skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The rest is rotting"

Is it, though? Because operations I've been to use every last available ounce of the tree. Trunk and limbs are sawn, small limbs, branches, bark, and offcuts are ground for biomass heating. Yes, it's burnt, but releasing no more carbon than it captured in its lifecycle and to provide a tangible end result that would otherwise be achieved with fossil fuels.

Root stumps rot, yes, but providing a breeding ground for insects and hence birds and small mammals and hence predators. They also fix soil beneficial bacteria and fungi, and having spent all their energy breaking up the soil and then breaking down they prepare the best soil bed for the new tree to take its place and sequester more carbon.

It's not the perfect process, by any means, but wood as a building material is infinitely more sustainable than concrete, gypsum and stone.
iOS Privacy: How we tricked our users into trusting us with their bank accounts
Alright, engineers, let's reference that seminal work: 3 Little Pigs.
Problem not addressed is where does the DIY store get their inventory from and how do they manage it? Is it really better for lots of big local stores to warehouse lots of goods and attempt to out-consumer Amazon?

Case in point: I recently wanted a outdoor breakfast table. I went to all the local stores, but quickly noticed their products were the same as what Amazon and Wayfair had, only 10x more expensive. Would the carbon footprint of the Amazon warehouse + Fedex delivery for mine be 10x worse than that of the yard and garden stores’ shipper + warehouse?
How well do you remember 4th July 1996? The internet was a very different place.
Very reminiscent of the movie Her, where the main character worked at a letter writing service you could pay someone to write thoughtful letters to family and friends.
I agree that 4 GiB is too low for browsers these days (and has been for years) but but that is only because the web is so bloated. But 4 GiB would also be a waste on any kind of thin client. Plenty of local applications should run fine on that with the appropriate OS.
If you are going to use life expectancy you should at least not use hyperbole to compare. It would be fair to claim the US spends the most on earth but only gets Polish levels of life expectancy.

Afghanistan is a whole decade off that cohort.
Turning carbon dioxide into valuable products
Your comment is weird.

1. You're assuming Asians are predominantly pro-China in the West.

2. You're assuming that Asians in the West can't be brainwashed by anti-China propaganda.

3. You're assuming that Asians (Japanese, Indians, Koreans, etc.) are aligned on political views. Even East Asians aren't aligned.

4. You're assuming that the Chinese/Asian population of tech workers in the West are proportionally represented here.
Was just about to post this.
It's super easy to get ooms and seg. Faults in Julia. For a while there this past year you couldn't even Ctrl c to stop the Julia process. It's rough for real work imo. Fine for research.
The MOS 7600: 1976 video game chip
I would have preferred a video FaceTime call from the business owner or one of the partners anyway.
No they have everything.

https://turquoise.health/researchers
Ask HN: What subscription services are worth paying for IT professional
O'Reilly seems expensive
Educative?
Coursera?
Brilliant?
Alternatively, "a scalable way to bring a little bit of joy to many people" is actually nice & good.
You’ve just asserted that this is bullshit without explaining why. Could you explain why you feel this is misleading?
It would be great to have a non-patent-encumbered simple file format that's supported everywhere. The fact that this is based on FAT32 might help adoption, everyone's computers can already at least read a BigFAT drive, and BigFAT support could be added at the application level for systems which don't support it at an OS level.
> In school we were socialising for 6+ hours a day

In school you spent 6 hours each day on recess/lunch break? Because I'd argue that in most classes, you aren't exactly supposed to be socializing, but rather, you know, following the class you're in
Diffusion through permeable interfaces: Fundamental equations and applications
Computational storage specs hit v1.0 after 4 years of work
Actually, no, because the variance is so high that the "ballpark" is meaningless.
Tangential - but /should/ shipping rates be low? Doesn't it make sense for it to be expensive to move something from one side of the world to the other?

For example - invasive species, like Asian Carp. Would they be so prevalent fresh water bodies around the world if we shipped (by sea) as much as we have in the past?

