skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted that in Ada, which has subranges. I wanted "ranges" instead - no mention of the underlying hardware at all. Intermediate values would be sized based on the rule that you can't overflow an intermediate value unless it would lead to overflow of the final sized value. Sometimes this requires longer intermediate values.

What happened instead was standardized hardware. The 60 bit CPUs, the 48 bit CPUs, the 36 bit CPUs, the 24 bit CPUs, the 18 bit CPUs, and the 12 bit CPUs all died off. With everybody using powers of 2 of bytes, range calculation became less important for portability.
I feel like most anxiety among people today is due to lack of confidence. Confidence isn't just about getting things done in time, it's also about willing to accept the outcome of an event and run with it. Without it bothering you.
> which is 40% clean already in the US

Can you define that statement a bit more? What do you mean by clean?

If you're going off of the industry terms, that 40% includes natural gas, and is probably mostly natural gas. Which means cracking natural gas into hydrogen isn't any more or less polluting.
I think Epic is working on VR games, and saying metaverse is more cooler.
I will uninstall that environment and install gnome. If you want gnome to be better, then contribute to it. If you can't, detail why. Rust does not magically solve compatibility with the various daemons and make your UI function smoothly. We do not need Linux divide, we need Linux vision.
> No third-party requests on my websites

I assume you are using the self-hosted version?
If my wife sends me a “we need to talk after work” then I’ll be scared shitless even if I trust her with my life. Or if my mom sends me a calendar invite for a “quick life update”. It has nothing to do with trust. It’s just good communication to state what it is you need to talk about.
In the case of the plant pictured in the article, the hydrogen is produced on site from methane. So, at least in that case, from the factory perspective, it is a methane in, ammonia + CO2 out. [1] I don't know how common it is for factories to do both processes at the same site, but that would explain why the article frames it that way.

But beyond that, I think the parent comment is just saying that the price of the hydrogen plays a big role in the availability and price of fertilizer. Even with the current increases in price, it is not profitable to manufacture ammonia using green hydrogen at current market prices.

[1] https://www.cffertilisers.co.uk/about-us/how-our-fertiliser-...
Play around with https://github.com/quiet or http://www.whence.com/minimodem/ to see what the highest bitrate and ECC you can send over a GSM voice connection. Should be fairly quick.
I always had dash to dock and all the other small common tweaks that everyone makes.

Until about a half year ago, when I decided to stay vanilla on a fresh install.
After a week, I forgot why I needed all these tweaks.

I think the far majority people, myself included, can't even tell the difference in UX quality (as long as it is above a certain level) and will mostly like or dislike based on what they are used to.
"Basement dweller" culture is overrepresented on the internet. "I don't care about windows", "I shower once a week" and "I’ve never seen my friends in person" are sentiments I hear often on imageboards and not in real life.
I'm sorry for the "spoiler"... but in the end the famous writer discovered the solution was to read great books during the flight? Who would've guessed? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel that I wasted my time.
I really think you are trying to obfuscate the issue here.

We "usually" make the hydrogen from fossil fuels because this is by far the cheapest way to make it, so if we raise the price of fossil fuels, the fertilizer becomes more expensive. And man, you are twisting and turning in order to obscure this fact.
well it kind of make sense due to the fact that people used to look up much more. i suggest you travel outside of light pollution and at night you will see what ancient people saw.
Used it a bit at university to compute some complex integrals if I was stuck or feeling lazy. That was 11 years ago.

Don't think I've even visited the website in the past 6 years.
Stakeholder != Owner

Yes, parents have a role. Yes, parents have a stake.

They are not exclusive in this.
"You'll never guess what happened. Hit me up to find out more"

if it works for headlines, why not messages to your co-workers?
> The 2015 Paris climate agreement called on nations of the world to preserve forests and other ecosystems that store carbon. But forests continue to disappear — cut and burned and fragmented into ever smaller patches. This failure challenges all of our other climate efforts because unless forests remain standing, the world will never contain global warming.

In one of their first major actions this week, delegates at the global climate conference in Glasgow pledged to end deforestation, committing $12 billion to the effort, with an additional $7 billion from the private sector. But this is not the first time such a promise has been made, and yet deforestation has continued.

1) Problem #1 - Most ppl - media included - don't understand that the Paris agreement was a paper tiger. Pointless symbolism. Commitments short of necessary, nothing binding, etc.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/coveringclimatenow-naomi-klein-gr...

Using the Paris Agreement as some sort of breakthrough, a North Star is a myth, a false god. To perpetuate that myth only makes true progress more difficult.

2) $12B? + $7B? Chump change. Based on the USA DoD annual budget, the DoD spends that on paperclips.

