skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those numbers are great because when Germany started the costs for renewables were astronomic. Even in 2012 when Germany deployed a then unthinkable 10GW+ of solar it was probably the most expensive electricity source. But now it is the cheapest -- and fastest way to deploy clean energy. So in that case, what lock in? If you decarbonize a lot more a lot faster, you will have more money to spend on nuclear. Lock in happens with nuclear first -- by the time you're done you're broke, didn't accomplish as much and it's anyway too late. That's rational only if you're really bad with numbers.

The renewables industry is on an astronomic trajectory. From zero to saving the world, and it will succeed where nuclear has failed for 70 years. Precisely the reason why fossil fuels and nuclear are two sides of the same coin: highly dependant on lobbying and corruption. Nuclear failed even before carbon emissions were an issue and this green relabeling is its last lifeline. But because it already failed, it won't suddenly miraculously succeed. All of the former climate deniers are now on the nuclear bandwagon because they know this will buy the most time for fossil fuels. Here is one: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/09/renewable-energy...

I am an engineer he says, nuclear is the only option. Ten years ago he was a high member of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition that sued the government to prevent it from claiming climate change is dangerous.

Nuclear requires dirty backup during construction which is always very long. I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand. It's doubtful if it can ever make up for that delay between deploying renewables and nuclear. So it's a net negative.
Yeah unfortunately I haven't been able to find a fix. I know that dimmer switches are a common culprit, but we don't have them. And regular dumb LED bulbs have worked just fine in the same fixtures where we've had trouble with Hue. In principle I like the product a lot, so I'm hoping I can figure out what is going on at some point
- Survey link: https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-html/2...

- State of HTML: https://stateofhtml.com/

It's the same organization (https://www.devographics.com/) behind "State of Js" (https://stateofjs.com)

Took me a couple minutes to verify that
Is D better than C++ for many things, including teaching? Definitely. It is a nice language that produces fast programs and is nice to read. It's also very good as a scripting language that can be compiled on demand with rdmd.

But I have to admit that I have been spoiled by Rust. D still blows Rust out of the water when you just want to write a "script" do to some small standalone task very efficiently (with rdmd), but for writing more complex programs Rust's type system feels much nicer.
I don't think any software I have been paid to work on has been something I personally want, but there sure are a lot of companies that want it.
looks cool :)
Search is fine for my uses. It doesn't have the facial recognition to quickly search for all photos of a person but it looks to be tagging things in an accepta le manner and I've found the things I've been looking for.

I used their free trial - 1Gb of storage available for a year iirc - to try out a few things but then ran in parallel for a while and now have stopped syncing my new photos to Google. Good luck with whatever you decide!
In the videos I have seen it does both in the same print - poop and a waste block. But that might have been slicer misconfiguration. Although from the amount of times I have seen that makes me wonder: is the default config in Bambu slicer not taking this into account or all of the reviewers don't know how to configure their own preferred slicer. Just checked and 8/8 reviews of BambuLab A1 mini from channels that specialize in 3d printing showed purge tower.

Am I missing something? Doesn't the poop during change replace need to purge into a purge tower? Are there any additional purpose for the waste tower beside purging any remains of previous filament from hotend?
I like croc, wormhole, snapdrop and whatever else there is I just don't get that there is no universal convenient standard for transferring files from one device to another over a wired/wireless connection. Mindboggling that most people use cloud hosting or email to transfer a file from one device to another when they are just 30cm from each other.
Ask HN: How do you handle writing huge amounts of required documentation?
Howdy HN,

I've recently been put in charge of a heavily delayed project at work with, to put it mildly, a lot of documentation needing to be written. Now I like writing docs, which already makes me a rarity among devs, but this is a different animal from Diataxis - this is the whole nine yards of IEEE 1558 conformant documentation. If you've ever seen the acronyms SPMP, SQAP, SVVP, SDD, ..., you know what I'm dealing with here.

We have a decent amount of documentation written already, but there are large gaps, and more pressingly none of it has been put into the proper formats required by the IEEE standards. To keep my sanity on this project I've spun up a Jira board to help me keep track of all the different sections, subsections, etc going on here, and to let me asynchronously ping my Verifier and Approver each time I finish drafting a new section, so that we can try to deal with this thing in human sized chunks.

Now I turn to you. Were you ever in a situation like this? What did you do?
The UI is good
> I hope the game dev world wont take the web dev world path where code is in oversupply and there are little options to monetise.

Very beneficial for the consumer however. Right now the bar to create a good videogame is rather high, and this leads to the current hellscape where so many videogames are plagued with lootboxes, season passes and other microtransactions to make up for the multiple years in dev time required with many employees.

