skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is measurable, it improves the standard of living of those affected, and has other environmental benefits.

The last two parts have nothing to do with greenhouse emission reduction. They are important, don't get me wrong. And valuable.

But if the only reason to start reducing greenhouse emissions in a sector is "it is measurable", we are doing a poor job. Because I am certain there's far lower-hanging-fruit, that is also measurable, but simply not as popular as "these other people have to change their lifestyle" and therefore omitted.
Edit: I am specifically thinking about severely reducing meat from our diets (i.e. go partially, or entirely vegetarian), or about not flying to Bali for a 2 week holiday. Because those are far bigger than 2% globally. Estimates go to resp. 30% and 15%. Reduce half of all of them, and the "cooking on wood" might reduce 1% (which acc. to the article actually is merely 0.1%) and 15% or 7.5% resp. It is blindingly obvious what has the biggest impact on greenhouse gas emission reduction.
The South African situation is very nuanced. The ANC had a violent faction, and a more peaceful faction aimed at reconciliation. The well-known Nelson Mandela belonged to the latter faction. Note that I said "more peaceful" and not "peaceful." Nelson Mandela also participated in sabotage attacks during Apartheid.

Those two factions are still alive in the ANC now that it is the ruling party. It just takes a different shape now that violence isn't the modus operandi anymore. You could call it a far-left radical faction, and a moderate faction. The far-left radical faction is heavily influenced by Fanon, they openly admit it. Also on the far-left you have the EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) who were kicked out of the ANC for being too far-left. They also claim to be Fanonian. They are openly calling for violence, while simultaneously denying that they are calling for violence.

The violence prevalent in South Africa is caused by a wide array of causes, of which I expect Fanonian thought to be one of the lesser causes (but a cause none-the-less). A bigger cause is an inept and corrupt government by a political party that is still stuck in revolutionary rhetoric 30 years after it's victory. Their inept and corrupt governance caused degradation in law-enforcement, to the point where it is almost non-existent. Pair this with the abject poverty and fatherlessness caused by Apartheid, and you have yourself an unruly and violent populace.

Fanonian thought only factors in when things get political. In my opinion that is less commonplace than the media (both mainstream and otherwise) suggests. Our violence is mostly just normal plain old crime.
> Note that the simulation is only for Germany. If you add other countries to the grid, there will be less no solar-no wind days.

But more transmission losses.
Which book? I haven’t read anything of him. But whenever I see his stuff, I’ve been happy to see that it’s not just academic, but understandable and useful for solving real problems.
Gamefreak / Big N had it coming. For years theyve let the poket monsters franchise stagnate.

Palworld is the best bits of multiple games joined into one. I played it for 10 hour thus far and am actually impressed. You can tune the world to be as relaxing or as intense as you want. You still get to enjoy the game like everyone else.

If they can keep it up, they may have made a franchise to rival poket monsters.
After all, all IPs have their downfall.
Welcome to the last year of work for me. Now, I firmly believe what I set out to do cannot be done. However when I started, it seemed quite reasonable that the model I would build would be successful at it's purpose.
For the two-language trick to work, both languages need to be equally useful for the kids. My sister and her Canadian husband tried having her speak to them in Norwegian, and him in English, but as soon as they understood that she could speak and understand English, but he could not speak or understand Norwegian, the kids switched to English. They still understand Norwegian, but they speak little of it and with a heavy English accent.
I mean, many many many people and companies are trying to get hydrogen to work. From airplanes to cars to long term energy storage. From random startups to Airbus and Toyota going through universities. There are good reasons for that, or there wouldn't be that many reputable organisations spending that much money on trying to make it work.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c...
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There are usually several satellite image providers for anywhere that isn't a sea or ocean. You can trace over them.
Ask HN: Anyone can suggest free founder communities/forums?
Hi, I am building a startup. Although I believe in my idea and my dream, the journey is tough without people to discuss with, bounce around ideas, and learn from. Does anyone know (with links PLEASE) where I can find such a community online?

