skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of the "desktop".

Agree. Although I can see how the idea of "first principles" can be a very difficult starting point. A blank sheet of paper is a scary monster.

There's a huge breadth and depth of non-"desktop" GUIs out there, some (like smartphones) are even wildly successful. It's good to explore them for inspiration. Some of my favourites:

- Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com/about/) - I won't attempt to summarize, just dive in!

- SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) - mobile UI focused on interaction through gestures / swipes; I've used it as my daily driver for a couple years.

- Speaking of mobiles, classic Nokia UIs allowed you to navigate to a specific item in the menu by pressing the corresponding digit on the dial pad. Once you learned where a particular item is, accessing e.g. your SMS inbox was extremely quick.

- Apple Watch / WatchOS (https://www.apple.com/watchos/) - I've always loved the idea of a device where one of the primary interaction methods was a wheel/dial of some sort. The watch even gives you context-sensitive tactile feedback.

- ZUIs in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface) and the work of Jef Raskin in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) - this is the guy who helped design the Macintosh, but his other work took a radically different route.

- Magit (https://magit.vc/). Many common git operations are reduced to a couple of keystrokes; the obscure features are more discoverable, and the cumbersome procedures (such as rebasing, or staging individual hunks) become simple and intuitive. Also check out transient (https://github.com/magit/transient), which is the "UI toolkit" that powers Magit.
What strikes you as difficult with compose files? In fact, I would say it’s the most concise format to describe a desired state of running applications currently available.
That's a pretty good idea, because reading the preparatory material for a decision is almost always valuable but often not explicitly valued. An employee might think they could be 'doing something better' with the time, but even the meekest worker can confidentially feel justified in reading a document if it has scheduled time in the published agenda. This levels the playing field between the overburdened and the lazy on one side and the well-prepared on the other.

From a personal point of view, however, I instinctively dislike the idea: trying to process and evaluate material in public is stressful, chiefly because it is so often in my experience presented in bad faith. The slightest expression of positivity is immediately twisted into unwavering enthusiasm and complete consent, and a hint of misunderstanding is used as justification to discard any further criticism! You have to really trust your colleagues to allow yourself to learn, be confused and risk making mistakes in their company. But if the workplace really does have that non-competitive culture, it is surely the most efficient way of conducting meetings, possibly the best combination of written preparation and live collaboration.
How is it different from, say, a Costa Express machine?
haha, nice!

Everyone always had one T-junction and one cable, but somehow terminators were always missing...
ZF stands for "Gear Factory" and is owned by the Zeppelin Foundation (yes, that Zeppelin) which is onwed by the city of Friedrichshafen.
The entire thought process of "Occidental Petroleum": "So we are using C02 to push oil out of the ground, but it's kinda expensive, can we make it so government pays for it? Totally, call the Media Relationships department".

The whole thing is green washing theater. It doesn't even address how the "sucking CO2 from the air" is going to be ecologically viable, just a hand-waivy "Think giant fans. Chemical reactions suck the carbon out of the sky and then store it underground." lol
Loopvectorization exploits avx512, when available. How is that achieved?
Unironically this. After trying Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and various proprietary PaaS config formats, I've grown to love Compose files' simplicity.
To me that makes it sound more insurmountable than the pyramid comparison.

Photosynthesis is cool but there are a lot of fires these days and also decomposition.
I would consider it an privilege for the rich and wealthy that few can enjoy. It is far from normal.
That's a fairly simplified view of what a forest is. A forest is not just a bunch of trees, but an ecosystem where perhaps the most important part is the soil, which in the long term is the bigger carbon reservoir.

A lot of the carbon that first goes into the trees eventually ends up in the soil, which if left undisturbed (i.e. not used for farming) is stable and does not leech significant amounts of CO2.

Admittedly the downside of this is that such soil is almost absurdly fertile. This is in large why slash-and-burns are so popular where ever there's old forest. Indonesia, Brazil, etc. Like it's not even about the lumber, the farmland is amazing for a decade or so.
Except it tooks millions of years to capture the amount of carbon we are releasing in decades, and much of that capture will not actually work in today's ecosystems: all coal deposits were formed in the window of time between trees evolving the production of lignine and microbes evolving the ability to decompose it.
It isn't tracking. It's just the browser telling the server what advert types to show. The topics that it sends are calculated client side, and are randomised per site in a way that tries to avoid fingerprinting.

Google could have avoided most of this silly backlash by adding an option to set your topics manually.
Nginx-unit is reconfigurable using REST: https://unit.nginx.org/controlapi/
There is also Insomnia's smaller sibling LAN, "StratLAN" - captures the old school small LAN feeling a lot more!
Sometime in the Swift 3 timeframe (2018? 2019?) Apple renamed all their APIs to match their new guidelines. Objective-C methods get bridged to Swift almost directly, which means you can often call functions that were designed decades ago without it looking all that different from all your other code.

