skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would it be good for the species even if life was fair for everyone? One can easily imagine that it would create stagnation where very little would change over very long periods of time.
I moved from static HTML to 11ty (https://11ty.dev) for the same reason and I'm pretty happy with how simple it allows you to keep things. Plus, it helps me avoid yak shaving instead of writing content!

I think for a site like this I'd go with 11ty, just a clean project without a template or custom config, one collection to pull the photos from Flickr inline the styles.

(just sharing my personal approach, nothing wrong with Jamie's approach, ofc)
I don't agree, let's take 5 big cities spread around the country to Lyon:

- Toulouse: 4h by train, 5h30 by car

- Nice: 5h30 by train, 5h by car

- Strasbourg: 4h15 by train, 5h15 by car

- Le Havre: 5h05 by train, 7h by car

- Nantes: 4h50 by train, 6h45 by car
Totally Agree that there are plenty of things most people need to know about that do not surface on HN. But being a time poor parent means I personally don't spend much time reading long form articles anymore and visiting "news" sites full of ads & trackers is just lame as the signal to noise ratio is way off. Visit the BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news once a day to see what's going on in the world. But beyond that only got time for HN twice a day for 5 mins and Twitter once a week also for 5 mins ...

If you know of a similar text-based (or low image count) site like HN that has high quality news and no fluff/click-bait please share. Thanks.
I haven't counted many this page where there is a regulating body that could take away a license to practice as an engineer.

The UK seems to discriminate on a per discipline basis. Canada apparently is ambiguous, with self-regulating bodies but courts dismissing cases regarding job titles. Germany has one, but only for civil engineers (still according to the wikipedia page).

Still only relying on this wikipedia page, there are on the other hand many countries where although the title is protected, it simply requires one to have studied a certain number of years (Poland), to have completed a specific degree (Brazil, Chile, Germany), or a specific degree in one of a few select higher-education schools (France, Turkey).
Isn’t Atlas V also 100% successful?
Mastodon is not profit-driven. It doesn't need growth. It does, perhaps, need enough people to keep it sustainable, but I suspect that it has that and more already.
Nice one! Guitar solo starts at 2:26.
I have IPv6 at home since a long time ago. Too bad most websites and apps don't use IPv6.
> if someone knows how to solve this, I'd be glad to hear about it!

With the risk of opening a can of worms, yes, get the pirated cracked versions of the game. You already own the legitimate copy so it's fair. Not your fault the DRM is not letting you play the games you paid for and own legitimetly. At least that's how I see things.

Otherwise consider re-purchasing the DRM-free versions of the games on platforms like GOG.
I don't know what you mean by evidence, but "things have always being this way" is too often the excuse to avoid change. Social change is not necessarily always good, but rejecting novel policies just because they are not currently "the norm" is not a good principle. Following that line of thought, the Eastern Block from the 90s would have never abandoned Communism because it was "the default" for them.
cool, GLSL is lyrics then.
The land masses are floating plates pushing and shoving against each other over a bubling mass of heat energy pushing up to escape outwards, there are more forces at play than simple centrifuging.

The linked animation shows a relatively short sequence of movement, over the last few million years, that is likely the most we'll be able to reconstruct thanks to the arrow of time.
The point we're responding to is this:

> All of the commentary on the violation of the sterile cockpit rule and argument before departure are irrelevant to the actual cause

Which is just as false a statement as it is to say "The violation of the sterile cockpit rule and argument before departure were a significant cause". The fact is, we don't know if it was, but it's not wrong to say that it might be.
"Append-only files" would be a great fit here: to ensure regular users and bots don't modify others' posts. Sadly this Plan 9 functionality is not ported to Linux yet. That's a permission bit, similar to "read" or "write", but even more specific.
Do you also have to account for leap years somehow? I think on leap years you need to add one to the month code for all months except Jan and Feb.
> You mean used by these guys? [0][1] Where do they sit on your morality scale? [2][3][4]

Where do you the Russian soldiers raping and torturing children in Ukraine sit on your scale?. [1]

Where does the Russian government giving 1 Billion dollars to a PMC run by a Nazi with SS symbols tattooed on himself sit on your scale?. [2][3]

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-troops-raped-tort...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-yevgeny-prigo...

[3] https://strikesource.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Screen-S... (the head of Wagner that the Russian government just gave a billion dollars to).
https://www.hotelexistence.ca/me/
Personal projects, problems solved, and workplace observations.

Sample posts:
Fixing ink blobs on Epson prints - https://www.hotelexistence.ca/me/?p=408
Building a 'smart' bicycle dashcam - https://www.hotelexistence.ca/me/?p=618

Also, kind of a personal blog - I scripted a blogging bot that writes a post daily, using the comments from the most commented article on HN, which today is this one:
https://www.eliza-ng.me/
I'd argue that this tedious posture of caring about the environment is vastly more responsible for the climate disaster; it is very popular with the anti-nuclear crowd, after all.

