skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "cat *.txt" is a pattern I see being used everywhere.

That's an astonishing claim to make without evidence. I don't see "cat *" being used anywhere. In fact, I've just ran search for usage of "cat" over the repository of shell scripts that are used for the various packaging and deployment tasks in my company (and we have to deploy a lot of stuff, written in different programming languages, and every team packages their stuff into their docker containers in their own way but it's all still documented in this repo) and every single use of cat is either

a) reading data into a variable "VAR=$(cat file_with_data)";

b) writing inline data from script into a file "cat >>$TARGET_FILE <<EOF ... EOF";

c) an entirely reasonable use of cat "cat file | utility_that_accepts_filenames_too", sometimes even "cat file | utility".

None of them take a pattern or more than one file.

UPD: I've ran "cat *\." on the grep.app, and it seems that it's used mostly for bulk log processing; I vaguely recall we moved away from it to using custom reader scripts because the asterisk doesn't expands into the files ordered the way we needed.
It’s a thoughtful, nuanced take grounded in some reasonable (though imperfect) engineering and economics. He correctly points out that battery manufacturing isn’t an old growth forest and that longer lifecycles for manufactured goods are better for the environment.

That’s more complicated than “buy an electric car to save the planet!” but it’s less wrong.

His conclusion, in his words:

“Increasingly, I’m feeling that our honeymoon with electric cars is coming to an end, and that’s no bad thing: we’re realising that a wider range of options need to be explored if we’re going to properly address the very serious environmental problems that our use of the motor car has created. We should keep developing hydrogen, as well as synthetic fuels to save the scrapping of older cars which still have so much to give, while simultaneously promoting a quite different business model for the car industry, in which we keep our new vehicles for longer, acknowledging their amazing but overlooked longevity.”
But do you have a better idea? If you want meaning for people’s lives that rules out mass death and dictator demanded planet-wide austerity and reduction in lifestyle down to subsistence - even if anyone could enforce that, which is something people would go to war to defend themselves against. If you individually choose to consume less and own less that’s not enough to make a difference. Has there ever been a time in history where the world has deliberately returned to an earlier state in a positive and successful way (not war or disease setbacks) to model such a thing on, and in a way more planned than your “messing with it to see what happens”?

If we don’t pursue the same as we have now but less damaging and trying to reverse the damage, what else could we do that’s possible and not awful?
I too would love an EV, but the problems are many:

- My current car cost €13k, and is a station wagon that comfortably fits 5 and their luggage for any occasion. It's luxurious and quite fast for what it is. The cheapest EV that matches this in my market is around €60k.

- Modern cars, and EVs especially, are usability nightmares. No more buttons, everything hidden in apps and behind touchscreens.

- Modern cars, and EVs especially, are privacy nightmares. They are always on computers, constantly reporting back to the mothership. Mozilla did a deep dive on their terms and conditions, and all of them are horrible. Multiple brands admit to collecting and sharing details about sexual activity, genetic and health information in these legal documents.

- Long term ownership and servicing is a hard proposition currently. Batteries need replacing after a number of years (let's say 10 years, some will last a little longer, but many will lose significant range before that point), and the cost of replacement currently exceeds the value of the vehicle (sometimes even exceeding the price of a new vehicle). This is not an accident. Tesla introduced the "structural battery pack" with the Model Y, and others are sure to follow their model. Ostensibly to increase efficiency and lower the astronomical weight of EVs, in reality this is a thinly veiled attempt at introducing more planned obsolescence.

- Charging infrastructure is woefully underdimensioned in many locations, even for the current adoption rate.

I'm honestly waiting for the market and charging networks to mature, so I can just pay a company to convert an older vehicle to EV and sidestep all the garbage the car industry is trying to push on us with the current crop of EVs.
One contender, from waaaaay back (1982): 'Liquid Sky'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Sky

trailer: https://youtu.be/S9-n9gpFVpk?si=aPafm_J0G49elMup

tip: read the trailer's YouTube comments
I guess Starlink receive the encrypted GPS signal, and send the encryption back. If they can’t decode it they can probably block the receiver.

The public normally use the unencrypted one with lower accuracy. Can fake GPS, but I don’t think it would last for long.
To me, the main distinction between fantasy and sci-fi is world-building vs. idea-exploration.

This book feels more like the deep exploration of a cool idea, which is why I'm recommending it in this context :)
Metalama – Aspect Oriented Framework for .NET from the PostSharp Creator
The difficult and limiting part of scienctific work isn't coming up with ideas (which is, at best, all a glorified Montecarlo chain autocorrect can do) but actually designing and performing good experiments.

