skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily reminder that fossils aren't decreasing and renewables are just added on top.

The only recent time fossil decreased was during covid, and even then it barely was a dent. To meet our climate goals we'd need something in the same vein as covid... constantly

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
Absolutely agree! I only added the comment lest yours be read too literally.
> will continue to do so for the foreseeable future

Not really, there is going to be about a 40-year trough in the Chinese economy due to demographics. At some point soon, manufacturing in China won't make sense anymore, (and world wide demand will also decrease due to demographics) so presumably China will be able to decommission a lot of their power generation instead of adding to it. Will they axe their coal? Time will tell, but adding capacity will end, and not too far in the future, either.
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Just don't be surprised when you're passed over because someone else lied harder, and be aware that, like them, you're harming honest applicants by lying. After all, it's the same game.

That said, it's not surprising that humans are still okay with harming others to personally get ahead. A few thousand years doesn't cover a lot of evolution away from "fark you, I got mine".
Congratulations! You deserve it.

I shared it with all of my friends and family when you first posted it, and we’re all hooked.
Back then I went with Debian, but I agree - the early scale-out crowd went mostly with Red Hat. Back then there was a lot of companies still doing scale-up with more exotic hardware with OSs like AIX and Solaris.
> intentionally blowing up international trade agreements now allows the USA more time to rebuild strategic supply chains to counter further violations of the international order.

Sources?

>If the USA doesn’t have a secure industrial base and can’t reliably enforce the international order then there is no international trade.

The US reliably enforces international order and global trade now. Source where this is an issue?
It's not a mystery. The US and EU have year on year been decreasing emissions for fifteen ish years now (yes, including during trump I, even if you account for the COVID drop).
> But the proof of our success is all around if you're willing to actually look.

Get a slice of humble pie.

The proof of American failure is also all around if you're willing to actually look. Urbanism, health, environment, MAGA, Vietnam, Irak, Afghanistan. Easy to cherry pick, turns out many of us who have the luxury of being able to work in the US if they wanted to chose not to do so, maybe with good reasons? "Most successful" is very subjective. "Dominant", yeah, you are.
I agree! As a journalist that codes his own site/blog, I've never took the time to learn anything more complex than good and old HTML and CSS to structure a page, and the short incursions I had in complex system (node, SCSS, frameworks), the returns for the kind of sites I developed was so little I couldn't be bothered to climb the learning curve.

HTML + CSS + sprinkles of vanilla JS is the perfect recipe for readable, fast, and high resilient web pages.
My constructive crit:

I'd really like to be able to just answer the puzzle without answering any of the intermediate stages. It is a much more challenging feat to just hold it all in your head and then type out the one long answer than to answer the individual stages. It promotes some real mental modelling skills that way.

The game, played as-is, is almost no challenge at all. It just feels like busywork.
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On YouTube kids app you can do "Approved content only" such that only channels/videos allowed/shared by you will be visible. This will be the kids profile under your own account. Found the reddit thread that explains this process.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/179fqem/how_the_...

I have YouTube kids setup TV for my 3yo with videos from Vooks, Stella and Same, Guess How Much I love you etc. Also using Projectivity Launcher that has parental controls which means he can't just pick remote and launch the app whenever + an alarm clock app to limit watch time. It's an OK setup so far.
My problem with finding enjoyment in this is the same problem I have when using cheat codes in games: the doing part is the fun part, getting to the end or just permutations of the end gets really boring.
The greenery may be perfectly fine with it. A lot of plants prefer shade, though of course that’s so they can still grow while shaded by trees.

You might say “put in a forest”, and I’d agree, but if that’s not going to happen then we might as well have the solar panels.
Which has always been the explicit goal of many solar subsidies across the world over the last 20 years: generate substantial demand for the technology while it's still expensive and risky, phase out subsidies as the price comes down. It worked beautifully
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Visually it looks much more hopeful:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-solar?t...
When do the fission cheerleaders capitulate?
The vendor does not officially publish its dropped support. But from a brief piece of research I did, Jared dropped support for macOS 12 before Apple shipped the last update for it.

And while on a formalistic, nitpicky level it is a "what are you complaining about with your old box" - in actuality I do find the idea to require a CPU upgrade to run a CSS pre-processor (a CSS pre-processor! come on! not an H265 encoder. Not some sophisticated animation system. Not an AI blob. A tokenizer for HTML...) absolutely, completely excessive.

And I know why that decision came - it is because building portable binaries for the Mac is a pain in the butt. Well, guess what - if you made the call of shipping a multi-platform runtime - that backwards compat is part and parcel, Apple's LLVM versions, the linker and the dylibs and whatnot.

