skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany's Industrial Slowdown (2023)
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but a blockchain doesn't require that every user runs a node. And any "blockchain" application usually involves some off-chain brokers for performance reasons, which yes users would have to trust to some extent, but they'd also be able to cross-check and switch brokers (or run their own) if they ever lose trust.

So a blockchain forum is doable in a similar way as NFTs. Would require caching on the read side, and unless your users are posting important enough stuff to warrant high xact fees, off-chain write batching.

The real obstacle is that like NFTs, it'd be solving a mostly theoretical problem. Barely anyone cares that a forum is owned by someone, and you need a ton of users to gain traction.
> No matter what car you buy today it is emitting less pollution than ten, twenty, and especially thirty to fifty years ago.

Sure, but a single bus would emit way less than the 60-150 cars (yes, large buses here have a total capacity of about 150 people [1]) it replaces. And if you have a bikable city like about every city in the Netherlands is, there's zero emissions.

> Meanwhile we still burn bunker oil (the leftovers from petroleum distillation) in shipping. It’s as if we swore off doing anything better for the planet if it inconveniences a large company.

We do, but even there there is progress! In fact, the regulations on sulphur content going into effect showed that this actually had climate impacts on the scale of an ultra-large geoengineering project [2]. On top of that, bunker fuel is banned in many countries' 12-mile-zone or at the very least near ports, ships have to burn diesel there.

[1] https://infoportal.mobil.nrw/technik/bussemitkonventionellem...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01442-3
It also depends on what is "fun". Major glitches in Super Metroid make you skip too much of the game and that just isn't fun to watch.

Speedrunning is a spectator sport, so spectators ultimately determine which categories are the prestigious ones.
One easy solution is to give such talks in primary/middle schools so children stop buying Nintendo games. Give them all bad publicity.

I wouldn't care separating Nintendo lawyers and gamedevs. If the lawyers are shady then the whole thing is shady.
It's wasted as heat when converting to electricity, or as heat when running an engine, or wasted in low temp heating when a heat pump could be 4x as efficient.

Most predictions are that developed nations will double the amount of electricity they produce to electrify transport and heating but this will still reduce total energy due to the reduction in waste heat.
I forgot to add one of the biggest costs. The cost of protecting oil flow. Defense budget is to protect oil assets worldwide, any disruption/blockage to oil flow will mean economy will tank, immediately. Oil companies should be shouldering this cost.
> And because they're not a regulated vehicle, nobody has third party insurance.

At least here in Germany, assuming it's not a tuned bike, it's covered by your regular liability insurance.
I’m from the US. I had no idea “the thin blue line” carried any negative baggage with it.

Though to be fair, I tend to assume that everything has baggage with someone somewhere, since I’ve worked with people (middle aged white men, to be clear) who managed to be offended on other people’s behalf with nearly anything I said. For example, I never learned how to refer to women: saying any of ladies, girls, guys, or women, got me in hot water. I quit that job before I ever learned the secret, non sexist way to speak of or address women.

So, while I’m not surprised a middle aged white dude is upset by “the thin blue line”, I do have a natural inclination to sympathize with whoever used it.
If you had to spend time / VC money learning all of this stuff before you could begin to apply it, I absolutely agree, it's a waste of time. That's not my point. My point is people (by people, I mean "someone interested in tech and is likely to pursue it as a career") can and should learn these things earlier in life such that it's trivial once they're in the workforce.

I could go from servers sitting on the ground to racked, imaged, and ready to serve traffic in a few hours, because I've spent the time learning how to do it, and have built scripts and playbooks to do so. Even if I hadn't done the latter, many others have also done so and published them, so as long as you knew what you were looking for, you could do the same.
True, but the more interesting bit is that the shell understands the structure of the data. The boxes are just how it communicates that.
And used on eg German license plates, for at least partly that reason (IIUC).
Interesting… that’s been happening to me but because I’ve been playing a lot with my guitar tuned half-step down.

