skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gas is artificially cheap, but it's at enormous expense to the global community.

The US spent $2T on the gulf wars to secure this, and globally spend at least $7T a year on fossil subsidies. This needs to end immediately.

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/08/22/IMF...
Yeah. The PRC has this process down. None of the long term side effects of colonialism, but the benefits of immediate access to resources.
But most frontend devs don’t need to do any of the things you’ve mentioned. By your own comment, they have a backend team who handle it and they work in concert. Would it be nice if they could understand each other better? Sure but most backend folks aren’t picking up JavaScript and UI frameworks either , or learning about browser tech.

And all the stuff you mentioned can be done by learning those skills on windows or Mac. Linux doesn’t really need to factor in, and now you’re saying to learn an entirely new operating system in addition to a new skillset.

You’re trying to say they should be more than what they are, but for a scenario they can’t predict coming up? In which case any number of other things might happen too, and there is likely already a team of people better suited to handle those issues. What would the sales pitch be to have someone learn it?

I think there’s an impedance mismatch between what you expect to provide value to someone as a hypothetical future goal and what they actually need to achieve their objectives.
What’s wrong with xml? Unlike JSON, its standard supports references.
Yeah, I think they've got the technical part completely wrong. The helium leak probably has little to do with the thruster problem, which is apparently caused by overheating. And the helium definitely does not "push the propellant out of the ship."
And the parachute part is new to me too, and I've been following this story closely from some of the better space journalists (Eric Berger et. al.).
But hey, Discover Magazine is all science-y, so I guess they oughta know.
Who are comparable providers in your opinion? Hetzner has KYC and needs ID for you to use their services, I’d rather go with a service that didn’t. Any recommendations?
> Carmakers prioritize consumer preferences over safety: Manufacturers are producing increasingly heavier vehicles, driven by consumer demand for larger, more powerful cars, despite the safety risks to others.

That is prioritizing safety - of the very customers themselves, whose preferences very much do include safety! Sounds like the market functioning exactly as designed. And sounds like we need regulation here.
The idea that "capitalism" somehow magically makes everybody do exactly what any particular person or set of persons want to happen is fascinating. How could one arrive to such a conclusion? No, that's not how "capitalism" works. It does not guarantee that the things you want to happen magically will happen because "market".
This is a regulatory incentive problem, plain and simple:

1. CAFE standards use different rules for cars and light trucks. It’s a protectionist move that strongly pushes manufacturers to find ways to get CUV’s on the road instead of hatch backs and sedans.
2. And CAFE uses a “footprint formula” that relaxes standards for larger vehicles.
3. Compound that with a side impact test that started at 3,015 lbs (high) and then was amplified by the (private) IIHS test raising their sled weight (4,200 lbs?) to reflect average fleet weight, which turns into an arms race.

In the end, people respond to incentives, and we get the cars we regulated for.
Did you try playing it?
Is Hetzner the same as OVH? OVH has data centers in the same cities.
This is the method I've always seen here in the US, where we call them range lights [0]. There are lights for night alignment and striped boards for daytime. Many years ago I used to maintain these systems in the Caribbean and the Long Island Sound with the US Coast Guard.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_lights
> the least ethical choice you, as a human, can make

you assigned me "human", but I identify as a parasite

i follow the laws of logic, and if the logic of the system gives me a donut, I will take the donut. if the logic changes and i don't get a donut, i will not complain. It is not unethical to follow the logic of the system.

now, as to you as a human, are you saying that you have never downloaded a youtube video to a file on your disk?
Not when government regulation favours larger vehicles (e.g. lower emission standards).
What does that have to do with what you’re replying to?
There's a million us hosts, go with any of them, vms are a commodity product.
The WRX (which is now its own model instead of an Impreza trim level) has a different engine than the stock Impreza.
Whatever project solves Python dependency management deserves to get a Nobel in Economics for saving humanity billion of hours per year.
Tires today contain a large amount of plastics. So what you are breathing while walking next to a road with a bunch of Teslas driving down it is basically a cloud of microplastics.
I guess that in part because only a small minority of the Ethiopia citizens own phones.
Nothing really replaces good mass transit. But in a rural town a taxi is often the best you can manage as an alternative. Even in cities, taxis fill in gaps that make it possible to live without cars and use mass transit more. Like a trip can involve a taxi to a station then a train ride then a taxi from destination station to your actual destination.
Cars damage infrastructure in proportion to the fourth power of axle load. Not only are people in big cars killing people in little cars, they're also HEAVILY subsidized by the people they kill.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
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So far, Israeli air strikes have left more than 42 million tonnes of debris across the Strip, according to the UN. That’s enough rubble to fill a line of dump trucks stretching from New York to Singapore. Removing it all may take years and cost as much as $700 million. The task will be complicated by unexploded bombs, dangerous contaminants and human remains under the rubble.
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Oh I got that part of a joke, but that doesn't mean I don't want to continue discussing :)
I collaborate with people that use macOS while I use Linux. For reproducible environments, Nix has served us well.

