skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this really addresses the main concerns people are putting in the comments.

"Mine more" has a definite end-point as eventually you can't just mine more. While it's good to be using solar and getting off of oil/gas powered grids, these also have fairly significant drawbacks (those panels need to be replaced and something needs to be done with the waste, recycling is currently far more expensive than just dumping them, there are chemicals in solar panels you need to consider, and removing them in a way to keep them usable for recycling requires someone not a lay-person).

The reason people are pushing for a change in how we approach transportation and living centers is because the changes aren't mutually exclusive with having a vehicle dedicated to yourself, but it does mean changes to how living centers are designed currently. If self-driving can take off, very likely most people could do without having their own car and would be served very well by a "call on demand" vehicle that is frequently serviced and cleaned in between rides. If a dirty one or one in disrepair shows up, mark it as such and another is there in a few minutes (heck, probably the service could see this before it ever gets to you and route such vehicles for service). This would work for a large number of persons in living centers, and for the few who really need a vehicle for "other" reasons, they can still get a car.

Further, make incentives for more walkable/convenient living centers. Better stocked markets on all corners (sorry bodegas in their current form don't cut it in their current form, but they're the right idea), grocery and health item deliveries, better public transit routes, it can work while accommodating those with a need for their own transportation.

For most healthy persons, not owning a car could easily be a possibility. When I lived in Russia of all places, I didn't own a car for 6 years and as an able bodied person, it was quite doable. Taxi when I needed to get somewhere fast and on-time with some stuff to carry, public transit if it's just me as the transit was there within a few minutes, grocery delivery handled most of my needs, and that which I couldn't order on groceries there were well-stocked markets within a minute or two.

For those who need additional assistance for day to day activities, yes they must be accommodated for and car ownership makes sense there; it's not persons who need additional assistance that are targeted, it's everyone else that really could live very comfortably without having to maintain a car that should be.

If the free market needs to be invoked, then so be it, let the market figure out how to build businesses that deliver groceries/food/household goods, let them figure out public transport services, bike rentals, and so on...though as I see it we already have the systems for this.

The technology and infrastructure is there for most of this vision, now it's about adaptation and adjustment. It's quite doable.
There's lots of papers about that algorithm used on warehouse box stocking.
It's part of the solution for a zero maintenance web presence.

It means I could maybe publish my memoirs and family tree and have it still available in 500 years.

It also makes web domains like other property - you don't purchase a nice watch and then expect it to be reassigned to someone else if you don't pay your annual watch renewals.
I read somewhere that the PM was informed of her death around 4:30pm.

At least from the official statements it mentions she died in the afternoon.
> It costs more to put them on residential roofs.

If you mean slanted shingle roofs the installation is still trivial.

There are also plenty of flat residential roofs which are exactly the same as an 'industrial' roof.
This reminds me of the same rendering technique described in Hustle Kings for the PS3. There was a write up done, however shader code was not included.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130913033312/http://www.voofoo...
Good timing - I was procrastinating on HN instead of trying to fix my phucked-up phong; you've helped me do both.
Including Germany, who peaked around 50% (they use a lot of oil which is bad for climate, but good for fuel diversity).

https://energypost.eu/no-energiewende-without-warmewende-mak...

> For almost a decade, emission reductions have stagnated.

Weird that this phrase comes up so much in relation to German progress on renewables and climate change.

> Opportunities missed since 2008

> Indeed, the German government has stumbled in several attempts to put efficient heating on the agenda. In 2019, the interior ministry led by Horst Seehofer cancelled the buildings commission intended to identify ways to reduce the sector’s carbon footprint, while in 2017, the German government coalition failed in a first attempt to agree on a building energy law, which would have set new standards for efficiency in buildings. The NGO Environmental Action Germany has compiled a “chronology of failures” in the sector, starting from 2008.

> Past success, but still 28m tonnes off target

> After years of standstill, the energy used in Germany’s buildings has not fallen nearly as much as targeted. Instead of dropping by 20 percent between 2008 and 2020, final energy consumption had only gone down by 6.9 percent in 2017. Although greenhouse gas emissions in the building sector have fallen by about 44 percent since 1990, progress has largely stagnated since 2011 and studies show the need to significantly ramp up action.
Oh man, nowadays, presorting is one of my main ways of Lego play. I never knew I had such ocd tendencies. But if I can change maximal entropy into neat stacks of color and shape, I feel like god.
A friend of mine got a .su (soviet union) domain for the laughs (he is a staunch free market libertarian). So far so good but I’ve noticed my Unifi IDS was throwing alerts for his website due to the bad rep of the su TLD.
I heard similar things, mostly from HN and reddit. It's good to see that in reality it's doable.
> This is quite a stretch, as any Ponzi scheme will demonstrate.

well, i am under the impression that people aren't being lied to about their purchase. Bringing in fraud in a discussion about economic value and utility isn't really helpful.