If the tooling gets better to the point that it takes less time and less devs to create good games that don't require the insane levels of monetisation, then this trend is more likely to be reversed.
Software is a winner takes all market mostly. The best software of its kind captures almost all of the users. While making physical items is not. There will be loads of other people better than you, but it doesn't really matter because those other people will be sold out / too expensive / not local.

So even if you are far less talented than most, you'll still find a good market at the right price.
I was taken aback by the sign up to try it out.
> scrape more documents from the web

What types of documents, exactly? This is not the comforting reply I was hoping to see.
Hey, V and R are nice language names. How do you search for them with the current engines?

And that company… whatsitsname… X?
It’s advertised in the screenshots - but I’ll double check the description

I’d love to expand the catalog. Classical was easy because they’re all dead and everything is in the public domain. Anything current I’d have to license and I don’t have the foggiest how I’d even do that
Sustainability in sport: 'Water companies need to be held accountable'
Why would "Godot supporters" care about what Unity is doing? It's not like they are on payroll and more users means more bug reports and feature requests for the maintainers without necessarily gaining more capacity to implement them. An open source project doesn't need an exodus of users from another project, it needs to get parity with its competitors and then quietly take over the market with little resistance.
On the topic of Square Enix, what's bizarre to me is that FF7R is the odd one out among recent games. FF15 and FF16 were on two different internally developed engines! I wonder if the reason FF7R used UE is because it was originally being developed outside, before Square was unhappy with how development was going and brought it back in house.
Hey, this looks really great, but I couldn't really see anything in the docs about robustness (how you handle floating point inaccuracy, etc) - what approach did you use?
> Why did the pilot eject?

Probably an equipment failure that put him into an unrecoverable situation. This could be any number of things, many of them not the fault of the pilot, such as engine failure from a bird strike.

> Why was he flying in the first place?

Pilots need hundreds of hours on their airplanes annually. Air force pilots aren't just flying missions. If you want to get good F-35 pilots you need pilots flying the F-35.

> Why wasn't the flight being tracked before the ejection? Why wasn't it tracked after?

It likely was. Loss of contact could be related to the equipment failure. The pilot mentioned he abandoned the aircraft at 2000ft. This is a very low altitude, in a mountainous region of the United States. Loss of contact could also be related to that. If the jet was on fire due to equipment failure, avionics could have been damaged to the point of inoperability before the air frame failed, and it could glide for some time possibly.

> This is all weird and there seems to be a lot of excuses like "system behaved as intended" (paraphrase).

A lot of the F-35 is still classified. If you're expecting a solid answer I think you'll be disappointed.

> What if some random person took a bunch of photos of the classified systems and uploaded them somewhere, unaware or not?

Oopsie.
> you create something not because “I think they might need this,” but because “I find this so fucking interesting.”

This is a fantastic insight.

I also find that it's what often gets overlooked in open source projects that start as somebody doing something on the side as a hobby. Don't create and publish open source projects to please others. Build something that you like to have yourself. When publishing it, do it as an invitation to others to try it out and perhaps give you feedback (crowdsourcing bug triage and extension ideas), not to make others happy. The trap is that others will start feeling entitled, start demanding things, and if you give in, you violate the insight I quoted above. And if you start losing interest, don't cling on to the project, but be open to some other maintainer adopting it. Don't waste your time maintaining something you are not internally interested in.

The same is true also for users of open source projects. Be aware that whoever did this and published it for you to use did so originally because they like it and want to use it themselves. You can't demand things from somebody like that. If you do, you actually make it more likely that they lose interest.
Oh thanks for pointing that out, I did not even notice they had switched units. When these comparisons are made normally if kilometers are being used as the unit then the zero to 100 time is given to make a comparable to miles. I don't think I've ever seen 0 to 60 times listed in kilometers per hour even in markets where km is the customary unit of distance. Is this something normally done for the Indian market? I suppose as 0 to 37-ish mph time of 5.7 seconds is respectable for travel on surface streets, but my joke comparison to the Testarossa rather falls down now. Assuming acceleration remains linear until 60 miles per hour then this little box will come in at just a hair over 9 seconds. Still, that puts it right in the same ballpark as a V8 powered Camaro from the mid 80s.
Mozilla could invest that money and ensure its perpetual survival while not being beholden to any outside interests, instead it's being used to fund pet social projects.

