skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there are x offsets available, and demand is x + 100, then when Shell buys offsets, they're not really fixing the problem at all, they're just shifting blame right? They're saying "since we spent this money on the offsets, our carbon emissions were good (or at least 'less bad'), but the other company that couldn't afford or wouldn't bother with the offsets is bad even though there were only enough offsets for one of us".

Honestly, this upsets people?
It's funny because while it may be hard for us humans to visualize extra spatial dimensions, many can easily reckon with the concept of a spreadsheet. If you think deeply about diffusion art models, you can start to grok extra dimensions in a different sense – things like, composition, tonality, subject matter.

My brain can't really comprehend the tesseract-like nature of higher-dimensionality in a spatial sense – but I can get a glimmer of what it means to explore that space along different vectors. How over in this corner of the 'cube' is an image of a dog rendered in the style of Rembrandt. And how if I travel along a particular axis, it's still a dog in the style of Rembrandt, but now it's a funny dog in the style of Rembrandt. And if I turn and travel down a different axis still, it's a funny dog in the style of Rembrandt, at night.

In this way, I find diffusion models a really interesting way to think about spaces of hyper dimensionality. It's a bit 'Flat World' – but, it's really helped me visualize how something can be transformed or explored in these 'extra' dimensions.
They are both technically possible, we could pay ~50c/kWh 24/7 for a 100% nuclear grid without storage in the same way we could build a global electric grid with power cables under the baring sea to use solar 24/7 without batteries. But realistically neither are viable without storage.

However, given the choice charging batteries via wind and solar just costs a lot less, thus why so few nuclear power plants are coming online each year.
I'm not sure if this is just trolling, but it feels like you're comparing percentages of unrelated metrics.
What I learned from Pieter Levels about indie entrepreneurship (2020)
One distinction in Nix vs Docker is that Nix has a dag structure as opposed to a singlely linked list structure of layers.

The "writeText" function produces a derivation (basically an atomic build recipe) that produces that file. The crux of nix is that you make deterministic derivations, and then you can always refer to the results of a derivation from the hash of the derivation and its inputs.

What nix adds is glue logic to chain these derivations together in a way that preserves reproducibility of the individual imperative, but deterministic, components.

Unless you are using something like recursive-nix, you can completely evaluate the nix expression without building any of the derivations.
Are YC Valuations Too High?
They also refuse to switch their status page to be down, presumably because of SLA related measurements which has prompted some manager to decide that unless he approves of it personally, the status page cannot be touched.
Record corporate profits and executive compensation can be reduced to return value to the workers.
If you plan to only do English forever that's acceptable, but there's _a lot_ of languages where you need to know someone's gender to be able to use their name in a sentence.

Weird thing to look over in a thread about internationalization
I have seen many people mention using goodreads, and other web apps to track their reading list. I don't understand using a webapp for this simple use-case. I have always used a simple org file, with the author's name as the first-level heading, and the books I have read from them as second-level headings below it. Am i missing something here? Why do people want to use an online-only service for this simple thing?
I do believe that included in "only action" is: keep fossil fuels in the ground.

The idea that we can only mitigate is insane. Yes we've already signed up for a lot of pain as a civilization, but as long we keep burning fossil fuels we are looking at an increasingly worse future.

It's not like a smoker who has gotten lung cancer, where the best we can do is try to ease the pain, and more smoking won't really matter.

The biggest first step in preventing the worse case is to be able to point to an established oil field and say "that will never be extracted, and will remain in the earth for at least a 1000 years."

Every ton of carbon we can keep in the ground that way, the better of our future, even if that future is already slated to be bad.
I feel like "not declarative" is fair enough if you look at how the important bits work in a Dockerfile. Like what software is installed, that's not usually some structured thing...but typically shell commands out to apk or apt-get.

I get why it is the way it is, but if it were more declarative, it would be easier to manage Dockerfiles through changes, security updates, etc.
They are mixing for phones and ipads.
How I Use AI to Code
It goes without saying that typing notes, transcribing documents, and generally "stream of consciousness typing" is helped by a fast WPM rate.

But for coders, that's seldom the task we're doing. Hence the assertion "I spend more time thinking than typing".
If there is fragmentation, that will be caused by Hashicorp, not opentf.
But how did they write the simulation for the game on all of their screens?
Meanwhile companies with “climate pledges” forcing RTO.

Even when society wants to shift, the ones in charge say no.

We should have had a governmental mandate requiring companies over a certain size to allow WFH and justify why they can’t do it if they really can’t.
It's not down, it's resting. It's pining for the fjords!
There are three types of ADD[1]. That which you describe here sounds a lot like the "Inattentive" type.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/three-types-adhd
Would you provide some details on this?
What, you think he's wrong because China had a bad economic quarter two years after he posted that? You realize China has had unprecedented growth over the past 15 years, with pundits predicting its collapse the entire time. They have 1.4B people, a very good education system, and a huge head of steam.

