skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Software devs consistently contribute to the environmental problems

It doesn’t help that schwabists try to provide indexes such as “Java consumes more than JS”.

This kind of sentences, measuring the immeasurable like a square meter takes more energy than a liter, communicates “We’ll dominate you with power while understanding nothing of what you do, and tax you for using Java”. I bet it’s Facebook’s PHP lobbyists who came up with that.

If heating is a problem, then by all means, tax CPU time. But I already know the tax won’t matter because software provides such an immense value to society. We already pay average engineers $800 a day! But we shouldn’t try to get rid of a language.

If they knew what they were doing, they’d certainly ban NPM. But of course there are already GitHub actions and Sonar extensions publishing the CO2 consumption index of Java programs...
Ultimately, my experience has been that a lot of free-speech absolutists rapidly lose their belief in absolutism the moment it's something that affects them. Suddenly, people are being pressured to fire folks who released statements on Palestine that were pro-Hamas. Now, I'm not pro-Hamas myself, but it's telling to me that so-called anti-cancel-culture people are very pro-cancel-culture now.

It's a pretty big warning signal about who one chooses to be in bed with. You may think the guy standing next to you is for free speech until you find out that his absolutism is somewhat less than absolute.

Ultimately, I suppose one has the right to lobby other people to shun someone and one has the right to shun someone. Free association is important. But to discover and undiscover that depending on the outcome means it's not a true principle, which is just useful to know about others.
It's because ATX PSU desktops have high idle whereas a laptop, embedded device, or ATX12VO doesn't. People mean different power delivery methods and bundle it all up under x86 vs ARM
I have two RPi 4s that run 24/7 that I will likely replace with a 5.

> Moreover, that cost is further worsened by the need to buy a custom power supply.

But you don’t need to?
Everyone makes these claims, but I've worked at multiple successful companies with atrocious onboarding and code quality. A few people always make the claim that the software will become impossible to update or the system will collapse, and it never happens, even after a decade or more.
In my experience:

(1) just isn't true. It's at best a mixed bag.

(2) is somewhat true. Team fit is pretty hard to figure out without interactions, and agree sometimes managers just want to get their oar in.

(3) is oversimplification. There are definitely people who are better a getting hired than doing the job, and they are hard to weed out early in their career. If you aren't able to identify good candidates in front of you though (e.g. the FN, not FP) there are problems in your process, not the candidates.
>I am against people demanding that companies be exact mirrors of their morality, and that they only associate with those within their specific societal whitelist.
AV1 is a massive flop in my opinion. What was supposed to be the be all end all open source video format of the future just recently barely starts to pop up here and there. There are tech demos and talks of Youtube etc. using AV1, but in the same breath they say it's mostly for really low bitrate where the AV1 gains the most. Also I'm sure no one is looking forward to burn CPU time (or very lately, GPU time) on encoding 4k+ streams. Is that even financially viable? You save 30% on bandwith and spend 10000% more on server HW time. (I'll admit that these numbers are pulled from my ass, but they're based on a few years old knowledge of AV1 encoders being like 350-3500 times slower than h264 encoders, depending on optimization.)

The entire "there was no usable encoder and no hw decoder for years" thing didn't help and even now it's still all slow and complex, who has time and money for that?

AV1 is just too complex for what it produces in comparison with the good old h264 or vp9.
> We have been writing our own rules at Datadog with this framework for a couple of months now, with great success

Did I miss something, Yarn has been acquired by Datadog or is it poor wording?
Ignoring using the Guardian as a source for now.....

