skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a padres fan it was fantastic. I could finally legally watch padres games without dealing with blackouts.
I’m guessing I misread what you wrote and got the sense backwards.
Yes! I was first introduced to this during a cold January while having to stand watch in the port (ex-U.S. Navy). The highlight of my morning was that warm can dropping down and warming up my hands for the next ~30 minutes.
No. If cheap energy production wasn't a huge challenge we wouldn't have the CO2 challenge either. It is the same challenge essentially. You can say it's "96% the same challenge" if you want to take concrete into equation.

No politics or logistics can change laws of physics. Burning coal with hand and capturing it with the other at 10x the cost just doesn't make sense, neither from the engineering perspective nor from the economical.
> elect someone who stops the progress

but then

> doesn't require the cooperation of the public, except for funding

carbon capture require just as much cooperation. Just of a different form. There's no way around it, since the work to do capture does not directly produce a private benefit. You'd have to regulate it to make it work, for example, force a penalty for emitters that cost more than the capture.

This means you will already need to elect someone to propose and pass the legislation. In which case, those who would end up having to pay will simply elect the opposition.
> That is the price of a ton of coal. Buy it from China BEFORE it gets burned

And then that money funds more mines to get coal out of the ground faster.

> Sucking it back from the atmosphere AFTER burning takes 10x more energy which is complete insanity.

Part of the plan needs to be capture at power plants. Another part of the plan needs to be heavy taxes for releasing CO2. If someone needs the convenience for some use case, let them pay the capture price.
Oh heck yeah, I put Bolo (and a custom HyperCard stack to circumvent At Ease and launch the game) onto floppy disks for my friends and I and we'd sneak into the Mac lab and play during lunch. We only did so a few times but.. so fun!!
Good times. 768k SDSL from Verio/NTT for $70/month with 8 ms to Stanford from way away in Davis.

Linux PC as a router was the cheaper, more flexible thing to do.
Where do you think the carbon came from in the first place? Fossil fuels don't create carbon, they are carbon. It's not shoving it under the rug, it's putting it back where it came from.
Irrigate the desert and plant 500 000 km^2 of trees seems a lot more practical. And we get lots of building materials as a side effect.
Yeah there's nothing particularly remarkable about this. Apple added support for USB video devices, he plugged a USB video device into an iPad, and it worked as intended, he could have done the same with a PC and been surprised it works with Discord or whatever
I dunno, I think Adderall was pretty easily available back then

our crew never really did illegal or prescription drugs

But we'd drink booze and/or achieve Adderall-like effects with caffeinated energy drinks. None of us drank coffee so we had like... zero caffeine tolerance. If you have zero caffeine tolerance and you slam multiple energy drinks the effect is NOT subtle

of course, TODAY, my ruined body is so immune to caffeine I can chug coffee directly before a satisfying REM nap lol
Also worth noting that just about every javascript engine uses ropes internally to represent strings (most of the time).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o-MJPAddpfBfDZCkIHNKbMiM...
I'm having trouble seeing how it'd be feasible to do all that while expending less energy than you can get out of the resulting gasoline.

But we demonstrably get more energy out of the useful life of a solar panel than we have to put in to manufacture it.
Definitely from an energy perspective it doesn’t make a lot of sense - it’s unlikely (due to the thermodynamics of it) that removing a ton of CO2 will ever get to the point where it requires less energy than the energy produced from burning the fuel that created that ton of CO2.

So even with clean energy, unless you have a totally clean grid with significant surplus energy, you’d do better to use the energy to put into displacing fossil fuels, because with the same amount of energy, you’d stop more CO2 being produced than you could remove with it.
Let's put something on GitHub to distract some computer nerds.
I usually take a laissez-faire attitude towards vice, but I am strongly against sports betting because of it's inevitable impact on sport. I love the idea of the extreme meritocracy of sports and view this as threat to it's integrity.
> The quality of the median writer would drop, as would the median income, until the perception that it was easy money reduced enough to stop people joining.

