skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you include e-bikes and e-scooters as EVs, sure. If you mean cars and trucks, the F150 Lightning, the EV6, the Ioniq 5, the EX30, and every other vehicle is heavier than its ICE counterpart. The motors are inherently torquier too.

disclaimer: I drive an electric car but would sell it in a heartbeat if I could use transit or bikes to safely and efficiently get to work, the grocery, and the doctor.
Unlikely. The thinking is, "If we antagonize Trump, tariffs will make our products too expensive."
There was an interesting idea to fix climate change by carbon capture for ~$10bn in a recent Sabine video

>A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says https://youtu.be/aGPKpx6pMko

Just put some huge nukes in the basalt at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, it breaks it up so the rock absorbs CO2, job done!

(paper on the idea https://arxiv.org/html/2501.06623v1)
You have a 4500+ lb car with 0-60 acceleration of 2.x to 4.x seconds and crazy torque, if you drive EVs like a teenager you will eat your tires after 10-12k miles.
> By not voting for Harris and making her lose it means next cycle people have to care about your opinion to get elected

No? It makes you electorally irrelevant. Possibly toxic. Trump has carte blanche with Gaza because it’s not an issue any senior Democrat is willing to fight for after the Palestine vote proved both mercurial and unreliable. Hell, I’m experiencing some schadenfreude with the whole thing.

The way to play it is to bloc vote in primaries and then reliably turn out in generals. See: the NRA.
I highly doubt this was just filed as a side project of some developers. They probably have patent lawyers on staff or on retainer whom someone in the organization requested to file this. Especially since this seems related to the legal action they started against Palworld in 2024.
“Just like when pocket calculators became popular and we all got worse at mental arithmetic but much better at applied mathematics overall. High level programming languages have made software engineers worse at comp-sci, but much better at applying it; commodification of cars made the average driver much less capable of understanding car mechanics, but much better at driving; and so on.”

I don’t agree with any of these conclusions. I guess it’s debatable of course.
> Calling people children for correcting your assumptions

I'm pretty sure that's an abbreviation for “children comments”.
> Maybe we're getting too hung up on a prescribed meaning of the word "ethics" rather than the larger meaning of what we're actually saying to each other.

Huh, this reminds me of speedrunners and speedrunning being called “cheaters” and “cheating” by new-to-speedrunning viewers on speedrun streams. (Really, they’re just interested in the glitchless categories.) It seems to be a fairly common first reaction and this thread helps put that in perspective.

> Oh, and your edit about "children" is rude.

That’s presumably not how they meant it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060190
I have a Boox page. It's quirky, but I love that it has the normal Google play store and a great battery life.

Now I can use whatever app suits me, and I can buy my ebooks from whatever store has the best deal. Sometimes I'll find Kobo is cheaper than Kindle, for example.

Often I read older fiction that's out of copyright, I use the Moon+ Reader app on the Boox and it's as good as the Kindle except free.
Neuhohenschönhausen?
I’m also amazed people don’t talk more about reducing consumption than carbon capture.

It boggles my mind that a StarBucks coffee, drank in a few minutes involves a lined paper cup, plastic lid, plastic stopper, corrugated holder ring.

Using disposable plastic utensils in dine-in restaurants also bothers me.

All the energy spent to gather/create/transport the raw materials, produce the cup, etc, store it in a warehouse, transport to the restaurant… Seems massively inefficient for such a short use.

Yeah, a dishwasher isn’t free either but surely heating some water to clean reusable things is got to be much better than disposable trash.

Heck, compared to plastic ware and coffee cups, disposable plastic grocery bags almost seem amazingly better in terms of utility vs waste. (Less material)
If you mean "I have a .puml and need .svg or .png", the tool does that natively, as do most online versions (this one is their example https://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/uml/SyfFKj2rKt3CoKnELR1Io4... and there are PNG and SVG links under the textarea). It also works offline https://plantuml.com/command-line#:~:text=Types%20of%20Outpu...
> As for Windows, not only has kept its hybrid approach throughout the years, Windows 10 (optionally) and Windows 11 (enforced), runs as a guest on Hyper-V, with multiple subsystems sandboxed, DriverGuard, Virtualization-Based Security, Secure Kernel, UMDF.

