skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's just a bunch of misplaced quotes and summaries.

Believe it or not, that's what the works on Scientific Communism looked like back in the USSR: bunch of quotes from Marx's and Lenin's writings, strewn together into a somewhat coherent narrative. Those quotes served the same roles that "proofs" and "data" serve in non-scholastic fields, you see: how would you know if you were right or wrong otherwise?
10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds (2015)
It died in May if the Spotify dev announcement page is to be believed. AFIK both the streaming SDKs and libspot used the same APIs under the hood so if it wasn't dead before...
It was later repeated with even more nonsense papers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
How to write Neovim plugins in Lua
This is the kind of thing I brought up in a sibling comment about 'why do you care?' Do you care about the distribution of some metric, or do you care about location or scale?
Fortunately, it is possible to eat more than one foodstuff. Grains and beans is the classic combo. Grains are lacking in lysine, and beans are lacking in methionine, but together they make a complete protein. You don't even need to eat them in the same meal.
Back before the 1989 C Standard, there was a huge debate about whether to do "value preserving" versus "sign preserving" integer promotions. About half the C compilers did the former, half the latter. Compromise wasn't possible. Value preserving won.

And hence unsigned shorts are promoted to signed ints.
Draw Anything – A Simple Stable Diffusion Playground
Interestingly, despite having 9 very recent upvotes that submission was "sunk" from the home page- it's not on https://news.ycombinator.com/ .
wasting limited resources on initiatives that save less lives per dollar spent vs other initiatives that save more lives and/or cost less per lived saved IS the enemy of the good.

my own example - I live in a tiny town at about 1700 ft elevation, nowhere near the ocean, no bodies of water than can flood, not anywhere near the ocean, just 1 tornado in the past 80+ years, and no hurricanes above a cat 1 in a century (which caused almost no damage)- i.e. almost zero immediate 'environmental threats' - the town was given a $120K state/federal grant to "prepare" for climate change effects.

What do you think would save more lives in my little place in the world? - giving out free car seats to all newborns, free smoke detectors every few years to every residence, free CO2 monitors, and tackling obesity and unhealthy lifestyle choices such as drugs thru more education or recreational opportunities for kids etc - or 'studying' the possible effects of climate change in nowhereville USA?

My money is on the former.
In my opinion newer Sony Xperia androids are okay-ish too, I am happy. They are closer to stock android though and may look less fancy. Samsung is very polished and consistent even during major Android version changes.
Thank you! It's recorded using QuickTime screen cap, and edited in Final Cut Pro. I also made some assets in Figma (e.g. the little spreadsheet grid background).

It took longer than I'd like to admit... but feel validated in spending that time now that you've asked :)
We have a pretty elaborate Unifi protect setup and it’s excellent but not cheap.

We planned on building it out some more with solar for off-grid parts of the property. That stuff isn’t cheap either but it certainly seems plausible to run a few 4k cameras on 30W.
20 years ago in college and while in the military I drank and partied like everyone else, and have all the stories to go with it -- so I'm extremely aware of the theoretical social benefits

Looking back however, there were really zero added benefits to the relationships that were "lubricated" by alcohol that we couldn't have gotten had we put more effort into doing something creative or actively community building - rather than going out to drink and flirt. All of my best relationships were formed this way.

In fact if I think of times I was aware of or involved in when bad things happened (luckily I never had any problems personally) - alcohol was almost always involved.

At this point I will always prefer figuring out something interesting to do instead of contributing to "drinking culture."
Most cameras (and all networked ones) contain full fledged embedded boards that draw some serious power. If you need to continuously capture video, a cheaper solution in terms of energy could involve the use of a analog camera plus a RF transmitter, and a receiver on the other side, but this would work only at short to medium distance and of course no obstacles in between would be allowed.
If you can't or don't want to go the analog solution, you could attempt to limit the current draw by placing sensors (PIR, contacts, etc) that turn on the camera only when some conditions are met, so that the system would spend most of the time in a off or low power state.
Setting the choke properly... if anyone remembers those.
> even though they came… in poverty

That was always reductionist. Many emigres from China, Japan, Korea, USSR states, the Middle East and India arrived with high education levels. For 20th century society, where war could blow up or seize all your assets, education you ship with you in your brain is wealth that matters. Lots of uneducated people left behind in those countries, they just died or their life sucks now.
"App" is short for application, which is just a fancy word for program. If a page does computations locally (using javascript), then it is a program; if the page does nothing locally but push requests to the server (get/post), then this is a user interface. By this distinction, the early Web even with POST had no application, it was just at best a remote interface.
In my case maybe Typescript + NodeJS + Prisma, rewrite the hot paths later in C++ (actually: Go) services.
I'm not arguing that he should not have been banned. In fact, I wholeheartedly agree that his removal from social media was a good idea. It may have even saved lives. My point is that I have never seen companies join together to de-platform one person so quickly.