Despite the myth, it is not hard to use unless you need to package something complicated or messy. Then it may become hard.

The advantage of Nix is total version reproducibility and declarativeness. It's quite reassuring to know things are exactly the same on all computers.
> use by individual hobbyists, students, universities, non-profit organizations, or businesses with less than 200 employees is allowed, and all other usage is considered commercial and thus requires a business relationship with Anaconda

Wow this is so deliberately ambiguous about universities with more than 200 employees. Shameful.
Helping clinically depressed people act on their most-awful impulses - this doesn't seem likely to yield whatever positive outcomes you're thinking of.
This, sadly, stops right where it gets interesting. Setting up a VM/VServer with Cloudflare and Let's Encrypt is pretty well-covered already.

Why not explain the "serverless" part a bit more? Say, automatically deploy on a new GitHub commit or something.
The reason it "works" in rural China is people largely don't drive places, at least not the way Americans do.

Lots of tech folks love to shit on "car-culture" in the US, and while I agree it has resulted in really crappy urban design for a lot of US cities, you can't ignore that a lot of people love their cars because it gives them a ton of freedom. People like being able to go off at a moment's notice, independently, and drive long distances.

America may be an "outlier", but that still doesn't mean that it's reasonable to think we'll move from where we are now to getting rid of our cars because that's how China does it.
This! +1MM
Any politician saying we should limit motor vehicle size would committing career suicide. That would be a slam dunk wedge issue for Republicans.
We use it professionally. Just to give an anecdote to counter an anecdote.
congratulations! To me, it is a kind of perfect little game, with an extra psychological twist. I don’t have a phobia for insects. The theme of having me protect a child instead of a generic target put me in a completely a different mindset. I really started to hate the fast-moving black ants.
Germany has a ratio of 3.9 deaths per 100,000 people, while America's ratio is 12.4 per 100,000—essentially 4x higher. And they have the autobahn. Not like they are driving slower.
so, Higgs gives mass, and the mass curves the space to produce what the see as gravitation. I think there are some questions here to the Higgs at it seems it has some special relation to the spacetime.

And that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_electron

"...the angular momentum and charge of the electron are too large for a black hole of the electron's mass: a Kerr–Newman object with such a large angular momentum and charge would instead be "super-extremal", displaying a naked singularity, meaning a singularity not shielded by an event horizon."

And 2 singularities having worm-hole connection is the entanglement.
I feel like this means taxes should be imposed on cars proportionally to the fourth power of axle load too.
Partly because it's happening in Europe and the nuclear context, yes.

But not simply because of that. It gets attention because the nature of the aggression is extremely clear, and highly unusual (in its brazenness and openness); and due to the clear and present threat to the (at least approximately) rule-based world order that human beings have been trying to keep in place since 1945. And it "happened" because the regime currently installed in the aggressor country chose to take the action that it did (and falsely calculated that the invasion would be a brilliant success, and face very little effective resistance).

Not because of anything that went down in the 1990s.

Nothing remotely related to 'racism'.

On the contrary -- this decision was intimately tied to Putin's racist conception of Ukrainians as a people (and his supremacist views of his own people, or what he believes to be "his" people anyway). This is eminently clear from his own statements and numerous other indications.

If you wish to explore this topic further, then I invite you to consider the writings of e.g. Terrell Jermaine Starr:

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a40137153/terrell-j...

However you choose to ignore these indications and the openly available history of the region, and build your narratives accordingly -- that's up to you.
This is true to a ridiculous extent.

Ford has no compact hatchback or sedan in the U.S., only the Brazilian built EcoSport. They killed all their cars in favour of CUVs and SUVs. Chevrolet no longer has the Sonic, having nixed those in 2022. Honda no longer has the Fit as of two years ago. Mitsubishi no longer sells the Mirage as of last month. Dodge hasn't had anything since the Dart died in 2016. The Jeep Renegade's gone as of October of last year. Hyundai had the Veloster, but those are all sold as top trim Veloster Turbo Premiums or Ns even when they were being sold. The current Hyundai Ioniq 5 is more of a mid-size and is also expensive for the size. Kia has the Forte, but it's dragging out a slow death this year. Toyota has the Yaris and Prius C, but the Yaris has grown quite large, and the Prius C is quite high priced. Nissan killed the Versa Note in 2022, so you can't get those either.