If any of us openly criticised our employer on social media what would we expect? A round of applause?
> if we go back to hunting/gathering billions of people would die

And those who survive wouldn’t be much healthier. This isn’t a tradeoff. It’s a net gain. The original tradeoff was a worse but more-stable food supply. Today we can reliably produce nutritious food. No tradeoff.
My favorite thing about the look-and-say sequence [0] is that John Conway completely characterized it in a 1986 paper. The sequence can be compressed into atomic subsequences that evolve separately. There are 92 of them. So he named them after the elements. They "decay" into other elements. It seems that anything he touches gets its own cute little flair (see for instance the vast number of Life patterns with cute, evocative names.) Rest in peace.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence
https://decolonizepalestine.com/reading-list/
LOL ikr
Remember this is “keeping files on posts that criticise education policies” — tracking political dissenters who don’t like the government’s policies but have done nothing wrong or illegal.

While we’re off focusing on encryption debates and the online safety bill, the UK government isn’t waiting around.

Just what is “accredited technology”? As defined in that bill, and how much does encryption play a role when monitoring policies in general cause a general chill in what people are willing to talk about online?

I wonder what other aspects of normal behavior are being tracked? It must be extensive.
Already on VASAviation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbU6E6VJx30
This sounds like a great idea. Distribute tech research and manufacturing across the country, jump-start the availability of high-income jobs in LCOL regions, and generally share the absurd concentration of tech wealth with more people. It's notable that not a single tech hub is designated in California.

This is the first tangible effort I've seen in the last 2-3 administrations of attempting to revive American manufacturing in places ranging from mid-size relevance in tech, to places that are foreign to traditional tech investment. Obama ignored the "flyover" states, Trump was all talk and no walk.
Sorry, but if it gets more bids it can't proceed? What?
Lol I thought this was about the infamous F-104 Starfighter that killed hundreds of pilots in Europe.

And it was only purchased because Lockheed paid millions in bribes to officials for which AFAIK none of them (nor the company) were ever punished.

So in terms of post-mortem I was thinking of something official like that :)

Ps its successor the F-16 was a lot better though and is still going strong today.
Uh, if you’re bikeshaming, please be specific. I’d go so far as to say that the non urban, non western region of the Netherlands is more bike friendly than the urban western part. Noord-Brabant is pretty much one big bikepath, as is Limburg. On top of that most 50 and 80 kph roads are pretty solid for solo cycling. That’s thousands of usable kilometers. I’m really trying to think of counterexamples… Zeeland: Nice cycling, Friesland, Utrecht, Flevoland: the same. I’ve cycled at least a few thousand kilometers in each of those provinces.

I’ll grant you that as a tour cyclist you don’t see the nitty gritty local routes that aren’t always safe. A bad urban design that’s quite common is a right turn for cars at a traffic light with a parallel cycling path sharing the same green. Cars get green and take the turn while the cyclist goes straight ahead.
If your perceptions dared venture beyond the literal immediate you would see this is tongue in cheek satire.

Your solution is "just turn it off when you dont want it" - well, I NEVER want it
I've been waiting for this for the .env support for .yarnrc.yml. we can now have our GitHub PATs in a .env instead of having to add it to your shell env or risk leaking it or putting thr PAT directly in the .yarn.yml
I’ve been interviewing people as either just another person in the loop or the person who could give the thumbs up about whether I wanted someone on my team and the manager just rubber stamped it for over 20 years - no coding just conversations.

I’ve never regretted a single person I hired and they have always been able to do the simple CRUD work that most of the 2.7 million developers are doing.

And before the gate keeping starts. I’ve been through the “Making Great Hiring Decisions” training and have conducted behavioral and system design interviews at AWS.
Nope. I'm thinking about every single company I've ever worked at. My previous job was in healthcare and most of the software in the entire industry is atrocious.
> not sure we have ever seen a nuclear power with its back against the wall to this degree

The Soviet Union literally collapsed.
Seeing that flashing red rectangle was quite a common sight, I might add.
I cannot understand taxation for the sake of taxation. The purpose of taxation is to divert those funds to pay for something.

"We want to fund a new healthcare program, so we are going to pay for it by an increase in taxes" makes sense.

