skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"India, the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter, may see its emissions grow until 2045."

not another mention of the elephant in the room...
^

The amount of people driving with a cellphone and a thumb actively moving is absurd
yep I ordered something like the board in the video (with a couple extra components) and for 5 boards (min quantity) it was $5 for PCB, $35 for assembly + parts, $25 for shipping. It'd be great if prototyping was cheaper but for a business it's totally fine.
Even for HN, that's a tone deaf response to a thread of stories of mistaken trust in GPs
Have you tried Ubuntu Kylin [1]? If so, what did you not like about it?

1. https://www.ubuntukylin.com/
Yes, it's still a problem. People will tell you that's there's "bad hardware" and maybe there is, but here's the thing: Windows will probably work with it, even if it's "bad".
My retired parent is unable to fathom that with their prop 13 property tax rate and retiree income, they would pay more overall taxes by moving into a similar house in Texas. They just won’t believe it, because all they hear is Texas = right wing = low tax and CA = left wing = high tax

I can’t imagine the pikachu faces there were on the many retirees that did that make that move, saw their tax bill, and then realized they’re 1000 miles away and can never get back their lower taxes…
I don’t like “confabulate” because has a euphemistically quality. I think most people hear it as a polite word for lying (no matter the dictionary definition). And this is a space that needs, desperately needs, direct talk that regular people can understand. (I also think confabulate implies intention just as much as bullshit to most people.)
I wasn't sure, so I was asking; I wonder how complex of an understanding of these systems have integrated into how they actually address the topics.

I don't like to assume - but would I be more right to assume you're big into "cryptocurrencies" with crypto being in your username or more wrong?
This is misguided and myopic. There are many valid reasons for a company to go public besides “pay day to founders”, here are a few

1. Easier access to capital markets and liquidity in general
2. Marketing/publicity provided by equity research coverage
3. Legitimacy / transparency and trust building for customers (public filings, outsides can gauge health of business)
4. Thanks to number 3, companies have an easier time getting larger corporations as clients or partners

Just because you don’t understand something doesn’t make it bad
Or extensional
The problem is this tool (Autopilot) advertises itself as something other than what it is. (Driver assist.) The report also states that this tool in particular behaves differently from its peers in that it discourages the driver from participating in corrective driving while it's engaged, leading to less attentive use of the tool.
There are many ways to do it, e.g. the former monopolist (a now-privatized company that was created from the part of the government doing it) having a mandate to supply everyone.

The downside of having the government do it is that if the government screws it up, it takes decades to fix, while private companies can swoop in much faster if one company is doing a bad job.
> that won't fit even on single layer DVD (not that someone are still using those).

I do sometimes (even have one of those tall containers full of empty DVDs :-P) but not for installing Linux - i haven't tried it but i think even an old Pentium III machine i have around here could install Linux from USB.
I mean, if alien species could build star-spanning structures, they could easily do interstellar travel and colonization. So the Fermi argument says this couldn't actually have been aliens -- someone would have turned the Milky Way into a completely colonized urban area billions of years ago. All the other galaxies would have been colonized too (IR observations say < 1 in 100,000 have been urbanized.)

I think people are misled by all the SF stories with galactic empires that somehow left Earth alone for billions of years, not realizing stories are there to entertain, not reflect what could be real.
Thank you for sharing this here. Rigorous work on the "expressibility" of current LLMs (i.e., which classes of problems can they tackle?) is surely more important, but I suspect it will go over head of most HN readers, many of whom have minimal to zero formal training on topics relating to computational complexity.
I'd be happy if Bluetooth audio worked out of the box at all.
Is anyone familiar with the methodology used by Climate Analytics to create this projection? I find it really hard to believe that there is a 70% chance that in 2024 the world will peak in GHG emissions when at the same time CO2 measurements show a clear straight line:

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

NOAA Research doesn't seem very positive either: https://research.noaa.gov/2024/04/05/no-sign-of-greenhouse-g...
You mean like https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/24.04/release/ubuntu-24.... ?
What makes you think putting data on the Internet all the sudden means I unilaterally surrender the rights to my intellectual property?

If I choose to make my data available to some businesses to make discovery of it easier, and I choose to decline to allow others to unilaterally copy my data to develop a different business, that's my right. And it is unethical and unreasonable for any other person to assume otherwise that they are entitled to the same rights I granted someone else.

