skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Climate change is the most dramatic problem facing humanity and we cannot delay already unambitious deadlines with the excuse of a war. And phasing out ICE cars "early" (IMO 2035 is way too late) is not only good for the environment but a strategic necessity for the EU, which, it's worth reminding, has pitiful amounts of oil and totally depends on external suppliers for it, including Russia and other countries we would prefer not to depend on. Seeing what's happening with gas, which is substitutable as an electricity source, it would be very unwise to depend on oil for transportation. It's a need for Europe to be the first to transition to EVs (and even with all the incentives, it's not even in the lead).

I agree with you re: nuclear, marginal pricing (even without war), Azerbaijan, sanctions, and Van der Leyen being a bad leader, though.
> Nearly 40% of Europe’s so-called renewable energy is currently obtained by combusting wood, much of it coming from forests in the US.

No citation given since the claim is ludicrous.
> The expedition was known as the Polarfahrt

Excellent name.
Because nuclear energy has risks that solar and wind don’t have. And nuclear does pollute a lot more. If we plaster the world with nuclear reactors, risk and pollution goes up. You dismiss these two factors as completely irrelevant. Energy efficiency is important, because it helps to reduce both.
Poor people deny being poor and blame "The poor". UK research.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264378242_Poverty_T...
Oooh, manufactured intrigue. :-(
Let them charge you and file a chargeback on the credit card .

With enough chargeback, they will have their account suspended.
Multitasking existed long before computers, so I don't like the title much.

You probably can't cook a meal without multitasking. The author suggests that you are rapidly switching focus, but I don't agree - if you schedule things correctly you can jump from task to task without thinking about it. Eg if you know you need to make a burger with fries and a plate of nachos at the same time you can schedule the tasks based on how much time they take - burger on the grill, fries in the grease, start prepping the bun/plate, get the nachos built and in the broiler, pull the fries and let them drain, plate the burger, add the fries, pull the nachos out, out the window for service. You don't need to think much ahead to get it done while in the process, if you already know the plan and are used to it. Everything has a timer and you just need to move things when the timer says go. Bonus points if the timer is internal.
> I guess I can't tell if you're talking hypothetically or giving a realistic alternative that designers can use today.

I'm talking about a solution that the creators of Figma could have engineered.
>there's not as much cost pressure to do it

This is false. You never had to run a validator to watch the mempool and do MEV.
Phrases I've used:

- Occasionally Consistent

- Periodically Consistent

- Perpetually Inconsistent
You're treating it as if their life story is a zero-sum game, where it was worth 3050$ and he only gave them 50$. I've always given away my life story for free and don't feel gypped whatsoever.
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of hiring?
That all sounds great, another great case is to use rest material from other wood production.

If all wood pellet burning had these origins then it's a carbon neutral energy source which is much better than many alternatives.
Wow it never happened to me, then the reader is broken no cards worked one time it was and by a pure chance I had cash (which I don't carry normally).
What’s with the obsession for Figma? It’s a nice product, but chill. People have been spamming it like crazy the past 3 days
Yes, within the context of Tor.

Outside of Tor, I'm not going to be held hostage by trackers such that I'm forced to allow fonts in a way that makes me look average. By using any amount of ad blocking, script blocking, no-opping, href cleansing, and so on, I'm making myself more identifiable by any tracking that still manages to work. Whatever. At least I've reduced the amount of time it takes for a page to render.
I despise Figma, so for the first time ever I'm really excited for an Adobe takeover because the sooner this app dies the better. Having Figma open in a single browser tab on an Intel MBP will burn a hole through to the centre of the earth. The "desktop" Figma is a janky, laggy mess that opens in a tiny window every time and eats resources like nothing else. Copy and paste between Figma and almost anything else is horribly unpredictable.
> Using wood as a source of fuel is sensible given that the rate it is burnt equals the rate of re-forrestation AND we are starting from a sensible equilibrium.

If you burn deadwood, sure, maybe, that would just rot back into CO2. But removing trees for burning is just removing the CO2 storage living trees provide.

If you make a furniture out of cut tree that CO2 is trapped for 10-50 years, if you burn it it's right back to atmosphere
Arenas are great. He’s not wrong that they’re great. He is (was?) wrong that somehow Rust makes them not possible, or bad to use, or something. rustc makes extensive use of them, in my understanding, even.
It's a fortunate position in life to not have to choose between getting your next fix and admitting to a pattern of criminality on camera.

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEUh4FZIf8E
Punishment, Puppies, and Science: Bringing Dog Training to Heel
> but this "Rust Thing" is legitimately scary in the way that MAGA politics is legitimately scary: we've mobilized people in large numbers in a cause that they don't understand.