Two unrelated facts about Swift are that it has "implicit self" in that inside an instance method, you can call any other instance method without qualifying the access to indicate that it's happening on the current object. Also, it has a free function, print, that is basically its equivalent to std::cout or System.out.println or console.log in other languages. It's a common debugging technique, in particular. Perhaps you can see where this is going…

When writing apps on macOS, one makes their own custom NSWindows and NSViews. One method, -print:, invokes the system print dialog by default. This, of course, got named NSWindow.print(_:)/NSView.print(_:), which promptly made any code that tried to log a view or window from a context where those were visible suddenly start trying to literally print. Kind of amusing that the literal action of "printing", which today lives on as "printing" output to the screen, ends up meeting its roots with a name overload collision.

(If you're wondering, the function was eventually renamed to NSWindow.printWindow(_:) and NSView.printView(_:) to solve this issue.)
There is a lot of stuff you cannot do in Rust. For example reasoning about your code, which is the minimum I expect from my language. If you cannot do that, it's not high-level enough. Rust is like all other type-based languages: it restricts what you can do, offering you some guarantees in return. For me, the deal Rust is offering is just not that good. I don't like to live in somebody else's idea of allowed code.
Nobody is claiming that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is producing energy, it will always cost some energy. When we reached zero carbon dioxide emissions, then one can consider actively lowering the carbon dioxide level by pulling some out of the atmosphere. But until then it is essentially avoiding carbon dioxide emissions vs continuing them and then spending more money to undo them. In principle this could work, if avoiding emissions in one place was more expensive than undoing them in another place - if we only had really bad batteries, then it might make sense to keep combustion engines and capture the carbon dioxide in stationary facilities. In practice and at scale I neither see it necessary nor feasible.
customers huh? can't live with em can't live without them
Wait, why would you want to do that? I still have my 9800 :)
I have low confidence in society's ability to solve these kinds of problems—where the consequences only emerge years afterwards—in a timely manner.

Interesting find on the IH vending machines. I would buy canned coffee from one of these.
G-20 Broadens Debate on AI Risks and Mulls Global Oversight
Comfy with Python basic tooling, now what?
Ranked: Which Countries Drink the Most Beer
there are a lot of people arguing strongly for one xor the other. reduction in harm and reduction in use are both good things. neither need to be prioritised more than the other. however, one is easier to legislate for
This isn't my experience. I know a lot of people with the fujifilm instax (which is admittedly much cheaper) and people use it quite a lot
This seems to be a method of knowledge transfer from generation to generation.

Did they also re-live the experience?
This is really great! What I'm really look forward to trying is the server side WebAssembly: https://unit.nginx.org/configuration/#configuration-wasm.

Huge potential!
> “as you become better […] you never really recapture that feeling of the early days”

It’s the same with everything, isn’t it.

There’s a stage in life when you’re relatively young and it makes sense to go deeper into whatever inspires you. But as you grow older it’s probably good to make an effort to try more new things, to get back some of that feeling of discovery. It may not work out quite like that but it’s worth to keep trying.
The commenters saying that this is old news and that magnet-free brushless motors have existed for a long time miss the main point. ZF claims to have one that is competitive with traditional designs utilizing rare earth materials.

Even ten to fifteen years ago the effort German automakers put into saving a milligram Dysprosium here and there - not only in the drive motor but every electric motor in the vehicle - was insane. I'm out of automotive for a couple of years now, but I can only imagine that this pains must have increased dramatically.

Because of all this effort, a motor without rare earth metals would only have to be nearly as good as the competition to still be a huge deal.
I remember my first LAN party. No Internet, just one continuous 10Base(something) coaxial network where I was on the one far end. I brought down the entire network more than once when I needed to disconnect my BNC connector and terminator, in order to troubleshoot some hw/driver issues.
They and everyone else will die no matter what we do. The whole personal responsibility thing is complete horseshit. Even if everyone made a real effort to "do the right thing", cutting down on meat and getting rid of cars if possible etc, we'd still be completely fucked.

And just to be clear, this is a fictional scenario, it will not happen. The only thing that might make a real difference is if everyone on the planet gets together and collectively make huge changes to modern society. Obviously this also won't happen but I'd stand behind it if it did.

Go right ahead and outlaw beef, I love it but I can live without it if I have to. Go ahead and tax the biggest emitters, we'll have to pay more for things but I can live with that. Go ahead and do anything that can help improve our situation on a national or international scale and I'll support it.

