skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking forward to seeing how this pans out. I've been working on some WGPU based rendering code the last year or so, and in lieu of any truly decent UI libraries on the Rust side (no offence to the existing players) I ended up going the Electron route, since my code was already compiling to WASM anyway. I also explored going the imgui and Qt routes, but Electron felt the most fully featured and easy to use. Still, it's Electron.

I'm happy to see that Xilem is not blindly copying JS/Swift ideas (or 'adapting' them, as Raph says :)) but applying them in a way that feels very Rust native. They've been experimenting a lot the last few years and I really hope we're finally getting to that point where we go beyond experiments and into something useable!
> The opportunity cost of dollars - nobody is going to spend $15 billion on nuclear when much better investments exist.

What better investment opportunity? Again, what else are you going to spend the money on that gives you non-polluting 24/7 power output rain or shine?

> Why in the world would you need that much storage?

You ask and answer yourself in the very next sentence:

> Obviously Finland + solar aren't 100% compatible given the latitude

> fairly extensive modeling shows a route to 99% renewable Australia with only 5 hours storage:

There are always geographies that have advantageous positions for electrical generation. Iceland has geothermal, Norway hydro, etc. This does not mean you can generalize.

> Change the mix to favor wind resources and you could likely achieve the same in Finland with some modest investments in transmission infrastructure.

Nah. Just like solar wind is highly variable. Just this week wind production varied between 55 MW and 3,8 GW.

Peak deman is about 15 GW. Subtracing 4 GW of nuclear and 2 GW of hydro, what are you going to do, overbuild current wind capacity 160x?

> We would be in a better and cheaper world if we had built a nuclear-first grid 30 years ago -- but we didn't -- and it just doesn't make sense to try to do so now when much cheaper options exist.

I'm still at a loss off what those better options are.

What better thing can I buy for $15B that gives me access to 1,6GW of generation capability 24/7?
Too many tankies is the argument, most likely. But from the few arguments I’ve seen, it really does seem to be driven by the virality that purity and tone policing can acquire.
It is damn depressing because solving the climate crisis costs so little:

It is estimated to cost between 2-6% of global GDP each year until 2050 to prevent exceeding 1.5 C mostly by building out renewables.

I could imagine that many people will start investing in air quality filtering solutions for their private home on a scale that matches what we should be spending on climate efforts per person per year.
>but they should not press that button, and if they do they should get their ass sent to the clink

They'll be the ones helping send others to the clink and being best buddies with those who do, so fat chance of that restraint or punishment getting to them.
That is a fair point, regulation often gets watered down as it undergoes revision after revision, though in fairness, most cases can not be solely blamed on US tech.

The stricter timetable for an ICE ban, to use something mentioned, was mainly changed due to pressure from European business interests, including in part Poland, Germany, Austria, etc. Essentially countries with a significant Auto industry that hasn't pivoted to EVs in the same way as e.g. France. I did not hear of Exxon lobbying to that extent in this case, but maybe I just missed that.

Basically, whilst US concerns definitely have their lobbying efforts in Brussels and Strasbourg, we need to be aware that European business is just as able and willing to engage in the same. The lack of interest in European politics compared to the national level tends to make this more frictionless and effective too, though that is a bit of a chicken/egg problem. People won't engage much with EU politics if the EU is seen as overly bureaucratic and lead by lobbyists, but there is little incentive to change without public interest.

Still feel that regulators can do tremendous good if motivated. The US has shown their abilities during Dieselgate, the EU in data protection. We, the public, need to tune in. Writing letters and calling does make a difference, as hard as that can be to believe.
If crypto gets banned in free democracies it gets harder to use in other jurisdictions.

The fact that crypto can be used in the free world makes it valuable and useful for people in less free parts of the world.
Okay, now I understand. Thank you for clarifying.
Yeah! What’s that weird filter they have on the camera? I love the fluoro lightsaber magenta color of it, and the topological patterning of the ripples. Kind of reminds me of something from my childhood. I can’t put my finger on where I’ve seen this type of thing before.
It might be not so trivious, here in Poland life expectancy is the highest in Kraków, where there is also the highest air pollution due to location.
I miss uMatrix.
Setting aside whether the data in the one or the other article are perfectly accurate (as in replacing "70% higher" with "nearly 70% higher") , I do not like the overall approach.

