Actually I had the same thought, but this is obviously an article for people who don't know the difference between lossless and lossy compression. Ok, you might argue that it's not a good fit for HN, but going by the many times it seems to have been posted here, some people disagree.
I (in Germany) get "Lake Ontario (Lake America)" too, as well as "Golf von Mexiko (Golf von Amerika)". Maybe so the AfD leaders don't tell on Google to their pal Trump?
Meanwhile, this monstrosity and its two sister ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Seas#/media/File... which are only slightly longer than the United States, but around five times as heavy, are according to Wikipedia the largest passenger ships in the world.
Other countries are better positioned already because they don't have an administration funded by the fossil fuel lobby - but even that doesn't explain some of the decisions, like preferring to reimburse $1 billion in already paid leases rather than letting a company build wind farms on the leased area (https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergi...).
The German Wikipedia article on Salzburg (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg#Namensgebung) has an extensive section on the name. It mentions that salt mining in Hallein only started when Salzburg already had its name, so the name is either connected to Reichenhall or derived from the river Salzach on which it's located. Despite the area being undeniably salty, Salzburg itself didn't have a salt mine or play an important role in the salt trade.
> This reminds me of the report that AI researchers have taken up smoking as a way to signal their belief that AI will cure cancer before smoking kills them.
While reading the first half of this sentence, I fully expected the second half to be "...to signal their belief that AI will destroy the world before they can get lung cancer"
Well, partly companies behave that way out of anticipatory obedience: if they were to really focus on the long term at the detriment of short-term profits, you'd bet that at least some (maybe influential) shareholders would protest. And partly of course the CEO's compensation depends on the shareholders being happy, not on the long-term viability of the company, so there's that...
Not to contradict anything you wrote, but if you look at the language stats for https://github.com/opencontainers/runc, it has 68.5% Go, 27.1% Shell and 3.5% C, so it's fair to say that it was "written in Go", even though the most important part was C - same as e.g. Doom was written in C, even though it used assembly for optimizing the performance-sensitive parts.
Not sure about your great-grandfather, but mine didn't own a car, didn't travel on vacation by airplane, and, while he may have used a stove to heat his house, he probably only used it sparingly, because coal was expensive. So I doubt his life was more energy-intensive than mine.
Yeah, the average Swede emitted 3.43 tons of CO2 in 2023, which is less than a quarter of what an average US citizen emitted. Does that mean that a US citizen is four times more "alive" than a Swede?
Well, I mean, even the name itself is low effort: it's obviously a pun on "Ruby on Rails", but apparently no one stopped to think that being "off the rails" is generally not something positive...
> The emissions gap is now a leadership gap. And the world is running out of time and excuses to close it.
The leadership of some countries, including the former "leader of the free world", fixed that by declaring global warming to be a hoax, so they don't need any excuses anymore and can just continue catering to their fossil fuel donors.
I'd say anything but the continental shelf (red on this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_shelf#/media/File:...) counts as deep sea. That seems to also be the definition used by Deepwater Horizon, which was right at the edge of the continental shelf.
OTOH, arms are arms, and when the Ukraine war will (hopefully, someday) be over, the startups that are springing up now, some of which will become established companies by then, will start looking for new markets for their (defensive and offensive) arms developed and tested in Ukraine.
I agree that it looks impressive (you just have to catch a time where the train is mostly empty to be able to see end to end), but 15 cars is a bit exaggerated. The U-Bahn trains have 6 cars, the current S-Bahn EMUs have 4 cars (up to three of them can be coupled, but you can't pass from one unit to the next). But the new S-Bahn trains scheduled to be delivered from the end of 2028 will be 200 meters long and have 13 cars (Siemens is apparently not superstitious) where you can indeed walk (and look) from one end to the other: https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/germanys-mo...
I guess "deaths per billion passenger-miles" is not a good metric if you want to compare the US and India, because travelling by rail is simply not that popular in the US (I assume the statistic does not include metro systems?). But if you get run over by a train, it doesn't really matter if it was a freight train or a passenger train (<5% of train casualties are actual train passengers).
Meanwhile, another city with iconic horse-drawn carriages, Vienna (where the carriages, unlike in New York, actually use city streets), is debating whether the horses should get a day off if temperatures rise above 30° C (currently it's 35°), and only a few officials are meekly suggesting that a complete ban might be considered at some point in the future.
I guess between the original Node and the many alternatives that aren't Node (that I, a former PHP guy using Go for side projects, wish would gain more traction) there isn't enough of a niche for a "mostly like Node, but with fewer warts" project?
There's no reason to talk about PHP in the past tense, it's still around and actively being maintained. Of course, it has fallen out of favor and been replaced mostly with Node et al (which is IMHO a change for the worse, but opinions may differ).
PHP's "batteries included" approach is probably a product of it being launched before package managers became ubiquitous (the PHP package manager Composer was only released in 2012), Go's is a conscious decision.
I'm not an Amazon Prime customer (shocking, I know), and I noticed that the shown delivery times are overly pessimistic, probably in order to make you opt for a Prime membership to get faster delivery. And then the package arrives at least one day earlier than the predicted delivery date.
The few cases where it was clear to me why I was seeing a certain ad was after I had ordered that product online. Which is kind of useless for the advertiser, but at least it's slightly reassuring that the tracking doesn't go that far...