skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you think 25 years is enough to store CO2 in? even 1000 years is not enough since we will need to entomb all available wood. But that is all stupid anyway because of this:

To start reversing the CO2 emission we would need as many trees it takes to take up the current CO2 emissions and then a bit more.

From what I found you can estimate every m³ (a bit less than 1 American fridge) of Wood stores 1 ton of CO2. Say each hectare of Forest with fast growing trees produces ~ 10m³ per year (more when they are cut down but they need to grow over a decade+. So if they take 10 years that is 100m³ wood yield at the end).

Humanity produced by some estimates 37 billion tons of CO2 in 2020. That means you need 3.7 billion hectare of forest.

The USA has a land area of 157.7 million hectare. So you need an area of 23 times the LAND area of the United States of America just for trees just to HALT CO² at today's level.

How well are fast growing trees growing in the Arizona desert btw?
You can keep DLSS if we can get some subsurface scattering on the heads + better eye materials.

When I look at the texture resolution budget the hard surface art team got vs. whoever is in charge of the dead eyed bethesda faces, I wonder if they were bullied. The clothes look phenomenal full of all sorts of nice greebling, buckles, varying specularity, then your eyes move up a bit to see a plastic person with painted on eyes that blink about 35% less than they should.
I haven’t had to ask. They verbalize their frustrations.e

I think your questioning probably requires a certain level of care, thought, and ability to form a response that isn’t necessarily indicative of whether someone cares to whatever degree. Someone can say, “Oh, I don’t care” and still experience annoyance indicating that they do actually care.

I also think 50% is way too low a bar to claim a class of people does or doesn’t do sometbing like “caring”. If 60% of people “don’t care” and the it’s a really big deal for people who do, it doesn’t seem like a claim that “such people don’t care” is the truth.
humans have flown to the moon
A lot of drama with graphic card drivers as well (for the people too poor to have a 3dfx).

Also managing to have everyone on the same patch for $GAME could waste hours.
That's seriously awesome.
You might not notice a difference but neither does grandma notice motion smoothing on her TV.

FSR2 has a bunch more fizzle in high frequency detail (specular and foliage), more severe disocclusion artifacts causing streaking and ghosting behind moving objects and it runs worse than DLSS since it eats into the raster budget instead of using discreet hardware like Nvidia's tensor cores.
> they still hold onto their home, it truly is a bad allocation of resources among people.

The above statement assumes that a home is nothing but a cold investment decision.

A home is a place to live and a neighborhood to grow older in. It is not an "allocation of resources".

People hold on to their home because they like it there, they like the neighbors, their kids like their friends in the area and so on. It is not a financial decision. It's a home. This is often lost in these discussions.
They weren't prevented from saying wrong things or even penalized for lying.

They were deplatformed. You don't have a first amendment right to use platforms as you like and those platforms have the same first amendment right you do to decide what is brought forward as emphasized by that platform.

Should the government be allowed to influence that and in what way is an interesting question but it is less the end users rights and more the platforms rights in question here.

Getting removed from the algorithm isn't censorship.
I wouldnt but the container setup was the same to prod
I hope some day alcohol and unhealthy food in general is taxed to the amount required to compensate for the health care system costs it causes.
Fortunately, the God-Emperor foresaw that Butler's Jihad would not prevent the logical end of the future evolution of the hunter-seeker problem and directed mankind to the Golden Path.
I agree. It seems to be useful material, but calling it CS is a bit of a stretch. The index makes me think of some huge tome I once had, something like Intro to Operating Systems.
From TFA: "It’s like ChatGPT, but for cars".

That says it all...
Yes. The emissions numbers everybody should know:

https://www.iea.org/reports/key-world-energy-statistics-2021

IEA Key World Energy Statistics 2021, pg 54:

World CO2 emissions per year:

1973: 15 Gt of CO2
2019: 34 Gt of CO2

(Rounded and expressed in Gt to make it easier to think about them, the actual source numbers: 15461 Mt, 33622 Mt).
Part of the problem is getting the right advice, the right people to do a job and the cost.

Lots of UK houses are built <1930 and have suspended floors. I was told in various quotes for floor insulation because of tongue and groove floorboards, they'd get damaged when lifted and would have to be replaced. I managed to keep them having insulated the floor with 300mm rockwool just this past month.

Not only is there the benefit of heat retention, but hopefully it will kill a lot of draught entering the house also.

The wholesale gas price spike meant this would have paid for itself in around 5 years (I have a combi boiler), but will perhaps be closer to 10 now.

Cost all in: £400 for insulation, £1000 labour, £800 flooring replacement £200 various.

If I'd went through an accredited installer I could've received a Home Energy Scotland grant of £1500.

