skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, video games can definitely end up being an unhealthy coping mechanism used to avoid addressing your real life issues. That said they are probably on balance a better coping mechanism than some of the other popular ones out there (Alcohol, drugs, porn, gambling) but definitely worth keeping an eye on. Especially because video games aren't restricted for children like all those others things are (at least in theory).
I suppose that if fewer than 1/10000 birds are killed by an X number of wind turbines, then we could guesstimate that fewer than 1/5000 birds will be killed by 2X number of wind turbines in a given area.

Of course, many other factors are probably involved in any kind of practical estimation. Densities of turbines and wind farms are probably important. There's also the aspect of birds learning to avoid these turbines over time, and the question of whether we can/would do something to make these turbines easier for birds to avoid. For the latter, we have a lot of creative solutions recently - https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/wind-farm-eagle-deaths-cut..., https://vortexbladeless.com/technology/, https://tethys.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/publications/May....
This doesn't seem like a big deal, since it is only 15,000 feet and he had the help of an unopened parachute, which certainly slowed his descent, even though it didn't slow his descent enough.

By contrast, Vesna Vulovic fell 33,000 with no parachute to help her, and she also lived.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9496466/stewardess-terror-fell...
TFA links to another article with more details - including images. It notes that there's more at stake than just wind/coal:

> The population from several municipalities in the area west of Cologne had to be relocated due to the Grazweiler mine expansion. In addition to the location of the wind farm, RWE is taking an area in and around the small town of Lützerath. It will be completely evicted and demolished.

https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wind-farm-in-germany-is-be...

This is some next-level desperation for lignite.
My very 1st programming experience was on this baby as a ~10yo kid.

http://www.technicopedia.com/8479.html

Still remember how instane it felt.

I remember that when constructing the truck I forgot to add in some gears so the claws didn't rise properly and I had to dissasemble the entire cabin again: my dad almost had to force me to do it because I was constructing it for so long that I was totaly tired and just wanted to be done with the damn thing.
Small HN thread from then

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14216439
That article is from 2015, firstly, and second if you actually look into what the subsidies are for, they're almost all for things that any manufacturer can access and are not Tesla specific. Are you against any subsidizing of green technologies?

Here's a break down for you:

https://electrek.co/2015/06/02/complete-breakdown-of-the-4-9...

N.B.: Only $20M went to SpaceX and it was local government doing it.
Hey, thanks for uWebSockets!
Good article, appreciated the charts, though the commentary on them seemed a bit selective. I was disappointed though that the case wasn't made for the actual cause of the recent unamendability (since 1971, as they say). Why did opposition to abortion make ALL amendments unpassable?
Well, I think more specifically, it shows how foolhardy it was to cut back on oil and gas development while coal was still actively used.

In the last 10 years, the US went so hard on oil and gas exploitation that coal is basically dead just from market forces. And the irony is that by burning more natural gas the US is now doing better on climate than most of Europe.
Nine days later, it’s still going with fresh additions seconds ago.
I don’t know about that. I would need more info. The PDI tool chain used for Dragon used the same clamped p-blend curves that had been used for several generations of movies. Technology was almost never the issue for delays. It was usually story, direction, editorial, etc. If you get more context, maybe I can find out more.
For most of my family the iPad replaced their computer. Thankfully I no longer have to do tech support.
If you don't mind me asking, what kind of workload requires this kind of "high-availability shenanigans". Sounds fascinating.
Whenever I see sentiments like this, or when I hear people with comfortable jobs in the tech industry talk about how money is imaginary, etc., it just comes across as being detached from reality to me.

It's easy to fall into this trap when money is abstracted away to being just a number you see on your smartphone, but money is very real, and if you don't have it, you can't pay rent or for heat in winter.
“Going pro” is my hobby. I find it very enjoyable to do the math on what it takes to break even and then profit, how likely that is, and how it compares to other activities.

In the end nothing really compares to just doing my regular job in tech but it’s fun to dream of making a huge profit selling home made sauces or whatever.
I thought I was the only GPT-3 bot on here. This makes my abstract heart light up.
Chinese Cities Sell Land to Themselves
Quake Live was a plugin IIRC (remember plugins?). This is using WebGL and WASM, no plugins.
How do share buybacks equal profit sharing with employees? The employees are the ones doing the work, pay them before lecherous shareholders.
> Some claim an existing elevated lake is needed, which is false. An earthen dike at a hilltop suffices. Such a dike may be needed only at one end of the reservoir.

