skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The C/C++ interop in Zig gives it a great value proposition for embedded systems programming. My experience of that culture has been that C++ is "too unpredictable", so C is the language of choice. And glob help you if you want to use dynamic memory allocation. Zig could replace C and the preprocessor and support programming at a higher level of abstraction (generics).

I've tried a couple of times now to get my head around Rust with small efforts. Apparently I need big efforts and deep immersion. "A half-hour to learn Rust"[1] certainly helped with understanding the syntax around lifetimes. I keep reading that understanding the borrow-checker and lifetimes should be a snap for C/C++ programmers. Well, I've been doing C++ for over 30 years and C for longer, and Rust just strikes me as a bondage and discipline language.

[1] https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust
My theory is that the backlash is largely due to implementation problems. The pineapple chunks need to be small, without that tough part of the pineapple and they should be paired with a contrasting strong flavor like spicy or savory. A lot of pizza places don't bother with either - chunks too big, paired with sad ham. I think a lot of these people haven't had good pizza with pineapple, or it's been so long they forgot, and that's just an injustice against humanity.
Social attenuation.
It's 2011. You have 8 Steam accounts with Civilization V. Coronas are coming out the fridge. It's 4:30pm. Someone shows up with a macOS device. The first turn began at 8:05pm. You know the deadline is at 3am, because that's when they do last call at the Korean BBQ place that one of the guys looks forward to all night. There's only diplomacy rule: "No alien governors," you can't just walk over to some amateur's screen and fix everything wrong with their civ.

It's 2pm, October 18th, 2004. You have a hacked Xbox and the leak of French Halo 2. The line to play at the Holiday Inn for DECA State wraps around the hallway. A second hacked Xbox materializes. You play the first 8 player game at 2am.

It's the basement of the collectibles shop in 1999. You're hiding behind a plant in Zaphod's Estate. Someone notices you and you die instantly. It's still only 5pm. The 8 player match of Broodwar is 15 minutes in. Your beautiful base patrolled by battleships, it's untouched. You're 8 years old. Someone who is actually good is eliminated, and takes over your screen.
What happens to the CO2 in the extraction model you used? Collected into tanks that we then have to deal with?
Probably the right move. OpenAI talks a lot about "good behavior" and more people find atheism upsetting than mild religiosity.
> In Phase 4, though, a churned TV customer is still a broadband customer, because the Internet is a precondition for watching the vMVPD! Sure, a customer could be so incensed that they also change their Internet provider, but that is completely unnecessary and, given the inconvenience involved, highly unlikely.

95% of the US only having access to wired broadband via coaxial cable is more than just an inconvenience to switching ISPs. Charter and other coaxial cable ISPs know their broadband customers have nowhere to go.
Tiling -- split left and right or up and down... This is the case within in Emacs.

Given I use a much larger screen I can assure you it works well.
Plant a couple of trees, watch them grow, cut them down and turn the wood to charcoal. Repeat.
> I'd argue web dev is largely a solved problem for large complex apps, but largely unsolved for simpler use cases.

I have a good example of a small-scale problem that's a b** to solve with web technology.

In a nutshell, I have an application which sends batches of data to a remote client. On the far end, I want a little web app that pays attention to the incoming queue of batches, display that list of batches in a browser, each batch with a progress bar, and be able to click on a batch to start the next stage of processing it when the batch is ready.

making real-timeish display updates should be a canned function but there is a lot of frontend/backend stuff going on to make it work.

> I think further work in this space is warranted.

what he said.
Ask HN: I want to relocate yo Europe, but don't want to work for a company
Hey there HNers!

Here is the situation. I'm officially living in Israel, but right now I'm nomading the world and living off savings.

I had some plans that didn't work out the way I expected, but I wanted to end up in Europe (preferably The Netherlands). I still want to end up in Europe. However, I prefer not to get a traditional job again.