Cost of labor. If it was cost prohibitive to ship across the world, wouldn't much more get manufactured locally? Wouldn't there be more attention to a living wage in developed countries?
Sounds like he should have tried authenticating by lawsuit.
In my opinion, H0LiCOW (H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring) was a bit too much, trying too hard.
In the short term. In the long term, “a way to reduce trust in society”. It is why I assume everything on social media is staged.
I hope I'm not being too short, but why did it take atomic tracking from all your employees to figure that out? You should have known that when you implemented sprints and standups.

I guess that's what I mean by making it my job. It shouldn't be too difficult in small companies to keep track of how much impact unbillable process has. Attend a standup, how long did it take? Probably takes about that long every time, do some quick math. Ask your developers, do they feel it's worthwhile? No? Scrap it, make it shorter.

I can appreciate the impact of unbillable hours on the bottom line, and the impact of uncaught billable hours as well. But surely a PM can manage that without having to track every minute of the day? Set a guideline for billable hours per week, try to enable people to meet it. Be supportive rather than punitive.
At least ~300ft buildings are no problems at all. That's not 25 stories but it's still the vast majority of buildings.
Actually I do think that's possibly what is happening here.

As you say the Russians aren't amateurs, but at the same time they've massively overstepped their mark this time and have galvanised action against them that possibly didn't particularly have the will before, since they poured a lot of money into platforms that would promote Russia's propaganda (hard and soft).

It seems that currently no amount of money can whitewash what they're doing. Of course that might change again in the future.
SHIB (Shiba Inu) was created by Ryoshi, and launched in 2020. The Ethereum blockchain is associated with high gas fees, which is why SHIB developers have moved their tokens to other blockchains, such as Solana or Binance Smart Chain.

CoinMarketCap estimates Shiba Inu’s total supply as 589,735,030,408,323 SHIB. Shiba Inu (SHIB) is traded on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges, such as Binance, Coinbase, Kucoin, FTX, Gate.io, Kraken, Mexc among others.

SHIBA INU (SHIB) Price Prediction 2022

The price of Shiba Inu (SHIB) coin has been varying between $0.00003198 at the resistance4 level and $0.00001967 at the resistance1 level in recent months, and touched the $0.00000618 support2 level and $0.00000949 support1 level.

Irrespective of this sideways movement in the price of SHIB, we can deduce the following:

1. The price of Shiba Inu coin (SHIB) is expected to breakout at the $0.00001967 resistance1 level, which was the history at that price. SHIB’s price might surge higher to the $0.00003178 resistance4 level before it reverses, due to the formation of a triple top.

2. Until a double bottom is formed, a reversal at resistance 1 may cause the price of SHIB to decrease further up to support2 level at $0.00000618. This could lead to a bullish reversal.

In the meantime, we are anticipating a bullish long-term Shiba Inu (SHIB) price prediction in 2022 since many psychological barriers are likely to be broken. We can expect SHIB to reach $0.00005 this year.
Maybe helpful:

https://github.com/mlco2/codecarbon

Also:

https://github.com/hubblo-org/scaphandre
> If I had to wish something from Julia, it would be to provide a way to turn off runtime optimization to (radically) speed up compile times for purposes of debugging.

100% agreed on that. I've tried a Julia alias with `--compile=min --optimize=0` options passed in to try to say "please give me responsiveness over runtime performance", but it's still not quite the smooth flow I'd like it to be.

> Dynamic Binding

Beyond performance, it sounds like dynamic binding would have the same hard-to-debug action-at-a-distance problems that global variables often land you in, so I'm not sure it's worth it. (The specific case the author mentions would also lead to type stability problems, but that's maybe beside the point.)

> Structural editing

It's hard to process things from gifs, especially since I can't tell what the starting point of the gif is. It vaguely gives me the impression of the Emmet plugin for HTML development [1].

> I am aware julia has a --lisp mode, but I have never found any documentation for it. So, I don’t agree that all the things in julia are well-documented either :).