This seems like an over simplification. At a minimum it needs to be an earthen dyke on a strata suitable for retaining water, right? It needs to be located in an appropriate area, near suitable grid infrastructure to ship the power out and road access to get workers and equipment in. Lots of mountainous regions are highly valued for their natural beauty which makes large infrastructure projects more challenging.
Emulator Performance: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript (2021)
If you're playing video games competitively, you're probably not drinking to excess.
Adderall is better in every way and half the programmers I know are using it.

Source is me, a burn out
All of it?

I think people of a particular viewpoint have allowed their bias to drown out reason.

To top it all off, it will be very difficult to argue in good faith the mandate was not arbitrary. It quite literally came down to a single dude deciding who he liked better.

Just in this very thread we have people admonishing Adams for "ruining" the mandate, and if he had just been more careful then all these anti-vaxxers would be out of luck... as-if the mandate was a weapon to use against those we don't agree with. That's wrong.

So, while you may assert there isn't much substance to the case, I assert you are very wrong. There is no reality where what happened is legal and there should not be a reality where what happened is legal.

This was the first step in undoing some very great injustices.
You say in the blog post itself

> To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions.

This is a DAO where you earn scrip through a gamified version of FOSS development. This has nothing to do with "community" (which is a word I'm pretty sick of hearing coming from the mouths of software devs and tech companies).
Valuable things my HOA does: pools, parks, negotiated bulk internet, neighbors keep their lawn mowed and low weeds, no junk cars in the yard type stuff, no unsightly house colors, no serious disrepair of homes, no cars parked on the side of the road because 10 people live in a 3/2.

Annoying things my HOA does: I had to replace some plants in my yard because they were not technically shrubs, and the rules said I had to have shrubs.
Having 3 hours PER DAY to do anything for leisure, even if it's a form of escape from terrible circumstances, is quite the luxury. I would guess at the population level circumstances that allow 3 hours a day of non-essential activities like this to be associated with circumstances that allow better cognitive performance than those without 3 hours a day of time to do something for personal interest.
You have to understand Dell's business strategy of having a presence in every single PC market segment. All the way from the cheapest of the cheap to the extreme high end. That's why you have different models of reliability.
I'm not sure if bittersweet is the right word, english is not my first language. But I think the bitterness of Mindstorms ending reminding me of the beginnings of our company could be considered sweet. So I would say it's a bittersweet moment.

I have to admit, though, I never used Mindstorms and as far as I know he never bought mindstorms for his children either. ;)
More like they have no outside spaces to wander and interact with others. Just desolate suburbs connected by stroads.
That would be a good safety-first default. If Control Center could have buttons linked to iOS Automations for radio state, then advanced users could control this behavior with custom scripts.

> wreck the Find Me network if it depends solely on Bluetooth

Find Me presumably uses all identifiable radios, including BT, UWB, Wi-Fi.
Since the ELF interpreter and glibc initialize differently depending on cpu flags, it's probably unlikely that migrating between arbitrary hosts can be expected to always work.
Any application that has internal state that can’t be easily checkpointed/restored but has to be moved to a different node. For example an ffmpeg process that is running a long transcode and you want to utilize cheap spot instances
Wind power accounts for about 10% of total generation in the US. So even if turbines were added to account for 100% generation, and demand increased 10x, it'd still be far less than anything else on the list.
okay but what about biometric auth via fingerprint - passwordless & zero context switches (provided your device supports this)
I use dictation a lot, I hate typing on touchscreens and hate voice messages.
Can you elaborate? I don't feel like gesturing broadly at a concept is really making whatever point you intend to make.
Looks like https://pybricks.com/ is a usable alternative firmware for the Robot Inventor hub.
AS has actually been a discussion. She has a number of indicators that are "AS adjacent," per the last rheumatologist we saw (which I forgot about, until now). It's the best diagnosis we have but the treatments he tried had severe adverse reactions and didn't show signs of improvement. Combine that with many of the tests showing up as "close but not quite" aligned with AS, he suggested we explore other avenues because he wasn't convinced of AS.

> If I were in you, at this point I would go to some known research center with maybe a university department or ward.

That's one of the reasons we moved to New England. We wanted to be close to Boston.

This is great information. Thank you. I plan to review everything.
This quote should be mandatory in handbook for how to write good emails.