I hear a note that I associate with a chord in my guitar, and I have to remind myself that I need to compensate for it.
Scientists trace deadly cell-to-cell message chain that spreads in sepsis
>At the same time, the EU has allowed regulation to track the most innovative part of services — digital — hindering the growth of European tech firms and preventing the economy from unlocking large productivity gains. The costs of complying with GDPR, for example, are estimated to have reduced profits for small European tech firms by up to 12 per cent.

> Taken together, Europe has been effectively raising tariffs within its borders and increasing regulation on a sector that makes up around 70 per cent of EU GDP
I upvoted for the details, and I agree that if you try to buy comparable capacity in AWS, it's going to be more expensive. Scaling up in AWS is definitely going to cost more over time too. I don't want to hide these facts.

But you don't need comparable capacity, at least not at first. And when you do, you click some buttons or run terraform plan/apply. Absolutely it's going to cost more measured only by tech specs. But you're not paying primarily for tech specs, you're paying for somebody else to do the work. That's where the cost comparability really needs to be assessed.

Security in AWS is a thorny topic, I'll agree, but the risks are a little different. You need to secure your accounts and users, and lock out unneeded services while monitoring for unexpected service utilization. Honestly, I think for what you're paying, AWS should be doing more for you here (and they are improving albeit slowly). Hence maybe the real point of comparison ought to be against PaaS because then all of that is out of scope too, and I think such offerings are already putting pressure on AWS to offer more value.
And it encourages the community to create a “fixed-seed” category for the game, which would generally have a fastest known seed with a fastest known route.
"For documents whose source is likely to be shared or handed over to other pe ople, writing in TeX rather than expecting them to learn a new language is still good citizenship."

Conversely, my entire interest in Typst is have an input format more efficiently read by AI. We've passed the inflection point where one can responsibly only write for humans.

Typst is Markdown-adjacent, while PreTeXT is XML-adjacent. More characters but even easier for AI to process. I'd switch for the HTML and ePub support, but no syntax coloring for code blocks?
If you're willing to build it yourself the Voron 2.4 is fast and high quality.

For an off the shelf product probably Bambu Lab.
Trees work, but take a long long time to grow.
We are just barely beginning to investigate the harms from PM2.5 particles.

It seems like every month we discover some new and harmful effect, or that it was worse than initially estimated from smaller sample sizes, etc.

I don't think it's a conspiracy, just the way that discovery happens.

We also have a tendency to completely oversight the harm of new tech in comparison to older tech. People get super worked up about the supposedly super toxic lithium ion batteries, but have little concern for the far greater amount of mining necessary to build the frame of a car.

So it's good to have a baseline of the amount of harm done with current tech to compare to and center our reactions to these large population scale effects.
With people using LLMs instead of googling, there isn't an incentive for people to write tutorial blog posts.
This isn't "Rust people".
Dunno about how the US does it, but in Germany, urban areas have the road wastewater go into the sewers so it passes treatment plants.

In rural areas tire dust isn't as much of a problem because cars there keep their speed - it's acceleration and deceleration that produce tire dust.
They can pull the code out of a magical oracle somewhere in the misty mountains for all I care, as long as they can telle what the code does and why it was placed there. If they can't, it's rejected. Use whatever tool you like, but the buck stops with you.
In classical mechanics it’s quite common to say something is “at rest” and then instantaneously acted upon by a force, so just because something is at rest doesn’t mean it will never move. It usually just means dr/dt = 0 in a particular coordinate system.

In fact[1] “at rest” doesn’t even mean the thing isn’t moving, accelerating or even that the rate of acceleration isn’t increasing. It just means than an inertial frame exists from which you can conveniently assume that these things aren’t happening, and Newton’s first law tells us that indeed such a frame always exists.