I'd still need to insulate my (600mm whinstone solid) walls for an air pump to be economical.
That's not true. Heat pumps are cheaper to run than gas heating, I removed my old single room gas heater for a ducted split system total cost reduction was 30% even before Russian invasion caused gas prices to spike. And house is much warmer.

Gas boilers generally produce much hotter water, so the radiators they use tend to be small.

Heat pumps gain more efficiency if you can reduce the output temperature. So running a heat pump at max efficiency through radiators designed for a gas system, won't put out as much heat into the room.

So you have two options, increase the size of the radiators or increase the insulation.
It's better to increase the insulation as you gain the benefit of both warmer room and less energy required to heat a room.
They absolutely care. It's just that they think it can't be helped. People love it when I install uBlock Origin for them. They tell tell me the web just feels nicer, less annoying to use.

"Users don't mind" is nothing but adtech propaganda.
So youre a swe who does maintenence work...

Every sre job is going to quiz you on stuff like terraform knowledge, and then expect run their ci tools and manage aws.

When was the last time you changed jobs?
That's on the order of 3 million mi^2 of growing trees. Or a forest the size of the mainland United States.
A boiler essentially means the same thing in American English. And they do occur in America. They are just usually rare, and only remain in larger older buildings, or very old residential homes. Most buildings are forced air heated (gas or electric usually) or those more recently installing heat pumps.
what kind of security are you referring to? but yeah, I agree. I'm not confident with C. unless it's Ada, i don't feel confident using random library which was written in languages without specifications.
> just want information. Text

Text is a not an information-dense medium, and for many kind of data it simply sucks.

Also, please don’t just go around throwing productivity into sentences, it is just completely baseless and biased observation on your own part - if you better enjoy a new workflow, but it is actually slower, you might still feel more “productive”.
A lot of smart programmers worked on NFTs too. What’s your point?
The largest solar plant seems to be ~100 square km: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park
How these two sentences are in any way compatible with eachother:

>company will (..) separate out the small lithium-bearing grains from larger minerals by centrifuging. The clay will then be leached in vats of sulfuric acid to extract lithium.

And:

>‘If they can extract the lithium in a very low energy intensive way, or in a process that does not consume much acid, then this can be economically very significant,’

Centrifuging doesn't seem to be a very low energy process compared with what they do in Bolivia (just let the water evaporate in huge shallow lakes then gather the material with dozers). And the acid thing is just contradictory. They plan to leach with sulphuric acid and hope to find a way to not use acid at the same time?

It is very good more lithium deposits are found outside China, but isn't lithium one of most abundant things on earth? And isn't the key difficulty in economic extraction the fact established mines use practices that would not be allowed in places like US/Europe?

Surely, we should start with funding r&d to come up with an economic and less polluting process of extraction.
Me and some friends host a pretty weird event, the name of which loosely translates to "Field Lan". We set up tents, generators and an antenna in the middle of a field in Estonia and compete in various games for 72 hours straight on an open field in fresh air. We sleep in tents. Its a private event once a year, but we have 30 - 50 people there every year. Next year is the 10th year we do this.
The problem is that every tech acceleration produces the possibility of such a arms creation beconing common place. The final stage being a space born species that flings rocks at each other's habitats across a solar system. At some point you goto get this out of the nature of a species, before you can progress. Methods include social implants (like cellphones), synthetic religions with taboos, etc. The alternative is running headfirst into a great filter build out of wild tech acceleration and a completely tribalist, stagnant individual (the flaws barely hidden by over- supply bribery).

TL, dr: tech as a permanent fix for evolutionary left behind problems is not viable. Kicking the can down the road produces ever more high stakes failure scenarios,but no permanent stability as created by self alterations.
Any tools specifically to ensure data integrity when data is transferred between two points A to B.
Bogs are a "special" type of environment that are good at preserving or mummifying tissue, and the majority of bog bodies are not preserved, they're in various states of decay. It's a big deal when an intact and/or well-preserved bog body is found because of it.
> Take the record player. It looks cool.

It's not even their product, it's just a white labelled version of an existing Japanese toy!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234642185324
Luckily these companies that are trying to depress wages are super chill about working from home and are absolutely not demanding that their employees live nearby in the Bay Area so they can come into the office by executive decree…
I miss Macromedia, Adobe is just a corporate grey blob. Macromedia had character and good products.
> ask 100 non-technical people you know about stuff like ads and popups

> ask

No. Don't ask. Show them. Just install uBlock Origin and see how they react. Show them a better world.
Works! Cheers.
The Decline of Usability (2020)
it seems to me that supabase would cover only the backend (auth, storage, db etc.) and not the frontend part though
Do you have a pic or a link on how to prepare it, and how your setup looks like?