Thank you.
But why? I mean, I'm also obsessed of the byte size from time to time and I do often optimize for the size when it's doable, but in practice anything below 1 MB seems small enough that you don't need to optimize further. There are so many low-hanging fruits when it comes to the Rust binary size...
Maybe large swaths of users wouldn't download enhancement suites if you actually listened to them? It took like 3 years to support the basic feature to "never group tabs" in the Taskbar -- that's been supported by previous versions of windows for decades. That's why I downloaded patches.
General Catalyst leads $200M investment into Bilt Rewards
Very interesting paper!

Still, lots of work to do, to quote "However, it was not possible to control other factors, such as the socio-economic environment of the participants.".

In my view this could affect the study quite a lot (or not, but unknown for now). They mention the initial intervention was 3 months on-site, but after "the patient returned to his area of residence, where he/she would have speech therapy and special education".
Frankly, it is really annoying when developers working at one of the large closed-source platform oligopolists blame their users for trying to work around the deficiencies (or even outright hostile "business model" optimizations) in their software by whatever scant means are left to them: maybe if Microsoft didn't keep removing good functionality and stopped forcing bad "features" on everyone, fewer people would see a need to install and use these extensions that are being scapegoated here for the lack of satisfaction in Windows updates.

Just look through the comments on this article to see people pointing out how Microsoft keeps removing options for how people can do this in less risky ways, or even ideas for how Microsoft can improve the safety of these extensions (which aren't all exactly right but I will note that if Microsoft embraced these more and provided an official loader--not one that limited the access but merely coordinated the installation--this is easily solved with the same kind of "safe mode" I designed for shell extensions on jailbroken iOS devices).

To quote one of the comments:

> Not just this article, but far too often when articles such as this are written, about widely used 3rd party tweaks, and the commenting strongly supports the tweak in question, but MS charges forward that “all these enthusiasts are wrong, we will continue our way” is telling of how far out of touch the Win dev team is away from its user base.
Functions are a nice to have, but:

- It tends to make things less declarative.

- You lose locality of behavior, which is very useful in configuration.

Also, nickel doesn't support injecting data into the nickel file, so external program can't set variables, query a database and pass the result to the conf file, etc.
It would have to be secret to avoid issues like the bullying described in the article.
It looks like they were close to launching a product! https://qlwiki.qlforum.co.uk/doku.php?id=qlwiki:sinclair_waf...

RAM, not CPU, but IIRC he was talking about CPUs too.

and later there was a prototype storage product:: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/3043/Anamartic-Wafer...
Why domesticated foxes are genetically fascinating and terrible pets (2017)
I would like to say something from a somewhat disillusioned "FOSS agnostic" perspective. It's not about the cost or workload, but the imagined premise: that we are making software that "the user controls".

Well, we already failed at the user being in control if the software developers are being asked to do things all the time. Or rather, the control experienced is either "the developer is servile" or "the user goes out of their way to make modifications". The balance most often struck when the project has full-time maintainers is "a corporation, not a human, is the user".

Further, there is an overwhelming tendency for the software stack to move directionally around a few of the largest dependencies. Old FOSS software can be downloaded and often built, but it becomes obsolete in subtle ways as the ecosystem assumptions change - dependencies deprecate in newer versions, protocols and interfaces change. And the more the software tries to leverage open ecosystems at the top of the stack, the faster it is likely to fall out of date. Languages are adopted not because of the language but because of a library that solves a hair-on-fire issue. The herd is stampeding.

Put in other words, there's a growing tension between "open" software qualities and "archival" software qualities, which has gotten me more engaged with retrocomputing again. I've picked up Forth, this time not to make a Forth(the common mode of engagement) but with an eye to doing small applications in it and using its compilation abilities to create precisely the abstractions I need; my goal is to stop talking to other software so much and to talk to I/O more. If I stick to that, and write a system that only builds from the tiny core that is "the computer language" (as Chuck Moore calls it), the software will archive easily.

