skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
£54 bn over eight years is around 0.2% of the UK's GDP. A lot of money, but doesn't sound unreasonable for a major overhaul of a central price of infrastructure.

Ruling out the possibility of storing energy at industrial scale might also not age terribly well.
First, I really like the effect the author has achieved. It's very pretty.

Now for a bit of whimsy. It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, a thousand words uses far less bandwidth. What if we go full-tilt down the energy saving path, replace some images with prose to describe them? What would articles and blog posts look like then?

I know it's not practical, and sending actual images saves a lot of time and effort over trying to describe them, but I like the idea of imagining what that kind of web might look like.
I mostly do that when I am taking about something Il that I wrote about and want to share it.
Ah yes punishment for inventing the sail.
I don't know the author's reasons for doing this, but I'll abide by his wishes and skip reading this article.
What do you think about the program discussed in the article:

> support workers will discuss their financial problems then pay for items such as rent deposits, outstanding debts, work equipment, white goods, furniture or new clothes. They do not make direct transfers
That reminded me of Information Batteries (2021) https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/infobatteries-eir21.pdf
I agree. I don't get political news from any video source. I go to these platforms for commentary and discussion, but I establish knowledge and fact check out-of-band.

And I'm still highly suspect of print media, I try to stick to individual journalists and editors who haven't gotten on my shitlist. Grassroots journalism is so good these days for many issues that it's getting easier to avoid conventional outlets altogether.
nope, far from it. but it’s the best option for a tech company to hire developers. the post misses Lit and webcomponents
NASA hasn’t run its own rockets for a long time, it is a customer, it chooses the launch vehicle based on the mission requirements.
You don't need UBI to pursue your intellectual dreams. The upper classes already have UBI which is called living off interest and dividends. Even if you don't have a trust fund, you can still pursue your dreams. Just go backpacking and surf some couches. People will feed you and put a roof over your head if they believe in your dream too.
> Humans write too much code at times too. The difference is when I tell a developer they need to be more concise it’s a learning process and takes days per feature to complete and months for the developer to improve significantly. With copilot you can literally just tell it to be more concise and it will do it, straight away, no fussy behavior, no denial, no blaming coworkers, no need to adjust, it just does it.

Where do you think copilot learned all that behavior, exactly? Like it's funny you sit at the tail end of it and claim it's not a learning process, but literally the core of any LLM is learning from other human behavior. It cannot exist without that learning process.

> The author would know this if they tried using the tools. But this is just a grump being grumpy like people still claiming that IDE’s cause brain rot and that assembly is the only “true way to program”. Copilot is just a tool, but it’s an incredibly performance boosting tool, and it doesn’t really have any significant learning code. People should just adopt it and move on with their lives.

No it's not. I've used the various LLM tools, I've had coworkers use the various LLM tools. When you start to tally up the time spent micromanaging, sifting through jank code and tuning it to get what you want the end result is in my opinion more effort for less. The idea that people should just 'adopt it and move on' seems like you can't actually convince people of its value proposition.

If you want to just shit out some code that barely works for a basic SPA then you can maybe work faster. But you're paying the cost in a larger amount of technical debt that will hit you later [1], with no one actually knowing what the codebase is doing.

[1] https://asim.bearblog.dev/how-a-single-chatgpt-mistake-cost-...
What £/kWh rate could we achieve at 2am, if we had the perfect localised modern pricing model?
Is calling a WA Wrapper around aJS function accessing the DOM this inefficient?
What a missed opportunity! A note in a bottle in a lighthouse seems like the perfect opportunity to be more poetic, inspiring and exciting.

I hope the current engineers leave a better note for the engineers of the next century.
If it takes so little time and is so trivial, you're welcome to send me a link to your generated solution.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dfwnjO9o8OU

Funnily enough the GP comment made me think of this sketch instead (an absolute masterpiece of microeconomic theory).

See also the classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
The point of planting trees in Denmark is not to cut CO2 emissions. The point is to restore biodiversity and the health of the environment. I assume the situation is similar in countries like the Netherlands.

Climate and environment are two separate things, and are in fact sometimes at odds with each other. Denmark is doing semi-alright on climate, but is absolutely terrible on environment. Aquatic ecosystems in the country are basically completely destroyed by agriculture, to the point where previously productive shallow waters are completely dead due to oxygen depletion.
Why isn't it "ideal"? Visual design is mostly about personal preferences about what looks good, rather than serving any practical purpose. Yes, design also impacts functionality, but it mostly exists to make the user experience more pleasant.

