skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Real estate got really expensive in Berlin, as did rent. Food got more expensive like everywhere else, and now energy costs tripled (I just got the letter from my landlord).

I'm not cheering for anyone to hurt more than us. It's just a crappy situation all around.
They have been rolling out in stages from what I have gathered. I haven't really explored it too deeply because I was waiting for the overall framework to be made precise. Initially it was just some specific groups of people, and then they have been expanding it in stages. 6 months ago, another group of people (mostly focused on victims of for-profit college scams) received similar debt forgiveness and some sort of compensation I think (might be wrong).

Some cynics are saying this has been strategically planned for the midterm elections coming up but this has been planned for a long time and honestly, its pretty cool to see something that was a talking point that actually affected me as a citizen that seemed to crystallize before and during Biden's campaign and actually come to pass in the near-future.
In the US, I believe that’s AP physics B, whose topic is thermodynamics and “integration without integration” (i.e., the work done is the area under a PV graph)
I still find it utterly baffling that Windows and Apple haven’t integrated better “hyper-productivity” oriented workflows into their OSes. I’ve tried (and failed) on multiple occasions to “ditch the mouse” for full keyboard nav but it always comes up short around the browser. Even VS Code has pitiful keyboard-only navigation support.

These days I pretty much work exclusively in terminal, having gotten used to vim mappings and just sticking with it. Still, I’d rather be on a desktop.
That was my first thought. Shut down voluntarily in 2019 for no particular reason after 22 years? Mysteriously back and even better? Doesn't pass the smell test.

The page talks a big game about hating criminals, but these days if you don't put up a cookie banner RoboCop will shoot you in the dick. And if someone really isn't a criminal we've got a fix for that, too: Just ship them to a country where they are!

On the other hand maybe this post-HSA, post-Snowden world has made me jaded and the site really is just good clean fun.
This calculation is actually more complicated and doesn't trivially resolve to a singular number. Comparing the two devices across the board only works if its a dedicated computer used exclusively for gaming.

Many buying a Gaming PC will be buying a device that will do double duty and the price differential is best described by the GPU required for work vs play and if we want to truly compare it to console quality we ought to be comparing it to a budget GPU similar in performance to a PS5. For example a $370 nvidia gtx 3060 vs a $500 console.
because it's bottom-up, as opposed to mouse studies that impose our own ideas and record from a tiny fraction of brain cells
Previous HN discussions on the same topic:

Rethinking the Computer Chip in the Age of AI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33129026
All prices are short term in the short term.
The best response to passive aggressive attacks is their own echo.

I try to be like "ok, let's get back to the topic"
China had more than 50% of Bitcoin's hashing rate. Most of it probably was to launder CNY out of the country. I suspect there is still some underground mining despite the clampdown. The days of large scale mining seems to be over, though.
(yeah because we're fixing cocaine's supply chain. this is what I'm talking about)
I am curious where you get 10-20%. Dan luu measures <1% at https://danluu.com/integer-overflow/
> I wonder whether anybody has developed a CLI browser that also has a JavaScript engine.

Some CLI browsers have JS support but what's missing is up-to-date support. The existing browsers have way too much technical debt so adding something like TUI support would be quite difficult. You'd really want to start from a newly-developed engine such as the new Ladybird browser that's part of the SerenityOS project.
> Disease: Is there a precedent in Earth's natural history of a 90% die-off in two years due to disease

On mobile, so I can't provide a link. Look up sea star wasting disease. It's affected several species of sea star from Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico. One species, the sunflower star went from being everywhere to a red listed endangered species over just a couple of years.
Python Async Wrapper for DuckDB
Ask HN: Why are internships important for students, inaccessible to self-taught?
Most internships being accessible/important only to students, anyways. Doesn't apply to all of them (but won't fit in the title)

A very cynical take I've heard is that it acts as a class filter, just as is higher education. A somewhat less cynical view is that it's favoritism and trust, just like how people from certain top schools tend to hire those from other top schools with less harsh judgment.

