skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a minute there I thought I had written your message and forgot about it. It resonates strongly with how I feel.

Infocom, the leading maker of the text adventures you talk about, used to advertise that the brain is the most powerful graphics technology (https://thedoteaters.com/?attachment_id=6312). When playing their games as a kid, I remember the sense of wonder with what then felt like an entire universe contained inside the computer. I tried to "trick the computer" into letting me go places that weren't technically part of the game!

When thinking about the games back then - and I say that not with a sense of nostalgia, but simply remembering how I felt about these games before I understood how they worked - I wanted to go to every house in the scenery, every city building I was driving by. I wanted to see if I could go there, knock on the door and there would be people and adventures waiting for me everywhere.

That dream was the metaverse indeed. Great graphics of course helps a lot, but they are not the main characteristic of this immersion. It's depth, content, the sense that every couch in the room could have a long lost and forgotten receipt under it.

Adding people often breaks the immersion, especially in Free to Play games. When you are in a medieval world and suddenly a player called "Memes4Ca$h" dressed in a pink armor shows up, it breaks the immersion. The ideal environment would either need true human role players or AGI-managed characters.
nudity != pornography. Regardless of your personal opinion of it I don't think Playboy print magazine has ever been considered a porn media, at least not in the society it comes from.

The main issue with Lena photo is that it:

- it is still used everywhere without the consent of the rights owner

- it is still used everywhere without the consent AND MORE IMPORTANTLY regardless of the wishes of the ex model Lena Forsén. She has said several times that she wishes she would have been better compensated for the usage it has had.

I guess that makes a huge difference with that picture used to promote photoshop once. While the video and picture aren't lost, and are occasionally mentioned against as part of computer history, they aren't widely in use as of today against the wishes of the photographer and the subject.
Of course it is the logic of collective. In capitalism you decide how you'd want to spend your resources, on a farm or on a rocket. In collective it is collective who decides.
Did you try disabling AdBlock?
I've had a similar run of titles. The article reads like "I'm an operations person who does serious programming as a hobby."

To expand a little: The job of any "operations" person is to keep the money flowing and avoid wasting money/looking stupid. All that technical circle jerking is just a temporary detail.

Fads come and go, getting functional products in front of customers is forever.
Substitute "astrology" or "flat earth" for "dream interpretation" and you can see the problem with your argument. Lots of people believe in it, ChatGPT likely trained on plenty of "authoritative" sources, and still you get regurgitated nonsense.

> Our own subconscious mind is just artifacts of our waking life pieced together

That doesn't match any definition of "subconscious" I have ever come across.

In any case, good luck.
FWIW conda-forge packages cadquery and it's dependencies, including on macOS-arm. So micromamba/mamba/conda can easily be used to install it. build123d is being worked on.
curious why colombo? cities skylines doesn't exactly have tuktuks as a transportation option (though it really should...)

Plus you don't need a city simulation to see that the city desperately needs a good metro.
Can you elaborate on the batching part for me? I don’t see it
I like the options api but what I like about the setup api is that you don’t have to import components then specify them in components property. Makes it a lot easier when doing go to source, and you can just import them automaticallly with dev tools.
I don’t know how far up your own ass your head needs to be in order to write this some of this slop. If you showed this to someone in the 80s they would die laughing.

>I pity those who've never experienced the excitement of flipping through a collection of floppy disks… I wish for everyone to, at some point, feel the sublime give and then resistance of a CRT's power button

Save it, they likely pity you in equal measure for they know excitement in activities that you (and I) are ignorant of or incapable of enjoying. Pray, do your parents or grandparents have a share in your pity on account of their not knowing that same “excitement”? I never knew that the mundane experience of turning on my old TV and PC monitor everyday would one day be considered worthy of passing down to future generations. This has to be one of the most ridiculous paragraphs I have read in a while.

>Those were, after all, times when political correctness had yet to be invented

“Political correctness” has existed since politics has existed. Even the sort you are thinking of had already been invented by then.

It is easy to be “cosy” if you are disconnected from reality and responsibility. This applies to many other things besides computing. As for the other stuff I think it is mostly in your head. Do you honestly think a kid off the street these days would see it the way you do? If you had self awareness you might have considered that your comfort might be someone else’s nightmare. I know my grandmother always hated CRT televisions, which gave her headaches and nausea. Also I kept thinking that a lot of that stuff hasn’t changed much but you making it out like it has. I hear my hard-drive spin and click everyday and it gives me anxiety not comfort.

I can think of about a dozen better reasons why someone might want to investigate historical computing. I could write a blog post about it but instead I will write a monograph on the serene and incomparable pleasures of organising a deck of punch cards. What a childish, trivial and superficial view of computing.
Because when someone goes British and Russians "same culture, same history, same values"...