If you ask me, skeuomorphism makes interfaces more pleasing to use than the minimalistic trend of the past decade+, where everything must be flat. It adds a visual flourish that replicates surfaces and materials we're used to from the real world, making interfaces more familiar and approachable. From a practical standpoint, flat design makes it hard to distinguish elements and their state, whereas when we had 3D buttons, brushed metal and frosted glass, this was very clear.

I think the pendulum is swinging back now, as more designers are shunning the flat look, so hopefully we'll see a resurgence of more human-friendly UIs.
To put it in Roddenberrian terms (where the Federation Finance Department was never discussed), it's as though the heroic Captain of the Enterprise is ordering the Chief Engineer to replace the propulsion system because its emissions are fouling the Life Support System with toxins.

"Mister, we need to protect of the lives of the crew and sustain the mission!"

"Ah, nyet Captain, I am safe down here so far, maybe we replace you instead."
> Expensive legacy gas and nuclear plants provide base load power at scale. Something renewables don’t really do.

Running hydro, biogas (e.g. in Denmark) and offshore wind (UK, Spain, France, Italy) can definitely fulfill base load demand on the basis of renewable energy generation. With solar, enough overcapacity can guarantee base load during the day even when it's cloudy, and in the summer the solar overcapacity can be used to run synth-fuel plants for those things that we absolutely cannot run with electricity (ships and large airplanes).

Additionally, we can reduce base load demand during night time... a lot of places are still running incandescent lighting, for example. Replace that with LEDs, better reflectors (for less waste) and movement detectors, and you tackle light pollution at night at the same time. Or heat, add storage to a heat pump system to avoid having to run the heat pump at night. And for fucks sake France please get rid of resistive heating.
And how would you know if it is irrelevant? See prior comment.
great now i want in on an e-ink display
Against Bit Rot (Why and how I rebuilt my blog)
I challenge you on each of these points:

You make a big claim that font handling is a “hot seething mess”, but you do t explain why. Harfbuzz and ICU are hardly what you describe.

LibreOffice’s API is extensively documented:

* https://api.libreoffice.org/

* the Developers Guide has been around for literally over a decade and is now located at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DevGuide

LibreOffice is not based on Java. Java was, IMO, bolted on when Sun took over. As for it circumventing the “strict OO” nature of Java, that makes no sense and I challenge you to back this up with a technical explanation.

LibreOffice does incremental development. It’s not in any way glacial. Every release has hundreds of feature updates and bug fixes. The quality and compatibility with Office is getting better over time, and though there is still a ways to go it’s hardly going slowly.

I’ve extensively looked at the LibreOffice source code, and I can tell you that a complete rewrite would be a major waste of time that would kill the project. The software has been around since the early 1980s. It has accreted layers, but even so those layers are pretty well defined. It’s why it can be ported to different architectures and desktop environments. It’s why it has so many language bindings.

I don’t think you have a very informed view of how LibreOffice is developed, or even how it works.
> This is how the energy grid operates everywhere, it's not some uniquely German mistake.

The fact that Bavaria keeps sabotaging north-south transmission capacity is a uniquely German mistake, as is the insistence of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg to keep the single pricing zone.
Not intuitive? Why would that be?

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary

"Around 1809, impressed by the "talking leaves" of European written languages, Sequoyah began work to create a writing system for the Cherokee language. After attempting to create a character for each word, Sequoyah realized this would be too difficult and eventually created characters to represent syllables. He worked on the syllabary for twelve years before completion and dropped or modified most of the characters he originally created."

"After the syllabary was completed in the early 1820s, it achieved almost instantaneous popularity and spread rapidly throughout Cherokee society. By 1825, the majority of Cherokees could read and write in their newly developed orthography."

They literally achieved higher literacy than the european settlers
> so, in essence, a "for you" feed, based on your "follower feed", which filters posts based on your interactions (e.g. upvotes) with content on the platform? sounds cool

yes or actually working 'less like this' 'more like this' which does not care about following or not, but only about whatever this is about.

perhaps leaving hints to stuff i Really Do Not want (always a stronger emotion than do want), for instance politics and parenting; no matter how interesting the OPs are, I care so absolutely nothing about these things, I will unfollow. And that is a shame.
>virtual employees

Then we hold virtual meetings where virtual managers create PowerPoint slides with AI and virtual employees "listen" and in the end AI summarizes everything into something no one will ever read? :D
You are not entirely wrong, but I think you're underestimating the value of respecting human emotion. If people are leaving the team or it is missing deadlines, angering customers, making more work for other teams etc., your manager doesn't need your blunt feedback about performance and sustainability.
Show HN: A Postgres Gateway (Web UI) with OIDC and ACL
Hey HN,

I’ve built a database gateway to provide controlled access to production databases with fine-grained permissions and secure query execution.