I’m not sure I buy the example of the Norton’s Dome though. I get the technical argument from continuity but it seems weak to me. Lots of differential equations (eg the wave equation) have a trivial solution where u(x,t)=0 for all x and t - that doesn’t actually translate to us not knowing whether or not something will move in the real world. As you have said it will fundamentally always move or always not move given a particular set of initial conditions - we may just be lacking enough information to say which of those cases may hold, but that doesn’t make it non-determanistic - just it appears so to us.

[1] I got this from Kleppner and Kolenkow, which is an amazing book if you’re interested in Classical Mechanics
The "0-60 mph in 4.2 s" is doing a lot of the heavy lifting in this comparison.
This has nothing to do with Rust.
I won't watch that video just right now but I assume the paper is this one:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623

And I'll include this colourful quote:

"This is orders of magnitude larger than the largest
nuclear explosion ever detonated, so this is not to be taken lightly."

I quickly read through and may have missed it but I do not see any mention of the timescale over which this would work just that it could sequester ~30 years worth of CO2 output.
there’s some provision for companies with the same name that are in different fields (eg Delta airlines and Delta that makes the faucet in your bathroom)

However I wonder if video generation and animation would be considered too similar
Sabine Hossenfelder: I was asked to keep this confidential
I only do it to photograph Comic Sans and Papyrus to send as jokes in a family group chat.
How many kilograms of brake dust does the average IC car produce in a year, versus gasoline burned?

March of Dimes Syndrome here.

We're entering the end of the gasoline car era. Anti-car activists need something else in order to continue kvetching, so it's down to tire and brake dusts, battery recycling and whatnot.

When that is solved, it will be about the harms of exterior paint, and inhaling the "new car smell".

Transportation that is not powered by one's own muscles can never be virtuous.
> I just find that the idea that we can just get rid of cars/that everybody who uses them just doesn't know any better overlooks a substantial amount of the population and their needs, and you need to address the needs first if you actually want to move away from the car.

I think the opposite tactic is better. Make it easier for young, fit, able-bodied people to get around without cars first and allow the increasing numbers of cyclists etc. to bolster improving the infrastructure. When you make it easier for the fit people to cycle, it also becomes easier for older/disabled people to cycle. The more people we got onto bikes, the less people we have driving and increasing congestion.

Ultimately, the U.S. has gone all-in on personal cars and designed cities around them. This pretty much excludes other forms of transport and increases the distances between homes/shops/healthcare etc.
Just don't watch ads. If you cannot avoid watching ads, vote for legislation that will allow you to avoid watching ads.
GWR's website's about us:

>We are the global authority on all things record-breaking

GWR website when you search "first person to":

>1 to 20 of 1691 results found

Now how do they propose I break those?
Infra should not require much in the way of redoing if it's done correctly. Foundational software's configuration like RDBMS schema, maybe, but I wouldn't classify that as infra per se.

Seriously, I'm struggling to figure out how "we have servers that run containers / applications" would need to be redone just because the application changed.
This assumes that road wear and tyre wear are caused by the same mechanism, but tyre wear is presumably caused predominantly by friction, whereas road wear is at least in part (and perhaps predominantly) caused by compression, creating pot holes by causing the earth underneath to move.
I've purchased hundreds of books through the Kindle store specifically because of that functionality, and I've just moved my business over to Kobo. I doubt that I'm the only person to shrug and bail on Amazon based on this move.

I don't know if that matters to them, or if it even registers tbh, but I think I'm like most people in that regard: I'm not going to struggle to send feedback to a megacorp, I'm just gone.
Bottom line: Unix is focused on programmability --- not to be confused with usability.
Hydrogen-Truck Maker Nikola Nears Bankruptcy Filing
> What was it that made that other post flop?

My long-standing question is why the holy hell is there no dupe checker? It's not that I care about some rando having their submission get 1600 points 3 hours after an identical one. It's often the problem of a medium-level discussion happening on a submission, then the later submission really catches fire and the first audience has no idea unless the second happens to make the front page. The second audience rehashes the talking points already covered by the first audience, and only dang can do an update to merge them together if someone cares enough to email them. So much manual curation for a site about using technology to solve problems
I suggest you read the HN guidelines, you are quite abrasive and aggressive in your posts.