However, I am really more interested in the apparent paradox that most internships present, in their accessible to students, people already in a better-off position to enter the professional world. But having the majority of them being inaccessible for those not in school, who actually need more help to get in a similar good standing for a career. In this comparison a student is getting a "double serving" of benefits. Is it as simple as risk factors that companies don't want to take into consideration with self-taught people?
I agree with your two statements:

> Essentially everything is an example of emergence and this is no different.

> There's no magic behind it, just mystery because we don't understand it.

But I still believe there's a hard problem (that is, its difficult to explain my sense of interiority using the dynamics and grammars of the substrates that surely give rise to the emergent behavior we call consciousness).

By substrate I'm referring to the base layer in emergence (i.e. emergent phenomena and their dynamics emerge from a more basic layer with its own phenomena/dynamics, which is the substrate).

As physics is the substrate for chemistry, and chemistry for biology, and biology for psychology, and psychology for society, etc... (please ignore the that I've surely leapt over or ignored various layers here and/or suggested some type of linearity rather than heirarchy).

With each emergent layer, the explanatory power of the substrate(s) wanes. Perhaps the immediate substrate is still occasionally illuminating (e.g. I can talk about valence in terms of physical properties of electron orbits, or I can talk about metabolism in terms of the chemistry of the Krebs cycle, etc...) but it becomes difficult to talk about biology (cells, tissues, organic processes, etc...) in terms of physics. I have no doubt that physics is a substrate of biology (i.e. I'm a materialist), but its not terribly useful to deploy the standard model in explaining cancer.

In the same way, I assume it to be true that physics is also a substrate of consciousness, but it isn't clear to me how our sense of interiority arises in the emergent layers. I assume its because I'm ignorant (its just a mystery), but it hasn't made the problem any less hard.
AT&T to pay $23M fine for bribing powerful lawmaker’s ally in exchange for vote
How bad you should feel about this really depends on how old you are and how much working life you have left. If you're in your 50's that sucks, but if you are still young don't sweat it.
Emotional support alligator helps man with deep depression
fuel synthesis
You won't know about it until after you've been hired though. Stopping Work Number reporting helps before being hired.
Google now labels ads as ‘Sponsored’ in mobile search results
I also used the TopSpeed Modula-2 compiler. I did some stuff like 3D wireframe animation.

At one point, I used the built-in assembler in MS-DOS's DEBUG.COM to write a Bresenham line drawing routine, targeting the frame buffer directly.

Then I took a hex dump of the code, and planted it as hex inline assembly code into a Modula-2 function. Rubeyes, it worked.

One project was an implementation of the Core War game. I made it nice with a split-pane window showing the dueling programs as a pair of step debugger windows showing a disassembled section of memory with the current instruction highlighted.

:)
> commit to understanding ... how a failure in your duty as an engineer can actually kill people

I remember sitting in computational methods in uni while our professor was motivating the lesson on condition numbers, mentioning this is the kind of thing that can kill people, and students laughing at him.

Wish I could say that now that I've been in industry around a decade that the people around me have matured, but just as many still don't seem to care about quality.

Way too many people just chasing dollars and prestige with no appreciation for the power they wield.
I use Helix (very much like vim) and a lot of applications that use keyboard focused vim-like UX, and the only advice I have is to keep using it. It's like playing an instrument, eventually your mind just makes your will a reality through your fingertips, you don't even have to think about it, but until then, you do.

Get the basic operations down, keep a cheatsheet handy, anything you'd want to do that you think might have a key combo look it up the minute you need it. Take an interest in it for it's own sake every now and then.
About the creators:
THC (The Hackers Choice) is a well known hacker group active since 1995. One of their most famous project is Hydra[0].