What makes something have utility? Why isn't the money paid representative of the utility (outside of fraud and crimes etc)?
Apparently derw is going to be a new ML based programming language compiling to TypeScript.

That is an awesome goal. I could use it right now! It would be great if features like the Or type A | B from TypeScript and value types could be preserved though. But that will be difficult to do.

There are projects like Reason and ReScript that do something similar with JavaScript as a target, but these projects don't seem to be mature / reliable enough to base a large project on.
Making Germany’s Heating emissions climate neutral nearly (2020)
How about .mobi the author used. You have to eat your own food.

The .feedback problem is more I like to have a domain for a static site under github. I do not mind basic hosting service. But it is nicer if I just escape it to the github one.

For decade … I probably would be gone or not active. Done it guys. Hence no concern.
When I was a kid imagination filled in all the missing details of my lego build and it look awesome and amazing. Now that I am older I just look at them as a low resolution approximation of the real world and not as exciting it was before.
> The only complaint I have about HN is the line length on large-ish screens.

I think it's fair to add that links/menu items/buttons are generally too small and close to each other on touch devices.
Thanks for eu.org you offer a free viable solution and just teach me by the way the origin of .org ... incredible

eu.org !
> why should a country not mandate that if a municipality provide water service, that it be safe to drink?

The US does mandate this.

https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/drinking-water-regulations

And the EPA started taking action in Jackson more than a year ago: https://www.epa.gov/ms/jackson-ms-drinking-water

The problem is that local leaders have the ability to just suck at their job and not make smart long term decisions. And often, this is caused by local opinions about spending priorities and opinions on the role of government.
I don't see how squatters would benefit more from that than other people registering domains. If anything I'd expect them to prefer a recurring fee over a high upfront fee.
> Never!

Note that some other traditions of gatherings do have children running around during the service... It is like being a point inside an area of brownian motion. Yes, it does not facilitate - but it more mirrors the reality of being in the world, "«unimaginable chaos»" and nonetheless ("nobody told you you will practice in natural lab conditions"). The children would make a smoothed progress from natural encounter to discipline (of course meaning self-discipline).

Note also that the suggestion was about chaos in the «service», not in the monastery.
Ukraine isn't funneling it's defense funding to Brett Farve now is it
Depends on the level.

If it's an early career engineer (< 4 YOE) then sure fine. You can't expect someone with that kind of experience to have in-depth knowledge on system design.

If it's senior+ then yeah you might expect more. Especially if it's around something the engineer has worked with before.
This. Whenever I post a comic and something funny comic on Twitter/FB (i put credit: URL their home page or IG), but on Reddit, there is no such thing. Most Reddit admins also ban direct linking to sources due to spam or remote server overloading. So instead, you need to use Imgur or Reddit's hosting. So I write a comment saying credit which often gets enough upvotes to push at the top of the thread. I think those content creators deserve traffic and recognition too. It is good karma for everyone.
This will backfire very hard. Pichai just wants to deflect from his incompetence, by blaming those who made Google into what it once was.

It's his fault, that the "Don't be evil" motto had been erased from Google's culture. And it's his incompetence that made Google spending money in areas which were not only not profitable enough, but rather such money pits that he has to squeeze money out from profitable divisions so hard that it makes Google's users switch to alternatives like Apple or make them degoogle their lives.

He and the likes of his are a cancer that is growing at Google.
> my colleague gave *a common question that was found in System Design interview*. The candidate seems to be able to give a *perfect answer*

Do you see the irony? Asking a “leetcode” question expecting an “non-leetcode” answer. Canned questions deserve canned answers. That’s what interviews have devolve into.

You get what you measure. You want better experience and person, have a conversation not an interrogation.
I read a really interesting article about the rise of solar powered fish farms in China some years ago. These use aquaculture techniques with ponds shaded by solar cells, with feed grasses grown as part of the same mini ecosystem. I think there's a ton of open space for exploring how we could colocate solar, wind, and other land uses in a way that's mutually beneficial to each.
It could be used as a sprite that looks like real geometry with some tweaking.
Cheri-based computer runs KDE for the first time
At one point the YouTube algorithms decided that what I wanted to watch was people prospecting for gold nuggets in the Australian outback.

One team simply walked over a large open area with a metal detector and found a few thousand dollars worth of nuggets.

What occurred to me was that this could be automated without too much difficulty. Make an all-terrain electric buggy drone and have it do passes back-and-forth automatically. Look for nuggets with an integrated metal detector.
Hm, doesnt work for me unfortunately. it wants me to login but then only allows me to confirm the "Business Starter" Workspace it automatically selected.
Thanks very much for pointing this out. Really annoying, although not surprising, that I had to read this on a four-deep HN comment rather than this being flagged by Google.
Based in Australia. Straightforward B2B SaaS offering - nothing to do with exploiting personal information. But having been through it, not doing anything wrong and compliance are two very different things.

