skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've very probably hit global "peak coal" and looking at future declining world use:

International Energy Agency Global Coal Report December 2023 (released Friday 15th December 2023)

Global coal production is forecast to have risen by 1.8% in 2023, with continued growth in India, China and Indonesia more than offsetting declines in the United States and the European Union.

Thus, 2023 marks another all-time high in global coal production, totalling 8 741 Mt. [...]

For the forecast period, we expect a net reduction in global coal production starting in 2024, which would mean global coal production peaking in 2023 in line with global coal demand.

Ongoing declines in the United States and the European Union are likely to be complemented by reduced production volumes in Indonesia, as Chinese demand for seaborne thermal coal is likely to decrease.

The last bastion of remarkable growth in production is India, serving the growing demand from its power sector.

Our model suggests that declines in other countries will more than offset this growth, resulting in global production of 8 394 Mt in 2026.

https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-2023/supply

Global coal use to reach record high in 2023, energy agency says

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/15/global-coal-use-to...

But the IEA noted that overall coal use is not expected to drop until 2026, when the major expansion of renewable capacity in the next three years should help lower usage by 2.3 percent compared with 2023 levels, even with the absence of stronger clean energy policies.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38652273
I think 'People make games' did a video on it on YouTube.
Well, that's interesting. I can also imagine that Europeans and Australians are less likely to use their phones while driving, for more than one reason.
It did not suggest that. But it did not do anything else than usual complaining.

Present solution, if this ad is not acceptable there must be some absolutely clear solutions to decide what is and what is not and you should suggest a robust scalable system to apply that.

It is most basic thing to expect in civil conversation. And I think maybe similar board should be applied to these sort of articles too.
A minor but legitimate benefit.
Oh, so you think poisons killing the bacterial life that turns rocks into readily available plant nutrients have no impact?
Hm, if that's the case then why don't Western open source hardware projects just send a bilingual tourist over to Shenzhen to muck around until they connect with someone who can give them the docs needed to bootstrap the relevant firmware/drivers for the boards?
You need to import it and register it in order to drive it, and then you'll be paying that tax same as when bought from a Dutch shop.

The tax does decay for second hand cars, so there's a big market for foreign newtimers.
they will use it to proto and then dump.
US begins review that could eventually lead to PVC ban
As much as I liked my old volvo station wagon, it’d be illegal to put two adults and two kids in it for safety reasons (no room for modern car seats).

I hate the fact that cars have bloated out so much, but there’s a reason people end up with SUVs (they’re smaller than minivans, at least)
> You think any rule should have a one flat rate. One size fits all?

No, but it's more elegant and less gameable that way. Otherwise, we wind up with the Section 179 problem [1].

[1] https://over6000pounds.com/electric-vehicles-that-unlock-the...
An integer which references another data location is a pointer. This project only replaces system pointers with home grown pointers
Apple provides longer support windows than most android manufacturers. If you don’t need the latest features then there’s nothing forcing you to throw away a working device.
I have the exact same setup. Firefox does not work well with Google Meet. Thanks to the folks at Google, because a few years ago there was no issue at all.
A dog playing fetch is playing with you; a cat is playing with the toy and you’re just the one throwing it.
Acceleration; naively extrapolating the current growth rate gets us to 100% in 2034-ish; it's already cheaper than nuclear; we will probably want nuclear, but don't strictly need it, other base-load equivalents and load management options exist.
Good point. It looks like Apple specifically allows it to be used in the way you describe:

> It can be used for subscriptions from one developer or two different developers.
FDI began to shift from made in China for global export to made in China for the Chinese market and nowadays local Chinese companies outcompete these companies. Witness how global automotive companies (especially Japanese) got trounced hard because they don't have EV offerings
> I wouldn’t call it a penny farthing in this case.

Totally agree. That, along with the lack of spokes and the electric motor, ruin the historical authenticity of this piece.
Interesting. I always thought it was cool that Hawaii is basically free of land-predators with the exception of the massive centipedes. Maybe this explains how they got so large.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_subspinipes
This discussion is quite uniform and predictable.

- SUVs are bad,

- small vehicles are good,

- ${this} is the solution for any outliers (e.g. Toyota Sienna).

I’m not sold. Tax per mile-pound, not flat and not because you didn’t feed the meter. Small vehicles are less ergonomic for tall people to put children in car seats. Electric vehicles are still fine and yes, let’s protect those not in the vehicle. But, critical thinking leads to many diverse solutions to the stated problems you all are trying to solve.
Oh bummer. US is the biggest importer of China. Most crap we buy for Christmas and New Years - come from China.