Afaik, the `--lisp` mode is intended to be sort of an easter egg, rather than a real mode for practical coding. I doubt many people use it other than Jeff himself. :)

The author doesn't say everything in Julia is well-documented by the way, or even mention Julia documentation. There's just complaints about the Lisp ecosystem's lack of documentation, and perhaps from that an implication that Julia has better docs, but I doubt the author would say all the things are well-documented - there's still quite a way to go for that to be the case.

Overall, the article left me more curious to explore Lisp, not less. It didn't feel particularly gloomy, and exposed me to many features of the language that make me really want to try it out. I hope there's more articles like this - in the sense of being intended for a general (non-lisp) audience, and talking about specific features rather than just "it expands your mind, it's programming like you've never done before" type statements.

[1] https://emmet.io/
Question: Are you a programmer? If so, what is you opinion on ligatures? Do they help in readability of code?
In this case prices falling is likely a good thing. One of the reasons shipping prices are so high is because suppliers are shipping earlier than they would to make sure they hit the market on time. There's no use trying to meet demand for back to school season if your products can't make it to the shelf until October.

This massively pulls demand forward puts stress on already stressed infrastructure and ultimately pushed shipping costs through the roof. As the supply chain stabilizes, suppliers will start building in less buffer for shipping problems and costs will ultimately go down.
And the type of beer they make is known as Trappist Beer, which is what the project is named after. See: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1023/
Here's the one that I got from my fave wine shop. No surprise they went out of business after putting all the effort into their schwag.
https://imgur.com/bNUtLtV

(Handwritten, not a print)
UX Teardown: Fixing Delta's SkyMiles Page
The article itself isn't much better. Great way to turn a nice thing from "Aw, that's sweet" to "Ugh, another piece of emotionally manipulative advertising".
GitHub Down Again?
Probably the second time in 12 hrs.
>Or would you be OK with jokes about skin color

I would, although as with everything it's context dependent. My boss is African and has on more than one occasion got my name mixed up with another colleague (we're white). In a meeting he did it again, realised his mistake and was on the verge of saying something but caught himself. I offered in mock outrage - "Well, all white people look alike - is that it?" to which he burst out laughing as that was exactly what he was going to say. But that kind of humour (whether it's funny or not) is not at anyone's expense. It also took place between colleagues who have worked together for years now and in a setting we're reasonably sure no-one is going to take offence.
Kiwifarms has editorial control, though. Posts advocating swatting or violence are removed, and their users banned.
A worthy cause. Thank you so much for your work. Please keep it up.
Not a startup obviously but the pivot of Berkshire Hathaway after Warren Buffet bought it is pretty incredible. Company started in textile manufacturing in the late 1800's, after buffet bought it he expanded the company until it became the conglomerate we know today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway
How to get blog post ideas as a developer
That doesn't stop the bullies with good grades that are liked by teachers.
Chrome and other modern browsers tune their memory usage taking the current memory pressure into account.
If you _have_ a lot of RAM available, why not use it?
On a 4GB machine, Chrome will _not_ use 5.2 GB for 3 YT videos and a bit of GitHub.
I don't see how pop culture is a-okay as a naming scheme but this lekker cookie isn't. It is in fact pop-culture in its own way.

Sci-fi names tend to be tiresomely similar since they overuse gods names and anglocentric concepts
The problem was not that you explained your reasoning but that you did so inappropriately for your intended readers. This is explained clearly in Lawrence McEnerney's Leadership Lab courses: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lawrence+McEner...
I got lost on the last example: `(foo (bar))` -> `(foo (novel) (bar))`. The diff that adds `novel` and a pair of parentheses seemed impossible -- wouldn't you also have to delete and re-add `bar`?

