skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You originally said "it's kind of a wash between [them]".

I think most enquiring minds would disagree that there isn't much between them on this matter. You're staking out a fairly extreme stance on this topic. Nothing wrong with that - but don't sound surprised when people disagree.
That is true, it was the suggested way by the Tesla hotline after the method that you mention failed. The solution that worked ultimately was the flatbed truck...
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32726569
Dramatically reducing meat consumption is the single best thing the average westerner could do to limit their environmental impact. Why did you remove it?
What kind of a web stuff are you doing, internal tools, SAAS, homepages for companies? Are you specialized in a specific stack?
What are the health impacts of meat?
Aha, I had forgotten about char.
By the way, this is exactly what a climate change denier would write, except that that would talk about collapsing the economy if we focused too much on reducing carbon emissions.

The truth is reducing CO2 emissions is an emergency, and any other environmental considerations other than doing that is just arguing about deck chairs on the Titanic.

At this point, we would have been in a much better position if the Greens had no been so rabidly anti-nuclear. Germany is restarting coal plants now.

At some point, as the article argues, following “environmental intuitions” is self-defeating.
When you say they “missed” crypto, has crypto actually become something legit yet, apart from a vehicle for wild speculation, hype, and what feels in many situations like get rich quick or ponzi schemes?

Genuine question (based on what my perception has been, it’s mostly been FOMO investing, but maybe I’m just missing something?)
Religious fundamentalism only becomes attractive due to economic disenfranchisement. The fundamentalism also serves as a distraction from the economic conditions. It seems as if we're coming to the moment of truth of whether the Republican Party's four decades of looting-destruction politics has formed an inescapable death spiral, or if we can pull up.

(Just to be clear here - I have little love for the Democratic Party or the deep state. But I'd rather have the wheels stay on the cart than have it be overrun by misled nutjobs)
There is a cost to moving data to another chip(let). I think this is the main reason
> To me this suggests there is some motivation to do research on the subject, compared to someone who has no interest in the topic.

Research isn't done by people who have no interest in a topic.
Well, that’s because they get paid in peanut dust and breadcrumbs
It's because I want to choose. Even your fancy Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (in auto mode) doesn't know or care what I want to do.
Really interesting book -- in part because the "calories as currency" isn't even its primary focus, rather merely one part of the backdrop. Recommended, for sure.
Nah man, we need more rights of course. Forget about liberty and shit, we just need more
SOLR is using Lucene’s approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) implementation.

This site has some nice information on how ANN performs for vector search.

http://ann-benchmarks.com/
You might not be familiar with the App Store restriction on in-app links/buttons to external payment methods. An app on the App Store must only provide subscriptions through Apple's own means which gives them a 30% cut of every subscription payment.

It took a long legal battle to allow Netflix to show a button to their own external subscription website: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-japan-fair-tra...

But even so, there are a lot of other big sellers which haven't yet got their external button approved.
Auto braking only mitigates crash impact in some scenarios, and prevents impacts in even fewer scenarios.
What mess? I'm not German, but from living here, it feels like the German state is sort of working OK. A benchmark that I feel is pretty fair is COVID death numbers. Germany does OK. Countries like the UK completely fumbled the whole thing, so a bunch of people died.

There aren't really a lot of other grounds of direct comparison: certainly, the UK economy has been tanking, but there are confounders there, and the UK has a poor (and flat-lining) life-expectancy, but perhaps that's just a consequence of the COVID thing. In general though, I feel like the UK has just plummeted on all the stats, except perhaps, the number of union jacks per square meter, in the last decade or so.

Granted, Germans are more racist.
What is more efficient than all the cars is electrified rail. That is an order of magnitude more energy efficient, more if you can manage to get near capacity high frequency trains.

A lot of our energy expenditure is lifestyle satisfying. Asia and the better cities in Europe demonstrate you can build dense cities with excellent transit as an alternative to car dependency, but the US fairly universally rejects it from both sides - white flight to suburbs and their perpetual expansion and the inability to actually build dense and transit oriented housing, hell most places use zoning codes to actively prevent its development.

We could do a lot of good for the world just stopping our out of control need to drive cars everywhere and for everything, but the willpower is very much not there, largely because of corporate interference that bred this climate that transit is for poor people and to own a car is to "succeed" in life. Its such an awful, backwards culture perpetuated by the profit motive over possibly the survival of the society.
Burning 1 gallon of motor gasoline emits the same carbon as producing 1.3lb of finished beef. Flying once from U.S. to Europe has the same GHG impact as producing 80 pounds of beef. For a typical U.S. household, transportation is a bigger source of greenhouse gas emissions than food.
What % of your visitors download and use the app?

Where does your traffic come from?
Those numbers assume a climate controlled environment, though. If you live somewhere hot without air conditioning, the fridge has to work a lot harder.