Better nothing? Maybe not. Because most ppp will see $19B - out of context - and think this - like the Paris Agreement - is a significant step.

In short, the world "leaders" still aren't serious. The Media still a lost cause.
How is that different from slaves like William Ellison in the USA? Pre-Civil War he became one of the wealthiest property owners in South Carolina. Sounds like decent social mobility to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellison
I've been sort of pondering the thought of using a microcontroller as the base of an ISA "soft video" card for vintage PCs.

I was looking at things like the Graphics Gremlin and the kit to build a Trident 9000-based ISA VGA card, and realizing that 1) I don't think my skills or gear are up to SMD soldering, 2) at least the Trident part is 20-year-old stock with limited supply and questionable reliability, and 3) you still end up with an analogue output that needs a chain of adapters to drive a DisplayPort or HDMI monitor. I may as well just use my old Realtek RTG3106 card.

I'm picturing a board that did some minimal decode of the ISA bus to filter accesses to upper memory or desired registers, then plumb the rest of the bus onto the RasPi GPIOs, and just run some emulation code to interpret the requests and maintain a framebuffer-- drawn to a HDMI output.

I figure by doing the emulation in software, you could cover a wide variety of cards and trivially switch (i. e. toggle between Tandy 1000/PCjr style CGA+, Hercules, and VGA, with some software command rather than having to physically change cards or detach the monitor).

It feels like something like this would exist already, but the closest I've seen (https://github.com/eyalabraham/vga-rpi) is not a drop-in replacement for a standard PC card-- it seems to expect custom hardware and BIOS shimming.
Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
I bought a copy when it first came out.

I remember sitting in the car outside the bookstore reading it - it was fascinating, I couldn't wait until I got home.
Have you tried Steam Family Sharing? https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

It won't support every game but it should help you in your quest to share games with your son
The problem is some parents, mostly right-wing “Christian Taliban”, want the dictate what schools teach and that usually means a complete lack of sex-ed, no books with anything resembling gay characters, no mention of slaves because white egos are fragile, and a whole host of other regressive items. Fuck that - send your kids to parochial school and leave the rest of us alone.
The big advantage of rails is people don't try to drive on them.

Build a dedicated bus lane across the country and everyone will want to use it for their cars, and either do so or bitch to the politicians that they can't.
The Surprising Thing I’ve Learned from Investing in 200 Startups (2016)
Crazy suggestion, but have you ever tried eating for the taste without swallowing?
This stretch is owned by another rail network (ConnDot) that prioritizes other passenger trains (Metro North and Shoreline East)
I want to quit for a while, take time for myself, explore academia, maybe look at doing a startup. But I have a disability and I'm chained to work by the health insurance. I see specialist after specialist for rare complications of a rare disease, and there's no way the marketplace plans would cover my treatment.

It's very frustrating.
Why is there the assumption that people of lower classes were slaves?
The problem is parents want to pass on their own brainwashing down to their children. Like teaching creationism or that slaveowners were good people. Creating more brainwashed citizens hurts all of us.
It's funny, but I wasn't reading authors very closely in this sub-thread, and my general impression was a lot of mirror hate and fear. But then I noticed that it's ALL coming from you, Chris.

TBH I have never heard anyone, not once, talk about mirrors being dangerous or about this even being an issue. Yet to hear you say it our children's blood is running in the street.

Who are you, and why are you pushing this so hard?
I know you're being sarcastic, but responding anyway.

NPR fortunately also does not make the rules. Refusing to use the word 'spooky' because someone might imagine racial connotations creates those very connotations, while continuing to use it the regular way prevents those connotations from creeping in.

Those looking to be offended, especially on behalf of others, are ofcourse free to do so, and they are also free to be offended at being publicly ridiculed when they attempt to use their cultivated sensitivity to redefine acceptable discourse.
Godot Engine – Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish
You are right they are largely allegations. I just checked, and it's not like we have smoking gun emails in disocvery as far as I can tell, though happy to be mistaken.

>249. The speed benefits Google marketed were also at least partly a result of Google’s throttling. Google throttles the load time of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one-second delays in order to give Google AMP a “nice comparative boost.” Throttling non-AMP ads slows down header bidding, which Google then uses to denigrate header bidding for being too slow. “Header Bidding can often increase latency of web pages and create security flaws when executed incorrectly,” Google falsely claimed. Internally, Google employees grappled with “how to [publicly] justify [Google] making something slower.” [0]

[0] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.56...
One thing that's important to note about memory management with XLA, is that inside a compiled program there's no user-exposed "malloc"/"free". The memory usage and schedule of a given program/graph is statically optimized by the compiler (thus JAX requires static shapes when jitting). When running in op-by-op/eager mode the allocated buffers are coupled to the lifetime of the python array object, and are free'd when this array is garbage-collected.
Yeah. This isn't a review. It's a list of reasons why they shouldn't have bought the phone in the first place.
Similar, perhaps more feature-rich tool is OCRmyPDF https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF
I would rather say an ability to be "well-adjusted".
for the very patient rclone users
I use it to solve differential equations.
>partly because the one project with actual graphics designers (GNOME) wants to do something completely different than what most end users want.