Any source for this? This seems interesting to read about
> For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. With text it is different, it is a mental exercise to read and process it, so turning video into text feels like an essential downgrade.

Exact opposite for me. Reading goes at my pace, in silence. Video is much more invasive, so I avoid it except for the highest quality stuff.
Maybe, but the average Tesla tire lasts half as long as my tires typically do, and the extra weight from the battery combined with the high onset torque are likely culprits (the former of which you can't fix with current battery technology when comparing otherwise apples-to-apples ICEs vs EVs if the EVs have non-negligible range, and the latter of which would require artificial limiting on the electric motor (which companies don't want to do because it's a selling point)).

For some rough numbers under normal/factory configurations to consider:

- A semi truck converts around 0.9 milliliters of tire to dust per kilometer.

- A Tesla Model Y clocks in at 0.3 ml/km

- A Honda Fit clocks in at 0.1 ml/km

Even with an overestimate of semis being responsible for 10% of total miles driven in the US, if everyone drove a Model Y then passenger cars would be responsible for 3x more tire dust than semis, and if everyone drove a Honda Fit then you'd be down to 1x.

Are there bigger concerns out there? Probably. Is the solution to bias toward ICE instead of EV? Probably not. It's not worth burying our heads in the sand when making those decisions though.
It remains infuriating to be repeatedly lied to by politicians who say they can "hit net zero" etc without any lifestyle changes.

It is utter nonsense and simply ensures every conversation on the topic is grounded largely in fantasy.

There are hard choices to be made and we insist on letting people pretend otherwise. It's infuriating
A Postgres `db.m6g.large` (the cheapest non-burstable instance) runs $114/month for a single AZ, and that's not counting storage or bandwidth. A `db.t4g.medium` runs $47/month, again, not counting storage or bandwidth. An ALB that somehow only consumed a single LCU per month would run $22. The rest of the mentioned items will vary wildly depending on the application, but between those and bandwidth - not to mention GitHub's fees - I sincerely doubt you'd come in anywhere close to $200. $300 maybe, but as the sibling comment mentioned, the instances you'll have will be puny in comparison.

> I'll have to monitor more things (like system upgrades and intrusion attempts)

You very much should be monitoring / managing those things on AWS as well. For system upgrades, `unattended-upgrades` can keep security patches (or anything else if you'd like, but I wouldn't recommend that unless you have a canary instance) up to date for you. For kernel upgrades, historically it's reboots, though there have been a smattering of live update tools like kSplice, kGraft, and the latest addition from GEICO of all places, tuxtape [0].

> I'd also have to amortize parts and labor as part of the cost, which is going to push the price up.

Given the prices you laid out for AWS, it's not multi-AZ, but even single-AZ can of course failover with downtime. So I'll say you get 2U, with two individual servers, DBs either doing logical replication w/ failover, or something like DRBD [1] to present the two servers' storage as a single block device (you'd still need a failover mechanism for the DBs). So $400 for two 1U servers, and maybe $150/month at most for colo space. Even with the (IMO unrealistically low) $200/month quote for AWS, at 5 months, you're now saving $50/month. Re: parts and labor, luckily, parts for old servers is incredibly cheap. PC3-12800R 16GiB sticks are $10-12. CPUs are also stupidly cheap. Assuming Ivy Bridge era (yes, this is old, yes, it's still plenty fast for nearly any web app), even the fastest available (E5-2697v2) is $50 for a matched pair.

I don't say all of this just guessing; I run 3x Dell R620s along with 2x Supermicros in my homelab. My uptime for services is better than most places I've worked at (of course, I'm the only one doing work, I get that). They run 24/7/365, and in the ~5 years or so I've had these, the only trouble the Dells have given me is one bad PSU (each server has redundant PSUs, so no big deal), and a couple of bad sticks of RAM. One Supermicro has been slightly less reliable but to be fair, a. it has a hodgepodge of parts b. I modded its BIOS to allow NVMe booting, so it's not entirely SM's fault.