It's all been replaced with "compact" CUVs that have the exterior dimensions of a mid-size hatchback.
Well with climate change we have no scientists saying otherwise because we see they get attacked and lose funding by the quackery of the public and governments. As evident by the idiots on HN.
I don't know man, I'm not even from the US and I meet a lot of people being concerned about wokeism being imported into our country, do you have any proof of your allegations?
Huh. I thought you had to entangle them locally & then separate them maintaining entanglement. Entangling at a distance is weird. Can you provide a source of entangling particles remotely on Earth & in orbit?
It's hard, but the statistics by usage are more clear. Over 90% of automotive and structural steel is recovered. Rebar in concrete, far lower.
Nonsense. There is no log level that separates between noise and legitimate data.
I'd love to hear what the Bluesky team thinks of Nostr. It seems pretty damning to me that a founder of Bluesky is now talking up the latter.
Yes, the burden on the C maintainers is low but not zero. In a shared project, other people matter too. If you don't like it you should just work on solo projects.
I'd say you will need a password manager with good auditing. Give them access to all the required passwords but log every access to it. So if someone leaves the company, you know which passwords to change.

Groups and ACLs would help to give "scoped" access to passwords.
Would programmers now be able to make God of War 2, FF12, Jak 2&3 and Ratchet and Clank 3&Deadlocked? PS2, slim especially, is an incredible machine. Scale the games up to 1080p or 1440/4k and they look great still.
I hired on both Upwork and Fiverr, Fiverr was easier as a buyer. So I assume it is is harder on the sellers :)
And this kind of thinking is how we end up with a society shown in the move Idiocracy. While you and your loved ones might survive at the cost of other more considerate people BUT the human race will become slightly dumber.
I have a story about as long in text but not in duration. Nonetheless, I was unaware of a neck injury for about four years, then I got an MRI. Orthopedist suggested seeing a brain surgeon as soon as possible, and luckily the one I found suggested immediately that surgery for my young age was no option.

I ended up getting corrective soles and a mouth guard, and with the mouth guard specifically, I immediately went from 100% to 30% pain, and still recovering.

The nervous system and the interconnectedness of our bodies is impeccable. Throughout my recovery I learned so much about my own bodily systems. I recommend everybody, especially desk-jobbers, to see a qualified orthodontist for their chronic neck/shoulder/back pains. You will be surprised what you find out about the damage, and how fast recovery might come.
Use SSO when possible and fallback to 1pass vaults when SSO isn’t possible
That commenter was referring to media files (images and video), not relational database infrastructure. Completely separate parts of the stack. Media files weren't my area at all, but AFAIK parts of that comment weren't factually accurate at the time it was made, and furthermore iirc that commenter was someone who was previously disgruntled about being laid off in one of the many Verizon-led rounds of staff reductions. (Being disgruntled about a layoff is totally understandable, but you then have to take their comments about the company with a huge heaping of salt...)

> Changing all the database structures to match WP when they will not actually be running WP would not make much sense.

No one suggested that exactly, so I'm not sure what you're referring to here.

> i.e. a separate database running on the same server farm

You keep describing Tumblr's database infrastructure as if it's a single server. It's not. It's multiple discrete tiers of sharded databases, serving different purposes. You don't put a trillion rows in a single database. They have hundreds of database servers, hundreds of cache servers, hundreds to a few thousand application/web servers, etc.

Again, Tumblr is not just a blogging/CMS platform. It's a full social network, with the primary user experience being a dashboard activity stream, similar to the logged-in experience of Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

The proposed migration here is about migrating some portion of Tumblr's codebase and data to run off of the wordpress.com infrastructure, likely to reduce operating costs long-term. It's not clear whether that will consist of migrating the entire thing, or if it's just about shimming the public blog network (i.e. not the social network part). But in any case this isn't about just moving hardware.
Well put. The extrem version is a world where everybody is expected to kill the people in the other car that killed a loved one, nullifying every advantage that choosing your own safety over another’s might have.
> That's the whole point of reusing and recycling. Reducing my cost.

When reuse or recycling is saving consumers money and/or making companies money, everyone already does it. Things like salvaging copper wiring from old buildings or putting wrecked cars into junk yards to be stripped of useful parts and scrapped.

> Even if something is more energy intensive to create, it's being used multiple times reducing the cost.

This assumes the cost of getting raw materials is greater than that of salvaging old materials. This is true for metals which is why you see people collecting used cans or recycling phones for "free". But it's not true for plastics (petroleum is ridiculously cheap and easy to get) which is why you don't see corporations fighting to collect the Pacific garbage patch or offering free recycling services for consumers to get at their waste plastic.
Species don't experience misery, individuals do. We farm billions of animals every year, how could a few individuals of a de-extinct species living a mostly free and protected life pose a moral issue?
There some hetzner resellers which accept crypto coins instead

OVH(and subsidiaries like server
4 you,kimsufi) is the pricing a bit higher but comparable (in some regions)
But last time I used ovh Hetzner also didn't require Id verification, maybe they changed since then

Ionos also similarly priced didn't need Id last time I used them
Courts are part of the legal system in most of the world. It’s kind of sovcit to say otherwise.
> The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's rating system focuses on occupant safety, not the safety of other road users, and tax policies subsidize heavier vehicles.