Key Features:

- Role-Based ACLs: Define access rules at the instance, table, and column levels.

- OIDC Authentication: Users log in through OpenID Connect.

- Multi-Instance Support: Query multiple PostgreSQL instances from a single interface.

- Web Interface: Execute approved queries and view results securely.

- Query Storage: Save query results for later access or export.

How It Works:

- Users authenticate via OIDC.

- ACLs enforce access to specific instances, tables, and columns.

- Approved queries are executed, and results are stored securely.

Built For:

- Developers who debug production data.

- Team Leads and Product Owners who access production data for reporting.

- DevOps who run queries on behalf of other roles.

- Security Engineers who ensure sensitive production data remains protected.

Question: How do your developers access production databases, especially when the data is sensitive and critical to the company?
Dear bufferoveflow, I didn't refer to any conspiracy and didn't talk about numbers but about silly conclusions. and I'm not "victimizing" for internet downvotes that just say something about the maturity of those who clicked the arrow. I mean, it's a very depressing way to protest. If a problem has been identified let's fix it with orientation programs that actually fix the issue (explain job opportunities, give them introductory courses about STEM topics, help them where needed with their studies or improve the environment they live in, ecc...), let's not indulge in crazy stuff about scary feminists with horns. I don't have to sell books or courses, I don't have to sell stories and agree with the nonsensical narratives of someone else.

You cannot downvote because the comment is too old, the 2(lol) downvotes I got and that were cancelled by more upvotes came from those that replied to this shitty thread while it was still fresh.

No gaslighting man, I really don't care, I just don't like like reading what from my point of view looks like stuff that a kid would write. I'm an adult ffs. This BIG problem of the percentage if it's real (don't know, don't care) can be solved in 1/2 year.
this is great! I hope it doesn't repeat every 24hours though
Quipu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

I remember an article about credit in stores in tiny towns in Spain. It was just a rod of wood with some simbol as a signature of the store. Each time you buy something ¿big? they add a mark, and when you get all the ¿10? marks you have to pay with real money.

IIRC, the oldest number recorded was some kind of lunar calendar in a bone, wit marks like

IIIIIII IIIIIII IIIIIIII IIIIIII
IIIIIII IIIIIII IIIIIII IIIIIII

Coincidence? (I don't remember the details, but the article was convincing.)
Also call and response ("a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music") is a basic building block for pretty much every popular song ever.

--

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_and_response_(music)
I don't use the autocomplete option of Copilot as that's too annoying and distracting, BUT I do use the chat from time to time instead of googling for stuff. Once I'm done I hide the panel in Rider/VSCode/Zed/Visual Studio etc. until I need it again. As I've written in comments before, I think using Copilot is good when you're working on something new or you know exactly what you want, but perhaps maybe the approach you've used before can be improved (or you think it can be improved). In those cases Copilot can be a powerful exploratory tool.
People were naive enough to upload their personal details and pictures to Facebook/Tinder/Google over a decade ago without any cryptographic signing.

What makes you think they won't make the same mistake again with their voice? You just have to bait people with features of convenience in return for their data.

There's a reason history keeps repeating itself.
Yes, pretty amazing. While I did have a couple of free tourist maps, I planned and executed a 1700km road trip to New Zealand basically using Google Maps on my laptop and then simply navigated on my phone. It seems incredible that you could entrust everyday's travel plans using this and it just worked. Sure you had to make sure you had downloaded maps (or at least cached) ahead of time for spotty networks. Only 25 years or so ago you absolutely had to have paper maps (and know how to read them) to embark on such a venture
Wheres the scary monster at the end? Running into the wall is such a tease...
These days it would be a post on Instagram or Twitter. Nobody will find those in 100 years.
the Earth has tilted 31.5 inches because of human activity
There’s a massive number of “functioning homeless” - living in cars, couch surfing, etc. They might have low-pay jobs. Or once had white collar jobs but lost almost everything due to medical problems. These are the ones who might be capable of moving.

But yeah, the stereotypical crazy junkie, probably not. But that’s just a stereotype.
Clickbait: it is not
> the closest someone will probably give as an explanation is a massive rambling blog post written years ago

That blog post is long, but definitely not rambling, and unlike the above quote, is done in good faith. PHP night have improved, but if it has it will likely have used that blog post as a reference.
Does MD format do footnotes, along with page headers and footers? Floating images?
Yeah I know, I work for Sledgehammer Games on cod. It's not that it's been swapped out, it's been rewritten and rewritten many times over the years. What I meant to imply (but didn't succeed in saying) was that for systems that were in q3a, if you knew the q3a code, then you would feel a sense of familiarity with those parts of the cod code.

