skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outer Wilds was in production for 7 years. Practically nobody can fund years of full time work without some external funding. I don't have any proof, but I am confident that Annapurna poured some amount of money into that venture during those 7 years.
Graphics cards are already dead for me (as a causual gamer). I recently bought a used notebook with a 12th Gen Intel Core processor and it can run an impressive list of games.
the whole idea of firebase is flawed as logic that belongs to a server is now on the client side. I don't know much about security but that sounds like making any centralized rule (eg security) hard to implement. It also tends to expose more internal logic than the client needs to know, which is bad in both software design and security.
I think Europe and China aren't doing so bad on charging infrastructure.
PHP has all the same problems (composer or whatever), plus being a shit language that NOBODY uses for scripting.
Really nice"
Can you be more specific what you view as hacks or idiocies? Besides the criticism of .PHONY targets, which I don't think is a hack nor particularly ugly. When I mean shell I'm referring to a family of shell languages that are used run commands, change directories, etc. Fish is a shell, for example. Babashka can be considered to be a shell. It doesn't even need to be those, someone using make could use python or javascript for the scripting part if it works better than a shell language.
I feel like actually good indie games have a much better chance, because from all I have heard the Steam algorithm actually wants to make money. It will show the game to a bunch of people regardless of the number of wishlists and if it does well, it will show it to more people. Of course Steam can not even do half the work for you, but it's still a much better system than just needing to have enough followers on Twitter or knowing someone at Kotaku or IGN.
“I’m a vegetarian, but I’d still scarf down a steak.”
I vote to use make modestly and to release the candidate
> Many of the myths you are posting are busted

That article addresses literally just one of my claims
ArchivesSpace has a "space calculator" feature to help with this!

https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace
I think it’s a combination of things. There is more competition, the brand is not trendy with younger generations, plastic containers are neither stylish nor considered healthy, the company is probably typical of most older brands in regards to inertia and mismanagement, etc.

I imagine many folks associate Tupperware with “those old stained and warped plastic lids in the back of the cupboard”.
You can’t talk about typical cases and then bring up Uber.
this is so asinine. reassess your expectations for a corporate monolith that only cares about money. You should expect half assed implementations from a corporate board beholden to only a profit directive.
Meh, I've maintained open source projects before and these comments are trivially easy to ignore.
Renewables are too expensive.

Especially once you take systems costs into account, which you must, but renewable fanbois never do.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
You are asking a question that has no answer. People that knows how to sell, knows how to sell. Learn how to sell and you might find customers. If you build a product without even knowing where to find your audience you might have wasted your time.
I've done some Android RE and agree with you. It's basically Enterprise Java culture.
I toyed with the idea of having a kubeconfig per cluster some time ago, but I work with 10s of clusters on a daily basis (often with multiple terminals targeting the same cluster) and having to auth every single time would have been too much of a pain.

Instead I went with kubeswitch which still gives you a different kubeconfig per terminal but allows you to re-use existing sessions.

https://github.com/danielfoehrKn/kubeswitch
That's the trick for stability on MacOS, wait a few versions after a major. Done this for a few years now and I have had no problems. When they change OS APIs, it happens on a major point zero release. Another good reason to wait is many apps aren't ready in time for the changes. I'll install a point 2 or a point 3 if it looks like a good release, but it looks like this isn't one of them. My pro tip for finding out whether its a good upgrade or not is the macrumors article comments, I'll scan through and see what people are saying about the update.
People tend to have forgotten Sheckley but in his time he was quite the force in science-fiction. The podcast "Geeks Guide to the Galaxy" featured an episode dedicated to the legacy of Robert Sheckley: https://geeksguideshow.com/2021/07/13/ggg475-the-legacy-of-r... .
I wouldn't care too much about what some dudes who don't pay for my software get irked by.

