skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some trees can grow over a century. Some can't. Some trees growth top out by 50 years and then grow incredibly slowly (sequestering carbon at a much slower rate). Some grow for 300 years and sequester carbon at a constant rate. Which is why it's called woodland _management_.

"Having survived multiple forest fires" says a lot to me. Surviving a forest fire still invokes a huge release of otherwise captured carbon for no gain. Harvesting trees for timber means the bulk of the tree sequesters carbon into the structure, and the waste byproduct can be utilised to provide energy for the process.

With the correct tooling and processes, it's as close to carbon neutral as you can get.
Ok, I'm piqued. Can someone point to a resource that shows modern JavaScript in a way that would be palatable to snobs like me who think that Scheme is height of fashion and Haskell would be better if only it had a fancier compiler.
In the latest (that I can find) Excel team's Reddit AMA [0], Python was not addressed at all.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m22uc6/we_are_the_mic...
mid 2000 4 GB was standard

I don't think so. From [1], in 2006 a Dell XPS M1710 costs $2,845 and had 1Gb of RAM. Inflation adjusted, that's $3,550, so a pretty high end system for the time. Today, you can get a 16Gb laptop for well under $1000. That's a 16x capacity increase in about as many years for 1/4th the price.

[1] https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/06/07/cost-of-a-co...
Why would I trust a company that both has a business incentive to lie, has the technical ability to hide it (so many factors go into ad targeting that it's impossible to confidently say which information was used for its targeting), has proven its bad faith several times such as with their non-GDPR compliant "consent" flow that up until very recently didn't give you an option to decline (despite being required by the GDPR), is a monopoly and has lock-in (email addresses aren't portable) and operates in a regulatory environment where the regulators are asleep at the wheel (GDPR enforcement is severely lacking especially for such big companies even when blatant bad-faith is demonstrated)?

If you still believe them, would you be interested in a bridge? I have one for sale at a very good price, email in my profile!
Well put. If they just would say "less carbon intensive than using concrete or bricks", I would buy it. But carbon negative is just a straight up lie.
Skills-based learning is the key to improving ROI in education
What If Obesity Is Nobody’s Fault?
> It doesn't stop Nazis from existing though (or even knowing about, visiting and supporting the site).

This approach is making perfect the enemy of good. There is no perfect way to solve this problem.

> If we do the same thing with KiwiFarms, we just make it harder to monitor and easier for serial-abusers to collaborate.

It's still a website, it's still accessible. That part hasn't gone away. If the contention is that launching TOR somehow means it's "harder to monitor" then I have some news for you: Lots of monitoring of darkweb stuff goes on every day.
There is a lovely tale from Czech Republic in 2001 where Philip Morris was distributing analysis showing the economic benefits of smoking to their shared healthcare pool.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB995230746855683470
Haha. This reminds me how I was failed an exam for electronic circuits in university. The teacher was giving us some brief formulas without going over why the formulas made sense. When it came to solving the problems in the exam, I used the unpacked formula step by step (that's how I studied it to prep up) and came to a good result. He failed me and told before everyone that one student (me) detailed the solution in too many steps, and you don't do that. Funny thing is that the colleague behind me, who copied what he could see from my paper, passed the exam. He didn't copy all the details :))
You say that as if the people running KF didn’t know what the site was for. And a publicly known reason for that website’s existence is because bullies need a place to coordinate harassment.

Having the power to shut that place and therefore behavior down but choosing not to means they were complicit. Deplatforming works, the influx of new bullies shrinks when you make their place less public.
Just a small joke :)
> Musk

Space internet, especially on every phone anywhere is huge improvement.
So this is a category error much like saying French is not a type of poodle. I assure you, it is, just as, well, two can play at this game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trappist_beer .
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/05/world/thwaites-doomsday-glaci...
I am still not over the whole Biscoff scandal.
And what are those steps? OpenGL Programming and Objective C?

Asking seriously. Those kind of feats are amazing :)
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As I've got a Mastercard debit card, doesn't that just work anywhere in the world that accepts Mastercard?
Well I use a credit card for almost all my purchases and I don't even need access to my bank to make my monthly payment. I wouldn't split my cash equally between two banks either. That seems silly. If for whatever reason my bank went bankrupt I'd simply open a new account and change my direct deposit at work. It's not really a show stopper. Plus there's federal insurance on all accounts up to 250k.
Wheat is hard to grow in permanent twilight. And, with no water, because it is all frozen onto the night side.

This is no more earthlike than Mars.
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders from a few years ago has this exact premise. It was nominated for a Hugo - I thought it was just OK.
If you can get away with just that, it is definitely the happier end of the spectrum.