P.S. I don't really subscribe to this "woke" nonsense. It feels like a tired cliche at this point. We need to find more meaningful terms to describe a set of morals.
Apple plans to double its digital advertising business workforce
Continues to run for years on a 1.5V primary C cell.
I've never been to kiwifarms, but I'll take your word that you find them morally reprehensible. Isn't it more morally reprehensible (and just counterproductive) to take away people's rights?

It seems that the bigger threat by far is from companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Google working hand-in-glove with politicians to take away peoples rights.

If removing these companies from the internet seems impossible, maybe that is a sign that they are more powerful than the US federal government, and that their power needs to be curtailed.
Link(s) to a source that analyses the health impact of those first 5 things on your list?
Anyone remember how this data was treated 2 years ago? Bannings, Doctors losing their licenses/being fired etc.
If you're claiming that no politicians have made this their agenda, then I guess the planet is in trouble!
> Geology is more of a hard science so harder to make political

Go tell it to a young-earth creationist.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity. For typical summer conditions in Dallas (even more so in, say, Houston or Brownsville), if I'm remembering the numbers from my time as an automotive HVAC engineer correctly, it takes 5 to 6 times as much energy to dehumidify the air as to cool it. And those are by no means the worst conditions on the planet: try southeast Asia or equatorial Africa.

It's true that you can claw some of that back from the fact that A/C can have a coefficient of performance greater than 1, but COP also gets worse (i.e., closer to 1, less of an advantage) as the conditions get more extreme.
I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It.
I am curious. What shareware did you develop back in the day?
This is what I'm wondering. How many years of life are really being taken by a heat wave compared to a hurricane or flooding that can also kill a 15-year-old just as easily? There's a word for this, something like disability-adjusted years of life expectancy (because living without eyesight or your legs is also annoying, and should be taken into account when comparing badness of some health-affecting issue).
>Good people produce good code, or "timeless" code, bad people write "bad" code (means it's a tech debt).

That's some really reductive moralism that does not take into account any external factors on why the bad code was written.

Do you really think you're a good person because you're code is good?
> becomes significantly more expensive, it's game over for developed countries

This is wholly unsustained. Yes, marginal luxuries will become less accessible, though not inaccessible. Flying, food variety, et cetera. But the sustainable cost of clean energy, and industrial processes running at those levels, is within traditional fuels’ long-term error bars [1]. The discrepancy in access to that energy will persist between the developed and developing worlds.

(EROI is difficult to calculate. Once you take into account shipping costs, the EROI of PV approximates that of oil.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricit...
why should manual transmissions be limited to only petroleum powered engine? Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
> Would you still be ok going through above scenario?

Yep 100%, I would take uncertain life vs certain death in the above scenario. If you truly believe this is your one shot at life then giving that up isn't an option.
Yeah. My context was doing linear algebra stuff. It is apparently a known mistake to say "well we aren't going to have to describe negative positions for matrix elements, so why not make the integer unsigned?" but there are lots of cases where you want a negative offset for whatever reason. ("I want to stop right before the diagonal").

I can definitely see why you might not ever need a sign in networking stuff.
That's about right from my arithmetic, assuming you charge from a fossil fuel grid. I charge from onsite solar. Still, 2x is a big improvement.
> It's unbelievably naive how some believe humanity should somehow start using _less_ energy.

Nothing naive about it, there are costs associated with production of energy and spending less energy is simply about lowering the associated costs.

Europe being big on energy savings and efficiency is now better off compared to what would have had happened if they lost the Russian energy without the achieved efficiencies.
I watch a moderate amount of UK tv, and I'm still (decades later) surprised when one UK person says to another UK person "you look a million dollars!". "You look a million pounds" doesn't sound the same. "You look a million quid!" might be better?
a) Because that's not true. The numbers don't actually work out that way. Transportation and heating are most American's biggest carbon contribution. Agriculture is down a ways.
b) Because there is evidence that meat production done right IE intensive rotation grazing or silvopasture where the meat is grazed on a small section of land at a time and most of the land is left fallow most of the time can actually drastically increase ecosystem services. It allows the land to function as native prairie or savanna.

