skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it might depend on the brand. This is the approach Rolex is taking, for example. They haven’t ramped production yet the brand is stronger than ever. The secondary market is able to set higher prices than dealers so that is where the volume is found. I don’t see that tactic working outside of veblen goods however.
I still play (and enjoy) Minecraft SMP even after all these years.
The irony of the tweeter complaining about nuclear being shut down in favour of wood is that it's the hand-wringing of environmentalists that caused them to side with fossil fuel companies and make us continue to depend on oil, gas and coal in the first place. Now they're doing it with wood, complaining about imperfect implementations to give up on the concept while we burn gas and make things out of plastic.

More demand for sustainable wood means more wood planted means more CO2 captured. More wooden furniture and housebuilding material means more CO2 sequestered. Eventually it will rot but anything that ages and is still needed will be replaced, leading to a constant net reduction in atmospheric CO2, like a capacitor.

Fossil fuels are the alternative, not nuclear - and that's the green movement's fault.
I had one for a long time that wasn’t immediately obvious, but if you got it you got it: IMAYHOO

I later added a ‘Did you Yahoo!?’ license plate frame and more people seemed to get it (and not think phrases like ‘I may hoo?’).
In the Q&As at the end Stroustrup does give us yet another version of the "We can just do that in C++" safety claim -- https://youtu.be/2BuJjaGuInI?t=4749

"I think that the approach I'm talking about with static analysis and rule based... for modern styles can deliver complete safety"

I expect over the next decade or so, a lot more resources will be thrown at unsuccessful attempts to solve this problem.
There are built-in styles. Personally, i find plt.style.use(‘ggplot’) at the top of my scripts to make a big difference.
Sure, you're not buying manufactured pellets, like the majority of burnt wood.
Patagonia Has No More Owners
>I don't often see the term narcissism misapplied that way.

We must not use the same internet.

>Not my opinion alone

As an aside, at what point does "agreeing with someone else's opinion" become a "dog pile"? It's a curious thing, how disgust gets far more firm and powerful with social proof. Before that it's "just your opinion", and we seem to hold such opinions more weakly. But when others hold it too? Well, that opinion just advanced 80% of the way to being a part of your identity.
The absurdity of political correctness, welcome to the dystopia, self-created, self-imposed, draging everybody down with the ship.
I don't have a citation but the wood pellet industry even brags about it. First results on a simple search:

http://www.woodpellets.com/blog/2014/12/01/where-are-the-woo...

https://biomassmagazine.com/articles/16371/report-eu-demand-...
The magic of rust is that it forces all code to go through this static analysis to even compile. You can't avoid it. Even `unsafe` goes through it but with some additional freedom. The language is designed around static analysis, for example there's syntax for lifetimes and mutable/immutable references with their lifetime.

I see no evidence that C++ (or any language) can provide the same level of confidence, without having the same sort of support in the language itself. An analysable fragment of C++ might be a thing; rust level guarantees for the whole language is very unlikely.
The line of thinking that you assume anyone's grievances are immediately legitimate is ... 'bad'.

People whine and cry about any number of things, we have to be conscientious about what constitutes a reasonable grievance.

There is such a thing as objectivity.

I've worked in 4 countries over 25 years and never would have I have seen someone make a legitimate concern over 'being asked to chat later'.

Can I empathize with someone who feels that way? Sure, it's not outrageous, but that person would have to have the self awareness to recognize that it's their issue, and that they likely ought not to bother other people about their problems. I'm sure any decent manager would 'not do it' if asked, at the same time, it's definitely 'an ask'.

This is not an issue of undue pressure or harassment on the part of a manger, not even close.

Adults in the workplace have a minimum responsibility regarding their disposition include emotional maturity, among other things.

This one is not even nuanced. There's no 'workplace problem' here whatsoever.
MS has a lot of jobs, and it won’t ever be great at all of them at the same time. It does have some core values these days which are pretty strongly held (from my limited perspective at the fringe)

My suggestion is that when it fails at a job you care about, instead of dismissing the company as a whole you raise the gap between that particular bit of execution and the espoused values of the company.

