skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gasification produces syngas, which is more transportable, operates with existing gas infrastructure, and depending on the equipment, can actually be more efficient than trying to maintain a combustion reaction. Logistically, it also decouples fuel generation from electricity generation -- if you tried to burn the needles directly you have to figure out how to continually feed them to a burner and deal with the ash. By gasifying, you can create a reserve of fuel.

Gasification has other benefits. It can be rigged to produce biochar, which is believed to be a beneficial soil amendment. The char could also be sequestered to effectively remove carbon from the atmosphere.
Please correct me If you believe otherwise. But no indirect deaths please, the nuclear folks don't count these too. No inconveniences, life altering, career ending troubles, those don't appear on the only "few died due to nuclear accidents" statistics too.

To be clear, I am not anti-nuclear however I don't buy the "Chernobyl and Fukushima are note big deal" message that the low death toll numbers convey.
As others have mentioned, geography also plays a huge part. When I used to export vehicles to Afghanistan, I noticed that they didn't like dark colors at all. I was specially told by my broker to stay away from sending black cars or cars with darker shades i.e blue, because demand for them was very low.

The highest demand was for white cars, reason being is that the areas are quite dusty. So if you have a white car, it won't look very dirty with dust on it. In contrast if you have a black car, even the slightest dust will make it appear dirty. Its harder to keep a blacker color clean.

Also, for some reason green toyotas (sienna, tercel) always sold like hot pancakes in Cameroon. To this day I still don't know why.
“Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions”
> 2 - First image in this collection: https://swprs.org/covid-the-big-picture-in-7-charts/

This site seems entirely untethered to reality? E.g. "2) Covid mortality vs. flu mortality" section appears to put IFR for covid of those at age 80 at 0.16%? Yet, we have entire countries that aren't far off from that number for population fatality rates, let alone infection fatality rate.

Wait.. I was just assuming this had to be an IFR comparison, because for something like this, anything else would be disingenuous. I should assume less. It looks like it is comparing annual mortality of flu with the current mortality of Covid-19.

1. We're still far from a year into notable spread of Covid-19.
2. Normal flu seasons don't have lockdowns, masks, bans on large events, etc.
3. In digging a bit more, this uses the 2017 flu season as a baseline, which was one of the worst.

This site is actually a great example of Covid-19 misinformation. It has a veneer of authority - Swiss Policy Research as a name sounds like it might be credible. And, it presents what, on first glance, appears to be claims grounded in science (and hey, nice graphs and all!).

But, one starts digging into the claims, and it starts to become clear the flaws.

jasonv: there are a lot of pseudoscientific resources out there with respect to Covid-19. This looks to be one of them. It's more essential than ever to vet what you're linking to these days.
There's the Tex Yoda and other Tex keyboards -- I suppose if nothing else there's buying one of those keyboards and repurposing the TrackPoint and its PCB if necessary?
US Military is killing terrorist leaders with secret missile packed with swords
Have you considered adding a ring light?
but wouldn't be 'measurementOfLeftBottomSideOfBox' a smell, of data being too flat ?

box.measures.sides['left-bootom']

vs

measurementOfLeftBottomSideOfBox

I know your point is elegant vs readable which I agree I just want to note another dimension that could be flat vs well structured data.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541163 suggests an alternative may be to arrange for your current neighbours to discover a deal on a (nicer/bigger/better located) apartment ... and then, when they move out, place recording devices there.
Reddit is the 18th most popular site on the internet (globally). So, it's not that it's magnet for the terrible, it's a magnet for everyone (and there are some terrible people among everyone).
Nice read! Morgan always has unique insights. I enjoyed his book.
Yeah I didn't explain that very well. It's actually a variation on the problem here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24738274

except with a shell function rather than a subshell.

Demo:

https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/blob/master/errexit
/demo.sh#L21

Run ./demo.sh subshell-compare and func-compare.

I have seen multiple people point it out as confusing. The problem is that in the first case, there are two exit codes:

1. false (suppressed on LHS of &&)

2. true

And in the second case, there are 3:

1. false (suppressed on LHS of &&)

2. true

3. the exit code of the function/subshell, which is the exit code of the last statement, which is nonzero. This then CAUSES THE PROGRAM TO FAIL, whereas it didn't before.

(edit: removed incorrect code)

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So it's kind of like a "ghost" exit code created by the subshell/function! Which has an unexpected interaction with errexit.

Does that make sense?