China misses GDP targets by 1% for a single quarter, every news outlet reports on it, and in five years everyone is going to wonder how China has gotten to the place it has. That's basically happened repeatedly over the past 15-20 years.
But what if companies simple can not compete in value without massively subsidizing their business in ways which are a form of market power abuse? (idk. if that is true)

What if slack cost 14 due to all the features beyond chatting, like especially video calls.

Maybe this change now gives them a motivation to provide a "text only" version of Slack for 5 or 7, because if I would guess 50%+ of their operation and development cost come from this additional features?

> is not forced to unbundle them

because monopoly law sadly sadly only applies if you are somewhat winning, but not if you are somewhat irrelevant to a point people forget to even evaluate you when making a choice (in the EU Microsoft 365 is clearly winning huge and e.g. Zoom and Google Workplace are _much_ less relevant/successful compared to the US AFIK).
This seems more feasible than other proposals, one way to pay that would be currency dilution, the interesting thing about currency dilution to pay such large sums is that it doesn't devalue any 1 major currency relative to the other ones if all major currencies do it at the same time

so USD dilution and EURO dilution and pound sterlings simultaneously, similar to current monetary policy, would make this work out

inflation within the local economies would be a pain but nothing we havent seen before and it doesnt have to be all at once

one country paid a debt for like 150 years, and paid it off successfully
> Why should they spend money supporting extra load on their infrastructure from people that are not directly paying for that?

There same logic applies to users; at this point, I have to assume that the only reason that Hashicorp is providing anything to people who aren't actively giving them money is to try and get money from them later. This is also one of the reasons I'm abandoning them ASAP; now that the money squeeze has started, it's not like they're going to stop.
That’s the fun part! You don’t notice it’s a problem until you pair with someone who can’t type fast or makes a lot of typing errors and you want to bang your face through the screen because it’s so frustrating to watch them struggle.

They don’t even realize they’re being held back by this. It’s an invisible friction until you notice it.

Easiest way to notice the effect is by switching to a new IDE where you don’t have the keyboard shortcuts in muscle memory yet. Or a language that’s easy but you have to think about the syntax because it’s new.
Couldn't agree more. OpenAI can afford such messaging. But it's more nuanced when a company is public.
Any clue if this affects prepaid customers as well?

I really have to stay on my toes with these carriers, my bill always creeps up over the years.
As Asahi stabilizes (especially with their new Fedora remix), that is my plan.
Depends on the person, some people do get insulted if you don't use their title in a formal setting. As said, it's rather silly IMHO.
I disagree, this metric is the only one which matter, and this is not related to loss or not of money on advertisement from brands.
Even for tech companies, the problem becomes that's yet one more thing to maintain. I'm perfectly capable of maintaining a fork if I need to, but that doesn't mean I have the time and energy to do so.
Seems like the economic logic of streaming has changed, and this article failed to explain how, merely hint at it.
Is there an SLA for plus users? Twice in 3 days is kind of ridiculous, and would make me think twice before buying an enterprise version
It’s ridiculous.
Ask HN: What's your best ML setup?
Hi,

I'm trying to improve the way I do Machine Learning and I'm curious about how the HN people are dealing with it.

At the moment I'm creating a python project from scratch and I mostly rewrite all code each time (I've got some utilities that I keep reusing, but they're quite minimal).

Any recommendations on how to make the process faster?

Thanks & best day ahead!
FBReader might be a nice choice. It's pretty minimalistic, configurable just the right amount, supports EPub, FB2, MOBI and a bunch of other formats. I'm pretty happy with it – give it a try too if you haven't yet:

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.an...

https://fbreader.org/android
Thanks for the links, interesting story about switcher.

And yes, hearty recommendation on the craptop.

I was discussing with a colleague a while back when he said he had to get one as he was unable to reproduce a problem on his M2 even with the 6x cpu throttling you can do in Chrome. On the old laptop he dug out of storage he managed to reproduce it instantly.

I need to check with him how easily he could fix it, one argument I have to why some optimisation is always good is that it's easier to fix things as you go along vs having to go back and try to make things better. I mean if there is one thing making it slow then it's easy, but I have a feeling it's often a mix of things and at that point you might not be able to replace the slow parts as everything else depends on them.
China tells India to 'stay calm' in border map row
What I said in the previous post may sound a bit harsh, but of course I do look at others and try to grasp what they feel, and I let them know what I feel. And I do not judge them for who they are or for how I feel.
I found the Android Blackberries terrible. Some good parts, but I am really not a fan of how Android does things. (I use iOS, but under a "best of the worst" protest.)