EDIT: re: backups in your other comment, run ZFS as your filesystem (for a variety of reasons), periodically snapshot, and then send those off-site to any number of block storage providers. Keep the last few days, with increasing granularity as you approach today, on the servers as well. If you need to roll back, it's incredibly fast to do so.

[0]: https://github.com/geico/tuxtape

[1]: https://linbit.com/drbd/
You're assuming there isn't a contingency process for people without a recorded birthdate.
Feels about as likely as all the Taiwanese citizens fleeing to Hong Kong.
There are tasks that I don't want to do whose delivery sensitivity is 24 hours, aka they can be run while I'm sleeping.
whats the point of this? serious question - can someone provide usecases for this?
If you think google and microsoft are good examples, good on you :). That said... I have been having seriously mixed signals about this.

In the end, I'll have to check that by myself to get a final answer to who is lying here. And there is already an issue with rust: its toolchain cannot statically link libgcc (bug since 2015?!).

And it seems rust syntax has the same toxic complexity than the filthy c++ one which would make it a definitive nono for many.
I think everyone should pay for their own externalities. Put gas in your car, and you are generating the externality, so expect to pay some company a gas tax to remove that carbon.

Buy electricity from coal and the power plant is the emitter, who should pay for capture. However, if you are a electricity customer, expect that cost to be passed on to you on your bill.
> But one of the things we had to do was a trading game where you had to get a set of some commodity by trading your cards with other candidates. So just a screaming pit of kids trying to declare what they wanted to swap for.

This is Pit, right? I remember it from an Aaron Brown book. Always wanted to try it!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140/pit
Wow thank you. You’re right there’s likely some hidden assumptions that I had taken for granted that a unique solution is relying on when solving DE’s. I will have to read up to make this more clear mathematically, but at least mathematically I think you’ve answered my concern about 1). Now whether things break down when we model a potentially discrete world with continuous math, that’s for another day like you said. And what it means for something “at rest” to start moving if all its position derivatives are 0. But those might be more philosophical.
Hold on, hold on. You're missing a step here.

I agree completely that an LLM's first attempt to write a Semgrep rule is likely as not to be horseshit. That's true of everything an LLM generates. But I'm talking about closed-loop LLM code generation. Unlike legal arguments and medical diagnoses, you can hook an LLM up to an execution environment and let it see what happens when the code it generates runs. It then iterates, until it has something that works.

Which, when you think about it, is how a lot of human-generated code gets written too.

So my thesis here does not depend on LLMs getting things right the first time, or without assistance.
That's right, but then you have to capture it from atmospheric concentrations (430ppm) rather than directly from a waste gas stream at a much higher concentration.

It can be done but the economics don't look good right now. Possible very cheap solar energy in desert regions can change that a bit. Australia have been trying but they didn't get very far with it yet, granted there is still room for solar to get cheaper again.
Meanwhile light city EV's exists - such as the Volkswagen e-Up. Much more fun to drive than it has any right to be.

Hoping that the ID.1 will be half as good, if it ever sees the light of day.
Torque and pedal response are just choices made in software. The weight is not as important, given the example of the Bolt EUV that weighs ~1700kg and has normal tire life.
> It's honestly pretty fucking dismissive of people who are affected by Trump's regressive policies

Like the Gazans!

The American Palestinian movement has been 100% about the protesters themselves. Not the Palestinians. The Defund the Police and Chesa crowd found a new cause to ruin. Folks who have never been to both countries confidently redrawing borders on another continent, the new Sykes and Picot.
Getting mixed signals about this.

Lies are flying all over.

I'll need to check that by myself one day.

What's seems to be really sure though is the filth of rust syntax complexity on par with the other filthy one, c++.
I find it hard to take the debate seriously because the default stance of everyone against electric 2-wheelers is not manual bikes, its cars.

And, cars are multiple orders of magnitude more dangerous than anything on 2-wheels.