Regarding your post about entropy. The reason it does not apply is because entropy is a concept from statistical mechanics which is about the statistics of ensembles of many (even non-classical) particles. It's a concept invented after Newton dynamics, but does not apply to describing the equations of motion of a single particle (try to define the entropy of the single particle system). Time reversal is a core tenent of Newton dynamics.
'closed loop' concept in here is important

the point that a unit of code is a thing that is maintained, rather than a thing that is generated once, is where codegen has always lost me

(both AI codegen and ruby-on-rails boilerplate generators)

iterative improvement, including factoring useful things out to standard libraries, is where it's at
this is unfalsifiable and not original. If any retroactive changes occur, they are siloed within their own dimensional split and do not change the sequence of events leading to the current present. that kind of feedback loop is speculative at best.
The heartburn I have is how this stifles innovation for some. The cost of experimentation is high if every person wanting to try a new idea goes down this road.

My personal AWS account is stuffed with globally distributed multi-region, multi-az, fault tolerant, hugely scalable things that rarely get used. By “rarely” I mean requests per hour or minute, not second.

The sum total CPU utilization would be negligible. And if I ran instances across the 30+ AZs I’d be broke.

The service based approach (aka event driven) has some real magic at the low end of usage where experimentation and innovation happens.
I love the first line: "Recent laws from the Executive branch". LOL. The Executive Branch cannot make laws per the constitution. These are lawbreakers.
The environmental movement was in large part, wealthy people trying to block development in their own neighborhoods.

Much of that environmental movement created the sprawl we live with today.
We look it up at compile time. If it has a function binding defined at compile time, we go with that hypothesis. If it is a macro, we expand it. If it is a fexpr, we go with that hypothesis (and then do what? check if the application provides compilation semantics for the fexpr or abort.)

If it's unbound, we assume that it will be function and compile accordingly. We make a note that we did this.

If, by the end of the compilation unit, a definition of f has not been seen, we issue a warning. If a conflicting definition is seen, like a macro or fexpr, we also issue a warning.

(We provide a macro with-compilation-unit that the programmer or their build system can use to clump together multiple files into one compilation unit for the purpose of generating these kinds of diagnostics related to definitions.)

We carefully document all of this in our reference manual, in a section about how compilation semantics can differ from interpretation semantics.

This isn't rocket science. Been there, done that.
The Legacy of the Apple HyperCard with Bill Atkinson (2017) [video]
If this kind of thing interests you, consider libro.fm for drm-free audiobooks
Oh I don’t disagree, I just like to ponder it sometimes, I think it’s better that we have GUIs now.

I guess I think of it in kind of the same way people think about steampunk; in that case it’s about thinking in terms of everything being steam-powered and clockwork instead of electrical and transistor’d like it is today. It’s not like most people who like steampunk would actually prefer to live in that universe, but more like it’s just a fun think to think about.
Apple seems to be selling them. There are a lot of x86 machine integrators that sell their equipment with Linux as well, which is a decent Unix.

And macOS is a direct descendant of NeXT, which borrowed a lot from OSF/1's architecture (including the Mach microkernel and BSD subsystem).
Can we replace management with AI?
At run time, you can inspect the current binding of f to see whether it is a macro, function or whatever. In an interpreter with fexprs, it would be late like this. At the time (f ...) is being called, if it was redefined to a fexpr, we go with that. If it is still a function, we call that.
They shared a list of plugins that might be useful to other people, so the comment has value. I recently found out about the "press to 2X speed" and I love it. Does that mean I should go touch grass because I use it in a non-stock way? Or are you the ultimate decider on the maximum limit of plugins or hacks?
Paragraf's Large-Scale Graphene Sensor Foundry
Nintendo is a shitty company. They made some good games 30 years ago and that's it. All the shitty stuff they are pulling today makes me wish they fail more and more. Even back in the day they would do shitty things to third party developers, we just didn't knew about it. Sorry if this hurts your nostalgia but it is the truth.