Most organisations have a tao and it’s fit in or fuck off. So if they use Jira then so do the staff. And being scolded for a ticket status
not being updated can be a thing.
I'm amazed by the number of people here that think 16 or even 8 gigs are "enough" for everyday use.
Sure you CAN live like that but it's noticably painful with even the most pedestrian of usage.
open a browser and a handful of tabs, there goes 4 gigs, open some messengers and you got another couple gigs gone. maybe that's fine as long as browser and messengers are literally all you do but the machine becoming painfully slow to use as soon as you go from background level usage to any sort of productivity is not "good enough" by a long shot IMO
“How do we scale that feeling that someone got a personal handwritten note” is really dystopian.
One example: MySQL table locks. The application can do in parallel what the database can't.
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> Middle iq people

What a sad way to categorize people.
So, they would basically look the same when looking at them through my space suit helmet.
A big one is you can’t scroll through a thread on Twitter anymore without it demanding a login for many people, and if you’re running an adblocker thread reader is easier to read.
Great execution of customer service (before they abandoned their retail business to 3rd party merchants and commingled garbage) was certainly a big factor in their success, but so was taking advantage of the fact that people would not pay the use tax they owed for purchasing items without sales tax from out of state sellers.

This effectively gave Amazon a ~7% pricing advantage against businesses with physical presence in a state, and Bezos has mentioned it was a factor in choosing to be based in Washington rather than California, so as to not have to collect and remit sales tax to California’s 40M residents.

The Supreme Court changed this in Jun 2018 when it ruled that states could collect sales taxes from sellers without physical presence in the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_v._Wayfair,_Inc.
Plus one for the dislike camp. That vim calls them “conceal characters” gives me a bit of a chuckle for some reason.
There’s the famous "random" font Beowulf [0], and also a list of such fonts [1].

[0] https://letterror.com/fonts/beowolf.html

[1] http://luc.devroye.org/randomizedfonts.html
I like the idea of adding SINGME files to my repos from now on
Don't say "No". Just tell the interested parties that you are not looking for funding or M&A at this time. At present you are concentrating on building according to the roadmap you already have. Once you are in need of money for further growth, you will certainly give them a call. You will be keeping then in your contact list.

That should help you keep the channel open for future.
I like the idea. Making it backwards compatible with FAT means that, in principle, regular FAT filesystem implementations could be transparently changed to support big fat files (hehe) transparently.

However, reading the spec, it doesn't look fully backwards compatible? It seems like there are file structures which are possible to represent in FAT which aren't possible to represent in BigFAT. In FAT, I could have a 4GB-128kB size file called "hello.txt", and next to it, a file called "hello.txt.000.BigFAT". A FAT filesystem will show this as intended, but a BigFAT implementation will show it as one file' "hello.txt". That makes this a breaking change.

I would kind of have hoped that they had found an unused but always-zero bit in some header which could be repurposed to identify whether a file has a continuation or not, or some other clever way of ensuring that you can represent all legal FAT32 file structures.
I believe using .half() lets you run Stable Diffusion on graphics cards with less vram
Maybe not to the same degree but `see` for python: https://pypi.org/project/see/
I would try to dig deeply into the root causes for lower enrollment and retention. If you discover unequal treatment, target that.
Individuals have sued them repeatedly and lost; the case I remember best is a woman called Melinda Scott. Here's an explanatory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iqkpN9a6q8
So this happened. I looked at wikihouse many years ago for a project.

I really liked the idea and team but (at least at the time) it was still very new.

Too much risk to take on for individual homeowner and it was cheaper for me to get a local contractor who had experience in developing what I was after.
If only wormholes stopped being "theoretical structures"
All that stuff still exists, it just exists in the multiplexer instead of the editor. That's my point. I don't need it in the editor. I just need it.

Even better! It's not useful for just Lisp! It works for python, bash, whatever. That's not a bug, that's a feature. It's simple, lets the editor be the editor and the multiplexer be the multiplexer. It's much more "vim zen" than importing an entire repl process into the editor.

I've always known about slimv, I just like vim-slime better. My only complaint is that when it copies and paste texts around it's slower using interprocess communication than it is using TCP. But the nice thing I can see exactly what's happening instead of having it all hid from me. Makes debugging problems much easier.

Even describing slimv as a "mode" belies its emacs-ness. Vim doesn't have major and minor modes. It has insert mode and normal mode, that's it.

I don't even use fugitive. Why do it when the git CLI is faster? I've already learned the cli, why do I have to learn an entirely new set of commands to do the same things I already know how to do? Especially when I'm using vim inside GNU screen? C-a 2, boom, I'm in a CLI. Switching back and forth is a breeze. I have a few key bindings in vim that allow me to see the git blame line of a particular line, that's it.