That’s how I would raise it internally, because it respects the job people are doing while also suggesting a path for improvement.
Hopefully this will help:

The real number could plausibly be 1/250, after 10,000 samples. More than that would really call for an explanation: if it was 1/100, why didn't we find another one in the first 272?

Also, the real number could plausibly be 1/100,000.0, we've never seen a counterexample. There's nothing bounding the lower end of the range.

The distribution of these probabilities is substantially lower than 273. You can work it out precisely with Bayes' Theorem, if you'd like, this is a verbal explanation of how that sort of statistical reasoning proceeds.
This is how modern wood stoves work either with a catalyst or with oxygenating tubes that sit in the ceiling of the firebox to help more completely burn the soot. Big increase in efficiency and reduction in particulates.

FYI the article is talking about industrial power wood burning, not personal consumption.
> japan chose this path

AFAIK they are contemplating using nuclear again [1]

(This is a recent policy shift, though - so we have to see whether or not they stay on this path)

[1] https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/08/660896401eda-japa...
Operation Dream Job, which was discovered in 2020 is operating again using a trojanized PuTTY SSH Client to backdoor media companies.
Great post. We're in a parallel situation in Vermont: current EPA woodstove using locally harvested wood, fuel oil backup that we use only when we aren't home. We did install a heat pump hot water heater and have been happy with it, but it was replacing electric so a clearer win.

I'm not sure what to make of the Finnish study. Full version is here: https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.02.027. It's hard to know how the elevated levels compare to other sources, since 2x of almost zero might still be negligible. It does mention though that the "PCDD/F level exceeded the emission limit in Europe for MSW incinerators" so maybe it's real.

One other factor that might help us remain "smug" about our modern wood stoves is that the Finnish study was done on sauna stoves without secondary combustion and with high flue gas temps. I suspect the results might be completely different for compliant woodstove with good secondary and much lower flue temps. Of course, different might end up worse.
Ok, so what kinds of things should a person in that state be considered capable of consenting to?

My experience is that treating addicts as ineligible to exercise their own agency only serves to further alienate them and fuel their abuse.
> Do people actually think ads mean the company's approve of the messages of the content? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't see a terrorist video and think man Proctor and Gamble sure loves terrorists. An ad is just something unrelated to the content on the page, like the buttons. The YouTube logo is on the page. Does that mean I'm supposed to think YouTube stands behind everything on there? Because that's going to get real problematic real quick.

Forget about "people". "People" don't think anything, do anything, or change anything.

A Twitter account ran by two marketers & copywriters ("Sleeping Giants") copied Gamergate's tactics, went viral, and, by making advertisers fear a botted hashtag damaging their brand, these two marketers singlehandedly made YouTube, Facebook, etc more censorious and delete-happy. The effects are still felt today.

It's one of the best viral marketing experiments run in the 2010s after #Kony2012. Absolutely brilliant.
What if I was uncomfortable with a homosexual coworker (and homosexuality actualy is a crime in my country). Would that be OK?
A nice meal is an experience, and the significance of experiences is amplified by sharing - instead of a taste and texture you had once, almost impossible to describe, it becomes a touchstone of a relationship which can be referred back to for comparison or to recall a time in one's life.

There's a way out. Sharing the experience soon after, possibly with contemporaneous notes, can turns it back into a shared experience. Call it a review if you like.
I'm certain I had a FogBugz account at one time, but it must have been on an email address I no longer use; I searched mail, spam, and trash to see if I got one of these invoices.

We need to get even a few dozen people who got the invoice to report to the state's AG for sending fake invoices. This is the type of issue that state AGs love. (For example here's Kansas AG on it: https://ag.ks.gov/media-center/news-releases-test/2015/01/30... ). If all of a sudden they started getting multiple complaints, they will have to answer for it.
YO

I did some of my best fn work in inkscape....

