skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First give me a world that runs on 90% renewables all the time. The last 10% is really not something that will have weight.
Actually I consider complaining about that bad faith. Too many countries run on pretty much majority fossils, reducing that has the largest impact and setting an example will help there. A world where we run on 90% renewables is a good one.
I wouldn't say lying, but misrepresenting decribes that claim rather well.
Well, when they are members in various Think Tanks (sic!) why would it be suspicious.
Same reason a top of the line PC tower still has crappy stamped metal frame and crappy injection molded plastic trims.

The main contractor of the elevator unit is a mechanical engineering company, they contract out the control unit to the lowest bidder.
How so?

The idea here is that being successful on any venture is half chance (luck). If you're creating more chances (putting in the work, "being prepared") you're creating more chances.
I’m cautiously optimistic for SYCL. The absurd level of abstraction is a bit alarming, but single source performance portability would be a godsend for library authors.
First, you talk like Signal never had any issue with usability or functionality, which is far from the truth. Signal amount of bugs and security issues with their client is notorious, and the insistence of requiring phone numbers is just a silly "let them have cake approach" that is conveniently ignored for too long.

Second, are you hedging your bets and supporting Matrix or XMPP as well, or will you only encourage people to "donate" to the platform that you happen to have picked already?
"PHP Dates are Broken " [video]
Working with dates and times is notorious. There are so many different formats, timezones and different types of calculations. Even the most experienced engineers can still get caught up on the intricate details when working with dates and times.
Is the license the same between N and non-N versions?
Btw, Microsoft seems to be circumventing US/EU sanctions. While traveling to eastern Europe, the fresh installation of Edge has yandex (pootin-linked company) as the default search engine, and also proposes other similarly shady websites like mailru.
I think this is a much fuller explanation of what I was trying to say :-)
But that is exactly the issue:

When your self-reported probability is out of whack with reality you will be prone to confidently making claims that are false and believe them.
Fully agree.

Android also has APIs to register another RCS client to the OS.

What's missing are open APIs for apps to control Google's RCS-client. Indeed this would be convenient, but considering the potential for misuse there, Google would probably need a separate certification process for each app, which is quite a scale for something that didn't scale yet...

A own RCS-client still requires accreditation to ensure interoperability with the RCS-service. API-access to Google's client would either require accreditation of the app using the client, or would need to be limited so dramatically that it's probably of no use...
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It sounds like you’re stringing a couple of anecdotes together to make a point that this is useless, which it isn’t. Lots of people live in tiny apartments, where sections of your house need to serve more than one purpose (kitchen inside a cupboard for example). If I was in this situation I would consider buying this product.
i think the only real mistake they made was taking twitter drama seriously.
of course both can be true. i already mentioned that but you are drawing the wrong conclusion.

how would telling them that the reason they are not a harvard professor is because they don't have the talent for it be any better?

what's cruel is that we tell them that they have no hope because their circumstances are beyond their control instead of supporting them with the resources they would need to develop the potential that they do have.

all that statement is doing is looking down on them, quite regardless of what factors determine their potential.

the problem is that people look for evidence of talent when we still don't know how to measure it. we simply have no idea whether the work in this competition is the result of talent or other factors. but we decide that these kid have talent and that other kids don't, when it's possible that others could create a similar work if they just had been given the opportunity.

the discussion about talent gets in the way of helping people to develop.

see also the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38287294

btw: i am skeptical about twin studies being enough to give us the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study#Criticism
Here's a harsh reality: "zero co2" nuclear emits massive amounts of CO2 during mining, during enrichment, creation of fuels, the massive motorcades that transport the fuels to their final power plant destination where they finally produce power without emitting CO2. So maybe its better for local air quality, but really the emissions are quite high.

The actual metric that reflects the total embodied energy, which is a much better proxy for CO2 intensivity, is Levelized Cost of Energy, and nuclear is typically one of the worst.

Not only does the high cost of nuclear reflect all the embedded energy, that high cost is taking money away that could be used for other energy saving and therefore CO2 reducing activities, like better insulation, upgrading equipment, smart grid, etc.

Also, lets look at the posts that are "minused" without explanation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300495
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Also, please avoid internet tropes like "citation needed". They have a degrading effect on discussion quality and aren't the curious conversation that we're hoping for.

All this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you wouldn't mind reviewing them and sticking to them, we'd appreciate it.
I am not at all surprised, why would I? Looking atvtha numbwers for installed capacity by source so Germany is on a good way (despite all the head wind regarding wind mills, grid extensions and so in and so forth), even if we could, and absolutely should, move faster.

It is nowhere near the desaster people like to make it seem so.

