skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Or maybe you do not need to make a tradeoff between environment and progress at all."

Of course you do, or does someone evacuate all the fish from the impact zone whenever an empty rocket stage slams into the ocean?

This is only a question of the degree of the damage we are willing to tolerate. Of course the precise boundary shifts over time.
It's hard for renewables to replace coal or nuclear though, because coal and nuclear provide baseload power, whereas wind and solar are very intermittent and require basically 100% gas backup (as there will be circumstances with very low wind and solar, which tends to happen in europe on very cold, still, winter nights when demand is the highest).

There is absolutely no reason the (ex-west) German nuclear power plants could not have been life extended. They were extremely reliable and about 10GWe of modern PWRs were finished in the late 80s. They could have easily be extended to at least 2030 had there been the political will at not a huge amount of cost. The RoI with current/previous high energy prices would have probably been 100 fold.
Hey HN — I recently published an article diving into the bin/dev script included in most Ruby on Rails 7 projects, as well as the Procfile.dev (based on the Heroku Procfile).

I throw in a few tips and tricks too, so even if you're already familiar with these scripts and files, you might still learn a thing or two.

I hope you enjoy! I'm happy to answer any of your questions here. Thanks!
What mozilla wants to censor the hecking internet. How could i have been so foolish. Brah cmon guys we knew thats what they are upto all along.
I see more yellow streaks in France and BE/NL than in Germany. Not sure what you mean about there being bad air in Germany

An averaging feature would be nice instead of having to compare hundreds of potential outliers manually, though
Oh, right... duh.
Surprisingly good, I think I’ve heard all of these and Dimension X. I recall some were further adapted to Twilight Zone.
Most were already shut down.
8 hours of sleep minimum. No drinking or smoking. Exercise regularly. Be content with what I have. Enjoy the little things in life, laugh at life’s absurdities.
Again, auto thefts is a relatively rare event. There are 1,000,000 auto thefts per year and 279,000,000 vehicles, so 1/279 vehicles are involved with a theft every year. Do you think only 1/279 children access harmful content? Also, I’m very interested in how you’ve determined that there are more than 500,000+ instances of familial auto theft each year for your claim that most auto theft is familial if these thefts go unreported. You wouldn’t have made up a statistic, would you?

Taking this point even further: you mentioned the consequence of this apparent grave problem is death. How many people actually die every year from the grievous problem? I can’t find any deaths caused by kids stealing their parents cars personally, but I’m sure you’re aware of thousands. You must have some good numbers here as I doubt many deaths go unreported.
Existing solution is hydro storage. It's massive infrastructure and there is a long way to go.
Ask HN: Who can make my SaaS demo\intro video?
I'm preparing my newest project and need a video or two made. Can anyone here refer me to someone who can make one?
"compression" is sort of a weird way of describing it, though, when the primary goal is to make something extremely small (not to take something extant and compress it).

Not a knock on demos at all! (the originals handed around on floppy disks also inspired me to become a coder in the early 90s). Just saying that it's different to try to make the most amazing thing you can in a wide open 4k than it is to start with something 16k and try to reduce it.
We have much bigger coal share in Poland... and guess what we're doing to phase it out? We're building nuclear reactors.
Essentially, a (fake) Windows instance.
> for good reasons

Like what? Surely nuclear is much cheaper than coal if we take at least some of the externalities into account?

Carbon emissions are arguably not even the worst aspect of burning coal…
Trains definitely have a role. The "2-4 hour drive" is the sweet spot.

Planes are best for longer distances, and some sort of personal transportation is best for short distances.
But… but…but the statistics… say 57%

1.5C is guaranteed within a decade.

People need to quit telling themselves silly narratives.
Remember when gnome developers claimed that the gnome calculator absolutely needed the network-manager to manage the network?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681834
I think the main issue would be the buffering existing tools are likely to assume. You don't need more than a few hundred ms of latency for a phone call to start feeling really weird.
Is TS becoming the leader in faux dependent typing ? it seems that the metalevel boundary has almost evaporated in it.
The pros of any type-level logic all boil down to automatically enforcing something that you want to be enforced. The key word being _automatically_.