If I own some data, I get to the be arbitrator of the who/what/when/where on the use of the data. Period.
The success of birth control assumes the proper availability of education, a healthcare system that is available and not making bad decisions when being young or having bad luck when it comes to sex.
The idea of abortions as birth control isn’t a concern. The choices are getting taken away from people who know what’s best for them for their health. There are families that want to have their child, but due to circumstances have their health become an issue during pregnancy. Doctors and health systems are chilled to take appropriate actions for the women. It’s nice to be well off and go elsewhere for health, but that option isn’t available to all. Even if abortion is elective, that is a healthcare choice left to the persons and health professionals.
When my daughters consider colleges, it will be a topic of conversation and consideration.
Arcan (alternative to X11, Wayland)
> The computer that I used to mine bitcoin is probably in the pile of junk inside the garage

It's funny because it's true: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55658942
Researchers: Animals should be included in global carbon cycle models
I don’t consider that a risk as running a web site likely already has some contact email.

I can set up infinite emails on my $30/year cpanel host so I just create a new mailbox for the form and forward it wherever I like.
I was about to comment that even the 5-year standard support of LTS releases seems to end before I'm ready, but I looked at the release cycle page and 24.04 is posted with a 10 year (ending Apr 2034) standard support lifetime. Is that a typo or did they put the "pro" (paid) support end date in the wrong column?

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Full focus on unsavoury comments, or even actions, by one out of a thousand protesters (I'm taking a guess at the rate here; might be even lower than that) in order to label the whole protest movement as hateful, violent, and whatnot, is an attempt at misdirection from the message of the protest — that they want their universities to divest away from groups that are actively participating in the complete destruction of Gaza and mass killings of its people. This is a fairly standard way to bust protests [0, 1], and the fact that the mainstream media is playing along with that shows their alignment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Norman

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Let's say you are right that there is an epidemic of careless and underskilled drivers. Is it then ok to give those people a drive assist system named "autopilot" and "full self driving" with strong wink and nudge that people can drive with less attention ? Regardless of legal responsibility, with your assumption, it seems it's totally fair to criticize Tesla for making an already terrible problem worse.
Could you explain what you mean by "gambling security goons" in Ireland?
> Health officials maintain — and experts agree — that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. The FDA detected small pieces of the virus in milk, not live, infectious virus.

> “Right now, all indication is that pasteurization is effective,” said Dr. Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University.
Yes, it would be more natural to live in a cave or a wooden hut. There's a long essay on the subject from a guy named Ted who put it into practice.
In the UNIX-HATERS Handbook you will see takedowns of the argument that "X is just a protocol" :)
Looks like it can also be plaintext encoded[1], so something like:

name=Billy%20Cravens
state=TX

[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastr...
I’m sure I’m an outlier, but ChatGPT has cut my Google searches in half, no question. I no longer search for “answers”: definitions, explanations, code examples, recipes, or household tips… all of those were SEOed to hell.

It’s not because of how good AI is (it struggles) but rather how bad search had become. No one from the search provider to the website you land on wants you to have easy access to an answer because there’s no profit motive.

With paid AI services, providing better answers faster IS the profit model. I think something like Claude + Kagi (paid search) would be killer combo.

I’ve actually been kind of nervous about seeing more & more free AI services because that compute is expensive & I’d hate to see the market dynamics that ruined search happen all over again. I want to pay for services with my $ rather than my attention & my data.
I'm not sure how to phrase it except in terms of competing rights, but I take your point.

At the point where I'm scraping, the data's on my computer though.
The container image for 24.04 is different from that of 22.04 and 20.04. The 24.04 container includes a "ubuntu" user with a UID of 1000, where the previous containers shipped with only a "root" user. The "ubuntu" user does not have sudo turned on by default.

This gave me issues with my vscode devcontainer setup. You can see my work around here https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/cf2tf/pull/288/files
FCC Restores Net Neutrality
Thinking Doesn't Have to Feel So Hard
They are probably referring to the Ubuntu Pro (previously Advantage I believe) notices that appear when you login via SSH or do apt updates. They can be disabled/hidden anyway, but they are still conceptually invasive.
Yes, I've been teaching myself guitar for the last six months. I think I would put that in the ambivalent category. It's more often frustrating than exulting and probably will be for another year at least.

But I also took up old hobbies of going out dancing and hiking and those are in the definitely helpful category. I never gave them up fully but had stopped doing them as often as I used to.

I think I'd summarize as: pick up an old hobby that you already know, if possible, or if choosing a new one, make it easy and even better if it involves meeting other people, being in nature, physical movement, or all three. I.e. go out to a pottery making workshop rather than learning it by yourself at home if you can handle it.
My symmetric NAT seemingly assigns a random port for every UDP packet. At least that's what I see from STUN servers.
I don't know. Depends on whether it has devices where manufacturers have written drivers only for windows or also for Linux. Sometimes vendors also hide information on how firmware works to prevent other people from writing drivers for Linux.