> the kind of moral arrogance from humankind we need to look into and fix

No we don't. What we need to fix is scope insensitivity and addiction to symbolics and gut feelings.
Er, we once win a "scene award" with a demo. You are right there was plenty of talented programmers there (and the level has only gone up), but this is also an _art_ scene and to be able to work so long for free on something that won't make any money (and that you can only present at a single event) in the end you need to either have a job developing 3D software, and/or be independently affluent. I was happy to leave the scene quickly as I feel it wasn't very respectful, when you release something you can see your "competitors" send harsh comments and tell you your thing sucks, unlike any other scene (?). This doesn't make sense, when people are in music they don't go around telling other people their music suck. Also, demoscene is pure greenfield, you can learn more working in maintenance programming.
There's a new online marketplace for open-hardware creators
What if people start hoarding IPv6 addresses, too and the price of an IPv6 address rises?
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Actually Germany recently shut down all of it's nuclear plants and replaced them with the dirtiest fuel possible: lignite coal burning plants.

Statistics are a peculiar thing.
Spotify CEO’s startup for AI-powered preventive healthcare raises €60M
1. They knew they couldn’t build a better pad due to location.
2. The pad (as evidently predicted?) didn’t work and was destroyed and caused quite a bit of collateral damage.
3. They re-confirmed that they needed a better pad (as they knew in step one).
4. Uh, profit I guess?
The deindustrialization has begun.
... and yet Germany looks awful on https://app.electricitymaps.com/map . Is that a measurement problem, or something else that we should know?
If everyone plays ball. That we will need to see. China, USA, India also need to go in hard.
This is what the micro-nations were on about, people trying to dredge sand up off reefs and take over drilling platforms since the early 1980s to establish "data havens". The long term trend is that no nation will ultimately resist backdoors on encrypted platforms, because militarily they cannot resist the pressure (internally or externally).

The micronation thing is silly, as is relying on a shrinking number of countries which claim they won't enforce these laws. We need satellite-based servers. If I were Musk and had that chain up in the sky, I'd open a simple E2EE Whatsapp for anyone who could ping them directly. At this point, anyone who wants private comms is going to need to go to space for them.
He specifically engineered his particles to be as densely packed as possible. I assume the pigments in commercial paint would limit the cooling capacity. Probably that's why he went with a clear acrylic base (with bubbles to make it reflective).
>Yeah the phone companies laid those thick 144-strand bundles before wave division multiplexing. They figured the only way to get more bandwidth was more fibers, right?

I don't know anything about fiber tech but can't they just apply the newer techniques to the already laid out 144 strand bundles?
Electricity, maybe. Energy? I wish.

This headline would be more true if we had transportation fully electrified and all buildings heated with heat pumps, but last I heard the proposed law to require the latter transition to be started in 2024 was dropped again, and they're also still debating about starting to require transitioning the combustion engine fleets to electric by, what was it, 2030?

I also still see stickers here, calling for the closure of a nuclear plant in Belgium. These people live near one of the biggest coal mines and power plants, but tihange is what scares them.

Looks like we'll have to dig in our own pockets if we want to be part of the solution, government isn't going to do it, even in a principalistic country as Germany. We'll get to +3°C or something but at least you can tell the kids of 2060 that you at least did what you could...
I think the is a big issue across aviation. The system just gives up and dumps the problem on the pilot who then has to parse conflicting data quickly. I wonder if it would be better to treat this more like a navigation problem. Fuse together different data with known error levels and show the pilot the result. And include more solid state sensors like GPS, gravity sensors, and cameras in the mix.
It is "const enough", as in, there is nothing preventing it from being called at compile time, in fact with nightly features (and no changes to the async fn), you can call it at compile time just fine. I also put const fn there to emphasize that it really can't do all that much beside constructing the state machine.
The Twentse Demoscene was awesome, but very small. As far as I knew, I was the "only coder in the village" :)

I remember going to copy parties from The Raven (1992?), cycling 10 km with ~100 floppy discs, wondering whether some bit would shake off whenever I hit a bump in the road.

I still get goosebumps when I think of the time when some guy from a nearby city demoed his own Adlib player and 60fps flat shading 3d renderer!

Meeting people in person to share code (or to keep it secret), reading paper magazines (Dr Dobbs) buying books on holidays (PC Intern anyone?, Ferraro, Foley), ah those were the days :)
Hey, no problem. Thanks for reading.