This can be frustrating in the moment sometimes, but other times a type can do two really powerful things:

1. prevent someone you’ve never spoken to from doing something legitimately dangerous
2. provide browsable documentation about the constraint its enforcing and how other places in the code resolve the constraint.

It doesn’t always work out that way, sure, but that’s the ideal types are striving for.
Doing a blocking read also frees your CPU to do other tasks!
You can hardly call it a "shortcut" when it is the only way to reach your destination.

All roads are designed for a specific purpose, and roads designed for destination traffic simply aren't capable of handling large volumes of through traffic. Other people are supposed to go the long way because that's literally what the roads are designed for.
Yes, it did. Just check how they created UNIX.
Depends on your definition of "on Earth".

There have been people born on planes, for example.
Well, another case to use a vpn
Can you give an example of a non-trivial problem with a well defined set of requirements that you can fit on one page?
Of course but starting from the assumption that he is doing it himself he will have an easier time using design software than jumping into CSS.

Design software encourages/enforces good design rules through its interface. You couple that with a willingness to learn and a bit of practice and you can achieve some nice things. Especially given that the design of some types of websites is very codified like SaaS or blogs.
> PC Intern anyone?, Ferraro

Still on my bookshelf. Also Messmer (The Indispensable PC Hardware Book) and ofcourse the Abrash books.

The late 80s & early 90s where a great time growing up in The Netherlands if you were a computer/pc nerd. :)
Yeah, the average user will figure that out. It's still defined as a win for advertisers because not every users will know to do this and also when this happens... They'll be able to post record profits on quarterly earnings.
Failing to provide details smells a lot like „wonder weapons will turn the war around“. There is currently no battery tech that is remotely economical, and other more obscure solutions haven’t made a lot of impact either, presumably for economic reasons too.
Code itself is a mere encoding of that (mis)understanding in a highly specialized format.

What makes me “hopeful” - for me as a “programmer” - about the future is that our problems in nearly all domains are very damn near certain not caused by technical limitations.

We could have settled on some GUI/UX, communication, database, knowledge handling, etc. standards decades ago and we could have decided we are not going to re-implement all the basics of computing all over again all the time because we need our scrollviews to “snap” just right or we need to reimplement IRC again.

We could have fixed all sorts of issues proactively decades ago.

We didn’t and technology was a very minor part of that equation if it played a role of any significance at all. Nearly any domain I can think of is severely limited by various legal, social, financial and/or political issues that vastly overshadow any technical considerations.

AI won’t budge any of that.
> It was often ridiculed, but the goal made sense. What is the vision for twitter? I still don’t know. Nothing he says makes any sense.

You're missing the core. He wants Twitter to be a functional and inclusive town square for public, and world wide, discussion.

There is the bot and manipulation problem. Which is deeper and more extensive than anyone seems to really believe. Frankly, I'm not sure how anyone solves this without pretty stiff vetting during on boarding. Any community that provides free signups is going to have bot problems. Period. Facebook is losing this war. So is Google.

I think he should punt the prevention of AI data scraping as not worth the cost. But it's value he is leaving on the table if he doesn't, though I think this one is detrimental to the users. Put it in the EULA or content licensing or where ever and be satisfied. Don't throw it in front of your legit users.
Kotlin Notebook
This is a pretty nihilist take. We don't "need" anything but food, water and the most rudimentary shelter in colder weather. Surely we don't "need" anything like computers, electricity and programmers gabbing on HN.

But humanity in its current size definitely needs some industry, and industry is actually becoming less polluting with technological progress. I am 45 and I grew up in an industrial city; both the air and the water there have become a lot cleaner during my lifetime, because a richer and more developed society can afford better protections. When I was a kid, neither a butterfly nor a fish could survive in Ostrava, today there is plenty of both.