What exactly are you scared of? What is the bad outcome that will come from more software being written in Rust? Are you scared that important projects will be derailed by a successful campaign to rewrite large amounts of code in Rust? Or something else? The fact that promotion of Rust pattern-matches against a scary political movement isn't, IMO, reason enough to be scared.

To be clear, I'm not part of any coordinated Rust marketing effort. I just like what I've seen of Rust so far, I want to write more of it (edit: particularly in contexts where I currently use Electron or server-side web frameworks based on less efficient language runtimes), and I think enthusiasm about Rust is justified.
Yep. Been working on Polypane full time since 2019 as a solo developer. Electron based, available on mac, windows and linux, in x64 and arm versions. Its subscription based and I release a new update roughly every month.

It was a side project before that but I started charging for it when I went full time.

https://polypane.app
C'mon, ~/w is clearly the winner here.

I am reminded of Ken Thompson's comment when asked what he'd do differently if he reinvented Unix: "I'd spell 'creat' with two e's".
It can probably be done if you restrict some of the language features. e.g. reinterpret_cast, unprovable static_casts uninitialized pointers, etc etc.
The gas distribution part can be significantly compensated for by "unloading valves" of some kind—this is very common on piston air compressors—but with unloading, a major component of the starting torque is overcoming the angular momentum of the motor and compressor assembly. This is expressed as Locked Rotor Amps (LRA) on a compressor's spec sheet. There are devices that can limit the inrush current to about 25% of the listed LRA.

On most air conditioning compressors today, a scroll plate compressor is used, which doesn't have the unloading problem of the piston type of compressor.
The concern is less that this person (they've been named in other threads - this issue is not new) will attack people at cppcon but that the leadership has decided that a rape survivor refusing to interact with this person is a violation of the code of conduct.
You need to communicate clearly that you are doing these things as a learning exercise, not just because they're a requirement for something bigger that you're actually trying to do. People try to be helpful by saving you unnecessary work, not realizing that the work is your actual goal.
The fact that the solutions to our problems are to simply go without for an indeterminate amount of time is a failure of leadership at the highest levels. Why aren’t our governments funding “Manhattan Project” style programs for energy, food, medicine, etc. ? We should be fast tracking and fully funding dozens of nuclear power plants, desalination plants, etc. No, we can’t do that. But we can decide almost overnight to send billions of dollars to fight a corrupt proxy war which will greatly enrich defense contractors and government cronies.
Audit clauses vary greatly in their ability to enforce. It basically comes down to the ability of each side to push back. Obviously, the more dollars at stake the harder the vendor will push to actually audit. And the easier it easier to replace the vendor the harder the customer will push back.

As far as audit clauses go, I always try to stipulate that the audit is conducted by employees of the client or vendor. I don't want any outside consultants snooping around my IP.
Recently been reading up on model checking, and Kripke structures are mentioned often. They are somewhat similar to Labeled Transition Systems, but then with propositions on the nodes instead of labels on the edges. Turns out they are named after this person, fascinating.
Is its 3d plot as rich and interactive as it's 2d plots?
CMU courses doesn't have videos, atleast for most of the core courses. Was that a hurdle to your learning?
> you can rent land, scrub it clean, then return it bare without the owner minding

That's the idea, he's renting it for firewood. So we might rent it for 3 years during which time we'll have wood for 3 winters then return it to him cleared.

We use a tractor, which of course burns diesel but that's only a few liters. The wood is maybe 2 to 5 kms away. It still makes sense compared to using fossil fuels or (local gas based) electricity.
That's just your point of view. From mine, life is a long tumble down the stairs
In that case I don't think anyone would bother to have it properly cleaned - a safety risk - and you just end up with the chimney acting as a source of heat and air loss when it's not being used.
I agree with your point, just wanted to mention that mathematical statistics is a thing. It's usually a name given to textbooks or courses where statistics is built up from foundations in probability theory and where theorems are stated and proven vs introductory statistics courses that approach things with a more decidedly applied orientation that usually also touch lightly on subjects like experimental design and data collection
Conscious multitasking is incredibly inefficient, but hardware accelerated (unconscious) multitasking works pretty well
Google’s Feedburner just voided RSS URLs for CNN, Marketwatch, etc.
It seems like Feedburner removed custom domains so some major feeds like
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition.rss (+ all others)
http://feeds.marketwatch.com/marketwatch/topstories/

are now down.
> We have the capability, and yet decades of neoliberalism have made governments and the public terrified of any medium to long-term investment. So we've chosen a new Dark Age instead.

