skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I think we need to find a biologic solution. Maybe genetically modified trees / plants that spread quickly and capture carbon efficiently, terraform sahara, that kind of thing.
> Smarter philosophers could say things that would permit more people to gain greater understanding, wouldn't you say.

This contains the assumption that the purpose of philosophers is to convey philosophy to the masses. I'm not sure why it should be. An electrical engineer's job isn't to convey electronics to lay people. A mathematicians' job isn't to convey his work to laypeople. There are people of those disciplines who take up that as their purpose, and this is an important, crucial role, but to pretend that the goal of every great engineer, scientist or philosopher is to do it is absurd.
Achieve two goals at the same time is always harder or equal to achieve one of them.

If philosophy is easy to understand then good. But make every concept comprehensible to 6-year-old kids would limit the exploration of concepts.

As an example I can think of - in programming world, a bunch of programmers always trying to explain an abstract idea of 'monad' to other programmers but almost always fail. But it's a really useful universal abstraction in programming.
If your're reading non-fiction, then you're probably learning something.

If your're reading fiction, then it is most likely just entertainment. So, its equivalent to watching a fiction movie or tv show, or whatnot.

I find it odd thats its encouraged and considered good to just read, regardless of content. What you're reading is critical.

You can read 'Harry Potter' and divert and entertain yourself, or read 'A Brief History of Time', and do the same, but also learn a bit.
ON Semiconductor has 700nm down to 180nm for hire in the US.

https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=18397

https://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=16678

ST has been boasting about their new STM32G series as being their first 90nm product, though I doubt it'll start a nm race in the microcontroller world...

https://blog.st.com/stm32g0-mainstream-90-nm-mcu/
Release co2, to the air? Wouldn’t we expect them to sequester co2 and release oxygen? Or is my mental model of plants maybe to simplistic?
We looked into both when writing an open-source admin interface for NestJS. We went for bootstrap because:

- Nobody likes bootstrap, but everybody knows bootstrap (good for an open-source lib)
- Better browser compatibility
- Better accessibility
- Plenty of UI widgets built on top of bootstrap (we don't use them, but people using the lib could)
- About as big as each other
I validate at the point of use/when it matters.

For example if I'm going to use a value in a query, because I'm using parameterized queries the type conversion to string happens implicitly so type doesn't actually matter. If I get 2 or '2' it all ends up as '2' and the database infers type by the column type.

If I need something to be a integer and I don't trust the upstream system then you have to:

int(*number*)

At the end of the day if my JSON is going back to JavaScript I can't trust types either so I have to take the same precautions.
While some milder pressures might exist for full fee paying students, they are not remotely comparable to the political and academic pressure exerted by the CCP through the export of international students. The faculty is explicitly protective of the interests of China[1]

You will not find headlines like [2] about any other full fee paying demographic. As much as I hate to say it, Australia more or less belongs to China [3]

[1] https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/university-...

[2] https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/29/u-s-schools-e...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/d4slfj/australia...
Maybe because they’re one and the same?
He can still fork it from other sources.
What's ridiculous is taking a security model designed for multiuser university mainframes in the 1970s, riddling it with 40 years of hacks to get around places where it's inconvenient, and insisting that it is the One True Way to run a personal laptop. I'm glad that some people are willing to fight dogma and be experimental.
Their homepage doesn't mention the product anywhere. https://www.hypergiant.com/

I can't tell what it is they generally do either.

Edit: Found the product page: https://www.hypergiant.com/green/
So are you suggesting that we can’t do better than assembly machine code?
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But the carbon isn't released into the atmosphere when trees rot. Dead trees turn into soil. Most of a dead tree's carbon will be bound to the ground as soil.
Yes!

Which bring us to the topic of tradeoffs and the synthesis of balance, by way of weighing competing advantages and costs fairly.

On the one hand, code you must write and understand. On the other, code someone else wrote, that you can just use. There is no clear winner here. It's always a tradeoff.
Have you tried Python's SQLAlchemy, the ORM parent posts are praising? The `sqlalchemy.sql` module is awesome and pretty much maps 1:1 to raw SQL.

Composing SQL expressions using this library instead of using string interpolation/concatenation has several advantages:

* DRY and composition
* safety
* portability (if you have switch the underlying DBMS)

Often the result is as good or better than my raw SQL. The fact that Python has an amazing REPL makes the process pretty much like testing queries in the database prompt but with less cognitive switch between languages.

In the end it is a matter of taste, but I have to agree with parent posts, SQLAlchemy raises the bar for other ORMs.
Is It a Good Idea to Use Prometheus for Storing ASCII Paintings?
Remember 2014, Kyiv, Maidan. We actively used a push-to-talk mobile app Zello. Cheap used mobile phone, burner sim-card without id, and you're on the way. Also many people used whatsapp, Facebook was very liberal to UA protesters.

