skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>lignite coal burning power plants didn't affect the economy as much as it did the environment. Coal power is not more expensive, it's dirtier.

Yeah, but us humans live in that environment. I wonder hoe many years less life expectancy will be thanks to lignite burning and breathing in that coal dust.
That's a wild generalisation and actually really shows how chronically out of touch you are because I can tell you as someone in my early 20s that Harry Potter is rapidly going out of mode because we care about the fact that JK Rowling is committing political suicide rn. Pro-ana was also a thing like 10 years ago. Hilarious how you managed to show how much you don't interact with young people just by making this comment
Answered another comment re: enshitification here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36755232
Yeah, and most of the article, which is allmover the place, focuses on the period right after Covid (bad for Europe as an export heavy region) and the war in Ukraine (it changes things if a war happens right next door). Inflation is a serious problem everywhere, and yes the tendency of rich European countries to favor austerity didn't change. Greece is fucked since 2008, in order to save investment banks, nothimg new here.

In short, the article uses some nice ancdotes, throws in special cases, puts some statistics and numbers (without additional explanation of how those numbers are calculated) on top of all of that only to justify the narrative behind the headline. So, all the mortal sins (in my view) of numbers heavy journalism in one place.

Not that everything is rosey over here, but Europe is far from poor. And for some reason, we didn't have a recession yet neither. The article is well in line so with a lot of others pushing the narrative of neo-liberalism being the only saviour of a Europe on the brink of collaps (only a slight exageration).
As a former commercially employed Moodle / LMS dev, Moodle just needs a refresh of the CSS frontend theme, maybe add htmx for more fluid interactivity.

The back end is still quite competitive and mostly just works. Classic PHP advantages at play here. The project won't die anytime soon.
Sorry, nowadays i use json file to store metadata, then query with asql (sql for json), then parse the markdown to browser.

Frameworks need to die, just give the fuck core libraries to work across frameworks, or you get "vendor locked-in" sooner or later.
There are a bunch of awkward limitations, tho:

The order of records associated with a name is undefined, so if you spread your data across multiple records, you need to add ordering metadata.

The total size of the records must be less than 64 KiB - they have to fit within a DNS message, which has a limited size.

You can put all your 64K ish data into one TXT record, but it has to be split into strings of up to 255 bytes.

You can invent your own record type to contain raw binary data without the sequence-of-strings requirement.

You can use multiple names (eg, numbers) to get past the size limit and to be explicit about the correct order.
What about control+c? Also, I've never used vim without remapping `jj` to <Esc>.
I think it probably depends on how far the writing system is from your own. Imagine you were coming from the English alphabet and learning Japanese. You put in the same number of learning hours, but in one scenario you only learn the written language, and in the other scenario only the spoken.

I think you'd probably learn more from the spoken language. Spoken language is higher bandwidth. Tone of voice, melody and rhythm can convey a lot of extra information with the same words. Plus if you're getting the spoken language in real life or from video, there's probably a bunch of extra context that makes it easier to understand. Even better, if you're talking to someone willing to help you learn, they will simplify their speech and start using gestures to help you understand.

I can accept that, as in the article, for someone who's spent all their time on written language spoken language will seem harder. I've split my time equally between the two and neither seems "harder" than the other. For what it's worth, my target language also uses the latin alphabet.
> We have about a football field's worth of spent fuel sitting in casks and pools. That's not per reactor; that's in total in the US since we started running nuclear power stations

Yes I know.

Counterintuitively, this makes it politically worse, as people can imagine a football field much more easily than approximately the mass of Mt. Everest in CO2 every 5 years.

People :P

> Far more compact than batteries,

Yes but irrelevant; assuming 20% efficient cells at 10% capacity factor, you can store 36 hours of output in a (~10cm~ edit: 1mm)[0] thick layer of battery under each cell (not that one should put the cells there, this is just for a sense of scale).

