoming out puts on my muscles.
I'd say Photoshop UI is nothing exemplary. So why should Gimp not emulating it be a complain?

Infact I find the MDI interface to be quite ergonomic.
To be fair that assumption is wrong if you look at more weird specific niches. Crypto payments definitely have a place, also outside of drug markets.
> As someone who is interested in systems programming, and has experience working with Go

I wonder how Go got it's reputation as a systems language. Imo, it occupies the same abstraction level as Java or C#.
You got it wrong. It’s $13B that the whole industry will pay for a single reactor accident. Every nuclear power plant operator will have to pay $131M per reactor if there is one accident. Each reactor also has a mandatory insurance of $450M. This is to cover liability only.

Separate from that is a mandatory insurance imposed by the NRC of $1.06B per site to cover cleanup costs

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/n...
Ha, you are right.. not when I am writing. The spacebar is a contextual remap when I am drawing / drafting / modeling.
One great example of this is vocalist groups. The Enya/Lord of the Rings track "May it Be" as sung by Voces8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7M5ZqFSynQ

Notice how the fifths are perfectly "still", no beating. It can almost sound out of tune if you're too used to tempered tuning.
Naive question perhaps: why was CMYK so hard to add to Gimp?

Was it because non RGB color spaces were hard, due to the program being designed around RGB and the assumption of RGB is everywhere in the codebase?

Or is it something particularly tricky about CMYK?
If I was building a crypto payment system now I'd go with metamask / wallet connect. These work with all EVM compatible chains and most people want to pay with USD stablecoins than with a cryptocurrencies anyway.
I just say it's called GIM Paint and move on.
The analysis has a gap when it comes to products vs. solutions. A lot of problems these days are not solved by a big product but by integrating smaller often open source building blocks. Solutions that preempt products (or are never turned into products). The products of old and the market they lived in were different. It is not just that open source grew with respect to capabilities - the other side shrank too.
Anything people agree on is a standard. It may be a horrible standard, but it's still a standard.
> Like if you start in G# minor

Technically speaking that’s a Ab minor. New minor scales are constructed by modifying the A-minor scale (which contains the same flat notes as C-major) by adding Bs, not adding #’s. Adding #’s are used for deriving new major scales. At least that’s how I understand it.

You can see this on the Wikipedia article on various minor[1] and major scales[2].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_major
I'm surprised there's no mention of Evergrande in an article about China's economy
> So I say give gatekeeping a try.

It’s been tried. Many times. Throughout human history. It is littered with stratified societies, where every man had his lessers and betters to kick and cower before, respectively. This did not lead to any good outcomes. I say let equality and mutual respect have a chance.
> That's just a symptom of a lack of oversight by we, the people (chiefly).

So your argument is that it is not the fault of the people who are paid to do this job, out of our tax money, but it is somehow our fault, even though your average person has literally no input whatsoever into any of this?

That's just false.

I mean, almost 90% of Americans live in a non-swing state where their vote is entirely meaningless.
This is true. Debian Linux currently doesn't load non-free firmware ("blobs") for your system GPU, WiFi and other devices. Other popular distros like Ubuntu and co does it by default at installation time. The current method is to enable non-free repo in `vim /etc/apt/sources.list` and then run `apt-get update && apt install firmware-${name-here}`. I hope this proposal gets approved. So that new users find it easy to load those "blobs" for their devices at install or run time via teh TUI/GUI/CLI option.
I tried buying ADA two years ago.

Practically impossible.
"Vote harder! The criminals who steal from you aren't to blame - you, the victim, are!"
Ehh how does Coinbase deal with this? They gave me a unique deposit address for Etherium which is account based (not UTXO) and IIRC they’ve never asked me to fill out a memo field for any currency.

If you do use the memo field, how do you deal with user error when they copy-paste the wrong number? Banks have humans guessing and correcting wire transfer instructions. Both you and the user will burn a transaction fee each way if you automatically refund unknown transactions.

It’s been a long time since I’ve messed with wallet APIs, but I’m pretty sure you’re using the wrong API. There should be some way to consume a stream of (row_id, transaction) tuples. That way you’re never polling every address. Instead you deal with relevant events that affect any of your addresses as they happen (which is not very often. A whole blockchain might do 15 transactions/second and you see ~0% of that)
Just out of curiosity. What is the fraction of these transactions in crypto compared to those with other payment methods?
I haven't met two organisations that use Linux in the same way either but what it gives you is a common terminology, understanding and way of thinking.
> IMO, leadership making these values core to the business is going against the grain, putting your probability of survival below or equal to that of others, which is why they are a rare occurrence

The rarity of co-ops is definitely not from survival rates, because they completely trash regular businesses in that regard:

> A 2013 report published by the UK Office for National Statistics showed that in the UK the rate of survival of cooperatives after five years was 80 percent compared with only 41 percent for all other enterprises.[5] A further study found that after ten years 44 percent of cooperatives were still in operation, compared with only 20 percent for all enterprises.