I don't really care whether the one (or the other) is more right than the other, it is the general approach that is IMHO in bad taste.
Indeed but for all the plutocracy criticism we make of the US system we are pretty toothless at addressing conflict of interest and quid pro quos at EC level.
It's even worse now, they crammed down more desks and got rid of many things that made the office nice. With the return to office we got greeted with a "remodeled" campus, but cool spaces are just now cookie-cutter meeting rooms or really oddly placed new desks.
I suppose the answer will be in the data. If attractive founders create more money for VCs then it's 'correct' they be given more funding.
It comes down to what kind of problems one is trying to solve. Innovation, 0 to 1 product stage (even 1-10 ones) is not conducive to remote. Whereas 'steady state' companies, where things are streamlined and most is about execution remote can work - no wonder call centers have gone and staying remote.

Similarly for people - young employees in 0-1 or 1-10 career stage cannot thrive in remote.
They only have 5.31% of browser market share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
sounds like both no?
While EU regulations like the GDPR aim to limit big tech's power, they can unintentionally solidify it. These rules increase costs and bureaucracy, creating barriers for startups while major corporations absorb these burdens easily. The GDPR also legalises data trade, as users now routinely consent without understanding implications. This essentially gives companies the right to repackage and sell data, where before GDPR it was a gray area. Also, penalties for violations, although significant, may merely be seen as a cost of doing business for these giants. So, we must scrutinise whether these regulations genuinely promote competition or inadvertently strengthen the monopolies they're designed to control.
Except that BTC has outperformed S&P500 for years.
Mark the bug with a star to indicate interest.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

Apple adding JPEG XL was one of the happiest days in my life. Thank you Apple!
Really? What's your word?

The Irish I talk to all call their private patch of green adjacent their house a 'garden' even if it contains only grass with optional tree. I had assumed they got the word from you guys.
Assembly was one of the first languages that I wrote in when I learned to program in the 80's, simply because other languages were too slow to develop games and other stuff. Since then I've switched to Pascal, Java, Scala, Python etc.
But sometimes I still miss the joy of micro-optimizing some assembly code until perfection.

This Toledo family is amazing. I wonder if this will be the future of SD craftmanship, now that Moore's law seems to come to an end and we are forced to look at optimizing the performance of our software stack.
Agree with this. Also, the cost of the 24/7 cloud sub jumped up wildly. The event recording always misses the first crucial few seconds off of what ever caused the event to be recorded so they are next to useless. As soon as I have budget, I will scrap my cameras and move to something better.
Running helps me decompress. I also switched to a new programming language for my new job which helps to develop interest.
Attempts to Put Statistics in Context, Put into Context
I'd recommend anyone to try out lemmy. Open source, federated, growing.

(I signed up to the https://feddit.de/ instance, but you could use https://beehaw.org/ as well, makes no difference where you sign up)

More and more people are leaving Reddit for lemmy...and the more people migrate, the better.

I went through the Digg exodus and have now left Reddit completely and don't miss it.

If I need to read about a product, I'll still type "site:reddit.com" into google and hope that my old.reddit.com extension works for the forseeable future, but that will be the entirety of my interactions with Reddit until Lemmy replaces that as well.
Demand More from Your AI Software
Until it doesn't.
Yes, I was surprised that internet stopped after connecting to OpenVPN at home. Had to use the mobile network.
No, why? A discovery can fit in with your existing models, maybe even be predicted. You discover it, but you don't change your understanding, only expand it.
If Microsoft really wants to make it Edge-only all they have to do is bundle it as part of the browser (a sidebar, with access to your history and all the sites you visit of course) instead of making it a web app. Maybe the only reason this hasn't happened yet is that multi-department projects inside MS are hard?

Some people don't know Bing Chat is available in Skype, and almost everyone (over 30) has a Skype account already so that's a pretty low friction way to try it. Be aware though, that Bing Chat itself does not know that it's available in Skype and will refuse to continue the conversation if you insist that's how you're talking to it. Some people also don't know that on Android you can easily find & install the "Skype Lite" (for India, targeting low end devices) APK which is better than any other current version of Skype.
Lots of discoveries are confirmatory. We already believed relativity was true before we observed observing binary pulsars obeying it.
Crypto scales a lot better than cash, and allows for considerably larger amounts of fraud, and not just locally, but also internationally.

