skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's me.

I am a computer science teacher and have developed a teaching and learning programming language with an easy-to-use browser IDE. There are several tutorials integrated - from a programming course for beginners to recursive programming.

The programming language and IDE run entirely in the browser, there is no communication with the server after the web page is loaded. Since it is designed as a PWA, it also works offline.

This language has a very simple structure: There are numbers and strings as data types, arrays of these data types, and arrays of arrays. Unlike Python, it is statically typed and has explicit end-of-block delimiters.

Since the language is kept very compact, it suits beginners on the one hand, and the browser environment on the other. The environment loads quite fast, and the IDE is also able to parse and format the code up to the current line on every "enter". The language is written in C and runs using WebAssembly. JavaScript is used for the graphical user interface and graphical output.
We burn monstrous amount of oil, Conservation of mass.

A liter of oil produces 3 kilos of CO2, density of rocks is 3-4 kilos per liter.
Removing CO₂ is far more doable, because you don't have to convince/force 7 billion people to do something.

Anyone with the right equipment can just do it, without asking permission, just like CO₂ emitters can.
Cloudflare Pages looks like a more productionised version of this, yes.

In terms of advantages, I'd say price, and the maturity of using AWS. I deploy a static site with a GitHub Action (look at my other repo whisky-menu for how to do this) which builds a React app, copies it to S3, and invalidates the CloudFront cache.
It all comes down to the cost of energy. If the current improvements in renewable energy are sustained, or if the promise of fusion comes to pass, or even a considerable improvement in the economics of fission, then yes it could make sense to emit carbon dioxide now and recapture it later.
This “system” is addressed in the blog post (under: “New Strategy: we double the bet after each loss”).
Is Mango Good for a Diabetic? – HealthLineFit
I agree. People often forget that early releases of XP was basically just a re-skinned 2000 but with a few tweaks for games and fonts. The problem was those skins ended up doubling the memory and CPU requirements. In fact XP was a pretty bloated OS on hardware from 2002. It wasn’t until much later into the life of XP when hardware caught up and newer service packs added enough to the OS to really differentiate it from 2000. But for the first few years of the life of XP, it was an embarrassment.
We can look at it like this: kidding and hyperbole aren't bad grammar. Limbs could literally be worn to the bone; that they are actually not isn't a matter of grammar.

The character is fictitious in the first place, so we could argue that "his looks were haggard" is misusing the word were, since were may only refer to a person that existed. :)
The biggest thing preventing me from upgrading to Big Sur+ is how ugly the UI is. Gone are the elegant, sleek windows of old, replaced by bubbly flat sheets and weird, incongruous menu systems. It feels like Apple was taking the piss out of the GNOME desktop and then forgot to press the "we're just joking" button before they shipped it.
(Off topic but related to insulin hacking)

We (University of Maryland, Baltimore library) are hosting a Zoom talk by the Open Insulin Foundation next week, November 17, 12pm EST/UTC-5.

RSVP and details: https://umaryland.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cHzZ72AJcosM...
Yann LeCun’s 2021 Deep Learning Course at CDS free and fully online
It basically does do it justice. It's not _just_ note taking (there's a bookmarking equivalent in there too), but it's basically just that.

As for the title of the post... As Kevin Malone famously put it, "Me think, why waste time say lot word, when few word do trick".
Uh, no? Business as usual scenarios are the default option (tautologically) and will lead to lots of dead bodies in the future. Anything else requires large-scale coordination to change course.
I would very much say it's the other way around.

AWS is good at giving you commodity infrastructure at scale. They are really good at "stupid" services like S3 or EC2 or RDS. The high-level services meanwhile? I worked with quite a few of them and they're mostly shit.

Athena is has account-wide limit of 5 concurrent queries which cannot be increased. Even one larger dashboard will overload it.

Redshift have the same limit of 30 concurrent queries. That's good enough for casual use but not suitable for larger company.

Glue Catalog does not scale at all, and having more than few objects will break it, and you will very soon end up begging for more API limit due to throttling exceptions.

Kinesis has very strange limits (in messages per second) that make it really expensive for use cases where traffic is peaky - which is quite a few streaming use cases.

Just like you wouldn't use Amazon.com to buy high-quality, important goods (because you're pretty likely to get something broken or fake), don't use AWS "high level" services. Amazon is company focused on scaling commodity use cases, not at engineering excellency.
I found this a bit strange:

> iMovie and Final Cut support capturing from MiniDV and write the data straight to disk without any modification, but they didn't work out for me for two reasons:

> There was no way to turn down the audio while a tape was being imported

When I did a similar exercise (on an older Mac that had a FireWire port), iMovie worked quite well. Since the import happens in real time (a 60-minute recording will take 60 minutes to import), the audio and video are played on the camcorder. All I had to do was reduce the volume on the camcorder to prevent it from being too loud. There was no audio output from iMovie on the Mac during the import.

