skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's crazy, we could have harnessed nuclear power and solved these issues.

We should be throwing everything have at solving Nuclear Fusion too. Fossil fuels are a limited resource and the energy return on energy invested is only going to get worse. We need to use this short period of easy abundant energy to find newer sources of energy (i.e. nuclear fusion, modern nuclear fission (breeder reactors and thorium, etc.) and deployed photovoltaic cells, hydroelectric dams, geothermal plants, electric transport and industry, etc.

We have the capability, and yet decades of neoliberalism have made governments and the public terrified of any medium to long-term investment. So we've chosen a new Dark Age instead.
Thing is, it‘s true in essence, but talking about this stuff without numbers is completely pointless. It is written in a sensationalist way.

1. Subsidies for wood pellets were a thing but are phased out in Germany.

2. The awareness of some stupid calculations of burning wood come up quite frequently in the German media (the Twitter thread is like 2-3 years late).

3. There are no numbers in the thread about the carbon emitted in the process of producing and shipping wood pellets.

4. Not all wood burned in Germany is wood from the US.

5. Not all stoves in Germany are utterly bad. The tech advanced in recent years.

6. The comparison with coal is kinda dumb, because we had different goals a hundred years ago.

- I personally think burning wood in housing areas should be banned entirely for health reasons.

- I think the general gist of the thread is true: burning wood is at least partially some kind of green washing scheme.

- But the reality is more complex than this thread claims.
In anything Google related (Cloud, Workspace) it's anywhere from 5 minutes to 24 hours+.

As a user, if I have to work around your stuff being eventually consistent, perhaps it shouldn't be?
The single argument in that tweet list is that wood not locally sourced requires transormation and transportation, making its use as a heat source not carbon neutral. Maybe this applies to the UK. But in France, 30% of our land are forests, and these covers 100% of our firewood supplies. In this context, yes, using wood for heat is viable, renewable and (very close to) carbon neutral. As always in this kind of misinformation posts, the author seems to forget that transformation and transportation is also needed for coal. Even at its peak production, France was still dependant on other countries for its supply. Not to mention the impact on both public health and the environment being the primary reason why we stopped mining it at all. Yes, particle pollution is a concern, but burning wood for heat is forbidden anyway in dense areas, and not once in our neighborhood where most houses have wood stove did it ever cause any problem - which it definely could have, since we actually moved to the countryside because of city pollution related health issues my sister were having.
Yeah, with Zola, Hyde, etc. and Github pages there's really no excuse.

Makes it so hard to refer to in the future.
He has stated in several interviews and previous videos that he gives away the money he makes on the channel. Watch the video linked, he says it again on it.
It depends on how much availability you want.
>First, who signs these types of contracts without red lining that, and second, who's actually ever willingly complied with this?

Companies buying software voluntarily accept license clauses about potential software audits -- because they want to use the software.

There are even niche law firms that help defend against software audits. E.g. : https://scottandscottllp.com/autodesk-audits-how-did-autodes...

The rationale for deliberately buying software where the vendor has auditing rights is that the buyer gets more value out of using AutoCAD than worrying about audits.
Something confusing about that chart: the range of the Y-axis doesn't start at zero, and it changes when you adjust the parameters, making it hard to see how changes to the parameters affect the probabilities in question.
> Figures and axis is the OOP interface, and what I always recommend.

No doubt, but half the time when I am looking online for how to do something off the beaten path, I find a documentation page or stackoverflow answer that (only) uses the other interface, and I have to flail about for a while to come up with the OOP equivalent.
This isn't at all how that channel works. Flagrant dismissal of a body of work is explicitly against the Hacker News guidelines. I suggest you review them at the bottom of this page.
I can’t say I’m very fond of making what ought to be a normal sentence into a fucking PowerPoint presentation.
I understand very well. The JDK has the same problem. But both are in better shape than the node ecosystem.

I have no problems with major libraries, and I understand why rust is sometimes slow to stabilize things, even if ut is sometimes frustrating to see the thing you need in there but not ready for prime time.

But minor libraries or deep dependency chains are another thing.

So my hope is to have a few big libearies, subscribing to some standard of stability. You can then make an informed choice between the exciting bleeding edge or the boring stable world.
He has a $10/mo subscription site with a forum.

Turning it into a tax writeoff doesn't make it less exploitative.
All the job ads nowadays require effective multitasking.
You can tell a book is good when, at various points you stop and think 'but what about...?', only for the author to answer the exact question in the next paragraph. Brilliant stuff.
This person was convicted of raping someone. You feel safe interacting with them in person, but others might not.

It would be good to show a bit more empathy. Don’t dismiss them just because you don’t feel the same way.

