skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Carbon taxes are effective, unlike offsets.
Sure, or you can stay in villages (that's what my kids do) or in other "safe zones" (marked in unofficial maps). Still, I think it would be nice to have some kind of a peaceful mod.
HPC Gets a Reconfigurable Dataflow Engine to Take on CPUs and GPUs
> It’s not like programming languages support representing 61-second minutes anyway

Raku supports leap seconds. see https://docs.raku.org/type/Instant
Knifes are done with heat treating. you need to get the steel red hot and follow the proper cooling process. You machine soft iron to close then make it too hard to machine, finally grindit to the perfect size.
I just checked and the curl.exe on my system does not export any symbols, so not in this case.

It is possible to do that in the general sense though.
Because that wouldn't have the desired effect of incentivizing reduction in CO2 emissions. The alternative is privately owned air and class action lawsuits at unprecedented scale.
To what extent is science a strong-link problem?
For a while (currently?) there was SEO "wisdom" going around about not putting dates on content so that search engines would treat the content as "evergreen" rather than "stale".
Ask a modern LLM to write an API for a book store... pretty sure it'll be close to, if not better, than the quoted part of your comment.

It's hard to argue with the drastic jump in LLM capabilities.
I have been programming since the glory days of 8 bit home computers, try shipping cross-platform applications in Z80 and 6502, and we still had plenty of time left to do lots of stuff.

Additionally, writing little wrappers around OS APIs is something that every C programmer has known since K&R C went outside UNIX V6, which again is why POSIX became a thing.
Ho, boy, you should read about the 1919 Motor Transport convoy -- the military sent a team across the United States by truck and car. It took them almost two months, and over 10% of the vehicles and many of the men didn't complete the journey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_Motor_Transport_Corps_con...
Neither does America. Many of US engines are manufactured overseas already. Honda and Toyota are famous for importing their own engines for some models that they deem important enough.
Observability in Distributed Systems
I'm on 1mg of compounded semaglutide, where I've been for the past 4 months. I have a similar arc in terms of days 2-5 being the strongest effect, but I haven't experienced any nausea (except the smallest bit during the first couple of weeks at 0.5mg.) I was briefly at 1.5mg but was brought down because I started losing weight faster than needed. My weight has been rock steady since coming back to 1mg.
The money raised could be spent on non-carbon technologies or mitigation strategies.

Plus as the cost of emitting carbon rises, people will search for alternatives.

I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea, but if we want to go for the transition we need to do so wholeheartedly, not punishing poorer people with tariffs that keep EV's unaffordable because it helps some lobby groups.
We’re talking about climate change. Try to stay on topic.

If all the billionaires disappeared today, climate change would not be delayed by one day.
The environment suffers more, because the very rich consume a tiny fraction of their wealth, investing the vast majority.

When someone else poorer gets a slice of that wealth, they'll inevitably consume a much higher fraction of it.
Should we offset what each Tesla saves compared to non electric cars?
There's a couple of things that made me think the article was way older than it actually is (and made me mildly irritated that it doesn't include the publication date).

First off, the author starts off by talking about GMT and goes on to educate the reader how UTC is actually the current standard. Maybe it's just me but I thought this would be common knowledge by now, while the author frames this as some sort of a revelation.

Then there's the jab about The IERS breaking Wikipedia's css which just doesn't seem to happen on the two devices I opened it on, so I assumed that was the case prior to Wikipedia's redesign.

Minor things for sure, and the content itself is pretty timeless (heh).
It doesn’t hurt the poor very much because the poor aren’t consuming much. It’s the rich that are responsible for most emissions.
I learned that syntax 5 years ago from my boss. I still prefer to use CROSS JOIN just to make it clear to other noobs like me what I'm expecting with the query.
Announcing is not a big effort. Having millions of people, and thousands of companies (in the territory and outside the territory) adjusting to the announcement is a big effort. If you're going to have DST, you want it to be stable and predictable so that people can plan for it.
> Imagine halving the resource costs of AI ... based on extreme estimates such savings could reduce the total US power usage by over 10% by 2030

Is that implying that by 2030 they expect at least 20% of all US energy to be used by AI?
Capitalism needs fossils. It's how profits are amplified. Without govt intervention this will not change. Getting consumers to be carbon-police them selves is a diversion tactic: it makes no significant difference.
Fortran sir, consider Fortran. HPC simulation is exactly what its mostly used for, it runs OpenMP with so little effort, and there's even an Nvidia Fortran optimised for writing GPU kernels.