The BB OS was great, if a bit slow. The worst part of it was the terrible browser, which really didn't do it any favors, but the communications part of it was so good I could work around it. I don't care much for any mobile browsers, everything is better on a real computer, but at least Safari doesn't crawl to a stop.

I had high hopes for the QNX phones, but RIM sure didn't. But you're right, by the time they had pivoted to Android so they could take advantage of the "App market," it was too late.

Having had a BB for so many years, pawing at a screen makes me feel like the monkeys at the Monolith. I used the BB as my primary email tool, it was just that good at what it did.
Indeed. Reading the emulator progress reports (Dolphin, Ryujinx, and Yuzu publish them on a regular basis) gives a really good idea of all the different jobs it takes to pull off a complex project.
> If you are a 2 finger typist and also think people are "obsessing over WPM" because they're wanting to utilize their own tools to the fullest advantage, that sounds like some mental block kind of thing.

I get frustrated by this kind of replies on HN.

Please don't try to "fix" me. I'm telling you my WPM are not limiting, because -- like almost ALL coders and engineers -- I spend most of my time elsewhere, and that 2-fingers is fast enough. I will not solve a Data Engineering problem by typing fast.

I probably type faster with 2 fingers than you. Maybe not, but I've seen me "win" over people who type with all fingers, and that's good enough for me.

So thanks, but no thanks?
If I am a cloud provider and maintain a Terraform binding I now have a strong reason to target OpenTF over HashiTF as they inevitably begin to diverge. It's hard to see how Hashicorp survives trying to compete over a consortiom of companies for whom TF is a complement and not the product and are incentivized to use it as a free value add. Especially when those same companies are the primary targets for Terraform usage.
I'm not doing any super heavy cpu workloads nor any heavy 3d graphics, so I don't really notice any issues.

Surprisingly, the battery lifetime is still excellent.
On the contrary, it shows how opensource is a reliable long term choice through the possibility of forking.
If you use js-based hiccup instead of JSX, SPA frameworks would not need a compile step.
Also some cultures put the pressure of communication on the listener.

Say, you're in the same town as a friend and want to meet them. The American approach might be to ask, "Hey, I'm in town. Want to hang out?" The sender has done their job of delivering a clear message.

But some cultures would just say, "Hey, I'm in town."

That removes the pressure from the other person to say no, I don't want to see you.

You can also bat it back and say, "Joe's is a nice place to eat if you like burgers," which hints that you're available to have lunch together, but it could also mean a polite "ok".

But the ack is there to make sure the other person is paying attention before delivering the message, so they don't misinterpret it.

I don't necessarily think one is better. TCP vs UDP. If it's an important message, an American might still say, "We have to talk."
Seems like ATT may have screwed this up even worse. They seemingly dropped my autopay discount to $5 from $10 claiming that I am using a credit card, when I'm using my checking account as I always have for the past 10 years.
Don't much care what people call the PM, I didn't vote for him either. Can't say I like the tone that whole thing has taken, but it's people like Smith who crossed the Rubicon to bring us there many moons ago.

In the end: We need to be done with hydrocarbons, like yesterday. And the people who've staked their political livelihood to it realize this, and they're distorting the entire political culture out of desperation to hold onto what they have.
It didn't even exist one year ago. We will survive.
If I were more conspiracy-minded, I'd call it a stealth effort to make people Return To Theaters and stop watching movies at home.
I was saying an "objective fact" for me, not globally. I was responding to the idea of "fetishizing" WPM when I'm saying, no, with 100% certainty, WPM is extremely beneficial to me with no grey area.

Also I did say in another comment 80 WPM would be where I'd put the barrier of not having to constantly break mental focus. BUT ALSO.. I'll take this a step further...

Have you ever gone from a 60hz monitor to 120?

Have you gone from non retina iphone to retina or remember that?

Have you gone from 32gb to 96gb in your computer and noticed things open THAT much faster?

Have you ever optimized something like the load speed of your terminal and removed 200ms from its boot time?

Now could you imagine ever going back after doing any of those things?