I’m sure you’re right that theres room for improvement, but instead of building infrastructure (we literally shaped cities for cars after all)- we would rather ensure that cars are incumbent forever despite the harm we see them causing.
New Specimen of Archaeopteryx Unearthed in Germany
This is as pure clickbait as it gets.
Developers are on IRC. Why are you talking in past tense?
Air transport is one of those things that would better offset with carbon capture - maybe even by making synthetic jet fuel, then it's carbon neutral - but very expensive. But really it doesn't matter. Air transport is 2.5% of global CO2. If we solved every other problem first, we could keep pumping oil for airplanes for centuries.

Take the engineer's mindset, reach the low-hanging fruit first. Replace coal with nuclear and natural gas, then start replacing natural gas. Cars don't need to run on gasoline anymore, BEVs are a superior technology. The market is doing its work to decarbonize that all by itself. Slowly at first, and then all at once. If you're middle-aged today, you'll likely live to see the end of gasoline cars. We can speed things along by removing subsidies on fossil fuels or offsetting them with green incentives.
Medium-sized US exchanges were being converted to ESS in the 1980s.

I remember the day my busy signal changed from a buzz (350+440 Hz) to a tone (480+620 Hz).
I'm trying to puzzle this one out a bit. Who are the good and bad actors in this threat model?

I wrote a server:

myServer = do
fetched : Bytes <- fetchFromExternalApi
let parsed : SecretResponse = jsonParse fetched
return parsed

This code is all mine except for the jsonParse which i imported from a nefarious library. If jsonParse returns a SecretResponse, then the code will compile. If jsonParse returns an ErrorResponse, it won't compile.
They aren't inherently torquier. That's a design point.
It's the same, local laws impacting foreign companies.
The Inside Story of How Altman and Musk Went From Friends to Bitter Enemies
Literally 8-9 lines of rm/shred commands (depending on how you count), asking you to run it as root (so it will clean the home of root instead of the user, without even checking what's going on -.-) or with sudo.

Come on, this is not even low effort. I'm sure you can do better than this.
I've never worked on a team that had conventions for both commits and PRs. In general, the goal of such things is to help trace work across multiple systems, and for future research trying to track down old changes. All the places I've worked or consulted, they do that at the PR level, not the commit level. So PRs will start with a ticket #, commits are freeform.

That being said, some places do have commit standards. Just ask the team what they do when you start somewhere. Don't bring conventions in where a team doesn't use them - it just adds noise. If you or the team see how adding conventions can benefit your work, talk about it and make a decision together.
Ask HN: The Worst Engineer I Know Is Demanding We Start Using Celery (Python)
I work with an engineer who consistently advocates for terrible architecture and design patterns with a ton of confidence. Every time one of his ideas is implemented it turns into a flaming bag of complexity dog shit, and everyone else is left holding the bag to clean up.

His new tirade is demanding we start using celery to solve every problem we have. I instinctively want to dismiss him out of turn given his previous track record of thinking himself into a pretzel, however, I don't want to fall into a trap myself of negative thinking.

The way I see it, we would already be sending async job messages to a durable queue like SQS. It seems extremely trivial to me to run a service that polls the queue for new messages and dispatches the jobs on its own from there (as I have a done with great success a number of times in other environments). What is the benefit of pulling in all the complexity of celery for these simple asynchronous tasks?
I asked chatgpt the other day to explain to me Kubernetes. I still don't understand it. Can you share with me what clicked with you, or resources that helped you?
Referring to supersonic passenger designs. Obviously can do subsonic today.
This is only half true. Yes, the country switched to first-to-file, but the definition of prior art was expanded. This means it's easier to strike down a patent due to prior art now than before.
However, even illegal e-bikes (or unregistered e-motorbikes to be more accurate) are preferable in my view to the problems associated with car traffic. At least when an e-bike rider does something stupid and crashes, they will typically end up hurting themselves which can be an important learning moment. Car drivers don't have the same "skin-in-the-game" to ensure that they're paying attention.