Also, isn't this thread about Portugal?
The major obvious factor is because the devs can earn money doing that unlike with Linux, but there are also things like: because it's usually not free to make those apps (mac's developer subscription, without which it makes harder for the users to install apps)
Then we need a lot of new names for companies. Patents are a lot more complicated matter. IBM is just the most prominent one
Even when they adopt RCS I bet they still punish non Apple users with green bubbles.
My understanding is that disks use the inertia of their spinning platters to power themselves long enough to flush their cache in the event of sudden power loss.
I the get the point of your comment, but the article does state that one of the proposed changes are that you can uninstall news and bing from the start menu / search.
I use AI every day for all kinds of stuff… it might be time to tell if you handcrafted something like in the olden days
> But in the name of progress and security, you can't stay on Windows 10.

If I hadn't switched to Linux, I would absolutely be staying on Windows 10 until such time as Microsoft stops making a user hostile OS. The rather low threat of my machine getting owned because I can't get security patches any more is far less onerous to me than what Microsoft is doing these days.
Aside from the salaries, which I agree are a problem, I think there are a lot of architectural issues that are both costly and not so secure.

> We use third-party services to send a registration code via SMS or voice call in order to verify that the person in possession of a given phone number actually intended to sign up for a Signal account. Simple solution, go distributed.

6M $ for that. Stop doing that. What do dictators control? Mobile phone networks and other infrastructure. And, yes, they really do go after people any way they can.

This "cost" puts people into danger. Coupling identity and operator infrastructure is a critical privacy flaw. And a costly one too apparently. If your #1 goal is to be the most private solution, this cannot be tolerated to continue to be the case. Get rid of it. Your identity should be your cryptographic key.
The explanation of thermoacoustic sounds like sci-fi:

> The engine converts heat into sound waves that resonate to form a stable sound field. These waves then drive a piston, which in turn generates electricity.
Absolutely. As others have mentioned in this thread, by far the largest benefit to effort ratio is from learning the vanilla keybindings and becoming fluent in them. All the custom key maps, plugins, and settings come later.

If I were you I would start by enabling vim mode in vscode and practicing there. You get autocomplete by default and a familiar environment and can just focus on gaining keybinding proficiency. Then, as you get more experienced the new shortcuts you will want to define will come naturally.
Sure, but it still doesn't support ISO timestamps: https://github.com/acchiao/galactus/issues/34
That wasn't exactly mass deception. It was basically group think inside a certain administration, supported by an at that time must-keep-in-sync-with-them UK prime IIRC. Most of Europe had access to more information and knew it to be incorrect (there were investigative TV programs etc showing why). Most people actually believed that the WMD claim was just a stunt to make an excuse for going in and finally finish the '91 war.
It certainly wasn't a global conspiracy by scientists in any sense.
He has been indifferent to legal issues his entire career. Why stop now?
The sad thing for me is that even though almost all my contacts have iPhones, the lowest common denominator effect means everyone ends up using WhatsApp to allow everyone to join. That’s definitely a worse outcome
There's also distrobox https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox.
What was your basic approach?
I switched to Neovim because of RSI. I don't think I would have been able to keep my job without it. I know the other editors have Vim emulation plug-ins, but I found I would always reach for the mouse if I didn't know the keystroke(s).

There are definitely moments that result in a bit of time sinking. Overall the tradeoffs work out for me.
> If they'd simply added a "WhatsApp/iMessage mode" to Google Chat...

They'd have been sued by WhapsApp and Apple if they did that since they're proprietary protocols.
As if this didn't happen ever before
Not really. I've been using Windows for work and Linux on my home desktop for 2-3 years now, and there's no friction at all.
not only the actual thought of the person cant be controlled. It is actually irrelevant. The importang is the damocles sword is healthy and well
And electricity usage is only a minor part of CO2 production.

Primary energy usage in Germany is split 25% is electricity, 25% is traffic and 50% is heating and cooling.

As proven by the article the whole discussion is a huge red herring.

Amdahl's law applies [0], if I reduce CO2 from electricity production by 50%, my overall reduction is only 12.5%

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
Also you can ask.
Depends on perspective - graphic designers and typographers might find "Frutiger" to be the obvious part and wonder what "Aero" means.
We can stay on Windows 10 until 2025, and even that is kind of open to debate if there is too much business pressure.

As ex-UNIX zealot, those that during university days used M$ on the email signature (most likely still visible in some online archives), Windows is for me still the lesser problematic.