I'll try to mention the previous shitty thing they did that was covered by the news every time a new topic is posted.

Previous one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42913914
Agree with your first point, but Ev’s are starting to have a impact on local air quality… just because you don’t have one Dosent mean you don’t benefit
On my mac:

brew install ollama

might be a good start ;)
Because for many people reducing consumption reeks of poverty.

They've grown up in a world where everything just yells more! more! at them. It's the dominant paradigm of our times - growth above everything. Conspicuous consumption as a measure of wealth.

It's become so absurd that even the mere suggestion of improving efficiency - at the consumer level - is met with the outcry of "forcing people into poverty". We are rich, so we can afford to be wasteful. Not be wasteful means poverty.

It's insanity.
I don't really follow, what you outline seems to be a different argument the person I replied to outlined.
Agree, the Volt seemed like a good idea. I don’t know the inside story of GM discontinuing that car. I imagined it was corporate dysfunction.
You sound like someone who hasn’t been to dozens of city council meetings where the vast majority of liberal urban dwellers would rather remove all transportation alternatives if it would make it easier for them to park their second car in front of their house.
Speed limits are set for the conditions, e.g. they're lower in an area with high pedestrian traffic than on the highway. But that's just dodging the issue; what do you do about the highway? Traveling at higher speeds on the appropriate roads is good and people want to continue to do that. You want plumbers and firefighters to be able to travel quickly from one side of the city to the other. So then you've got a highway, but if you put two-wheeled vehicles on it then people die, and if you disallow two-wheeled vehicles on it then people buy cars instead.

Ironically, the somewhat obvious solution to this would be smaller/lighter cars (e.g. one- or two-seaters), but they can't pass the safety standards required for cars even though they would still be dramatically safer than two-wheeled vehicles.
I haven't looked at how Threadsky does it, and I don't want to weigh in on the merits of different approaches.

But blocking in ATProto happens at the application (AppView) layer. A different application can absolutely make different choices from the Bluesky app about how blocking works and is displayed.
The Verge story was entirely accurate - GP misread it. And The Verge isn’t AI slop.
Tired of the green scams. Drill Drill Drill!
"ollama pull" is pretty close
I'm surprised there isn't more info available to compare vehicles/tyre wear. There's plenty of real-world driving going on, so you'd think someone would have measured tyre replacement frequencies.
Perhaps there is less incentive then to drive dangerously.
All DRM is pointless.I rented a digital textbook years ago. On a PC I made an automation script that screenshots each page and then turns the page. Compress each image and throw them into a PDF. Then you could run OCR on each page. Then I requested a full refund. BOOM! Free book.
Can you answer my questions? You're being evasive.

Ukraine would have been rejected slightly more politely by Harris. You're elevating a rhetorical difference to obscure that AIPAC primarying two democrats over their stance on israel gave republicans the house.

It sure would be nice to not have just a rhetorical difference over our most shame-ridden ally. But yea, Putin is dog walking trump into checks notes pushing for cutting military and nuclear stockpiles. Disgusting.

I hate Trump, but it's this conspiratorial crap about Putin while refusing to acknowledge AIPAC that makes me know moderates/centrists/maddow-watchers will always cave to ignorance and fear.
From the screenshots this is the kind of stuff that could have been a Web game.
The BMW is a lot nicer than the Model 3.
Of all the places in the US, Texas has the most open market, where new generation succeeds or fails based on profitability.

In that environment, also awash in super cheap natural gas, capitalists are choosing to install battery storage in large amounts.

A lot of people's worldviews need to open up to the new technology landscape for energy. It's a bright future, with cheap, clean renewable power, if we are willing to let the market choose it.