> "We research and publish tools and academic papers to expose fishy IT security that just isn’t secure. We also develop and publish tools to help the IT Security movement."[1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_%28software%29

1. https://www.thc.org/
I bought a TV from Fry's. There's no mention in the English manual, but according to the internet, this model has a DVR built-in, but it only activates if you tell it you're in Brazil when you first set it up.
Various sources put beyond burgers at less than a kg of co2 per kg of food, whereas turkey is close to 20kg of co2 per kg of meat.

The thing with plant based meat is that even with processing, it’s virtually impossible to come close to farmed meat in terms of water, energy, and feed. Since the animals eat the plants their meat is compared to, they will have eaten the equivalent of what they’re being compared to in a very short period of time to begin with. Then you are comparing the processing and delivery carbon which is negligible in the scheme of things.

People (even very intelligent people) often seem to estimate the carbon footprint of plant based diets incorrectly by several orders of magnitude.
Nikola founder Trevor Milton found guilty of fraud
Two things can be true. The story is terrible and the publisher of the story is a part of the problem too.
Keep in mind this was the first AP1000 gen III+ reactor built in the US, and one of a handful in the world. The process should get smoother and faster as more are completed, and the process gets optimized.
Pretty sure that mosh uses ssh initially and then the communication is over udp. Not sure if an ssh connection is even maintained then.
Tmux I guess you would run locally and put in the background when you want to work on something else. But then your ssh connection could still drop or tmux could crash on your local machine.
I’ve got plenty of help thanks
I'm already too used to the fact that anyone has all my data. It's a fight against windmills in a hopelessly broken and corrupt system.
However, see the benefits of it. You can request payroll information of your coworkers and use it to ask for a salary increase.
I asked my payroll department to have ADP opt me out of sending my data. Afterwards when I logged in to generate a personal report, there was no longer any data.

I’ve had trouble getting my company to opt everyone out though…
Do you know the actual study which did this?

Because the Nature citation on where the work was done is literally "The Discovery Channel".
> Start with anonymous corporation ownership.

Meaningless. And the government does certainly know that (and could care less). The EU wants transparency around that but mostly for tax purposes and bureaucracy.

What matters is the cash-flow and transaction-flow. In this case, bank accounts, crypto transactions/exchanges, real-estate transfers, cash movement, etc...
To be clear, those three categories combined probably represent (spitball) less than 7% of total global emissions. We have a pretty clear path towards eliminating 80%+ of overall emissions, and that would buy us some time to figure out solutions for the remaining 20%.

But since you asked:

1- Freight trucks, for now, will likely be either carbon capture, or a clever EV retrofit like SixWheel. Batteries probably aren’t quite there (in 2022) to go full EV for all applications but the learning curve slope is such that that could conceivably be only 5 years away.

2- Aircraft are most certainly going to be SAF eg a green/renewable fuel until battery tech improves by an order of magnitude (10-20 years?)

3- Similar story for sea vessels on the batteries front, though for those CCS is likely to be the most promising interim solution.

For all of the categories you mentioned there are relatively promising 10-30 year prospects for full electrification and much more short term prospects for emissions mitigation. And these are part of the hardest 20% of emissions.

Long story short the situation is not nearly as bleak as you make it out to be.
In case you haven't noticed, the planet stopped existing for thousand something Pakistanis that died in the floods, with two million homeless. The economic damage is estimated to be 40 billion.

It will get worse. Billions of people will be directly affected.

Soon, they will try to make their way to countries that are still kind of functioning (because they are rich), where people that are most responsible for climate change will label them "economic migrants", and say they don't have a right to come.

So yes, there will probably be a planet, just not one that will be very pleasant for living. I don't think we have time for solutions that have failed to deliver for decades, need subsidies to be built, maintained and even shutdown, and take forever to get completed.
So let's be clear about these figures: If I have a 1 MW solar farm, it produces 1 MWh of electricity every hour of daylight - let's just ignore weather, and assume tracking solar panels so we don't care about incidence of the sun. The levelized cost of energy is answering the question, "how much did it cost me to produce that 1MWh of energy". This is mostly the construction cost, divided by the lifetime of the facility, plus operational costs.