> wouldn't compete with other large scale transitions that need batteries like electric cars

True in some senses, false in others; they're both competing for the same investment money.

> and would work even during either a week-long blizzard, tornado, or hurricane.

Kinda, depending on the details. There are weather conditions that interfere with safe running of nuclear plants, and in the other direction if you have a large power grid (so all of North America except Texas), the blizzards and hurricanes don't affect the whole zone anyway.

> Batteries offset the power needs from dusk to dawn, but most solar farms do not build capacity for extended (multi-day to week) outages.

For now, sure; but that's a choice to go for low-hanging fruit first rather than an obligation.

> A single tornado let alone a hurricane could wipe out gigawatts of solar or wind capacity.

That sounds like a problem with planning permission or construction if the plants can't cope with wherever they happen to be installed.

> Diversification in energy sources is a good thing. […] I strongly disagree that everyone needs the same solution.

Absolutely agree. Even the fact that the average combined price of PV+LiIon being comparable to nuclear hides the variation in both (and those are just two options).

> the US must take an aggressive role in reducing its own fossil fuel emissions within its borders, since those are the only emissions we can directly control. Diplomacy and economic incentives can only go so far across international borders, but building an maintaining ties overseas is obviously of great importance for that reason. None of this "America First" crap.

Yes indeed.

Thing is, I'm not American, so my perspective here is "appealing to American politicians only works if you can tell them what's in it for them", and a big part of that is jobs for people in their state, and that is something I can't map on to any particular power source…

but I'll leave that to others, politics is so not my thing.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=20+watts+*+36+hours+%2F...
Damn this is complex. Didn’t think about that.
That's interesting to me since I've been using close-to-vanilla lunarvim for the past year and it's been great. I'm just not into customizing my editor much, and only touch my config when I'm annoyed by something. This seems to be your goal as well. Can I ask then what makes lazyvim easier or quicker to set up how you want?
I mean, do you feel the same about taking a breath and the follow-up exhale?

Life must extremely stressful to those for whom every discrete thing is a countdown to death.
>Since Jeff Bezos moved to our village, we're all multi-millionaires on average.

Funny anecdote, but realistically how many ultra-wealthy like Bezos live in neighborhoods poor enough to significantly, distorrt the localc market? I think you'll find the ultra wealthy generally live in similar locations, seme as the poor, same as the middle class, and that goes in every country, from the US to France.
Show HN: Ffmpy – Python wrapper for FFmpeg command line
Not sure how that would help. PostgreSQL already has basically already committed to a stable on disk format for tables and indexes which is why pg_upgrade works. Most of the work upgrading a cluster cones from rewriting the catalog tables. And under most workloads pg_upgrade is very quick so I am also unsure where you think the big gain would be.
I especially like the bits about :

> 1. [...] You want to postpone a task? Please enter the exact date to postpone this to. Which project to add this to? Tags? Subtasks? The amount of things one can customize is really large, but making all this decisions has a cost

and also

> 5. Tasks are not the same. Get milk, write an essay, plan a vacation, reconnect with a friend. These are things of different magnitude, different emotional connection, different context and time commitment. Some tasks aren’t even tasks, e.g. simply items to keep track of or be reminded of. But TODO apps treat them the same. They get the similar looking rows neatly organized in a unified interface.

Obviously, combining 1 and 5 you have all the more issues relating to the need to make decisions between your different task categories, should you choose to manage that aspect too...

In all, the pain with TOOD apps/lists (for me) is not "getting the list done". It's actually "making and maintaining the list". What to put in the list? What not to put? When to update? What kind of details? What sources - Slack, emails, discussions, meetings, ideas? The overhead of just making/maintaining the list is what kills it.
>Using xpath in a test on a dynamic and unpredictable DOM is a painful road to flaky, brittle tests.

sure, but more powerful and thus more able to handle situation than depending on css selectors.