> In a 2007 study by the World Council of Credit Unions, the five-year survival rate of cooperatives in the United States was found to be 90% in comparison to 3-5% for traditional businesses.

(This figure seems kind of hard to believe... Maybe there's some self-selection bias in that people in the US might be much more willing to personally risk starting any number of different kinds of businesses for themselves and at most one, maybe two others, whereas they might only be willing to start a co-op with multiple other people if it looks like a pretty sure thing with a well-established model?)

> A 2010 report by the Ministry of Economic Development, Innovation and Export in Québec found that the five-year survival rate and ten-year survival rate of cooperatives in Québec to be 62% and 44% respectively compared to 35% and 20% for conventional firms.[53] Another report by the BC-Alberta Social economy Research Alliance found that the three-year survival rate of cooperatives in Alberta to be 81.5% in comparison to 48% for traditional firms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative#Economic_stability

There are probably many reasons why co-ops are rarer, but the obvious one of relevance to the startup community is that you wouldn't start a co-op if you were hoping to make tons and tons of money rather than a "merely" reasonable income.
Do you mean they should have said instead "within 9 months after GCP became generally available" to be more precise in their statement?
Google doesn't have an ad-business, it is an ad-business.

You can't separate Google from its ad business. All of their major products exist in service of the ad business, search, inbox, even Chrome. If the services don't exist to help build a profile of you, they exist to help build a profile of web traffic and detect ad-fraud, or to simply shape the landscape into one that isn't hostile to google's ads.
I believe most "visible" homelessness is about mental health institutes not being a thing anymore, not poverty.

The general plan seems to be that the mental patients can't be misstreated if they get no treatment.

I blame the "One flew over the coconest"-mentality.
A while ago I tried using CurviSlicer to FDM-3D print a keycap. It modifies G-code to make slightly-curved top surfaces.

The top of the keycap was nice, and wouldn't have needed any finishing. However, the slicer messed up the sides/insides of the keycap. Someone more motivated could try applying the curviness only to the 'dish' part of the keycap.

Curvislicer: https://github.com/dhardy35/curvislicer
> What if the history is cyclic? Then there is no origin.

But what started the cycle?

I guess we as humans are the ones at fault here, because we can't accept something infinite as an answer in the real physical world.
What's weirder is that if you're using just intonation in, say, the key of C major, there's two different D's. One is 9/8, and the other is 10/9. The note we call D in equal temperament is about half-way between the two.

If you want to play these chords in C major: Cmaj, Fmaj, Gmaj, Dmin, Emin, and Amin, you'll need to use both of those D's: 9/8 for the 5th of Gmaj, and 10/9 for the root of Dmin. If you try to play Dmin with the 9/8 instead, it sounds absolutely awful.

In other words, if you want to play those six chords that are regarded as belonging to C major, you'll need two different D's. Which means the C major scale should really have 8 notes instead of seven. But we don't have a symbol to distinguish between 9/8 and 10/9 in standard notation, they're both just plain D.

Some 12-EDO music makes use of the ambiguity between these two notes (or any two notes with the same relation to each other) to string together chord progressions that don't actually make sense mathematically. If you used those progressions in just intonation, you'd find you don't return to the chord you started on, you actually shifted up or down by a small interval of 81/80. It's sort of the musical equivalent of some formula that only works if you assume that pi is equal to exactly three.
As a child he was unruly and did not enjoy being taught, he had the ability to dismiss his instructors at will. In other words, like any child but with a lot of power and a father who didn't intervene.

He was painfully aware of his poor education, so much so that he wrote about it and others also commented on it. One of his naval Commander's wrote:

"his good qualities were his own; his bad owing to want of education; and no man was more sensible of that defect than himself."
I would love to pay with crypto.

Every time I type my credit card number into some web form I think "Damn, I hope the number will not end up in some shady hands causing me trouble".

I had my credit card disabled once because someone started using it to buy stuff with it around the world. What a freaking hassle. Telephone calls, letters, several days without a CC, had to change the number everywhere .. annoying.

Paying a lightning invoice does not bear such risks.
Turns out I was mistaken, I really thought they had this.

Yoast updates the last modified field in the sitemap and pings Google that the sitemap changed
This is actually a reasonable counter-argument, were it not for the fact that practically every such systems, no matter how lofty their goals or how fair their initial rules, all eventually evolve to be instead a tool for oppression.
> But with every address you create your daemon has to look for changes there

How exactly do you think this differs from a single address getting updated? On a lite client this is nothing, on a full client nothing has changed.