Sociopathic. Regulations and safety standards should be updated to consider both occupants' and others' safety.

The auto manufacturers won't like this, because they are cheap and greedy.
As folks elsewhere have noted, CAFE standards make "light" trucks substantially more profitable than other cars, and so yes, car makers have pushed them aggressively, including with strong marketing campaigns for the last 20 years or so.

All of the arguments from car manufacturers that they're just "answering consumer demand" ignores the point that they manufactured that demand. Change the tax structures and incentives, make trucks as expensive for the manufacturer as they are for society, and you'll see a renaissance of small cars, advertising extolling the virtues of small cars, and a societal shift towards small cars.
I’ve been on the “very negative experience” side with Hetzner. It’s great when it works but terrible when they decide to null route your account and take a week to respond to support inquiry.
"Netflix's Kaos is the cleverest retelling of Greek mythology I've ever seen"
Original title: “I’m an expert in Ancient Greece – Netflix’s Kaos is the cleverest retelling of Greek mythology I’ve ever seen”
This has a diagram showing the funding structure with 5 layers of bureaucracy between donors and the recipients of aid. This organization reduces that to 3 (The “coalition” that owns the website -> financial service providers -> mutual aid societies -> actual people in need).

So I ask again, have these people actually requested your help? How do you know what they actually need? Maybe the best solution is a way to gtfo of Sudan and let it collapse. Maybe they want weapons or chickens. I don’t know!
mostly used for debugging with "printf debugging" - either on the developers desk, or in the field ("we've got a dead one. Can you hook up this pin to a USB-serial converter and tell me what it's saying?")
Because sci-hub is no longer adding new articles.
The "Consciousness is a Computation" theory leaves out the fact that we know brainwaves are strongly correlated to consciousness in too strong a way to be coincidence. I've noticed people believing in the purely computational view never want to talk about brain waves, electromagnetic effects, etc. and generally have a less than adequate understanding of Quantum Mechanics (or even radio circuits, to understand how resonance applies) to be able to even formulate an educated opinion. Once I mention "resonance" people just assume I mean it in the woo woo spiritual sense, because they don't even know how the circuit of a radio reciever/transmitter uses resonance, and that resonance has a precise meaning in the context of wave mechanics, including probability waves in QM.

And furthermore, no serious neuroscientist on the planet currently claims we have a viable mechanistic theory of consciousness yet, so your statement to the contrary calls into question your knowledge, even at a general level, of this entire field.
Yes. Advertisement is a helluva drug. No one's IRC server has a billion dollar marketing budget.

Also Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, et all all started off pretty uncensored and unmoderated to build the moats. Then they started cracking down once the feds and political influences kicked in.
Having continued the original discussion in another sub-thread, yes.
And I'd guess bigger cars lead to bigger road wear and tear, with all the consequences for the taxpayer and the environment.
Hetzner is dirt cheap, and especially known for dirt cheap bandwidth.

They had a bit of a reputation for unreliability but that was decades ago, I expect them to have improved and it's definitely more than good enough for a hobby project.

My main concern with them would be the abuse policies - unless that changed in the past couple of years, they have a "shoot first ask questions later" approach (shutting down or firewalling your server, then asking you to explain/fix the issue before maybe turning it back on - e.g. if their automated systems detect what they think to be a port scan).

Pricing:

$6 on DigitalOcean gets you 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 1 TB traffic, 25 GB SSD. Additional traffic is $10/TB.

€4.51 ($5) on Hetzner gets you 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 TB traffic, 40 GB SSD. Additional traffic is likely around €1/TB.

$48 on DigitalOcean gets you a VM with 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPUs, 5 TB traffic, 160 GB SSD.

$48 (€43) on Hetzner gets you a physical machine with e.g. (the specs are a bit random since you're picking from a list of customized systems) an Intel XEON E-2176G (6 cores/12 threads), 64 GB of ECC RAM, 2 x 960 GB SSD, and a Gigabit link with "unlimited" traffic (there are reports https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/180504/hetzner-traffic-use... that they don't like it if you actually max out the line rate all the time, but you should consider the 20 TB/month they offer by default the minimum that they will have absolutely no issue with).
Your comment shows how bad car culture is. You think you're the enlightened one, but you want an electric sports car for getting "around town"? People should be walking or cycling around town. Cars are actively harmful to towns. Cars have led to generations of people who don't realise they are capable of walking further than a few steps between car and building. A kind of learned helplessness. When you step outside of car culture it's really sad to see.
I once dumped a cassandra cluster to json (10ish gb i if remember correctly) and used jq to do queries