90% of crap Amazon sells - China. Go to any store, most things are made in … China.
Received this security notice today:

Hi Redacted,

MongoDB is investigating a security incident involving unauthorized access to certain MongoDB corporate systems. This includes exposure of customer account metadata and contact information. At this time, we are NOT aware of any exposure to the data that customers store in MongoDB Atlas.

We detected suspicious activity on Wednesday (Dec. 13th, 2023) evening US Eastern Standard Time and immediately activated our incident response process. We are still conducting an active investigation and believe that this unauthorized access has been going on for some period of time before discovery. We have also started notifying relevant authorities.

What should you do next?
Since we are aware that some customer account metadata and contact information was accessed, please be vigilant for social engineering and phishing attacks.
If not already implemented, we encourage all customers to activate phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) and regularly rotate passwords.
MongoDB will continue to update mongodb.com/alerts with additional information as we continue to investigate the matter.

Sincerely,
Lena Smart
MongoDB CISO
There are four emojis. I reveal the first 1, they reveal the 2 nd, etc. how many rounds of exchange do you need to happen to be safe?
> SUVs constitute only a fraction of the total vehicles on the road

They also constitute a disproportionate fraction of the damage [1].

> Imposing higher taxes on SUVs in downtown areas will shift the problem rather than solve it

It also deters their purchase.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37297647/
Not flooring, but I used pennies for weight on my son’s pinewood derby car. I couldn’t buy weights for cheaper and putting some shiny ones under enamel looked pretty cool.
Which means the cute french car has more than 500kg of headroom until it would have to pay the increased parking tariff...

> and more than 2 tonnes for electric vehicles.
The existential risks that residents of a company town face. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Honestly I'm starting to feel a bit alarmed by the growth of solar energy. I live in Midwest farm country and solar farms are just being built in place of food farms at a scary rate.

While I believe in the idea of cleaner renewable energy I'm concerned if it comes at the price of a reduced food supply.
Why is this better than an arena style allocator?
That chart is so funny. What will it take for the IEA to consider changing their prediction model?
That link (going from basic chemical to bootstrapped evolution) is an entire field of research. Not one paper now and then. Labs, money, researchers building on each other's work... Just want to point out.
Hashing is not compression, it should not be reversible/inflatable.
I think that’s because the standard (iso 18013-5) allows for NFC & QR codes which makes sense and because they couldn’t do it over NFC for the iOS app so they likely just chose something they could provide a consistent experience for. It wouldn’t surprise me if the app is even built largely starting with the sample reference code[1].

BTW likely the reason QR codes were part of the standard in the first place was because at the time Apple wasn’t involved and their APIs were (& remain?) locked down so that a third party wouldn’t be able to implement the standard. Apple did join later & have integrated support for the standard into their wallet so I imagine California will be added to their list of states sooner rather than later. Many countries in Europe have a strong federal motor vehicle authority so rolling out these IDs is faster nationally whereas in the US & Canada it’s a patchwork of states/provinces that cooperate under AAMVA & rollouts happen piecemeal on each state’s timeline (to be fair, US & Canada are quite large and historically each state develops their own infrastructure which means you have to replicate updating the infrastructure & it’s usually done by contractors under very lucrative contracts).

Keep in mind there are US states that already integrate with Apple wallet via NFC and whatnot and MDL is a shorthand name for the standard & nobody is going to implement anything other than the standard (that’s why AAMVA, RDW, DVLA & other relevant government bodies had representatives involved with and engaged with the standard / running the standard body)

[1] IIRC the sample app was built by the folks at the UDL as a PoC for the ISO group. Funded by the good folks at RDW which also allowed it to be open-sourced and shared freely. The Netherlands government’s approach to tech is a hidden gem into how to structure policy around tech (I think Estonia is also well regarded because of their adoption of cryptographic ID cards so early).
Perhaps bars and other nightlife tend to be more walkable in non rural areas in those countries.
> difference between genetic and chosen unfortunately the difference isn't obvious from just the optics

Okay, so let's get back to the actual topic. Help me understand how buying an SUV is fundamentally—beyond optics—similar to being genetically predisposed to obesity.
Binary search into a sorted array is slow. Intro algorithms classes might count operations, and you discover that about log_2(n) operations are needed, which is optimal in a certain sense.

But those operations are horrible operations. Until you are log_2(cache line size / element size) steps from the leaves, you are hitting a different cache line each time, and you’re doing a branch such that the next cache line you want depends on the branch result.

So this is like log_2(n)-3 serial (cache miss, compare, branch, compute address operations). (Assume 8-byte entries — it’s much worse with bigger entries.) This not even close to optimal.

You will find that, for reasonably large data sets (maybe a few hundred elements or more?), any cache-optimized searchable data structure will beat binary search by a large factor. And for small arrays (or the last stage of an optimized large structure), you want a vectorized linear search.