I also think that businesses avoiding tax by not reporting cash are putting themselves into an unfair position against businesses that are legally operating, and I'd have a preference that businesses doing this should be shut down. If you're running a thin margin business and your competitor is able to price themselves better by committing tax fraud, then you need to also commit tax fraud to compete, and that's a race to the bottom that's not good for anyone.
It is illogical to build confidence on top of lack of evidence of your wrongness. In a virtually-infinite (relatively to your size and age and the limits of your senses and cognition) universe there always is some evidence you just don't know about. Our science is quite decent from our perspective, doing a great job describing the reality we perceive, but it seems absurdly naïve to consider it the ultimate knowledge. As history shows it changes regularly and will change a lot more someday in future.
How much is virtually free?

How much will each kWh generated from synthetic fuels cost?
Being a native San Francisco citizen (born, schooled, worked), it's sad. The government officials were riding/wasting tech tax money for 15 years. They were actively hostile to tech companies - thinking that the industry will never leave the city and that the tax well would never run dry. They funneled tech tax money to the lower class in order to win populist votes. Tech tax money made them rich. They paid themselves a higher salary. At the same time, they were publicly anti-tech. It was a stark contrast to the Ed Lee era, where he did everything he can to attract tech companies such as giving tax handouts.

It turns out that tech companies were key to prevent the "Detroit-ification" of San Francisco. Tech companies mixed local drug users, deadbeats, and shady/violent people with Stanford, Cal, MIT, Caltech graduates and generally people who contribute to society. This made the city much wealthier and safer. As a native San Franciso citizen, I welcomed the change.

If you browsed /r/sanfrancisco in 2016, you would have seen how anti-tech everyone was. The users there were convinced that tech companies made the city worse. Now what? Where are those people now? I bet most of them left the city after realizing that the safety and money tech brought is now gone. Isn't this what they wanted?
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Thanks, these are good. I took inspiration from this horrible PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14YgpdJ-k5M-GiwRDblvnEtsFvok...
I came to the comments precisely to post this exact link so delighted to see someone beat me to it.

Opera were always so good at giving a window into the world of compatibility testing & challenges - @hallvord in particular had a great blog on my.opera about their work subverting large websites that would block or thwart Opera & other non-IE browsers.
Copying from another comment, to prove how stupid is to expect that a secret service will pet you on the head for talking out against them:
"Thomas Drake did everything you say is the right, he paid the price:

| The first is Thomas Drake, who blew the whistle on the
| very same NSA activities 10 years before Snowden did.
| Drake was a much higher-ranking NSA official than
| Snowden, and he obeyed US whistleblower laws, raising
| his concerns through official channels. And he got
| crushed.

| Drake was fired, arrested at dawn by gun-wielding FBI
| agents, stripped of his security clearance, charged
| with crimes that could have sent him to prison for
| the rest of his life, and all but ruined financially
| and professionally. The only job he could find
| afterwards was working in an Apple store in suburban
| Washington, where he remains today. Adding insult to
| injury, his warnings about the dangers of the NSA’s
| surveillance programme were largely ignored.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon... "
I think the trolley problem makes it clear that there is a price to be paid for moral decisions. It is not that conventional ethics are wrong, it is that it informs us that we can make the future either way, but not both ways.

The trolley problem pushes us deeper into our ethical selves, it does not prove that all ethics or decisions are wrong.
> Managing a team remotely requires different skills and greater trust. But it's still easily done.

Managing a team, remotely or otherwise, is not "easily done". If you find it easy you're either strongly underestimating your abilities or not doing your job right.
> Those innovators will just move offshore.

Yes, let them move offshore. Being able to more easily commit tax fraud and money laundering isn't the kind of innovation we need to keep.
I have the Airthings view plus. It measures PM2.5, PM1, CO2, VOC, Radon. It was kind of expensive but I am happy with it.
> You are either a Russian troll, someone with an undisclosed agenda, or a naive 13 y/o.

Woah, the personal attack because someone has a different opinion and had a different experience than you.

My family never had it bad during communism, still they didn't love it and large parts of my family emigrated to western Europe between the 70s and 80s.