Yes, yes, no. Folks' perception of Substack/ Youtube/ Twitch aren't shaped by looking at 100% of the producers, or even 50% of the producers: folks are overwhelmingly focused on the top 10% (and narrower), so their perception is shaped by the disproportionate success of the few.

To rephrase, the bottom 50% of the production group do not have 50% of the audience -- they may not even have 5% of the audience. Their lack of success isn't being seen broadly enough to shape folks' perceptions.

Also, millions of people buy lottery tickets when only a handful win more than $20.
> 95% of the US only having access to wired broadband via coaxial cable is more than just an inconvenience to switching ISPs.

This 95% figure is clearly disingenuous handwaving.

Briefly looking at California >= 250/25 residential service for cable[1] and fiber[2] shows substantial overlap.

...and Florida cable[3] v. fiber[4].

...and New York cable[5] v. fiber[6].

[1] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[2] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[3] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[4] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[5] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...

[6] https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/area-summary/fixed?version=dec2...
> So the only question we need to ask is if it’s easier to cut emissions or sequester them.

At the start, cutting is much easier. But each percent is harder to cut than the last. There is a point where cutting costs more than sequestering.
> Salesman: "Do you have a Google account?"

Just wait until it gets so tighly coupled to the car that when google bots decide to cancel your gmail account, the car won't start anymore.
I love the material here, but it's mistitled. This isn't about computer science, it's about computers. The introduction doesn't even display much knowledge about the definition of computer science, claiming it's "possibly data structures". It's like calling a book on car repair "automotive engineering from the bottom up."
“State” has a more specific definition than government.

It usually means a bureaucratic, meritocratic, and stable administration.

China supposedly developed the first state as a result of constant warfare early on.
I'm fond of the saying "That government is best which governs least."

I would like to see a wetlands version of Temple Grandin's guidelines for the beef industry that got widely adopted because McDonald's de facto enforced it. They give you a list of goals or standards and don't micromanage how to achieve it.

https://www.grandin.com/RecAnimalHandlingGuidelines.html#:~:....

Excellence requires some flexibility. Top-down dictates tend to set a minimum standard but frequently also de facto undermine the ability to hit a higher bar.
That sounds like an amazing time. I sunk a ton of hours into networked Bolo, Spectre and Marathon... probably not quite to the scale that you experienced! I often tell people how the game mechanics in Marathon are still present in basically all multiplayer FPSes today- the "Post-Game Carnage Report" exceeds what you even get in many games today, for that matter.
If you ran a carpentry shop, you wouldn't retain employees who lacked a basic understanding of their woodworking tools and how to use them. Yet we tolerate this of "information workers" the world over. Why is that? Is it because the image got to you after all, so it doesn't really matter how inefficient the process was?

I am genuinely curious. But then again, I ask the question as a computer enthusiast using a computer to talk to other computer enthusiasts about computers.
You can tell a lot about a society by how it treats its toilets. Both about the maintainer/owner of the toilet as well as the users.

In the U.S., a toilet might as well be an insect that is about to be smashed underneath a shoe.
Here's the service they're offering:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/game-porter-ethan-lee-...
The 5 earthquakes I can remember experiencing all took place when I was indoors and all I can really remember for sound is the building creaking. Followed by a bunch of "did you feel that?"
I learned about this phenomenon earlier today, from an artist who does a fantastic job teaching colour theory and colour science under the handle “color.nerd”

If this interests you, I highly recommend having a look: https://linktr.ee/color.nerd
From what I remember that's a major virtual signalling and quiet scamming.
> what would be the alternative for shared mutable data?

You can use atomics if the data fits in a machine word. That's a lot faster than a full mutex.
I would expect people applying for these jobs to know everything covered by this. That said, even the authors made some mistakes with this.

https://linkedin.github.io/school-of-sre/level102/containeri...

>Container engine is the intermediary between containers and Host OS

This is wrong. Both the containers and the "container engine" runs on the host OS.

https://linkedin.github.io/school-of-sre/level102/linux_inte...

