skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I wrote the post).

That's fair in the sense that I did not look closely at latest Gtk or Qt or WxWidgets.

That being said they certainly did not get lighter.

Last I checked Qt was over 10 MB of libraries). Sumatra is 12 MB and I'm guessing over 8 MB is fonts needed to render PDF documents.

So just Gtk or Qt code would be more than the whole app.

Latest Gtk4 does seem to look nice so maybe calling it ugly was uncalled for.
False, because it's not only a matter of technical difficulty, but also one of economics. Very unlikely for your average person to be a victim of a deliberate targeted attack.
With the world tension scale being what it is, this hits a bit close to home.
It's unstoppable because clean energy is - by far and no small margin - the most economical option to generate energy. Meaning that recessions and messing with tax incentives has a short term effect of slowing down but not stopping the transition. Regardless of any incentives, economics still apply and people use those to their advantage.

We've long crossed the point where renewables are dependent on incentives to make them economical. IEA is known for their conservative predictions. So, them saying that this might be true means it's basically a done deal and that they can no longer deny this is happening.

Other side effects of recessions and fossil fuel price induced inflation include increased price sensitivity for things like oil and gas. Those things suddenly getting very expensive are a main driver of people wanting to reduce their dependence on those things.

I don't get your vehicle emissions formula. How does the years of service reduce the emissions when literally every mile you drive them blows more emissions out of the tailpipe? If anything, that only gets worse for older vehicles because their engines wear out and the fuel efficiency drops. Tail pipe emissions are gigantic for these vehicles. This is not reduced in any way by the years of service. Any year you drive these things longer, you add to that. It's a cumulative effect. You drive 15000 miles in an old car in a year doing 10 miles to the gallon (which would be very nice for an old car), that's 1500 gallons of fuel in a year. That's a lot of CO2 emissions and other pollution. Add to that oil changes, new parts, etc. And it only gets worse.

And the economics of this are that have to buy that fuel. Every year. Depending what state you are in that could be as much as 5$/gallon. So, 7500/year. The economics of that are pretty terrible. Adds up to a new Tesla Model 3 in about 5-7 years basically. That's excluding maintenance of course. Also not nothing for an old car.
> The cost of a heat pump, plus installation, is typically between £7,000 and £13,000.

That's the problem. This is a huge cost, not only for the poorer.

We can use the magic money tree to install them 'for free' for lowest income households, but then who will pay for any repairs or replacement?

At some point we must have a path towards lower costs for heat pumps. If that's not possible then it means back to the drawing board because heat pumps are not viable. In fact, my take is that they are pushed because we're also have massive issues with electricity production and the grid, so instead of investing in that the government pushes the costs to households by encouraging to spend a fortune on heat pumps.

> Heat pump sceptics have argued that the UK’s housing stock is not suitable for electric heating

Odd to conflate electric heating and heat pumps...
I'm out of the loop. Could someone explain the original trick ?
It's interesting to me that the industry still relies so heavily on diffs of code listings as a primary method for code reviews.

It is absolutely a good use of a human reviewer's time to build a mental model of the code's runtime behavior. But to do that by manually by reading each line and trying to predict what will happen when it's run is massively inefficient, incomplete, and error-prone. Plus it's susceptible to the "LGTM, fine, just merge it" phenomenon when the PR is large.

Reviews of static code listings won't reveal how ORMs structure their DB queries at runtime, or reflect how dynamically injected/configured components will behave, or any other number of things that are only visible by watching the code execute.

We have commoditized linting, checking for CVEs in dependencies, and static analysis for certain classes of bugs. We should now use fast runtime analysis in the same flow to relieve the burden from human reviewers of having to do line-by-line "telepathy reviews" where they try to magically divine how something will run in production at scale. (Full disclosure, I work at a company doing exactly that - https://appmap.io - and one of our most popular features is our sequence diagram diff that shows runtime differences between a PR and the main branch).
I wanted an e-ink photo frame. Because these are so expensive, I’ve been thinking about hacking up a rolling box frame where high quality photos can be made into a “roll” and have motors on the top and bottom to roll up to see the next pictures. Perhaps a little diffuseD backlight would even make the printed photo pop a little.
Something like this.
https://m.made-in-china.com/product/Outdoor-Custom-City-Adve...