And ends it with America is "high trust" like as if they never heard of Japan...

And I still can't leave a darn Chromebook in the library for a 5min toilet break without losing it because the trust is so high.
Doesn't seem to be sawmill waste

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160
Imagine the battery was your only source of power, the EIA is saying that 50% of the time you could discharge / recharge those batteries - at grid scale. Capacity factors are huge for total efficiencies because it measures the time your system is operating...

After a heavy charge / discharge cycle temperatures in batteries might be high enough that you have to allow them to cool or recharge at lower rates.
Rust is much better suited to static analysis and formal verification than C++, primarily thanks to stricter pointer aliasing, immutability without loopholes of const, and thread safety annotations in the type system.

Most things that are advanced correctness verification in C++ are regular compiler errors in Rust.
Libpng and libjpeg have been huge sources oh high severity security vulnerabilities. It is not unnecessary at all.
Yup. The 3D assets are from Steam workshop and impact visuals and population calculations (since pop calc is based on square footage). Otherwise, with Skylines' defaults, this would all look like the Netherlands.

They're funding us to do this and a few other things:

2) Create and publish maps of Sri Lanka, especially for journalists to use for environment and land use reporting, for 2017-2024, using Sentinel-2 data

3) Build and publish our wiki of 70+ crops that can be grown in Sri Lankan backyards

4) Build and publish our open-source DIY agricultural sensor kit

5) Design and publish our journalism and media literacy course for young journalists and the general public

In general, these folks (https://www.giz.de) are one of main european branches of NGO funding in the Global South. This is a very small project in their overall scheme of things - your tax money goes to a lot of places in the world.
> But in Contrast, Apple kept the legacy Lightning and even brought back Magsafe (and if it only were to milk the cashcow).

I don’t quite understand this line. Are they talking about Lightning or MagSafe with the parenthetical? MagSafe specifically is something users were begging them to bring back and they did it without removing USB-C charging (best of both worlds).
But what stops Mallory from simply using this sync method to sync your private key to her Yubikey? I mean, look at the kerfuffle that's been kicked up by this vulnerability, and a key-sharing scheme like the above is much easier to exploit.

(The second idea seems better assuming the user nukes the private key once the import is done. Otherwise the weakest link in the security chain will continue to be the opsec you practice with the private key file, in which case why spend the money on the Yubikey?)
> Doesn't the UK have some of the highest electricity prices in the world?

no.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-price...

> They're on trend to drop below the world average for energy availability per capita too according to ourworldindata.com

it's not energy availability. it's energy use. and yes, energy use should come down worldwide over time.
I hope the news is they've added an Opt-Out for uploading all of the tablets data if you want to download a PDF to it.

As far as I'm concerned their Cloud Sync feature ruined a useful tool.
Some people, think accountants, doctors and lawyers, are contracted to not share client data. So can no longer use a reMarkable for taking notes.
JPEG Trust – establishing trust in media
You can just type randomly and finish it up. It displaying correct letters and locking them when you enter one makes it a bit easy to cheat
People who dunk on public projects usually are unaware of all the research their own government finances
Perhaps they would’ve spent more effort making software not suck if they still had that constraint. Instead, now we get the modern dumpster fire because more resources are an HPA call away.
This has got to be one of the greatest retorts I have ever read on HN. Hat tip to you.
For someone who has no immediate family in the USA (i.e. most people of the world) the reunification venue is closed. I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here.
> no.

Yet your link shows the UK at number 4. And I note number 1 is Ireland.
There is a common narrative comparing the early 20th-century trajectories of the US and Argentina, but populism and inflation are not the only root causes of Argentina's struggles and the US's success. Another factor, among others, is Argentina's persistent corruption[1] and weakened legal institutions. For instance, corruption and mafia influence in Argentina's ports escalated during the 1930s, and, more broadly, corruption there can be traced back to 1776, even before Argentina's independence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Argentina
Could you share some details on what algorithm you use to generate the puzzles?
:( Capacity factor 50% means you only have batteries at half the availability... ie the batteries need to cool or recharge at fixed rates and you can't use them as energy storage buffers in a continuous manner... as one would need for grid batteries to work effectively.
Much plastic recycling is a sham.

1st world business pays 3rd world business to take their plastic for "recycling" (mandatory air quotes). The 1st world gets credit for being a responsible environmentalist. The 3rd world business then dumps the plastic in a river or other convenient but totally not enviro-friendly dumping spot.

It's sort of an open conspiracy at this point. Putting your plastic in the trash may be better for the environment overall.
http://archive.today/l2pXC
I think you are mixing up three separate types of power generation

> Biomass plants take the energy from biologically degradable farm and food waste that would

Drax doesn't do that, drax burns wood pellets: https://www.drax.com/sustainability/sustainable-bioenergy/so...

