skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual paper, which is a PHd thesis, is titled "Impact of the 2015-2015 El nino on Tropical Forests." It suggests that it is possible under _sustained_ hot and dry conditions, not single year weather events, for the carbon sink of _some_ forests to become reversed. This hyperbolic article even has to end with the same conclusion, that if we manage to keep the forests standing, the carbon sink will NOT become "switched off."

It's odd to see an institution engage in such absurd sensationalism on one of it's own researchers thesis. The carbon sink doesn't have a "switch" that "El nino" somehow magically presses.
As someone who posts content on YouTube, I definitely agree Shorts have caused issues on the platform. They're the most promoted type of content hence they're super tempting for creators, yet if you end up making them it can kill your conversion rate for longer videos and drive off the people that prefer those instead.

The biggest issue though is how they've tied them to the vertical video format. That's okay if your content is singing or saying stupid things on camera, but for pretty much anyone who covers tutorials or media or games, it basically mades the format a lose-lose situation for video quality. You either give up the reach Shorts bring by posting only normal content, which can at least be viewed in a decent aspect ratio without cutting anything off, or you try and make your shorter videos into Shorts, and end up with a nigh incomprehensible video due to not being able to fit important info on screen.

So what could be a cool way to show interesting clips and things that happened that might not deserve a full length video is basically only usable for the most vapid, surface level content.
If its not possible then we really shouldn't be very interested in it because it can't get us very far, 1% is a rounding error towards solving the CO2 PPM causing climate change.
u mean horizontally staggered doesn't make sense?

ortholinear is the Planck EZ (https://blog.zsa.io/2307-goodbye-planck-ez/) for example.

this Glove80 is vertically staggered (or as they said in the review article: it has column stagger), NOT ortholinear.
Basically. Even if they aren’t ignoring it, they aren’t addressing it effectively. Look at rich men north of Richmond. Hard to afford much of anything these days. But oh wait, that’s not the problem, the real problem is some obscure ancient practice from india coming to USA affecting highly privileged and overpaid tech workers.
I am surprised nobody in this thread or in the article mentioned that Wahab is Muslim (or at least was raised as such)--like, I'm surprised nobody is lobbing allegations of intentional anti-Hindu bias stemming from her own religious background.

(To be clear, I assume her motivations are genuinely altruistic, I'm just saying it seems like an obvious line of argument for someone who is opposed to the measure)
Probably for the folks that use CRT, the X11 would be a better option especially, when you consider when the development of Xorg was started.
It also has a consistent interface that YOU control yourself. Downside is you need an IQ of at least 95 to use it.
I thing you're getting to the heart of the matter here.

I'm not sure if I'm being redundant, because I reloaded a few times and see that _many_ posts have been made in the short time since I started looking at this article and reading comments. But, the discussing seems to be bifurcating into different camps. Do you assume that the blog and discussion are narrowly scoped to sysop/devops problems, or a general diatribe on programming languages and product design?

For product design, a big part of the problem is choosing your audience. The blog author mentions being happy with a prior ops DSL because it let him think he's not being a "software developer". In my opinion, to target this type of user is to always be on the treadmill of toy DSLs. You have to over-simplify something to appeal to someone who wants to use it without deeper engagement in a programming/software development mindset. But then you have other users who hit the toy's limits and want more, and you either provide two entirely different products or start compromising the simplicity to add escape hatches. In the end, I think you'll always find that you need more of an API/framework in a proper programming language if you want to support all the use cases with one solution. Or you make a poor approximate of a programming language, quite likely repeating most mistakes in the ~50 year history of scripting languages.

There has been a lot of this churn in the sysop/devops space where system administrators are being given more complex and dynamic deployment problems. (Facing their devops mirror-world where programmers are being given more operations duties). This tension also exists in other domains, but I'd say the systems operations space has much more stark culture of "scripting" and "config files" as a distinct thing from "programming" and it shows in the tools and perspectives.
I didn't name it, but Pulumi's the main (multiple) GPPL alternative I was thinking of. I don't think emitting/compiling to something declarative makes it any better; maybe if you normalised that being the key checked-in thing, a bit like a lockfile, but which people really checked and cared if it changed, more so in a way than the source.

I want to write and review declarative, not compiles-to-declarative.
It wasn’t necessarily retroactive, but it was always pretense.

edit: see Texas’ declaration of secession for what it looked like when they weren’t shy about saying the quiet part out loud.
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Very much agree, I do wonder how can things like crontab be specified? The cron job syntax is its own fricking thing that I have to always look up. But then, I wonder, how else can it be specified? yaml file?
My comment is mainly to criticise the article and specifically the original title (You Don't Need to "Learn" Svelte), not to advocate for either Svelte or React. Yes there is a state model that you need to get your head around to work in Svelte just as there is in React and unfortunately, that task isn't made easy by the official documentation. But like I said, I still much prefer Svelte and would choose it over react 99 times out of 100.
> (For context, Hotz raised $5M to improve RX 7900 XTX support and sell a $15K prebuilt consumer computer that runs 65B-parameter LLMs. A plethora of driver crashes later, he almost gave up on AMD.)