IMO, democracy is the enemy of long-term investment. Why start something that will not directly benefit me or my party in the next election? The incentives to long-term investments are almost zero under the logic of elections.
> Do you think that's an unavoidable law, or is it something accidental that could have gone better?

It was the result of having to develop production code in the real world, reusing real world production code developed by third-parties.

In my particular case it just so happened that the upstream dependency exported interface headers that conditionally defined stuff with C++14 features in spite of what shipped with their binaries. Stuff using constexpr ultimately resulted in tons of hard to track linking errors.

> Would you say a similar minor upgrade of the language version in other languages would have also caused a week of similar hard to debug errors, for a project of the same size?

This was not a C++ problem. This was a problem caused by the way this particular project was designed to toggle C++14 features when they should not be toggled.

Just because problems emerge when updating a project to the next language version, that does not mean the language is held to blame.

This is one of the reasons why I firmly believe half the people in this thread talking crap about software updates and bumping programming language versions are quite frankly talking about stuff they know nothing about and have zero real world experience. There's far more stuff going on in a language upgrade than flipping a switch and rebuilding a project, specially if upstream dependencies made some less-than-advisable decisions on how to release their work.
It should be illegal to make claims that you know are not legally valid.

Of course this would be a horrible rule to enforce between the "the contract changes weren't run by legal" and "that line is enforceable in this outher jurisdiction that we operate in". But scaring average consumers with a massive contract and a line at the end "even if part of this contract is unenforceable the remaining clauses apply" is just abuse of people who don't have the legal power to actually test if the claims are valid and get screwed over.
> There's no such thing as a "PWA standard". There are half a dozen to a dozen various standards, and Safari supports the vast majority of them.

The parent talks about the webmanifest standard which is essential for PWAs (it describes the application and its package in a standard way). Safari does not support this, which is a pretty major standard to not support.

> Firefox usually clearly documents the reasons

I disagree. They state they have done user research (no information available on this) and that there is "little to no benefit" for a feature that was buggy and hidden behind configuration flags while at the same time enabling full support by default in their mobile browser.

> Ah yes, jeopardizing by ... supporting 99% of what passes for standard PWA features.

...except for notifications on iOS (which are coming, apparently, but it's taking them until somewhere next year) or A2HS on desktop (which they do support on iOS except in alternative browsers), which are pretty major limitations. The 1% remaining is still significant, the rest of the PWA standards Apple supports are just normal web standards that PWAs happen to use.
It's of course understandstable that the founding team would take the exit. The fact that they have the strongest & most technologically advanced product, loved universally by designers and software engineers alike, only makes it more devastating.
> Many environmentalist causes and activism around climate change would be obsolete

No, they absolutely wouldn’t be. I’m sorry but this is so wrong it’s close to a bad-faith argument. Even with an immediate 100% switch to nuclear across the globe there would still be a shitload of work to be done just on the climate change front.
And that somebody can see you are from out of town, is one of the things I dislike the most about German license plates...
In documentary we don't typically pay people anything to tell us their life stories.
The PyX's github repo [0] shows fairly low activity recently. The last commit was on November 21, 2021 (almost a year ago). I am curious whether PyX is in a maintenance mode?

[0] https://github.com/pyx-project/pyx
citation needed.

I've had zero problems with AMD hardware on Windows (Linux kernel, on the other hand ootb still won't boot with this Vega as the amdgpu driver is a disgrace) and other than windows 11 being a complete failure, nobody has reported serious problems.

re benchmarks/power, they scale dynamically and do not have as tight power envelopes as other vendors, so obviously it will use more power [citation needed also].

Their generic GPUs are very fast, but why do they even care when they own the console market, the higher end in car infotainment market, etc?
It's because Figma was just bought by Adobe for a $20,000,000,000.
Okay, but what’s a no-name sleft?
Manish's style is clearly overbearing from a cursory glance at public interactions.
I'm not the first nor the last person to levy the exact same criticism.

Most of them from his own fucking subreddit.
Because history has shown us it is likely game over for what we have enjoyed and rely on now that it's going to Adobe.
Grid solar has both fewer deaths than Nuclear and uses fewer resources like water, thus the lower costs.

Rooftop solar is dangerous because people are putting stuff on roofs and can fall off in the process, so rooftop solar probably shouldn’t be subsidized IMO.
+1 on Seaborn. I'd never make anything for outside consumption direct from matplotlib. If I need it done quickly, Seaborn looks professional.
A philosopher at my alma mater wrote a controversial paper accusing Kripke of plagiarism. I'm not competent to weigh in on that question, but I thought this article was interesting: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/Archive/whose.html
well, markets with broken incentives can be dangerous for humans, especially when the product is your life, which is literally priceless.
But Mark does pay his subjects.
No problem there, you just happened to be identifying as trans-Arab at that moment.
> The issue with those taxes are that they are avoidable and then a property owner has found a way to not pay for the upkeep costs of their property again.