There are biowaste plants, I think there is one in thetford, but they are dirty and produce more CO2 per kwhr than gas (from what I recall, do check that first.) The thetford one is an incinerator, so requires a lot of processing to remove water.

> Netherlands have to ship the biowaste

thats because its really high in nitrates, and will kill waterlife should it run off.

> Biomass reactors make the process a whole lot easier.

not at scale. They are dirty, difficult to run and are dangerous at large scale. They often need to be heated. They also use a lot of water.

You can use it to generate low grade heat though. but needs to be mixed with something like straw so that the balance of sloppy to twiggy is right (not a technical term...)
I would be interested in knowing how they achieved these improvements.

To me the main contributing factors to power efficiency are the architecture, very complex on x86, and the manufacturing process, which has hit a miniaturization wall.

All the low hanging fruits have long been taken on x86. How did they achieve this?
Ask HN: How do you all manage your bookmarks?
Hello.
I have about 380 bookmarks and all are in a clean folder system… and every time I’m trying to find something I just can’t find it and I usually just google for it because looking for it in my browsers bookmarks (Safari) just takes too long.

What are you all doing to manage your bookmarks?
Also, you probably need a root to place signals and effects in a separate scope that can be isolated from the rest of the signal tree and disposed manually, for you know when you have a SPA with multiple pages and tables and you want to be able to update those tables and reorder them and go back and forward in your browser history without it leaking memory like the Titanic. I am struggling to do this myself so not saying I have all the answers here.
To start you down a colorful rabbit hole:

BBC Horizon: Do you see the same colours as me?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/entries/24bbc4b8-58f9-373d-a8...

Episode here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013c8tb
AWS S3 Manager is freemium, fully local with a perpetual license
In a Passkeys world my org’s Yubico Security Keys are used with only a PIN to unlock; no password required. Shoulder surfing PIN entry is another hurdle for the attacker though.
Same here, being that developer on the team that would embrace build and deployment scripts, means that for the last 30 years, I have always to jungle around, am I a developer, a systems administrator, network engineer, or whatever is fashionable as term for upper management.

The worse part of the fashionable job titles is that both management and HR love to put people on little boxes, and generalists are a big headache for them, on top of deteriorating the actual original meanings of these roles.
Where does 32cm come in? Tide on Dutch North Sea coast is around 2m

https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/IJmuiden-Netherlands...
I'm lost down the Emacs rabbit hole. Currently using EXWM under Guix
What's the biggest Vue.js project you worked on?

Asking because my experience is that as soon as you have a large and complex component that needs to have multiple, mostly independent functionalities, you'll find the composition APIs to be a godsend. Not to mention all the IDE support. You won't see that until you have first have experience with it.
Apologies, somehow I didn't finish the comment with ' on desktop', regarding the new arch these are all based on.
Location: Bogota, Colombia (UTC-5)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: JS/TS, Go, Elixir, Python, NextJS, Remix, React, Phoenix, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://codybrunner.com/resume.pdf

Email: me@codybrunner.com
> In 2020, the Boris Johnson-led government decided to permit onshore wind power, and since December 2021 onshore wind developers have been able to compete in subsidy auctions with solar power and offshore wind.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingd...
External wall insulation is your friend there. Its about £12k to do, possibly including windows. will reduce your heating needs by 3/4ths if done properly.
Was I the only one that found `docs.fastht.ml/llms.txt` more useful than both fastht.ml and docs.fastht.ml?

Zooming out, it's interesting how many (especially dev-focused) tools & frameworks have landing sites that are so incomprehensible to me. They look like marketing sites but don't even explain what the thing they're offering does. llms.txt almost sounds like a forcing function for someone to write something that is not just more suitable for LLMs, but humans.

This ties in to what others are saying: a good enough LLM should understand a resource that a human can understand, ideally. But also, maybe we should make the main resources more understandable to humans?
> “The proof basically says that you can solve an integer linear program, in theory, almost as well as you can solve one where the integer variable is only zero or one,”

I'm not sure I understand this. It's usually the opposite way

A linear problem is super fast. With integers it goes to branch and bound (a kinda fancy name for manual search). But lots of 1/0 variables just make your problem slow
But everything a living creature does is chemical. Even the process of that young man who has suffered sexual and psychological abuse as a child, that brain that can't stop ruminating can't stop ruminating because of a chemical feedback loop that the brain is doing natively.