The gp clearly distinguishes open-source and source-available, and I don't think he misunderstands OSS.
Nuclear power plants have been and are bing built in deserts, so no, this is not a hard requirement, just a "nice to have".
This was a painful journey to read. I cant take my wasted time back, but I can waste more letting you know that youve got a blindspot in your mirror
> I feel like in the span between them there are far more companies for which Kamal is not enough.

I feel like this is a bias in the HN bubble: In the real world, 99% of companies with any sort of web servers (cloud or otherwise) are running very boring, constant, non-Uber workloads.
Antarctica's Ozone Hole Is Healing and Set to Recover by 2066
Verbal Overshadowing
This fear has no merit. You can always do x off for limited time and not specify the time. Look at how Intuit is pricing QBO.
I actually go a step further and keep multiple kubeconfigs and have a load of shell aliases for managing them.

Active one is in $PS1 somewhere.
cargo is a bad example as it's universally `cargo build`.

Make on its own is great but most of the time I've worked with C projects it's been cmake/autotools + global pkg installs, which you Do have to frequently look up.
Also https://polar.sh/, which lets users of the project "vote with their wallets" on which issues should be prioritized. You can see it in action in Starlette's GitHub issues, e.g. https://github.com/encode/starlette/issues/649
exactly, there is always a risk, no matter the type of software you use. people just have to learn to manage that risk.
Nope, virtually all nuclear advocates call for combined renewable/nuclear grids.

Nuclear and reliable renewables for base load, intermittent renewables for intermittent load where and when it matches.

Wind/solar are not cheaper. Per kWh they are more expensive. Thanks to China, they are a lower and smaller-grained capital investment.
> There was a time when people would have said the same about make. The shell is the simple command that is guaranteed to be on all Unix systems from the get go. Make is the new kid on the block.

I seem to recall it being praised very highly at the time as a great tool that saved many billable expensive CPU minutes and made a developer's job so much easier.
Goodbye, Atomic Habits. The overlooked problems with building healthy habits
Nobody's forcing the maintainer to maintain though. If a company needs updates they can do it themselves or hire the maintainer to do it.
Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications
https://globalwindatlas.info/en and https://globalsolaratlas.info/map
Nuclear power plants only really have an effect on the water temperature if they do not have a cooling tower. This makes the plant considerably cheaper, but, as you mentioned, damages the ecosystem.

Only in rare cases, such as during revisions or emergencies, they might be unable to cool the condenser using the tower-coolant-loop. Then they might have to warm up the water temporarily.

> you definitely don't want to have a nuke potentially discharging contaminated water near population centres (in case something goes wrong and the discharge needs to happen).

There is no such failure case that a "discharge needs to happen" for the irradiated water. There is a comparatively tiny amount of deionized and supercleaned water in the reactor that is always cycled around. Even if such a case were to occur (how??), the amount of water would be easy to handle/store.
Wikimedia has a slightly higher-res image more easily accessible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Re... (14,168 × 11,528 px)
Or start recycling the "waste". Which still contains >95% of the energy of the original fuel.

Problem is: raw Uranium is too plentiful (=cheap) for recycling to be worth it.

"Problem"
Absolutely this. Less microplastic FTW.

For lasagna we cook the ragu etc for multiple times eating, then we prepare the glass boxes as if they went to the oven, but put them to the freezer.
Finishing this is basically: put the box from the freezer to the oven, then turn on the oven and bake for ~75minutes instead of the usual 60.

IKEA and DM (in Germany) have also nice glass boxes which are not as expensive as the Pyrex ones, but especially the cover of the Pyrex are better IMO.
> Electric motors use low amounts of rare earth metals, or in some cases none. Batteries generally don't use them either.

Maybe the term “rare” was poorly chosen. But mining those metals is the damaging part, not the abundance of the metals.

So my point is still correct.

> Automotive batteries have been demonstrated as >90% recyclable, far better than most materials we consider "recyclable" today such as plastic

Citation needed.