Don’t know what it is called in English properly to search for such things..
> Interesting that the architecture that was meant to be a 'purer' RISC implementation than ARM is pushing towards the more CISC style variable length instructions. In a sense Qualcomm are trying to keep it closer to the RISC ideal!

The initial idea of RISC-V was pretty much, a variable length RISC isa, but sane and easy to decode. That is not the x86, "we need to add yet another prefix".
> I personally feel way more comfortable using GSuite as an IDP.

Way too many horror stories about Google suddenly banning accounts here to ever trust them with this kind of responsibility.
If I look at that dead center then I get a gradient between the two colors. If I look left or right I get predominantly that color.

Sometimes an inverse gradient will appear and/or it'll shimmer, but I wouldn't say that it's at any time a "new" color.
If you need a few hundred k to convert in order to still live in your place (not sell it), I'd say that is getting pretty close to stranded asset, because you need to find a lot of money to stay in there. If you don't have the money, it is a stranded asset and I am sure some aggressive investor will happily make you a bad offer.
VLC is a mistake?
Chinese subsidies are fairly small compared to the American ones brought in recently.
yup this is those cases where VC money makes sense, or at least tactic should complete different without VC-money.
fairphone 5 with lineageOS or /eos seems really interesting
Same for me. It's hard to say exactly what SSRI's are doing for me but I definitely feel better.

The bad sides of of SSRI's are as overblown as the good sides of psychedelics are. It's easy to form an opinion from reading personal experiences online but that doesn't reflect the real world imho.
The animations made me laugh. I love silly little projects like this. It's the kind of thing I would simlink to clear and forget about. Then one frustrating day of coding, I'd clear the screen and see the chomping go by and lift my mood just a bit.
Apple has a refreshed Apple Silicon iMac coming as soon as next week
I think this is a misconception about psilocybin and drugs in general. Just like "the dose makes the poison," the dose determines how much control you have. Small doses of acid/mushrooms are very common among partying festivalgoers.
Some important takeaways, which are nevertheless not surprising:

* its not about political affiliation (confidence drop higher in right-leaning groups)[1]

* it is about education, the least educated show less confidence drop

* it is about addiction, heavy users show less confidence drop

[1] Though ultimately it is about politics, in the sense of what kind of market regulation one supports, the role of the public sector etc.
My favorite tool ever: diff2html-cli - https://diff2html.xyz/

https://www.npmjs.com/package/diff2html-cli

See the diff as HTML (side by side or unified)
No need, they will all end up on a quest either looking for a child or a parent.
Yea, it needs to go fully off screen too!
Australia: 18 tonne/year/capita

US: 16 tonne/year/capita

Germany: 9 tonne/year/capita

China: 8 tonne/year/capita

France: 5 tonne/year/capita

India: 2 tonne/year/capita

And, I mean, China is doing a lot of nuclear and solar buildout, building high speed rail all over the place, and is one of the world leaders in electric car adoption (the only large countries where they have a higher market share for new cars are Germany and the Netherlands). It's unlikely to ever hit US/Australia per capita rates or anything like them.

There's a lot to criticise about China, don't get me wrong; it's a totalitarian state with a horrendous human rights record. But it's probably not the largest concern when it comes to emissions.
I think it's something along the lines of there being a model of HP printer which was advertised as being wifi-only, and apparently had no USB port, but if you removed a strategically-placed sticker you'd find this was a lie.
IBM Debuts Brain-Inspired Chip for Speedy, Efficient AI
Prozac is my fun drug. It makes me hypo manic with one 20mg dose.