Tip: If you can get a Mac with iMovie '06 (as opposed to iMovie '08), use that. The older version of iMovie is better (not as much dumbed down) than the newer version.
These are two different languages: it's only normal that syntax will be different.

Yet Python is a dynamically typed language and translating it into many statically typed languages requires and almost complete rewrite.

Translating it to Nim is surprisingly easy in comparison.
Impose a tax on O&G industry, remove all of their subsidies, and earmark the collected tax towards CO2 removal and other climate change reversal methods. Could get to the $100 per tonne in a fraction of a time.
Rainbows don’t work the way you think they work [video]
or to keep you vulnerable/exploitable and maybe accomplice higher up in the ladder
I tend to agree, at least from the point of view that even if we continue to burn fossil fuels that it would be much cheaper to require CO2 removal where it is produced, and thus in extremely high concentrations, than trying to waft it out of the atmosphere where it's only 400 ppm.

Electrification of transportation would also make this much easier, because instead of having billions of little fossil fuel burners all over the planet, you could concentrate that burning to just power plants. At that point there would be a lot fewer places where it would be difficult to sequester carbon (e.g. planes, large ocean vessels).
Capturing it at the point of emission seems like it should be the priority. Way, way easier to get it at that point. But that would make fossil fuels more expensive, and we can't have that right?

Maybe we should just massively subsidize point of emission carbon capture for fossil fuels. We need it for some use cases that renewables don't work for anyway (yet).
Very interesting! This reminds me of a Veritasium video I watched years ago, called “The most common cognitive bias” [1]. People don’t explore solution spaces as effectively as they think they do.

[1] https://youtu.be/vKA4w2O61Xo
We'd better hope not. If insects disappear civilization will not be far behind.
To run further with the analogy: it can go years without being diagnosed. Right now Facebook is in the 'I feel fine, I don't need to go to the doctor' phase. By the time the market starts penalizing a company things are usually on the decline, if not in free fall.
I can't believe someone asked this. Seriously?
I've never understood obsession with FAANG. Seems like it is only meaningful to younger folks in the industry looking to establish themselves. You want FAANG on your resume so you can get the job you really want.
I don't save individual comments but I do "favorite" posts when i want to go back to them. Sometimes I do that as a bookmark to the post itself, sometimes it's specifically for the discussion. I have found myself going back to my favorites list quite often but it's annoying to search through. I Ctrl+f but then I have to deal with pagination and sometimes the thing I want is 5 or more pages deep. I have considered building something to help me with that but also hasn't been so huge of an issue that I have started anything. Balance between minor inconvenience of searching or maintaining something to help me search. I am choosing the former for now.
"They're not supposed to be tightly integrated, the gnome team seems to have forgotten all of this."

That is a misconception that I've noticed, maybe it's because KDE uses different APIs for a lot of things, or maybe it's because of the way some distributions package it. But none of the Linux desktops are really that tightly coupled when you actually dig into it. For example managing the desktop settings is handled by its own daemon appropriately called "gnome-settings-daemon" that loads all its settings modules via a plugin system. KDE is structured similarly in that its code is split across a great number of small support libraries. If there is no secondary consumer of those APIs it's probably because nobody has bothered yet to make and test additional combinations of packages that actually work.
I think it's ironic. Microsoft since the dawn of time has been known for backwards compatibility in Windows. They would go out of their way to ensure random 16 bit apps with bugs and major issues continued to work through years of major upgrades to Windows. Raymond Chen has written countless stories of the hacks upon hacks they had to keep running through the years: http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech... So now to see it all abandoned as Microsoft is pulled into the age of web applications is kind of amusing.
I think OP meant it's apolitical in the sense that it can be done without any laws being passed, or summits like COP26, by anyone with some money.
>Any sales generated by the ads would not have existed without the ad, and so it's not taking anything from the app developer.

This argument is not very convincing in my opinion, as it looks like Apple is purchasing ads for brand keywords. If the ad wasn't there, the customer would go to the brands website, which would be ranked #1 without the ad.
The US. Even our healthcare system largely exists just to squeeze us.

I think you have a rather naive view of how corporations and business actually work. Sure, you technically "voluntarily" use their services, but this is often because you're not given a choice either by the reality of economics, monopolistic practices, or even the law. My internet company oversells and underdelivers and doesn't really give two shits that they have terrible quality because they know our only other choices are even worse and they've lobbied themselves into a position to keep real competition out. Go to buy a car and the salesmen will absolutely push you to get your financing through them even if you don't actually need any financing. My sister has been threatened 5 times now by a collection agency for a loan she already paid off years ago. Funeral homes try to guilt you into buying caskets and flowers and shit through them rather than through third parties who are an order of magnitude less expensive, oh, and they have financing too! Cereal and toy companies advertise to children and coach them on effective ways to annoy their parents into buying their product for them. Pharmaceutical companies advertise directly to consumers to pressure their doctors into prescribing them stuff.