Writing this comment it occurs to me that the structural diff doesn't translate to plaintext very well, and thus is not accessible to folks with red-green colorblindness.
rsync.net retains the last 7 days backup (via zfs snapshots) for free though. That's enough retention period for many people. You can add more of you want, but you'll pay for the extra storage usage.
Fucking marketers just want to destroy all sincerity in the world.
I just used this seminal work to make clear why people build houses/castles and walls from concrete and not from Timber/Lumber...
I do wonder if every marketing study actually has the conclusion "almost anything you do will increase sales as long as it's something the customer hasn't seen before". The Novelty Effect is real.
49 cents per piece for a non-first class postcard is quite a bit, and that doesn’t include handwriting. (They want 2.99 for a handwritten card and outer envelope)

I’d be interested in learning more about just their handwriting tech and if they could parse it out from the rest of their printing and shipping process
No resource to hand to show you, but one starting point may be how it has pushed functional programming 'to the masses'. The => operator makes it so easy to drop in a callback or whatever.
This enables you to simiulate a snooze function in Outlook: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-convert-your-inbox-to-do-...

But the best Outlook tip is to either stay on top of your mailbox by taking action on incoming messages immediately, or let go of that ambition and accept you do not read everything and need to be reminded by others now and again.
It's not the end of the world, but there are significant disadvantages. For example, it makes it difficult for generic libraries to expose stable interfaces. The interface is 'use any type that doesn't make this exact implementation break', rather than (e.g.) 'use any type that implements these traits'. So you could potentially upgrade from v1.0.0 to v1.0.1 of a library and find that instantiating a generic function with a particular type no longer compiles. If you want to know why it doesn't compile, you'll just have to dig into the implementation of the library.
Neurotypical Peers Are Less Willing to Interact with Neurodiverse (2017)
Oh yeah. It was a good day when the ducks name turned up! The "plural animal" thing references pandas / polars, which are like the OLAP version of ducks. Good near-homonym too. Index? In ducks!

The API layer sounds like a great application. Anywhere there's at least 1000 or so Python objects in memory, ducks will greatly speed up finding the subset you need.

Appreciate the positive feedback!
> Would the carbon footprint of the Amazon warehouse + Fedex delivery for mine be 10x worse than that of the yard and garden stores’ shipper + warehouse?

+ driving to and from the store.

Amazon delivers to hundreds of houses in the same neighbourhood, I'm sure it is almost always more carbon efficient than buying yourself in a local shop.
“Most” Americans do not skip procedures due to cost. About 1/3 have (https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/americans-chall...) and that is mostly dental procedures.

That is an atrocious number and something that needs fixing but we don’t need to exaggerate it to make that true.
No, it is an argument against bad policy. The law makes sure different ethnicities immediately become competitors. They are because the metric demands it. Hard for someone in public service to understand, I guess.

Also an old trick of toxic middle management. How do you keep people below you from eating you alive? Treat some of them better than others. They will focus on conflicts among each other instead of holding you accountable.

Wake me up when this increases the compensation of anyone.
It's not "bringing joy", it's emotional manipulation. Intent matters. This isn't any better than MLM people pretending to be your friend in order to sell you tupperware.

In a single naive interaction, sure, it may bring joy. But repeated at scale throughout society, it creates distrust by being insincere and devalues sincere expressions of kindness, harming everyone.
For robots.
Last I checked, another program feature is help from domestic customers that require rad-hard, high-performance chips. That may influence the architecture significantly. In theory, domestic customers add significant resources and speed to the program.
people like to feel important. Even more so if they are not.
This!.

Your post touches on several key points.

The US "anti-subsidy" laws where they put duties on products they deem were government subsidized, while CORN is massively subsidized.

"Subsidies for corn—the most abundant crop in the United States—have far surpassed those for any other crop, estimated to have totaled more than $116 billion since 1995."

One has to question the logic here. Use tax dollars to subsidize the price of corn, which leaves the country awash in HFCS and "ethanol" to find creative ways to get rid of all the corn. Then attempt to tax the HFCS later?

Seems removing the subsidy would cause the price of HFCS to raise but we cant do that due to powerful lobby groups?

These "sugar taxes" always have so many exemptions to feed some special interest groups requirements creating an ever-increasing complex set of laws.
This is a step by step process. The author has some prior experience, probably, but let me try to outline something from my own journey.

As you take small steps, you need to start with small targets.