What worries me is that it’s still early days for enforcement, but they’ve already handed out something like US$1.6B in fines. I assume they will only get more aggressive with this over time.
Well like graveyard sone just want to leave a stone there forever next to the church. It is sometimes good read. And each of our existence is unique even if may not be “important” to all or any. Still …

Forever is good. Especially if you know it is forever than you say thing that you want to say forever.
I have worked there early in my career. Never did I see anyone stay a minute after 5 in office.

I actually felt stagnated and left after an year
> If you see a match that would not be visible from given compression level[...]

Yes, but you'd need to reconstruct the hash table and the link table. For that you'd need to decompress fully. You could compare matches, but you are so far along at this point you might as well just decompress and recompress, comparing the output bit by bit.
i thought my wife and i would always have our own cars. could never imagine making do with 1. but now i can walk to work so we don't need 2. and if we happen to need to go separate ways, i can uber.
make transportation easy, and people will adapt/embrace even if they don't currently like the idea.
I do expect my property to be reassigned if I don't pay my property taxes. Eternal ownership allows those who had power and money in the past to continue to have that power indefinitely, and is very detrimental to society.
They left the most obvious ones:

Cinema.

Offset Printing.

Proving Relativity's Theorem with a picture of an Eclipse.

XRays.

Semiconductors and electronics.

Aerial maps.

Micromachines and microsensors.

Music Storage on CDs, DVDs and BluRays...
Also important to not that until a few decades ago, lithium was not a valuable commodity. So, we've barely started the process of actively looking for it. It's estimated to be a fairly common element in the earth crust.

If you contrast that with fossil fuels where we've had decades of very well funded research to identify new deposits of oil and gas, there are probably loads of unknown deposits of lithium.
They are eliminating even those.
Case in point, Microsoft develops an editor (VSCode) and LSP so that N*M language integrations wouldn't be necessary. But in the development of their language (TypeScript), LSP support is not a priority (in part because LSP is inadequate in its current form): https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/39459
That’s a little bit more accuracy than what is needed for this post, but good catch :-)
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/2016/3/16/how-many-decimal...
I'm surprised you'd have to define pi in a fragment shader at all. Surely such a commonly used constant would be defined in the language/headers already?
Fyi.

"Rendering my balls" says something very different to "rendering balls".

Although the hair would be impressive if you managed to do it.

(Testicles btw)
That's just your opinion. Mine is different
I assume high level chess games are more likely to be live streamed...
Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
Thank you! Good to see a bit of that can-do attitude here :) Lots of things are possible if you assume the other guy wants to help, and ask!
I believe they titled it that way on purpose.
Some have asked how this is different from what an impulse response convolution plugin can do. The simple answer is that IR convolution is a linear, time-invariant system. It can adjust the amplitudes and phases of different frequencies, but it can't create new ones. What this is doing is basically a nonlinear generalization of that, which makes it better able to model overdrive, amp saturation, and so on.

One thing I am curious about is exactly how this works. How do neural networks make black box nonlinear system modeling possible, and how does this relate to something like a Volterra series? Would love an explanation and/or some sources if anyone has any.
Those hash functions are (or were) cryptographically secure. They aim to prevent many different kinds of attacks that may be launched on hashed data. There are many other noncryptographic ways to use hashes (like writing your own dictionary) that do not need the protections cryptographic hashes give you and therefore can trade those protections for performance.

Pairwise independence basically means that applying 2 different hash functions to the same key produces 2 distinct/seemingly random values. There's a much more precise mathematical definition but that's the essence.
And what if London bridge indeed fell? Or does that have a codename too?
No, what the comment says above is correct: there's a rather dramatic difference in levelized costs between utility scale solar and rooftop residential solar. Commercial rooftop solar is only slightly better than residential.

There's multiple factors that feed into this, such as how much supporting infrastructure is amortized vs scale, being able to design the array for optimal lighting vs working with an existing building, systematic regular cleaning to keep the array working near peak efficiency... lots and lots more details like that.

This isn't to say residential rooftop solar is bad. However atm it's something of a vanity project for people who can afford the investment. It is most definitely not some sort of obvious solves the whole problem slam dunk idiots in government are ignoring because they're stupid. They know what they're doing and are focusing on the highest impact places to put funds, and that can scale up a lot faster than fighting NIMBYs.

And yeah, I'm really disappointed in Elon's solar roof tile stunt surrounding this.
> When running functions as a service, you don't have to administer the OS, you just request the computation, provide an input event, and wait for the results to be computed.