Thanks!
If you sell B2C software you are going to end up with customers with a very wide range of computer skills, from professional IT person to someone who can barely find the computer 'on' button. You just have to deal with it.

See also:
https://successfulsoftware.net/2010/08/24/10-things-non-tech...
it's just a single site, not many, it's very specific.
what I have used for my purpose is the same REST API that their website (and possibly mobile app) use to pull the availability
I rather use a software for similar composition instead of paying that kinda money.
And they were correct then and they're correct now.
Ask HN: How much equity do early software engineers usually get?
What’s above SRE? You mean Senior or higher or managing/tech lead?
I don't believe I'd end up dossing the service as I would be querying the API in the same way their own website and mobile app do.
Considering also I expect my service to be used lightly, my traffic would probably be minimal compared to the their regular one.
But in any case I was thinking about caching/grouping the request to optimize that.
You can buy a castle in France, or elsewhere in Europe, but it comes with a renovation bill attached that is more than what you paid in the first place.
Yes, and it's not even that hard to emulate the effect digitally.

I remember my father bringing back a polaroid camera from work in the eighties. It was amazing. Snap, a blank photo rolls out and a few seconds later the image appears. I can see the magic of that. At the time it was innovative because until then, you had to use film. Wait for the film roll to fill up, it to be developed and printed, etc. There would be days/weeks in between taking the photo and seeing the photo.

I think the process is the bit that's magical and what appeals most to people; not the esthetics. Which are indeed a bit meh. You get a not so great photo instantly. It's not the same when you use a great digital camera to take a photo, then make it look like crap with some filters to emulate the polaroid look, and then print it on a high quality printer. It's much easier and it should replicate the esthetics perfectly. But without the old school process it just isn't the same.
I have done that. Most people go, "oh, cool," then continue on. They really don't care one way or another, and it's more evident when I ask them later about what I just did and how they feel.
Someone has to maintain Wine and all the rest. So it requires effort and isn't something simply guaranteed.
Why believe consciousness arises from matter?

Versus matter arising from consciousness?
I think that it could be more accurate with an even more limited amount of words by omitting "Science":

Computer[s] from the Bottom Up
You’d probably not be happy if they were living next door ?
But Karpathy quit?
I find it kind of funny that they see Mate and Caja as a good basis for something minimalist. I just transitioned off Caja to a homegrown "file manager" that is so basic it makes Caja seem like a swiss army knife. Largely because of all my virtual desktops only one uses floating windows, and don't need many features for it, but the features I care about I want to be able to tune exactly how I want them, and it was easier to write something from scratch than "fixing" Caja. And by "fixing" Caja I mean tuning the "spatial" aspects that it seems most desktop environments have lost interest in.

On the minimalist side, we're all bikeshedding, and the biggest challenge is that there are more theories about what a nice interface should be like than there are users...
It's not that HTML is flaky - it's explicitly designed to work in different types of portal, which Flash and VB were not. For example, Flash and VB are not known for their easy compatibility with screen readers for the blind.
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Totally.

It also highlights an interesting change in engineering and product development that has happoned in my lifetime.

It used to be, when this Armatron was made, electronics and computers were magic and mechanical engineering, real complicated kind of mechanical stuff, was common and the slillset to do it was similarly common. In that world it makes sense to have the whole robot arm powered by one motor that constantly spins, with mechanical clutches and linkages deciding what moves when. That's because electronics and mechatronics like motors and encoders were still expensive and new.

Now its the opposite. In general, if given the choice between a complicated mechanical solution and a "simple" electronic/computer solution we choose that. Simple is in quoted because modern electronics and computers are far from simple. The manufacturing of a modern semiconductor rivals the Manhattan project. But is seems simple because we can just buy it at best buy and program it to do things. You can easily find lots of engineers to do something with code or an arduino, but finding someone who can design a fly ball governer, or even know what that is and why it matters, is rare.

Now days there are tons of cheap robot arms that have a servo motor for each joint, because servos are cheap and complex mechanics are not.
There is a lot of propaganda on TikTok about how lithium mining and refining is too polluting and only the clever Chinese know how to do it at scale without polluting.
Lol! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Yeah let's just keep calm and carry on and hope that something magically saves us. That's probably going to work out great
I went to LAN party where everyone had lugged their CRTs, except one kid who had a 15” TFT LCD screen, which were super rare and expensive at the time. It had a huge crack right down the center, but was still just about usable. I asked him how that happened. He said he was playing online (Counterstrike I think?) and lost a match, causing him to punch the screen in frustration.

That screen must have cost >$1000 at the time.