I was wondering, what are my other options, as a software engineer, to settle in Europe without a company sponsoring my relocation Visa?
I find it funny that we're carbon neutral if we build two HEUs. Surely, we can just build the one, shut down all other energy production, and call it a day?
How very snowflakey of you.
That's an oddly specific and nuanced set of facts to know about various people. Are they confessing this to you, and if so is it spontaneous or under your examination? Or, are you reading this into their psyches from a distance? Or, are you making these observations about people at different parts of their lives before and after their respective inflection points regarding when they personally come to realize hating pineapple on pizza is popular?
We’ve already emitted so much CO2 that we have to capture a lot of what is currently in the atmosphere. Also, decarbonizing the grid with solar, wind, tides, nuclear, and even geothermal is going to involve generating massive amounts of waste electricity.

On top of that, some energy generation technologies (like solar) are ramping faster than Moore’s law used to. That means that non-peak energy production will no longer be scarce, so thermodynamic efficiency is a second-order effect.

In all likelihood, the most economic path forward probably involves simultaneously drawing down CO2 and also generating 5-10% of the energy we use from fossil fuels, 90-95% from renewables, and an additional 10-100% on carbon capture.
Why would you enable xdebug in production?
A lot of different battery techs are being worked on. Lithium might wind up being left behind in five years.
"It's all green washing. Everyone, the rich especially, must dramatically reduce consumption and put our money towards regrowing/healing the green space."

Microsoft can fund this development it's much more difficult to make other people change their ways
Ironically, you need it all the more specifically on the devices you like to use those services with. Even moreso than on the devices you don't use them with. The fact of the matter is Lockdown makes iMessage as safe as is possible (I still wouldn't take the risk, personally, but YOLO). It doesn't hurt to be using Lockdown everywhere.
I've been enjoying Slow Horses, which in my head-canon is a sequel, with "Smiley" (the character played by Gary Oldman, natch) put out to irascible pasture at Slough House. It's not truly on the same level, but it's good fun.
Submitted a number of times recently, lots of discussion on this one yesterday:

Heirloom Carbon: Absorbing CO2 from the air using crushed rocks

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435454
Plastic according to Kai’s video on it: https://youtu.be/qCi9NSk7IZQ?feature=shared
Wasn't Tesla funded mostly by carbon credits for a good portion of their existence?

They've made electric cars mainstream
I pretty much love all styles of pizza, which I think comes down to setting expectations. If you're expecting pizza style x and you get pizza style y you're going to think it's bad. (Note: within styles there are bad pizzas.)

But Neapolitan, it's on another level to me. I still remember the first time I had it at Settebello in SLC back in the mid 2000s. From that day, my dream was to have a backyard oven to make it. Several years back I got an Ooni pizza oven and it has been a delight. Dough, sauce, mozzarella, basil, and fire. It's so simple and pure yet magical.

I last made some two days ago. After eating I told my wife, "I think everyone in the world deserves to taste this." I really do.
Is there anything better than trees though?

I mean when you look at amount of CO2 emitted for planting/maintenance/harvest v.s. absorbed over the course of 10+ years?
>>The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supply of housing, COVID being an unfortunately timed disruption which further strained that supply. Nothing was built for almost a year, but the population continued to grow.

It was completely asinine for Trudeau to refer to potentially restricting the number of foreign students[1] because, while this is a contributing factor, he sidestepped the primary driver which is that the largest reason for Canada's population growth[2] is our (permanent) immigration targets, where said policy is set primarily by the federal government (although some provinces have overlapping programs for immigrants such as Quebec).

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-trudeau-hou...