Add to that the amount of junk papers that will be generated and published - through which all future scientists will have to sift - and AI in it's current form is much more likely to be a concrete block dragging scientific progress down.
Yes. But if you Program, you do NOT want to use the aliases as they make your program hard to maintain over time. Little equivalent to banning short options and preferring long options in shell scripts. It makes the intent much clearer and your future you will thank you 6 months after the script was written when you have a bug to squash away...
Humans require other animals or vegetation to consume for energy
Disastrous in your view. In the view of many homeowners, not so much.

There are competing interests and multiple perspectives to most of these issues where one position is not absolutely right as compared to the other.
This is why I don't start a new role without everything in writing. It sounds like management fucked up and HR was running cover because they figured you won't go after them in court.
As a regular Windows, Linux (via WSL), and macOS user, I'm not confused by the curl/wget alias in Powershell, and I appreciate it. I understand from context that it's not actually curl and has different options. It's much easier than remembering whatever Invoke-HyperText-Transfer-Protocol-Request -Url incantation that's native to Powershell.
which loophole? I didn't see it mentioned in the article.

and this quote is not correct:

> Note that an email doesn't need to pass both DKIM and SPF. Just one is enough to validate an email.

Unless it was said in regards to DMARC, it usually depends on the mailfilter of the receiver. If it was said in regards to DMARC then it's just another point why DMARC is bad.
So many people out there must have been in the same frustrating situation as myself, there are lots of investment websites that will only steal what you have to invest . Scrutiny has shown that the people in charge of these scams are hard to trace because they stay in third world countries and they know how to revive money in ways that will keep them away from the strict hands of the law. I lost $153,000 to an investment I was Induced. Fortunately I successfully got my money back through (MONEYRECOVERY001 at SOLUTION4U dot COM). You're in safe hands in their expertise trust me.
How does the "basic file-based router" work, out of interest?
Thanks you for the kind feedback, loading spinners definitely make sense (have a look in the lower right corner, there's a small indicator already at the moment, but it should be bigger.

Query history is already built in, but not yet exposed. Will think about how this can be integrated in the UI the best way.
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Hono looks very cool but in my experience you can quickly run out space in your lambda (package size) when you bundle your whole application together verses having each endpoint be it’s own package.

Am I wrong or have others experienced this as well? Just having 1 package (to deploy vs 1 per endpoint) would be super nice in a number of ways and you could take advantage of things like provisioned concurrency (something much more difficult to plan for when you have a lambda per endpoint).

Maybe I’ll just branch my main project and see what happens as I move my code into a monolith with Hono but I’d love some feedback if others have experienced this and/or how they worked around it.

I guess you could still have multiple Hono-based packages that handle segments of your backend (verses all in one), is this how people are managing it?
I want to accelerate good stuff (fusion, mRNA cancer vaccines, solar power learning curve, LLMs that help programmers be more productive, housing construction) and decel bad stuff (proof-of-work crypto, deepfakes, new coal mines, microplastics). If we accel/decel the right things, I think we have a shot.
My heart goes out to fellow professors there, and everywhere. It's
like watching a city being bombed. The devastation of universities
across the Anglophone world, in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, is
crushing.

It's not just the long march of lunatic "leftist" ideas, it's also
financialisation, professional management, technological
dehumanisation, crippling debt and plummeting mental health of
students.

Everything Ben Ginsberg wrote in "Fall of the faculty" and Prof. Wendy
Brown said about globalisation and education has come to pass. The
attacks on universities are sustained and rabid, and they come from
every corner of the political and intellectual spectrum, from inside
and outside universities, from political idealogues, industry, the
media, fringe groups, and populist disdain.

No enemy action could have achieved what we have done to ourselves.
> goto cleanup;

Isn’t goto a big no no?
There is of course the reality that they actively helped the Ukranians with internet connectivity when early in the war they lost most of their satellite connectivity due to Russian hackers disrupting that. Distinguishing Russian users from Ukranian ones in Ukraine is probably not that easy.
If the sort order isn't fully determined by a query, can the query plan influence the result order? If so, what you're suggesting might be nearly impossible. The new query wouldn't be able to just skip the first N results, it would have to match each individual row against a dictionary of previously sent ones.
So eating meat is not ethical, but we should not really digg into why?
I guess if we were on a conquest for universal adoption we can now say we've succeeded.. <pinches self>
Why is this comment noteworthy? He is a smart guy irrespective of whomsoever makes this observation.
> New technologies have not helped yet. Just covered part of increased demand. So it doesn't seem like technology is going to save us.