There are some key limitations to the Forth model, where it rubs up against modern protocols, which, to the Forther, are always gratuitously complex. But addressing this limitation in the moment is mostly a matter of walking over to the stack de jure and writing the same clumsy glue code everyone else is writing every day.

There is an additional problem of there being no guarantee that I'd end up with a system that the user agrees that they can control - a common complaint levelled at Forth, Lisp and other "extensible" systems - but this is potentially a good application for generative AI. Provided I can sufficiently instruct the AI in the system's operation, it can satisfy both minor maintenance and documentation roles.
> Unlike many in his scene, Saunders was not a leftist. He had no time for welfarism or state ownership, which he dismissed as inefficient, yet he also rejected rampant capitalism, which he saw as fundamentally unfair.

Not sure TFA supports your assertion that he was a socialist.
Deploying Next.js to Vercel [video]
> These are still okay, but then `panic = "abort"` shakes a lot of code off by making the final executable unable to print a nice stack trace (even without symbols) and instead immediately traps/abort()-s.

I just tried this. The stack traces on panic seem more or less the same with or without panic = "abort" in Cargo.toml.

For example, this program:

fn main() {
let v = vec![1, 2, 3];
v[99];
}

Compiled with panic="abort" outputs this stack trace:

$ RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run --release
Compiling rust-panic v0.1.0 (/Users/seph/temp/rust-panic)
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 1.82s
Running `target/release/rust-panic`
thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:4:6:
index out of bounds: the len is 3 but the index is 99
stack backtrace:
0: _rust_begin_unwind
1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
2: core::panicking::panic_bounds_check
3: <alloc::vec::Vec<T,A> as core::ops::index::Index<I>>::index
4: rust_panic::main
note: Some details are omitted, run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=full` for a verbose backtrace.
[1] 95405 abort RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run --release

Weirdly, in this test if I don't strip the binary, I get a larger binary size with panic="abort" than when I leave that out. That is surely due to a bug somewhere.
Exon could buy offset on behalf of their customer's expected emissions. (which I guess would indirectly increase the cost for their customers) .

or they could give discounts to their customers that show they have reduced their emissions through various initiatives , eg buying cleaner buses
People always undervalue the beauty of a short feedback loop until it's taken away from them.

And even then, they won't exactly pin point the problem, rather express their general frustration, without realizing that the dynamic system they used had indeed some great properties and were not popular for no reason.
in most western countries you cannot be fired without cause.
Yeah, it's probably just some user experience thing, like the keyring is unlocked because you're logged in so it's trying to be helpful by not making you enter a password again, but it's a little sketchy when the user has clearly toggled all of the update switches off.
If your collectible has an index, it is not a collectible.
>Just look at how Jay Z dresses compared to Elon Musk or Bill Gates.

What's that to do with their skin color? They dress differently because one is a singer/pop-star, the other are tech nerds.

Eminem also dresses differently than Musk and Gates and they're all white.

People dress according to their profession and social status they want to flaunt, not based on skin color.
In my limited experience the TCO for Apple computer products seems lower than equivalent PC products. A MacBook I can reasonably expect to stay in the same condition until like 7-10 years later. With a regular windows laptop the screen would be flickering, the keyboard would be worn down, and it would overheat intermittently.