We should learn our lessons and don't trust some designer that probably does not use the project to design good UX, a designer should use the project(app or webpage or DE heavily) before deciding ro remove some feature just because he read in a book that too much options can cause issue to some mythical average user.
What they want is to sneak Palladium in through the back door. The future of the x86 platform is a signed code path from power-on to application code. Even Linux thought leaders, like Lennart and Matthew Garrett, are on board with this idea. The problem is, as we learned with ActiveX, code signing cannot attest that code is safe, only that it came from a particular place. But then again, the goal of verifying where code comes from is not safety, it's control over who gets to run code on the platform. And who has that control? Who is the only CA recognized as authoritative by hardware OEMs for Secure Boot purposes?

Microsoft.

Remember, you run Linux on modern hardware only because Microsoft allows you to. Microsoft signed the Red Hat shim, and if you disabled Secure Boot, it's only because a Microsoft policy gave you the ability to disable it -- a policy they can later reverse.
None of these people are upper-class?
It's not just you that has a theory around this, if you view allergies around histamine as autoimmune conditions:

Here's some pseudoscience, you may also find the parent comment interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27993001
So Leah Donnella makes the rules?

I genuinely can't tell if your message is 2nd degree or not.
Linux has dozens if not hundreds of desktop environments, one more is not going to break the camel's back.
> All existing DEs suck

I feel almost the opposite. I think Plasma and GNOME are both really good, and some others I haven't bothered to try yet because I'm pretty happy on Plasma (Budgie, Pantheon) seem thoughtfully designed and reasonably featureful. Plus there are good tiling WMs you can use on any of them!

I feel like there are more good options on Linux than anywhere else. macOS has designers galore and it falls flat on core window management functionality, like its stupid minimize/maximize behavior, lack of window snapping, lack of tiling, lack of click-anywhere resizing, and other DE basics, like configuring global keyboard shortcuts.

But I welcome System76's effort, too! I hope it's so good it makes me switch. :)
In terms of actually tracking and charting this data, it’s pretty useful to have it all in one place and queryable by SQL—this is not usually the case by default!

I built https://www.tabbydata.com for SaaS founders who have this problem.
Here's my question: For an interior windowless room, what's the expected CO2 concentration after someone's been in there for 8 hours?

I'd bet $1000 their HVAC system will be inadequate.
The name makes it seem like pre-beta test software.

I'm waiting for the final release, and then I'm waiting some more for it to be declared stable, and then I'm waiting some more for it to catch on and be declared popular.

Not really, but that's what the name suggests to me.

I just tried it here because of TFA and it's good.
The games from '90s that are still remembered are the best ones. There were a lot of games that were slow and bloated for that time. In the '90s we've wondered why did the '80s games were so efficient. Games that used to run on 64KB of RAM or fit on floppy needed CD-ROMs and megs of RAM. This hardware was not considered small — it was huge compared to 8- and 16-bit computers and consoles before it.

At that time PC did not have hardware-accelerated scrolling and sprites like consoles and Amiga, so many PC ports of console games had higher hardware requirements and lower fps.

Windows 95 did not have a reputation of a small OS. It was seen as a complete waste of RAM for MS-DOS games. Microsoft had to invest a lot of effort to turn that around (with DirectX).

It's a matter of perspective. You can already wonder how Portal 2 is so small compared to multi-GB games. In 30 years when GTA 6 comes out with 7TB day-one patch, we're going to marvel how GTA 5 could fit in mere 30GB.
Chris, you've made many, many comments in this subthread, all basically saying the same thing. Yet I've never heard anyone express concern about auto safety and backing up. Not once. It concerns me that you may have an agenda, so I have flagged your messages.
The modern idea of pizza, yes. Flat breads with toppings? Likely thousands of years old.
It did about a lot of the heavy lifting in my master's thesis, not gonna lie.
Except that the luxuriously-windowed common spaces (two for the 64 occupants of one floor) are a fair bit away from the rooms. The common kitchens that connect each 8-room group don't have windows either.
We went to switzerland for vacation last summer, and we were quite impressed by the rail system there. Everything runs on time, there is no shortage of space, you can buy your tickets online and the trains are quiet and clean. I'm from France, so I'm not easily impressed by a working train station.

