skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LOL, ever heard of particulates from road wear and tire wear? Guess how the production of those scales with higher speeds?

> Vehicles are most efficient traveling at a consistent, relatively high speed.

Guess what, that's changing with EVs. Hybrid or not.

> Environmentally, the optimal road is flat and straight with no traffic control devices or other reasons for vehicles to change speed, i.e. a highway.

Awesome, put those where nowhere lives.
The commenter is referring to the editing experience, not the rendered output. Most people edit stuff like typst and (La)TeX in a code editor with a fixed-width font.

Emacs supports variable-width fonts just fine and in theory you could use variable width for the "content" and reserve fixed width for the code. Not sure how well it works in practice, though. Of course, that doesn't go as far as TeXmacs.
A new major version of NumPy
DjVu does this to some extent, identifying identifical glyph bitmaps and reusing them for compression. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu#Compression
France has no credible plan to replace and/or refurbish the reactors built decades ago by a socialist government cross-subsidizing its nuclear weapons program.

Even their "target" for 2035 is 20% less nuclear than today.

They just had to renationalize their nuclear builder due to it failing to build several reactors on time and on budget.

They signed contracts that put the costs on them if they failed so the French taxpayer is picking up the bill for UK nuclear cost overruns, and even then the UK electricity buyer is probably overpaying compared with offshore wind.

”Paris seeks UK loan guarantee after Hinkley Point nuclear plant costs soar”

https://www.ft.com/content/c1e3bd19-763b-4ea1-b188-d2872cc36...

A French view on the matter:

"There will be no new nuclear power plants in the West"

"There are better options, today (written in 2022)"

https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-new-nuc...

> To a large extent, French skepticism about renewables over the past 20 years was not unreasonable given that the country did not have carbon-spewing (and otherwise polluting) coal-fired plants to replace - it had and has a low-carbon and cost competitive power sector.

> But the long term trends have been up for the cost of nuclear, and down for the cost of renewables, to such an extent that the situation has now almost fully reversed.

> In the past 7 years, offshore wind has gone from >150 EUR/MWh to <50 EUR/MWh - under competitive tenders that see projects being completed within a couple of years of tariff allocation. Solar tenders are regularly won at lower prices, often below 25 EUR/MWh.
That cafe is going to attract a bunch of weirdos.
When Smart Ships Divide by Zer0 – Stranding the USS Yorktown (2018)
> but they might have increasingly small chunks of the new wealth.

which is fine if they weren't party to that wealth's creation via investments and taking on the risks.
Honest Question: What's wrong with an offline or standalone malware scanner?
Why is a dynamic or real-time scanner required for all use-cases and on every machine? I can understand if it's mission-critical or something but most PCs are already secure behind several layers. For example, your enterprise firewall itself is a kind of virus/malware scanner, most of the malware links/scripts would be blocked at that layer itself. Another layer is Windows itself which has a built-in scanner called Defender. And even after that, there are offline scanners like ClamAV which can scan individual files on demand. If you have a habit of scanning every file after downloading it, why do you need a real-time scanner at all?
the sharp memory-in-pixel display on the playdate uses roughly 1000 times less power than epaper displays do, assuming at least a few screen updates per minute. epaper only uses less power in applications like electronic pricetags
By that same logic, distance insidiously shaves away at your lifespan and we should build mixed-use walkable neighborhoods so that we can quickly reach our everyday destinations rather than causing traffic every time we want to get anywhere.
That we have to disagree. Leaving aside the non-Prolog features, much of the Erlang syntax is definitely inspired by Prolog (mentioned in many papers including https://www.erlang.org/faq/academic). That was the reason the HN submission i had referenced which linked to a reference sheet comparing Prolog/Erlang/Elixir was so interesting (direct link https://hyperpolyglot.org/logic). In most cases the Erlang syntax is just a simplified version.
Could someone explain why Google is obsessed with small stack sizes? The musl library also has an extremely small thread stack size, which makes many applications crash that are used to 8192K on Linux.