When my mom got diagnosed with pancreatic stage 4 cancer and I couldn't cope with it and I was already in a drug explorer mindset at the time and I started taking her opioids and I became quite addicted (no she wasn't deprived of any of her medications she was fine). This whole process absolutely was chemical imbalance. Years before in high school I stopped taking all of my ADHD medication and then started spiraling out of control dabbling in all sorts of disassociative and psychedelic drugs. If I didn't stop taking my Adderall in high school I wouldn't have gone down any of that path.
Exactly this with „…NVIDIA GPUDirect for Video, IO devices are fully synchronized with the GPU and the CPU to minimize wasting cycles copying data between device drivers“.[1]

1. https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirectforvideo
I've been using AWS S3 for sometimes, nothing to complaint except whenever I need to manage, I have to login, navigate to the bucket/directory. Upload/delete file also requires too many steps

Decide to built this desktop client. I can create a connection to an existing bucket (or create a new one), then start browsing/upload/delete files just like Finder or Window explorer.

AWS credential is required (with at least read/write permission). A macOS version is available, Windows version is on the way (do let me know if you interested)
We already had such automation tools under system administration umbrella.

What do we think we were using Perl for?
Well, money is, in essence, an exchange for energy, so if energy is free we'll see a significant change in our economy system and my guess it's gonna be a wild ride
I believe they're talking about unbounded integer programming vs binary integer programming.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434500
I used to work at a startup during the 2k tech bubble and a coworker had the title "General Specialist" on their business cards.

It's something I still aspire to be :)
That's just how Proxy works in JavaScript. You might want to read a bit more about the underlying mechanism.
> UK has a lot of onshore wind energy potential that was banned from development to placate the shires. That ban is no more.

there hasn't been a ban since 2021:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/biggest-ever-renewable-en...
Oh boy, I hope those models do not get leaked in the process.
Same units but entirely different things. TDP refers to how much cooling you should design for and is only vaguely connected to power consumption.

As an analogy a 200W-equivalent LED lamp uses like 5W.
Where did the title come from?

Is it trying to say NaNoWriMo used AI to determine whether to accept people? (Which nothing in the article supports.)

Or is it a wrongly capitalised and misleading attempt to paraphrase their acceptance of the use of AI?
IDP already has a very important meaning as a part of any platform :)
One of the biggest things for me with carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) is that I really just don't see how we're going to accurately measure and hold companies accountable for the amounts of carbon they claim to be sequestering, when it's in their direct financial interests to just "accidentally" let the CO2 leak back into the atmosphere when nobody is looking.

This whole song and dance really just stinks of 'greenwashing'.
What I've experienced working well is to consider platform/infra as just another dev team. They should experience the same good practices (staging changes, tests, documentation, clean code) and duties (level 2 on calls, regular postmortems from ops, etc).

Ops/prod/support eng are generally more business related and less technical than infra/platform. They make sure the processes run as they should, or operate with agreed procedures when something is raised. Some issues may be lightly technical ("theres an alert on free disk space of server X", "provider Y changed their SFTP keys without notice", etc) and some business related ("provider Z is late to push updates", "it's a holiday on country of provider A", "service of team B raises an exception when situation C occurs"). They are often level 1, in between the actual dev teams (escalating issues to them, or asking for better stability, logs, resiliency, etc) and the platform/infra team.

Being faced with production issues is a burden for focus, etc. I wouldn't want my platform team to be on level 1 handling these stuff or nothing get done.
Still, I wouldn't want them to be completely free from it or they would loose track with reality, just as any other dev team.

To summarize, I would say:

- A fleet of business dev team
- A fleet of platform / infra team
- A support/ops/prod team handling level 1 through procedures written by dev/platform teams, and raising to infra or business dev for level 2. Regular feedback sessions with each other team to have them stay on touch with real life. Some light coding / improvements tasks paired with infra or dev to get them a better understanding of the underlying layers.

From the description you provided, that's what I would call a "platform engineer". Though the titles are sensitive for some people, and there's a lot of discrepancies between companies, so i usually let people from platform choose the title they prefer, between SRE / DevOps / platform eng / cloud eng / infra eng.
It was a shame that we didnt accept EDF's offer to build 10 nuclear plants for free* under around 2000.

* would need a gaurenteed strike price around something like 2005 electricity prices.

They would have been online by now as they were going to be the same type as the one that opened in finland
The feelings & wishes of the model are the most important, but also important is the impact on people (especially women) in the field, as the links I posted earlier point out, this impact is generally quite negative.
Who are you buying solar from if the cells are disconnected from the grid?

Solar itself is already 3.9% of the _total_ us grid power.

Subdivide that 3.9% into a small category: grid disconnected solar... what one would be discussing is something that will not influence the total price of energy.
Not that uncommon.

I feel most of those big search problems could be solved much easier and quicker with some form of annealing/tree search/dynamic or greedy algorithms with results very close to the theoretical linear optimum

But of course those won't get you a thesis ;)
A tool for recording terminal operations and generating GIF animations
How to use the new counted_by attribute in C and Linux