EV batteries are reused in some less demanding domains for a couple of years after their life in EVs. but everything that I’ve read thus far has said recycling the batteries themselves, after their life is done, is still very much in its infancy.

> The electric grid has sufficient capacity to onboard millions of electric cars without issue, and will not be impacted by the transition to EVs

Most country’s electric grids do. That’s the bloody point of a grid. It’s the last mile that’s the issue in some counties.

However I will concede that this point is a little unfair because it’s non-specific.

> Cost of ownership of EVs is significantly lower than ICE vehicles in their class, as is the lifetime carbon footprint

That depends. If you’re an occasional driver and charging your car at home, then the cost of electricity in some countries is going to be greater than the cost of petrol.

However if you travel lots and are heavily use charge stations at super markets et al, then EVs will be much cheaper to run than ICE.

It’s definitely not as clear cut as a lot of EV marketing claims.

(I’ve been adding up the costs just this month because was looking at buying an EV and it just wasn’t a cost saving for my particular requirements).
I've always seen contributing to OSS as more akin to volunteering as a treasurer at a local sports club than as a job. Just because you do many of the same activities that other people get paid for doesn't make OSS a "job". Making something useful and giving it away for free is laudable charity, but it's not sustainable business strategy.
> Well, lack of REG+REG and REG+SHIFTED_REG addressing modes handicaps it significantly.

Does it? Well, there's a vendor specific extension for that (XTheadMemIdx):

https://github.com/XUANTIE-RV/thead-extension-spec/releases/...

Not sure about GCC, but on clang it is trivial to enable it. And if you really want to (assuming you have the hardware) you could compile exactly the same code with and without it and compare how much exactly it is handicapped if those instructions are not there.

Plus, on RISC-V multiplication/division (about which you've complained) is optional, and there is also a variant of RISC-V with only 16 registers instead of 32 (also very simple to enable on recent versions of clang, although Linux would probably need some modifications to be able to run on that).

So I'm not entirely convinced that RISC-V would be worse here.
You are both saying the same thing, you just differ on the degree to which you see that as a problem.
Maybe the first cycle is super lean, leaving lots of O2 and CO still to burn.
It’s amazing how much the luxury car industry has advertised what is essentially a shaking and noise complement to going fast.

The “smooth” revs. The “visceral” feel. The “connection” to the road. It’s just a few metal cylinders going up and down real fast, tuned to sound nice in a packaged product.

It’s like brainwashing. Impressive really. I like going to the track when I can, but that’s a bit different. The statement is the work you’ve put into your car, not how “exclusive” your statement is.
Evolving a Codebase at Google Scale
This is good, but I wish they would allow for more than 1:1 zoom in. 1:1 pixels on a 4k display are too small, I'd like to be able to zoom in more than that.
Naturally, the infrastructure arises when the demand is there. But nobody was ever hesitant to buy a 4G-only phone for fear of insufficient 4G service because every 4G phone also worked on 3G.

The same is not true of electric cars. People have real mileage anxiety because they can’t use petrol when a charger isn’t available
>Rights are 'god given.'

I'm not religious anymore, but wasn't it Paul who made the argument that we should respect temporal authority and their temporal laws, because it was God Himself who allowed them to become an authority in the first place?

>fgc-9

Isn't it a bit too big to carry concealed for self-defense purposes?

That aside, don't 3d printed guns jam much more frequently than "real" guns?

So, for example, if you're in a life and death situation, and you live in a country that doesn't allow the concealed carrying of guns, and your opponent is a mafia member - who is, for all practical purposes, untouchable by the corrupt class of bureaucrats who are there to purportedly enforce and carry out the law (like the beauty of a country i find myself in) - and has a "real" gun pointed at you, and all you have is little better than a glorified plastic bb gun (because these days, unless you have a father or grandfather who had bought a gun 20 years ago to give to you today, buying a real gun is not as trivial as you make it sound, at least where I am), who wins nine times out of ten?