This reliance on Google is an existential risk, Mozilla's leadership should be laser focused on building alternative income streams before Google turns off the spigot.
Tell HN: OpenSemanticLayer based on MetricFlow v0.140.0 coz DBT got greedy
I'm a fan of DBT and the way they have changed the data transformation landscape by introducing SQL based data transformation tool and introducing Modern Data Stack, but after their acquisition of Transform to build their own Semantic Layer which they were initially doing it using DBT Metric.
Unfortunate thing is they bought the MetricFlow and changed the license from AGPL to BSL and DBT's Semantic Layer is only available as a part of DBT Cloud offering.
This is a no go for small companies and startups who relied on DBT since last couple of years to build their analytics pipelines and products.

I'm looking forward to enhance and support the v0.140.0 of MetricFlow and any kind of contribution to code and sponsorship is welcome.

Cheers!
Ram

https://github.com/OpenSemanticLayer/OpenSemanticLayer
I'm glad you're making a lot of money so you can afford to spend 10$ without thinking. Good for you.
It looks like Tegmark wants the same unbreakable rules for everyone, not just for AGIs: protect routers from being hacked, make it impossible for planes to fly into buildings, etc.
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The author is doing a bit. They’re calling it a slur and a dirty word and explicitly censoring it to make a point.
Defence in depth. Now you need a working chain of 3 exploits instead of one. It's about raising the bar, perfect security is impossible.
Maybe I've been exceptionally lucky (although I've been very conscious to only work for SMEs which I think has a lot to do with it), but I always try really hard to figure out what the user/customer is actually trying to achieve, then what's the best way to get there using the resources available, regardless of any incumbent processes or strategy. To my mind this is the best of both worlds - I've got the satisfaction of making something great and the customer gets their life made easier.

As I've gone through my career I've focused less and less on some specific language or technology stack that is the flavour of the day, and I get my satisfaction from engineering a robust solution from whatever is the must appropriate technology in that specific case.
From the information there, it doesn't seem like you can license it for most machines in a workplace.
These days I avoid upfront payments unless you come out ahead within a year. I don't want to buy something that takes 5 years to be cheaper than the yearly payments. I have no idea if I'm going to want this thing for x years, most of the time I don't end up getting good value from upfront payments. With subscriptions I can just cancel and move to the best option at the time.
Clicking on any post leads to the new design. :(
I've never understood the appeal of guestbooks and commenting on Wordpress. Static HTML is a wonderful medium for getting your message out, do we need the validation of visitors commenting?
Lack of security is likely working as intended, be it on the system level or with encryption often relying on certificate authorities. Fixing any of this would likely result in the intelligence agency threat scenario of "going dark". Its the brave new world we live in where zerodays are valuable investments for governments.
What do you base this on? The stacks and kernel bookkeeping shouldn't use nearly this much at least on linux. Keep in mind that thread stacks have are lazily allocated virtual memory so won't use as much physical memory as the thread stack size setting shows.

If these threads are handling TCP connections and L7 protocol processing on top, you're going to have nontrivial both kernel and userspace memory usage per connection too that may dwarf the thread overhead.

Here's a linux kernel dev (Ingo Molnar) benchmarking Linux in 2002 and starting just shy of 400k threads in 4 GB: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0209.2/1153.html - though on a 32 bit systems lots of objects things are 50% the size compared to current 64 bit. But still gives you a ballpark.
You're confused. They did not legalize the drug trade.
The product of a chef is the cooking, not the cooked product itself.

I often buy better ingredients than what's found at any restaurant, but I pay to sit at one because they're prepared, cooked and taste better when done by a professional.
The Mathematical Functions Grimoire
You seem to be relatively decent at chess, yet you haven't played a human in 40 years once? Why? That's very surprising.
Ofc, the "services" have enough CA certificates private keys to legitimate any "man-in-the-middle" attack for any browsers. Worst case scenario they have root-kits they can easily inject on user systems in order to intercept some trafic before encryption. They have probably a significantly sized "library" at their disposal to work from, depending on the "targets", and it could even be kind of automated (up to a certain point) with proper finger-printing of user system/components.

Presuming the other way around would be unreasonable.
Lucky you. I know companies and universities trash a lot of repairable or even perfectly good gear, but mere mortals can’t ever access it and so it’s “recycled” (whatever that means in practice)