In my second internship, my mentor shown me a PC, and said "This is yours". Then produced a Nokia 7110 and a serial cable for said phone. He continued: "We need this phone to send SMS messages, via an application on this PC". Catch: The PC had no OS, and the software he wanted was nonexistent.

I said OK, and he asked: You know Linux, right? I truthfully said "Installed a couple of times, spent time with it." He produced a Debian 3.0 CD from a drawer, and said "Let's see whether you can install this" (Debian was hard, then).

My first target was to get Debian run on that system, then make it connect to the network.

Then, I learnt how to install and manage packages on it via "dselect".

Next, I managed to found the user manual of the phone to find out that it has a serial modem on it. I also found the AT reference guide for the phone the same day IIRC.

Next day I managed to connect it via minicom, talk with it and send a couple of SMS messages to myself.

With the knowledge I had, I found how to talk with that phone over C (Thanks Beej, and his guides). In 6th day, I was sending messages. In 8th day, the tool was a daemon waiting for messages via a specified port in a specified format.

The IT department written file watching daemons and embedded to their systems, allowing them to create many many "wire traps" inside system to detect when something went wrong. That system worked for 6 years and saved enormous effort by notifying from the right place, at the right time.

This experience allowed me to discover Debian from top to bottom. I still use Debian, still do the research same way, and move step by step, because I built the confidence over that week.

The key is proverbially "not looking down", and just "thinking the current mile", like a marathon runner. You're a web developer? I don't care. If you start from the edge of your knowledge and just walk, you can go great distances. The target is incidental here. A Quake port, an SMS daemon, something bigger/smaller... Doesn't matter.

What matters is going somewhere new, learning something you don't know. Then you can build upon this. One day, you may find yourself beyond the people who inspired you, which happened to me without noticing, but it's a story for another time.

If you want to talk on this further, you can also reach me via my webpage (see my profile), or we can continue via here.

P.S.: I still have the AT Reference Guide, both digital and in printed and bounded form. :)
Good lord, sugar taxes were a way to stifle competition, not do anything for public health.

As an example in Seattle, Starbucks was exempt even though you can buy a 450 cal drink in a few seconds.
Google will update ad destination requirements policy
Weird Interviewing Techniques Top Tech Companies Use
There are various scopes to consider.

Scope 1: the fuels you burn on site to generate heat/cooling or electricity.

Scope 2: the electricity you import on site probably burns carbon so it has a carbon factor you can find that on your utilities website (most likely). Imported electricity in kWh x carbon factor tCO2e/(delivered)kWh = emissions in tCO2e - you may want to start here with the location, grid electricity and expected electricity use.

Scope 3: are the emissions made off site to make materials that are imported on site to make the business run.

There are no hard rules to do this analysis. Most of it is a linear approximation. Most people don’t publish analysis beyond scope 1/2.

It’s really important to list assumptions and sources. Good luck.
Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson Helps Develop Test
In a vacuum ...

It does not seem reasonable that 20% of a countries economy is spent on health care.

Just as it doesn't seem reasonable for the cost of healthcare to be ~12% of the household income for a family (third highest living expense).
The guy who made the nazi pug video might disagree.
I just moved to New England. There are firewood, egg and produce stands everywhere like that. When my new flock of chicks is laying, we'll probably do the same (we don't eat the eggs or the chickens, we just like the pets). Part of our property is a blueberry field and our neighbor is going to let us run a upick through their property, since it's closer to our field than our house is. I love communities like this.
That's a great mapping tool! Yes, much of NYC would be the exception that proves the rule. However, if you turn on the R-1 to R-4 layers (which corresponds to single and two-family housing with off-street parking required for each unit), you see vast swathes of Queens highlighted in yellow, much of it within a very short walk to rail transit. Check how strict the requirements are for an R-4 Infill development (and then realize that that is much much easier than densification of any other NA city R zoning that I'm aware of)
99% of FDIC receiverships happen over the weekend without a customer disruption.

Multiple accounts in use greatly increases the chance that you have the money but it’s in the wrong place.