Binary search is mostly nice because sorted arrays are elegant and binary search can be implemented in very little code. And it’s easy to explain and analyze.
Apple: we took steps to protect our users.

HN comments: they took steps to protect their users.
> We
estimate that these laws prevented only 57 car crash fatalities of children nationwide in 2017. Simultaneously, they led to a permanent reduction of approximately 8,000 births in the same year, and 145,000 fewer births since 1980, with 90% of this decline being since 2000.

Wow!
Care to elaborate why you ignore the fact that electric cars (even heavy ones) produce much less overall particulate pollution than combustion engine cars and why you focus instead on a narrow category where they are worse? My point still stands.
This seems bad?

- SSH3 is a bad name: this isn't a successor to SSHv2 and will only cause confusion

- The authors don't seem to understand that SSHv2 predates all of their chosen technologies, and provides "robust and time-tested mechanisms" they claim to be adding

- How is "hiding your server behind a secret link" a feature? This is, at best, security through obscurity, which can be layered on any network protocol (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking); this implies that the authors don't have much of a security background...?

- ...Which explains why they think something as complicated as OpenID Connect is a good thing to add to SSH (i.e. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/148292/why-is-o...)

- The abstract in the linked paper seems to conflate SSHv1 and SSHv2; I couldn't really bring myself to read much past that

In summary: this seems bad.
The reason you're getting pushback about your original assertion is because it isn't actually true.

>Unemployment has changed, it used to mean people that want to work but can't find jobs.

It still means that.

>If you lose a full time job and work two part time jobs you're considered fully employed, even though you lost benefits and have to work crazy hours.

This is how full employment has been measured for a long time, so it's not an example of government changing measures to make things look better than they are.

>If you think administrations don't fudge the numbers to make themselves look more successful I don't know where you've been

This is not evidence. It's just a non sequitur.

>Statistics are easy to mess with, and administrations favor the models that make them look better.

Replacing the first conjecture with this one helps nothing. Again, where is the evidence for this statement? Is it a hunch that we're just meant to go along with?

>Places like WV have seen mass unemployment for decades, but the numbers look better because people have gone on checks or government assistance and given up, thus aren't counted.

This is how unemployment has been measured for more than half a century. It is not something that the government has changed to make things look better than they are.

>It's easier to believe a fairy tale told by the government, and only be critical of it when the opposing party is in office, when supposedly nothing has changed.

There is, again, zero evidence in this statement. It is looking more and more like the original assertion, "They've literally been changing the measurements of economic indicators to make things seem better than they are," was made up.
Having hundreds or even tens of thousands of Unix accounts on a single system is not a problem in corporate or institutional environments since macOS integrates with LDAP and Active Directory via Open Directory.

I was able to log in to any of the Macs in the computer rooms on campus at my university using my regular Unix username and password.

UIDs go as high as 2 billion on macOS as well (they're signed 32 bit integers), which should fit even the largest institutions even without aliasing of local UIDs to directory server names.
Did you follow the link? The point was exactly setting up X.509 PKI for SSH authentication. Yes, it can be used with SSH, that was the GP's point.
There's plenty of land for food and energy, we just have to eat less meat.
Yep, Slashdot is "news for nerds" and the ipod was the player that Steve Jobs was able to sell to hipsters. It was not the player that nerds wished they had. This new thing seems close to silly. There have been a bunch of such projects on the rockbox forum and all of them bogged down.

I suspect there are retrophiles out there who still want to use rotary dial phones. That is fine, but enough vintage rotary phones are available on ebay for those who want them, that someone trying to crowdfund a new one would face an uphill battle. This music player seems about the same way.

Aren't there FIIO players that come a lot closer to the nerd dream anyway?
Yeah, no judgement on that.

But I’ve worked with indexed classes (mixin class) to avoid pointers in the past and have never found them worth the effort. Since someone else is mentioning it here on HN I’m asking if there is an advantage over pointers that I don’t realise — if so I might be glad to take advantage of it myself.
The case for this article is also about a search warrant.

> At some point thereafter, the officers
obtained a search warrant for the contents of Valdez’s phone. But
they were unable to access the phone’s contents because they could
not crack his passcode. So a detective approached Valdez, informed
him that he had a warrant for the contents of the cell phone, and
asked Valdez to provide his passcode. Valdez refused. Without the
passcode, the police were never able to unlock the phone to search
its contents
Cheaper as in it can fully replace nuclear and fully match for demand for also extended periods of no wind, low temperatures and high cloud cover? Without any use of fossil fuels?
There's a terrific documentary film called Blue Vinyl[0] about how vinyl and PVC products are made. While inert in its usable form, vinyl is one of the most toxic products on earth to manufacture and dispose of -- and it's in a lot of stuff!