On Linux the 8192K aren't reserved unless the are actually used, so what is the point?

Ok, Golang will allocate green threads from its own allocator, but 104 bytes?!
you have to have earnings to write tax off from.
How to say Rothfuss without saying Rothfuss. :)
> Google's code is immensely complex, so once the institutional knowledge goes out the door, debugging and fixing problems becomes very difficult.

How complex can a static (since there's no new URLs being added) URL shortener get? If it's really that bad just rewrite it to something simpler in an afternoon and be done with it. It must be a better option than the bad will of sunsetting something like this will generate no?
I'm not the same commenter as above, but, why not? In the extreme hypothetical scenario, a country could be net-zero and have the newest iPhone every year, throw away their good PCs because Windows 11 needs a modern one with TPM 2.0, fast fashion, and steak for dinner every night, because everything's produced in the neighboring country. And then when the world says "We need to be better about our carbon output", your argument is like the country of Netzeroland saying "Well don't blame me, I'm net zero on CO2, blame Neighboristan over there! I don't need to change, they need to change!", when in fact its people also need to change their consumption habits.

Whether it's forced, it seems like a philosophical question about economics. Do you go to work willingly, or because you're forced to, because you want to be able to afford food, housing, and iPhone 17?

Or it's a tragedy of the commons scenario. If there's demand, and Neighboristan is able to but doesn't supply it, their citizens are forced by government to give up sources of income; meanwhile the citizens of We-Also-Build-iPhones-And-Make-Cheap-Shirts-ia are raking the money in and travelling around the world and taking selfies of their steak meals with their iPhones, and citizens of Neighboristan will get jealous and think "Why can't we do that?". And they'll either vote in a government that will allow this, or revolt.

And consumers in the West enable this behavior by wanting the cheapest bang for the buck. If China charges for CO2, your cheap Walmart toy gets more expensive, and you don't buy it, Walmart will say "we'll find a supplier in Vietnam/India/etc where there's no such CO2 fees."...
Maybe Zig or Carbon? Just spitballing, personally it's of course Rust forever.
Yeah, but those probably cost more and don't make for a nice environment outside of cars. Traffic calming can be super cheap and it makes for a super pleasant environment for everyone.
they aren't really bistable like epaper; the playdate display requires 50 microwatts to maintain the display. when i unplug mine from the breadboard it retains its image for about 30 seconds before fading just on the screen capacitance

a broken epaper screen, by contrast, retains its image for at least several years
> Companies that produce software

What about companies that deploy software with the level of quality that Crowdstrike has? Or Microsoft 365 for that matter.

That seems to be the bigger issue here; after all Crowdstrike probably says it is not suitable for any critical systems in their terms of use. You shouldn't be able to just decide to deploy anything not running away fast enough on critical infrastructure.

On the other hand, Crowdstrike Falcon Sensor might be totally suitable for a non-critical systems, say entertainment systems like the Xbox One.
The Eleven Laws of Showrunning [pdf]
> I’d love to have a “SQLite of local first software”

We have recently published a new research paper on replicating SQLite [1] in a local-first manner. We think it goes a step closer to that goal.

[1] https://inria.hal.science/hal-04580135/document
The point isn't to generate good content "that's worth reading". The point is to generate an endless stream of slop which looks plausible enough to get you ad impressions.
Having excess energy from solar could make it possible to capture the excess co2 over time.
Because this kids writing code a lot better than many professional programmers.
...in case you would be willing to share some knowledge - what exactly is a GTO play in poker? Does it mean a Nash equilibrium strategy? Something else entirely?

Whenever I search this stuff I get practical poker strategy guides, but none of them seem to define the term haha
100^(-1/4) is not 1/6. It's closer to 1/3.
>It is based on statistics and can only answer statistical questions.