There is also evidence that this sort of grazing can substantially reduce carbon emissions. Meanwhile monocultured grain, beans, and veggies - especially conventional with heavy pesticide* (edit: originally wrote fertilizer, meant pesticide) use - are devastating to ecosystems. They're essentially turning large swaths of land into killing fields, taking the bottom right out of ecosystem and contributing to the massive drop in insect populations (which form the foundation of the food web) we've seen across the developed world.

In short - the agricultural analysis is really fucking complex, multivariate, and grey.

She links a literature analysis that claims to contradict much of this, but I've read literature analyses making these sorts of claims before that just ignore most of the alternative systems, gloss over a lot of nuance, or downplay the harm of convention systems in major ways. I need to read the one she linked, but experience has taught me to treat it skeptically.
There is no assumption that Europe would freeze this winter. The aspects I'm complaining about are the inconvenient and costly measures that would be required to ensure that the currently stored and otherwise available energy is sufficient to not freeze and not be pushed to make deals Europe does not want. And while Europe does need gas in the long term (as it's a key industrial resource, not only a source of energy), this is the last winter with a dependency on specifically Russian gas, the ongoing capacity building for alternate sources (e.g. LNG terminals) combined with other investments IMHO would be sufficient to not freeze in the next winter even if the war goes on for years, which I believe it won't.
That makes sense. The definition might get a bit fuzzy when you have to account for the energy use of producing imported products, but I probably am getting a bit pedantic at this point. The overall point The article tries to make - poorer countries need more energy to get out of poverty - seems good.
Worth reading this gem from 2010 too:

https://scottberkun.com/2010/the-cult-of-busy/
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722950
Consultant roles in the NHS are competitive and are not simply based on tenure. Doctors often switch hospitals exactly as if this was the private sector, as NHS hospitals can compete against each other for staff. The NHS internal market system means the individual hospitals are very financially driven. The NHS also pays huge amounts on clinical negligence claims (they have a £60bn provision) although this is managed centrally - effectively the central NHS Resolution organisation is insuring individual hospitals in return for charging a levy.
I don't want to jump on the bandwagon too much, but I think if you want to argue for decreased energy use you have to do it in a way that has a vision for quality of life improving. You might for example point out how much more efficient cities are, or how wasteful consumerism is and argue that people can grow to love having less. I'm not sure, but you definitely shouldn't basically say the only solution is to keep the developing world down and maybe shrink the pie in the developed world too. That just isn't a realistic option.

Also like the other commenters I'm not at all sure renewables can't do the job. Prices have fallen fast
I have a swale on my place from the days when it was farmed. When we bought it they were growing black-eyes, garlic, corn, and various fruits. I think digging bunds like those in photos would be painful here since the soil is very shallow. To get a transplanted tree to grow here I have to dig through two rock ledges that are each about one foot thick (1/3 meter). The rocky clay between them is also only easily dug in the wet part of the year since the clay becomes very hard when it dries so that I need to use a bullprick bar to punch through all the rock. I drill fence posts since there isn't enough dirt to hammer one of those t-posts deep enough to be stable.

I wish I had the soil they have there but farming this land resulted in deflation (soil loss to high wind events) that you can measure by looking at elevation changes along the fence lines and the farmed/unfarmed areas. Like the people in the story, to start the restoration I let my place lay idle for more than a year with no mowing so that all the grasses could set seed multiple times. That helped me reestablish native grasses.

I limit mowing to twice annually now because mowing tends to enable spread of invasive or non-native grasses. Even then I mow in a pattern, starting with areas that I have mostly restored and finishing on the areas that still need some work so that any seeds that drop off of the equipment tend to be native seeds redistributed into areas where I am fighting non-natives. I let the seeds piggyback. It's a process.
But that isn't the cause of climate change? The cause of climate change is a small number of those people releasing a gigantic amount of carbon
Why does Linus Tech Tips have 80 staff?
https://energi.media/news/battery-evs-more-fuel-efficient-th....
Meh. Such moral absolutism leaves no room for fate. I had a colleague once whose wife was dying of cancer and he understandably had severe trouble focusing on his work. That does not make him "bad people" even though his code wasn't perfect all of the time.
A substantial amount of housing, especially on East and West Coast, was built prewar or only just postwar. That housing has the potential to have toxic chemicals like lead and asbestos, poor plumbing, lack of insulation, and poor ventilation. It almost certainly doesn't have AC/central heating in places that don't require it year-round to be livable.
The climate's been changing since the world came into being. Stop trying to play God and think you can control nature. Fear mongering. Look how miserable western countries are with their eco warrior solutions.
Very cool! I actually went onto the same journey 5 years ago - build a solver and sudoku generator (using the same paper) and finally a web interface. In the last week I finally got the motivation wrapping it up. I planned to release it this week, but as your post is so similar, it motivated me to make it already public as I think you'll like my web interface (if you get bored of using pen & paper), it's decently polished.
You might find it interesting to read through my generation code [0], it's a slightly different approach, but also yields unique Sudokus of a certain difficulty.