Like, sure, I've read articles about how there are resistant forces in some south east asian country (I forgot which one exactly and im too lazy to look it up right now, nor is it important to what im about to say) that are fighting a dictatorial military regime, and the resistant forces do use 3d printed guns; but the only reason they're doing so is because, one, before the conflict happened the citizenry didn't have a legal "right" to buy guns and so at the beginning of the conflict they had no real amount of "real" guns to use, and, two, they kill the oppressive military officers and take their "real" guns because they're just better.

But keep in mind, they're fighting an actual war, and don't have to conceal their guns (3d guns are too big to conceal in everyday settings), and two, even if someones 3d gun jams, there will be someone else with them to shoot at the opposite side trying to kill you (i.e not something likely to happen in a country that is not the US, where people aren't allowed to carry around guns for self-defense purposes)
Yes we already have power cables but they do not generate power. The issue is clean power generation capacity.
Here in Spain, any sort of food container is generally referred to as "a tupper", but I don't know a single person who buys Tupperware-branded "tuppers". There are cheaper and easier to find alternatives everywhere.

Plus, people are becoming aware that plastic containers suck and they prefer buying glass container for home use, since they're easier to clean and don't get permanently stained.
sure, and there's lots of documentation around it, that's why I asked for examples of the horrors.
Why are you ignoring my other responses to this like you didn’t see them? This kind of bad faith trolling is boring.
> Sound cards and network adaptors were an integral part of custom PC builds for years, but those eventually got swept away as motherboards improved and started to integrate those features.

If audio and network technology needed and were able to keep up with demand equal to what GPUs are, you’d see the same results. You need both the demand and the potential to be there at scale in order to drive that kind of advancement.

If we get to a world where high fidelity graphical demand is a niche, similar to audio, then I could see this argument having merit. I don’t expect that will happen in any way we could reliably predict in 2024.
Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the Covid-19
The 27-Year-Old Billionaire (Wang of Scale AI) Whose Army Does AI's Dirty Work
Since paintings are mostly made by someone they are under income tax which is at least in my country the highest percentage of all taxes. Plus VAT like everything else. A painter this easily pays 60% tax on what you have to pay
https://archive.is/fq2e2
Bear Blog:

https://bearblog.dev/
Can you name something that Should be a complex repair?
I’m not claiming oil mining comes out ahead either. I’m just saying the environmental cost of EV suffers from a lot of greenwashing. They’re not always as green as people like to think.

Unfortunately, this is a massively complicated subject and it’s hard to definitively make claims because there’s also a large element of locality (where you live) and user-specific circumstances (like how long you keep a car, how often you drive, etc)

My original comment was just that it’s easy to say “EV is the future” but really we need to be extremely mindful that EV still has a long way to go itself and thus we shouldn’t be dismissive of any research happening in the automotive industry.
The ones from Ikea are great. Lid also works for a large variety of containers.
This is a silly take, have you heard about game developers?

If there's craftmanship anywhere, its in game development, and they surely don't want to spend all their time working on a platform without proper tooling that their end users overwhelmingly do not use.

The choice of OS has nothing to do with craftmanship or "exploration". I "explored" linux many times and am not using it currently.

In fact, I'm happy to argue that most developers that care so much about the choice of OS that they are uninterested in using another one (and do not work in OS development) are probably somehow stuck in their ways and uninterested in exploration themselves.

Taken even further, currently the only important OS is the browser, and nobody cares who launches it.

I hope you are not somehow in charge of hiring.
Here is Makefile "starter" I use: https://github.com/awinecki/magicfile
People call this "self-documenting makefile".
It migrated with me from company to company, from project to projects. Through node, php, aws, docker, server management, cert updates, file processing and many many more.
There aren't only workers and Elon.
Doctor who sounded alarm on ultra-processed food urges tougher action
Maybe “rare” was a poor choice, but it’s definitely harmful to mine for and the recycling story is far from solved so there’s a serious risk of having these harmful components ending up in landfills (I hope it doesn’t come to that)
I really wanted to like the Dyson hair dryer but unfortunately the performance is lackluster. I can get better airflow and weight/space efficiency (important when travelling) out of a budget model.
People who want to call me out would be a lot more productive pointing me to some guides instead of chastising me over an ancient framework who's best documentation has been lost to time. And whose best practices are locked behing proprietary codebases.