"LLM" isn't an architecture. The transformer architecture used by all the leading LLMs is Turing complete.

https://jmlr.org/papers/volume22/20-302/20-302.pdf
I am assuming this will be solved this year.
Sure it can. Why wouldn't it? Say you find a source of energy with zero cost. Now direct air carbon capture is free. "But you don't have a source with zero cost." Great, now we're talking numbers, how cheap does it have to be? So long as energy transport has inevitable losses, carbon capture stands a chance. In other words, IMO we should consider fossil fuel offsetting with carbon capture as a highly lossy energy transport technology that can reach any fossil fuel consumer on earth.
Typst is a 2-pane editing experience. What you edit is ugly, even if less ugly than LaTeX or (gasp!) XML.

TeXmacs is an interactive typesetter. It typesets as you go. You can mark chunks of content up (semantically or visually or both) the way you do with any other batch-based typesetter, but you don't need to suffer the markup when you look up at the matrix, integral or set-theory equation you wrote on the paragraph above.

Most of the comments just misunderstand TeXmacs. I wholeheartedly recommend to watch the quick tour video (3m40s): https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/videos.en.html
Are you proposing that they should be doing stuff like frameworks and ide integration all by themselves or are you saying they should magically make a community appear to make them?

The product comes before the community (unless you have insane marketing money)
note, if you find this useful:

mpv --playlist=<(lb wt vids.db -l120 -pf)

you can add `w` to `-p` (ie. `-p fw`) and that will mark the videos as watched when you pipe it so next time it won't play those videos again until you've watched everything at least once
Thunderbird modernisation continues: try it, in case your webmail locks you out
I was trying out different time periods (comparing 2003-2013 to 2013-2023, to see a rough trend), and I noticed that every click to change the year by one seemed to generate a refresh. Perhaps it would help to lower the load if you change the date selector widget to only refresh after the date selector is closed.
> Probably one of the only short term options between now and 2100 will be solar radiation management -- a largely untested tech that is surely a terrible outcome.

Maybe it's time to put a billion or two into testing all these untested techs then.
Guerrilla event planning at larger conferences
I wrote about why saying it's their fault and not ours is not admitting our own fault is... bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41015413

> that middle class is going to want to enjoy the spoils of materialistic consumerism (the true root cause of human-induced climate change) just as much as our grandparents did, our parents did, and we do.

The last 3 words is key there. WE also don't want to give up those spoils. And we want to enjoy them by outsourcing their production to the cheapest places and cheapest methods, like unsafe mining of minerals done by underpaid children. But hey, it's not happening in our country, so we're fine?

If a phone is made with minerals mined using safe Western mining standards, and made by factory workers earning decent wages, and it's CO2 neutral, and so on, it'll be more expensive, and will not sell well, because as long as there's another country producing the same phone but without all those "external" costs, the consumer will say "Look, this phone has the exact same specs but is way cheaper!".
> Imagine one day randomly finding yourself in a foreign country thousands of kilometres away from home. Your own country is suddenly at war, and all you have is a backpack hanging off your back.

Well, a backpack and thousands of Euros to spend on robotic dogs, tablets, pen plotters, holographic envelopes, etc.

The cynic in me tells me those CEOs are not the only ones being sold a fairytale, specially considering how proud they are of how far they'll go to get eyeballs.
From a related article, same site: "The project, having been begun to some extent under duress, soon became a veritable albatross"
Have your mind blown: they put ants on stilts to figure that out.

https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-stilts
"Hello, Bignose!"
That's a deliberate design decision.
So you only need to do this if you book third party right? If you book direct do you need to do this?
The TeXmacs webpage does not do a great job of undoing the main confusion around it: TeXmacs is neither (La)TeX-based (it has its own typesetter), nor it has much to do with Emacs. Except perhaps that it is enormously configurable with a Lisp-based language, Guile Scheme.

You could say: the rendered output (interactively or as PDF export) looks as good if not better than if it was done with (La)TeX, and the editor can be customized to a degree similar (perhaps a little less?) than Emacs. Hence the name.

