skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A proper evaluation includes the financial cost of the coal's climate impact. Climate change is very expensive. That cost affects,

* The investor's return, without subsidies.

* The cost to the public of replacing coal with something else.

The article says,

> the cost per tonne of CO2 emissions avoided is just $34.

Does anyone grasp what they mean exactly, and where that number comes from?
It is better. But in the year 2024, why should I believe the data from a random source, with unknown data analysis? When will they be releasing their data package for independent analysis? Why isn't this the expected norm? And how can we make it so?
NeRFs and Gaussian splats are dead...
Which is sad for someone who has been here for well over a decade. I never came here for political banter, I came for technical discussion. Facts, truths and subject matter experts. HN is slowly becoming less concentrated version of that.
Thank you. There was a lot of repetition and problem-solving. The headcrabs were the worst. Well, and the fast headcrabs/spiders. The final segment from the exit of the mine to the end of the level is also done however that posting is waiting for a rainy day.
Sorry, what the heck is "cookie butter" (native English speaker here, in case it matters...)?
Mitchell Hashimoto has written extensively about his use of Linux in a VM on macOS. He published a NixOS configuration[1] which seems easy to use.

I recently bought a Mac mini M4 to experiment with this setup, and am strongly considering getting a MBP if it works as advertised. As a longtime ThinkPad user and F/LOSS enthusiast, it feels awful giving money to Apple to run Linux as a second-class citizen, but honestly there is just no comparable hardware that does what Apple has accomplished.

[1]: https://github.com/mitchellh/nixos-config
https://backpack.tf/stats/Unique/Earbuds/Tradable/Craftable

8 keys, I guess?
Could just be "stick this label".

Throwing out the food is insane, so is trying to justify such a thing.
I think berts are still used for stuff like embeddings (at least the best generic embedding model in my language is bert based), when you want to get a model that has basic semantics but needs to be fast.
if you care too much about visibility I think mastodon will be disappointing. They just don't want to be popular, it feels like it's designed to be antipopular.
I would be interested to see the evidence that liberals are being censored *MORE* than Republicans. No doubt many people of all political stripes are being kicked off or censored on the platform for a variety of reasons. And the left-wing media will be amplifying things when it's happening to liberals.
https://docs.bsky.app/blog/blueskys-moderation-architecture

You can either rely on Bluesky's standard labeler only or subscribe to ones that handle certain niches or the higher standards of moderation that you may want.

There's also lists made by other users that you can use to just block all the trolls/bots/etc on them at once (and as more are added).
the article is stupidly short and unhelpful and people here still didn't read it
If only you could rely on common sense! But companies have been allowed to run roughshod for so long and sell things that are deceptively labeled for so long that the law finally had to step in with bureaucracy. You can't apply common sense when companies are allowed to label things as X when they aren't X.

Does something labeled "butter" contain milk? Does something labeled "milk" contain milk? This thread shows the answers to these questions are not straightforward and cannot be determined with common sense.

We -have- to have strict labeling rules around allergens and destroy products that don't comply because if we didn't, it would just be the wild west like it is with products that are not allergens.
> Nobody has ever said "we need to be concerned about the potential for that solar farm to be used in a program to create weapons of mass destruction"

Well, if hydrogen from electrolysis really takes off, it would be possible to piggyback an exchange tower on the system to also get heavy water production.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1980IJHE....5..409H/abstra...

(that's an old reference; the CECE process has since been driven to maturity by Canada.)
Portal will hit 20 years in 2027 as well.
Switched to arch and nixos, diffrent machines and diffrent usecases. Arch installer is really nice now, even if you should have done it manually at least once in your life.
Having watched the explosion of Bluesky over the last week, and being on Mastodon for years, I have a different take on it. It's sort of consistent with what you're saying but sort of not.

The problem to me is more that whenever you have a centralized platform that's associated with a single owner, it inherits all the issues of that owner, good and bad. It's inevitable. I'm not sure it's an issue with people not wanting to hear other viewpoints, it's more so people have decided they have had enough of, say, Musk, and don't want to support him. With Facebook stuff came up about that. The other stuff, about feeling like they're drowning in abusive right-wing stuff is also part of it but I think if it were just, say, like the web, they'd say "well this is the web" like people say "this is the news". Once you can point to, say, Musk, and say "he made it this way" or "I don't want to support a person like this", regardless of whether or not it's true or whatever, if enough people feel that way, they're going to want an alternative.

This won't really go away until there's a decentralized open system that's easy to use, and not associated with any given "owner". Mastodon/AP is close but things there are so closely associated with hosts that the host starts to become a dominant issue (see Threads), as does figuring out where to go, and transferability of accounts across servers.