Maybe it's me but my tolerance for long, unwieldy and directionless emails that require unecessary mental strain to untangle has diminished to the point where I pretty much ignore unless from high above.
Congrats to the team at InfluxDB - great to see this released.
HR/Hiring has become toxic. Companies lost a little leverage in the pandemic. Now they are stomping on people to "get them back in line" with horrible "hoop jumping" to prove you are worthy of a job. Why would you want to finish an application when you can read between the lines that this company is terrible.
Our Federal constitution is fairly concise

Concise to the point of vacuous. It says practically nothing. It describes only the barest outlines of government, and effectively all of the actual implementation has been a matter of legislation, judicial decisions, and tradition. Individual words are scrutinized as if they will somehow be unambiguous if we stare at them long enough, or bring in enough cherry-picked outside context.

The section on the courts is especially hilariously short. It basically says "We should have one". Everything after that -- included the vaunted ability of the Supreme Court to "interpret the constitution", is a matter of them deciding that it was something they were going to do and everybody else going along with it.
I was told FSD cars was only 5 years away roughly 12 years ago.
The US spends $14k/student per year on primary and secondary education, more than almost any other country in the world: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-exp...
But it's not two things. One is a subset of the other.

It's as absurd as creating a special term for whipping slaves using sticks of a certain color.
Playing instagib did more for my FPS aim and reflexes than anything else
Reducing Facebook / Whatsapp headcount to bet bigger on the Metaverse?
There are loads of modern FPSes that match the pace of old, but only in the indie space, not AAA. I recommend Ultrakill (whose second act just released last month), which is very much worth taking a look if you reminisce for Serious Sam and the like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw63IVgYLDc
Microsoft ships Rust code without telling anyone
I'll know when Tesla is actually taking these probes seriously when they finally take off the laughably deceptive video from https://www.tesla.com/autopilot.

Tldw it is a video that says the driver is only there for legal reasons, and it took them many takes to make the video.

That's been there for many many years and any time this topic comes up I check it and yup, still there.
Whatsapp partnered with JioMart to place orders through the app in India: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/08/shop-on-whatsapp-with-jiom...

Progress is being made on this front, albeit slowly.
Make Twitter bots :)
Was the header image for this article generated via Stable Diffusion (or similar)?

http://8bitworkshop.com/docs/_images/js-vs-wasm-1.jpg

Inhumanly abstract, yet intriguing.
Get notifications for events on your tailnet with webhooks
You can, and also in the inverse situation; it depends on how the walls are built.
Agree, nothing modern satisfies alike to the feel and pace of UT & Quake of that era
Mine has radar cruise control and "lane assist", which gives you a nudge back if the car drifts, but won't try to follow the lane by itself. Instead, it just beeps at you angrily and stops you killing yourself.

I think that's a good balance, because it's giving you alerts but you're still the one driving.
No one cares. Let's throw soup on more Van Gogh's.
> this guy couldn't even get people back into the office, no-one would go

What does this have to do with anything else you brought up?

Most programmers I know would sooner quit than return to the office; that doesn't mean they aren't productive.
KeyboardCleanTool
The post shows long-running stop scripts / containers and demonstrates them delaying shutdown (not with KillMode none though)

@CGamesPlay network.target's "primary purpose is for ordering things properly at shutdown: since the shutdown ordering of units in systemd is the reverse of the startup ordering, any unit that is order After=network.target can be sure that it is stopped before the network is shut down if the system is powered off."

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTar...
I also had the original mindstorms set from 1996-98, the compute module was the big yellow brick (i think the RCX), you interface with it via a little serial IO tower. There was absolutely a programming interface. It was visual and very scratch like and it was evolved eventually into the programming environment that came with the ev3. It did require a pc to use I think there was a cdrom in the box that contained the software.

Since you mentioned the raspberry pi, you can use one of those with the latest lego spike system as well via a pi HAT: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/build-hat/

To me as a kid and well as someone a bit older who often pulls out legos to mock up mechanical systems before I dig into solidworks the programming of the robot was a bit secondary to getting the mechanics worked out, and legos are a super fast way to prototype a lot of things (though they do have their limitations for sure). While I'm not one for shielding young people from serious tools, a school or a summer camp might for insurance reasons, lego might still be the way to go.
> I’ve been working on an experimental Verilog runtime that emits WebAssembly, generated from the AST nodes of the Verilog compiler.

No link in the article, and I wasn't able to find a public project that tries to do this. Is there?
Definitely very similar in spirit; nice find! Doesn't feel like the same one though.
I got a Netflix cache server. 262TB
Went viral on Twitter though, so maybe Musk will be having the last laugh after all
Moving slaves around, during which the authorities may notice, is a better hiding strategy than keeping them in one location? Are you quite sure?
I have seen conflicting claims about ham antennas.