I like Apple's hardware, however I am not paying their tax, when PC gaming laptops offer me more, rather have them as work issued laptops, and in what concerns GNU/Linux I no longer have tinkering needs, been using it via VMs instead of dual boot, since VMWare became good enough for such purpose.

On laptops, even those sold with Linux pre-installed there is always something missing, or one needs to be stuck with the custom OEM distribution, possibly without major kernel updates.
ChatGPT relies very much on confirmation bias to do its magic. You ask something trivial you already know (and could have probably Googled in 15 seconds), you get back something glib and smooth in reply and you are wowed by how smart GPT seems to be.

It is significantly less impressive when you ask something you don't already know and can't Google easily.
The nuclear waste thing is my pet peeve. Maybe this works in sparsely populated countries where you just dump it in a remote area, but in Europe producing a ton of nuclear waste means you have a ton of radiating toxic waste that you have to guarantee to store safely in a densely populated landmass for the next 10.000 years. There isn't many options to do that and all of them ain't even cheap today.

Unless you want to socialize the costs while you privatize the gains the cost for those 10.000 (in some cases 100.000) years has to be paid for in advance — unless we are just closing your our and expect future generations will happily do that.

Now I don't say there isn't a scenario (irreversible climate change?) where doing precisely that could make sense — what I say is that no fan of nuclear power managed to explain that part to me in a way that convinced me yet. I want more than a "trust me bro" or handwaving optimism.
For a nonprofit?
The notched rod looks neat, but isn't rifling through the clothes on the rack kind of an essential part of the experience? Can't do that with a notched rod.

First time I'm illustrating a comment with stock footage: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/studio-shot-of-hand...
Does that mean your prior for whether it’s happening is strongly against? That seems irrational given the history of both meta and the tech industry and govt generally.
Consumer drives are generally junk.

Personally I think it should be the responsibility of the operating system. All filesystem operations on modern computers should be atomic, and either entirely succeed or entirely fail. And the OS should work with hard disk manufacturers to make sure their devices meet whatever expectation the OS makes of them.

Hilariously, the OS already uses transactions for its own filesystem metadata operations. But they don't share that capability with end user applications, which end up either being quietly broken in the event of power loss (most apps) or horribly complex to make up for the OS's shortfalls (most databases).

There are dozens of solutions in userland, from git's content-addressing to on-disk B+trees. There should just be a simple, effective, correct transactional filesystem API provided by the OS that applications can simply use. The best part of this proposal: a solution implemented by the OS directly would probably be faster than what most people would implement in userland anyway. Its ridiculous this doesn't already exist.

There's simply no structural reason for power failure (or application crashes) to be able to put hard disk data into an inconsistent, corrupt state.
Personally, I prefer caps lock for ctrl. I don’t really mind reaching for esc to switch modes (maybe I just got used to it?), but things like Ctrl-D, Ctrl-], and Ctrl-O in normal mode are quite unergonomic with the default position of Ctrl.
Yeah, I just had a look and it seems BBUs don't actually power the disk. They just keep the volatile cache alive until the disk is powered to flush them.
Well he's asked about AGI but then goes on to talk about SuperIntelligence and "discovering novel physics" so depends on your definition of the term I guess.

Until 'Train longer, Reduce loss' stops working, it's a hunch but regardless, It's not like what's below the bar he's setting is chicken change lol. That's almost everybody.
I find it surprising that nobody talked about Jupyter so far. I still think that Jupyter is an overly simplified realisation of cweb's vision.
The UI is the single biggest reason why I will never own a Mac. I cannot stand having a single menu bar for the entire system, and I'm not about to use an OS which forces it on me. I do at least appreciate that Apple tries to make good products for their customers (even if they are overpriced), but I hate their GUI design and there's no real way around that.
>the Western lifestyle

Is that a placeholder for 'over consumption perpetuated through mass brain-washing (advertising)'? Or is there more to it?
> Regulators are the ones accepting the malicious compliance as compliance!

Yeah, I had to read the first version of "the cookie law". The intend was super clear, at least in the Danish version, it was pretty easy to implement and wouldn't really bother anyone... Then came the marketing/SEO/retargting assholes who had a nice thing going tracking the everlasting crap out of everyone and they did NOT want things to change. Some of these people then came up with the "hosted cookie banner" and things went to hell from there.

You are absolutely right that this should never in a million years be viewed as compliance. It mostly didn't, and still doesn't work. What should have happened is that the law should have been amended to prevent outsourcing responsibility.
The EU just keeps winning on the big tech front, it seems. I'm honestly not sure how they keep doing it ; is the motivation to keep away influence from big tech ? Giving a bit of stick now so the carrot is more efficient later ?
I dunno, it just looks… like an exhibit or something, to me.