Also, judging someone's else's interests as "delusions" is pretty rude. Who are you to distribute such labels to others?
Renewable energy is unpredictable, thus you need a backup source of energy for when there's no wind, sunlight or rain. It's yet unfeasible to store large amounts of energy unfortunately so that means using either natural gas or coal, because you need to be able to rapidly increase/reduce/regulate the energy output. It's coal at the moment for Germany and that means more pollution and dirty politicians that don't care about the environment, just about votes. Actually nuclear power plants can nowadays also regulate their output fast enough, but they got rid of those.
I think the AI hype was a little overblown, a lot of things by people not understanding the field or just out right wrong. Don't get me wrong, AI will come and it will do most of what people are talking about, if not all and more, but there have been a lot of unrealistic time frames thrown about.

Look at self driving cars, I'm pretty sure ten years ago people were talking about it being a huge thing and being almost here and here we are in 2023 and it feels like there is far less buzz around it now and any system in public use seems highly problematic and limited, despite many more years of development.

It's the same in the AI world, although it keeps ticking away, one of the first breakthroughs that got public attention was image generation and in particular midjourney and they have been adding more cool stuff lately, it's all continuing at pace but some people have unrealistic expectations.

People saw ChatGPT and suddenly that was AI for them and it was everywhere and then ChatGPT/ GPT 4 came along and since that was only a few months afterwards, everyone is expecting GPT 5 soon, which I believe OpenAI have said hasn't even started training yet. The reality is that there was a bigger gap between GPT 3 and GPT 4 then people realised as it was less public and potentially the gaps will get bigger as it needs more training/development as it's harder as the low hanging fruit has already been picked.

There is also a bunch of tech floating around at companies that don't know what to do with it yet, facebook for example have the audio generation thing they don't want to release to the public as they said it was too 'dangerious'
You’ve invented lisp.

The issue with meta programming is that it’s too powerful, in the sense that the transformations can’t be statically checked for typing rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire says the peak population of Roman Empire was at most 75M, whereas the quoted link has 13M more, which makes the numbers very suspicious.

Even then, this link only suggests 250M population by 1 CE and not 300M. Deflate that number by another 50M and it would begin becoming plausible.
HN is full of stories - we depended on X and X let us down. Find another way to accept payments. If you think they have acted badly why would you do business with them?
They were not, there is even less coal used since nuclear plants were shut down than before. Nuclear and coal are getting continuously replaced by renewables. Coal end date is set to either 2030 or 2038 (I forget).

The country people should be complaining about is Poland. It's the worst emitter of co2 in Europe and it will not do anything about it for 10-20 years because it wants to build nuclear plants.
This is the new political landscape in Europe. By including the fascists, the conservatives roughly double their votes and don't need to compromise with the rest anymore. We're seeing this now in Finland and probably next in Germany. To me this is selfish and short-sighted in the short term, and outright dangerous in the long term.
> Valve might not directly profit from the sale of GPD, Aya or Asus PC gaming handhelds, but they still get their percentage from every Steam software sale made on them

But those handhelds, being quite expensive, almost certainly sold much less than the Steam Deck, which itself didn't sell overly well.
Ambiguous requirements are more symptomatic of a problem space that is poorly defined e.g. useless SaaS

If you're building to solve real problems(tm) you don't need a PM to pad out tickets with filler.
Heating is one thing we have tackle, but also transportation which uses up 27.1% of energy in German. Individual transportation should be a main target, we would all shift from cars to public transport or bicycles. About 40% of distances driven with cars are shorter than 5 kilometers, a distance that's perfect for a bicycle. On top of that, car owners tend to underestimate the cost of their cars[1]

[0] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/energie/energieverbrauc...
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01118-w
> SCOTUS is not expanding their role...they are restricting executive powers and making congress do their job

False. Congress delegated their powers to parts of the executive branch. If they feel the executive is abusing that delegation, congress can take it away at any time. It is not the job of the SCOTUS to pretend they're congress and take action on behalf of congress as they have been doing lately. All of this is blatantly partisan.