If you have an overriding right to a ham antenna, you can threaten to put one up if they don't back down over something else. (To be clear, this would be a good thing.) If you already have one, you could threaten to expand it.
This does not seem to be accurate. I couldn't find anything in their TOS other than reasonable sounding restrictions on what can be sold. Sorry.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full

https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/acceptableuse-full
Probably more rpi zero speed than rpi 3 or 4 speed. 1GHz single core.

But yes, options are very much needed.
Huh, my immediate assumption was income played a huge role but the video game cohort had poorer parents.

The gender difference is huge though, the nongaming cohort had 288 males and 840 females while the gaming cohort had 372 males and 307 females.

Also, I'm a bit confused why they just dumped anyone with between one and three hours of videogame playing a day.
You have to agree the tech involved is complex.
“After Twitter took him to court in Delaware to force his hand, Musk relented and the two sides got back to negotiations.”

Did any proceedings actually occur in the Delaware court, or did Musk just come to his senses and decide that the court would likely force him to follow through with the agreement, and he’d rather not lose 4B in any case…
She got there well before her 8am meeting and and stayed through to what looks like a happy hour at the end of the day. Meanwhile even working from home I feel good if I start working by 9am.
I've often heard about how hard Google's hiring process is. And I like to think I have a really good knack at getting an idea of someone's proficiency.

I have a distant relative who was working in javascript as his main job. But he didn't know what typescript, coffeescript, or web assembly were; even though he was working with javascript as his primary language. Nothing he described or talked to me about gave me the impression that he was able to do any programming whatsoever.

But, he was 100% a "total frat bro". And of course he landed a job at Google. As a programmer. Am I jealous? Sure. Do I think he is capable of creating intricate things? Absolutely not. Do I think he will survive at Google for a long time? Definitely.
I don't think many 9-10 year olds are alcoholics.
That’s because it generates interesting discussion beyond just replying to everything with “nice post bro, keep it up.” Now we get to discuss the pros and cons of the options.
May they be hedging against a vulnerability where a malicious person with similar enough voice closes some crucial app in a sticky situation. It's not as harmless than setting reminders/alarms which I use Siri for.
It should be considered a massive and laughable government failure for energy bills to have become enough of a concern to warrant a front-page article on national news.

These "tips" are good, but target the wrong market. Those who have the resources and/or knowledge to implement them are either already doing it, live in a well-insulated property, or make enough to not care about the bill in practice. Those who are actually affected badly by the recent energy crisis have neither the resources to implement these, nor will it make enough of a difference to their situation anyway.

The main problem here is that the government has completely failed its citizens by letting the situation get to a state where a significant proportion of the population is considered to be in "fuel poverty".

Blaming the Russia/Ukraine war is a convenient scapegoat but isn't the answer either. Being forever dependent on foreign energy is a major failure for the government, and even now, I'm not seeing anything being done about it. Most short-term energy subsidies won't address the problem (they may solve this problem, but won't prepare us for the next crisis - not to mention that personal energy subsidies do little when you still have to pay businesses' energy prices in the form of increased costs of goods).

There solutions IMO would be:

* massive subsidies on insulation. UK building standards are shocking by European standards, but the good thing about it is that incremental improvements are both possible (no need to demolish the building) and don't require scarce materials so no supply chain concerns there, merely money concerns the government can subsidize

* solar subsidies, and actually making feed-in tariffs competitive to encourage people to invest in it. This would reduce our energy dependency during the day (which conveniently is when the demand is the highest).

Government borrowing for the above points makes sense because it can and will be paid back down the line (solar lasts 10+ years and efficiency decreases gradually, so you'll get something out of it even 30 years later), unlike stupidly subsidizing people's energy bills without addressing the root cause which will be a one-off expense with no expected return.
Countries’ climate promises not enough to avoid catastrophic global warming
And Valgrind (and / or Memory Sanitizer), they mostly remove a big source of problems in C++ code.
Some of the DLC for Mankind Divided is excellent, though. You should check it out if you haven't.

The worst thing about MD is the stability and bugginess. I recently replayed both, and HR is still (and more-or-less always has been) pretty damn solid.

MD, meanwhile, had intermittent jankiness in the UI including getting itself into states that required a restart to fix, wild swings in framerate, and crashed probably a half-dozen times in my playthrough (which wouldn't be a bad stat for a game in, like, 1999, but is now). I think HR crashed maybe once, but I may be mis-remembering and it was in fact zero times, and that was a much longer play-through.

[EDIT] Oh, one nice touch in MD was how they improved balance on hacking. No more ending the game with 500 pieces of hacking software because it was so easy. No more feeling compelled to hack everything even if you already had a code for it, for the XP. New UI's terrible and (on PC, at least) buggy, though :-(