I don't think you can hold any American state to that level of expectation when they are 70 years late in their railroad infrastructure. Not even California would be able to match a 1/10 of your rail service before 2050.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106366
So you want every communication with you to have full context? Perhaps the manager needs a couple of things and wants to be respectful of your schedule. They might not know the full extent of the conversation yet. If you work in an environment where full context is necessary to combat paranoia then there are other problems. If you need to have every conversation be formal then don't expect to be the first person a manager talks to when they are thinking about things.
This is a good data point, thank you for your work.
UC Berkeley is building a new dorm at a cost of $388,601 per bed. It will cost $300m for 772 beds.

I couldn't find the actual square footage but it did say that it is 14 stories and there is a 17000 sq ft retail/commercial space. So using that as a _very_ rough estimate, the total estimate is 238,000 sq ft, which comes out to $1260/sq ft to build.

Due to earthquakes, building in California should be more expensive than New York. I dont have any numbers to back that up though.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/07/07/berkeley-new-dorm-he...
> An user friendly editor should pop some kind of prompt when I pressed the first g/G key and show me what I could press the next, not telling me to read :help

You might be interested in the Kakoune editor. Despite being superficiality similar it's not Vim compatible, which may make it a nonstarter, and it has its own flaws that keep me from using it, but it makes a point of showing on-screen help for almost every command as you're typing.
Why Tech Businesses may wish to adopt an environmental measure such as ZBeeB
Not everyone who’s using digital tech is thinking about the environment as they use it. As developers of Digital Health Tech, we’re focusing on at least a basic measure of what we’re using in terms of the environment. Health-AI is a start-up and so we’re navigating week to week, making it difficult to pin down any trends in our environmental consumptions and emissions.

ESG, Environment, Social and Corporate Governance is an investment hot topic. Although there’s been massive inflows into ESG-targeting funds over the last two decades, their performance has not been measurably superior to other funds out there. As we’re a start-up we’re going to bake-in our Governance as we grow and prosper and build our Social framework as we go (there must already be some good practice out there), but it’s our environmental credentials that we’ll be watching most closely.

Tech, in general, has good environmental credentials. The 5 biggest US Tech companies have a combined carbon intensity (net carbon emissions per unit sales) of slightly less than 3% of the S&P 500 average. That’s impressive and has been achieved by doing absolutely nothing; in fact, just being.
If you’re a Tech start-up like Health-AI, you’ll want to build on Tech’s credentials.

The way we think that best serves the environment, as well as our passion for data and measuring stuff, is to adopt Zero Based Environmental Budgeting (ZBeeB). The idea’s straightforward:

• If you’re a start-up, get to minimum viable size where you’re making sales, have a working team and hopefully are generating positive cash flow. If you’re an established business choose a year in which to start
• Set this as the base line year and work all additional net environmental consumption from that point
• Choose what can be measured whenever possible and estimate what cannot. When there’s data there’s a discussion to be had. Where there’s none there should be silence
• Examine the contributors to net consumption and ask the obvious questions: do we need it? Could we do it a better way? Note that we’re not budgeting here so the Can we get it for cheaper question doesn’t count, though the Can we source a greener version e.g. Electricity, most certainly would
• Each time a new base line is established, publish the budget results on the Site.

If you’re an accountant, you’ll recognise this as Zero Based Budgeting for the environment and you’ll immediately recall those poor souls at Kraft-Heinz who are forced into ZBB every year to little useful effect. So learn from them and reset the base line every few years. Perhaps every five years for a public company and two for a young business.

And the business benefits? Openness and possibly new ways of digitally measuring consumption. Businesses that openly publish their internal data are usually better run, managed and trusted. Data driven Tech businesses that are often opaque in the data that they publish would benefit greatly from the trust created here. Ones that can devise new digital ways of measuring environmental consumption as well, will be afforded a magnanimous approbation.

What’s not to like?

@DewhurstLeslie
I think students these days use it for math/calculus, but it isn't seen as something special because they've always had it. It wasn't novel like for us.
Sympy live shell is decent, and the latex rendering is pretty sweet. But, it's on ancient versions of everything, runs slowly, and has a C- UI.

Instead, I use Colab with Sympy + latex output and matplotlib (and most other things you could want to import, pre-installed). It's running new versions of things, and backed by more power, with an option to pay for even more. The latex rendering took a bit of poking around stackoverflow, but works just fine.

Feel free to copy:

https://colab.research.google.com/gist/dmlerner/23543255fdde...
Would you rather implement `leftPad` or use the npm package?
I really like his chart about usefulness and Unsafe programming. And that was in 2011! We have seen in the past 10 years how programming moving in the direction he was pointing at.