Like when a historical figure’s childhood home has been turned into a museum, and each room has been staged to give an impression of what it might have been like while they were alive?

It just looks sterile. Like no one uses it. Real life is so much more cluttered and uncoordinated in my experience.

Or at the very least - my office is an absolute trash heap compared to this.
Every single energy thread in HN ends like this. Renewable fanatics get backed into a corner when they realize that it is impossible to run a grid on solar and wind alone. Then they start talking about things that currently cannot account for even 0.001% of our global energy storage needs, like hydrogen or batteries.
Nobody seems to get that these operational parameters were set and approved and told to be save and then they were still exceeded, lol.
first python, but do you have one in mind that's particularly painful?
Whether they mean it in their hearts, they generally amend their behaviour.
I installed the N version once, and the lack of media codecs was infuriating. Most programs assume they are always present, so the error messages they give are cryptic and the average user won't guess the problem lies in their Windows having been N(eutered). What's worse, Microsoft website provides several guides that explain how to install the codecs, and they all contradict each other. I think https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/media-feature-pa... is the correct link, but I might be mistaken.

And of course Microsoft bundles a lot of additional programs like Groove Music and Skype with the codecs in a single pack.
> testing all or a carefully chosen random sample of the other denials and getting the actual data

We should build an Ai to test this.
You’re comparing apples and oranges here.

Independently of the operating system , your 70g process might have an actual working set of 70 g, while the 55g might have had a working set of 1 gig.

Furthermore your Vm was running most likely in a shared environment, your swap partition running on shared not super fast io, etc - you may not even have had 64g of ram ( despite your Vm claiming the contrary ). Your Mac on the contrary, has what is says it has.
I stopped eating out completely and stopped ordering food in. Bought a freeze and canner and meals are quick and cheap to make with better flavour. I stopped getting sick.. think back to all of the times you got really sick from food. I bet you most of them were from food you didn't prepare yourself.
I've used vim for about a decade now and learned about it in college from friends. Having vi available on nearly any box makes it very universal.

Most modern IDEs have a straightforward enough vim plugin that just works in my experience (at least the JetBrains ones do).
Security is extremely important, but it is not the only concern one should have when considering the design of a global communications infrastructure.

I worry a lot more about not having one single actor responsible in dealing for the communication of millions of people than about "quantum-resistant encryption".
No, they require different keys.
Yep, this (EVs with bidirectional charging) is something we have to do, as it could be used to balance the grid when necessary, diminishing the need to spin up fossil fuel power in these circumstances.

Unfortunately most EVs don't have the hardware to be used as batteries through their Type 2 (Mennekes) connector, as it requires a built-in inverter that just isn't there.

There are some new products (e.g. [1]) coming out that uses the CCS2 port on the car, providing the necessary inverter externally, which would enable older EVs to be used as batteries for grid balancing or other similar uses.

1: https://wallbox.com/sv_se/quasar-2-laddare-dubbelriktade-elf...
I do not think it is offensive because you did not say anything negative about that group of people, but I think they find it offensive because when framed like that it exposes some of the absurdity of that act, which could make them question their own self definition.

Human actions often carry absurdity. I think we should recognise it and accept it, instead of trying to ignore it and hope it will disappear (hint, it won't)
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A nonprofit doesn't mean it's a charity.
I do damage control for the moment: I have reduced my working week to 20 hours.
There is not much about the Neptune online, the system tested in aprallel so (Wikipedia is great dor stuff like that) has automtic and manual guidance systems. Ukraine choose Neptune over that other system, so I assume Neptune has the same.

Manual guidance wouod allow you to shoot the missile in the direction of the located target, until you are close enough for the missile to lock on and have it hit using automatic guidance. No idea what was done during hat particular attack, but it sure was possible without radar sorcery.
If we were indoctrinated into the tradition of keeping capybaras as pets then she probably would have assumed snoopy was a capy. As it stands - he’s not a cat, he’s not a bird, so he must be a dog.
I find this the cover band analogy a bit unintuitive. Anyone who practices art will tell you arts are very technical (painting is, music is, magic probably is too is).

Millions of artists have done similar subject studies; does that make everyone cover artists?

I don't know much about magic/illusions, but I would think that someone with enough technical understanding of the craft could apply the techniques originally
It makes zero sense from a UX perspective to not terminate (most) processes when the last window closes. Exceptions do exist, but for example if I close all my word processor windows then the process does no good continuing to run. I think you make a fair point that Mac users are used to this behavior and so it should probably remain consistent. But if you were to redesign the OS from the ground up, it's horrible behavior that should in no way be the default.
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