That’s why the typical middle America “garage fridge” is such an energy hog.
Right. And we could actually create a reliable grid vs. a shitty patchwork of unreliable power sources that require us to massively overbuild generation capacity.

I guess we don't do this because too few bureaucrats can grift if we build nuke plants?
I was tired of Spotify's dominance in the music streaming space vs how poor their UI is, how little they pay artists, and how anticompetitive they grew vs other services (ex. last.fm scrobbling).

I switched to buying tracks from artists, using Plex to stream the tracks from my home server, and using Tidal to stream tracks I don't have yet. What's nice is Plex also supports Tidal integration, so I have all my music in one place.

It's not a perfect experience, but if I'm going to put my money toward a subpar experience, I'd rather it go to an underdog. Also, Tidal supposedly gives a slightly larger fraction of the profits to artists. Ironically, from what I could find online, Napster apparently gives the largest fraction.
It would be quite unwise to talk about spoiled food when your house is on fire.

>Perfect is the enemy of good.

Agree. Looking at the bottom of mortality list is perfectionism.
Yeah I think the market for people who want to be uncomfortable is huge. /s
Fraud is only a small part of the problem. No open data, poorly described methodology so reproductions sometimes aren't even possible, too little funding for reproductions, p-hacking, no incentives to publish negative results, journals incentivized to publish sensational results to increase their impact factor even though sensational results are likely false thus perpetuating misinformation. These are the main drivers.
The author confuse being environmentalist with trying to reduce her carbon footprint.

Environment is not all about carbon footprint. Reducing...or rather not increasing as much global warming doesn't help reducing the 7th continent or the micro plastics/graphene/whatever life threatening microscopic waste we are sending in the environment.
> the only people serious about alleviating poverty…

Please provide some data to back up this assertion?
This is the ultimate truth that, for whatever reason (emotional/egoic as far as I can tell), gets conveniently ignored.

Truly sad to see humanity limit/destroy itself over and over when there are perfectly viable options available.
I don't think the author, or anyone who eats meat (and is intellectually honest and invested in environmental impact), is trying to argue that it's not expensive. But if you've already made the ethical choice that you still want to eat meat, it's worthwhile to study what methods for producing it are less impactful and more sustainable.
The problem is storing and moving the energy. We could theoretically capture lightning strikes (electrostatic discharge) and store those to power things.

There's plenty of renewable energy out there, we just can't capture it efficiently, store it very efficiently, or move it around very efficiently. As such as rely on power sources that provide output rates were good at capturing energy from: fossil fuels stored as energy, nuclear fission, solar (fusion, sort of, we're not that efficient at it), hydroelectric (kinetic/gravity, solar/nuclear from the sun), and geothermal (which is just partly just fission again).

A lot of stuff just dissipates into the environment and we only capture a small bit of it. With all that said I think humanity will always grow beyond its means in terms everyone having a desirable amount of energy and materials to meet a certain standard of living.
Tutorial using LLVM to JIT PyTorch graphs to native code (x86/arm/RISC-V/WASM)
Joules can be converted to Bitcoin.
I called this! It's in a HN comment I placed a few weeks ago.
Instead we live in a world where the web means Chrome. How wonderful!
I’ve never used Racket, but reading your description of the documentation (and Scribble) makes me want to check out that aspect of it. I wonder how it compares with rustdoc? I do mostly Rust these days and its generated documentation is usually really good.
An elected official is by definition not neutral. I think representative government is as good as it gets, but it will never be neutral or bereft of politics.
For context.
Neutral and elected are mutually exclusive. ;-)
One of the most insightful quotes I ever found of HN:

«The limiting factor for [civilizations] is collective intelligence, not energy.

We already have access to far more energy than we could possibly use on earth for any technology that's actually buildable. But we're not using it because we don't have the species IQ to make the right choices.»

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232083
Basically we are at the Ponzi finance stage and approaching a Minsky moment. By participating in this destructive greed driven financial system, nothing new is created, the world isn't any better.

It will take some time but there's a side of this coin that nobody with money likes to talk about, its the slow realization that your material attainment creates a cycle of apathy and that you have an impact on the world that you've squandered ultimately in the vain chase of exuberance. You try to get over this feeling of emptiness by doing a variety of things but because you are so comfortable you can't find a way to undo it. Many fall into addictions, sex, drugs, purchases but its fleeting and you hit a wall. With all the money and comforts in the world an outsider would be puzzled but this is the burden of haves. While it isn't quite the same as have nots, its of the same pedigree.

Everybody chases what everybody else is chasing without realizing what it is they are chasing. This is the type of conversations we avoid. We don't stop, pause, and collective question what we do is correct. No there's no trickle down effect either. It's the other way around and I've seen many successful people destroy their lives once they let wealth get to their heads.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Different people had different experience and I didn't understand people who are able to be together having such a challenging time. That is very illuminating.