Most posts are something extracted out of doing either contract work or personal projects.
The issue I always had with XFCE was that the edges of windows were set to 1px which made window resizing terrible and I had to spend time Googling how to change the grabble area, until the next update and I had to do the same again.

XFCE is awesome, but let down by some rather sharp edges.
Well, yeah, if I use a bunch of other programs to do a bunch of stuff, and then don’t include those lines in my total I can get pretty far too.
For the past couple years, COVID and economic collapse took a huge toll. I grew up in São Paulo and I've never seen so many homeless people living on the streets than between 2016 and 2023. It was not always that depressing, of course. The past couple mayors also had some crazy ideas that certainly didn't improve the urban experience.

When I left there was a push for more cycle lanes everywhere, with large avenues closing off lanes for car traffic to increase space for bicycles. It was a great time.

And the restaurants continue to be superb.
I believe some of the acceleration maybe due to local generation decreasing distribution losses and the summer PV generation decreasing peaker plant ramp ups.

I think those are subtitles are hard to judge and most likely downplayed by incumbents.
I see the page title in the firefox tab: "@zuck Let's do thisl Welcome to"

and then there's a rainbow colored logo with an @ symbol in the middle of the page. That's it.

Firefox, ublock origin, private browsing window, europe.
Ah sorry, I missed that you only spawn a single thread. Mea culpa!
Burning lots of coal does that.
This is a very thin hair you're splitting. :)
Both. I think knowingly misleading people (or allowing them to be misled by omitting key information) is wrong. There are exceptions, but I’m more strict on this than most appear be.

As a result, I don’t have a lot of practice at it, and the very act makes me feel incredibly anxious.
Berlin, and Germany in general seems to be a better role model then. Germany is the opposite of France, very decentralised with multiple population/economical centers dotting the country: Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, München, Stuttgart, Köln/Dortmund/Düsseldorf/Essen corridor.
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It does seem to me that the author has injected their own theory of the state of mind of the crew, but in what way does this theory conflict with the NTSB's account? I agree that if there was evidence that the state of mind of the crew was a significant factor in the cause of the accident that they would have mentioned it, but this simply means they did not find sufficient evidence for this theory, not that the theory is incorrect.
Implement the ability & willingness to police imposter accounts.

I know a noted author who tried to move to Mastadon. It was a disaster. He was promptly swarmed by a half dozen imposter accounts posting false content he'd never even think.

He made diligent efforts to report and get those accounts shut down and was basically told both that whatever org Mastadon has, has no inclination to manage imposters, and that even if they did, it would be structurally impossible to do so except by de-federating instances. So he left.

I also know of a Mastadon-based instance (Cointer-Social) that attempts to fight disinformation & trolling, with one measure being to ban all accounts from Russia, North Korea, and Iran. Because of this, CS is banned from federation by Mastadon.

The Mastadon org would need to fix these technical & philosophical flaws to attract any serious users and become a scaled-up 'town square' for serious high-profile people.

As it is, Mastadon is not, and will never be, fit for such a scaled-up purpose.
> If a computer can do this with 64KB of data

If you like that kind of "compression", I hope you know Linus "lft" Åkesson's "A Mind Is Born": 256 bytes.

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
>"Half a million lines of Go, and again half a million lines of TypeScript. Just for the server !

Let’s compare with suc:

suc can implement Mattermost’s core features with 0.005% of the code. This is madness !"

Madness indeed! But that is also why this is such an awesome article! Upvoted and favorited!
I love how clumsy and all over the place that video is
In the past 2 decades Germany has blown hundreds of billions of dollars into renewable energy. Now we have the highest electricity price in the world.
It is all socialism. Zero market :-(
I guess that's because most of the non-renewable electricity is generated with lignite so even with the 85% renewables generation the map shows at this moment, there are still significant CO2 emissions.
try https://elk.zone with your exisitng mastodon account, which is precisely that.
On my personal devices I have to install the system tray extension, because Steam, but apart from that Gnome works far better than anything else including OSX for me.
I understand you are content in the way you do things.

Just bear in mind that people elsewhere also want the same goals you have, and are happy with different ways to get those goals.

You want a safe place for my kids to play. I agree! Many people want that.

Your solution is a yard, which you need to maintain, or pay someone to maintain. Others live in housing complex with plenty of yard space, or live close by to parks, where someone else takes care of the grounds.

You don't want to deal with crowds, so you don't care if you don't live within walking distance of functional parks in the like. But this also means you're going to be driving your kids around a lot, since they can't walk to the park, or go to school, by themselves. (Even if they take the bus, they are stuck with a specific schedule, giving the less independence of movement.)

Which may be fine - I can understand how being in a car for a long time can be more calming for some than being around people for a short time!

You like to garden. Some housing complexes have community gardens, because their residents like to garden too. And there are community gardens which, at least in some places have space allotted by city (similar to how public parks work) so don't directly face market pressure and land rentals.