Then there's the cost of storage: how much does it cost to store 1 MWh of electricity, and retrieve it later. The total cost of generating 1 MWh of solar energy, storing it, and releasing it into the grid later is the sum of both of these: 1 MWh of electricity is $30-40 from solar according to the Lazard doc. Then storing it and retrieving it is another $160 to $279. So it's a round trip cost of $30-40 to generate 1MWh of electricity, and $160-$280 to store and retrieve it, for a net cost of $190 to $320. But only half that energy is getting stored and retrieved, so the effective cost of producing solar energy round the clock is $120 and $180 per MWh

> you give me $200 and I give you 1MWh of electricity distributed over the day proportional to demand. You guarantee my loans and I have free insurance. I can spend $30-80 of that on the energy (doubling for seasonal demand), $80 on storage and pocket $40.

Except storage costs are more than that, and they're actually rising [1]. Furthermore you'll also need to pay money to build transmission lines to solar farms and wind farms - something not included in Lazard's estimates, it just lists transmissions costs as N/A and says it's too hard to estimate. Even at a high cost of $200/MWh, 3-4x the price of natural gas as per the Lazard doc, it's dubious you'd turn a profit.

Thus is why the vast majority of solar power is used without storage, and we just burn fossil fuels to make up for intermittency.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/ev-battery-costs-set-to-spik...
Ah. Thanks for taking the time to explain :)
Tesla sold nearly a billion dollars of Bitcoin in Q2 2022 and took home over 60 million of profit.

https://blockworks.co/tesla-sells-bitcoin-for-profit-still-p...

I think most people would consider a billion dollars as a serious amount of money. Inflation isn't that bad yet ;)
I really like "Now for reddit"
PayPal Puts Dough in Your Palm (1999)
> instructed them to phone me for the password. This was apparently way over the heads of the person assigned to my case.

They probably knew exactly how to make a phone call, but the company may not have provided them with a means to do so.

And no, "Just use your personal phone" isn't an answer. I keep my personal stuff and my work stuff strictly separate from each other. If my company wants me to do something business-related, they provide me with all of the equipment and services necessary for me to do it, or it doesn't get done, plain and simple. When I'm out of the office after hours or on vacation, I'm not working. So no way in hell some random client is going to get my personal contact information via caller ID.
The article I linked acknowledges this, and talks about it. Remember that like with Moore's law, there will eventually be hard, physics-based walls past which we will not progress without entirely new technology paradigms, which aren't guaranteed to be discovered in any finite amount of time.

I'm glad it's getting cheaper, and I'm all for supplementing baseline load with solar, wind, and hydro, but I'm less confident with strategies that ultimately boil down to placing trust in improvements that we may or may not reach.

That's not an assertion that reaching, say, $10/kWh for storage won't be possible, but I think it would be wise to have a plan B in case we're unable to get it lower than, say, $100/kWh.

Not having a Plan B and placing almost all of our eggs in one basket (fossil fuels) is how we got to this point in the first.
Unfortunately hydrogen has really low energy density, electrolyzers are slow, and it is also pretty explosive. I don’t see hydrogen fuel cells being nearly as attractive as EV retrofits or CCS as an interim solution until battery tech cost curves improve to the point of making full electrification a no brainer (probably not that far away…)
Don't you need admin rights to be able to install drivers? If so, then what is this supposed to actually protect against, since once the bad guy has that, you're totally pwned anyway?
https://xapian.org/users.html

Also, it is used by the the public-inbox Perl scripts. See https://public-inbox.org

That includes the Linux kernel mailing list, Git mailing list and other lists available via lore.kernel.org:

https://lore.kernel.org

For example, to search the BPF mailing list for "bpf" and sort results by relevance:

https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/?q=bpf&r

To view the Xapian query parser operators:

https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/_/text/help
I don’t think NR has ever positioned itself as objective, it’s an explicitly conservative magazine and always has been.
Can you give me a HN context on this please? Did he code in his spare time?
weechat + bitlbee
As more nuclear power plants are built, we will be building up expertise to make them safer. This AP1000 design already is much more inherently safe than Gen 1 or 2 reactors
Suck it up. You didn’t earn that money, the stock market grew it for you - ow it’s taking it away.