I have schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type So I am prone to being more sensitive to SSRI. This is mostly to do with my genetically odd 5HT2A receptors.

Depression is no longer really a part of my life anymore after I found I was zinc deficient. But now I do tend towards the manic and have issues with psychosis still so I need to be careful with my serotonin.
Apple Moves Architectures – By Babbage – The Chip Letter
Judging by the picture, that CPU has a sticker over one of the power ports. Just peel it back and you've upgraded your PSU.

A quick google confirms that some HP Printers have USB ports that are covered similarly, but with a warning not to use it, rather than just being hidden.
Mayor Adams Expands Remote Work Pilot for New York City Employees
A Free Flutter boilerplate repository
Seems to be a colour display, probably also with high refresh rate. Can I please have an ebook-grade (~1Hz grayscale) eInk display for a lower price?
As long as you have some mechanism for synchronizing state between tabs, it should be fine. iiuc, the localstorage API is synchronised, for example.
My experience is that I’ve seen this happen a lot to people who take psychedelics frequently (say, multiple times a month over a prolonged period). Whereas this seems to be rare with infrequent use at moderate dosages.
(I wrote SumatraPDF).

I know about sioyek and been meaning to steal some of their ideas.

Maybe in the next version.
I was hoping that this would allow them to continue to produce the Bolt, but it doesn’t sound like it.
with so mych of xilinx' lineup having hard arm cores built in, what is the driver for soft cores?
Heck, It’s grows in many part of the country!
Mainframe ecosystems include things like non-relationship databases and other I/O abstractions that may or may not be in use.

It resembles a combination of every Microsoft component (IIS, SQL), alongside dozens of separate proprietary products that are a fever dream of products to do simple tasks like write "files" to disk.
There is a whole database of this stuff:
https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/

I used to work on what was basically a giant on the wall digital picture frame and this was a major source of test images.

Edit: it's unfortunate the recent update to the UI of arcade flyer db made it incredibly annoying to use.
I suggest you try to get in contact with charities specialising in human trafficking. They may be able to help you find your original identity and country of birth. If your parents were European it's likely your birth was registered
From the RVI thread on 48 bit instructions, 64 bit ones would probably look similar:

> There are several 48-bit instruction possibilities.

> 1. PC-relative long jump

> 2. GP-relative addressing to support large small data area, effectively giving GP-relative access to entire data address space of most programs

> 3. Load upper 32-bits of 64-bit constants or addresses

> 4. Or lower 32-bits of 64-bit constants or addresses

> 5. And with 32-bit mask

> 6. More effective ins/ext of 64-bit bit fields

Another thing thats offten discussed is moving the vtype and setvl into each vector instructions, I'm not sure if that requries 48 or 64 bit instructions.
"The 2021 survey, on the other hand, was well into the pandemic, which we would have thought would increase support for companies that brought people goods (Amazon) and information (Google) during a crisis."

I think it actually worked the other way. A lot of folks had only occasional interactions with these companies before. But during the pandemic they had to use them more, so they had to experience more failures. Since negative experiences tend to dominate in our minds, the overall "trust" decreases.
Cool! I was looking into monetizing my OSS idea just the other day and it seems much more complicated than it needs to be. Is your idea to build a marketplace and all the behind-the-scenes license / billing tools, or just the marketplace?
Yep, most EV car batteries ever produced are still performing fine.

EV manufacturers give eight year warranties on batteries + drive trains because they basically break down so rarely that they can do so safely. 100K miles or eight years. Whichever comes first. EV batteries tend to survive the vehicle they are in and have second and third lives for e.g. grid storage before eventually being recycled.
what is "insight collapse"? that is very interesting concept to me.
None of those arguments hold up.

Those countries do have agency, they do participate in discussions and sign treaties, they just keep increasing CO2 emissions.

Per capita does not matter, totals do. Would it make a difference if Switzerland stopped emitting CO2 completely and no one else changes anything.