Would love a connection if you or anyone else reading has one :)
I wish there was a gui version for croc. I've used it a couple of times to send files to non-techie friends. While croc worked great, having to spend 15' on the phone guiding them how to run the command felt like an unnecessary hassle.
I think in some sense, I'd appreciate if AI art would be made copyrightable, because it would force the courts to evaluate AI art with the same framework that is used for other creative processes, exposing the absurdities within: I.e., if I use an AI model trained on existing art and get a result, is my art then a derived work of that existing art? If yes, of which one exactly? If no, can I use AI models to effectively strip copyright from existing works?
There's no shame in websites looking similar. Not all websites must have a unique design and creative layouts. Some just want to make it about their unique content, and making it look like others' helps users navigate the familiar. Most cars, dishwashers and phones look the same, while only little small changes differenciate them from competitors. Not everyone should be the Apple or Tesla of their field. Tools like this make the deliverability of content faster, in familiar layouts.
While the + is part of the RFC, many websites do not accept a +sign in an email address field.
I think.... just like reality, some people love the attention feedback loop. They are hardwired for it.
https://www.graal.cloud/gcn/get-started/setting-up-desktop/ -> this details the actual steps to try this out.
> “But when the material is full of defects, a failure cannot easily propagate from one grain boundary to the next. That means the material won't suddenly fail because the deformation becomes distributed more evenly throughout the material.”

Disordered structure gives glass its strength but also its transparency. I wonder if this stuff is transparent or if the fact that it is made out of metal would prevent that.
Seems the mobile version, NL-Alert, triggers first monday of every quarter
The author should consider some assembly versions of parts of it (ofc, without abusing the assembler pre-processor).
Nobody like talking into a void. Audience feedback is necessary for most people to bother continuing to do it.
Leave noteworthy comments on other peoples videos, make noteworthy stitches of theirs. Embrace remix culture, essentially. It only seems like an intractable problem to non power users of social media.
If it's moral to selectively breed animals to produce superior health outcomes and compatibility with our own species, it seems that the same should hold true for AI.

Just don't get PETA involved in the discussion
I think so yes. They make money on those chargers so I imagine they will keep putting them up as demand grows.
The tone of this post is exactly the same as a company would use after a very public incident of harassment or discrimination. So, they probably realized it was not the smartest thing to do.
For that application, Web Wormhole is unbeatable: https://webwormhole.io/
It's interesting how many companies are so utterly uninterested in investing in speeding up development but so keen on measuring it.
I'd love suggestions if you have any! The note length is maybe not possible, just due to the fact most midi files don't encode it very well
Wow, part of the CNCF. That's awesome
Just optimise for the Steam Linux Runtime, it's cross-distro compatible.
I'm not against optional cloud features, but as far as I can see, the camera doesn't work in their LAN only mode. I'd say that's a big feature and makes the non-cloud operation of the printer an inferior mode, and that's something I'm definitely not on board with.
Could you elaborate on the SV06's shortcomings? I bought one after selling my Ender 3 (the shittiest machine ever made) and it has everything you want from a home 3D printer. Auto-calibration, no manual bed leveling, an excellent extruder, powder-coated PEI sheet (can print PETG straight on the bed without damaging it) and it's really sturdy. Oh, and it works out of the box (after some quick assembly). It's basically a Prusa without the signature orange and exorbitant pricing. (nothing against Prusa, I love their products, they're just really expensive for the average tinkerer.)
Because the bottled water doesn't come from natural springs lol.
But agreed on the fact there is the need to stop feeding water bottles economy.
I hope 100% of the respondents answer that they've used "Content-Security Policy (CSP)" as it's there by default and by answering anything else, they probably out themselves as basically not knowing their own space where they work.
Something that is optimal under some set of assumptions and under some specific conditions is likely not optimal under all conditions. Does that mean it's not optimal under any conditions? If not, is something that is optimal under more conditions not "more optimal"?
Fairphone got rid of the headphone jack last I looked.
But here you download the source code every time you use it. It's not end-to-end anymore, as the person who designed the website can deliver malicious code, unless you pin the JS somehow.

I wish magicwormhole or croc came with every major OS preinstalled.
Perhaps so, but back then it brought down the government, whether it would do so today in an era of poorer ethics, highly-tuned government spin and when both government bureaucrats and politicians are well immunized against public opinion is a moot point.

In ways I agree with your assessment as I've been around long enough to witness those changes. I can only add that unless we citizens insist on changes that actually benefit us and not the Establishment/Ruling Elite then we'll end up imprisoned in a totalitarian dictatorship.

At some point the current trend/movement will have to stop or that's where we'll end up by default.
Used to be "put it on a USB stick". Now no-one carries those so email/google drive it is :-)

When sharing files between devices I own (including my mobile phones) I attach them to a draft email to myself, then get them from the drafts on the other device.
>This is mostly a result of a previous test, which revealed that in case of a catastrophe, most germans would not be warned (Sirens not functioning, cell broadcast was not used, ...)

And failed yearly tests being ignored. It took the Ahr flood to actually do something about that.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/katastrophensc...
Do humans behave like LLMs?