Don't turn vim into a user interface for $x. Embed vim into other user interfaces. Vim plugin for intellij, vscode, vim inside a multiplexer, ... This works much better in my opinion.
Clip-Mesh: Generating textured meshes from text with pretrained image-text model
I agree.

Also, if people are so uniquely skilled that each and every task can only be made by a specific person (excuse me, "human being") then your bus-factor is 1 and a single person leaving, getting sick (or indeed, hit by a bus) means death for the project.. That's terrible.

It's entirely reasonable to think of work and people using separate terms, I'd argue it's probably healthy too.. Now, that's not the same as ignoring personal preferences where they apply, for instance, when allocating resources to a task or project, of course, consideration should be taken when possible, "oh, person X hates doing this, but Y loves it, sure, X is slightly stronger at it, but we let Y do it, then they're happier and Y gets stronger too"

I consider myself as being around a 1.3x javascript resource for backend, a 0.8x for frontend, and around a 0.5x resource for C++ (meaning I'll spend twice the amount of time doing the same task as someone I consider a 1x C++ resource).
There's a reason that high-end* retailers require their sales people to send hand-written thank you notes: it works. My wife works in this space, and says it's an incredibly important part of the customer retention process.

Tech people always ridicule written communication, but then idolize Japanese culture, where written communication is so massively important. Funny how that mental disconnect works.

* By "high end" I mean the sort of place where customers routinely spend $90,000 in a single purchase, and several million per year at a single store.
in emacs you can compare buffers (emacs terminology for windows or tabs) without saving them.
That's an Herstal thing and it's already being used but for a different kind of products, not for space stuff.
I worked in pluto for a bit. I should give that another shot. If there is an easy way that someone simply runs the script, and it doesn't try to fire off plots, that would be the ultimate in self documenting code.
Reminded me of the protagonist's profession in Her[0]. At that time, I wasn't entirely convinced that that would be a viable profession but here we are. Already.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)
Solar power production on the day side would give amazing efficiency, except for maintenance hell maybe.

I wonder if we could extract energy in other ways, like using the cold side for data centers (cheaper AC), or large pipes to extract the moisture from the cold side and heat it in the day side, to generate energy.
Legacy Kansas State football coach agrees: https://www.staugustine.com/story/sports/2014/12/26/snyders-...
Well this flies in the face of everyone who thinks the biggest stumbling block to learning mathematics is the “obscure notation”. There’s nothing obscure in this discovery, but there is genuine invention involved. Something more than can be taught by rote, or using different notation.
PolyAI lands $40M to handle contact center calls automatically
I find it less distracting with all of the chrome around each tweet. It combines them into a single block of paragraphs.

Twitter on the Android app works well for reading a thread, but on the webpage it is frustratingly cluttered. Admittedly I do have an adblocker so don't see the ads on thread reader.
Haha, mobile phones came with snake at the time. No one expected to be browsing the internet on them (which had barely passed into mainstream use). I remember around the time my dad's friend coming over with his work laptop (a rare thing at the time) to show us "the internet". Everyone just assumed a lowest common denominator resolution and got on with it!
Yeah, but then 2008 happened, finance got sketchy, FAANG CS jobs started to pay more than quant, and all the salary-minded undergrads realized they wanted absolutely nothing more than to write software for a living.
Threadreader doesn’t have an obnoxious pop up killing my access and demanding that I download the twitter app as soon as I scroll down one tweet. Much like with Reddit, I’d rather disengage from the platform than install the app.
And just like that, I bought a book
Being kind only has some ROI if you use it as a machiavellian tool.
Locks ensure you get committed data back and not some data that is in-operation and may or may not end being persisted. If you don't care about it: SET SESSION TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED ;

And SQL can do parallel operations too.
For exactly the reasons you describe, the low hanging fruit is (unfortunately) geoengineering. It is far easier to figure out the scientific engineering to increase the reflectivity of the earth’s atmosphere as safely as possible than to figure out the political engineering to make everyone willingly change their lifestyles dramatically and quickly enough to decarbonize at the rate the planet needs. No matter how you slice it, rapid decarbonization requires some reduction in our perceived quality of life, and that’s a politically intractable problem to surmount.