Incidentally, being able to customize Emacs with a Lisp other than emacs-lisp, is something the Emacs community would probably like, and there were in fact (now stalled) efforts to do so with Scheme.
> OpenCL has been the closest match but it seems like it's on the way out.

SYCL is the unofficial successor to OpenCL - in that SYCL implementations like OpenCL are based on SPIR-V compute 'kernels'. (Note that these are not directly compatible with SPIR-V compute 'shaders' as found in Vulkan, so implementing OpenCL or SYCL on top of the Vulkan compute facilities comes with some challenges.)
Behind the Curve is a good documentary about flat earthers. A lot of them seem to believe it because it gives them a sense that they have figured something out that others haven't. It makes them feel special.

Others believe it, or at least continue to believe, because they find a community and connection with other believers.
> We needed a job, a contract, a windfall!

Nope. You need to learn how to use money and find a way to spend less than you make. You had it good while you could count on arbitrage and you want to keep the gig going. Magically, the first thing that comes to mind is to you fuck around with robots, AI, and deceased people's pasts while your countrymen and women are dying fighting Russians. Grow up.
Week in Review: Focusing on Product Development at Feedrika
Crowdstrike CEO was McAfee CTO when big glitch took down large part of Internet
And will you be happy if iPhones and Walmart toys cost, let's say 30% more, because of China mandating CO2 emissions compensation? (Although such a compensation is mostly mythical). Or that the shelves of Walmart are bare ("Sorry we can only produce 10% of what we're able to, emission caps"), and prices are sky-high because of the law of supply and demand? I bet you'll be moaning then too.
Because of vendor lock in. Companies that have used windows for a long time have software that is essential and not available on Linux. Replacement is hard, you need to be really committed to get rid of it.
Wikipedia says:

> A more recent design has been proposed by Olivia Borgue and Andreas M. Hein in 2022, proposing a distributed sunshade with a mass on the order of 100,000 tons, composed of ultra-thin polymeric films and SiO2 nanotubes.[7] The author estimated that launching such mass would require 399 yearly launches of a vehicle such as SpaceX Starship for 10 years.[7]

That seems very feasible to me.
> I think the automatic update world is better on the whole

I think that we went to another extreme. Because it's so easy to update, we just ship bad software saying "we'll fix it later". And we don't.
Sorry, but AI wealth creation is based on mass theft of intellectual property created by others. The only risk is getting caught and that's taken care of my clever marketing.
my 2 cents : I had to view source to find the /testmap page. Maybe add a link that says "this way to the map" or something similar ?
Maybe the links may direct to undesirable/illegal content either now or in the future. Perhaps just CYA.
Also, some departments depend on Microsoft office and excel. I used to work in a company that managed to get rid of 95% of all office installations, but after a management change controlling leaked excel back into the company and now it’s back to 100% Microsoft.
Are those figures the wrong way around?
Am I the only person who spent a minute trying to scroll, trying to click, switching to a different browser, thinking the site was broken, checking back at HN to see what people said, and only then happening to mouse over the title and seeing that it got an underline and was a link?
Tablature does precede standard notation, by hundreds of years. In fact tabs are older than guitars and were heavily used for lute music.
So the key test, the test that was not run, was to turn the machine off and on again? Classic windows.
Otto Von Bismarck:

https://youtu.be/w-LopxfublY
That’s significantly moving the goal post. Yes, it’s a given that biodiversity will take a hit for a pretty long time due to human activity but frankly, so what?

I personally care more about avoiding millions dying of starvation but you do you. I understand that said millions being mostly in Nigeria and India make some in the west care less about them that cute animals, but still.
No you're not, your comment helped me understand.
That said, I visit old discussions (5-10 years) regularly and most of the links are dead anyway.
Gajim 1.9.2 has been released – XMPP/Jabber Chat Client – Communication
Okay. That's an order of magnitude. I'll buy that.