As for "why Bluesky"? Probably because it looks like Twitter and a lot of journalists and politics people were complaining about Threads rules prohibiting things they wanted to post. Not because it's left or right wing, but because of links and political content period. I don't know enough about Threads policies but independently lots of journalists on Bluesky were saying they just couldn't post content on Threads even if it was fairly neutral, or that it wouldn't get any visibility?

Bluesky is easy to sign up for and fairly open. Once you get the journalists and news organizations on there, and a critical mass it grows.

Personally from a technical standpoint I'd like to see Nostr take off but that community currently is very heavily crypto-focused. Network effects and feedback loops are a pain.
Where I live, I'd estimate that a third of the passenger cars are Teslas. No data to back that up, but that's what I tend to see day to day. The diversity of drivers is significant enough to suggest that "all kinds of people" drive Teslas.
I recently tried to delete my Microsoft account. The system wouldn't let me (it gave me a popup saying "known issues exist"). I spent a long time trying to figure out how to contact Microsoft until I just emailed the data controller saying I want to delete my account. We went back and forth with support for a month until it got escalated to executive support. They closed it saying they can't help me and I need to open a new ticket with 365 commercial support. I gave up.
"I don't want to engage in a social network that isn't and echo chamber of my beliefs."

I really don't. I know you mean this as an insult, but like, it gives this weird reverence to social media that I don't get. I am all sorts of interested in long form media that explores striking/dangerous/novel ideas that really expand my mind and help me to see the world in a whole new way, or interviews with people who have a set of beliefs that are different from mine.

I am not interested in 140 character hot takes that just pounce at my amygdala, just like I wouldn't want my Thursday night football game to cut away to a five minute diatribe on the pros and cons of abortion access, or my video games to lecture me on free market economics.

Engaging in as social network that isn't an echo chamber of my beliefs is like being interrupted every five minutes during dinner time to be yelled at by a different evangelist. Church is on Sunday, thanks.
I don't know. My town has a budget. We argue over property taxes at town meetings. We argue over enterprise zones like distribution centers that certainly aren't going in the middle of large cities. We argue over school spending that tends to be lower than in large cities. No one is wiping out highways that connect large cities to other places.
So then why do any of your opinions matter?

How are you going to convince me or any other passing reader that this isn’t just random nonsense?

I can’t even decipher half of the comment so I’m not sure if you understood my previous question…
What do I need to know? Tech oriented, factually grounded discussion. The thing I come here for that allows me to partially escape reality and enjoy the finer things in life. I can tune into Fox, CNN, Facebook, or a myriad of places for political banter.
In the US at least, the top killer of drivers are trees on the side of the road.

This is false. Your cited link (https://highways.dot.gov/safety/RwD) clearly demonstrates that head-on collisions cause more fatalities than tree+utility pole collisions combined.
>If the person cooking is uneducated enough to not know that butter and cheese come from milk, I highly doubt they're checking the box the butter comes in for an allergen listing.

The purpose of the regulations isn't about what anyone may think others will or won't do with the information, it's about making the information readily and unambiguously available.
I cannot speak authoritatively as to whether the LFP cell cost decline curve has enabled stationary storage to be cost superior in all cases compared to both short and long duration pumped hydro, hence the caveat. I have no doubt we'll get there, just not sure we're there yet.

Probably something for Lazard's next LCOE report, to act as a canonical reference for such discussions.

https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...
Bears can get in cars. Keep your doors locked in bear country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRuQoGJoAfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQmfEclBCMw
I can easily see where you would get the idea to rub snow on the tissue from my own experiences with second degree frostbite. I did lukewarm water and that hurt. It felt like my hands were going to explode. Every impulse was screaming that it was exactly the wrong thing to do and I should go back outside where the pain was less.
> I would have hoped people would have taken BlueSky at their word when they were told they weren't wanted.

That's an unusual way of viewing it.

When you're waitlisted for an app that has limited capacity, you take it as not being "wanted"?

Of course they want you! They're just building capacity so that you can have a good experience once they're ready to send you the invite. Don't worry -- you are wanted!
I will follow the remainder of her career with great interest.
It's also a $60 purchase that requires a beefy Windows machine in addition to the headset.

VR is a small market to begin with, and most VR people can't play Alyx without buying a whole new computer.
Does this mean better motion response times? The M-series MacBook Pro displays have notoriously smeary displays while displaying high-motion content, so this would be a welcome addition.
In addition to what the other comment said BlueSky is also so hackable that I think people will continue develop more sophisticated techniques to better moderate.

X was locked down in a way that seemed to be giving the bots and trolls a significant advantage.
Those do God's work, they can stay.
>[America] could have just followed British history and made these countries colonies...