>Below are the most popularly used file systems:

>ext

I have never in my life seen ext used. ZFS, XFS, and BTRFS are way more popular.

>https://linkedin.github.io/school-of-sre/level101/databases_...

None of the advantages of NoSQL given are true advantages over SQL. They are mostly just based off the database itself and not whether it that database is SQL or not.

>NoSQL systems tend to map data based on the programming data structures

Surely the authors must know ORMs exist for SQL databases too.
I said “it’s not any weirder than promoting rust under discussions about c++”. That’s not claiming you said something about promoting rust, that’s asserting that if you have any consistency then you should find that weird as well.

The title of the post asks how constexpr c++ strings are. I answered with “more than rust’s”. The existence of const fn has yet to prove me incorrect.
That's true for any product.
> If anything, all the regulation that are getting added have as a goal to reduce the red tape around smaller players and limit the extent of the giant players' monopoly.

No?

Lots of regulation just adds red tape in general, and there are clear economics of scale in compliance: larger companies have proportionally an easier time affording the legal experts they need to make sure they are compliant.
Perhaps my favorite small channel on YouTube is an indie musician who travels through rural Japan to visit noodle vending machines, accompanied by his own smooth elevator jazz. The vibes are out of this world.

https://youtube.com/@onsenjazz?si=IgB0LTclAFeVY4TN
oh heck yeah, I actually had my own web hosting in those days and kept a zip file of a complete quake 1 install so I could run the game on any machine that had net access :) fun times!!
> Part of the plan needs to be capture at power plants.

You realize that this makes power plants energy-negative?
The parent complains that lawmakers don't understand fingerprinting, or that companies like Google are trying to avoid the regulation of fingerprinting by focusing on cookies. Such statements are false.

You're moving the discussion towards law enforcement.

Well, DPAs in EU are overwhelmed, but lawsuits and rulings are progressing. For instance, Facebook found out that they can't force behavioral advertising via their ToS or via legitimate interests:

https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/the-eu-war-on-behavior...

I'd also add that small companies may fly under the radar, but big companies like Google and Meta are big targets.
Ffmpeg is used frequently, but not for masters. The finishing part is done under softwares like Baselight/Resolve/Nucoda, and that's when the color is baked. If a ProRes is required, usually it comes out from them. src: I work in a pipeline of a large VFX studio.
Does someone know how much this amounts to roughly?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gentoo/comments/f2q6ew/comment/fhe3... says

> Realistically, though, most software that can benefit from specialized instructions already detects their availability at runtime and uses those, even if the code was compiled with -march=x86-64.
Reforestation, with controlled logging of mature trees to sequester the carbon. Most likely as a building material, given that our current demand for wood is higher than what existing forests can sustainably supply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Zamos
Those don't hover over the first article you try to read.
I kind of thought the big orgs were mostly using hardware encoders now.

AMD Xilinx's Alveo lineup is basically just for this and I think the energy efficiency is way higher, incredibly parallelizable workloads. ASICs would be even better.

YouTube transcodes from their reference copy on ASICs, "Argos" (maybe onto a new thing by now). There's a paper on this too. https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/new-era-video-infrastruc...
Interestingly it’s $599 USD or 699 EUR, wonder why it’s more expensive in Europe.
Not the title (it's just the home page, no article with a comparison to htmx at all).

Flagged.
> Ceph is designed to host truly massive amounts of data, and generally becomes safer and more performant the more nodes and disks you have to spread your data across.

I'm very pessimistic on CEPH usage in the scenario you have - may be I've missed it, but seen nothing about upgrading networking, as by default you gonna have 1Gbit on single interface used for public network/internal vSwitch.

Even by your benchmarks, write test is 19 iops (block size is huge though)

Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 92
Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 40
Average IOPS: 19
Stddev IOPS: 2.62722
Max IOPS: 23
Min IOPS: 10

while single HDD drive would give ~ 120 iops. single 3 years old NVMe datacenter edition, gives ~ 33000 iops with 4k block + fdatasync=1

CEPH would be very limiting factor in 1Gbit networking I believe - I'd put clear disclaimer on that for fellow sysadmins.