I've certainly been in apartment buildings with relatively private outside space where residents could entertain others, play with kids, read a book, work from home, and so on. And with its own private swimming pool, tennis courts, playgrounds, and so on.

I've visited https://www.cotaticohousing.org/ , with "cooperative living that combines private residences with extensive common facilities". They have a shared carpentry shop, eating/party area, and two spare guest apartments which can be booked for visitors.

My meaning is that there are many ways to get the goals you want, without the specific method you prefer.

Others in the US don't have the same crowd concerns you have. Yet for most part, they don't have the ability to live anywhere else, or have any experience to know what those alternatives might be!

> The fact that you have to rebuild the city is a pretty big drawback too...

If only you were around in the mid-20th century when the urban core of many US cities were torn down to rebuild for cars - maybe we would have more options now. But I guess your point is that since they made a bad decision then we can't change our minds now?

> This implies a high density of people.

It can also imply a medium density of people.
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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-extends-run-...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/15/europe/germany-nuclear-phase-...
Perhaps it was?
This list on Pouet shows a few demo groups and releases from South Africa:

https://www.pouet.net/lists.php?which=221
> What we need is a more flexible, on-demand model of public transport. Something like logistic bots in Factorio. Lots of small people-movers which go direct from point to point, on demand. Buses and trains were already obsoleted by cars and can only survive by targeted anti-car policy.

Why?? Cities like Berlin work perfectly fine with a massive public transport network, you get to almost anywhere in 30-45 minutes (except for the most far away places).

I don't need point-to-point on demand, I just need to be able to get into public transport in 5-10 minutes and get through the network to destination B in 30-45 minutes. That moves a lot of people efficiently, there's no need for this hyper-individualisation of transportation...
A source for a piece of popular news that was covered by every single media out there and is only a quick google search away?

https://www.google.com/search?q=germnay+nuclear+lignite

I swear, sometimes HN users can be so pedantic, they'll demand source that the earth is round or that the water is wet.

I used to be afraid that ChatGPT would make our jobs redundant, but seeing how people can't find basic info by themselves and need to ask humans to spoon feed them, I think I can breathe easily that our jobs are safe.
Astro framework lowers competitors' by ~40% on performance graph to look better
Unless its Webdev, because from the outside looking in it seems there’s some new fad moving through every few months.
Freedom and loyalty are not incompatible. You shouldn’t want to harm your employer’s relationships.
Eurowings certainly doesn’t..

But yeah generally that seems to be the case. Ryanair for inspection is one of the largest airlines in the world but it never had any fatal accidents.
We are on the verge of a massive societal if not natural shift, and academics and politicians are too busy in their ivory towers to see that the prosperity of the post-war era has been a dead man walking for two decades at least.

Just look at anyone below age 25. It is utter lunacy for them to believe in the system as a force for good, or a necessary good either. "Your vote counts," and other bullshit media keeps repeating like a broken record.

It's going to get worse, but humanity takes a step forward for the better only after massive tragedies, not when megacorp says they're going net zero, or that party promises they'll fix it for real by adding a tax on meat products.

Humanity and Earth will eventually be fine, but right now we're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, so to speak.
The risk can be reduced with open source code, verified by the community. Usually when the "branding" gets too authoritarian, people reach for the FOSS version that seems the most trusted.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/basf-cut-jo...
Salt water everywhere bad perhaps?
Oh, we also started importing nuclear electricity from France at scale to bridge the gap. So, it’s not as bad as you put it. Nuclear waste is now somebody else’s problem…
Likely blocked by Firefox tracking protection because it uses Facebook domains.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36588618
It was for a brief period that the photographer (who happens to be a friend of the family) recorded. I find those photos brilliant in recording non-subjects - they are photos of something that is no longer there.

As the city adapted to the new rules, the frames were torn down, you could see the architecture behind them (sometimes veritable architectural treasures worth of preservation), and murals covered lots of the empty space in monumental art installations. Where the space is empty, you sometimes see art (and political protests) being projected on the walls.
I'm ignorant on how global temps work so help me understand: shouldn't the record be increasing every year? Why the drop from 2017-2022?
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/09/11/germany-faces-...
The price is determined by the most expensive generator. Without renewables, prices would have been even higher
Right now, Germany appears to be 85% renewable [0], but is still pretty mediocre on CO2 emissions compared to many of its neighbours (Poland excepted!). That 8GW of coal still hurts, but the trend is pretty good.

[0] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/germany-strong-...
Articles like that one and many others:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-12/germany-w...
Ah, that Linux user feeling. Feels like a lot of people in the scene use Windows, which still surprises me considering how tech-y it all is.