European-style colonization, dating back hundreds of years prior to WWII, had mostly gone out of fashion by the end of the war. US-style economic and military cooperation, or vassalage, gives similar benefits without the hassles of maintaining physical colonization. The US never colonized in the European fashion because the country started out as a colony. Late to the game, most of the good pieces of cake already taken, and the costs of colonial empires starting to take a toll, America did not colonize because it became a world power in the 20th century rather than the 16th. I'd like to attribute that to "values" but I think historic circumstances had more to do with it. Americans did brutally colonize the United States, after all.

> Japan(basically a feudal society pre-WW2)

No. Japan consolidated as an empire in the mid-1800s. The feudal shogunate ended, and during the Meiji period Japan aggressively modernized and industrialized, deliberately, to catch up with the West. By the early 20th century Japan had a formidable modern military capable of conquering Manchuria and Korea and challenging Russia. By 1941 Japan had a navy that credibly threatened the United States. The US did not pull Japan out of feudalism. A feudal Japan would not have had a powerful modern national military capable of conquering much of east Asia and challenging US and allied forces. A feudal Japan would not have multiple large modern cities with industrial targets to bomb.

> Doing something about hypocrisy is a much more complicated story.

Not mentioned in the book review, but Chomsky has a history of activism on the ground -- not just talking and writing. He protested for civil rights and against the Vietnam war, got arrested for his anti-war activism. Not enough perhaps but more than most people. I think what Chomsky has done, including educating and inspiring people to ask questions, counts as "doing something." As the review points out, and as Chomsky has written for decades, Americans don't control their government, especially in matters of foreign policy, wars, police action, and covert intelligence agencies.
Actually Matt Gaetz, who will likely be her boss, calls himself a "Khanservative" in support of her
I'd never heard of this Bluesky until this post election reaction. I'd heard of Mastodon but not Bluesky.
Robert Scoble – Why I'm still on X
Some people are calling this "multistage programming" [1] which is kind of related but not exactly the same as a macro system.

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-stage_programming
Is this the Tesla sense of the word recall? Do they just slap a "CONTAINS: MILK" sticker on each and consider it successfully recalled? And of course, refund any customer who brings it back, but they do that for any reason already.
So 3 is soon?
Why could they not apply an amended label to cover the existing "contains" section with the correction to list milk as an ingredient?
I'm not Nielsen Ratings or anything, but that would be consistent with what I would think. Fox viewers being older, and older being consistent with tv viewers. Younger being consistent with TikTok, YouTube, InstaFaceTwit intake.
The data in fact shows the reality - when affordability was great, people had kids, when it's bad, people don't.

Everything is expensive as hell these days.
I could be wrong (and probably am) but I think the black bar stays up for 24 hours.

So it is not surprising if the article moved to the second page when the person does not have instant name recognition.

Like a lot of things on HN, despite being enough effort that someone might complain, going to the second page is not a terrible inconvenience for the minimally curious.
I wonder if this isn't reflective of some universal law of niftiness.
I thought the article on the meaning of "energy transition" was more interesting. The idea that oil is reliant on steel and steel on coal is a thought. https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/10/energy-transiti...
> latest Cd-free QD films are very efficient, feature as good or better color gamut and better motion performance

Possibly yes.
Yeah I do lol. It was the big motivation since we were writing more and more rust and missed the concurrency model. Please feel free to ping me for any further questions

It's come a long way since it started and I'm thrilled I can talk about it publicly now and it's usage at Meta (some at least lol).
This is different from constexpr if in C++? Where one branch will not exist in the compiled code?
Two reasons to like BlueSky:

1. Your username can be your website. I'm @bradgessler.com.

2. Copy and pasting images into a message works on iOS (this has been broken on X/Twitter for a long time).

There's more reasons to like it, but these two feel pretty great.

I put a Ruby hacker starter pack together if you're looking for a way in:

https://go.bsky.app/HXB2cPh

There's tons of other ones and communities as well.
The Permian-Triassic extinction. A massive intrusion of basaltic magma into the The Tunguska Basin that also created the Siberian Traps. The intrusion heated organic-rich sediments and evaporites (salt, anhydrite) and caused eruption of gases. Siberia is littered with enormous pipes as much as 1 km in diameter that erupted massive amounts of gas during the event. In addition to CO2 and methane, the gas was loaded with chlorinated hydrocarbons from the salt, which could have devastated the ozone layer.

I've seen an estimate that CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere may have reached as high as 30,000 ppm (3%).

It was bad luck for the Paleozoic world that this massive mantle plume came up in perhaps the worst possible place.

Some of these pipes became filled with magnetite and as a result are mined for this rich iron ore.
> I'd say that perhaps I successfully faked it for 9 years.

Sounds like it. IME >90% of everything you encounter is typically covered in university DS&A introdoctory courses and the grind would be part of the studies. The good news is it's never too late to start again.
So basically you don’t actually want diversity of thought. That’s fine if it’s what you want but at least be honest and admit it. Let’s not redefine standard terms please, it makes it hard to have a discussion.
In 2007 when The Orange Box was released, Half-Life 2 took forever to load on my dual-core Athlon 64 X2. It would run but the levels would take a solid minute to load. At the time I figured it was some incompatibility with the multiple cores as that was still rare and a lot of other software gave me trouble with it at that time.