Fortran is very easy to learn, runs at close to C speed for general code, and it is a very productive language. I personally loved using it.
Even if DST did save something (it does not), it becomes a problem when your timekeeping is done by computers. My computers know I live in Poland (Europe/Warsaw), and they know the DST rules. I can trust the time on my computers’ clock matches the official time the government recognizes.

In Palestine, this depends on my OS vendor managing to update the tz database in the short window before the official announcement and the decision coming into force. (I believe the tz database makes some assumptions based on past performance, but the government can change their mind any year.) If my OS does not update, I need to change my time zone manually to something that has the right UTC offset, and then I need to manually change back in the autumn, and I can never be 100% sure if any given computer shows the official time.
Use a wealth tax to pay for housing energy efficiency improvements.

I got our roof, windows, doors, water heater and AC done via an no-interest state program of this nature.
I doubt we will ever tax the ultra-rich as they should be taxed.
What an insightful and additive point of view that I've never considered before.
> Everyone gets taxed right?

Yes, but your personal tax of $0.03 would be deducted from your $17 redistribution of Jeff Bezos's tax, so don't worry about getting yours, you'll still come out ahead.
UK wages are also lower than half~ of western europe, especially when you venture outside of London.
EPA cancels pesticide shown to be harmful to unborn babies
YPlayer does not support Portuguese? I am interested in having real time spoken Portuguese translated into English.
I like the variant used in modern Nintendo platformers - they use shadow maps like basically everything else nowadays, but the player characters shadow is rigged to always be cast straight down regardless of where the actual light sources are. That helps the player gauge where they're going to land after a jump like a classic blob shadow, but with the visual fidelity of a proper shadow.

IIRC in dark environments they also rig the shadow to be brighter than the ground to make sure it remains visible.
Carbon tax here in Canada has turned into a lightning rod for the populist right, spreading misinformation about it and using it is as a lever to take power (they will soon) and govern on behalf of the fossil fuel sector. I think you'll find globally that the few carbon taxes in existence are going to go away, not more be enacted.

I wish I had more optimism here. For a brief window some years ago my anti-capitalist impulses were put in check and I thought maybe neo-Keynesian liberals could lead us out of this, as they promised, and that gov't policy combined with the natural market forces emerging from the renewable energy sector would gradually taper emissions off.

Unfortunately, nope.

The sad irony is that a carbon tax is the most modest, conservative-friendly, marketish-based policy. But the right just can't resist turning opposition to it into a trampoline into power. And the fossil fuel industry is going to go down alright, but it's planning on taking us all with it.
Taxes are for some purpose. And we all know that liberalism does not work in this case. It's the same as the coca Cola company produces millions of tonnes of waste, but they're not caring about this fact.
Taxation also opens a lot of employment to support it and then support the dealing with the problem
Ah bummer I've been posting my earthin24 timelapses[1] to this for quite a while now.

[1] https://botsin.space/@earthin24
Came in to push my own 'agenda' here. If you think most people are stupid read https://quberoot.wordpress.com/
The ridiculous amounts of money they have are their investments.

Hasn't Musk done exactly what you are demanding of him with Tesla and what ever his solar company is?
A lot of people (over 40%, IIRC) already pay no federal income tax in the US.

If one’s intention is to benefit them, you can’t do it by just reducing their [zero] taxation.
The poor are responsible for below average CO2 emissions, so they stand to benefit from redistributed carbon tax. Wood burning has its own problems, especially in urban areas, but its carbon emissions are net zero, and should be taxed as such. If the rich build enough solar panels to offset their emissions (which considering the figures presented in the article seems unlikely) then the tax is working as intended. Incentives against resistive heating increase demand for alternatives, which increases competition to supply those alternatives and drives down price.
> 1) Making canvas webapps with unblockable ads built-in

Which isn't any different from Javascript if you choose to embed the ads right into the Javascript code - but nobody does this because it doesn't make any sense.

In reality, a WASM app that displays ads would also need to load the ad content over one of the existing ad-network mafias (serving ads any other way simply doesn't make any financial sense), and those HTTP requests initiated by a WASM blob (by calling out into JS - because that's the only way in browsers) will be blocked just as fine by existing ad-blockers.

...but I'm also not actually aware of any webpage that does this (trying to defeat ad-blockers via wasm), do you have any example?
It makes more sense to electrify 500 cars and switch electric production to clean energy rather than banning SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Because China electrifies cars and is developing competing rockets for space supremacy.

I think it makes more sense to solve pollution with systemic solutions rather than play a blame game. Just tax private jet usage and use that money to decarbonize or something.
For a decentralized system, there sure is a lot of stress on that one database.
Reposting my experience from my comment on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcmonitors/comments/163yjj8/c...