There's a reason nearly every single solution involves an individual address tied to a single public key.
It is not hard to design a language which is a "better C than C" because C has obvious warts, the article mentions a few.

But the warts just aren't big enough to justify switching to a different language. That's why no "better C than C" has ever become really popular.
America seems to have some challenges that most developed countries don't have. I don't entirely know why, but one factor seems to be we default to expecting people to do things privately at home that get done in public spaces elsewhere. This leaves our public spaces under developed.

We meet friends at my place or yours. We don't have a lot of pubs. Etc.
That's how it's funded. The incentives to not leave a mess remain unchanged. All you've done is filter out some % of people who would have otherwise left a mess, as well as some % of people who wouldn't have.

I mean, maybe paying for it makes people be more careful because of some psychological reasons... possibly.
> The government strains, at extraordinary expense, to pretend they can stop drugs from being made, bought and sold, but they can't.

Sure they could. They just don't try because the current system is very very good for them.

Other countries like Portugal and the Netherlands have done a fantastic job on lowering their drug use rate dramatically.

And it's very simple - they treat drug consumption as a medical problem, first and foremost. Possessing drugs, any drugs, for your own personal consumption is _not_ a crime in either place.

Indeed, both countries go out of their way to provide facilities for addicts where they can safely take their drug and get medical treatment and counseling with no fear of being arrested.

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If the United States wanted to end the drug war, they could simply look at the examples that worked and copied them. But they are much more interested in oppressing hapless addicts and jailing them.
PAL Colour Recovery from black-and-white ‘telerecordings’ (2008)
And then you whip out gdb to debug an ELF executable with DWARF symbols…

The horror!
> only set of atoms in the universe

Being a passerby on the street after hearing someone say that while they grind their next dose, I stop and comment that that was an incredible narcissistic observation for someone from a species who hasn't even colonised another solar system yet.
It seems like a repeat of seo.
Seems like it would have to either stop the drive, maybe triggering shock protection, or make it read incorrect data, which could be possible if the read head's correction mechanism was resonating. If its delay was half the sound's frequency, it would try to correct in the same direction as its being pushed by the sound, causing the feedback loop for resonance.
This is indeed a very weird thing to say by the author. Your "not quite right" is too kind to the author. As you wrote, good fretless instruments and singers will absolutely play/sing those notes differently, although maybe unconsciously.
You will adjust without even realizing. You'll change your pitch to sound right in relation to everyone around you. This probably means that in practice your finger is slightly up or down depending.

It is also a reason why when playing an A, many prefer moving the hand to 4th position on the D string, rather than using the A-string with no finger. Partly because you can make a better tone (add vibrato if wanted), but you can also intonate.
Key travel is separate from actuation distance. In most mechanical key switches, actuation distance is very short compared to travel. So, the typist doesn’t have to dig deep or bottom out. Hitting only as far as actuation distance requires training, of course. As someone who like MBP keyboards, I prefer mechanical ones.
I started asking my father, a concert pianist, composer, and teacher - this question when I was 4. He explained. In my head I said, “Bullshit.” I continued to press him on it periodically until I was a teenager. I still shook my head and thought, “What is wrong with these people.” Now, I can read sheet music just fine, but I still feel like … never mind. I’ve done a ton of composing without once taking any notice of what key any of it was in. And it all sounds fucking great. I prefer to do as much as possible “by ear”. I’m unbelievably stubborn.

tl;dr - Somebody really should have picked up on the autism when I was 4, and MIDI rolls don’t give a shit about keys and accidentals.
It depends on the exchange provider. I use Kraken and they provide an unique address for every costumer. But I read some Exchanges require the memo field especially for Stellar addresses.

If you use a memo field and there is an error the order won't be found in the system. In this case, you can write a script which sends the funds back to the address - fees. In this case you don't lose money and you don't need humans to interact. A more difficult problem would be if sb. sends a wrong amount. Then you have to interact with the costumer.

Yes, you're right. Polling is bad but the easiest solution. The best one would be to listen to incoming transactions and take action if a new one comes in. I'm going to use this solution if I continue the project.
Compared to my other transactions? Very small.

The best "comparison" I can make is this:
- I buy random shit online every now and then, also from Amazon. That one souvenir I got for me and a friend was about 40 dollars worth, and I paid with crypto that time.
- I buy steam games maybe one every 3 months? So buying that one game with crypto is a small percentage, yes, but also probably the next game I'll get will also be with crypto payment, so it will increase the percentage slowly?
- For the service, I have paid maybe 15 dollars for similar services in my life. That one that accepts crypto is also the best one I have found yet, and to that I have paid about 80 dollars so far. So for that, the percentage is up there, and I'll continue paying them that way!
> open source as a whole sucks at building products, but is great at building infrastructure

Infrastructure you can trust. Most close sourced tech will lock you in and you're at their mercy - no thanks.