I tried to play it much more recently, maybe six or so years ago on an Intel MacBook before they broke 32-bit, and once again even on modern hardware the game took FOREVER to load.

Maybe this is just my experience? I haven't heard anyone else complain about the terrible load times?
It forces the blogger to get to the point. Even most blog posts shared on HN could have been a tweet or two.
> Are you saying special symbols aren't more common in mathematics than in programming?

No, I agree that programming uses more ASCII. I'm saying that using a smaller alphabet (e.g., hex), doesn't make it easier to understand. Programming is just as arcane and difficult to understand - even programmers have trouble understanding each other's code, and generally it's believed that the understanding requires documentation in English.
I'm going to give it my best guess- it will copy up to n bytes, including the null byte if present in n, but not adding a null if the nth byte isn't a null, requiring you to set the last byte to 0 manually, whether that's allocating n+1 bytes or truncating the nth.
The santa on the side of the semi moves as well, a bit unnaturally at that.
But if you are at the present, and dont receive a future result immediately, can't you assume it never halts? Otherwise you would have received a result.
I actually have a side project doing this. I mapped an actor Id in ractor to a PID in erlang and used a rust create to implement the network protocol for erlang. I ran out of time on this side project kind of deal but it's like 90% there and can do a full cluster join and send and receive messages between remote actors on nodes.

The crate that helped this is erl_dist. I'd love to open source the code at some point, but it's not quite there yet
I use VS Code, and there's an extension that provides a debugger for the languages I use.
An ARM64 is "a very powerful computer"? The whole promise with ARM is better thermals and long battery life, not screaming performance. With the thermals/cpu not working, we don't even get that.
I’ve noticed similar “mini” news stories trickle out after Apple’s announcements. Does this happen organically, or does PR drop tidbits like this to select sources?

It seems like a very specific thing for a reporter to ask and find out about.
Source tweet: https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/1857483224257282309
Mono-cultures are forming because as a whole, we are becoming less tolerant. Tolerance is the ultimate challenger of belief because it is gentle. No extremist is going to change their ways because people keep yelling at them to change. It'll be because they see the people they revile living perfectly fine lives and willing to accept them as they are.

"B-but they believe these morally reprehensible things!" So what? Have we not all hurt people and been the villain in someone else's life? People get lost along the way. Show them grace. We can't force people into different ways of living, but we can show them.
It's a hot topic now because of the presidential election?
On my monthly drive to the office this week I passed 7 accidents on the morning commute to Irvine. Every single accident involved a Tesla. One of the accidents even involved two Teslas: one crashed into the other, and based on what one of the drivers was yelling into his phone as I slowly inched passed them, both Teslas were using FSD.

On a more somber note, in one of the accidents an AP/FSD-driven Tesla crashed into a motorcyclist. The motorcyclist survived (or at least, the news did not report a fatality on the 405 that day), but there was a lot of blood on the road and the Tesla that crashed into him.
I am visiting Japan. This weekend is Nikko, north of Tokyo.

In my idle time I am working on a way to visualise reader feedback about Berlin immigration office processing times. I got over 30 data points per week for a once opaque process, and now I am making the UI to see that data. It will make the process more predictable for thousands of people.

It’s mostly finished. I am now creating the API endpoint that returns the aggregated values, to display the expected timeline as a widget on other pages.

You can see a preview here: https://x.com/aboutberlin/status/1856329112509448412
Possibly even training the model that will go into the police automaton that will kill you some day.
I don’t use Twitter myself but if having a “bad person” own a service disqualifies you from using it I have some bad news for you.
A couple of the HN comments in this thread said,

"America can simultaneously be the safest place on earth for those with food allergies, while avoiding this kind of bureaucratic nonsense."

"I get that this seems like an overreach, but America is incredibly safe for people with allergies and it's because of enforcement like this."

In my 40+ years of life in India, and among the many people that I've seen or interacted with in 5 Indian states (among 28 States), I've rarely heard someone say they have allergies the way they have in the US. In US, people have allergies to almost everything.

In my 40+ years of life in India, and based on the various supermarkets that I've visited across 4 heavily crowded metro cities, I've rarely seen "Allergy" medicines/prescriptions occupy the shelf like they do in the US.

Also in the same period of my existence in this third world country, I've rarely seen people concerned about the ingredients in a restaurant menu or labels printed on food packets or containers that there are allergy causing ingredients in there.

Like George Bush once cruelly remarked, "India is the cause of shortage of food in the world", because we eat everything, and rarely check the labels or need them, or less allergic to any food. We are just short of food.