But that doesn't make socialist countries the miserable dystopias you paint, that was just never our experience.

The reason why parts of my family emigrated is simply because life in western Europe was more comfortable and enjoyed more freedom (of movement especially).

If anything it seems that _you_ are the one spewing falsehood.

I suspect part of the reason for the incorrect (in general) things you say is that you seem to be german from your profile, and yes, Eastern Germany was way more controlled and the epicenter of the things you describe. But cross the border to Poland, Yugoslavia or Ukraine and none of the things you describe were anywhere part of the average person's life.
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The subway is perfectly safe for kids in London. You see unaccompanied kids on it all the time.
I expect they are going to exempt a lot more than that. I have lost count of how many of the useful subreddits I belong to have already committed to going dark next week but it's a lot of them. This was a terrible judgement on Reddit's part and some kind of mea culpa from a higher-up followed by a rapid climb down looks inevitable if they don't want to be the next Twitter.
One possibility which seems not so well-known is that clocks with per-core state might not be perfectly synchronized. If your initial measurement is from core0, then we migrate to core1, the end measurement could even be 'before' the initial.

Then there are manufacturing differences between cores that affect e.g. their leakage current and thus the (turbo) frequency at which they can run.

So the measurement noise is indeed not one-sided, that is to say: measurements are not always overestimates. Thus a trimmed mean on both sides is a good idea, and pinning threads to a core when measuring is also helpful.
Made This Image Marking Tool as a Interview Home Assesment
But I got rejected.
Radon is interesting because not a lot of people think about it, yet it's very dangerous. It's almost everywhere in France, Germany and Scandinavia. If you don't have anti-radon measures in the mentioned countries, high chances are levels are exceeding the limit.
> vile posts in the deads and a couple sprinkled inbetween. I’m not sure if HN staff doesn’t care about it, agrees with them or simply isn’t aware.

So basically you're judging a community by the posts the community and moderators deemed inappropriate and moderated away? Rather curious metric.

If you don't want to see dead posts then turn showdead off (which is the default). That you get some transparency in the moderation is a feature, IMHO, but it's also opt-in.

Maybe there should be a "verydead" for these kind of outright idiotic posts so they just won't display at all for anyone, but then how do you prevent abuse and keep the mod workload reasonable marking endless posts as "verydead"?
>I like a clean install and ripping out all the non-english languages takes a while. I also trawl through programs and extensions and get rid of the unnecessarily installed [for me] languages.
Additionally, any os images - backgrounds, ms logos etc get reduced to 10*10 pixels. I don't need eight versions of the same wallpaper. And ss for themes...
What? Am I the only one working in a company that measures measures measures? I would be surprised if you work somewhere that cannot measure production of something that equates to value.
Is my understanding of volcanic eruptions fundamentally lacking, or are all these people basically flirting with death by standing this close to the caldera?
The slow death of Electron & Co?

Electron apps like Discord, Slack, etc. don't seem to gain any benefit from being wrapped in Electron anymore. Have one codebase, one app, that works everywhere and can now even be "installed" with Safari.
> Snowden basically exposed the rot in a branch of government.

What we have learnt from the Snowden leaks as evidence by "what has changed" is that it wasnt a branch of government that is a problem, but the entire country its laws, its values and its people.
I don't follow.

Are you saying that forms which are not submitted shouldn't have a separate submit button?

If so, I might agree, up to a point.

However any form that has to be submitted to a server absolutely MUST have a submit button, for the case when user input is complete and the user is still reviewing all the fields.
I'm going to get downvoted by the managers, but chances are, your team is doing just fine, but you can't keep up with that remotely.

When you're in the meeting, everyone politely explains to you what they're doing and they say "yes" to your ideas, so you feel like you're making progress.

But when they actually need to do focused work, which you don't want to know the details of because it's too hard, they do far better outside of an oxygen-deprived, loud office that they need to commute to.
I think the point was that German energy policy has been a disaster, so it's not really a claim to fame.
Yes, that struck me as strange too.

"I generally distrust door-to-door salesmen, but the Brooklyn Bridge deal was just too good to pass up!"
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Because they get abuse from the vocal transphobe subset of the HN population. (https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110507731403617388)