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Vinyl
These retool articles

* Pipe Dreams - https://retool.com/pipes
* Work flows - https://retool.com/workflows

Were both great.
I don't think that many of these devices allows you to login with your own ID. It is tied to a public account controlled by university IT. Why do you think it is pain to just change anything or add new program needed?
How the Feds bounced Binance
I do lots of simd and shader programming, but regardless of register width, O(n) is not O(1)
We've got so much extra food we turn corn into ethanol for fuel, and subsidize that whole process to win votes in the Midwest. We'll be fine.

Sometimes we even pay people not to farm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/07/02/f...
> seems to lack respect for opposing political stances

This is true for issues with national currency. Pennies aren't in this category. Instead, it's more subject to the interest-group problem [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38665895
> This seems like an arbitrary distinction.

Yes, it's like a dumb person trying to rationalize why a smart person made better decisions. The actual answer is that they considered more consequences, predicted consequences more accurately, and further into the future. But a dumb person not considering the infinitude of that situation might say "ahh it was the thing after the thing, if I just predicted one more step, I would have made the same decision".

When a person or thing is more intelligent than you, there's no way to distinguish one step ahead from n steps ahead. All you know is that they are making higher quality decisions. If you're doing second order thinking, you will be outsmarted by people doing third order thinking, and so on.
Thanks! :)

> Will we be 10,000 times more productive or will we be out of work? I think a lot of people will be out of work.

It can be both. Automation of farming means we've gone from a constant risk of starvation to an epidemic of obesity, while simultaneously reducing the percentage of the workforce in agriculture.
Regenerative braking does create tire particles
https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...

I am not sure really.

"It should be noted that the new license maintains all of the same freedoms the community has always had with MongoDB under AGPL - they are free to use, review, modify, and redistribute the source code. The only changes are additional terms that make explicit the conditions for offering a publicly available MongoDB as a service.

Obviously, this new license helps our business, but it is also important for the MongoDB community. MongoDB has invested over $300M in R&D over the past decade to offer an open database for everyone, and with this change, MongoDB will continue to be able to aggressively invest in R&D to drive further innovation and value for the community."
A small chili sauce

eSIM

32000 mAh is a limit on battery packs (in SE Asia, other countries/layovers maybe lower).

If yours is larger I'd consider buying one where you can remove the label and replace it with a lower number (I wouldn't have no label). They were reading labels when I last went through.

Powerstrip - with protection.

Obviously a universal power adapter and USB. You'll always be in multiple countries with layovers and stuff.

I don't get people who have luggage vs. backpack.

Bribe/emergency money, inc lower dominations.

As they hint, a VPN in case you have to do banking etc (so your IP is in your home country)

Similarly if using a burner phone log into everything once at home. And grab the local Grab (Uber) I had to APK one that was phone region locked. Know how to do this.

Water tablets/Steripen. Sometimes it's a PiTA to go buy more water. And alcohol gel, which I guess is standard for normies(vs. scared EuroTravelers) post COVID.

> A small wifi/ethernet access point. If the network is down, you build your own.

What's the best way to do this? Link to product? Can you connect something to your phone or laptop, or will that not work if you are Phone -> Laptop internet-ing
Puppy: A Publicly Verifiable Watermarking Protocol
Yes, but that's because the momentum is the fourier transform of the position and vice versa

So there's an uncertainty principle for signal processing, entirely because of the fourier transform and not because of quantum mechanics

See this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnnXbOM5S4
And really we should optimize the land use in general. Single family housing is also huge waste of energy. A few square meters per person in massive shared places is enough to survive. We could bulldoze all single family homes and then fill the now vacant office spaces with bunk beds for more sustainable living...
Can't read the article as I don't have a subscription, so maybe they talk more specifics in the article, but I'd say that the housing shortage in places like the bay area is so acute that I think even a flawed approach that builds more housing is better than alternative proposals that never happen.
“Your data is safe, because we’ve never written it to disk.”
> But electric cars lack all tailpipe emissions.

Like GP mentioned, tires also pollute via abrasion.

> 2 tons is just slightly heavier than a Tesla Model Y, a compact SUV barely large enough for a family of 4

A Model Y by Parisian scale is a incredibly huge car. French (and honestly most European) families get by with VW Golf sized car.
Let me supply you with some hard knowledge.

China Now Sells Fewer Goods to the US Than Mexico or Canada Do

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/china-los...

For the first three quarters of the year, China's exports to the U.S. fell by 16.4%

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/13/china-trade-exports-and-impo...

Exports to the EU fell 11% from a year earlier to $38.3 billion in November compared

https://apnews.com/article/china-exports-imports-decline-eco...
https://thenewstack.io/the-case-against-the-server-side-publ...
Why the Javelin Missile guidance computer uses FPGAs [video]