"We want to tax billionaires because they should pay more tax" does not make any sense.
They are conducting a religious Jihad. Their ultimate goal is the destruction of Israel and an Islamic state in the area. They want to outcast every Jew living in the region. That is part of their charter.

In this conflict their goal was to start a regional war by inflaming Jordan, Egypt, etc. This would make them dissolve the peace agreement and go back to an all out war. To do that they need Israeli war crimes at a terrible scale especially against their own civilians.

They are using the bombings as propaganda to further their goals. Netanyahu is an idiot who (as usual) gives them exactly what they want. Unfortunately, eliminating them is nearly impossible as they are deeply embedded in civilian areas.
Search box has been added to your taskbar. Want to keep this change?
Depends... It would depend on the price to service the mortgage. I would do a quick model to see the timeline to "break even" on paying in full verses the total amount of interest paid to service the loan for duration of the term.
I didn't ask if something is possible, I asked if they think it will happen. As far as I'm concerned, the parent commenter is fearmongering because they've decided they hate the EU, and everything else comes secondary to that.
Not in the article but what was the int? To actually kill everyone?
In Hungarian there is an umbrella term that covers both the color "yellow" and "orange". To further specify it, there is "lemon ..." (citromsárga) and "orange ..." (narancssárga). This umbrella term is "sárga" and it gets translated to "yellow", so "narancssárga" is "orange yellow", and "citromsárga" is "lemon yellow".

So if you were to ask me the color of orange juice in Hungarian, I would reply "sárga", which is true, as it could be either "yellow" or "orange". Many people would still say it is "orange yellow" though, because the name of the color has "orange" (narancs) in it.
> naturopathic doctors are legit medical professionals

But not actual doctors right?
I was just thinking the same thing but to be honest, I kinda miss the amounts of snow we used to get back in the day. That might be my Midwestern Stockholm syndrome flaring up.
Also, worth pointing out that Hannah Arendt (the name that shows up as the logged in user) is a famous historian and philosopher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt)
Do you figure an airplane counts as a “dangerous weapon” for the purposes of the sentence enhancement at the end of 49 U.S.C. 46504?
I like that "praise the opposite" approach. Usually when things go smoothly, it's really easy for me to just zone out and not pay attention. It certainly seems like it takes deliberate practice to be observant of praiseworthy behavior and then actually say something nice about it, so it's nice to be reminded of it.
There are no incentives for anyone to do so.

One VP introduces this idea, does "case studies" designed to make it look good, rolls it out, distorts the statistics to show that it's a win, collects a bonus, and then moves on.

A second VP recognizes that it's bogus, removes the program, distorts the statistics to show that it's a win, collects a bonus, and then moves on.

If a third VP were to pop up and point out that it's stupid, they would be vilified for standing in the way of progress and eventually ousted, or just leave out of disgust because of the company's stupid ideas.
It's a link to a shop page. Most of us have never heard of Tindie. It is not clear that it's made by an individual.

What did you expect?

Give us literally anything to talk about. A picture of an alarm clock on a store page and a price tag, is going to get discussion about what people like in alarm clocks.

This is how to generate positive discussion about your alarm clock product on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25902165

Has a blog post with an interesting concept. There's something to talk about.

He gets positive feedback, people encourage him to start a kickstarter.

Agolia has examples, literally alarm clocks made by individuals.

Ya'll salty for no reason.
I don’t know about the green kanji, but the traditional “Jueju” Poem by Chinese poet Du Fu has the line “山青花欲然”, and “青” the Kanji for Blue in Japan means green in this context, as it describes “山” which means mountain.