Sure enough, the guy was a tool - the kind of gamer that gloats over every win and questions the opponent’s sexuality after every loss. And he was every bit as toxic right there in the room with us.

The experience completely put me off online versus-stranger gaming forever, and in retrospect I’m very grateful to him for this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
Indeed, when the first chapter is "General Unix and Advanced C", and the second one "Binary and Number Representation", that's a sign this isn't "bottom-up" at all. The list of topics seems reminiscent of the common CS textbook Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective.

Edit: yes, the chapter list is very similar to http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/2e/samples.html with some OS topics thrown in.

For real bottom-up learning, Petzold's Code is one of the highly recommended books.
Please expand, don't leave me hanging.
Things grow very well in the Arizona desert when they're watered. Lots of sunlight!

You're right that trees cannot be 100% of the solution. But they can be a big part of it.

> you think 25 years is enough to store CO2 in?

It's starting to rot at 25 years, lying in the rain and mud and beetles. There are logs much much older than that lying around the local woods. There are stumps over a century old. My house is 25 years old, and the wood structure that has been kept dry has no rot at all. None. Zero. Simply by keeping it dry.
Totally, like magnetic induction pumps that pump molten iron, once the iron solidifies its a composite tube.
I had created a program in Delphi to remove and recreate network shares with a single click because someone copying files from your computer would wreak in-game performances.

And, before widespread broadband, LAN was 50% exchanging files :)
I think my point is that it’s a somewhat roundabout way of saying “UVC now works on iPad”
As my farther had and used a polaroid camera, seeing this announcement made me curious. The camera definitely looks nice though its ancestors were definitely easier to carry thanks to their folding capacity. On the other side, you wouldn't get any of those cameras for their size today. So a bit more bulk might be ok, it also saves you from fiddeling with the mechanism.

The problem isn't even the price. Usually I don't even look at the price of a device until I know how good it is, then I start considering, whether it is worth it. And only then, separately, I would consider whether it is worth it to me at that price.

The real catch, before one needs to discuss the camera itself, is the film. I had thought that Polaroid stopped making the original films very long ago. They were quite good, but the modern clones less so. Some comments here in the discussion seem to point to the fact, that these new films are quite inferior. And that unfortunately seals the case for me (and probably many others). A camera with original quality Polaroid films would have sold well, disregarding its price. After all every single short is extremely expensive. But unfortunately, this seems to be a technology lost to mankind.
Tja, with more competition the price (should) approach production cost.

For any single producer your statement is true of course, if they raise prices of people will just buy from the other producers. But for the product at large the price should (with perfect competition) stabilise at a point where all the producers would make more if they all increased prices together (so consumers are actually willing to pay more, but because of competition the price is lower).
Store tyres separately. I have tyres from the 90s that are fine. But tyres from the 2000s started melting after ~10 years. I don’t know a lot about rubber but I guess they switched from natural rubber to petroleum-based rubber. Problem with the melty tyres is that they also damage any pieces they’re touching, so it can ruin a set.
> another Jobsian figure

This characterisation (tagging? clubbing?) comes across as an insult to those figures.
The tracebacks were a lot of what made me cut back on using weakrefs and trying to make things manage their resources automatically.

Now I use close() methods for anything that needs to be closed. If I mess up and there's some obscure bug, hopefully GC will fix it, but it seems too brittle and easy to make mistakes with to rely on.
IBM is a well known rent seeking megacorporation. That shouldn’t mean that it is OK to do this. Now they are selling open source software with per CPU licensing, but want to prevent others to sell the same software. This should not be accepted by the society.
I had a “pizza” out of one of these things in the UK. Very, very bland. Sorta like a really cheap pitta bread with cheese on top.

I was pretty drunk so it didn’t matter, and it was fun to watch it mix flour and water to a dough, top it with sauce, cheese and pepperoni, then cook it in a matter of seconds.

But in the end there’s a reason we don’t usually go from flour-> eating in under 5 minutes!
Wouldn't it be optimal to have read, understood and thought about it before the meeting? Although this probably never happens, except maybe if you go full async and request a thoughtful response from everybody before a meeting might happen.
Wow, wasn't preventing it from getting into the air easier?
Why Nvidia’s AI Supremacy Is Only Temporary
It can't be too hard to recreate the preservative conditions of a bog. If I recall correctly, it's simply a very low oxygen environment.

The ancient Egyptian tombs preserved things very well as long as the tomb stayed dry.
That's true of virtually every comment making a claim on HN. Unless you've done a scientific experiment and collected data, you want know for sure.

In any case I'll add another anecdote for someone that has nearly the identical setup to the GP and will say it also significantly increased my productivity. Don't really care if anyone believes me.