Congress created the CFPB for example, delegated some authority to the executive branch and insulated the CFPB head from presidential authority (so they could not be fired at will). The Supreme Court decided to insert their own opinion that the president has absolute authority over it, despite congress being the one creating it.
Unsubstantiated weeping about the fate of the world is fine, self-fulfilling prophecies on how there are no incentives to participate in ordered society aren’t.
Yes, but there's little point in electrifying heating until you have a cleaner grid. Right now, the marginal source of power in Germany is coal and in the UK is mostly gas (occasionally coal). If you switch your heating to electric heating, that's how the electricity would be generated. With gas as the marginal source, if you switch from a modern condensing gas boiler to an air-source heat pump with a COP of 2.5, you might come out a little ahead in CO2 emmisions once you factor in generation (50% thermal efficiency) and transmission (9% losses for the UK) losses, but not a lot. With coal as the marginal source, you come out behind in CO2 emissions from switching from gas heating to a heat pump. If you switched from gas to resistive heating, it's a lose all round.
The Quran says that Allah sent Jesus with the Gospel (Sura 5:46). If this is true, then what Jesus said is true.
We also adopted arrow recently for CloudQuery - our open source ELT framework https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/05/04/adopting-apache-arr...
Dr Denis Mukwege
How the Qbix Platform is able to load web sites much quicker
Class-Action Lawsuit for Scraping Data Without Permission
Revisit this in December, please. This headline is a problem, not an achievement. The amplitude in output of renewables in good vs. bad weather makes it impossible to install photovoltaic panels in many places already now.

But yeah, Germany is handsome and awesome.
No, it's not just word-play. There are real restrictions coming with source-available code if you want to use it in your business operations. One of the reasons companies express so much interest in open-source is to have no obligations before the vendor (support contracts that cannot be terminated early even if the software is being removed, licensing that makes it hard to migrate from a few large machines to many smaller containers/VMs, other forms of lock-in) and take a risk of an open-source software going unmaintained (that they usually plan to mitigate by hiring an outsourcing firm to fix the abandoned OSS projects).

Now, that is one of the main reasons why non-OSS licenses are being adopted: many companies prepare contingencies in case an OSS project dies, instead of making some arrangements to help a bit to ensure the project doesn't die. However right the vendors are, the resulting license significantly (materially, non-word-playfully) restricts the users, which is exactly why those users are compelled to start paying for the product.

P.S. None of what I wrote means I oppose those licenses, as they may be needed to ensure a healthy ecosystem. But I oppose calling them OSS.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140816103408/http://www.kxxv.c...
No plan survives contact with reality.
It's.. complicated. Nuclear is super clean at the consumption site, but not super clean at the mining site [0]. And then there's the problem that France's access to cheap uranium is a relic of extractive colonialism, and these countries don't exactly see the fair profits from France's hunger for energy [1].

So yes, France's energy is cleaner, but it's a complicated picture.

[0] https://meta.eeb.org/2017/10/18/french-state-owned-company-c...

[1] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/161954185.pdf
I use GPT-4 it for sure does if you do a bit different things off the beaten path
Why are people so obsessed with "solar roadways" or "solar train tracks"? This is a joke, a gimmick, it makes absolutely no sense. Well, except for the startups that are getting massive subsidies and grants for these clown projects.