On the other hand angry people like the prior poster comparing covid to flu usually leads one way. We start with it was just like a flu to ME to it IS a flu and all the doctors and scientists are lying to us and we can no longer trust science and if we believe people died at all either they all died of normal causes and were just labeled covid or as likely we pretend they were killed by the vaccine. Hey maybe we weren't going that way but we probably were.

Conspiracy theories aside nobody became a fat friendless alcoholic because of covid and I would in fact not hesitate to predict the alcohol was a factor in literally every other issue. User will not experience any kind of positive movement on any front until they take responsibility for putting the bottle down.
WebGPU Explainer (Sep 2022)
The emergency was 50 years ago.
Or rich people use their wealth and political power to enrich themselves, not just for cheaper jet fuel, but to spread the false rumor that climate change and global warming is a scam.
TikTok denies security breach after hackers leak user data, source code
This is a link to a complaint. Can someone either point to the official announcement or go into detail about what was allowed and what changed?
Protein is not all you get from meat. If you want to replace meat, fine. But dont act like its just a protein swap. For instance you're not getting creatine and all the amino acids from beans amongst other nutrition.

I also dont really understand the full appeal as mono-cropping has devastated forests and animal species. And those harvesting machines kill many animals in the fields.
Doesn't libspotify still work, albeit unofficially, because of old integrations in cars and other devices?
Graphs and charts are silly. You have CSV.
FYI plex has tidal integration. I use it so my personal track library and tidal can be accessed from the same place.
Also skeptical of the honey thing. Honeybees produce honey which is a valuable product on its own, but honeybees are also distinguished from other bee species by their massive colonies (colonies are the groups of bees, hives are where they live). This is why there is an industry that trucks honeybee colonies/hives around the country to pollinate whichever crops are in season. This is to the detriment of whichever pollinator species live locally. The honeybees pollinate, but they take a disruptive amount of pollen to feed their own colonies at the expense of the native pollinators, and in return they share their diseases like varroa mites.

If a crop needs pollination but you want to reduce dependence on honeybees, it's likely you would need to break up the land the crop is on in order to plant flowering species that attract native pollinators at the edges, and that comes with its own downsides for maintenance and harvest.
Damn, you are actually correct. I have read that whole article, and wasn't even sure what the contract was for, but it sounded like some super scary surveillance program. Your description of it sounded nothing like what that article painted at all.

Then I decided to search for other articles about this that are written a bit more competently[0], and yup, it all checks out. Looks like a typical "we are migrating our infra from on-prem to cloud with GCP and AWS".

0. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/01/google-workers-protest-1-2...
> The drawback is that it incurs a performance hit and is therefore only enabled in debug builds by default.

D has core library functions to check for integer overflow. In my not-so-humble opinion, a targeted solution like this is better than a global switch to turn it on and off. Adding is deeply embedded into computation, and very very few are at any risk of overflowing.
I'm not sure that's true if you consider the "last mile" of packaging and distribution.

The ability of web apps to be instantly installed and updated is a huge win, as is the fact that it runs on everything from a phone to a desktop with zero additional effort. Certainly it comes with tradeoffs, but if your goal is not just to write code but to put it in front of customers, it's hard to do better than Html plus JavaScript.
I’ve been using this as my reference for building a Chip-8 emulator in Zig, in order to learn Zig. Very useful.
No, they do write tests, just

1. Include the ones that passed and discard those that failed.
2. Run the tests several times and report only the best result.
3. Keep some of the details secret (data, some weird parameters, or maybe the whole repository), tweak something, run again, get some nice figures and publish a new paper.
A Taiwanese Chip Giant Is Caught Between the US and China– and It’s Thriving
I've never used PHP before, why would I start now?
>> A much more realistic figure is 2x

That sounds well off.

How much energy is required to refine fuel suitable for use in an ICE vehicle? Gas and oil fired power plants use a far less refined fuel.

How much energy is required to get the fuel to the vehicle? Gas and oil plants are usually connected via high efficiency transport mechanisms like pipelines rather than ships or road transport.

Vehicle engines are only in the region of 20-35% thermal efficiency but the average across all gas fired plants in the uk is 50% and drops to 42% for oil fired.

I don’t know for sure but only 2x smells to me.
I enjoyed your commentry on the registers (HL, BC, DE), but you mention a lack of index-registers? Isn't that what IX and IY are for?

(You can do things like "ld a, (ix+3)", etc. I used those a lot when I recently wrote a text-based adventure game in Z80.)
Tires have gotten quieter over recent history, not louder, as a result of better tread design. You are noticing tire noise now because drivetrains have become quieter even more so.