I have been using a 55" 8K QE55QN700BT ($1400) at home since Jan. 2023 and a 55" 8K QE55QN700C ($1100 on sale) at the office since August 2023.

I can tell you that I will never go back, but there is definitely room for improvement.

Biggest negative: Sitting close (~12"), the far areas are probably at >45° angle (and TV colors are not great at angles)

Eye strain is ok (lowest brightness & low contrast), but neck strain is a thing (which I never had before, but now I think my neck muscles start to be trained and it's getting better).

Price is amazing, compared to 4x 4K

Refresh rate 60Hz: not for ego shooters (but great for work)

I didn't think it was possible, but at work I operate an 8k, 4k, and a full HD screen from the same graphics card (i need the other screens for UI testing)

Glossy is not great (no matte TVs on the market)

Even at 12", I operate Windows at 175% scaling, so I still have pixels to spare. Next TV will be 65" :)

At the beginning I thought it was a failure, until I found the correct settings combination: TV Gaming Mode, disable all AI image gimmicks, set the correct refresh rate in the NVidia driver options (at first everything was extremely sluggish, until by chance I saw that the refresh rate was set to 30Hz by default). I also remember playing with the V-Sync settings until finally I didn't see visual pixel artifacts anymore. Now the quality is the same as my 4k monitor.

Work colleagues just can't see it... (just like they laughed at the 2nd monitor, and then at the 3rd, and now most use 3 monitors).

No hassle with monitor arms. Such set it on the table and done.

Microsoft PowerToys FancyZones is amazing to divide the screen into areas

Next: TCL unveiled the first curved 8k 65" TV, that's where I'm going :)
To me this is way more readable:

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Ticket_flights tf,
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Did you mean to post this elsewhere? This is really non sequitur.
It is possible to get good results with 3D printers, but that requires you to go to below than 0.1mm layer heights with 0.1mm nozzles and nobody has time for that. You can make a hundred resin parts in the time it takes for the printer to finish making one.
There's Cyclone Scheme, though I don't know how good its GC is in practice: https://justinethier.github.io/cyclone/

Also I would expect a programming language used by enterprise to do fewer experiments with the GC than a language worked on in academia.
the indirection can open up discrimination lawsuits if the winner cannot vote (h1b, permanent resident, etc)
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I'm not sure, but we can try to figure out what is going on. And by the way I'm a physics layman too. I just read a lot of books about fission and a few about fusion too, it happens to be my hobby. When I'm bored, the bookmarks that I browse are [1] and [2].

So, when reports state that the a certain temperature was achieved and sustained for a certain period of time, what are they actually saying? We could go and find an article and get into some details, but I imagine they say that somewhere in the plasma that temperature was reached and sustained. But it is quite likely that that region is quite microscopic, maybe a very, very thin inner torus inside a larger torus. There is a gradient of temperature from the region where the announced temperature happens to the walls of the device. But one way or another that thin inner region can't have a surface area of anything close to 1 square meter. To get to 1 GW of power, you need 10^-12 square meters, and to get to 10 MW you need 10^-14 m2. That's about the surface area of a torus of (circular) length 3 m and diameter 1 femtometer. 1 femtometer is roughly the size of a nucleus of deuterium or tritium, so in principle this is the minimum diameter of a torus where you can talk about fusion.

[1] https://www.ncnr.nist.gov/resources/n-lengths/

[2] https://www.oecd-nea.org/janisweb/
Offsets aren't really a scam, though they are essentially unregulated. Certainly if you tried to scale the existing industry rapidly by throwing money at it you'd create scams. But regulation isn't an impossible thing.

Another answer is that you just don't include offsets in the tax at all, at least at the start. You tax the extraction or importation of burnable carbon. So gas wells pay $X per ton of carbon they ship, oil refineries pay $Y per ton of carbon they pull off a tanker, etc... Then when someone comes by with a specific technology for capture/sequestration/offset/whatever, you make a regulatory decision that such a process is legal and pay them back $Z per ton of carbon verifiably sequestered.
What are the numbers? How much energy goes into extracting rare earth materials, recycling batteries etc.? How is the electricity generated? How much is lost in transit and battery efficiency? What do the servers use that the Tesla communicates with behind the owner's back?

These are real questions. I find it hard to get a comprehensive and unbiased analysis.
A resistive heater just uses electricity, it doesn't emit CO2. So the user won't be taxed. The power company might be taxed, depending how that electricity was produced.
AMD Will Need Another Decade to Try to Pass Nvidia
if you grew up on a farm in my generation the difference was you got to eat the layers... eventually.
The original GPL was a brilliant hack - it has enabled and inspired a global revolution.