Those two statements are in direct conflict. Look at these two graphs, one for UK CO2 emissions [0] and the other for England's population [1] (Sorry I couldn't get a UK population graph, but to the best of my understanding they're proportional). Population is up 20%, CO2 emissions are down 50%. If that's not technology helping, I don't know what it is.

> It is all just distraction. Only way is one that will never happen: de-growth.

Disagree. We have plenty of resources, we're just incredibly, incredibly wasteful with them.

Here in the UK, there is a group trying to advocate for insulating houses who are being met with "it's too hard, it's too expensive, insulation doesn't work, causes damp, heat pumps don't work in -24c, it's a ploy from the government to limit our resource usage", but the reality of the situation is that slapping up insulated plasterboard on the inside of half of the UK's homes and putting a trickle vent on the window would save an enormous amout of CO2 and make people more comfortable. There are loans and grants available for those who can't quite afford it, and for those who absolutely can't afford it it's often done for free (yes there's a gap in the middle, but honestly we can deal with them when we've dealt with the other two categories), and yet still people won't do it.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/449503/co2-emissions-uni...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/975956/population-of-eng...
They most likely have mass surveillance programs there too. But as far as I know, there's no smoking gun like there was with the Snowden leaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s_global_surveillance_disc...
While that does have an effect, the record temperatures are not only located on the northern Atlantic, but on the whole planet
Ooo thank you!
Do you think the American government can't already find Russian ships? America gets their ass beat consistently in unwinnable wars against guerilla armies, but in terms of identifying giant warships I think they're pretty capable.
Never heard of this, took some digging to figure out what it is. Best blurb I found was in the docs, not the homepage:

Hono - [炎] means flame in Japanese - is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework for the Edges. It works on any JavaScript runtime: Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, Netlify, AWS Lambda, Lambda@Edge, and Node.js.
Wellerstein prides himself on being able to read Russian, but he is not as good at it as he thinks. Specifically, translating the title of the section "Атомные байки" as "Atomic fun" is simply inadequate. Here <https://en.pons.com/translate/russian-english/%D0%B1%D0%B0%C...>, for instance, the second word is correctly translated as "fairy-tale, fable, old wives' tale".

So to sum up, his whole blog post is based on mistranslation
That could be useful if there was a way to just disable non-parameterized nested loop, however enable_nestloop=0 also disables parameterized nested loops. Parameterized nested loops are useful to avoid sorting or hashing some large relation when only a small subset of that relation is likely to have a join partner. This is even more true when you consider that since PG14, Memoize exists to act as a cache between Nested Loop and its inner subnode to cache previously looked-up values.

It's also important to consider that with enable_nestloop=0, when Nested Loop must be used (e.g for a CROSS JOIN) that the cost penalty that's added to reduce the chances of Nested Loop being used can dilute the costs so much that the query planner can then go on to make poor subsequent choices later in planning due to the costs for each method of implementing the subsequent operation being so relatively close to each other than the slightly cheaper one might not even be considered. See add_path() and STD_FUZZ_FACTOR. So, running enable_nestloop=0 in production is not without risk.
What an awesome testament to the benefit of experienced software development to any field, regardless of subject matter expertise. This is an inspiring account.
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He needs Adam Neumann to make the pitch work.
I use hono a lot and im going to avoid these new features for certain. Hono already had a problem with documentation and feature completeness for anything beyond their simple REST api, such as their middlewares like graphql and RPC. The jump in complexity from a meh graphql plugin to a full stack SSR framework is so massive and I don't think the current dev team can do it justice.

I highly recommend anyone looking into this to instead stick with larger, better community supported projects like Astro.
There’s going to be more moisture in the air, wet bulb temperature is gets deadly at much lower temperatures than dry, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/why-you-need...
In-Browser Data Engineering with DuckDB WASM
Thanks for this and also for the other comment!
I had seen these pages somewhere in the past but couldn't find them again. In my mind it was titled light simulation and that's why it didn't appear in the search.
Have you seen what 10 degrees difference did to the world some 20k years ago? Now double the change from the last ice age to today. 60% of the Earth will be desert. The polar caps will be gone. It will be impossible to sustain 8 billion people. Billions will die. Humanity survives, but at what cost?
Researchers shed light on higher energy yields in vertical PV systems
And? Not to be dismissive but this does not prove any point. I have no idea what kind of game anyone is playing so this kind of article does not have much meaning to me.