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-record-population-grow...
Interesting, would you be able say what it was?
An indie movie?
I'd love to see an update for 13B, and I can vouch that vast.ai prices are very good.
We had to hit net zero 10-20 years ago. We’re already hitting climate tipping points, so we’re already committed to some form of climate engineering. The lowest risk approach to that is carbon capture.
Would anyone ever sign up for a fucking newsletter from the first god damn second they open a website? Why do they do this? What kind of a stupid purpose does it have other than annoying users?
On plain text -- in short, it doesn't exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5uJ7Nlvvo

And there have definitely been UTF-8 parsing bugs before and likely will again.
There is a dearth of statistics here, but uhh, judging by the number of friends I've had to transport to or from a hospital from bike accidents I'm at least on the surface skeptical.
Token ring coax cabling with a terminator at the end

DOS, Windows

Quake 3 arena, Descent, Warcraft 2, Unreal Tournament

94-98
British Columbia realised just how serious of a problem housing is, going so far as to implement an updated provincial housing policy aimed squarely at densifying Vancouver[1], even though technically it applies to the entire province.

[1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/arti...
>Since I'm being down voted, I'm adding a reference:

>5% of lithium batteries are currently recycled

Whether something is currently recycled and whether it can be recycled are two different questions. For a long time, copper wasn't recycled very often. Then the price went up, and now it's very valuable trash.

Lithium is absolutely renewable. It may not be renewed, but it is renewable.
This is an interesting factoid!
They are all non-deterministic; hence the term of stochastic parrots always referred to LLMs.

Thus these tests are close to useless.
Zig is not supposed to be a Rust equivalent. It's supposed to be C but with the problems fixed.

https://youtu.be/Gv2I7qTux7g
Or you can replace the escape sequences right in the source text: it works since no escape sequence is shorter than the text it represents.
Source needed.

By basic civic laws, I mean things like not allowing open air drug markets in downtown:

Very recent video

https://v.redd.it/x87v0nws5anb1

FFS, if you have an open air drug market, it doesn't really matter if there are public restrooms. This is one major reason why BART boarded up their restrooms in downtown SF.
The planet isn’t big enough for that to work. Forests simply don’t capture enough carbon per square foot per year.

Even if they did, where would you store the wood?
But how does this improve safety? Which one or combination of these things causes a four fold reduction in traffic accidents?

I did indeed need to take a vision test on the states, three times, once in each state, these look comparable to what I had to pass in California- less the first aid part.

Are new drivers causing all the excess accidents?

After 10 years of driving the average American and German driver should be about as safe? If not, why not?
My take from reading and listening to things about this is: the jury is still out. All of these ideas are very early in their learning curves, so it seems the relative slopes of those curves is still a very open question.
Do you remember what parts acted like what?
Plenty of land was suitable for settlement (ie: Argentina). Mostly empty and competing empires were too far. Of course, after the discovery of the "new" world, the amount of empty land reduced significantly.
What are you even talking about, they all look delicious.
They have a 'regular' one that's $120. Maybe this is the Teenage Engineering model.
I was gonna say, I did some of this with VB3, and VB6 definitely could do it all. CSS & HTML are ancient technology limping on with an entire industry of people who know its dark magic keeping it afloat.
A lot of people also got into case modding and added physical LAN handles to their rigs (always called "The Beast"; along with Perspex and cathode tubes https://tinyurl.com/LANhandles ). Good times :')
There are about 37 billion tons of CO2 emissions per year. If you could get the price down to $100/ton, you can get the world net zero for $3.7t/year. US GDP is 25 trillion/year. World GPD is about 96.5 trillion. So, it would cost about 3.8% of world GDP per year. World global military is about $2.2t/year, so it would be higher than global military expenditure, but somewhat theoretically possible. If you substantially reduced emissions, it might be feasible to use carbon capture for the rest.
No, by the time it was high enough, there was too much light from the interstate and probably early morning twilight. I'll try again in a few days when it's darker outside and the comet is supposed to be brighter then. I'm up at 6AM weekdays anyway.
I work in this field. I don't think this is going to get restricted anymore than AI will.

The modern battlefield is just signal jammers. Remote human pilots just wouldn't work like their proposals wants. Autonomy is becoming a requirement. No targeting humans is logical and the predictable autonomy is pretty much there.