[0] https://github.com/TN1ck/super-sudoku/blob/master/src/engine...

App: https://sudoku.tn1ck.com/
Repo: https://github.com/TN1ck/super-sudoku
It would be interesting to see an analysis of the effect of Russia's economic problems, now and in the future, on the global economy; and in turn, the resulting effect on the US economy.
Not that I'm against the sanctions, at all. Russia must be made to feel the consequences, somehow, of its barbarous invasion. But due to the inescapable interconnections of the international economy, there's bound to be some blowback.
There isn't anything wrong with urban gardening itself. The problem comes when anti-development groups impose policies to prevent any building from casting a shadow on anything. Greenery and open space are both good and important, and gardening is a fine hobby. But urban gardens don't feed anyone and if there is a choice between housing people in an existing city, or protecting an existing garden from shadows, we should choose the housing every time.

Same thing goes for rooftop solar power: it's fine, but protecting it is not important.
Indeed, and access to education is in fact one of the biggest barriers to vertical mobility in the US.
Pounds has the double meaning as a unit of weight and so a million pounds has a unintended double meaning, which may be part of why the dollar version gets used
Are you saying that like it's an obvious and irrefutable benefit? Having driven two EVs, I can safely say that 0-60 times specifically, and acceleration in general, are totally irrelevant to me. As long as the vehicle has no issues accelerating on the on-ramp (so most cars from the last 30years), everything extra is useless.
> When energy runs out, or becomes significantly more expensive, it's game over for developed countries.

Western society is inefficient at a macro level, even though it may seem efficient from the financial perspective of a single company or an individual. People cover huge distances to work. Companies are moving goods, components and people from all over the world. People change jobs (losing focus) and their residence often, companies go bankrupt because of competitive market forces. This means a lot of wasted resources and duplication.

You can decrease the energy consumption significantly without affecting the quality of life in case of adopting a new political philosophy which considers these realities.
We should be continuously discussing and evaluating how to solve all real problems humanity faces.

Your criticism of the Federal Grant you mention is valid. It would have been great if you could have expressed that thought _before_ they wrote that check, right?

That's what this entire comment section is: People discussing a specific problem. Not the other problem, this one.
Anyone have a mirror of the news release? Even just the text would be helpful.

ddos-guard is blocking me. I tried to create an accessible version using https://archive.ph/ but their ddos blocking service is blocking me too. I suppose soon no sites except repugnant ones will be accessible, the rest will be hidden behind DDOS protection services false positives.
Well, they are already in control of what studies get published, what isn't much different.

I do think they shouldn't control that, but it's a deeper change, for a different gain.
What kind of videos are they watching?
I also wondered this - initially I saw that the chart linked had a "Lifecycle Analysis" and so I nodded and went on my way thinking that disposal had been accounted for.

I'm glad you brought it up, because upon looking at the study the chart is based on, it seems hopelessly optimistic - it accounts for several end-of-life scenarios but they are all 'good' disposals performed after plastic collection, like recycling or incineration. Zero accounting for accidental or incompetent sending to landfills, which indeed seems the main issue with plastic bags.

(The study is also specific to Denmark, where perhaps disposal programs are more reliable than they are in the US.)

https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...
Private english school, to be honest.
No grid is 100% reliable, but in the present situation where renewables are cheaper than nuclear it's not hard to see why they're being preferred. You'd need a story where that price difference is artificial or temporary (both possible)
And in English.
The project looks cool! I've built quite a few open academic publishing platforms, we would have a lot to talk about I imagine :)

You might be interested in what we're doing at LabDAO, including our publishing lab and the community governance we're developing. Note: we're a DAO but it's not about crypto.

Contact in my profile if you'd like to chat.
It's really not a single variable problem, though. We're also looking at biodiversity collapse as humans atomize and invade wild spaces, and declines in insect populations which prop up the rest of the biosphere, including human agriculture.

We're making significant progress on cleaning up energy production, as wind and solar are now the most economic ways to produce new energy by a very long shot. The trajectory of the temperature curve is bending in the right direction, and should bend further. At some point we also need to pay attention to the rest of the quality of life on earth.
> Another way to fix the problem would be to help Ukraine a bit more and forcibly take the gas from Russia as reparations.

Nuclear weapons foreclose many options.
I never understood, they can get most of the data using a soft pull and pre approve, then why do a hard pull? Is it by law?