So no, I understand that you are "right" formally, but the situation this brought me to - I still find bad, and the choices made by the chain of maintainers - I still find inconsiderate.
So, costs roughly 15k?
Have a lot of small things count towards the result. Users behave quite linearly, extra points if they act differently all of a sudden.
Exactly, this graph sums it up: https://climatanthropocene.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/co...

We talk more about it but in the facts nothing changes, if anything it's accelerating
I read this one:

> There will always be individuals that enjoy coding and do so without any formal teaching. People like that will always be more effective at their job once employed

As "people who enjoy coding and didn't need formal training to get started". It includes both people who have and don't have formal training.

Both statements together are (enthusiasm + formal) > (enthusiasm without formal) > (formal without enthusiasm).
Completely unexpected!
I too would be interested in knowing cost.

There is another comment that says that the contractor for Falling Water didn't follow design and include extra cement and rebar.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43621995

I don't know how I feel about the Wright organization's pushback; on one hand this was built in 2025, well after Wright's death abet to original prints(with only non-visible modifications due to code) so I would not be willing to call it a Wright house based on that.

However; if it is true to design, as much as possible(which happens in current builds too), then it is a Wright house.

On the third hand, I think Wright would not agree... I remember hearing stories of him going into houses he built and rearranging the rooms back to how he had set them up. So perhaps they are doing what he would do?
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There are many problems that can be solved with extra organs, not just the one you mention. And the solution you offer to that one isn't as scalable.

Not sure what eugenics has to do with this, I feel like my post was misunderstood.
Bravado on a personal level is the same kind of dumb. I can understand someone and conclude their behavior and reasoning are faulty, harmful or then call it dumb. This idea that everyone must project increasingly unlikely positive smart motivations onto Trump or conservatives in general despite what they say and do is harmful.

> I feel like if you pretend it’s 1850 and there’s some great powers struggle afoot, trump makes a lot more sense.

I would say, he does not. When there are powers struggles afoot, it is actually better to be capable to be strategic about who/how you antagonize and attack.

> The game theory around international relations hasn’t really changed much since then, there’s just a veneer of ideology strapped on top of it.

I would argue that it did changed a lot in between. International relations are not the same at all.
The public likes Sheldon Cooper.
It is unlikely that the amount of debris would reach Kessler Syndrome-levels of orbital pollution, which is what you are describing.
The article seems unrealistically favourable to Pakistan's government eg:

>Pakistan’s energy transformation didn’t happen in a vacuum—it’s part of a broader pivot toward climate consciousness that has taken root in both policy and politics...

whereas in reality solar's taken off because the government is incompetent at providing electricity so people get their own panels. From wikipedia:

>Following 2022 dearth of imported LNG in Pakistan, the country indicated it would quadruple its coal power plants, which use domestic coal

Doesn't sound very "pivot toward climate consciousness" to me.
Is it really losing them money if investors throw fistfuls of cash at them for it
I'd also also be wary of the risk of being an architecture-astronaut.

A declarative framework for testing may make sense in some cases, but in many cases it will just be a complicated way of scripting something you use once or twice. And when you use it you need to call up the maintainer anyway when you get lost in the yaml.

Which of course feels good for the maintainer, to feel needed.
Putting solar on rooftops has at least one really unfortunate drawback, at least in Anglosphere nations with the fucked up common law system. Rooftop solar vests the owner with a claim to a right to the sun, and a way to stop people from building anything next to their house.
You don't see a difference between a person spending years learning techniques to create art by hand, and spending months or years studying and practicing some famous artists style, and then spending days manually crafting drawing a single piece of artwork in the style and quality of the originals.

The difference between that, and a person just entering a prompt to create some drawing in some style.

The model looked at orders of magnitude more examples of artwork than a single human could look at and study in a lifetime.

To me there is a clear difference here.

I am merely saying that perhaps the rules should change due to the drastic change in time and effort required to do the work.
> "You are slow because you don't use enough AI.

Or because you spend most of your time unravelling the crap code that AI produces. Creating apps with AI is one thing. Maintaining them is another.
reminded me of my own childhood.
No, the pre-processor has to be running continuously in "watch" mode with patterns for all your HTML (and sorta-HTML) files. When it detects a change in one of them, it chews through the changed file and emits a .css file into your web root which is the particular subset of Tailwind you are actually using.
How do you interview Senior UX Designers?
I'm currently a FE dev working for a company that makes a DB application (basically a fancy CMS for a niche industry). I've worked with great UX designers over the years at different companies but I've never been part of the hiring process for a UX designer.