> diversity and inclusion

Don’t misrepresent what this means. Inclusion is about including people who’ve been excluded through no fault of their own. Is your claim that a convicted rapist has done nothing to deserve to be excluded?
Being Liberal about drug use and addiction as you describe isn't about simple acceptance.

Safe sites and non-punishment are a means to non-judemental paths to treatment and finding other sources of happiness ... not enablement.
Also those pillars still conduct a lot of heat.
Are you stating that the environmental activists that are against nuclear energie are not so because of the possible dangerous but simply because it might be a solution and that would make them obsolete? I am sorry but that argument rings as absurd to me.
yet we're all wondering about others and ourselves :)
I feel like their product development began with the question "how can we sell more ads" instead of "how can we make a good marketplace"?
Yep, I think the reference documentation is quite good. I always direct people to the quick start [0] and then look at the examples [1] to see how things are done. All examples have the plots and self-contained scripts so it's intuitive to search for what you want even if it's hard to describe or google.

[0] https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/introductory/quick_s...

[1] https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/index.html
According to the law in most places, there are no such places that tolerate an "open nazi" because being a nazi is a crime. There are law against antisemitic speech. There are also laws against racism. You don't have to make a decision at all, the decision has been made for you. Well, I guess you have to make a decision to follow the law or not but that's an extreme.

If someone in a conference is open about being a nazi or a racist, you call the police, maybe collect some evidence first, etc. Whatever is needed in your country to report an offense.

And yes, I agree... usually the victim will leave the place, not having enough energy to be an activist on top of dealing with their troubles and/or fearing the consequences. That's unfortunate. But that's where it gets complicated, for the victim. Not for the conference organizers.
Yes you are right, i don't know what i am talking about, i'm clueless, that's why apple watch doesn't last more than a mere day, it's because of me
"DIE" can be a bad thing or a good thing, depending on what is it exactly. Is it a mandate for certain outcomes (which leads to the great leap forward culling and such) or is it a sincere push to look at the pipeline ("STEM pipeline", but obviously it's not just about STEM), look at the actual problems of actual disadvantaged people. (And what are the actual effective solutions for those problems ... and very importantly the broader community must not ignore the mental health aspect of this, which affects both the advantaged and disadvantaged, and both sides need some training to be able to adapt and manage the changes with ease.)
Finland used to do the same. They gave up when they realized that requiring people to reregister their cars after moving was a huge, pointless hassle, plus the original scheme was starting to run out of number space, meaning that big issuers like Helsinki were already using multiple non-obvious letters.
Threadreader: <https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1571063488860286977.html>
Doomberg is also on substack: https://doomberg.substack.com/

If the only metrics on sensibility of fuel is the rate of re-forestation, sure burning wood makes sense, but that's not the only metric. It's heavy and hard to transport and its dirty, both in the micro environment (soot) and the macro (CO2). It's also way less convenient than other forms of heating. Remember: Europe is going through an energy crisis and is replacing mostly natural gas and electric heating with wood. Turning the furnace on with a switch isn't really the same thing as maintaining a wood stove.
I had to learn some low level memory models before I could really grok rust. I understood a bit of C++ but it wasn't until I found the talk about memory structures for rust/c++ that I really caught on. I can understand why knowing existing programming techniques might cause a struggle.

https://youtu.be/rDoqT-a6UFg
With backblaze B2 both of those are not an issue. So not sure.
The Sunday newspaper has limited physical space and probably justifies the ad placement on layout constraints.

Google, on the other hand, has built a multi-billion empire over the premise that they can show every single ad to potential consumers.

So, when Google is showing your ads to people interested in porn, violence and political controversial topics, it is by extension implying that they are your target audience and the ones your product is designed for.
Yes indeed but wrk2 or Vegeta is still better for this particular use case (unless k6 has support for setting a constant RPS rate, afaik it does not), as otherwise the overhead of establishing a new TCP connection for a single HTTP request will dominate the benchmark.
Are the abbreviation tooltips written by hand or generated programmatically? In "Total Cookie Protection (TCP)" it says TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol.
To me the funny thing is that why is this worth bring up in the first place like ppl don't know about it. It's not like communists where they state equality as the goal (how they fare is another topic and you all know how it's like).

We live in capitalism. Isn't this the expect outcome? What else do you expect?
We burn wood for heating and it makes perfectly good sense environmentally and economically. I live in a small village surrounded by scrub and smaller to medium size trees. Typically we rent some land (or use our own) and chop down what is there, or find fallen trees on public land, for use in our central heating wood furnace. It's not old growth forest, it grows back in a few years, and as a result we're not burning fossil fuels. And if you don't mind a bit of labor, it's cheap.
Everyone on Earth is being paid less than they generate for their business. That is true for utterly everyone except equityholders. And your reasoning is completely self-defeating, unless you suggest that this YouTube channel should kidnap their interviewees and force them to get sober under duress. Soft White Underbelly is not the government.