I occasionally do some random spelunking for fun and while there's practically no code left, there are still a few small remnants like the odd comment or function signature (or partial signature) that are still there, and some that even date back to Quake 1!
From my POV this is worth bookmarking - there are many datasets that are much clearer with one chart type or another - having 100 styles with the same data will later offer a visual index to help me decide what will best serve my needs.
The title is clickbait (no surprise there!).

PHP has its warts, but it also has uses and it is often still my go-to language when developing for web. That is, when I do not go for OpenResty (Lua) or Elixir (Phoenix). Sometimes what I really want is PHP.
This is a type of fallacy. Denmark as a country is politically relatively powerless compared to China or the US, or even Germany, but each citizen has about the same or more power compared to each citizen in those larger countries.

The fallacy is to say "I, as an individual in a small country, cannot do anything because these other large countries are, collectively, much more powerful". Well, no kidding. Any Denmark-sized administrative section of a larger country (say, a US state, a Chinese province, or a German bundesland) has the same or smaller influence on the climate. Often a much smaller influence due to how international diplomacy works.

It's a category error. Whether progress is made in Denmark-sized chunks or in US/EU/China/Germany-sized chunks is irrelevant, as long as the average velocity per human is the same on a global scale. It's not high enough at the moment, but it's equally significant wherever it happens.
Nice. I struggle though to compare the differences. I would find it easier to have one demo and a dropdown which I can select which example I'm looking at.
Less effective leaders are like GPT.

You need to be both careful and creative with your prompt in order to get them to produce the result you want. :)
Incredible! This is the most fun I've had watching YouTube in a long, long time.

This is what hacking used to be all about - pushing the boundaries of what the original software was meant for.
Very detailed writing and surprisingly engaging for such a long discussion. Well done!
I haven’t specifically mentioned the fx-850p to keep the comment brief, but it’s obviously included in the point about form factor. Having a "calculator-computer" with BASIC was a blast! While others followed the notebook trend, CASIO maintained the idea of a calculator-sized computer, which was brilliant. If it weren't for those Japanese companies, we'd probably have far fewer devices to discuss today. Don't forget PSION (UK) either! Beyond today’s economies of scale, it was fantastic to have such variety. For instance, I’d love a modern calculator with Python functionality in a small display and compact size—not talking about the HP Prime, though I do like it as well.

Finally, I often think about a "dumb" calculator with a great form factor, a keyboard and display combo, that functions purely as a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi terminal for a computer we already own or even connecting to the cloud.
The blog article didn't mention what to do when a node fails, and therefore is unable to hand over its section of the curve to another node.
The Ukraine missile crisis: Putin's shadow war against the West breaks cover
Sorry. I really can’t tell if this was sarcasm or not.
Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Operations Coordinator
History of Synthetic-Aperture Radar
My last town tried a day labor center. Just a spot at a town maintenance yard where day labor could wait to get picked up for work. It worked well. But got shut down by NIMBYs and conservatives who saw mostly brown faces.

It wasn’t just to help homeless. But any similar program is going to run headlong into the same criminalization of poverty issues we always see in the US.
The free market is also full of corruption. It's called wage theft. It's very prevalent and especially in such situations where the workers are so vulnerable.

And please refrain from using catch-all phrases like "free market" and "communist". That's the mark of a very stupid person.
Denmark is not even close to jeopardizing its food supply, even less its food security. It produces way more food than is needed to feed its own population.
Kinda ironic that because of this post I went to check out php.net for the first time in like a decade, and it turns out the site is down. Doesn't exactly instill confidence that the project is alive and well.
This is not an argument, and you have provided no evidence for your claims.

There are numerous studies, and indeed meta-analyses of these[1][2] indicating that cash transfers can have a positive outcome for recipients. These interventions are broadly positive, so why oppose them?

Whether or not it "solves" poverty is a different question to whether the effect is positive or not. There are a number of extremely different arguments as to why poverty can't be solved by cash transfers e.g. essentialising poverty as a moral failing (I strongly disagree), or a critique of the system which creates poverty in the first place (I broadly agree). I can understand why belief in the first kind would lead to opposition of interventions, but engaging with evidence is important in reaching a conclusion.

[1]: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32779/w327...

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01252-z
Classic "blue curtains" I guess.
Both can be true.

Protecting your agricultural capacity is what convinces the part of the population that does not directly benefit from the subsidies.
It has significantly diverged now.