Leave it alone for a couple decades and this will happen a few more times but most likely you’ll wind up ahead of the game in the long run.
Are you using different OS? This sounds like the programs your NeoVim is calling is failing you - not nvim itself.

_cough cough_ NixOS can help you out here
Yes, Amazon still runs theirs. It's part of the KDP program now.

lulu.com is another relatively big one. (They have a nice service, Lulu Xpress, if you just want to print copies for personal use.)

And then there is the other monolith, IngramSpark.
You can configure it (or not) the way you want it. It is not a security issue by itself.
Though with the dirtbag left now flirting with being "trad cath" and softening towards racial realism, it does seem like it's approach the intellectual fascism of the nazis.
It was big news at the time. Headlines everywhere. Rat brain flies plane. You’d think that within a few years, maybe rat brains would be the primary way we’d control planes.

I did manage to track down the original study, which at the time wasn’t too easy; this was before scihub. I wish I’d saved it for posterity. My motivation went from “this is exactly what I want to do with my life” to laying on the couch wondering what the heck could possibly be happening, when the whole world believes rat brains are flying planes, vs what was actually demonstrated in the paper.

If you do find it, please post it. It’d be a nice stroll through memory lane, and an interesting retrospective on how to get funding for one’s own research lab. (A handy skill to have, if you don’t mind… well, exaggerating, to say the least.)
If you’re in your 50s you probably have another couple of decades before you need that money.

Get some perspective - 50 isn’t ‘old’ it’s just older than you.
When I think about these problems it seems to fall into this uncomfortable category where conclusions more or less depend on your perceived meaning of life and corresponding priorities.

You can look at the universe as this absurd physical machine just banging away where the suffering of another sentient being simply “is”. Yes, of course it is.

You can also look at the same absurd universe and realize that, to some degree, consciousness seems to confer some amount of agency. You get to decide what matters to you. You get to decide on what life means to you. As you go, you can construct your part of the universe to some extent.

For me, I see it as meaningful to reduce suffering as much as it’s practicable. I recognize that death, suffering, and the messy reality of nature is part of what generated my own life. I recognize that I can’t end that cycle, nor should I because most of nature relies on it.

However, within the realm of the universe that I have this agency, I can choose to try to reduce that suffering. I can try to make this corner of the universe slightly less painful. I can respect and admire the bizarre miracle of sentience, and do my best to sustain it rather than destroy it.

Perhaps that’s meaningless. I don’t have any amazing expectations.

Similar to climate change though, I ask myself “what is the harm in taking action”? What do I lose by caring enough to change?

The answer has been a dramatic improvement to my well-being, and much more peaceful and content outlook on nature and life.

It doesn’t make sense for everyone, but I urge people to consider that complacency with the natural order of things isn’t necessary or inherently wise. Eating celery is as natural as killing a deer or as eating a lentil or catching a fish. Some of these end lives we recognize as very similar to our own, others seem less destructive. We can choose to do less harm, as we wouldn’t want harm done to us. Perhaps that’s worth something. Perhaps it’s not.
This just simply isn’t true. Neovim is perfectly capable of (and I would argue excels at) being a daily driver on large projects.
Sure, let's summarize:

Solar cells have an awesome reduction in cost over time
Wind has an awesome reduction in cost over time
Nuclear is a clown show
There's also Fitch and at least one other that escapes me. Barra, maybe? More if you go international.

They also rate governments for municipals to countries.

I used to deal with issuer ratings quite extensively several jobs ago. Been away from it for about a decade, though.