BTW, YouTube still makes money off demonetized videos, since they increase overall viewer engagement; which nullifies your core point.
That I'm just a device for the energy - I don't have another term and I don't want to call it God or something religious/spiritual - to keep dancing.

That's why, if I sit for too long, it makes me move.
That's why, if I move for too long, it makes me sit.
It's simple until you take caching into account
I'm not sure why you feel the word "algorithms" needs the word "math" in the same sentence. I feel math is implied in the word. Like, how we don't need to say "mathematical statistics" or "mathematical calculus".

Anyway, first line of the course description gives you what you are asking for:

> This course is an introduction to mathematical modeling of computational problems
Should I become a people manager?
Rust is working on support for local allocators. They're not far from being enabled to support memory arenas (and even local, pluggable GC!) just as well, or even better than any other language in current use.
I went to a Philosophy conference with a professor friend in the early 2000s. I was standing in a circle talking to about 10 professors. All 10 had some anecdote of Kripke's brilliance with a few questioning why even stay in the field when you could never get to his level.
It's not just that they would be obsolete, there is religious fervor into having those sacrifices and somehow a dislike for growth and progress.
Oh wow... I mean, many of these platforms operate out of California; maybe this is already applicable? (The issue in the case involved a shopping center but the premise of ruling on "taking" is way more general, and cuts to the core of the arguments people have against forcing people to host something. I have only spent a few seconds glancing at this so far, though.)
That is looking really fun for a casual game with friends!
The "I'll fix it later" aesthetic of matplotlib is addressed well by seaborn [1], which is built on top of matplotlib. Seaborn also works gracefully with Pandas. The killer feature for me of seaborn is "sns.despine()".

PyX is new to me, but it looks like it hasn't been updated in a while [2, 3].

[1] https://seaborn.pydata.org

[2] https://pyx-project.org/news.html

[3] https://github.com/pyx-project/pyx
You're thinking in terms of badly designed technologies you are familiar with.

I'm talking just about a solution to the problem at hand:

Instead of storing files on servers controlled by a 3rd party company (and calling it "the cloud"), you store the files on servers that you control (and don't call it the cloud).

I didn't say anything about share point or how the files are to be stored.

This can be a feature builtin to figma or any application that is "cloud native": all you need to configure is the server address.
When I started out there was no plotly. Then plotly required uploading data to their servers. It’s only recently that there’s a real choice IMHO.
This is for everyone and anyone who is interested in opensource. DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE NEW OR OLD. This year, it's going to be awesome. Join in, and let's do hacking.
How to run an event that doesn't suck
Uber hacked, internal vulnerability reports stolen
Well, to quote Carl Sagan, if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

I doubt human technology will be able to create life from organic molecules for at least several decades if not centuries.
“Wittgenstein somewhat struggled to express his insights” is a bit like “Kafka had certain reservations about society”.
Interesting suggestion that MFA Fatigue was to blame, but no specific details from the hacker. The next few days might offer clarity.
Took me 9 months of trial and error in 2018-19, trying it on and off again, before I could understand how to do with rust. Just writing a few programs weren't enough for me to understand, because I was just using what I knew and not what I needed.
Same. Not Switzerland but those fraudulent ads made me delete my account for the last time now.

Facebook is a hostile platform.
I have an ongoing personal list here

https://letterboxd.com/souljacker/list/must-see-docs/
Modern wood burning stoves have catalytic combusters that significantly reduce the emissions coming out of the chimney. They essentially burn the wood, then re-burn the smoke from that fire at a very high temperature (and then sometimes a third time). This results in much lower emissions and much more efficient burning where more heat is extracted.

They're mandated by law in many places now.

Anecdotally, friends in the Yukon used to burn ~10 cords of wood a winter. After upgrading to a catalytic combusting wood stove they now burn about 5 cords. Same house, same wood.
I was the first to grow body hairs in primary school, so some bullies tried to make fun of me calling me yeti. Then I've used that as my nickname, but by highschool internet started coming along and it wasn't unique enough, plus one friend sometimes greeted me with "Hi yeti, hehe!", so yetihehe it was.
‘Quantum Leap’ Review: A Cult Classic in a New Body
Have any of you made a game, not just by yourself but only for yourself?

I haven't (other than some basic terminal-based games when learning new languages, etc), but I've thought of a few that I know I would like but don't want to put in the time/effort to make them something that someone else would like.

I also wonder about what to do when you have an idea that you know is way bigger than yourself, but you're not in the business of producing things that are way bigger than yourself? I've had a few of those, too.
That is a pity. I have heard prescription meds can be game-changing for some people.