A lot of this stuff in this video though, you can get off the shelf and implement today. Compute and battery life are the limiters. The whole world is pouring billions into making those much better though.
Now actually do the numbers on how many trees we need to plant per year, to offset our climate emissions. It's cheaper to capture carbon, and that's saying something.
Um, well there was the CEO that just got fired
Summer of college, working as a temp at a soulless company where all I did, all day long, was call doctors and ask if they still took a certain insurance.

Someone brought a cracked version of Quake to work one day and we all stayed late playing. Even the boss got into it - LAN parties were always amazing but going from call center temp job -> LAN party was like going from the lowest low to highest high.
"would it not make more sense to just replace the fossil fuel with renewable energy"

What if people don't want to switch? They'll just elect someone who stops the progress.

The carbon capture doesn't require the cooperation of the public, except for funding.
> When you stop and think about the bigger picture, clearly it's the food banks that are responsible. By letting the homeless scum of the earth get food twice a week, we give them the feces that will just be maliciously defecated upon streets and in our businesses. Clearly we should be closing them down to preserve a nice to live in society.

So are you opening up your home for a total stranger to relief themselves? Why not? You seem much kinder than us folks.
If enough people living in cities with this issue open up their homes to strangers in need, we won't have this issue in the first place.

I will be waiting for the eventual proof that you do so.

Hyperbole requires hyperbole ;)
Question was holding people accountable.

Like firing someone
I’m not sure I agree on your take. There are of course different definitions of infinity which would have different rules based on said definition. But if our universe is infinite and physics as we know it remains true then we would have to run into all the variations of every molecule combination possible again and again.

Saying we won’t see any even numbers in an infinite set of odd numbers is obvious as the rules of that infinite set have been defined. There are no such rules in the universe.
So it’s completely unreasonable. We’re not going to be building 100km2 solar plants let alone a 1000km2 one. Even if we do, something like that is enough for the energy requirement of a few countries so the CO2 problem would probably fix itself
Lol, there is actually a 'gaming zone' (commercial space set up for LAN parties) still operating in Sunnyvale. I had a shuttle PC that I used for LAN parties and would re-image the disk when I got home.
funny thing is, technology is advancing so fast that lithium might not even be a factor in new batteries.
It’s amazing how many companies are literally just ffmpeg-as-a-service. It wasn’t a ton of money but I saved my last company a few hundred bucks a month they were paying a service to convert .gif files to .mp4
Not at the scale they'd need t. The sun evaporates water from the sea, but nobody is expecting the whole sea to have evaporated by the end of today - because atmospheric sunlight is too small in scale to boil the ocean.
This is all very adjacent to the suckless philosophy: https://suckless.org/philosophy/ . I sometimes wish we had a reset button to figure out where we went wrong; though I’m not a fan of systemd, but it seems like it was even before that.
This reminds me of one of my favourite pizza facts: Hawaiian pizza was invented in Canada.
and then, you need something to get rid of the excess zinc...
What are the indicators you're seeing in this story that legal fees would have a real ROI? I think it's good to be skeptical of paying elective legal fees.
You have 90 days every 180 days before you have to leave the Schengen Area.

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/schengen-visa-countries-lis...

If you over stay, you will be deported.

You will need a VISA to stay longer.
He apparently went on to attend college and wanted to continue acting afterwards, but was not well received by critics. He tried to
kill himself, failed, and went on to live off his fortune.
Did anything come of the lawsuit?
> Battery recycling is really just a logistics problem

It’s also one of scale. We don’t yet have enough EV batteries being retired to merit the recycling infrastructure. China is just reaching the point where it does.
That isn't really "renewing", though. If part of the process involves the substance being dispersed in the environment and then extracted again, that's different from capturing waste as it's produced. Furthermore, you're not necessarily capturing the same carbon dioxide that you released, but when you recycle a battery, it's the same lithium. And getting the lithium from a battery should take less energy than mining it, while capturing and reducing carbon dioxide definitely requires more energy than pumping oil from the ground.