By the way there’s a variety of kanji that reads “aoi” in modern Japanese. 青い, 蒼い, 碧い are all “aoi”, but we use 青い mainly as blue today.
You can get rough data about chrome users. Want better resolution? You gotta pay.
I remember it being popular to dislike Commodore but I can't remember why I looked down on the platform Psygnosis used to blow my mind.
Fully aware of this post. It's well written and I can see why people follow his stance. But I don't share Adam's history and experiences with semantic CSS. I genuinely want to separate structure from styling and not end up to this situation:

https://nuejs.org/blog/tailwind-vs-semantic-css/img/markup-b...
why-do-we-even-have-that-button.gif
Rofl are you serious? Human shield is something like launching rockets from a playground, the roof of an apartment building, a mosque etc. Having a village a mile *behind* the border wall is not a human shield.
Dupe (48 points, 38 comments, 2 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37987812
Also, current revolutionary biomedical technologies, as was recently reported in relation to horseshoe crabs, whose blood is a necessary and irreplaceable medical ingredient, and who have survived several mass extinction events over the course of the species’ 500,000,000 years of existence—and yet humans over harvesting and failing to protect fisheries have caused unprecedented declines in their numbers causing real concern for their species survival.
I wish I could use Hue's silly RGB colour loop mode over this now, but it's still hidden behind a labs experiment.

(Connecting to HomeKit via Matter has actually been smoother than using the Hue app)
URL should be changed to source [1] and title changed to reflect that the UK govt is also surveilling TAs, not only.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/uk-governme...
Mapbox is still the best choice where a polished suite of mapping APIs is a better fit for a project.

Mapbox is a venture-backed company with a SaaS business model, and has never been open source in total - it used to be open core with a FOSS frontend and proprietary backend. This SaaS model is absolutely the best way to fund huge companies and give investors a return. Mapbox has also done the bulk of innovation in open source web mapping over the past 10 years - the Protomaps project uses MapLibre (fork of Mapbox GL 1.0) and the MVT tile format. Both required teams of full-time developers - easily tens of millions in salaries and stock - and they have given away version 1.0 for free as a gift, even though 2.0 is not open source.

The ideal software economy is one in which innovators capture a good portion of the wealth they create. This is why it's important for Protomaps to focus on use cases underserved by SaaS, instead of just being a cheaper map API. The sibling comment on wildfire mapping https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989059 is a good example of the applications I want the project to support.
I'm using daily 30 to 35 year-old floppies. They're almost certainly fine unless you kept them in really bad conditions.
I'm in this situation with my car right now, I have the money to pay it off but why bother when I can make the monthly payment with savings account interest.
That doesn't explain it, though. You don't need a microcontroller for that. I suspect the real answer is "to minimize parts count".
This feels like such a weird take to me. There's never been a time that I know I'm going to stay in the same city for more than four years...ever. Since graduating college, I've been to grad school, postdoc, employment, whatever but there are very few places I know I can stay for long enough to make a purchase worth it. in hindsight, I'm sure a short term buy would have made financial sense, but so did leaving assets in the S&P and I didn't have to worry about anything.

I wish it weren't such a default assumption that everyone has to buy a place given the massive friction this puts on relocation.
=== unicorn[0] fits in the 'easy to keep everything in memory' mental model language department without loosing expressiveness/power. language documentation page[3].

--- very high level / 6th generation level language. Makes extensive use of generators for doing goal directed programming.

=== ARC[1] terse lisp dialect by Graham & Morris

=== Cursorless is spoken editor[2]. Throat mike useful in cubical office.[3]

--- type one thing. speak another. X2 productivity.

===

[0] : http://unicon.org/
---

[1] : https://www.owlapps.net/owlapps_apps/articles?id=188190&lang...
---

[2] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUJnmBqHTY
---

[3] : https://kleinelectronics.com/modular-throat-microphone/?sku=...
---

[4] : https://btiffin.users.sourceforge.net/up/index.html
---

===
you're making a lot of assumptions about how my deployment works here!

my git repositories are all on the same server that hosts my website - git is not doing a remote fetch - it's a local fetch, which makes it basically instantaneous.

even if it were a remote fetch, i would be fine with it. 525,600 http requests per year is less wasteful than NetworkManager's heartbeat (which defaults to 1 heartbeat request per _30 seconds_ on Arch)

for some context, a stock nginx server with 8 cpus can handle ~500k+ http requests _per second_.
I think both are true.