"Winter on fire", Netflix, highly recommend.

Of course times changing, and heard now Zello is affiliated with Russian government.
MIT, with little more info: https://www.technologyreview.com/f/614416/google-researchers...
The act of reading is a skill that needs maintenance. It doesn't matter much whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Harry Potter is a bit of an unfair example as it's intended as a children's book, they still need to build up the skill.

But more importantly, good fiction (and other art) _teaches about the human condition_. I have learned a lot from Vonnegut and Pratchett even though everything I read by them was fiction.
I also find it much faster than Reddit's own image/video hosting.
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Explaining to the masses is one thing. I'm saying the smarter philosophers are able to understand concepts well enough to explain clearly to other smart people. Like, say Richard Feynman in physics. He is smarter, I'd say, for being able to develop concepts and communicate them.

I agree it is a different job to do promotion. But it's an issue if Wittgenstein couldn't communicate comprehensibly to the greatest philosophers of his time -- or experts of today.
I work for another OTA, opinions are my own.

Rate parity isn't price fixing, and it's been going on for decades (pre-dates the Internet). The DOJ and EU regulators know about it.

The hotel can price rooms however they want, they then enter into a voluntary contract with an OTA to give them a percent.

If hotels could just consistently give consumers OTA prices minus that percentage directly customers would get savvy to that, and the legitimate service an OTA provides wouldn't be paid for.

It would just lead to shadier forms of advertising for the same service, like the OTA obscuring the name, location etc. of the hotel.

Maybe that'll happen, and maybe we'll be better off as a society. It'll impact a lot more than just OTA's, e.g. Google Adwords displaying a product for $100 when part of that margin is being given to Google.

> Second, they take a massive percentage from hotels as commission. Use Expedia to find availability, but then go direct to the hotel[...]

30% is very high, but if the hotel is voluntarily paying a 30% rate on advertisement that's how much it's worth to them.

Whether that's "fair" or not it's generally a bad deal for the consumer to book directly at the same rate, if something goes sideways they don't have the OTA's bargaining power to help them out.

> They will not put inventory on Expedia during peak seasons.

Good for them, but it seems 30% is worth it in the off-season if they go out of their way to sign-up to pay that.

> In short fuck Expedia and probably AirBnB too.

A hotel that's willing to pay Expedia 30% on X for ads isn't going to be better off with no X at all, which unless they're idiots is the alternative.

You're basically saying "fuck advertisement". Sellers stand to gain from advertising their services to buyers, that's why advertising exists.
> It also gives you blocks/closure support in C (needs Clang).

You get block statements just with Clang don't you? No need for libdispatch?

And you can kinda get blocks with GCC as well using a similar construct. (For the love of all that is holy, don't actually use this macro).

#define lambda(ret_type, _body) ({ ret_type _ _body _; })

I don't quite remember, but from when I was working things out, this worked _most_ of the time for both GCC and clang.
I have heard about it, but not tried it. It is sad how many heroics iSH has to go through, if Apple could just provide a sandboxed Termux.
It's reversed at night (absence of light).
On of the tools that are built to combine the excellent PlatUML and the C4 model and achieve diagrams as code is https://github.com/RicardoNiepel/C4-PlantUML

Definitely adding this to my toolbox <insert happy nerd laugh>
Because Apple doesn't allow any other browser engines on iOS. iOS users are shackled to Webkit, and are unable to make a choice.
I really appreciate how this article just presents information without trying to blame anyone or push a political agenda.
Type annotations were recently introduced as a standard library feature as well though they aren't enforced and require a third party tool like you are describing. I've found that 90% of the time you don't actually care what type something actually is and instead you care what it needs to be.
They release oxygen during photosynthesis, which requires sunlight. Apart from it, there is respiration process that is going all the time that uses O2 and produces CO2 and energy for functioning. Under the sunlight, the production of O2 is significantly higher then the consumption.

The amount of produced CO2 is AFAIR fairy small to introduce any problems for people sleeping in a room.
gotta love that man
Ok, great, I’ve only experienced bad ORM’s then, but if every ORM I’ve ever experienced, across multiple teams and companies, are all bad, then what are the chances I’ll ever get to work with a good one? And if I always have to use bad ones, what’s the point in using them at all, when I get by just fine without them?
> You always get a unique email address that I can cancel or sort, no matter who you are. Fastmail thankfully makes this very easy

Is that possible with Fastmail without having your own domain? I've been looking for a mail provider where you can create unlimited mail addresses to prevent me from being tracked across services for some time now. The problem with using your own domain (slack@yourdomain.tld medium@yourdomain.tld etc) is that only laziness of not implementing automatic domain matching is keeping my identities separate.