You cannot change the past, you can change the future. Unless those countries follow the same standards as the west (and very, very soon) then CO2 emissions are going to keep rising. Right now China has single companies that emit more CO2 that the whole of the UK, they are building coal powered power stations, and generally not giving a fuck. They see advantages in arctic ice melting and temperatures rising, as does Russia.

It is reasonable to say they cannot be expected to follow higher standards because they west did not, BUT only if you are willing to accept that CO2 emissions will therefore keep rising.
Fallout 2, 3 and 4 and new vegas are all excellent games with really deep PRG fun in them. definitely on my classics list.
What exactly changes when validating in an email client? foo@localhost, foo@bar and f@b are all valid email address and your user may want to send an email to those address. There is literally nothing there for you to validate.
One issue is that SSRI treatment has to be stopped before starting psychedelic therapy (interactions). This means tapering off until you're not being treated anymore, which takes weeks if not months, can be difficult and put the patient in a less than ideal state of mind, possibly even worse than when they started off.

And this is a very bad state of mind to be in when starting psychedelics. I wonder how people usually deal with that.
Sir, did you just call that PSU a CPU?
Just been to Taiwan and Japan before. This form factor of e-ink display is super new. I believe it may well be made by one of the Taiwanese shops but badged by Sharp.

e-ink is a big deal in Taiwan right now. The prices should come down fairly steeply in the next year or two.
Voyager 1 will be 4 Plutos away whether we use metric or not.

Putting large numbers in context helps understand them. "Muricans" know it, and so do Europeans at the European Space Agency. Here's what they write about the International Space Station:

> At 28 800 km/h it only takes 92 minutes for the weightless laboratory to make a complete circuit of Earth. Astronauts working and living on the Station experience 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

They could have left it at 28 800 km/h - which is metric - and call it a day. But they went an extra mile (or should I say an extra 1.6 kilometer) to put that number into perspective.
> Correlation is not causation.

Yes, I believe I said this: "it's less clear if cannabis causes the psychosis". But thank you for your platitude.

The only answer which can be given with any certainty at this point is "we don't know", which may optionally be followed by "but I think that [..]". There is no "immediate jump" to causation; the only such jump I see here is dismissing things out of hand on account of allegedly being "politically-based".
Some HP printers had USB port covered by a sticker with warning not to use it, but it works just fine.

https://boingboing.net/2023/08/04/hp-printer-usb-port-covere...
The HP trick was that HP started shipping “WiFi only” printers, they put a sticker over the USB port saying something like “for service only” or something similar to encourage the user to connect and use the printer over WiFi. However if you peeled the sticker away and plugged in a USB cable you could still use the printer like normal.

I’m guessing thermaltake did the same, hiding some pins behind a sticker because that’s cheaper than creating a whole new version of an existing product.
How is anyone locked in?
Assuming your reputation doesn't matter.
For me, it's always unified diff if i'm making changes to entire blocks of code, but split, if it's just parts of it. Easier to read, in my opinion
If Azure AD was compromised your clients were all probably compromised too, so in that way you’re probably fine. I’m sure that Microsoft/Okta/Google hold the keys in some kind of HSM or whatever, but there’s probably a Bob there that could get in if he really wanted to.

You have to figure out what you’re threat modeling for, most people aren’t worried about the big SSO providers being breached because it would be expensive to work around them completely.
The mistake you're making is assuming that the only advantage of renewable energy is that it's clean and that countries are sacrificing a lot to get them installed. But that's not true, and the wars you mention have only accelerated the push for renewables. Not only are they cheaper but now there's the factor of trying to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels.

Here's an article when the war in the Ukraine started on how this will result in even more expansion of renewable energy, which is in fact what happened: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/putins-war...

Whoever wrote that was smart to predict the future - it's a bad idea to misinterpret the present.
I'm sorry, but this is still similarly handwave-y. Content moderation is contentious enough as it is, and on top of that, there is already persistent outright illegal content on the internet. There is illegal content on the clear web, and also a lot of illegal activity on instant messaging platforms, even on highly non-anonymous ones like Facebook.