Of course end users think Linux doesn't support that hardware, when reality is that the device manufacturers don't support Linux.
Japan's SLIM moon lander has shockingly survived a third lunar night
A lot of current generation EVs are just bad: Hummer EV is ridiculously heave, so it needs expensive tires and wears them out quickly. Tesla's only really new product is Cybertruck. The opportunity cost of that being a flop is immense.
Show HN: Blot – code, art, robots and open source education
For the last few years, I've been working at a non-profit called Hack Club developing tools to support self-motivated teens to learn about technology and build community with other like-minded peers while doing so.

This has resulted in the development of a model called "you ship, we ship." We build open source creative coding environments, and when teenagers share the projects they make with these tools, we send them materials to dive deeper into the subject and related technologies. Our approach is predicated on the constructionist idea that people learn best by building things they care about and sharing them with others. The vision we have is to create a public collection of creative learning tools that offer people projects they can do right away and communities of practice to engage with.

Blot is our next installment in the series. It's designed to be a gateway to CNC robotics through digital art. If you'd like to see some of the projects people have made so far, you can check out:

https://blot.hackclub.com/gallery

You can also find projects from our first "you ship, we ship" called Sprig. It's a game console you get by building a game for it.

https://sprig.hackclub.com/gallery

I'd love people's thoughts on the model and ideas for other subjects in technology we could build projects around.
As a person with reading comprehension skills, I'm still not sure what a use case is for LLMs for me. Everything I try feels like outsourcing a homework problem to a middle schooler.

There is so much more you can pick up by reading a text yourself, even quickly, than comes through when an LLM summarizes a text or answers a complicated question. The way the text is written, the language chosen, the punctuation, the sources chosen, etc.
There is much more to the abortion debate than unwanted babies. A woman could want to carry a pregnancy, only to discover that the baby is unviable or suffer a miscarriage. There are also cases where there’s a complication in the pregnancy where the mother’s life is at risk. Such scenarios are often overlooked in the abortion debate.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11069
I totally agree that static analysis is critical and that's going to be a major effort. I see tscircuit as a great foundation for open-source static analysis as well as GUI tools to be built on (otherwise, it's kind of hard to render circuits to the web!)

I'm introducing "trace baking" soon that will let you use stuff like the freerouting autorouter (or other autorouters) asynchronously, e.g. you just surround your circuit with <autoroute router="freerouting" cache_id="..."> and it'll use a remote or local server to handle autorouting.
https://archive.ph/7q79N
It may not be flaming, but the author brings up a particular quote repeatedly. "You just don't get it/have enough experience with it yet."

I've seen this everywhere. This is an obnoxious, lazy thing to say to someone. It's a go to for many "enlightened" languages that have small ecosystems and something to prove. The only response is to ignore it entirely or, like the author did, dedicate years of your life just to see if there's something to it. This is not okay. Life is short, and we lean on other developers experience to keep us from wasting our time.

If someone posts a topic wondering if X language is bad for something, it's an earnest question. Not a time to flex your dedication to the cause.
You’re ignoring almost all of what I typed.

The fact of the matter is, the name does not matter. Multiple warning messages get displayed that get ignored by drivers. You’re doing exactly what I called out: blaming everything but the driver.

Are you proposing a mere name change is all that is required to improve reading comprehension on warning labels?
How is this related to the linked NHTSA report, which so far as I can tell is about issues with Tesla's Autopliot system and not the accelerator pedal issue? Also, I get that comics aren't the place to go for thoughtful analysis and hard hitting investigative reporting, but I'm struggling to extract anything meaningful from that comic aside from an inane "DAE Tesla drivers bad?".

Even the associated article seems to be less about the Cybertruck (it only gives a brief synopsis of the accelerator pedal issue) and more about Bethesda.
I don't really see the problem with pop rivets in that application. What's the issue?
PHP has static and strong types these days and it (and its dialects) are in use by some of the largest teams on the planet
Someday, I'm hoping to have Ubuntu tablets and Ubuntu phones back where everything from phone, tablet, desktop and the server has just one OS.
Wow! Is there a breakdown of how this space is used? Arch ISO is 950MB...
See my other reply.

A name change will not fix inattentive drivers. You’re falling into exactly the same trap I’ve described: excusing everything but the driver.
Negligence is a significantly lower standard than actual malice, and presumably a person who has been defamed would be seeking significant actual damages anyway (the sum of lost wages for a SWE following a false SA allegation, for example, would be quite large even in the absence of punitive damages).

That's the only point I was making.
The foundation is Debian, by the way.
> While we wouldn’t go so far as to claim AI search is a fad — because it’s not — the data does hint at a potentially hidden bubble that needs to be investigated further.