Although, RyanAir really just moved the total price behind an opaque scheme of fees. People rarely pay 15€ total.

If we could see the average revenue per customer, I bet the reduction would be more like 50%. And they have decreased the quality of the experience of flying by far more than that.
Shooting is more popular than you would think in Ireland, but people tend to keep quiet about it.
> You should use either Argon2 or Bcrypt to store passwords.

I've used randomly salted SHA512 to create a stored password. What's wrong with that?
Yet another reminder to avoid the offerings of these mega corporations.
This was likely reposted because of the date - it says the previous update was pulled on 18-July-23, which is exactly one year ago.

An extreme coincidence, or a date with some significance?
A friend you didn't understand me once said RST ACK. I lost it.
Just wait til you hear about the rules for gold prospecting in Ireland.

TL;DR finds of over 2 grams have to be given to the state (you might get it back).
Talking about my shit code: https://github.com/thegoodduck/winternet_social Its a social media framework is started builiding maybe 6 months ago now i look at it its just such a mess... I will need to refactor it... It was time when i was working directly on prod server(even on fridays) and occasinally a bug would make the server go down :-)
The article is talking about reliable decarbonization of grids while you're talking about a reliable grid. Two very different things.

Decarbonization is a global problem, not a local one.
Electricity use as a whole is up.
Coal is down, oil is down. Gas is up, it's lower carbon than oil and coal so it contributes to decarbonization. The four main low-carbon sources are wind, solar, hydro and nuclear. They all reliably contribute to the decarbonization efforts as evidenced by the data.
> What do you propose? That if we can't rehabilitate, we don't bother to deter criminals

There's no conclusive proof that even the death penalty deters crime: https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/fact-check/does-death-penalty-det...

> or to sequester them from society so they can do less harm

Sequestration with counseling and education would be useful. Unfortunately, we concentrate the convicted instead, which results in prisons functioning as colleges for criminality: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/10/20/prison-c...
Bulding non-trivial stuff with Rust
Allowing the construction of mixed-use medium density buildings reduces the distance of the average trip several decades from now, after the new zoning has filtered out into the already-constructed installed base of existing buildings. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do it -- in fact we should do it immediately for precisely this reason -- but you can't expect it to have an instantaneous effect.

Meanwhile people keep proposing things like bus lanes as something we should do in the present day, in places where they can't work until after that construction has already happened. Also, bus lanes are never a good idea because the density required to justify a bus lane (which is very high because it consumes a significant amount of surface land in an area with high land scarcity) is higher than the density required to justify a subway line (which doesn't).
"... complaining about some missing references in libc. After spending two evenings ..."

This is such a chronic problem with compiling any existing C or C++ code. I'm paranoid about touching any new 3rd party software in those languages because of the inevitable frustrating fragility of it all.
It's standard, not standart
Mere sacrifices for The Greater Good. The Greater Good!

Will you step up when it’s your turn?
Back in Windows Vista Microsoft removed access to the kernel making the CrowdStrike incident impossible. Microsoft had stated that no companies would be allowed to access Vista's core for security reasons, but Symantec launched an official complaint over the matter with the European Union and eventually Microsoft caved in.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2006/10/7998/
Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail
Any insights/research on what kind of users care / don't care about local first software?
Great work! It would help too if there’s an overall statistics page for the whole period.
Just because there wasn't Twitter and App Stores doesn't mean there weren't fashions and markets -- they were located in different places in the culture. I don't mean to deflate your lofty romanticizations of the man and his craft. Take another listen to your documentary and observe how his career reflects and reacts to the on-going musical-cultural discourse of his time.

In that way, he truly is like any other artist (so engaged.) At the same time, rest assured we can celebrate and enjoy the extraordinary achievements made in that paradigm.
You might be interested in Not Just Bikes. In particular, their take on what they call "stroads": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
Is impersonating someone and literally cyber stalking people legal in your jurisdiction?