Fuck adobe (and the fact they are on WOZ WAY, ironically)

but if blender (community) set out to make a dope ass SVG illustrator clone with the good tooling that Blender is... Adobe would be fucked.

GIMPs cool - but inkscape needs the UI/UX folks of blender to put their lens on it.

I love inkscape - but their UX needs some love I cannot give it, but the blender community can...
Amongst other reasons it goes against neoliberal policy. I mean, the same policy that liberalized the energy markets and let the free market decide to source the majority of gas from Russia.
Wherever green leftists are in power (and yes, they drive most of the EU Commission's agenda via their huge influence in Germany), things quickly turn to crap.
I can see FTX growing to challenge the dominance of Binance. They definitely have the resources to do so, although Binance have been very innovative in expanding their business.
What kind of layer 3s make sense?
Am the only one who /dislikes/ figma because of its horrific performance? It's a design app and yet it seems to take up more RAM and CPU power than most games and, frankly, much more complex apps.

If Adobe buries Figma and a competitor comes about that can make a responsive application that takes an /appropriate/ amount of RAM and processing power I'd be over the moon.
> I personally think burning wood in housing areas
> should be banned entirely for health reasons

Contemporary pellet burners and inserts are incredibly cost-effective and clean.

Gosh, even heating with peat is ecologically sound if it is extracted nearby.
What safety risk? You’re not going to get meaningful creosote buildup on any reasonable timescale using it so infrequently.

It’s trivial to plug the fireplace when it’s not being used, to mitigate heat loss.
I stand by my assertion that editing a comment after a reply is authored to make the replier look stupid in hindsight is a coward's move.

I give you respect for posting under your real name and having a long history on the site, credit where due, and I hope I've for the most part brought out substantial issues that demonstrate real thought on the issues at question.

But fuck me, the HN community deserves an apology for that bullshit, an apology I've issued many times when I got too heated, but an apology owed nonetheless.
No, because I dislike videos as a source of information. They usually have absolute top tier lecture notes freely available. Like the Constructive Logic course.
That guide keeps mentioning something called RFP, but never explains what that stands for or how to install it.
Add to that, the devastation of Adobe shareholders, who paid $20B for a non profitable company. Whose team will quickly dismantle, as soon as their required retention periods expire. Maybe with a few lost on the comfort of Adobe senior management bureaucracy.
As a free-speech absolutist, I got no problem with this. Unless the speech is threatening the direct physical harm of someone, or violating a law, it should be allowed.

At the same time, everyone else should have the tools to filter, block, and mute speech they do not like. If a tweet or a social media post has a certain word or phrase in it that I don’t like, I should be able to mute that and never see it.

Social media really has become something of a scourge on society.
I find "marine cloud brightening" [0] a lot more interesting. It aims to increase the albedo of Earth by creating more clouds over the oceans e.g. by spraying seawater.

Pro: "If implemented, the cooling effect is expected to be felt rapidly and to be reversible on fairly short time scales.", [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
It's not like computers are that good at multitasking either:

- Lose our ability to focus for longer

Well, multitasking is bad for the caches and any attempts at speculation might have been ruined by the forced task switch

- Prone to errors due to shorter attention spans

Prone to errors due to Spectre and its followups. Some mitigations go as far as disabling hyper threading, due to leaks triggered by the really fast context switching between the two hyperthreads

- Waste time during context switching

Yep, CPUs need time for that too

- Less productivity

Oh yeah.. one old way of increasing throughput was longer time slices for less context switches. Eg the old Windows NTs differentiated on timeslice length in their server and workstation offerings.

it's just that CPUs are still a helluvalot faster than us
The social media companies (Facebook, Google, Twitter) want legal permission to censor us based on our "viewpoint".

Because if they can't do that, they warn, then "dangerous content" will grow out of control.