Also consider Robula+ https://tsigalko18.github.io/assets/pdf/2016-Leotta-JSEP.pdf

https://tsigalko18.github.io/assets/pdf/2014-Leotta-ISSREW.p...
Hexowl
hexowl is a Lightweight and flexible programmer's calculator with user variables and functions support written in Go.
I think you're underestimating the amount of friction that requires and as a result how many don't bother. Let's remove the friction entirely and see what happens.

Shared some more context re: this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36755640
As you say, its piggybacking on the dns's uniqueness guarantee. Urls do at least provide and obvious way to have multiple namespaces per domain. But I agree that it's confusing.

I once had the misfortune to have to use a third-party xml-based webservice whos developers thought that the xml namespace had to match the url used to access it. So their production and test systems had completely different namespaces. They maintained multiple xsd schemas for each system that only differed by namespace.

When I finally managed to explain namespaces to their "chief web architect" he got all embarrassed.

This was back in .net 4.x days, and I was generating serialisation classes from their schemas - so I had to create two different dlls and load the appropriate one at runtime. Very aggravating.
>Western European are funding the eastern countries

No they aren't. Western European countries are getting access to the eastern european consumer market to sell their products, and to the cheep Eastern European resources, products and labor to prop up their shortages for industry, labor and social services at the expanse of their own, through the EU common market. It's why Eastern Europe now pays the same or more for food and energy than Germany when it used to be significantly cheaper.

There's no free lunch here. You're making it sound like westerners are directly putting their money in our pockets. I checked my pockets and I don't have any western money in them. Your comment sound like your average fake Brexit propaganda.
Sure, I'd be happy to speak feel to DM me - my username is the same everywhere including gmail.
I mean, there were racist skinheads back in the day at the same time as leftist countercultures existed. One side of the political spectrum doesn't get a monopoly. Both of them are countercultures compared to the centre.
Sure, and it makes a difference for many targets, but a tank or a field ammo dump is fried from either equally well-done, and GPS jamming doesn't seem to matter.

More importantly than the price, Ukraine just can't manufacture the GLSDB (arguably Vilkha are in a similar league, still production is very slow), while you can put together these kamikaze drones in a garage.
Ctrl+C and Esc do not behave the same in all contexts. The correct replacement for Esc is Ctrl+[.

What if you need to type `jj`? Not uncommon to do so while writing math or physics papers. a_{jj}
If you can do it with some remote controlled contraption and wait 24h until everything cools off before entering?
Did you gave this article a try?

I found it very helpful for me to get started. And it is not really outdated, only the first example does not work anymore right away, but if you go to the next step, it all works and then you progresd to a small working physics simulation.
I had the same pain with NeoVim infrastructure, but AstroNvim/astrocommunity kinda solved it for me.
I'd love to be working around loads of smart people again and honestly kinda looking forward to having larger decisions made around me more than just me making all of them cos it will take away the biggest stress I feel internally rn. Does that make sense? I would prefer hands-on I think cos that's what I know 100% I'm good at but i quite liked leadership responsibilities too so not super averse to that site either.
Heh, I have been using `fmt` to do this job since the 1990s, I didn’t know POSIX specifies a different program for the same purpose

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fmt

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/f...
> An IP or MAC based rule does not prevent a malicious device from exfiltrating data

Care to elaborate?
whatabout US
That was one of my favorite series growing up; I always thought it would make for a great series on the small screen.
Without any proper code completion integration (eg. Copilot), and no working plug-in system, Helix unfortunately falls short for my needs.
Fewer neo-Nazis, though.
A list of all Logo memos, with links where I could find them.

https://github.com/pdp11/sits/wiki/List-of-Logo-memos
I tried to go that path in 2010-ish but discovered browser support was not great, so I dropped it.

I really liked it.
C++23: Deducing This
I had a discussion about this on Twitter with Brendan Eich. He became hostile very quickly. He is not a very nice person.
Agreed. Back then, I tried to get into neovim with packer and a ton of plugins, then tried AstroVim and stuff broke all the time. Went back to vscode.