P.S. The amount of work you done is huge and appreciated.
His first name is German?
Reminds me of what I did with ChromeOS in middle school, built a whole code editor in the URL bar.
What does "technical" have to do with it?
Requiring that you sit further back is built on the notion that you need to be able to see your entire workspace at once, which was never true with an actual desk and largely implies that you want a single document to take up the whole screen. If you remove that limitation, then you find yourself with a larger workspace with elements at a comfortable size to work with.

I do prefer to turn my head side to side rather than up and down, so right now I'm happiest with a 5120x1440 49" monitor and may consider a 7680x2160 57" monitor sometime in the future.
Wait, if we are talking same percentages, why should that matter?

Also any data on "the demand is focused more intensely"?

Even in the US, the population and desirable RE for investment is focused in a few cities on the coasts.

True cause is Canada is facing a supply gap but politicians find it easy to blame foreigners.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/canadas-housing-supply-gap-tr...
Yep. And the DeBeers cartel manufactured their association with marriage despite being more common and more expensive than ruby.
Conversely, a digital camera that at a 700 Euro pricepoint also captures images on film?

By the way, everybody have a digital instant camera in their pocket. It can also share them on the internet and send them to friends. It has unlimited poses and it can print to film if one really wants to. It can cost way more than 700 euros or less than 100.
Yeah, but I don't remember these precepts on her desk as being discussed in the book - the main thing I remember is the stuff about the language of fantasy should have a distancing effect.
It is indeed mostly uninteresting, but it is exactly what naysaysers along with paid lobbyists of the oil industry telling us - "you are trying to replace oil which is sufficient, for lithium which is fundamentally insufficient and there is nothing you can do to make it work". Glad to find out for certain that this isn't true.
I quite enjoyed the unfinished Salmon of Doubt that was published posthumously. Now I have one more bit of Adam’s’ work to enjoy!
It’s like the researcher discovered echo chambers…
> so it’s not like we couldn’t develop it in 20 years.

20 yrs is a very long time.
In Thailand they have these Tao Bin barista coffee machines: https://www.tao-bin.com/en/en

Great UI: there's a countdown to when your order is going to be ready, and while you're waiting the next person can also enter their order.
> All loanwords in every language are pronounced using the phonemic structure of the borrowing language, the one that is being used, because that is the only possibility.

That's not true at all. Have a look at eg how Turkish borrows from English.

Turkish borrows eg the word 'computer' wholesale without modification. Despite that word violating Turkish vowel harmony. (Unless you want to tell me that vowel harmony is not part of Turkish 'phonemic structure'?)

Similarly lots of German borrowings from English in recent decades don't adjust to German 'phonemic structure'. Eg German typically pronounces st at the beginning of a word like sht, but that only happens in the borrowing 'Stress' for some speakers. (See the IPA on https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stress for evidence.)
This is a different problem around how to interpret new lines from a Windows file (\r\n) or maybe an old Mac version (\n\r to keep things incompatible I guess). If you are not happy with the OS's choice for new lines, you can pre-process that when reading the input as the very first stage. This is what I meant when I said that your compiler doesn't really care about the OS's semantics once the file is in memory, you only need to respect them if you are writing intermediate state to files (like some IR).

The article is talking about how to handle escaped characters in the source, like literal `\n` you can see on `let hi = "Hello\nWorld\nfrom my compiler!"` using your average text editor (0x5c+0x6e in ASCII), and how to build an efficient string type that mostly borrows views from the in-memory version of the source file (which could be a pre-processed version of the raw file if you hate odd line breaks).
You're ignoring a huge part that makes this (as well as virtually all other carbon capture plans) useless: where do you store all the carbon?

We are currently emitting ~37B tons of CO2 per year. That's ~0.375 C, so assuming we only store the carbon, that's ~10B tons of C per year.