This seems like a big nope to me.
In my country (EU) the local wood pellet manufacturers use all sorts of biomass that would otherwise be considered junk, such as hulls from sunflower seeds. I find it hard to believe that companies are cutting down trees and using the best parts to make wood pellets, when there is so much demand for that wood elsewhere.

Compared to burning wood directly, pellets burn a lot cleaner meaning they release a lot less local pollution in the point of use. A friend added a pellet hopper to his wood furnace a few years ago and was amazed that after the switch he had no smoke and very little ash. And he no longer has to go and load it every morning and evening.
> Rust boosters are already actively rewriting PLT history to where `?`-notation is an innovation

To be clear, are they actually denying the influence of Haskell and other languages, or are they just saying that `?` notation is something new in their experience, and better than what's available in current popular languages? IMO, there's nothing wrong with the latter.

> not a syntax for a somewhat broken, highly limited notion of effects distinct from computation. There are effect contexts not only richer, but critically more important than `Either`, e.g. `StateT`.

So are you concerned that the hype around Rust will prevent people from discovering Haskell and using it in situations where it would be an even better choice? I guess that could happen, but IMO promoting something less dangerous than C and C++ on the one hand, and more efficient than JavaScript on the other, that people will actually be willing to use for real projects today, is important enough to justify that risk.

> risks I can't even foresee, and the ones I can are all very, very bad.

What are some of those risks you can foresee?
I wonder how much of that is usable though if the core engineering team disapears after this and some adobe team is stuck having to sift through it (to understand and way later be able to add to it).
> I personally think burning wood in housing areas should be banned entirely for health reasons.

What about for cooking? Smoking meat requires the use of wood splits being used to build a wood fire in a smoker.
If it appeared worthy of analysis.
Jeff Geerling, Stably Diffused
(I'm the OP)

My Occam's razor guess is that they just didn't want to sell, and they could've remained independent via IPO so the price had to be very high to get it done. Another huge offer would be sufficient but not necessary to drive this valuation, Figma was a beast of a company independently.
I firmly believe you need a software problem / idea to go with your learning. When you run into problems fixing / making what you want, search for what might help you.

Like most algorithm courses are fairly abstract form of programming (writing a line of code) where as a working programmer is a software engineer constrained by time and resources. This means that for example this algorithm course, it teaches you to generalize your solutions but that's not always realistic goal, or even desirable goal, in software engineering, and you might find out this if you implement one of the algorithms to do something for you in a small program.

Applying what you've learned in some software project of yours constraints you nicely such that you can't waste your time reading stuff from cover to cover.
The reason why you have to reinvent lisp when you go deep enough is that if you are not, it is getting too hard and too confusing.
Check the new Sketch versions. They have moved forward. The app is snappy and you have browser integration for comments and handoff. Using one app for all your design needs in my personal view is limiting.

There are a lot of prototyping tools : Framer. Marvel. Proto.io. Principle.

Basically the safest bet always is to follow the old wisdom:
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.:)
> But the reality is more complex than this thread claims.

Disagree - I think it is very simple and you are over-complicating, which is what the EU bureaucrats do to obfuscate their bad decisions bc they do not want accountability for what they do.

Let me simplify:

- past and present decisions by EU bureaucrats = bad

- nuclear energy = good

There. Now the EU people know who to blame and what to do.

But the EU leadership is like - "Hubbuduh hubbuduh, blah blah..."

It's distraction. Don't fall for that politic shit.
With caches now partitioned in all browsers, and CDN-hosting your code now strictly a worse option overall, it's becoming rarer and rarer for this extension to activate in my browser. I'm likely to uninstall it soon, which is a good thing.
It doesn't matter whether it's in person, or in messaging.

It's perfectly acceptable for a manager, and not remotely 'lacking in manner or courtesy' for a manager to say 'Can we chat later at 1?'.

I've been working for 25 years in 4 countries, I don't know a person who would think otherwise.

The individual here is perfectly within their rights to 'feel anxiety' in any given situation, bu they lack the emotional maturity to recognize their special condition.