If legal, I would think it's probably worth getting a doctor (ie keep going to different doctors until you find a sympathetic one) to prescribe it. Even non stimulant medications like atomoxetin can be helpful.
pick your poison:

- climate change (oil/gas/wood, germany and japan chose this path).

- nuclear wastes (dangerous without competent and honest ppl, france chose this path).

- mass and global war/military grade production/deployment of wind turbines/solar everywhere with inefficient energy storage, with ther massive production/recycling/refurbishment/disposal facilities, not forgetting the energy requirements of the whole population reduced by several orders of magnitude (don't think we can match nuclear/fossils/wood everywhere). And this will require massive maintenance. Yeah, need to change the economic system, because it won't probably have any meaning in this context, not saying it currently has any...

- finance, until it is mathematically and scientifically proven we cannot do it, ITER and pray we manage to make it work, namely getting enough energy from a chaotic/extremely unstable system (aka plasma physics or weather).
https://archive.ph/TNaka
Simplistic view. You don’t have to sacrifice everything if you switch to more sustainable options. For example, if every car had an electric engine, we’d save >50% of transportation energy, just because an electric engine turns electricity into movement way more efficiently (>85%) than an ICE with a max efficiency of <40%.

Sure, there are other challenges, but it’s too simple to say that anything else but nuclear is worth it.
"The big-muscle anti-piracy tactics of Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk in India"

https://archive.factordaily.com/the-big-muscle-anti-piracy-t...

It is not unique to Adobe.
You make it sound as if it is possible to simply toggle some checkboxes to change policy. A lot of people are invested in previous policies, and change is not always easy. The path forward is a very complex one, starting with the problem that not everyone agrees on the direction of forward.

So, at the surface things may seem absurd, but if you try to untangle the underlying problems, it is probably more absurd to expect change so easily. And it is perhaps not reasonable to hold leaders accountable for the mess that they are trying to clean up.
The interactions of "generalized effects" with the Rust affine types and tne borrow checker are quite non-trivial. This explains why Rust does not use effects better than any explicit choice; building an effect system that works naturally with the language is a research-level question that hasn't been tackled as of yet.
I wonder if that's part of the reason it was demonetized. Dirty laundry is not something the powers that be usually like aired.
> Using wood as a source of fuel is sensible given that the rate it is burnt equals the rate of re-forrestation AND we are starting from a sensible equilibrium.

What does "sensible" mean here? The topic is carbon neutrality. And for wood-burning to be carbon neutral, tree cutters would have to somehow accelerate forest growth enough to absorb the extra CO2 from the burned wood, plus the CO2 emitted from processing and transporting the pellets. There is no evidence that they are doing this. On the contrary, old hardwood trees are being chopped down, and their regeneration is slow and uncertain. https://e360.yale.edu/features/wood_pellets_green_energy_or_...
Loab, the internet’s latest urban legend
Rebuilding cities and dealing with hundreds of millions of migrating people is much more expensive than that
Well, welcome to my neuroses- because you asked now it's not as "thirsty" to do that. There was a fantasy sports game in the late 90s and early 2000s called wall street sports, where you'd buy "shares" of professional athletes and the prices would go up or down. My project is my start on bringing some form of it back. [https://sportfolio.money/]
Aaand back in the day before that it was US middle class guys (and some gals) working in offices.

Times change, but some problems remain.

Obviously it's not the Rust (or broader IT) community's sole responsibility to solve every kind of social ill, but it seems enough people have experienced problems that show that there's room for improvement.

Though it's not something that is a homogeneous problem. So it's unsurprising that a large part of the community just doesn't see it.
What if you don’t have a comments section? Considering publishing posts I’ve already written (but too scared to publish) and that’s a concern. You can’t get everyone to agree and can’t be liked by everyone but the internet can be savage and hurtful.
Matplotlib is very powerful and one can do great plots with it. I always find the process of creating great plots quite cumbersome and it involves a lot of trial and error, in particular when one has multiple subplots. I find proplot is a great wrapper that makes consistent plots much easier

https://proplot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Without saying that that is what it is about, I want to point out that such a thing would not be unprecedented. Supposedly, "roughly 100 U.S. firefighters are convicted of arson each year."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighter_arson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on... (Aka Munchhausen by Proxy)
While I somewhat agree, in my experience in practice the “just run it locally” approach results in software I need to use a clumsy and slow VPN to access, runs on servers that are either wildly over or underpowered, is constantly going down for maintenance, and never gets updated beyond essential security patches. The org I work for recently switched from on-prem Jira to cloud Jira, and the cloud version is a breath of fresh air by comparison.

I’m sure some IT departments are better at this than others, but in my experience most of them aren’t great at it.
Yeah, I meant in the hacker news.