I am not sure exactly how to fix it, but it will probably involve limiting && to stuff like this:

if test -d /tmp && test -d /tmp/foo; then echo yes; fi

And disallow it when standing alone, because it doesn't make much sense there, if errexit is on.

Feel free to chime in bug with any possible solutions or more problems.

----

(And yes Oil fixes the brace problem with shopt -s parse_brace, which is on by default in Oil! Try it out and let me know if you like it :) )
Arrow is designed for in-memory processing. It can be saved on disk so you can open it directly (memory map) but it's not a great storage format. Parquet or ORC is a better choice, but they don't have as much tooling for import/export. CSV is just the simplest way to transfer data.

You might be interested in DuckDB though which trying to create a new standard for passing datasets: https://duckdb.org/
Bloomberg writes this piece probably once a quarter now.
Guys. Guys. Don't worry. Libra will make the world a better place too.
TLDR
The article talks about 3 types of risk

1. The odds you will get hit.

2. The average consequences of getting hit.

3. The tail-end consequences of getting hit.

It claims that tail-end consequences which are low probability , high impact events like coronavirus pandemics are all that matter.
One thing, I learnt from insurance industry is that a lot of people underestimate the odds of getting hit. We are inherently reactive creatures and not proactive.
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That doesn't make any sense whatsoever, also that's already a phrase used to describe a particular region comprising only of two countries you've mentioned (out of 8+)
Quick question, can you really have room temperature at that pressure? I thought extreme pressures would always result in extreme temperatures.
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Thank you for your reply. I have found relevant section in documentation. Speaking about using YugabyteDB independently, it appears that current Yugabyte K8s operator cannot be used in multi-zone configurations (which explains why I could not find mentioning it in relevant sections of documentation). Based on the following Crunchy Data documentation for related PostgreSQL K8s operator, multi-zone deployments require special considerations and, thus, K8s operators that are "multi-zone-enabled": https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/postgres-operat....
He came to South Africa a few years ago too, after doing an ad for a beer company here. I believe it was a big success.
It's about darn time.

GPUs have been giving us so much more bang for the buck than cpus - the latest nvidia gpu is 54 billion transistors @ 826mm2

I know gpus are not the same as cpus, but I think amd's experience there is getting us cpus with comparable transistor counts at comparable economics.

intel doesn't seem to publish numbers, but I think the top $13,000 28-core intel cpu is 8b transistors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
When one can make reliable predictions based on it.
That's what's doing it: you'll effectively get to Youtube without a cookie and be harassed.

It's a strange thing. It's so annoying that I've essentially given up Youtube. I don't care enough about the videos that I want to Login and whitelist (and have a profile recorded) the site, and this makes the experience bad. Ergo YT is fading from my life. Can't say that I miss it all that much after a few days, it has been a habit more so than something I actively enjoy.
I follow a lot of Metal artists. And many have switched their live setups to modeling amps long ago. The amount of different tones and effects they use (in a single song) just make that all the more practical. It's also a lot stuff to haul and setup at the venues.

Even Metallica is running all digital for their love shows. Although they do still mic up for studio work.
Spec houses are always beige inside for the same reason. I hate beige interiors :-)
They need to make it legal to bring it up in court, it's pretty clear and there's decades of evidence that they are happy to break laws themselves to get the job done, despite caring about privacy I'm not that fussed really. Parallel construction has it's merits and for the most part cops want to improve society, especially for the most dangerous cases.

That said, a scary amount of digital crime cases get dropped by the FBI when they are faced with some scrutiny. Their reasoning really doesn't hold up when they justify it either, got a bit of smell about it.
> If I could go back in time I’d start off my interest in distributed systems by reading just this paper.

do you have more recommendations for such papers in distributed systems?
I got a red car to fight against the tyranny of black/white/grey/silver I see in parking lots.
OK, but who would buy it? Does Chrome make money directly? It does indirectly for Google probably, but what would do anybody else?

It could be good, if the buyer started charging for it. Very few people would use it and it would give a chance to Chromium-based browsers... or Firefox, or maybe not.
Have you ever used another browser and seen a "This site works better in Chrome, download now" on a Google property?

I find it hard to blame Google or Chrome for that. It's a developer (or business) choice.
Well, some people do have shit for brains, so this might work...
It’s a 1984 reference.
This thread appears to have several options. Not sure if it's the one you're referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21505986
What a good point.

And every individual at each level within the system rationalizes that they are doing the right thing (because in many ways, they are doing things that can be justified as genuinely useful, within a limited perspective - which coincidentally, is the one that most people see), or doesn't think about such things because they have enough shit to worry about in their lives right now.
>Or is there something fundamentally different between how we experience the world, and how GPT-3 experiences the world?