I can hear your response now, something along the lines of "It's their fault for falling for it". Capitalism as it exists today optimizes for sociopathy and people like you are so entrenched in that culture that you can't even see it anymore.
A good reason not to go to US casinos in vegas is there are too many stories of casinos blocking payout due to "exploiting" games. If you win you win or you dont. Doesnt matter how its up to the casino to validate that their game works and is exploit free. You already put your money down so they might as well just use a gun to take it at that point.
Thats for 1.5 degrees, a target we've already missed. We are now on track for over 3 degrees right now, and every extra degree of heating is exponentially more damaging than the last.

Consider that -4 degrees chage had washington DC under a glacier thats two miles of ice, and now imagine the same change in the other direction.
> I think the Benghazi attacks happened live on the forums. One of the people killed at the embassy was a gamer and posted often because he had a space guild or something.

Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Smith_(diplomat)
If you had process that only needs electricity then you run it only when power is cheap (usually when renewables are producing it).

Depending on efficiency this could be better solution than energy storage (instead storing energy you pull CO2 and then burn it later if energy is needed).
It was in my area as part of the CARES act. The entire valley has fiber in front of every home and most homes/businesses were connected with the digging costs refunded. I missed out on the refund but still benefit from the fiber.
Looks like there is an ISO standard for mobile digital driver licenses. I'm assuming Apple's MOA is requiring states to adhere to the standard (perhaps amongst additional requirements?)

ISO 18013–5 details:
https://medium.com/@dkelts.id/mobile-driver-licenses-mdl-how...
I hadn’t really thought about rainbows since learning the ‘wrong’ explanation in school but this video shows that it’s obviously wrong. Not mentioned is interference which I think leads to supernumerary rainbows.
I learned logo in school in the late 70s. It was on the computer apple had given to our school.
Given how fast electrification of transportation is occurring, I think those "millions of tailpipes" may go down sooner than you think.
True that many people are different. Lots of working parents can only spare 40 hrs/week which suits them best. Lots of singles or parents with SAH partners who want to do the full on jobs and make money.
As the negative perception of Facebook engineering picks up it'll be interesting to see where this heads. There's been precious little conversation about the stewardship model of React.JS, in which Facebook has an outsized role.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was an effort to divest React from Facebook, given the potential reputational risk to the React project.
This sounds like the US in a nutshell to an outsider like me?
What about 3-D printing for backyard hardscape for higher-end consumers, not homes for refugees?

Mass customization for benches, sculptures, playhouses, fountains. The value is in getting something unique, not speed or cost.

Or does that only make sense after my getting a $4k quote to build a rectangular concrete bench in coastal California? (Actually, I just went back and checked—it was $14.5k for an 18 foot concrete block bench with a plaster finish to look like poured concrete, with an actual concrete version even more expensive).

I made an outline of a business doing this a few years ago: sell yard printers, proprietary media, and object library digital subscriptions to contractors, along with training/certification, but I never went down the rabbit hole to figure out a cement mixture and scale up my Ender-3.
If one is bought into the AWS ecosystem, they could consider Lightsail Containers for cheaper Fargate-like devx: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amaz...
The thing that I think people are missing in this whole situation isn’t that the government hasn’t had immunization mandates before, but how it’s trying to implement this one. There are definitely exemptions to it, and some of those exemptions appear to follow some historical political alliances (democrats and certain unions as an example). When you carve out exceptions based on politics instead of logic, people will resist.

While I don’t like mandates, I would be less resistant to them if they were applied logically…or if short of logically—at least evenly.
> Somehow I managed to salvage an old computer and source myself a copy of the ISO and managed to setup an ADDS domain controller and join my mother's laptop to the domain.

Ha. That brings me back as well. I installed (pirated) Windows 2000 Advanced Server onto a Compaq that I won. I ran my own active directory which let me share printers to my mom's laptop (an iBook at the time), and our other PC. It was total overkill, but I deeply enjoyed tinkering with each and every setting to see what it did, discovering the registry and seeing what all of -that- did, breaking things, fixing things... and now here we are. :-)

I miss that feeling. :-)
If it costs $100 to remove, then that should set the price. If you can set a reasoned price on a externality then charging anything less is subsidizing the pollution.
Shaded vertex reuse on modern GPUs
At a certain size, big tech develops efficient systems to transmute forward-thinking younger talent into slightly jaded mid career pros excited for 1% improvements and 30s off the build. The world needs both types of people and companies need them both in different measures at different points in their trajectories.
[Edit] As has pointed out I have misread the parent comment and agree with it. Leaving my original response below.