If anybody knows of a mail provider who provides that (even with random mailbox names like vtegbssfvi@mailprovider.tld) I would be grateful if you could let me know.
Kindness is the trait students want most in a mate
One of these machines could sequester about 10 tons of Co2 per annum. (1) According to the linked article we have roughly 25 billion tons of Co2 emissions yearly. If we take 5k cities in the world (2), and each had just one machine you could cut emissions down to about 500k tons per year, that is a 1e6 factor magnitude difference. If each city had a single "farm" of 20 of these (they are 3x3x7 after all for roughly 400 m^3 of space) you'd be down to 25k tons of Co2 per year.

1. https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/treesofstrength/treefact.h...
2. https://www.quora.com/How-many-towns-and-cities-are-there-in...
I don't fully trust Bloomberg, but there's funny thing: nobody hit them hard in court. So, logically, it means a part of their materials are true and evidences exists.
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It looks like you're getting downvoted and I'm not sure why - most encoding that I do is CPU-only, GPU encoding only works for a very limited set of codecs at a limited range of presets. If you need to encode anything other than those presets CPU it is.
> If I invest $100 in protecting a public good (like the climate), I only get one seven-billionth of the benefit; the rest goes to all of the other people on the planet. So I'll only invest if everyone else chips in, too.

I used to think like this, but I'm fed up of taking "economic maxims" that I read on the Internet as being actually true.

I don't believe this to be the case. I think that taking action, being public about taking action, and ultimately standing behind what you think is right, taxes and others be damned, is the way to go.

Yes, there will be free riders. That's inevitable in anything you do. People "free ride" on software I write all the time. I can shoulder it.
When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence (2016)
Processor aren't getting that faster - per core - anymore because of miniaturization limits. I think comparing old MacBooks with new ones, most performance gains just came from additional cores/hyperthreads. (Before around 2014 it was really common to have just one thread per core.) Also there is little reason to put in cheap processors into iPads, people use it for games, so there must be a lot of performance.

> It makes zero sense to compare like this. Geekbench is closed source.

But probably there are remarkable differences in Integer vs. Floating point performance or Hardware acceleration. I assume iPad/iPhone have good HW acceleration for anything video/crypto/3D/...
Can you clarify what do you mean by "replace"? Are you talking about full replacement for all uses of plastic/fossil fuels (so that we don't have to use them ever again), or are you saying there is no way to replace a significant part of the used plastic/fossil fuel even by selecting specific alternatives for specific uses (like packaging)?
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Like Phoenix Live View in Elixir, Datomic in Clojure, etc.
Collection of Software Bugs
> Most research (plus the 2016 results) confirms that money has little effect on victory

Maybe money in the form of "contributions", okay. But having money is still the largest predictor for policy direction.

"The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence"[0]

[0] https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
I am a little bit curious...if ASML makes the machines, why is TSMC taking credit for 3nm development? Or are the machines not fully developed out of the box and need more work to achieve different nodes?
What do you mean closer than wind and solar? Solar + batteries is cheaper than coal in some areas. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/giant-batteries-and-...

This means Solar is down to 3.3c/kWh at night. That’s vastly cheaper than any Nuclear power plant.
A common misconception is that insulation is about heating only. It’s not, it’s about keeping the indoor climate as steady as possible, which means cool in the summer. Even a moderate summer will be balming hot in a tent.
I whole-heartedly agree. The thing about ORM is exactly that it is so easy to get a false sense of security of "everything working" while you're clearly doing sub-optimal things all the time. It's just a fact in order to do proper, extensive SQL operations you have to know SQL and to learn it you should write a lot of SQL. ORM gets you up and up running quickly, but in the end I think it's better learning it the hard way first and _then_ being smart enough, hopefully, to know when it's better to use ORM than doing everything by hand.

I understand both points of view, with ORM saving my brain from writing massive JOINs on multiple tables yet at times forcing me to dissect a ORM query because it's doing something stupid. But if I didn't use ORM I would have probably not even made those stupidly complicated tables that I have to debug in the first place. Maybe even worse, is that instead of learning SQL I had spent all my time learning the ORM's API.

It's a balancing act, with good points on each side. I like writing my own SQL, I think it makes me think harder what I'm doing. Sure then I'll be probably writing my own helpers that might resemble a half-assed ORM but as long as it is kept simple, outside of the hands of those who wish to over-abstract everything with their fancy design patterns, it should be highly efficient and easy to understand. And the best of all, my understanding of SQL will be a lot more useful than knowing some language-specific ORM.
That is the value with something close to capacity, but most importantly assuming worse case for weight. And weight has a bigger effect on the consumption on a plane than on a car. So if your plane has less passengers, the MPG of the plane increases, though the MPG/passenger decreases.
And it is also mainly for cruise - the longer the travel, the better the efficiency. Taking off and climbing is not that efficient so short haul trip are quite bad.