Little tips here and there are nice, but that doesn't teach me the mentality of how to achitect a makefile
Talking about blood libel when you actually have blood on your hands. And I'm not against Semites, Jews or Palestinians, I'm against Zionism and the murder it's doing in the name of jews.
Those 100MP digital medium format cameras are the most exciting tech in photography of the whole 21st century as far as I’m concerned.

For my “serious” photography work I shoot medium/large format film, and every digital camera has left me non plussed. I may be a little obsessive about image quality, but what’s the point of dropping $5k on a setup that gives worse results than a wooden box and a sheet of film?

Then I got the Fuji GFX100 (the Hassy was a little out of my range :-) and… wow. Totally different ball game. I can finally produce digital images that rival film scans.

Seeing what museums have been doing with them has been super cool.
A single target (a single node in the dependency graph) of Make does exactly one thing: it takes input files, some dependencies and generates _exactly_one_ output file.

Yes, but this is not particularly relevant to the user. With pattern rules it's trivial to define a large number of targets automatically, such as in the example (from the manual):

objects = foo.o bar.o

all: $(objects)

$(objects): %.o: %.c
$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@
Then he could just use Gulp, but I have no skin in this absurd game.
GUIs excel at exploring. Exploring is a very very large part of what I do when running containers locally.
Name me one mass produced consumer car that uses saltwater batteries.
There is a reason that I pay 7p/kWh (3p/mile) to charge at night compared to 30p/kWh during the day. There is already spare capacity at night. In my country it’s mostly wind.
Then the people who depend on it can fork it.
I the movies he is pretty much building himself. With high sophisticated tools but not build by other people.

Elon is literally the It-needs-to-be-pointy guy.
The discussion of incorporating variability into the power grid is incredibly unsophisticated on HN.

The US (and Europe) are big places with diverse energy demand and weather patterns, and smart renewable energy developers will seek out resources that are decorrelated with existing supplies because the power can be sold at higher prices.

Batteries are also getting cheap enough to profitably arbitrage intraday price variability.

Another thing that gets ignored in these discussions is that in any net zero scenario there is going to be a fair bit of green hydrogen/biofuels/synfuel produced for transport and industrial use. A fraction of that could be diverted to gas peaker plants when monster dunkelflautes manifest themselves.
How do I install and run docker containers on windows without docker desktop? I’ve made attempts in the past but never actually succeeded, and just enddd up using docker desktop.
From the pov of assembly, C and any other high level language are basically the same. That doesn't mean that climbing even higher up on the abstraction ladder is a good thing though (especially for performance).
There is a growing culture of microdependencies, where one project can depend on hundreds or thousands of libraries, combined with automated "vulnerability" tracking, which means projects are constantly receiving notifications about issues in libraries deep in the dependency tree, most of the time in a part of the library that is not even used by the top-level application. It's no surprise that "security" is eating up more and more time.
Oh absolutely. I’m not suggesting we shouldn’t be investing in EV nor renewables. I’m just saying the case with EVs isn’t as simple as some like to generalise.
Orbstack is absolutely worth the money on MacOS, fwiw
The fastest EV is nothing compared to the fastest ICE.

Top fuel dragsters accelerate from 0 to 100 mph in 0.8 seconds.

I have tried fast EV and it's boring. I prefer my loud meth injected turbo diesel BMW (520 lb/ft at the wheels, pulls like a Tesla but is not boring to me)
1) It caused/aggrevated serious issues on the European energy market at the time
2) Then you might have no electricity for some months every few decades from "one offs"
3) Appeals to humans needing to be different are rarely successful