But a hack can only go so far. Roads and railways, power stations and hospitals are not hacks they are society level investments.

FOSS software and FOSS as a service have become ubiquitous and an irresistible part of our daily lives. They have become society level investments even if a small number of hobbyists disproportionately drove them.

And as such there are no more hacks to fixing power imbalances - no secret, no quick trick. We don’t think of some clever hack to keep the power companies in line.

If we want to fix the power imbalances of Big Tech we do it through Big Society (usually Big Government).

HN’ers love a technological fix for a technological problem - but sometimes we need to realise this needs a political fix

(And no this is not a comment on upcoming US election, this is the boring part - write your congressman / MP / etc. join a Union at work. Attend a local council meeting (it always worries them when people do that :-)

Now what kind of regulation, what kind of world do we want? Love to talk about that. But how we get there - it’s through politics, through all of us.
A significant portion of the global shipping [1] is the transportation of fossil fuels, so a general transition to renewables would contribute to reducing that.

[1] 40% according to https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2023/12/05/how-w...
velcro straps on the plate?
Google Chrome adding 'Performance issue alerts' to desktop
> What's the difference between this and a generic photo from one of the dozens stock photo catalogs?

None really, using a stock photo in a blog post is also a stupid idea. Just don't add any image if it isn't needed to get an important point across.
Cool! Thank you for using our dialect. Congratulations on the launch too!
> It's a runtime for WASI blobs (basically a WASM based standard for crossplatform command line tools)

Thanks! I wish this was the subtitle on their homepage :)
Sweden and Norway rethink cashless society plans over Russia security fears
was he then butchered and served to clueless and content consumers? I don't get the connection.
> because fusion reactor plasma is optically thin, it doesn't radiate following blackbody radiation law.

It still follows the laws of blackbody radiation - it's just that the emissivity of the body is part of the equation.

A classical blackbody has a emissivity of 1. This means not only that it absorbs radiation really well, it also means it's really good at radiating energy away.

Things that have low emissivity (all things transparent and all things reflective) are also really bad at radiating energy away. This is used for solar-thermal collectors today: you make them from an engineered material that is completely black at in the visible range, but highly reflective in the infra-red. That way, they absorb sunlight and get hot, but they don't lose heat energy because they can't radiate it away as heat radiation.

And yes, fusion plasma is extremely, extremely transparent. Not only is it extremely thin (ITER or Wendeltstein 7-X contain only 1-2g of hydrogen during operation), hydrogen is also extremely bad at absorbing gamma-rays (black body radiation at 1e8 K).
And that power companies co2 tax will be paid by whom?
Nice write-up! (I read the transcript.)

Maybe this is covered in the actual video, but one potential target for optimisation that I didn't see in the transcript was how the temperature values are converted to integers.

One suggestion is that, after deleting the period, if the numbers have at most 4 digits and 64-bit multiplication is available, the conversion to an integer can be done with a single such multiplication and a few shifts. Ensure each digit is in the low byte of a separate 16-bit word (that is, "space them out" with a zero byte in between each digit; this may require extra work, though there's often a SIMD "scatter"-type instruction that will accomplish it), subtract the ASCII value of the "0" digit from each 16-bit word's low byte (one instruction), then multiply by a constant which has 1000 in its lowest 16-bit word, 100 in the next-lowest, ..., 1 in the highest. The final answer will now be in the highest word, available with a 48-bit right shift.

If multiplication is slow, another trick to gain some speed is to not actually convert from decimal until you need to, possibly right at the end. That is, just subtract the ASCII value of the "0" digit from each 16-bit word's low byte, and then treat the resulting 64-bit value as a very wasteful BCD representation in which each decimal digit occupies 16 bits. These "integers" can be safely added to each other up to 65535/9=7281 times before there is a risk of overflow; you only need to convert to regular binary then. This representation also honours min and max operations.
Obama's true colors: Black, white or neither? (2008)
I tend to find table aliases a step down in readability, and only use them as necessary, because now your eyes have to jump up and down to see where the columns come from.
I do love those particular boxes for certain workloads. I have a few Lenovo ThinkCenter small form factor boxes in my office. They’ve replaced all my Rapsberry Pis. Unlike the Pi, I was able to purchase these!
Based on what you come to this conclusion? Scientific consensus reached after removing all the dissenting voices? Sorry, but I cannot take this kind of scientific consensus serious: we need scientists to be able to openly object, or it becomes junk science.

For example the "safe and effective" consensus we saw recently, that turned out to be total junk-science. And we have not yet faced the terrible consequences of that junk-science: on a societal level (MSM, most govt agencies) we just act as if it did not happen.
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