But as long as we can buy beef in the store with no limits, buy cars with unnecessarily large combustion engines, fly around the world at our whim - people will. And it's not just these few popularized things we need to change. Everything needs to change. Where we produce things, how we produce them, the materials we produce them from. It's an enormous problem that I honestly don't expect us to be able to solve.
Yeah, at one time we had so many t-junctions that we build a 1m tall robot out of them. That was the time where whatever bag you opened you would find a t-junction quad assembly.
I didn’t think I would see traefik and simple in the same sentence.
I have been using a 180x90cm dining table as my desk for a long time now (maybe a couple of decades). My only regret is that it’s not height adjustable, but it’s not easy to replace it with a sit/stand desk.
Motors often run at high rpm and then shut off, coasting to a stop. I would expect any standard bldc controller circuit to be able to handle any potential generated by manual movements without difficulty.
The next article is definitely about the Microprose computer game version because the writer alludes to Sid Meier’s involvement.
if it's an accurate number
Well, maybe they simply shouldn't advertise bikes if they are not related to bikes? It would heavily de incentivise pages with trash content that exists only to expose you to ads. That would be really good for internet.
Fair point. I've donated to a few local forest trusts.

My personal pet peeve about biomass is the use of artificial grass.
It is a great start and shows very good potential. Still need to build support for io_uring, and all the sundry features in mainline nginx, apache, haproxy etc.
Ah, my biotech-plant biology roommate's 2nd favorite species after c. sativa. So eager were they to work with it, that they got a gig in the greenhouse under a prof with a psilocybin DEA registration. IIRC, they created new fruit and vegetable commercial produce lines, some being GMO.
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My solution for this setup is having ingress controllers on all three nodes, and then specifying all three IPs in all DNS records. That way the end user will "load balance" based on the DNS randomization.

Of course, if a node goes down, a third of the traffic will be lost, but with low TTLs and some planning, you can minimoze the impact of this.
Oh wow, you weren’t kidding. On top of that, OP has submitted this link multiple times in the past few hours.
Are listings flooding the market?
What specifically are you looking forward to?
I don’t think that has changed.
Just did that, here is the link in case you'd be interested: https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/Hv5iLockPn
I call it "Soviet Yellow" whenever I see it, its a very common colour for buildings in Europe, and it is indeed rage-inducing. I feel that its a frequency of colour which produces a dissonance with ones own internal colour, which is more blue/white or blue/orange. This yellow feels very sickening whenever I encounter it.
Looks like aluminium smelter demand flexibility is already in use, but it doesn't rely on process temperature variation:

https://enpot.com/

https://aluminiuminsider.com/trimet-aluminium-betting-enpots...
> A lot of the carbon that first goes into the trees eventually ends up in the soil, which if left undisturbed (i.e. not used for farming) is stable

Stable, as in the amount of carbon that is captured is offset by the amount that is released?

That sounds like after a short while forests become carbon neutral, unless we cut the trees down and do something to prevent the wood from burning or decomposing.

I think we are in agreement?
It’s hard… What’s so fascinating about film cameras is that they are little mechanical wonder machines. Have you ever held an Olympus OM1 or 2 in your hand? Beautiful, and it’s insane what they managed to fit in such a small package. But “mechanical” is not where our world of solid state electronics is heading. Even if one of the camera manufacturers had an incentive, I imagine remaking their older cameras isn’t really possible. The tooling is gone, obviously, but so is the knowledge… like Ricoh/Pentax is rumored to have a new Film camera in development and they had to bring back guys from retirement. And they went for a less complex compact, not an SLR. Now that they all went mirrorless for their digital offerings, the manufacturing competence for the prism and mirror unit will dwindle fast.

Like you I hope someone manages it. Shooting film is so satisfying!
One specific childhood memory in the UK is going to a public swimming pool and getting hot chicken soup from a vending machine as if it was a drink just like anything else.

I miss swimming pool chicken soup.
Heh. My pet peeve are useless success fields. A 200 response tells you it was successful already. We can talk about a „message“ field or something if you intend to display it to a user, but even that should be implicit by being a response to a specific request. If I send a POST /configuration, is there really something new to be gained from that message that the client cannot figure out on its own? Wouldn’t, perhaps, a 201 No Content suffice?
I disagree. There are limited resources to spend on this issue, physically, and politically, and economically. Every bit of carbon capture technology that you build is taking up resources that would be infinitely better spent on carbon emission reductions: more efficient devices, more robust consumer products that can be replaced once a decade or less, more local production to reduce long-distance transportation, PR campaigns against over consumption, etc.

And again, carbon capture is simply not a viable technology. It's almost like using a shovel to take water from a leaking pipe and move it to a nearby puddle: lots of effort for little gain, and there's no guarantee that the puddle won't connect back to the leak.

Not to mention, most of those who peddle it are outright dishonest. Most have 0 plans for storage, and instead plan to "re-use the captured carbon", for example to grow plants mute efficiently in green houses, which is to say, to release it back at a slightly lower rate.