You don't have to administer any OS when you run them with a container orchestration system as a short-lived job.

It's also perplexing how suddenly "managing an OS" is depicted as such a blocker, specially in a time when treating servers as cattle is the norm.
Though marketed as "see you" now, the origin of .cyou is apparently Chinese, changyou.

"Changyou" means "freedom to explore", and it's a brand under Sohu, which is popular in China in early days of Internet.

"The intention of the Beijing Gamease Age Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (“Cyou”) in filing this application is to proactively protect the ownership of the “Changyou.com” and “Cyou.com” trademark at the Internet Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) name space and to provide a trusted, hierarchical and intuitive namespace for registrants and users that use Cyou’s broad range of high-quality entertainment and virtual communities services.

https://icannwiki.org/.cyou
Isn’t this the perfect scenario for using a crowdfunded solution?
If you consider “forever” to be 100 years for a person, you could charge 1k upfront, and you would need 5000 people to be able to maintain it.
That's very interesting. Thank you for the link. From what I read and see in the images, I gather he's done the same thing I have, as you guessed as well. Obviously he's going much further. The author is using a subtle bump map (simulating balls scratches and imperfections), a reflection map with a gradient and indecent angle, what looks to be a faux sub surface scattering effect.

Also he is placing his balls in a 3D environment with nice shadows that really help to sell the illusion.

That's a good find and an interesting read. Thank you.
Insert the missing “have” and there you go.

Says more about your reading incompetence.
How many of those fines were handed to companies with no presence in the EU and not targeting EU customers?

You cannot be expected to comply with the laws of every country in the world.

Do comply with Australian laws and relevant laws and regulations of countries to specifically target and ignore the rest.

If you see traction in the EU then you can start paying attention to the GDPR.
They might have a tough time getting re-insured after gross negligence, but insurance that covers legal settlements for this kind of thing is normal and expected for almost all medium to large businesses to carry - even my small business carries it (and maybe many more do). It's simply too dangerous to operate in the current American legal environment without this kind of insurance, though it is quite expensive.
This is 1000% something I’ve thought about, if I ever got too much money… just registering .name with ICANN and having a website called its.david for example. Email hi@its.david or even like me@david as the full email address if you had a root level mx record[0]. Then of course a root level website of just david.

Would just be insanely fun to play with & ruin other developers days when I complain that their form isn’t accepting my email. And really just generally confusing everyone.

Maybe someday :)

[0] I looked it up, it should be possible!! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40349412/why-do-not-more...
> Option B has a poor track record.

They both have.
When was the last time a Qualcomm (let alone an Exynos or Kirin etc) was faster than the Ax of that year? I can't even remember. Any ideas?
A lot of kids fall into that bucket yes.

There’s also kids who need a bit of push at the start, and/or will go through a full build following the directives to see what they want to change, or how they’d build it better.

TBH I fall in the latter category, and take that approach for a lot of things. I.e. I’ll follow a coffee brewing recipe to the letter to see what it gives, and infinitely iterate from there, including taking completely different approaches to compare.
The RSS is a fascist organization, and I don't care for it one bit.

But, is there anything more about Sridhar "supporting RSS"? All I can find about this link is the one event he spoke at, about rural job creation. That is an incredibly important topic and he has done more on that front than most others. Given his background, I see no reason to suspect him of being a secret fascist sympathiser.
Well that backfired on you.
Jacobson gets nitpicked a lot, but his general models seem to have been vindicated as time has gone on.

What exactly do you think he's getting wrong? And is it at a scale that matters even if you are correct?
When anyone tells me that "there’s no such thing as a 10x programmer", he’s my go-to example.
This misses two power sources, the first (and actually used on commercial scales) is geothermal - I can't find anything on land area usage, but I recall driving through wairakei and just seeing giant masses of pipes periodically being visible in the bush. In NZ it represents 17% (per wikipedia) of the countries power, and is the most stable source of power as it isn't dependent on rain, sun, or wind.

The other more reasonably ignored option is wave based generation. In principle wave generators could generate large amounts of reliable power, but I can't recall any commercial plants in operation. There's one article I found about commercial power generation in Australia [1], but it's a single generator producing only 200kW.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-31/wave-power-generator-...
The thing is that we build on wind energy that is not only unreliable as an energy source, but also adds CO₂ for producing/maintaining/rebuilding and usually also producing SF₆ while running (one if not the most efficient greenhouse gas).

I am actually under the impression we actually change just for the sake of change.
Unfortunately this is my experience at home in Germany.

I don't know if Vodafone shapes their traffic but the the effect is the same when their network is having trouble for various reasons.
But then you're relying on your friend to keep paying (ever increasing) costs per year to keep their domain registered.