Okay, so it’s potentially a bubble, but is axiomatically not a fad? Eh?
Having the passwords in the cloud is useful though. Before, if you wanted to use your vault across multiple machines, you had to store your vault in someone else’s cloud. This simplifies the process.
See also tom7’s Reverse Emulation video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
That's perfectly possible with X11 to attach via VNC to an existing session.
But what X11 over (local) network does way better than either RDP or VNC is to run individual applications remotely while having them seamlessly integrate with the rest of desktop.
At the observatory for example we were running thin clients in the control room while all the control panel windows were coming from many different machines across the mountain and it felt like all the applications were running locally on the machine in the control room (while in reality nothing was running there).
Wayland is what happened when the Xorg maintainers got sick and tired of maintainting Xorg. They're not going back. Xorg is being led behind the barn to be shot. Wayland is the future. Deal with it.
Every single game of theirs is a gem in every way and I just hope they decide to make more.
Most people are not using abortion as their default method of birth control.

The term "reproductive rights" is a good phrase because it's all encompassing. Many people think abortion just refers to terminating an "unwanted" pregnancy. But abortions are actually carried out in all kinds of situations. Sometimes the mother's life is threatened by a pregnancy. Sometimes the fetus is determined to have a condition where it will 100% suffer and die within days. Sometimes women choose abortion because they became pregnant after being sexually assaulted.

You don't hear about these situations much because they're so traumatic, people don't talk about them with anyone they don't have to. These decisions really should be left to women and their health care providers.

The people most fervently pushing "pro-life" legislation and policies are pushing to ban it for all of these situations. Women suffer in ways people can hardly imagine when these policies are put into place.
Providing better answers faster was the original advantage that Google had over the likes of Lycos, Yahoo, AltaVista, etc.

We're in the "early Google" days of AI when it's actually a nicer, better experience at least for some queries. When they figure out how to monitize it, it will become the same ad-optimized spam cesspool that we have with traditional search and web pages today.
As a fellow alternative Ubuntu user, one additional difference is the LTS support schedule which is shorter for Ubuntu alternatives. For example, Xubuntu 24.04 is supported until 2027, while Ubuntu 24.04 is supported until 2029.

Interestingly, as I understood it, when a release such as Xubuntu goes out of support it does not stop getting updates that are not specific to that respective flavor, so in a way you still have some indirect support, but feels a bit like a gamble.
Hehe. Yep. Is that the issue? Does a standalone version run less hot?
I'm sure it worked lovely for whatever biased focus group Slack Inc hired to review the changes. But where I work the redesign is pretty much universally hated.

I would've thought a company centered around developer culture would understand the concept of not fixing what isn't broken. I guess pencil pushers have now fully taken them over.
Not really. But I have introduced (enforced ...) deepin [1] to my wife, who is definitely not a "computer person". She essentially uses only WPS, WeChat, and Chrome. She did complain a few times in the beginning, requesting me to "get her Windows back", but I resisted and the complaints somehow stopped after the first month. This may be a sign that the system is not toooo difficult to use, and that I am an extremely lucky man with an extraordinarily forgiving wife --- I do not advise you to try the same unless you are as lucky!

[1] https://www.deepin.org/index/en
It's not the operating system's job to consume resources--it's to efficiently schedule and run apps.

Well that's one perspective, another might be maintaining sales of operating systems, hardware, and the economic ecosystem that it's a part of.
Let me know how it goes! I would love talking to people working with it, so if you'd like drop me a line!! seve at tscircuit dot com

It's wayy easier to collaborate in tscircuit, people can make submodules for eachother! So I could even just take your BOM and try to put something on the registry to make it easier to build out your first design :) good luck!
> has since its release been an ongoing fountain of innovation for biomedical (and particularly pharmacological) application.

[Citation Needed]

Last time I looked into it, as is often the case, the ‘actual’ results were much much more sobering than the headlines seemed to suggest.
Replying to myself: I translated badly there. "Process" is much better than "see". And the minister replied to say that everything was read, evaluated and processed properly, and the paper trail to prove it is in proper shape.

Cicero suggested that something was suppressed, leaving the user to make an incorrect conclusion. The shadiness of that suggestion remains, even with the proper translation.
From Pomona to Oakland, a skater mapped California block by block from his board
Generally yes. It’s code for elective abortion.

Yes, there is the situation where conservatives try to get around open loopholes by saying “no abortion whatsoever” because liberals are always crying “but what about when the mother’s life is in danger?”. We all know what’s really going on.

Abortions happen people are careless or products fail. Americans can be quite careless in their use of contraceptives. I’ve seen it first hand.

Very few people use abortion as a primary method of birth control. It’s - if condoms fail, or she forgets to take her pill, or was raped, having to raise a whole child is a pretty massive consequence.

Personally, if I lived in Texas, I wouldn’t move either. I’d just get on a cheap flight out of state and get the abortion.

There are other things too though when conservative ideologies take over, two of them being the introduction of covert biblical teachings in public schools (teaching the “current debate” between creationism and evolution ) and a general dismissal of environmental stewardship.