I tried it again about half a year ago with a much leaner, custom lazy (plugin manager, not LazyVim) setup, and now it's my main IDE for everything except C++ (clangd sucks, sorry)

It took me less than a day to get a decent config, and now I rarely touch it (occasionally there may be a nice plugin to throw in). Config is about 2-300 lines, with LSP (rust, typescript), harpoon, oil.nvim telescope, etc. Works great.
The lathe is honestly one of the most underrated inventions of modern civilization.

Though I can't recall of the top of my head, there are certainly more than a few inventions which were simply not practical to build before the invention of the lathe because the tolerances were not good enough with traditional techniques.
Hollywood on Strike
It's possible, but complicated for the employer: they have to found a branch in each employee's flat unless they have a permanent establishment in Austria.
Yes, they also do and I wholeheartedly support that as well. How many customers are they willing to piss off for their anti-adblock push? That's the question.
European countries would be vazal states like Belarus in that situation
Encourage people to use the phone less. And probably also as a promotion for the island.
You are probably using it yourself, right now. You just don't realize it because embedded stuff isn't sexy, won't make it to the blogosphere and just sits there doing it's job, year after year. Every vehicle, every boot of a larger machine probably uses FORTH at some stage.

Not everything is web based and not everybody is part of the hype cycle.

Since you're asking 'anyone' one example should be enough to satisfy you with proof: every IBM Power series system has Open Firmware on it which you can boot into: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9/0009-ESS?topic=asmi-power... . Note that that doesn't even mention Forth by name.

Also note that the world is a lot larger than just the English speaking part of it, and that bringing up new systems is usually transitory: as soon as you can bootstrap yourself out of a FORTH environment you do so because it is a bit limiting.

Finally, as long as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory Chandra is still online at least someone is using FORTH in production.

It's just one of many space missions where FORTH plays a role.
Talc is a clay mineral, and sometimes is co-occurs with asbestos ore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talc#Association_with_asbestos
Chatunitest-maven-plugin: a ChatGPT-based automated unit test generation tool
Many people have tried using ChatGPT to help them with various programming tasks and have achieved good results. However, there are some issues with using ChatGPT directly. Firstly, the generated code often fails to execute correctly, leading to the famous saying "five minutes to code, two hours to debug". Secondly, it is inconvenient to integrate with existing projects as it requires manual interaction with ChatGPT and switching between different platforms. To address these problems, we have proposed the "Generate-Validate-Repair" framework and implemented a prototype. Additionally, to make it easier for everyone to use, we have developed some plugins that can be seamlessly integrated into existing development workflows.
And we are reaching (?) a similar point all over the democratic countries right now again.
I wonder if an active sonar array would be desirable. It would of course be easy to locate the beacons but they would probably be relatively cheap. Also, that much sonar noise would probably be bad for marine life. Would it give us capabilities we currently do not have?
It actually exists some countries like Estonia https://www.cato.org/policy-report/july/august-2006/mart-laa... .
All the supplier catalogues: rswww, farnell, mcmaster in the US, etc.
FWiW there's at least one person on the planet with a personal wealth > $10 billion that still lives on their multi generational station surrounded by native title lands populated by first nations people with no income or assets (other than an embedded 'nation' their family has held for at least 10K years.
Resolving tech debt should not be a requirement for completing a task, it should be planned.

Such tasks will never be planned because there's always higher-priority tasks to be done. I actively encourage my developers to clean up the code they'll be working on, otherwise you're just piling tech debt upon existing tech debt.