I can open my 2012 MacBook Air right now and expect it to work just fine.
A small fish can get investors that put up the cash necessary to fight a big fish in a civil suit, as long as the ROI makes it worthwhile!
Sanely created schema does not have these kinds of problems ;). Plus FKs are a performance impact.
Meat is another thing that is oversimplified. It varies a great deal between countries, and depends what meat you compare to what vegetarian food. Locally produced grass fed meat vs grain fed meat, for example. Fake meat suffers from many of the same problems as meat.
That's actually not too bad if you know you don't need to recover from panic. I kinda hope that `panic = "abort"` is indeed default unless overridden by dependencies, say, tokio...
This should be a surprise for nobody. See for example this great video by NotJustBikes: https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?si=o8JKltCiITzISK8d
Looks like they lost 5 hours of our data, per the latest update now.. bummer.
Hideously evil company
I just wish they had more useful evolution in the last 50~100 years.
True. But there's already a contract with Starlink. So why flex over relatively small $ and a small number of effected people?
I awkwardly typed a solution on my phone, and submitted. Then it told me I needed to log in. Wasted effort. Should tell you sooner (when you start typing?) or not require login.
> 1/4th of global population producing 2% of emissions for cooking seems entirely reasonable use of our global emission budget. Absolutely zero wrong there.

Exactly my point. And while it may be good to strive to even reduce that, currently there are far lower-hanging-fruit that give a much larger win for far less investment.
That is, if this -at most- 2% reduction comes for "free" because changing is something we need to do for other reasons (health, budget, etc) then fine, any win is a win. But from the article I get that a rather large system is set up to measure, offset and calculate the greenhouse emission of this -IMO- negligible contribution. It begs the question "why is air travel largely excempted from the same system of certification"? Or "why is meat and farming in general not put under the same scrutiny"?
eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce
Different strokes for different folks, I guess :)

I find a 'standard' 13" (as on an older Macbook Air, for example, which I think is technically 13.3" and 16:10?) a bit too claustrophobic for anything creative - either due to apps needing toolbars, or my workflow needing multiple windows accessible (e.g. coding, with VSCode, a shell or two, and a browser for docs and StackOverflow).

A 15" (which I have now) is nice to work with, but then the laptop becomes a touch too heavy for travelling comfort (unless this is something you specifically optimise for when buying e.g. [0] - but then there are other tradeoffs).

Thus I wonder if a 14-14.5" with minimal bezels, set in a lightweight chassis similar to a traditional 13" (see how big the bezels are on an older Macbook Air, for example - lots of space for a larger screen without unduly enlarging the chassis) might not be a sweet spot?

[0] https://www.lg.com/de/notebooks/gram/15z90rt-g-aa78g/
In addition, it would then increase the market prices, which in turn helps incentive lower emissions or greener cheaper alternatives
Nobody's perfect but the US with all it's flaws is vastly preferable to being conquered by a military dictatorship. Which basically was the other option for Europe during the past 80 years.

Look at what happens the very second the US seems weak - two semi-senile candidates and a nation divided, suddenly every indisputably bad guy in the world starts testing the waters. Where would their ambitions stop if democratic nations had no teeth?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-chomskys...
> `panic = "abort"` shakes a lot of code off by making the final executable unable to print a nice stack trace (even without symbols) and instead immediately traps/abort()-s.

I believe it does print backtraces then terminate, since the backtrace is printed via panic hooks, which happen before the actual unwinding.
I think of it as a military industrial complex with global financial elite through very effective public / private partnerships that seems to move towards constant war while espousing the need for peace, claim to support sustainability while owning and promoting the interests of the most deeply exploitive efforts and companies, espouse the reduction of income inequality even while they work against the economic interests of the majority to enrich themselves, and generally do so fairly consistently at every turn.

How do you see the world? Is that vision of the current system particularly political, because I would consider it fairly objectivist based on my observations.

The dominant paradigm is a system no matter what political ideology you use to interpret it.

There is objectivism in “the system” as a nomenclature that shouldn’t be confused by one country’s domestic political paralysis.

The assumption of every ill is a rather presumptuous broadening of what is obviously a rhetorical analysis. And remember that rhetoric is always intended to persuade so no term I write can be written without touching on the prior feelings you have based on your own rhetorical training. But that doesn’t eliminate objective reality: we need to account for it in our conversations.