There are still millions of open-space square meters all over the country. Think of flat-roof warehouses, supermarkets, parking facilities and more. Those places are easy to access, easy to install, easy to maintain. These train track installments however.... hard to install, require non-standardized panel sizes, non-standard wiring, special equipment, are in a dusty/dirty uncontrollable environment, maintenance is only possible in coordination with the train company. My guess is that these things are 4-5x more expensive on a per kwH basis, if you consider the total cost of ownership.
> Coal use

Should be at zero before anyone even starts thinking about closing nuclear power plants.
Android with a keyboard is terrible. I've tried my TV (where the remote is already in effect a keyboard with cursor keys enter, and escape) and my Astro Slide.

In both there are many issues - the tab index is often weird, some parts of the UI may be inaccessible at all, some widgets don't even have a different colour when they are highlighted.

Some apps start in portrait mode by default, so you without a 3rd party app they are sideways.

Even without that it's sometimes random which way round apps will start.

Android is a disaster using the UI this way.
One thing AI could do is generate the "requirements" based on the code. Since really at the end of the day it's the code and not the "requirements" that dictate how an application behaves.

We might find some interesting bugs this way.

234 - Section B4

- The application will crash each leap year that falls on a Monday when running in GMT+10 timezone.
It's a huge problem on many levels, but in this case it so much more time intensive. Diminishing it's use.
Not so great if you're talking about real use cases where moderation is mandatory.
I think I might pay money for such a service.
OceanGate CEO Told Videographer to Sleep on the Titan Sub After the Battery Died
Losing jobs ain't really an advantage ... At least, salaries won't stay flat either, there will be none - if you see that as an advantage?
There's Dart.

But at the time, many complained of the lack of jQuery support and needing to transpile to support other browsers, so it didn't get the interest it deserved.
Show HN: Apache Doris – A Faster, Smarter, and Stabler Database
What makes it worth knowing about?
1. A query optimizer that is more effective than human optimization
2. Faster log queries with less storage space consumed (compared to Elasticsearch)
3. 20 times higher concurrency (30,000 QPS per node)
4. Enhanced Data Lakehouse capabilities (more data sources supported and faster performance)
5. A self-adaptive parallel execution model for higher efficiency and stability in hybrid workload scenarios
6. Better management of memory and CPU resources
7. Elastic scaling of computation resources and hot-cold data separation for much lower storage costs
8. Faster, stabler, and smarter data ingestion
9. No more OOM errors
10. Support for Kubernetes deployment

https://doris.apache.org/docs/dev/releasenotes/release-2.0-beta/
Ah yes, notorious tree-hugger Merkel in 2011.
And you don't consider that the website puts up a consent dialog because they want to (ab)use your personal data?

No need to put a consent dialog if you are not stalking people.
Evolution occurs through birth and death. If humans stopped dying, then presumably they would also stop having kids, because why keep having them, and thus we'd get stuck on that last generation. Then, with no new generations, we would also stop evolving, as a species.
> Coal is 30% currently: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/06... and I don't see this going away soon.

5 years ago it was significant higher. And in 5 years it will significant lower again. Germany is in a process of change.

> The argument is that we could have kept nuclear running and shut down all coal.

Which is wrong. Nuclear can't replace gas, which coal is replacing. And Nuclear plants have no fuel anymore and lacking up-to-date certification. There was zero chance to continue running since 2019, even if we ignore all the other problems.
> The government disagrees and says the bill “does not represent a ban on end-to-end encryption, nor will it require services to weaken encryption.”

The bill mandates an end-run around E2E encryption. Government spokespeople are deeply disingenuous about this; the two ends are me and you, metaphorically; two users. If there's anything in the channel before the content is encrypted or after it's decrypted, then it isn't end-to-end any more.
So Astro is purely used for static/content websites.

Are Astro content websites really that much faster than Next.js' static export + Vercel CDN?

Is the difference something like 100ms to 68ms? Or is the difference like 100ms to 95ms?
The fact that he measures the back of the plywood controls for quite a bit I think. At 3m27s into the vid you see the plywood that has the 'paint' on the _other_ side is even cooler than the square that had been in the shade all along.

The insulator is just to prevent the plywood side that is measured to be heated by the ambient temp.