Again, I wish Hotz and TinyGrad the best, especially for training/experimentation on AMD, but I feel like Apache TVM and the Various MLIR efforts (like Pytorch MLIR, SHARK, Mojo) are much more promising for ML inference. Even triton in PyTorch is very promising, with an endorsement from AMD.
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Funny enough, creators can't upload custom thumbnails on YouTube Shorts, at least not without a lot of trickery. So if you dislike thumbnails that much, Shorts would probably appeal more than normal videos.
Try looking at the theory instead of being distracted by the specific example: Laws on the books do not necessarily equate to morally.
Can someone with more experience in the field comment on whether this paper is well founded or off base?

The abstract sounds... lets go with "not completely implausible" but the assertion that extracting 1% of the Earth's energy from the tidal sloshing would slow the earth and tidally lock it in 1000 years feels extreme. Of the extreme assertions require extreme evidence variety.
The “somehow” being “it was explicitly marketed that way”
One thing I notice is the assumption of unlimited exponential growth by 2% per year. That's a huge fallacy. Quick check, yeah, 1.02^1031 = 735,829,316. I'm pretty sure we will be using magnitudes more energy than today because we're more people and hopefully with better living standards for everyone. But even then that's a lot. And on that scale I'm not entirely sure where the whole energy should go to... Maybe produce mass/objects out of it?

If we reach peaked our energy consumption in merely 250 years, that's less than 150 times our current consumption. I didn't do the math, but would date to suggest this gives us a few years more time on this planet.
A roll of 5k MMBTs from a sole source would probably cost you less than $500 if you looked around a bit.

Another option: characterize a bunch of different vendors, then selectively populate resistors for proper biasing based on test results from each vendor.

What are you tuning? The bias resistor?

Edit: wow you can do even better than I thought. You could get 30k MMBTs for $500!!

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/diodes-incorporat...
I never said no one was doing anything. I said no one is doing enough to make any significant difference in the outcome. Maybe it is enough to shift things around a couple years! That isn’t nothing.

But even if 100% of the population stopped driving cars and ordering on Amazon or whatever, that isn’t going to stop it either.
> But teaching them what's correct to a free man is a bit weird and it's also a rather steep slippery slope towards Chinese Uighur camp situation

You think teaching them that it's wrong to discriminate based on caste is a step on "a rather steep slippery slope towards" genocide??
Would love for people flagging to have to give the reason.
Previously discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657709

Summary: Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code with telemetry built in, so other projects (e.g. VSCodium) have spun up to release custom builds without telemetry. But these projects can't use the same marketplace because they are not licensed by Microsoft, hence the "fracture" in the title of this article. It goes on to say that other proprietary IDEs are also problematic, and GitHub is a trap to capture and fracture developers.

This drama with Microsoft and open source reminds me of the Halloween documents:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
I sucked at tennis but the best feeling of all shots was nailing a topspin one hander crosscourt.
> The question few seem to ask is should we be this (literally) power hungry in the first place?

Absolutely!! Reducing excess consumption will always be easier than making up for it later because the latter inevitably causes losses which become heat from which "useful work" can never be recovered. We can avoid those losses by simply never requiring them in the first place.

But too many have the Myth Of Progress burrowed deep into their core ideologies and will fight tooth and nail to keep the trivial conveniences they've built their daily routines around.

On your first point, though, I'm not sure it will be a net negative considering the human component in the equation, and anyway, outdoor cats are orders of magnitude worse for birds than wind turbines are, not to mention concrete jungles with no trees and high average noise levels.
> Ok, but still that pic lacks sources

This seems like this could have the sources (cannot open it right now).

https://github.com/owid/notebooks/tree/main/HannahRitchie/da...
It’s a forever chemical, that’s why they won’t admit what it is.
Wayland never fails to impress me with how much stuff has still been left out (are screenshots still broken?) that it hardly shocks me to learn that it doesn't support screensavers.

Progress over many years worth of time. This is why whenever people ask me what display I run it's always X. X is a piece of work for sure but it's the only display server that actually works for almost every conceivable use case. Despite all the time and effort Wayland devs have spent to try and wrest control over the Linux graphical rendering server they are still a long ways from replacing X for good.
Isn't VSCodium just VSCode without the telemetry code?

So if there is a supply chain risk it's the same for VS Code
Aren’t regular expressions the abstraction to state machines? They all get converted to a DFA or NFA, no?
Hmm so if we pump water to amplify the tides we can speed up the Earth's spin and get rid of the leap second.
where did u map the super key to?
This is how we end up with alternative facts, fake news.
No, the Japanese fare gates have motion detectors. If you try to walk through without scanning, the gates close. I tested this once.
Neither is fusion (including solar and wind power). Scale matters
And every energy source becomes non-renewable on the right time scale.