I've been tasked with being part of the interview process for a UX designer. I've spent a bunch of time interviewing devs and being interviewed and I have a pretty good sense (as much as anyone, I suppose) for how to interview FE devs, but I've never been in the loop for hiring UX.

I know what's important to me as a FE dev and I'm senior enough that I have a bit of a sense of what's important to the company. That being said, I'm at the end of the hiring line and I've probably got 60 minutes max with each candidate. That's not a lot of time to secure good signal.

So, this is where I turn to you, dear people of Earth. Given my constraints, how do I best prep and deliver 60 minutes of human connection as an dev who loves design with (hopefully) a designer who's doing the thing?
This is really cool! How did you select the languages to support? I was surprised that you included Finnish and German yet excluded Swedish (the language I would want to use), and I'm wondering what the blockers are for the other Nordic languages.
Its so beautiful.

I wonder what alloy it was made of.

I am surprised it looks in such a good condition after 2,500 years buried in a lump of clay.
Aside from memes I do not see the progress value.
Not all jobs are created equal. I know the quality control for software written for Web is very very different than the software written for cloud.

You're arguing that the standards for medical device firmware should be the same for Pinterest which is honestly just a waste of and effort.

I can see both sides of this specific discussion but treating SW engineering generally as rocket science is lying to yourself ;)
"This is why when you hear people talk about how terrible it is at producing X, our takeaway should be "this person either hasn't tried to use it in good faith, and their opinions can be disregarded"

I'm playing devil's advocate somewhat here but it often seem like that there's a bunch of people on both sides using hella motivated reasoning because they have very strong feelings that developed early on in their exposure to AI.

AI is both terrible and wonderful. It's useless and some things and impressive at others. It will ruin whole sectors of the economy and upturn lives. It will get better and it is getting better so any limitations you currently observe are probably termporary. The net benefit for humanity may turn out to be positive or negative - it's too early to tell.
Maybe. But at least in mammals, visual information processing is a very expensive operation that involves coordinated activity across many cortical areas. Vision being such a central sensory modality for birds, I do wonder if it was a strong driver for the evolution of their brains.

Edit: don't mean to imply a contradiction with the social interaction hypothesis -- needless to say there can be multiple factors that drive evolution in the same direction...
>Even if everything was "stable adjusted to inflation" it would hardly be a win, and definitely not something to cheer for or call "progress", that's 30 years of stagnation with a few bells and whistles

not if you have wage growth that exceeds inflation.
I see that as the core point of the game! Would it be a whole lot of fun to complete the game in one guess?

On the other hand I like when I can ‘skip ahead’ and then try to reverse engineer a trickier inside clue.
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I, for one, welcome the solar age. Truly clean power that can be generated decentralised, on a regional, even local commune level.

It's wild how big companies, certain countries and billionaires are still holding on to nuclear fission (not fusion).

Nuclear reactors:

- take decades to build

- go massively over budget, at least 2x if not more [0]

- are inherently uneconomically: energy companies would never invest/build them on their own, only by lobbying governments for HUGE subsides (in various forms) do they get build

- inherently uninsurable: no private insurance company would insure a plant, again if private companies would need to build/run them on their own, every insurance company would deny them

- deconstructing them takes again billions and decades

- there's still no real-world solution (or even long-term secure storage) for nuclear waste in the world

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Solar / Wind / Storage

Compare the 60 Billions for 1 single nuclear plant (UK) to what you would get from the same investment in solar (plus battery tech getting cheaper and better for storage). We are talking about differences in the magnitudes.

About the only value nuclear fission has is that's a central power source which gives the entities owning it huge power over the consumers.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/uk-nuclear-plant-hinkley-point-co...
> or trying to jail presidential candidates.

not trying, jailing. Soon, we will have the second jailed presidential candidate in less than 10 years. Many Brazilians do believe that this is a sign that the Justice System is working, tho.
Maybe what .devcontainers does? As a thin wrapper to Docker, I find it makes testing configurations easier.
> it's not surprising that humans are still okay with harming others to personally get ahead.

Recruiters are harming me by taking a cut of my salary and offering nothing of value other than screening some calls and adding my resume to a spam listing and robodialer. Do you think I care about harming them
When you read this imagining a retard mumbling those words it gets better.
> as sourced back to a product it calls “cauldrons”

Then, the magician said "Abracadabra!" and poof! the money is gone.

> The company also offered a bug bounty to the hacker of 20% of the stolen funds.