BEVs are not running tires that are any different sizes than similar positioned gas cars. The model 3 is running similar tire sizes to the German sports sedans of similar positioning. The leaf is running similar sizes to other hatchbacks. Etc.

In general, cars are running larger tires in every dimension, but cars are also larger in every dimension.
Prediction markets are an interesting alternative solution. If people can make money by correctly predicting the outcomes of experiments, and you have a way to prevent profit-driven bias impacting outcomes (e.g. independent experiment designers and performers, and the performers can't participate in the market but maybe get a cut of the transaction fees so that more "interesting" experiments get performed), then you get a pretty different research dynamic.

(I am paraphrasing Eliezer Yuskowsky here, specifically a small part of his NSFW and frankly weird collaborative fiction Mad Investor Chaos.)
Wrong and somewhat naive.

If you have a list of problems you don't only focus on solving the one with the largest impact. You need to balance resource allocation between how the problem negatively impacts AND ability to solve.

If we followed your logic, we would stop trying to cure cancer and just focus all healthcare resources exclusively on developing life extension drugs.
Recommended read?
> Maybe humidity makes it closer to even?

If the humidity is high enough, it can take it past even. But you won't find that out by comparing summer and winter numbers in the same location, because there aren't a significant number of locations that have both summer and winter conditions severe enough to push the numbers. You would want to compare, say, Canada in winter with south Florida or south Texas in summer (or, for even more extreme, northern Scandinavia in winter with southeast Asia or equatorial Africa in summer).
There is already an unstoppable climate catastrophe happening. Many of the effects are already baked in for the next 50-100 years and it will disproportionately affect the poor.

What we can still control is how bad it is. (An increase 1.5 degrees C looks a hell of a lot different than 4 degrees C). That's still very much a fight worth fighting.

When people ask if we should do this or that, the answer should be "yes". These rules are fine - we should eat less meat, we should drive and fly less, etc. We should also do more systemic things, like investing heavily in battery tech and solar and wind and even fusion longshots. We should regulate the hell out of emissions, and use the proceeds from taxes and fines to help mitigate the effects on the poor. Getting to net zero carbon is going to be hard but it has to happen.
> especially if look at the market share of renewables in total energy which includes not only electricity but also heating and transportation.

You missed my point. If that existing non-renewable energy was used efficiently, like a Germany and UK that used heat pumps for domestic heating powered by the exact same gas they squander now in poorly insulated homes with a COP 1/5th what they otherwise could have, the energy would be enough.

My second sentence was that on top of that we could have had even more cheap energy if they'd not basically outlawed wind farms, the cheapest form of energy for the last decade in Europe.

"All poverty is energy poverty" remember? So why did the government's not insulate and use efficient heating systems? Why did they "cut the green crap".
And I thought Toyota had a winner with the Prius. I really like mine (2nd generation, >100kmi, still going strong). I'm a big fan of their "power sharing device" (PSD -- otherwise known as planetary gears). Aside the economics and (fairly) eco-friendliness, it drives quite nice, very smooth. Under the right conditions (flat, smooth road), it feels like gliding. I ride motorcycles too and I learned to drive on a stick shift, but in a car, it's just silly. You want what from me? Selecting the proper gear? What next, adjusting oil pressure?
A lot of people are on employer-paid insurance which largely hides the costs. You'll often get an "oh, I only pay $20 in premiums monthly" sort of response from them.

$10k in premiums going away with taxes going up $5k is heavily portrayed as a "tax hike" when universal healthcare is discussed.
More energy and other life's amenities that are enabled by it can go a long way alleviating the intellectual and emotional poverty.

It's pretty hard to be intellectual and kind when you toil for subsistence every day and barely have enough food.
Fair, though I am more curious to hear from those who've used PHP in the past and switched. The estimate I found says there are at least 600k PHP developers in US alone.
YouTube has better music selection and with a little setup you can get the same quality of life features as Spotify.
What is the problem with urban gardening? On a rooftop, greenery would help with the heat, and I find it difficult to believe that greenery in a space which otherwise has none would be an "ecological catastrophe".
I enjoyed reading this way too much.
Nobody claimed this directly, but when you boil down most progressive policies to their naked objective, it comes down to redistribution in one form or another, taking from the rich and lifting everyone (most noticeably lifting the poor).

Most objections to progressive policies boil down to the idea that the more fortunate people deserve what they have, and that redistribution would make less fortunate people not work as hard. In other words, the world is unfair because of "hand-wavy general incentives".

I am aware that second paragraph was not a great steel-man, and there are many variants and nuances of these positions, but generally the implicit assumption is that we have good (I did not say perfect) vertical mobility, when in reality this is not usually the case.
Cooled areas existed before refrigeration too.

What changed is the incentives and relative ease of different ways of cooling