Post humanity, post-earth time scales might not be relevant to most discussions.
https://www.salary.com/research/salary/benchmark/physician-i...

$230k, which when indexed by median household income, is comparable to the UK at 100k (I assume you used dollars? If not that’s $126k).

Edit: I’m not making any tax statements because taxes are unavoidable and applied to everyone in the nation, so are part of the indexing. That said US taxes sound comparable or more in some areas (taxes in NYC for instance can exceed 50%)
Why should someone pay for this instead of using something that's free, and serves the same function?
That's what happen when awful people abuse nice things.

Those bad actors and privacy-conscious people (both entirely distinct group, just in case it looks like I'm putting those two in the same category..) can still self-host their own Jitsi Meet server if they want to.
Heavily influenced by Wolfram's work on metamathematics and the physics project, in so far as using a rewrite system to uncover an emergent topology; we're just using it to uncover the topology of certain data (assuming that the manifold hypothesis is correct), rather than the topology of fundamental physics as he did.
That better be the case , we are already seeing that if the pie can't grow then we start fighting each other violently to enlarge one's piece of it.
I'm not sure the author realized this, but they're actually making a statement about how crazy exponential growth is. Not about the sustainability of tidal power. This becomes obvious once you look closer at what that 2% growth rate (as assumed in the post) implies.

Our global energy consumption in 2008 was estimated to be 474 exajoules. The total energy received by the earth from the sun during a year is about 5 million exajoules, a fraction of which reaches the surface. 5 million is much more than 474. But at a seemingly modest 2% per year growth rate (as it was between 1980 and 2006), our energy consumption will match those 5 million exajoules in less than 500 years!

Think about that: if energy consumption growth continues at the current pace, then in 500 years we'll either be using ALL solar energy received by the earth (leaving none for the biosphere), or we'll have figured out some magic technology to produce 5 million exajoules of energy per year. Assuming the magic technology, where are we going to get rid of all that extra heat? It would effectively be like having a second sun on earth, cooking us in place.

edit: I copied the numbers above from a post I wrote in 2010, so it may be a bit out of date. But Sabine Hossenfelder recently made a video where she talked about a similar timescale, i.e. boiling oceans in 400 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vRtA7STvH4
Relevant: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/6400/are-tidal-p...

This theory is very interesting, although the author presents it with too much confidence for such big claims.
The old GNU mentality of ignoring performance optimization because computer hardware would catch up eventually actually did pay off.
This is mostly based on the assumption of a 2% growth rate in overall energy consumption, with tidal power as an ever-growing 1% of that. The effect of covering 1% of our current energy usage would be minimal. And, likely, the ability to exploit tidal power will plateau at some (fairly small) amount, due to geographic constraints.
If you can slow down the Earth by consuming the tidal energy, can you also speed it up by correctly timing pumping water to reservoirs?
Yes I absolutely wasn't saying declarative means not GP or vice versa, that was really my only point: I don't mind a terraform alternative that uses (or if terraform switched to) a general purpose language as opposed to 'DSL', if we can call the current incarnation that, as long as it (the GP language) is declarative.
Then why not Angular?
And that’s the whole problem. We have lost the point. Divorces are increasing, single parents, single moms are increasing, kids growing up lost in broken homes, a crumbling education system shifting to only individuals who can afford private schools, crime increasing, social media toxicity. But no no no it’s casteism that’s the problem, let’s legislate on that and pat ourselves on the back. Wake up people, your nation is crumbling before you.
If you re-read my reply, you'll see that I said that regex is a DSL, but doesn't apply for different reasons.
lol great minds think alike
> cost of wheat flour

wheat flour has much smaller protein content than proper cuts of meat, so you just shift all this processing from industrial complex to your body with side effect of calories over consumption, blood sugar spikes etc.

> soy beans

uncooked soy beans also costs like 3-4$/lb in walmart, while having lower quality protein than meat.

> majority of soy is fed to animals

you can think that animal are doing your industrial processing: extracting proteins from raw soy/grains and converting it to well preservable and digestible form.
It's just MS as we know it.

They didn't really change, they got just better in PR.
Is Chicago any good? I would love to visit my fellow Polish people
I said there was a reactive state model that you have to get your head around in Svelte, but this is still much easier and simpler to do than it is in React in my experience. I'm not trying to pursuade anyone either way but I do want to dispell the notion that the mental model of Svelte is so straightforward that there is nothing to "learn" as the article claims because that will eventually lead to disappointment. Like I said, I think Svelte as a technology is great, so I'd rather people had the right expectations if they are going to give it a go.
Exactly. The languages in the article are nothing of the sort.
Since the epic of gilgamesh, bible, homer, etc, historians have been dramatic.