It isn’t healthy for a society to ignore the existence of governing bodies and their influences, whether you call them a matrix, a system, framework, a baked potato or any other term.
Well, exactly. We keep getting second-rate journalism which by defintion doesn't qualify as journalism at all. But I didn't want to go there and immediately get off topic.
Surprisingly similar to the sneaker craze.
X for iOS Adds Support for Passkeys
I think it’s fine, I was just curious.
> since all that is needed is improved accuracy

Oh, is that all?

You speak as if truth and facts are just minor details, perhaps to be added in a .1 update.
MapReduce was basically a very verbose/imperative way to perform scalable, larger than memory aggregate-by-key operation.

It was necessary as a first step, but as soon as we had better abstraction, everyone stopped using it directly except for legacy maintenance of course.
This is not just carbon offset though, it is emissions reduction too (not sure what the proportions are) and it could work.

Agree completely about offsets being used for green washing. There is a large element of Goodhart's law here. Policy is driven by meeting metrics.
Blockchain has the potential to completely revolutionize the education sector by providing a secure, transparent, and tamper-proof platform for storing and sharing academic records.
I know it must be frustrating from Microsoft's standpoint, but those are needed because they keep changing things. Start All Back is one very popular explorer.exe patch that makes the Windows 11 taskbar function a lot like Windows 10. For one thing, it allows you to move the taskbar again.

I've also made an explorer.exe in-memory patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons in Windows 10, it injected itself to WndProc and set the specific message to zero. In Windows 11 it's now a setting, so I don't need that anymore.

Now I'm investigating an explorer.exe patch for Windows 11 to speed up wallpaper animations. Which cannot be configured at the moment, there is only one setting to turn off all animations but no setting to speed up the wallpaper fade in animation.
> ugly as hell, and it is a dirty hack, and I don't recommend actually doing that

you're just paraphrasing the obvious - it's not a solution. And YAML is a better way and addresses the problem you choose to ignore as such - ugliness.
StrictYAML is a great initiative. On the other side of the fence I also love JSON5, for opposite reasons - it's essentially "UnstrictJSON".

JSON5 has achieved a reasonably high level of adoption (though I think it's plateaued & I don't see it ever becoming the standard way people do JSON). Would be great to at least see StrictYAML hit a similar level of adoption though - the network effect is so hard to overcome.
It depends on the level of comfort you want. If you're willing to shit in a bucket and shower once a fortnight then you can do it very cheaply and it'll be acceptable. Try that in a house and there will be concerns for your welfare. If you want a bathtub, on-demand central heating, a big fridge-freezer, bow thrusters, macerator toilets and a permanent mooring with mains electricity then you'll pay much more than you would for a house. Horses for courses. But doing things on boats is fun, and inventing solutions is great.

Edit: You wanted a figure - for the sort of boat you'll find on a canal in the UK. Bottom end: buy a small fibreglass boat for £5k, pay £1k a year for your licence (many at this end don't bother. Another £1k a year for maintenance and fuel )

Top end: Buy a big boat for £300k, £2k a year licence, £6k mooring, £1k insurance, £5-10k a year in maintenance.

Also factor in that boats mostly depreciate (though the last couple of years have been an exception). If you spend £100k on a boat today, you won't be able to sell it in 10 years get that £100k back. If you fail to keep on top of maintenance a boat will rapidly lose value.
What matters is if the tool is useful or not.

You cannot claim that this tool is not useful to people and use cases you are entirely unfamiliar with.

Debates of what is real intelligence are akin to running around in circles.
It implies that "the Agile framework" is mostly cargo cult. In the rest of the comment, I mention that IMO, common sense is acquired with experience.

It's just a fact that I believe needs to be accepted. Just like the fact that "writing good code" is not something you learn only by reading a book or passing a certification, but rather something you acquire with practice.
The arguement goes that theft is retroactive slavery, the thief stole time from me. Not sure if I can make the logical leap between those myself, though I do consider them roughly morally equivalent.