For number 2 it depends on strategy. The strategy you outlined has you risk $5 to win $1000. Of course in a fair game you will go broke most of the time. For every time you win you should lose 200 times to come out even. But you can easily take the reverse strategy. Bet $5 if you win, leave. If you lose double your bet, if you go down $1000 dollars leave. In this case you are almost guaranteed to win. But the times you do lose you lose enough to make up for all of your wins.

EV is EV, it doesn't change based on who has the larger bankroll. The casino doesn't magically get an edge because they have more money. They get the edge because the game odds are in their favor.
How does "leaving it in the ground" get us back to 280 ppm?
Its not at all misleading, you just have a strict view of what it means to give approval.
Oh glorious day! Thank you! What caused you to finally make the jump?
"Forever" is over ambitious.

I'd pile them up in some desert. Should last a few centuries.
RH's article instead of a third party blog:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-rhel-85

Anyways the containerized podman image is interesting.

podman-in-podman or podman-in-docker has limited usecases, but still fun to see them.
When people only knew basic biology and physics,... CO2 is good for the plants, which in turn is good for everyone else and no, CO2 is not the evil it is being made out by these corporate elites that want to lower everyone else's living standards.

The whole climate agenda is a farce and a money making, global resource control scheme.

Check out https://www.iceagefarmer.com/ or one of the many other brilliant sites delving into the elites documents analyzing them.

These people pushing this agenda couldn't care less about it all, look at their actions, not just at their lips moving.
They don't want to "save the environment", it's wealth redistribution and deindustrialization. It's economics!

They want their technocracy, which is a system that is totalitarian, anti-capitalist, somewhat fascist and socialist, with everything, even prices, based on resources not on demand or supply.

Don't believe me, listen to the former IPCC head when he was in office he said it himself:

https://web.archive.org/web/20101122162022/http://www.nzz.ch...

Read Patrick M. Woods books about Technocracy as well, one of the foremost experts on the history of the ideology of technocracy.

Oh and by the way... look at climate gate and the hockey stick graph controversy with Michael Mann.

We had the Medieval Warming Period too, by the way, where it was a lot warmer than it was here. They had vinyards in the UK and Greenland was actually green where they even had livestock and farming.
Adding more anecdata:

1. Had covid early 2021, felt like a mild cold for a week, couldn't smell my farts for 3 weeks. No heart issues.

2. 8 months later, got the Pfizer double dose, and had 6 weeks of heart pain and palpitations. Finally got in to see the doctor after the pain was basically gone, and the EKG showed an irregular heart beat and I was told to go to the emergency room...
Got an echocardiagram the next week which turned out normal, thankfully.

Still waiting on that $1,000+ medical bill to come in the mail for the 20 minute echocardiagram...
If taken from a purely economic standpoint, yes. But once politics get involved, a more expensive often can feel "cheaper" if it gets everyone moving in the same direction or produces some level of agreement.

Sure, in an ideal world, we would just all do the right thing. But that is not the world we live in.
Identity theft/fraud is a big business, and bridging the gap between meatspace and digital identity is a win for everyone (except those who aren’t benefited by strong identity guarantees).

Some cost sharing is reasonable on both the vendor and government sides. The onerous Apple requirements should be pushed back on.
Amazing to me the arbitrary groups people feel they are allowed to discriminate against. Lets just insult a few dozen million people because of when they were born and actively pine for their demise because social media tells me they are what's wrong with everything. Hate is not a good look on you friend.
The key part is:

> But he soon discovered that the shade from the towering panels above the soil actually helped the plants thrive. That intermittent shade also meant a lot less evaporation of coveted irrigation water. And in turn the evaporation actually helped keep the sun-baked solar panels cooler, making them more efficient.

Solar panels are still way over hyped in a stupid marginalist way, but polyculture has always been a good idea :).
The issue is hardware. Most gaming hardware does not have server qualified drivers which may mean you can't use your hardware. Issues normally with WiFi cards and GPUs, most other things will work. No chance of running Windows Server on a laptop.

The qualification is to prevent random crashes; it's not really needed, but it is hard to impossible to disable last I checked.
To extend on the bookmarking, there have been several comments[1] asking for topic classification to the HN story for easier bookmarking.

It's one of the reasons I added classifier to 'HN to Kindle', Instead of manually adding tags to stories now I receive stories according to the categories I want.

If plain bookmarks works then it's great, but I use Markdown for majority of non-code content anyways(From reminders to this very blog) and referencing to a content already on Obsidian saves me time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18805483
Your right about that. While the Feds have adjudicated their duties the state of Texas has had to step up and bring in state resources. Charging people with a misdemeanor trespassing charges as a last resort when the Border Patrol is hamstrung by politics. Why not build that wall?
Just ask Poland about the value of a wall.
Europe is finally realizing there is orderly migration on one hand and chaos by bandits on the other.

Really sad situation. Poor people deserve better.
To spend their life savings on human smuggling is a pity.