100% true that a physical property is not exactly going anywhere, and so it's extremely convenient to use as a stand-in for wealth / ability to pay taxes. That said, this could be worked around if governments were incented to do so, given that finance is almost entirely electronic at this point; offshore banking could be reined in, for example. There will always be loopholes and ways to avoid a tax burden, but if the (financial) penalties are commensurate to the dodge, then there's a reasonable disincentive.
+1 here. I have already seen some videos with people toying with surrealdb and it looks amazing. But I need a offline-first (local-first) solution. Recently, TinyDB was posted here at HN. I also heard of InstantDB (react only).
U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech
It is shocking how much vodoo magic there is in a programming language marketed as "easy to learn and use".

And with the recent addition of new syntax, I would hardly call Python easy.
You're overselling the importance of console chips for AMDs bottom line. Console chips have notoriously low margins due to being custom in nature and cost down to oblivion, making their development an expensive PITA with very low margins.

It's why Intel and Nvidia refused to work with Sony and Microsoft for their console chips and only AMD took the original contract since they were close to bankruptcy at the time so every extra dollar mattered for them.
…also «old folks» like me know matplotlib already, there is existing code out there for matplotlib. Matplotlib fits into desktop software and print-quality plots - plotly is more about web plots. Libraries like pandas and seaborn use matplotlib. Really, there are quite a few reasons you might stick to it still.

But keep using plotly - keep visualizing data. It’s a superpower!
Well, it's pretty low density for heating, furnace that big isn't exactly practical for anything else but some industry building
Literary hostility to J. R. R. Tolkien
Bjarne even gave an example at the talk with span versus pointer and length as argument.

Writing C in C++ means exactly that, writing C++ code in the subset that is also valid C, while ignoring everything else that the language offers regarding type safety, including basic stuff like RAII, or templates instead of macros.

Technically it is C++ code, in practice can be compiled with a C compiler as well.
> Honestly, I don't think Google cares per se. They just don't want the hassle of another adpocalypse. The issue comes from advertisers not wanting to be seen promoting certain things.

I think it's important to be very clear on the correct timeline. Tiny activist groups like "Sleeping Giants" put pressure on advertisers, and got a hashtag trending (back when it was easy to get hashtags trending, before Twitter changed it so that they had to manually approve each hashtag before it showed up on the right-hand sidebar). A few advertisers listened, and pulled their ads from YouTube. It was obviously absolutely incredibly insanely obvious that they were bluffing. YouTube is the most-visited site in the world after Google Search. But YouTube folded instead of calling their bluff; now here we are.

This isn't something anybody really wanted. Advertisers did it to look good for a few days on Twitter, in a very low-ad-spend period anyway (didn't cost them anything). They were planning on letting YouTube make a tiny concession, and resuming their ads. YouTube didn't have to fold; they just panicked. They could have given Fortune 500 advertisers the ability to blacklist channels their ads appear on, and it would have gone away. They mismanaged that crisis completely (and it was far from the last).
Then why don't they stay in CA?
Pre pandemic, London air quality was returned to worse than before the Clean Air Act by wood burning for vanity hearths.

Related earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32765950

and earlier NYT article with more information about European protected forest cutting, legal and illegal:

https://archive.ph/7se1H
> why there's so much anxiety from the author about doing things alone

Not only alone, but other to me quite absurd fears replace those when being "together":

> I don’t need to stress about the check, ordering the same thing as someone else, or being judged by coworkers. I’m free to read, write, eavesdrop, order, and eat as slowly as I please.

I can understand some.. fortunately aging really taught "noone gives a shit" - and if they do you often just should care even less!! ÷) (sure it depends, some etiquette makes sense.. don't disgust others etc..)
Eh? What part of the word "Subjectivity" do you not understand?

Before dragging your ass into making another silly point thats not being debated here, could you please read the thread and understand the law that Google apparently violated here and what part of the court ruling is black or white and not subjectively parsed to the point of hilarity ?

And once you're done with that, go educate yourself on what the difference between a democracy and reality is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Union_member_...
This is notes from an incoming conservative minister to the party or civil service staff that work for the department. Before "keeping a close eye on linked in" comes to much they'll probably be gone due to a minor scandal, moved in a reshuffle caused by a more significant scandal, or due to yet another change at the top bringing in a nearly all new team (a prime minister lasting 18 months without a leadership challenge is not all that common at the moment).
Yesterday, feeds.wnyc.org/science-friday was down. Today it redirects to https://feeds.feedburner.com/science-friday