This issue is not technical, and so, we should stop trying to fix it with technical solutions. The proposal is only relevant because it's an effective smokescreen. There is real abuse happening, people are understandably, but overly anxious about that abuse, and a corporation sees an opportunity for power in this situation. That's all there is to it.
I submitted this link as a story.

I'd say I'm pretty close to a free speech absolutist (barring direct, credible, personal threats of violence) but I'm also a parent of a teenager, and remember myself what being one is like.

Obviously people should have greater availability to mental health resources, but what worries me about a site like this is might enable the impulsive suicide - especially amongst adolescents.
I'm going by the upvote counts, not opinion. Also, you should give examples.
Yep the press release from sharp quotes it’s made by e-ink holdings of Taiwan.
Modern civilization is not sustainable and that's why we have this mess.
> community of people who have the tools at home and choose to work there because is a great place to collaborate

If I have the tools at home, why would I commute to the makerspace to work? This seems like the remote work thing, only amplified (because I’m probably not commuting to do 8 hours of work on my project, now I’m paying instead of being paid, and I have to drag my project and raw materials with me [with the risk of damage and PITA that entails]).

If RTOffice isn’t desirable, why is RTMakerspace going to be popular?
Don't forget. The english version of aljazeera is a more western oriented venture that started in 2003/2006.

But it's still a propaganda machine of Qatar, even though the anti-western sentiment was reduced by their success in English:

> The new English language venture faced considerable regulatory and commercial hurdles in the North America market for its perceived sympathy with extremist causes.[92][93][94] At the same time, others felt Al Jazeera's competitive advantage lay in programming in the Arabic language. There were hundreds of millions of potential viewers among the non-Arabic language speaking Muslims in Europe and Asia, however, and many others who might be interested in seeing news from the Middle East read by local voices. If the venture panned out, it would extend the influence of Al Jazeera, and tiny Qatar, beyond even what had been achieved in the station's first decade. In an interesting twist of fate, the BBC World Service was preparing to launch its own Arabic language station in 2007. Today, evidence of U.S. antipathy at the Arabic network has dissipated significantly, though not entirely, several American analysts said in 2013.[95]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera
Eh yeah, I missed a dot there >_< I may be a sad case, but I don't write unit tests for my HN comments.
I think this works well if you're already invested in GPG for code signing or something and use terminals a lot. It's a little unusual as key management uses asymmetric crypto, so you can add a password without opening your keyring. The passwords are stored in directories and the directory names are the plaintext name of the password (i.e. the site and username). So it doesn't offer privacy. Tampering is possible, you can delete a password without unlocking the keychain by deleting the directory. So it only really protects read access to a password.
If you change/transform then on the fly - sure. If they're on a final, not-designed-as-editable format... Not that common. I don't really see any reason (beyond PS origins and its historical usage) for PDFs to not flatten the final positions/sizes.
Because of my career path spent almost entirely as a consultant and now working with lots of startups, I must have seen 100+ web application builds.

The productivity of Rails absolutely trounces JS-framework-de-jour in my experience. It’s almost certainly the framework I would be recommending for a CRUD app, which covers the vast majority of business software.
Its not just social media. Search is also extremely important. Whether alternatives are open source or commercial it is not so important. Certainly good quality open source solutions would force commercial enterprise to "work for the money" rather than extract rents. What is important is to outlaw practices relating to data collection and targeted ads, and break down monopolistic conditions.

Basically you want a healthy mix of commons infrastructure and private enterprise that respects common values and promotes innovation. Its not rocket science but of-course decades-long inaction makes it feel like having to move mountains.
If you are writing Gmail no one is sending to foo@localhost. It’s a typo.

(And you certainly don’t want to send every bcc a verification email they have to click on!)
The same frustration due to the same bad habit led me to look into implementing lazy loading in SumatraPDF, but unfortunately the code is structured in such a way as to make it a very non-trivial change.