There is a reason why history is called 'his story'. The best and most dramatic story, usually favored by the elites, get tolds. More often than not, historians are commissioned by the elites to write stories. Even today.
The buyer is the one giving the market power to the seller. If the buyer did not have interest in the land and did not buy the surrounding land, then the seller would not have power. It is not the sellers fault if the buyers project fails because they couldn't budget for the "inefficient market" they themselves created. Calling this "abuse" is sour grapes.
Perhaps, but given the issues I’ve seen with the larger react codebases I’ve worked with around performance and shifting best practices, I wouldn’t necessarily write Svelte off without giving it a fair shot. It’s not like large React apps are much fun to work on either.

Ultimately, big codebases are hard to manage, regardless of the language or framework. I don’t see a particular dealbreaker with Svelte compared to React in this regard.
Screenshots have been working for me for years with grim/slurp

One selects the area, the other captures it. The joy of a tiling wm, make your own fun (and success)
Did people have to install a custom root cert or something to get their machine to trust the cache?

In old-fashion LAN parties, we were usually copying games from each other. (Which doesn't necessarily mean piracy -- Steam is pretty good about letting you copy game files and then use them under your own account.) I feel like bandwidth wasn't the issue as much as it was troubleshooting configurations and stuff. But it was a long time ago.
1.1B with 3T tokens will never be comparable to 7B with 2T tokens.

And I'm not sure what you mean by inference latency being infeasible. Most people using thsss models at home don't even bother with the 7B and go straight to 13B because it's easy to run too and much smarter. And any cloud gpu can run 13B.
> The incentives to act in whatever way that is most effective totally dominates their behavior.

I think that's where we seem to differ? "Whatever is most effective"

I'll grant democracy as practiced has many side effects and incentive traps.

However, it also does generally align politician's goals with their voters, under threat of being kicked out of office.
I couldn't type blind for 30+ years. Never bothered to learn it.
Then I used https://www.keybr.com/ a couple of times, less than an hour in total and I was able to touch-type afterwards at an acceptable speed and error rate.

So when I'm experimenting with a new keyboard of key layout, I always practice on keybr.com 1st, because it tremendously speeds up the getting-used-to period!
Hopefully before the project is taken down due to a DMCA notice!
The single most important assumption in this paper is that energy consumption will increase by 2% per year. This kind of exponential growth leads to outlandish estimates for the amount of tidal energy that society will demand.

Energy consumption has decoupled from population growth rates and economic growth.

How much energy will we consume in 1,000 years? Most projections of the population have it stabilizing at around 15 billion. But continuing at its current growth rate (an optimistic assumption I think), gets us to about 150 trillion humans in 1,000 years.

And at 2% growth rate, each of those humans will consume 20,000 times more energy than a circa 2023 human.

Now state of the art technology wastes about 80% of the energy consumed, so this is equivalent to 100,000 times more useful energy consumed per human.

So the physics in this page is a good examination of the surprisingly large compounding effects of unchecked exponential growth.
>My point is that this way of writing code is not at all incompatible with using a type checker for said code.

I'm saying "incompatible" isn't even a relevant concept here. Here's an analogy:

You're telling me that running with shoes is compatible with running without shoes thus I can run with one shoe on one foot and the other foot is barefoot.

The goal is to objectively put shoes on both feet. Sometimes you're missing a shoe so you have no choice. But this has nothing to do with "compatibility" it's a completely different thing.

We are getting a bit into pedantic territory here, but THAT was my point and I am simply clarifying it because you MISSED the point.
Hmmm. I just have to strongly disagree. I hit those hard spots in terraform, just like I did in puppet years ago. But I'd still prefer to use a DSL for configuration management (because that's what both are). Puppet actually managed to get to a very usable state by v5, if used with hiera, you could essentially define some types and fling data at them using 'create_resources', which is the equivalent of "for each" over a data set. If you stick to that pattern and make good use of hiera, your codebase will be compact and easy to reason about. The difference between your environments will be a few lines of yaml. In fact I use his with terraform, to that same end. I've looked at pulumi and I just don't like it. Terraform has it's quirks and limitations but I still prefer it.

Maybe DSLs are a waste of Lee's time because he knows they'll be "dead languages" when the next major evolution of systems takes place. But meh, I'll learn the next DSL, and maybe even hook hiera up to it too.
In my experience markets dont regulate anything. Governments do.
Science has shown that responding to literal NAFO accounts[0] in good faith is a complete waste of time.

[0]: https://x.com/jnsaff
Nuclear does have less impact than wind, in terms of human lives lost volume of waste, and land usage.

However, bird strikes can be mitigated via careful placement, etc. Also, we are not close to the point where wind farms impact wind currents.