It is not a normal human emotion to have anxiety because your manager asks to chat, which should be frankly a very common occurrence.

I completely and fundamentally disagree with your 'if you ask around people will agree with this'.

If you ask the question as 'do you find it problematic or anxiety inducing or lacking in courtesy when your manager asks to chat later without context' - then you've 'led' the answer and might likely create some kind of intellectualized rhetorical response.

But - if you actually observe people in any workplace, collect myriads of messages, and then ask them after the fact to identify when their managers were 'not courteous' without highlighting this specific issue, it will not pop up unsolicited.

It's total bullshit rhetorical nonsense.

If your manager says 'Hey can we chat after lunch?' - you say 'sure' (unless you can't) and then that's that. It's utterly normal.
Tekken 7, I have recently started and I really like the complexity of a 3d fighter. Major plus is that its a 1v1 competitive game, so all my losses are on me. I can't blame my teammates nor do i have to depend on them to not lose the game.
Important to note that this 5th Circuit ruling conflicts with the 11th Circuit's ruling. And SCOTUS had previously reinstated an injunction against this very same law.

And this 5th Circuit opinion has very idiosyncratic reasoning [0, just the first few pages will blow your hair back]. A sample:

"In urging such sweeping relief, the platforms offer a rather odd inversion of the First Amendment. That Amendment, of course, protects every person’s right to 'the freedom of speech.' But the platforms argue that buried somewhere in the person’s enumerated right to free speech lies a corporation’s unenumerated right to muzzle speech."

How the 1st Amendment might protect a corporation's religious POV but not its exercise of editorial control is a very good question. I'm not saying this very conservative SCOTUS won't adopt the 5th Circuit's reasoning, but it still seems unlikely. In my view -- much more likely is that they resolve the Circuit split by adopting the 11th Circuit's view wholeheartedly.

[0]: https://techfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2022-09-1...
Since you brought up pollution, you should be more specific about what that pollution is. Every form of energy has potential for pollution, and the pollution from fossil fuel is entirely different from what might be considered pollution from nuclear. The nuanced view is to weigh the pros and cons of each form of energy and evaluate the acceptable level of risk. The simplistic view is to state that pollution is bad and call it a day. Nowhere did I say that pollution doesn't matter, but apparently you have that perception for some reason.

> What you also seem to ignore is the scale of risk.

This is a description of what you have been saying, not what I've been saying.

> Nuclear has tail event risks (Fukushima, mass pollution)

I challenge you to go look up exactly how many people died or got cancer as a result of Fukushima. The amount of damage to human life from all of the nuclear disasters that have happened combined doesn't come close to the amount of damage caused by fossil fuels.

> Unlimited energy with zero risks and pollution, I would totally agree.

If it takes a completely hypothetical scenario with completely unrealistic expectations, that's incredibly childish. Zero risks? Are you kidding? That's what it takes for you to agree? Incredible.

> More risks: unstable countries using waste to build nuclear weapons.

As if they're not already capable of this?
The day I'll need to check Sketch again will come, I'm afraid.

No worries about my eggs - I do use Framer, Proto.io and tons of others. Mostly because each of them is missing something :-)
Do you mean RX 6700XT? 5700XT performs worse than 1080Ti in two benchmarks I checked and I can't even find any to buy :/ Cheapest 6700 I can find is 470€ and does perform slightly better. I just might get that when the prices come down a bit further, thanks.

Edit: Also, 2017 level performance in 2022 shouldn't cost 2017 level prices.
This is like fanzine writing, combative and narrow. If the history of the literary evaluation of Tolkien really interests you, I'd recommend Steve Walker's The Power of Tolkien's Prose (2009). It is short, readable, and calmer and better informed than TFA.
> The distribution of these probabilities is substantially lower than 273.

There's no evidence for this, you can't just point to "there's a lot of numbers and we only saw 273 of them" to justify it. The distribution seems exactly what we're trying to determine; to me it sounds like a good example of when Bayesianism breaks down.