Would that give them immunity from prosecution if they ever catch him. If not, what's the upside for the hacker to return anything back?
I see this is absolutely something I am not going to be using as long as I can help it (it is the same setup as importing CSS and MP4 in Webpack via the import declaration), but a good tidbit to know it exists.
Except they didn’t do any work for the exposure. If a marketing agency had come up and executed the Ghiblify everything model as a PR stunt we would call it the most genius creative campaign of the decade
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What is this? There is a big gnu license but no description of what the project is about.
Who says these people are even looking for work?
The houses he built are always very pretty, but they are just really fancy Brady bunch houses to my eye.
Article is limited on numbers perhaps but does state:

> Phil MacDonald, Ember's managing director, said: "Paired with battery storage, solar is set to be an unstoppable force.

"As the fastest-growing and largest source of new electricity, it is critical in meeting the world's ever-increasing demand for electricity."

> Despite the rise in renewable power, electricity from more polluting fossil fuels crept up by 1.4% last year due to surging demand, meaning emissions from the sector rose too to an all-time high.

> Ember forecasts the growth in clean power will soon outpace the growth in demand, helping to displace fossil fuels from the system.

Is fossil fuel use growing at an increasing rate or decreasing rate?
Is non-carbon emitting energy supplies growing at an increasing rate or decreasing?
True, but I still pay for both Claude and ChatGPT so that I can use the latest models.
>I love using LLMs to generate pictures. I'd call myself rather creative, but absolutely useless in any artistic craft. Now, I can just describe any image I can imagine and get 90% accurate results

May I ask what you use? I'm not yet even a paid subscriber to any of the models, because my company offer a corporate internal subscription chatbot and code integration that works well enough for what I've been doing so far but has no image generation.

I have tried image generation on the free tier but run out of free use before I get anyway pleasing.

What do you pay for?
I sent my resume, but I should inform you that your site is very, very buggy.
I consider unjustly harming others to be bad, whether you're exploding a rocket or not. That's why I added this part:

> Beyond that, you'd be harming others by taking the job from someone who put in the work to actually be qualified, and harming your future coworkers by deceiving them.
Plot big tech stock valuations with markers for successful OS model releases.
The point of fission is that it still yields power even when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. The alternative is to run gas peaker plants, or even dirtier sources like coal. Storage is a non-starter, even the best form of energy storage (pumped hydro) cannot cope with a dip lasting more than a few days or weeks.
The end goal is progress and prosperity. Semiconductors are one of the few areas where there is rapid progress. Depriving your large working age population of the tools they need to improve their lives is counterproductive. The problem statement at hand is that you have a poor country plagued by graft and bureaucracy with the only sliver of hope being technology that can create upward mobility for your billion+ people.
The trouble with emotional arguments is they eventually give way to the overwhelming utility of science-based thinking. A lot of people are against genetic modification on an emotional level but our planet wouldn't even support 7 billion people if it hadn't been developed.
It's not "over" greenery. Land is entirely cleared of vegetation before panels are installed, including the occasional forest. Thousands of larger birds are killed by wind farms. Offshore wind farms are creating deserts for fish. Understandably, many prefer the good old days before the planet was being saved.
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It is increasing. At the moment it is slowed because for the longest time we were fine with just hydro, pumped hydro, gas peaker plants and the natural inertia of the power plants' turbines and generators. Now demand is big enough that even lithium-ion is deployed for grid storage, despite lithium-ion being optimized for the opposite use case (light portable power storage). Lots of options that are more optimized for grid storage are in various stages of development, but it takes time for them to be brought to maturity and for operators to gain experience and confidence with them.
True, all the crap that we have to deal with does make you question why you're doing it - thought of another one, often, you're working on some very small piece of a feature you don't care about, working for months on end.

Still, for me, at some level always enjoy the act of building something that needs to function in the demanding environment of the digital world (especially, high-volume applications). Yeah, it requires you to use your experience and training to solve difficult problems and produce a real result. For me at least, this typically enough to keep me going:)
It might seem hard to believe but there are a bunch of artists who also like AI. People whose artistic practice predates AI. The definition of "artist" is a quagmire which I won't get into but I am not stretching the definition here in any way.
I completely agree with this.

Edit: And congratulations!
That's a cool story you can tell your kids before bed but the reality is that when you include imports the US/EU emissions are stagnating or going up. It's easy not to pollute when you import most of your things from abroad.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/imported-or-exported-co-e...
I'm sorry you feel hurt or harmed by someone. I've felt that, too, and it really sucks. It's not a good feeling.

I avoid recruiters unless they can serve me well, too (increased salary, signing bonus, etc), instead preferring to applying directly to individual companies whose mission is interesting and whose culture matches mine.

That said, I don't think hurt is a valid justification for hurting someone else, like the innocent parties I mentioned (potential future coworkers, other job applicants). That perpetuates a chain of hurt. Break the chain.