The only other semi-feasible hanging fruit are technological — e.g. someone figures out a magic bullet for carbon capture, or the price of renewables and battery technology suddenly gets so cheap that the price of fossil fuel energy becomes extremely expensive by comparison.
That's a diffing fantastic blog post, thanks for writing it! Not to mention the actual tool ;) I'll definitely be trying it out
Reinventing the wheel. Hand writing robots at scale was a market for decades from the 1950's. They went away when desktop publishing arrived.
Well, if we view FAT32 + this name convention as a new filesystem, then filesystem drivers could let you transparently operate on files bigger than 4GB (GiB?) and take care of the splitting for you. FAT32 + this convention would essentially become a filesystem which supports files up to around 4TB. You wouldn't have to make the choice between the patent-encumbered exFAT and the open but limited FAT32.
Bytecode and the Busicom Calculator
Any Experiences with LiveCode?
Any experiences - good or bad with LiveCode? I'm trying to decide if it's suitable for internal android apps that need rapid development more than hardware access/super scalability.
A lot of people still need it to work. Not everyone lives in your browser-only world. From teachers that are still using software that comes in CDs to engineers using highly specialized tools that still think the world runs on windows xp.
Half precision models reduce memory requirements without really impacting the final quality much.
Did that. Three times. It's whackamole.

You know why? Because any IP-adress that I can afford, is going to be blackholed.

You make it sound like the blame lies with the Linodes, Digital oceans or even the Hezners or ISPs. This is not their fault. The blame lies, entirely, with Microsoft and Google (And to lesser extend Yahoo) using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.

Again: My IP (the address, not the range) was fine. It had been fine for many years. Why then, must Google and/or Microsoft, randomly, block this address? Why can't they make exceptions for reputable addresses within a range of bad ones? (I know why: they are lazy and use the easy path: just block everything and accept some "collateral damage", especially when that "collateral damage" cements their oligopoli a bit more, and when avoiding that collateral damage not only costs more work, but enables competition to exist (and grow))
Awesome concept, especially for academia ... but is there a value proposition?

I love seeing this, don't get me wrong. I am just curious is there are any real world applications for this?
Peugeot successively made :

- Wheat flour

- Steel

- Saws

- Coffee grinders

- Corsets

- Bicycles

- Cars

You can still buy Peugeot grinders and bicycles.
They have a reputation for targeting people to intensely harass into suicide, with Byuu being a notable victim in the HN/CS sphere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610
don't we know that since dale carnegie?
> Being kind is fine and all,

Being kind is not always necessary, but being respectful goes a long way.

People (especially the type who participate in this forum) frequently equate kindness with weakness. I really get sick of that attitude. It's not an "either/or" thing. It's entirely possible to be kind, and also to have strong boundaries, and real mettle.

Respect is something that is usually (not always) appreciated; even by our enemies.

Cops are often quite respectful to you, as they slap on the bracelets.

> but my one gripe with it is that it doesn’t make me any money.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. These are exactly the types of things that are almost impossible to measure, except in a rather vague way (i.e. "Six months after we started our personalized letter campaign, our sales increased by 30%").
I'm from south America and here we use onions as the base for a lot of dishes
Sometimes the result of thousands of hours of work and thinking end up being summed up in a few sentences. Newton's 3 laws are a perfect example.

Carmack recently said that all the key ideas to create AGI will probably fit in a couple pages, with a basic implementation only being only a few thousand lines of code. I'm very much inclined to believe him.

Once you know how the trick is done, of course it'll seem obvious. But if it was so obvious why didn't you come up with it yourself?

Some people feel the need to write incredibly long texts to explain what they're doing, because it makes the topic seem more complicated.
Isn't this what Linux distributions like Red Hat Enterprise Linux are doing? Providing a secure (among other things) platform on which you can build on?
Yeah, I thought about checking the md5 before wrapping and aborting the run if there was no change, but I like knowing that the process is still working and that nothing stupid happened to my cronfile at some point. Two instances of having a cronfile silently overwritten is two too many for one lifetime.
Have you contacted Hetzner? They claim 0% emission impact https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/umweltschutz/
Youtube apparently knows something that I do not about me ever having had kids.
The CVE landscape has been broken for ages. In a past life I did a lot of work on a bug bounty program and the amount of "I ran some simple tool that says CVE-XYZ is present in your codebase" reporting we received when the relevant code was either dead, ran in a trusted environment, or ran on trusted input was outrageous. Then people would whine about not getting paid.

I do think that organizations should have a process for identifying and triaging bugs in dependencies. But "there are vulns in dependencies" is not itself a compelling narrative because there are vulns in your business' code too. And people sure as hell are getting updates more frequently when using npm or whatever then in the alternative world of "link in some open source code and never update ever for all time."

To me, the more interesting problem is the "malicious actor takes over an npm account and distributes malware" that is more unique to the npm ecosystem. This one is hard. On the one hand developers are expensive and a robust library ecosystem is basically a superpower. On the other hand you really need a trust relationship with your software vendors if you want to be confident you are delivering safe code.
Theyve been at it for half a decade or so. Ignoring compilation times they shuffle the code around so frequently it's only real use imo is for the authors to publish papers and stay three steps ahead of any of it's users hoping for a stable tool after a few cycles give up. It's a shame but it's academia at its finest.