Jump in the shower and wash your hair.

Then come back and answer your own question.
I think we need more languages to help with parallelism. I don't think swift is the answer.

and I think you mistyped - you meant to type 64 x86_64 cores :)
Don't worry you're not alone feeling this way.
For people caring about typography there is nothing that reaches the output quality of TeX / LaTeX.

And that is not limited to math type setting, it holds for normal text.

Also, automatic tocs, I ist, bibliography with biblatex/biber.

Error messages are improving using modern packages.

The biggest problem ist the complete absence of dependency management. TeX distributions break regularly and the require workarounds because some package introduced a breaking change.
So you mean the 'alternative medicine' people who wear magnetic wristbands and collars might have been onto something...
That 150,000 miles is same as the emissions of 70 average Americans.
And Elon isn't the only one to use that jet. Its used to shuttle his employees too.

Aviation industry is responsible for 2.8% of global emissions, but it is portrayed as the villan. Btw, Boom Supersonic is looking into synthetic fuels to stay carbon neutral.
Tons of people do Zoom from poorly lit rooms. Not because they prefer not to be seen, or go for the gothic vampire aesthetic, but because they don't know any better or don't have good lighting in their home office.
You should look into GNU TeXMacs [^0]. Its formulas (and document structure) are composed of S-Expressions that the user can edit directly. But it has a "TeX"-like UI (typing '\int' renders an integral symbol). Producing documents is an order of magnitude faster than LaTeX. And the quality is comparable.

[^0] https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
Obviously it's been, and we've just been left behind. Either that, or the astonishing popularity of goatees means we're in the Star Trek Mirror Universe.

More seriously, here's some seventeenth century righteous truth:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23859546

What, obscenity, adultery, civil commotion, conspiracy, blasphemy, subversion and lunacy? Burn the Quakers!
> If that was true, Amazon would have the data to back it up and would only benefit them to say so.

I expect Amazon likely outsources a lot of returns handling, so they may not have that data.
Honestly i haven't. Last time i regularly saw that sort of thing it was MSIE vs netscape navigator.

*as a firefox user. I imagine if i used something really obscure it would happen more often.
Do you remember the bus license thing where they killed off nvidia?
I tried this on mobile and got the same result. This is the straw that broke the camels back for me. I will not download the app, a reader app, or create and account just to read comments. Goodbye, Reddit.
Well, BCC actually seems quite the total opposite of elegance, according to my own sense of elegance. Elegance is far more subjective. Take a panel of some equally experimented programmers, and ask them to assess some code on its readability and elegance. I would expect the latter to vary far more greatly.

Thus said I would find the other example an ominous sign on the code architecture. I would be more at ease to find a line like :

box.edge(3).span.set(200)

Or any syntactic variation of such statement.

It's not the variable name per se, it's what it conveys about the abstractions used in the code base.
Some of these neural network things can track the speaker's face. So not necessary, but it might might make things more interesting.
Excellent! I can recognize a lot of the strange life forms evoked in science fiction masterpieces.

The first part of this series, also, gets a particularly compelling resonance at the light of the recent Venus phosphine discovery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUelbSa-OkA
I just want to say that I loved the audio, thanks Scott
> The best code is code written by a talented programmer who can make the code readable to All people of All skill levels.

Unfortunately this is not true. Code is like language. You can make it readable for everyone by using the most easy to comprehend and least ambiguous language. But doing so decreases efficiency for both "advanced" writers and readers. "Advanced" grammar and vocabulary exists for a reason - it allows to express thoughts more succinct and concise and can decrease the time to understand something in great level of detail and context by magnitudes. But it requires knowledge and shared context between writer and reader.

It's the same for using a very efficient compression algorithm vs. plaintext. You cannot have the advantages of both at the same time. Pick your poison.

(I assume you understand "pick your poison", a non-native reader might not. It's so nice and concise, isn't it? :)
> My family has gone for white cars on the theory that it reflects sunlight and therefore heats up less.

Maybe the outside heats up less, but wouldn’t white reflect more light into the cabin? (Your own or nearby vehicle’s)

Maybe our problem is that we don’t make black cars with white interiors.
Twitter is darn near instantaneous for trading. People will post things like "just sold 30 sh $TSLA" moments after they do so.
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> Should we strive to satisfy the Shakespeare for Dummies demographic?

A thousand times, yes!