And finally, even if by some magic the effort was somewhat successful, and we built up huge deposits of sequestered carbon, the most likely next step is for some idiot politician to start advocating for burning it as soon as the trend became slightly positive.
Gentle reminder that news media reports about suicide are usually full of errors if they didn't have a statistician with them while writing the report.

> People in the US might be particularly troubled to learn that the suicides there have increased by around 40% over the past two decades. Last year, almost 50,000 people in the US took their own life – one death every 11 minutes – and the nation now has one of the highest rates of wealthy, developed countries. (For comparison, the UK suicide rate is around 25% lower than that of the US).

"Last year, almost 50,000 people took their life" -- did they? Or was that the year their death was registered? Did the covid pandemic create a backlog that caused deaths to be registered later?

"the UK rate is around" - but they link to an old release of the data, and it's for England and Wales and does not include Scotland and Northern Ireland.

This paragraph has two links, and compares them. The first link is to "Our world in data" and the second is to the UK's ONS. These count death differently, you cannot directly compare them. In England and Wales the ONS defines suicide as "which includes deaths with an underlying cause of intentional self-harm (ages 10 years and over) and deaths with an underlying cause of event of undetermined intent (ages 15 years and over).", but the CDC's definition does not include that "undetermined intent" bit. In the US suicide definitions require intent to die.

The article then has a bunch of speculation about potential mechanisms for pollution to be causing suicide, and not one mention of poverty.
You can fix this by asking for the password before letting the attacker replace the bootloader.
It’s a vlc issue with h265 - I actually noticed this with videos from defcon last year. Pull the YouTube version or reencode to h264 to fix.
I am looking for an SLR. My best photography related memory is from a Nikon FM3A that I borrowed from a relative as a teenager for some time. Where I live there isn't an active used SLR market in a way that can be trusted and purchased. Maybe I will try my luck with one of the trusted sellers in the USA once someone from here is coming back.

No, Leica is not an option - both on the price front and that not being an SLR. What I want is really a compact mechanical SLR.
like how other status pages do it
I know a ton of younger people who love these things too, great for parties
Sounds great!
I do a small lan weekend with friends, around 15 ppl, about once a year.

But we struggle finding suitable games that are LAN based, and end up playing CS:GO.
Would love some more LAN games, any tips?
> I wonder if it would fit the use of excess renewable electricity.

It's exactly the opposite. The pots[1] in the smelter get their lifetime reduced if they have to be restarted, and if restarted multiple times that can be quite significant[2]. They can survive without power for a few hours, but they freeze over after a day or so which leads to the most damage.

As such they really want stable and cheap electricity, like hydro.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_smelting#Layout_of_a...

[2]: https://aluminiumtoday.com/content-images/news/Oyeweb.pdf
I don't randomly grab people's phones and install things on them though. I'm talking about the computers I share with coworkers, friends and family. I use the computers too. Since I don't tolerate ads, they won't need to either.

So I don't see it as patronizing them at all. I see it as leadership. I'm putting my reputation on the line. People trust me with all this computer stuff, if I screw things up they won't trust me anymore. So I make it my responsibility to ensure it works and that they will like it, even though they "don't care". For example, on these shared computers I don't turn it up to the point it breaks pages. I know how to deal with those breakages, they don't. So I ensure they never have to.
To be fair, is practically on one of the first lines of the press release: "...In contrast to the magnet-free concepts of so-called separately excited synchronous motors (SESM) already available today..."
Are machines really the appropriate solution?

Shouldn't we use something plant based that is able to grow exponentially?
yeah but why is it on me to defeat a hostile user experience?
Unit has been around for half a decade. It feels like an evolution to something like Phusion Passenger, but it's not quite cloud-native. A lot of the documentation is tailored to installing directly on a server and some essentials (i.e. prometheus metrics) are missing.

I briefly evaluated it for bringing a PHP team into our Kubernetes cluster, but then ended up writing a bit of Go code to proxy into a real nginx+fcgi while adding a syslog sink (so PHP could log to stdout/stderr) and our standard prometheus metrics on the Go http server.
>It may be a difference in quantity rather than a categorical difference.

I don't exclude that possibility. But the only way to find out is to test the other possibility as well.
Hm, I think the AI does several scary things when applied to weapons:

Makes countermeasures harder (can’t just jam the control signal)

Allows scale (don’t need 1 pilot per drone, so can have 1000 drones flying in a swarm)

And perhaps most scary, it launders responsibility (It wasn’t US that chose to kill those people, it was “the algorithm”)
I'm pretty sure Luminous Base Control here stopped 1 step away from a great joke. I will just go ahead and assume the answer is "a vacation":

I'm not sure if this is the right category, but here goes: What do you call a vacation that's too short? A...
"Reinvention" my dude it's the other way around, espresso was big in Melbourne before it ever hit Seattle.
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10 years in front-end. love to load the browser with some heavy client code. 30$/hr