For reference, the Empire State Building is ~365K tons - so you'd need to build ~30 thousand empire state buildings per year with the captured carbon.
> I have never in my life seen ext used. ZFS, XFS, and BTRFS are way more popular.

I seriously doubt that any of those are more popular (ZFS is out of tree, BTRFS is starting to get traction but only just, XFS I'll grant in the RPM distros but it's mixed outside of that), and also I'm curious how you managed to get very far without seeing ext2 or ext4 at all; most cloud instances I've seen use ext4 for root, and some form of ext is popular for /boot anywhere that isn't merging /boot with the EFI partition.
I once had a client become nervous about sending me a screenshot of (slightly) sensitive data. Despite explaining the NDAs, I could only get her to send a redacted version, which was fine given none of the sensitive parts of data was relevant to what I wanted to know. She took a screenshot, pasted the screenshot in to an XLSX, and put a "Shape" over the top of the part of the screenshot that she wanted to redact. Then sent me the XLSX in an email.

Tangential to your comment but it reminded me.
Honest question - I know exactly where the "mask in the car" trope came from and why you're repeating it here but: why does it matter and why is it germane to this topic?
No it doesn't. You're not turning it back into fuel. You need to bottle it up or react it into a non-gas, both of which use much less energy than you get from combustion.
We need to store about 10B tons of C per year if we were to be carbon neutral. We're going to need to build a lot of megastructures out of wood to even keep pace.
Reread the suggestion, you’ve got it back to front:

> no escape sequence is shorter than the text it represents

The idea is that you unescape immediately, and if necessary shuffle the remainder back, leaving a blank space at the end, but able to reuse the initial allocation.

Also, I don’t even know of anything that actually turns a \n into {CARRIAGE RETURN, LINE FEED}; if you want that, you’ll need \r\n. (A very few situations are a bit fuzzy about it, e.g. \r and \n are a bit wonky in Vim’s :substitute, but that’s all I can think of).
It works the same for all plants: they consume CO2 to grow and release it back when they die. The reason most of the effort is focused on trees is precisely because they store CO2 the longest and can be grown pretty much anywhere.

If speed is what you're after, bamboo grows very quickly, consuming high levels of CO2, but also doesn't live that long, undoing that. Wetlands filled with peat are the absolute kings of storing CO2 (~3% of Earth's surface stores ~1/3 of CO2), but you can't artificially make them anywhere, and it would take hundreds of years before it becomes effective. Seaweed like kelp are also very effective at storing a lot of CO2, but organisms that feed on them cancel out the benefits. So, a properly designed[0] forest still wins.

What works better than planting is conserving, as in not draining swamplands, cutting down forests, and so on. Not because it's something we can't recreate, but because the sheer amount of time it took for such ecosystems to develop makes it much more effective than anything we'd plant today.

Which brings me to the best solution: not building anything on an empty patch of land, but to build around the existing ecosystems, essentially extending them. The ends of a forest aren't anywhere near as productive as their middle, so by extending the space around them you're extending that most productive middle. Another very effective method is re-connecting forests via corridors (tunneling roads or building wildlife crossings), allowing animals to roam between the two parts, which makes both parts healthier.

In summary, building trees is absolutely the best, but it's not just about planting them, it's about picking the best spots to do so.

[0] Not planting all the trees at once, the diversity of the trees planted, proper spacing, re-introducing animals so that the space below the trees thrives with vegetation, etc.
> I hope you (and other of your kind) can come to accept that there are others that have different needs for living space.

Is this some sort of weird projection? My preferred way of life is legally banned, and you want to keep it banned, so you assume I want to ban your way of life?

Furthermore, the more of my lifestyle, which is compact, the easier it is to maintain empty space that you prefer.

Clearly you view me as an enemy, but I do not view you as one. I do not wish to make your way of life illegal, and only expressed a view that my preferred way of life should be legal.

I am flabbergasted by your comment, honestly.
It then becomes a mastodon instance... Only the weirdos remain