The only exception is repository-wide refactorings: if those are necessary to implement a feature, we block the feature and create a prerequisite task outlining the refactoring needed. But this is mostly to aid the review process, in my mind these two tasks are still one (and if I work on it myself, I usually already have the feature half-implemented so I can double-check that the refactoring does indeed make the feature easier to implement).
That name is a blast from the past. Anyone remember Nvidia SoundStorm?
My tentative best guess on how EAs and Rationalists sometimes turn crazy
Seems like the development is much more focussed since last year and a lot is happening with 1.0 (and 64-bit support) being on the way possibly by the end of this year. [1][2]

I am really looking forward to learn more about this language when 1.0 comes out, especially because of its ambitious feature list [3] (programming across the low/high-level spectrum, etc.), Lisp influences and the Logo-like syntax inherited from Rebol.

- [1] https://www.red-lang.org/2022/07/the-road-to-10.html
- [2] https://www.red-lang.org/p/roadmap_2.html
- [3] https://github.com/red/red
If someone managed to improve on it in every metric then yes, absolutely.

The thing is though that you don't have to beat it on every metric to be useful, you have to be _good enough_ on every metric and then really good on one or two.

For example, it's absolutely fine for a battery to weight five times as much if it doesn't need to be portable. Five times as heavy but half the cost per MWh? That's great for grid storage!

Twice as expensive and non rechargeable but 4 times the capacity (per unit volume)? Great for pacemakers!

It's all about finding the right niche.
Build generative AI-powered specialised assistants that provide answers and insights to customers and employees within seconds. No coding or technical skills are required.
Despite all the kerfuffle there were massive mobilizations of people and resources still, and that was even in the face of a silent killer, one that didn't trigger apocalyptic feelings in a critical mass of people as much as, say, widespread EMP attacks from nuclear explosions in orbit that affect every piece of electronics we've come to rely on, or a horrendous chemical spill that changes the atmosphere's chemistry. The latter are much more immediate and appeal to deeper instincts as regards risk assessment than an invisible microbe that only infects a few species of mammal.
stop tickin
My todo app is in iOS Notes, which I remove once I’m done. Works to reduce the cognitive load, is flexible and synchronizes between devices.
Or the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Portfolio Atari Portfolio.

Featued in Terminator 2 and so slick all my friends asssumed it was just a movie prop, not a real device.

Also a weird feeling using an IBM XT (huuuuge computer) in school and the see a friend run the same software on his Portfolio. Disonnance and very much "the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed".
The money represents real resources. Printing more of it doesn't make more resources, it just moves some power over the allocation of those resources to the government printing it.
Non-sequitur to the headline?
Getting rustc to use AVX2 SIMD
We're not talking about a controlled economy trying to set prices on an open market.

We're talking about a single purchaser using its power to impose prices on suppliers. It's hardly unique - how do you think Walmart keeps its prices as low as possible? By leveraging their power.

And all your aguments seem a bit moot when you look at countries with single-payer systems - they just work, at a per-person cost that is far lower than the US
So, your way of forming your belief was to Google for "why do snacks taste different?" and then believe the first result that came up, which was a weird theory about penny-pinching big sugar megacorps. You then further perpetuated that theory by restating it, without giving your source.

You also threw in the statement "And this is coming from the US one of the sugar capitals" as if that made the weird theory any more credible. The fact that I had been discussing sugary drinks in the UK should make it more questionable whether anything that's happening in the US is even relevant to the discussion.

And my way of forming my belief was to attribute the difference in taste to the blinding obvious, namely that they've replaced the source of sweetness in a drink that's supposed to taste sweet as evidenced by the ingredients list on that particular drink's packaging.

Independent thought can sometimes be correct, and total bullshit can often be stated in a way as to include numbers and references.
Flow batteries are pretty good but I think if the dirt cheap "heavy" chemistries such as liquid metal and iron-air take off then not needing any moving parts and having no risk of leaks is an advantage.
But the curse status also has an interesting positive side effect: with it you don't need the "transient curse" item to temporarily make ghost enemies vulnerable.

> in the Consecrated Snowfield

The merchant outside of Leyndell sells an interesting torch that'll come in handy in Ordina, by the way.