The low price point got me into them over a decade ago.
The ecosystem is why I prefer them even at their top spec lines.

Even at their current prices, the 8GB versions are inexpensive enough to grab instead of a 4GB one, even if there is no initial need.

And I don’t have to deal with the process of buying second hand, maybe will work, maybe won’t, items.
They cannot give the note without taking it from someone else first. Money and land ownership are zero-sum games, for some to be rich, many have to be poor.
Just a note on soldering: I’m perfectly capable of soldering VQFN at home, but these days it’s so easy to order fully assembled boards from JLCPCB that I think lost hobbyists would start with the Pico and then go straight to turnkey assembly once they have a custom design. I stopped assembling my own boards two years ago (after a decade) once I placed my first turnkey order at JLCPCB. Ten pieces of a simple RP2040 board including shipping is like $80.

I agree the lack of floating point and the poor ADC are an issue. I designed a high power brushless motor controller using the RP2040 and the FOC loop only runs at 8kHz which is fast enough for my use, but much slower than a higher end board. I just love this processor too much to use something else.

The main advantage to this processor is that it seemingly will never go out of stock (until it’s EOL date). When I started designing the motor controller in early 2022 during the chip shortage, I went to the Digikey “microcontroller” category with no filters and sorted by most in stock. They had millions of RP2040’s - it was the most in stock microcontroller on Digikey. I guess since Raspberry Pi only have a single SKU for their microcontrollers they can just churn them out in huge quantities.

My goal is to stay invested in this product line until an updated rev comes out with a better ADC and floating point. I bet they’re working on it.
> But it didn't change anything about how those companies qualified candidates...

Turns out, finding/discovering hidden tech talent is relatively easy.

Finding the "Economic Buyer", a true hiring executive with budget and authority to make timely hiring decisions gets worse every year.

Bureaucratic Red Flag, when HR Bozos start 'adding value' to the process.

As companies grow, they mindlessly get in their own way.
> we'll likely see similar forced adaption by the Russians here

The Russian army has been strikingly bad at learning. ATACMs’ range is known. That they were being delivered to Ukraine was known. Yet here are closely-spaced places and choppers within firing range.

Same for e.g. doing in-person meetings of senior leaders in Sevastopol, or recapitulating Bakhmut in Avidiivka.
You're being obtuse if you think the status quo will be tolerated indefinitely. Not all goods are available via crypto, which means exchanges to and from real currencies are failure points that undermine claims to decentralization.

> Ethereum 'cracked down' on its energy usage all the way down to 99.99% [0] when it switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake.

I was referring to China's crackdown on Bitcoin. Proof-of-stake is no longer fully decentralized, and so vulnerable so sufficiently powerful actors.
Most of the Gazan prisoners are soldiers, policemen, army reservists. The ones scooped up by accident are being released - two on Friday and two before. Hamas has asked for a brief 24 hour ceasefire to release prisoners but Israel has refused, prolonging the imprisonment.

Ahmad Sa'adat is a "military fighter"? At the age of 70? He has been in Israeli prison for years.
I don't think that's actually true since the 70s with the introduction of modern monetary theory. If I understand that correctly, taxes serve effectively as a means of decreasing wealth disparity, subtracting money out of the economy, and ensuring that a minimal level of work gets done. They are not a means of paying for things, at least at the federal level. At the state level, where they don't control the money supply, I think it might matter more.

I know that MMT is a bit controversial in economic circles, and I am very much not an economist, but that's my understanding.
The size of the savings you can negotiate is a function of how locked in you are. A big customer will get discounts well beyond reserved instances, in response for (usually) committing to increase their expenditure above where it is.

The better your competing offer, the better the negotiating position. And while Amazon hasn’t gotten more expensive per se, it’s certainly not gotten cheaper.