To me, thats what its like beyond 80. I can't imagine having to go back to 80 after I've felt 160. It's just THAT much more freeing when I'm really really deep in thought. quite literally I can type as fast as I can think, and it becomes truly seemless, like "programming in lisp" when the language gets out of the way (I dont program in lisp regularly, just seems like a good analogy)
Yeah, that's why I would consider a Makefile declarative even though it can contain bits saying how to do something. I can't consider a Dockerfile declarative simply because it is necessarily executed top to bottom.
Docker is an Engine and a Hub. The configuration file concept is common to any software which automatizes machine virtualization. The commercial emphasizes behind Desktop and the existence of alternatives like the CLI or Portainer, makes that part dispensable
It would be nice to be able to find a keyboard that was comfortable to learn how to steno type with that didn't cost $100-$300. $50 would be a sweet spot. It doesn't need to be a premium kit with expensive switches and LEDs and whatnot. It just needs to be the right form factor. It feels like the people selling kits are taking advantage of its niche nature. (Though, it really shouldn't be niche; being able to type at the speed of speech/thought is more of a "bicycle for the mind" than any AI.)
Streaming services are absolutely awful for image quality and your favorite shows will disappear at the whims of corporate lawyers and executives. Netflix 4K streams are less than 16 mbps at the absolute max with 4 mbps being commonplace whereas the specification for UHD Blu-Ray discs allows for three disc capacities, each with its own data rate: 50 GB at 72 or 92 Mbit/s, and 66 GB and 100 GB at 92 Mbit/s, 123 or 144 Mbit/s. The bitrate difference is not something advances in codecs can make up for because the gulf is too wide.
I disagree, China, Russia and India for instance are not at risk of being dominated by the US. All 3 individually had and even still have the ability to have a similar status as the EU.

Their primary complaint is that they wish they were hegemons, except to them hegemony means being far more of an asshole to those you dominate than the US's terms. Thus their need to try to force the issue rather than naturally ending up in that position. This is also an issue India and China would conflict on, as being neighbors, they seek to be hegemons over the same region.

They're talking about moving past the USD, but none of them have the trust and general guarantees it has had and none of them are going to risk putting their trade in a currency that would be dependent on the whims of their direct competitors.

I also disagree with your premise that this is comparable to nuclear deterrence. While nukes have been a deterrent to conflict between the US and USSR, Europe and USSR and perhaps also between India and China, they haven't really been a large factor at all in Europe and in Africa.

I think they've been comparatively peaceful not because of nukes, but because European countries were forced to come to terms with the futility of trying to be hegemons over each other over both world wars, with the second one having finally been brutal enough to make them give that up. Now as WW2 fades from living memory, they remain peaceful due to deep integration between cultures that makes it difficult for them to "other" another enough to justify war.
It's a cautionary tale about CLAs, not FOSS.
Show HN: NumberTabs, A Notes App for your calculations
A Notes App for your daily calculations. This App provides a simple way to manage and note your day-to-day calculations easier and faster.
How does an intact forest not burn for so long but a degraded forest burn to the extent we’ve seen now? It feels counterintuitive but I am not an expert.
Some data backends have very very small limits for the data… so small that my 4096bit private key wouldn't fit.
> Nobody ever referred to him as "von Balthasar," just "Balthasar," but his books were always sorted by the "von."

I'm pretty sure I've seen a by-name sorting scheme that excludes these sorts of prefixes for alphabetisation purposes. Of course, then you have to second guess whether you are using such a sorting system :)
I'm in that situation now, my UK passport/birth-certificate name is not the one I'm known by.

After several years of getting queried on mismatching ID, now I've moved to another country, I'm going through the process to "rename myself" - and mostly that's a matter of saying "Here's the name I've used for a long time, please make it official".

After the renaming goes through I'll be updating everything to match which will no doubt be a pain. But once it's done I'll have a much easier life.
After reading that document and the comment section, it seems that the really distinct name variants are:

1. Full legal name (as it appears in a passport, e.g. William Robert Smith)

2. Full formal name (this is how you want to be addressed and/or referred in a formal context, e.g. Dr. Professor William R. Smith, MP".

3. Abbreviated formal name (e.g. W. R. Smith)

4. Informal name (how you want to be referred/addressed in less formal context, e.g. Bill Smith)

5. Highly informal name (how you want to be addressed in close circles, e.g. Bill)

6. Nickname (e.g. Chuck)

It seems that (more or less European) convention of having first name(s) and a last/family seems have this goal: being able to store just one variant and to generate other variants (except the nickname) according to fixed rules, in other words, automatically.

Of course you should ask a user only of what you need. So if the only reason you ask for a name is to be able to address them in messages, you should ask "how you would like me to call you?" or something like this.

You can give users an option to, say a check box, to indicate their names follow the "European" convention, and then give them the fields that allow to auto-generate name variants, allowing them to override if necessary.

Just my 2 cents :-)
Remember, he was CEO but didn't like that role. He stepped down from the CEO role as well as the board so he could continue to hack rather than lead. I agree, its likely not how he wants things to be run but its not his decision anymore.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashic...
It's used for sea-lion ideological attacks against authors and works, a specific outcome of the general review-spam issue.

The data is terrible and badly governed. There was a recent thread here, I believe, about an author who couldn't get AI-written books out of her name because they simply won't correct their data.
Nobody gets hurt by a little departure from reality, generating hype with low quality images and articles.

It's just meant to be nothing but a campaign anyways.
I really wish I could search transcripts easier across YT.