To me the point is that an airplane MPG/passenger is of the same magnitude as the MPG/passenger for an individual car. What is bad is not necessarily the plane itself, but the fact we do very long distance trips. Trains and buses can be more efficient, carbone-wise, but requires a traffic big enough to offset the carbone cost of the infrastructure needed.
High-availability and horizontal scalability for InfluxDB
Used to do this by replacing slow queries with a dozen joins with stored procedures,insert/update/delete triggers, materialized views.

The mindset was correctness and validity of a detailed and interrelated collection of known facts, at rest on disk.

Merging 2 of these, say when an insurance Corp buys a competitor, took detailed and painstaking effort by people with both the domain and systems knowledge.

It's very different now,with Json doc stores, where in 5 years time noone will know what timezone that happened in, or if this person is that person with different name because of lossy utf8->ASCII .
I think developers all over are converging on the idea that we need type safety. Python has typing now, TS is JS with typing (pardon me for the oversimplification), and golang which is taking the world by a storm is a statically typed language.

Also, ease of typing has come a long way today with Type Inference in most languages with C++ leading the way with auto keyword and Java implementing local type inference.

Looks like we're Going back to the Future with static typing.
I tried to use ishares MSCI ACWI as the benchmark, but apparently that only goes back to 2009.

(Not that the paper is trying to do something like that. It is more about the performance problems of individual stocks. It is not claiming that treasuries outperform a stock market index.)
So what does it do with the carbon? Turns it into more algae? If so, what do you do with the algae to prevent it from returning to the atmosphere?
The random stuff is amusing, but sometimes it's a big allegory that reflects on your daytime activities, and you might get deeper insight on how you are actually feeling about things, what you want/need to do, etc.

(And when you find that each time you are about to reach a lavatory, it doesn't work for some crazy reason, wake up and actually go there)
Wow, this really blew my mind. The divergence is striking. Even without words, the article really explains the contemporary social situation in the US. It makes me wonder if remote-work, high COL in tech hubs, higher-ed cost exhaustion, tech burn-out, and the next recession will reconfigure things. Like the article states, the amount of unbalance here can't be sustainable though "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" kind of idea should be kept front and center in this discussion. I am worried a massive wealth transfer coordinated by the government (e.g., single payer healthcare, UBI, basic housing guarantee, free college, etc.) will entrench this divergence. I wish we had let the last recession ('08) actual happen instead of cheap money for a decade allowing us to kick the can down the road. Intervention in the capital markets a la the past decade probably amplified this phenomenon by pulling money from productive, structural capacity increases instead of to loss-leading Unicorns that wouldn't work in an economic system that accurately priced risk (i.e., higher interest rates). A company like Uber, though amazing to me and I use all the time, could only exist with cheap money for a decade. The idea of building a company by losing money for 10 years in order to build your client base is impossible if rates are high. That capital would have looked for more "real" investments that probably would have valued what these areas that lost GDP over the past decade could have provided.
You mean make a comeback.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner-Porsche
> “If you compare the umbrella with the weapon the others are using to attack us, the umbrella is nothing for that. Actually, umbrellas are really easily broken and we only use it to protect ourselves.”

Are umbrellas in China just really light and flimsy? I've had a lot of umbrellas heavy and sturdy enough to do some serious damage if I were so inclined.
Almost everyone is on Java 8 now, and people are warming up to the new release cadence of bi-yearly releases of Java.

Even with Java 8, you get streams, lambdas and powerful Collection classes.

Personally, I've worked on sizable projects involving Java and have been amazed by it's performance and versatality. It's a construct that might go out of fashion for a while but will remain the backbone of most companies out there. My personal take is that Java is evoling at a rapid pace and this will only do good to the language.
in $current_year? there will be "save the desert" groups springing everywhere, fighting for the rights of the horned vipers or smth
I had my cat stolen a few years back in Hammersmith, London.

Made the car a writeoff as it was a cheap one anyway. I got in, turned the key, car sounded like a 2-stroke bike, turns out the exhaust had a wee "hole" in it.

I miss that car. I wouldn't want it back, but it was nice. Mint 2002 Honda Accord. Oh well.
I've been working remotely for just over 6 months. Haven't had much negatives, all summarised in this blog post https://ianduffy.ie/blog/2019/09/11/6-months-of-working-remo...
If this ruling is upheld and people are able to sell their digital games to other people - there won't be any more steam sales. Let's pray this doesn't happen.
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HeisenBug
I agree with how the term is used to discredit opinions that challenge those in power. Good article.
> Like overfishing, for example. There's profit to be made by dragging that last fish out of the ocean, y'know.

Of course not, markets don't work without property rights. But there is money on banning high-sea fishing so you can sell more of your farmed fish (and help the environment as a side-effect), and some companies are pushing for that.
I wish their charts didn't just draw straight lines from 2008 to 2018 data points. The data points in between could be meaningful.
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