It's harm reduction - let's encourage the most irresponsible car drivers to be irresponsible e-bike (legal or not) riders and we should end up with far less congestion, pollution and collisions.
Your link shows that prior art is still a thing.
Your comment might sound trite to some but is not without a basis.

I recently followed a rabbithole on media reports that the recent California wildfires are due to climate change. The underlying study driving the report worked like this: They took a time series of the number of acres burned each year in a part of northern California and used a regression to predict it based on a number of climate figures-- air dryness, wind speed, mean temp, max temp, etc. After finding coefficients for their regression they took an off the shelf counterfactual climate model that predicts the climate without human input. The difference in acres burned according to their regression were then attributed to climate change.

An obvious issue, out of many, with this approach is that if you plug in any inputs with a trend over that time-- say hours spend viewing porn online-- the regression is going to end up with non-zero coefficients on it and you could walk away with conclusions like "internet porn viewing is causing wildfires".

If you knew ahead of time that these climate stats were actually the main drivers of wildfire then this approach wouldn't be a crazy method to estimate what might happen under different conditions. But this approach cannot tells us if those inputs are drivers, much less the main ones.

A generalization that threw in a bunch of additional predictors around population densities, forestry management data, etc. might get closer-- but the data being fit was already so sparse that it was probably already overfit. And at best the result would still only be as good as our ability to speculate and measure possible causes.

The question of human climate change's impact on things like wildfires is an interesting, important, and very difficult one. I don't fault the researchers for trying a method that might say something useful, but to take that kind of result and treat it as an established fact and drive public policy from it seems foolish indeed.

I'm sure that not all of these sorts of conclusion are equally dubious but unfortunately with media, politicians, and the general public so science illiterate that they're unable to engage with this research on its own terms we really can't trust that they're not without going and looking case by case.
I don't think of it as spaghetti but as messy plumbing.
It is shown running on 2 or 4 raspberry pis; the point is that you can add more (ordinary, non GPU) hardware for faster inference. It's a distributed system. The sky is the limit.
Pokemon is absurdly overpriced. Like $70 on Nintendo Switch. And the gameplay is literally the same as Gameboy games from decades ago, with better graphics (that could be rendered on a Gamecube).

No voice acting for dialogues, a tiny sound track, most content is text... no way to explain $70.

If people want to buy something else then good.
Yes this is just a fine-tuned LLaMa with DeepSeek-like "chain of thought" generation. A properly 'distilled' model is supposed to be trained from scratch to completely mimick the larger model it's being derived from - which is not what's going on here.
All's well if we're happy to blindly trust Apple.

> "The ATTF (app tracking tool) makes it far more difficult for competing app publishers to access the user data relevant for advertising," Andreas Mundt, cartel office president, said in a statement.

> Apple defended the feature in an emailed statement to Reuters, adding that it "holds itself to a higher standard than it requires of any third-party developer."
The point is that the equations don't tell you what would happen. Both options would be valid according to the equations.

This is completely contrary to our intuition about Newtonian mechanics. The question "given this situation, what would happen?" typically has a unique answer is typical. If it does, we have determinism. The observation of Norton's dome is that mathematically this question does not have a unique answer in all situations.
Begging for free things is not a solution to this problem, we should stop allowing corporations to break our things.
Ubiquity has nothing to do with beauty. It is perfectly possible for an individual with taste to find something they deal with frequently to be ugly. Especially if they find a flaw early on and it never goes away.
> I can’t believe we can’t coordinate off of it.

This is the problem for switching sites. It's very hard and usually requires a drastic failure of the site to get people to move off. Inertia is huge and most people don't care.

It took a huge effort by Musk to get people to use Bluesky.
This is irrelevant; the total energy cycle of a green grid can be abstracted as fossil_production + green_production + carbon_capture_consumption + all_other_uses. Since fossil_production < carbon_capture_consumption it is best to simply set them both to zero
Not surprising. Carbon capture methods are so out there and so bogus sounding with very little evidence that they will work, really seems just custom made to soak up government money with little promise of benefit and certainly not efficient.