So I don't think this analogy holds up.
>to present one data point in favor of maintaining a pure Ruby codebase

Chris Seaton has been stating this for over 5 years. It is unfortunate this mental model has never caught on in Rails.
This, or variations, can happen with every kind of backend.

The only way to avoid to have the server open only to you till everything is tied down right and the backend is ready to face the world.

To rely upon being quicker on the draw than the bots is quite courageous.
FDA panel to re-evaluate phenylephrine as OTC oral decongestant
I, for one, love the innovation in film technology. Yes, most of it is not new - printing polaroids has been around for decades and the rest of the camera looks like it was salvaged from digital cameras in the last 10 years.

This style of photography is just the complete opposite of what we'll all grown to expect from cameras. We expect them to have microscopic resolution so we can view the photos on 5 inch wide screens. We expect to click one button, and then spend hours tweaking the photo in arbitrary ways until we get an effect that would have been achieved if the aperture was set slightly wider.

The tech is pretty meh and it's probably overpriced, but that's entirely besides the point.
I agree that fast iteration time is valuable, but I don't think this has to hold 100% of the time.

I would much rather bang my head against a compiler for N hours, and then finally have something that compiles -- and thus am fairly confident works properly -- than have something that compiles and runs immediately, but then later I find I have to spend N hours (or, more likely, >N hours) debugging.

Your preferences may differ on this, and that's fine. But in the medium to long term, I find myself much more productive in a language like Rust than, say, Python.
You very clearly have never worked at a fast food restaurant.
Identifying the technologies behind a web site involves a lot more than looking at Apache's mod_php headers (which you can and should turn off for security reasons). The tools for figuring out what runs a site actually do a really good job by looking for multiple identifying features. Marketers and SEO people use tools like BuiltWith and Wappalyzer (and many others, most of them not free). You may not know about those tools or how well they work, but a quick browse of that space will disabuse you of the idea that these surveys just crawl looking at server headers.

Multiple independent surveys of web back-end technologies by different outlets, across many years, have reached the same conclusion: PHP powers approximately 3/4ths of public web sites/applications. I do a lot of PHP work and I see PHP used heavily in restricted/private web applications as well -- internal sites that won't show in these kinds of surveys. One school I work for has one public WordPress-powered site and several internal-only WordPress sites, and multiple internal PHP-powered sites not based on WordPress, including Moodle (learning management system) and their student management system.

The large ecosystem, relatively large population of experienced developers, and ease of deployment play into the decision process. Sometimes it comes down to hosting costs or other non-technical factors.

Deducing the number of jobs for PHP developers based on job ads will mislead you. Most jobs get filled internally, informally, or by recruiters before they get posted online (because that costs). If you don't see a lot of ads for PHP developers that might mean few jobs exists (which wouldn't match the experience of anyone who works with PHP). It may also mean the jobs got filled before the employer has to pay to advertise the job. A position for a 5+ yrs experience Elixir dev may sit open for months, but I can and have filled PHP dev openings in a few days, from a large list of applicants acquired by a free posting in a local PHP user's group forum, without having to post in public job forums or do LinkedIn email blasts.

We should also consider that web developers with more than a few years of experience have likely worked with multiple tech stacks, and those of us with 10+ years very likely cut our teeth on PHP. I started in the '90s with ASP and ColdFusion, with some Perl, and then saw employers move to PHP (and a few to Rails a few years later) mainly because ASP (which predates .NET) and ColdFusion required increasingly expensive licenses whereas PHP did not. Among experienced web developers you will find many/most of them have worked with PHP, and could work with it again, though they may prefer something else. Likewise I know COBOL and could fall back on that if more interesting work dried up for me, but I don't call myself a COBOL developer or look for jobs in that space.