There is code out there so elegant and pure that, after painstakingly pulling apart its pieces and analyzing each choice of word like a Robert Frost poem, we're left feeling like we've seen a face of God.

When debugging in the middle of the night because an alarm went off or a customer is angry, T. S. Elliot is absolutely the last thing I want to see. When I want to maintain a large system quickly, I want to be treated like I'm 5. I don't want Shakespeare. I don't even want Shakespeare for Dummies. I want "Dick and Jane Process a Customer Order."

I absolutely agree with the author that when I say "This code is unreadable," I actually mean "I haven’t spent enough time trying to read," but time is something I don't have. My coworkers and I will likely read the same code many times. We only have so much time to spend reading code. Code that takes a lot of time to read is bad. We do not have time to keep studying the code until it is no longer unreadable.

We are more than willing to invest quite a lot of additional time writing the code to make the time it takes to read the code as low as conceivably possible. Heck, with a small handful of exceptions, I will happily trade quite a bit of performance for simplicity.

Sure, if you're Terje Mathisen, and you're writing Quake 3, and Polyhymnia or Velvel Kahan descend from Mt. Helicon singing of inverse square roots and the number 0x5f3759df, and you happen to be trying to optimize a 3D game engine, sure, write poetry. Ages and ages hence, we shall read of your algorithm by the fireside and slowly smile as a blog explains to us why it is brilliant. Sing on! But if you're writing a normal program that's gonna be maintained frequently by normal people, you call security. That muse does not have a badge. She does not work here. There is a clear "no children of Mnemosyne" sign in the lobby.
Interesting, I thought in general polling was lower-latency at the cost of higher CPU utilization. But maybe its not really true for USB.
As another example, consider the simple wikipedia[1]. It undeniably serves a very important role. Would it be appropriate for it to replace the standard english wikipedia?

Or, would it be appropriate for all scientific literature to be written in the style of simple wikipedia?

Simplicity and accessibility are undeniably important. But they shouldn't be your only goals.

1. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
They could have contributed to Firefox... more than just monetarily, I mean. They used their dominant position in search etc to push Chrome out to the masses... They had, in fact, previously pushed Firefox. I remember cheering at this point: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/mozilla-firefox-on-googl...
Over here in Europe, and particularly in Paris, people driving around in ostentatious colored cars are considered to be "that guy". Most such cars are expensive sports cars.

Citroën attempted to launch a "premium" brand a few years back, the DS (riding on their classic DS model [0]) and the ads at the time were showcasing the possibility of getting them in very bright colors, sometimes even multiple colors, to make a fashion statement. While the brand was somewhat successful (don't know the actual numbers, but they are fairly common), most of the cars on the road are actually "boring" colors, mostly white, some shade of gray and black.

Two years ago I stopped at a car dealership, and they were selling some "almost new" second hand Seats (a subsidiary of Volkswagen). They were basically demo cars, the older model that used to be exposed in the showroom. What I remember as striking is that they had three basically identical cars (same engine, trim, etc). The only difference was the color: one basic white, one metallic red and one metallic black. The red was a somewhat bright red (think Ferrari). It was the cheapest of the three. When I asked why, the guy told me that they wouldn't be as easy to move off the lot when second hand, so people wouldn't want to spend as much on them. Of course, brand new, the red would be as expensive as the black one. The white was in the middle as it was the presumably "cheap" paint (this was an entry level Ibiza).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_DS
Japan is slowly becoming an authoritarian nightmare.

It already has laws to protect state secrets and prosecute alleged attempted conspiracies, and laws to compel any news outlet to never report any government-aimed criticism without always meticulously counterbalancing it with the same amount of positive praise (!).

Also the recent rejection, by the prime minister, of scientific committee appointees, without willing to give any reason, is baffling.
This is about its whatsapp product, which is predominantly mobile app based and easier to hide in an update.
I switched from MathJax to Katex on my personal blog, and it significantly improved my lighthouse scores. Mathjax needs a huge amount of JS/CSS/Fonts to do its job, and takes a long time to load and render the equations. Not all of that is deferable.
As pointed out previously, IGDA doesn't like that
https://igda.org/news-archive/igda-statement-on-cdpr-mandato...

And most studios do not pay from overtime, so you only get back "flexible" hours that you cannot even use when you want to use those.

Only shine of light in this case is that CD Projekt Red is a publicly-traded company so if they are giving stocks to their employees, then employees can cash out and leave. Most game companies aren't publicly-traded, so employees do not get any benefits of this.