What does have meaning to me is an US based company that is supplying weapons to foreign nations/groups needs approval by the US government.
and plays a pretty mean church organ to boot.

I met him and Ben Elton when they were on some kind of Brits abroad | wife hunting trip in the antipodes - Elton found himself a Jam Tart [1], Atkinson was chasing bigger game whom he once shared an organ with [2] and lucked out.

Many conversations about dinner tables were had and at least one book resulted [3]

But this was all very much in the early 1980s pre mega stardom days - R.A was introduced to me as an engineer rather than as a comedian.

[1] https://freotopia.org/music/jamtarts/index.html

[2] https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/robyn-owen...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_(novel)
Can't they look up the subscriber information? Presumably the Ukrainian ones would be registered to the Ukrainian government, but the Russian ones would be registered to some random UAE company.
I tried running Deepseek 33b using llama.cpp with 16k context and it kept injecting unrelated text. What is your setup so it works for you? Do you have some special CLI flags or prompt format?
That was the line I was thinking of.

You're well primed to try your hand at Forth or Factor if you understand RPN.
Exactly! Even GPT3 knows niks!

And though it's nice to have dutch on the front page of HN, I don't think there's much of a cultural insight to be had here. (Unlike say "Gezellig" or "Gunnen", for instance)
You would not find worth of self-reflection, if an indicted war criminal would be publicly praising you?

"Elon Musk spoke with Vladimir Putin directly, Pentagon official says" - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/elon-musk-pu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the...

"CC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova" - https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-is...
I like Nostr because it is designed delightfully simple. I think it already solved most of technical problems (one of remaining ones are key rotation, but it is actively worked upon), and what it needs is solution of social ones (i.e. marketing).

As for federation: first of all, one of basic ideas of Nostr is that a note is published on several relays at once. It adds robustness to the system - one recent analysis shows that on average, one note is published on several tens of relays. Relays do not talk to one other directly per Nostr protocol, so after the publication, notes do not propagate between relays by themselves - but a specialized client can replicate notes from one relay to another. I do not know how often it is done in practice, but it is trivially easy to implement.
Just finished reading Exhalation by Ted Chiang, and can't recommend it enough. It's a collection of short stories - so easy entry point for beginners as well.
Laggy menus typically have little or nothing to do with microservice architectures.
Oh it was 137, haha. I will link you to this older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408906

See also https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
The point, which I can only assume that you intentionally missed, is the following:

- Light is only a standin for any economic activity. The same argument holds for manufacturing, steel smelting, and basically any other economic activity you can think of.

- We spend ~2000x less per unit of light but create much more than 2000x the amount of total artificial light now compared to the 1800s. Hence greater overall energy consumption.

Now read my initial comment again and I will have the utmost - probably misplaced - faith that you'll understand it.
Another thread here mentioned SQLite. Can you say more about why/how you are using postgres.js? I use pocketbase a lot and am curious how your stack handles auth, login, etc?
This might not be an answer you like, but I find the virtualization penalty (running on proxmox [kvm]) to be acceptable. In synthetic benchmarks, the penalty is possible to measure but small (1-3% typically). Passing through a AMD graphics card and a USB port, I get a pretty good experience in using it and an excellent experience in administering it [backups/snapshots, restores, etc. are all super clean].

If I measure against "is it viable?", for me the answer is "absolutely, yes".
Nine Maps Show How Britain Is on the Move
You know what would be less drastic? Fucking stop emitting as much carbon. Solutions are there: Less livestock farming, less cars, less flights, less production of unnecessary products. Now, can we convince enough people to change their behavior just by telling them to do it? No, of course not. But what works really well is controlling people's behavior via consumer prices. This means, make animal products more expensive, make gas more expensive, make cities pedestrian and bike-friendly so people can get around without cars, make fast fashion more expensive.

But of course nobody wants this, because the politicans and people voting for them are also fucking babies that start whining if they can't fucking fly across the world just for fun twice a year. God forbid they need to eat one meal without a fucking dead animal in it.

Excuse my language, but FUCK trying to find "maybe" futuristical technological solution to problems we know we can solve right now, right today.

But of course, VCs and other motherfuckers can't make money this way.They can make money if they invest in a direct air capture startups that will never work, but then get the fuck out of there and cash out. They are out there building underground bunkers while they have you believe that technology will solve our problems. IT WILL NOT.
> Who'd they ship off, I think it was pest controllers and hairdressers? I forget.

The telephone sanitizers.