skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenhouses have been around for 200 years.

And yes, it is a big shift with lots of pain. A massive increase in food prices would be required, which would result in riots across the third world.

Easier and cheaper to spend a trillion or five to halt the increase in carbon emissions.
FreeBSD is awesome.
Yes, it will take a lot more energy. Burning carbon today is effectively civilizational credit card debt. We are prosperous but have a big compounding headache on the horizon.

It may well be impossible to extract excess co2 from the atmosphere at scale. But if it is we are in very very serious trouble.
It's insane to talk about ending growth when we haven't even put down colonies in the sahara.
Bitcoin Is Back to ATH
Show HN: Automated Organization Network Analysis (ONA)
Smart (and simple) ways to prevent symlink attacks in Go
I would love a standardized way to render a simple pixel framebuffer in terminal windows that's fast enough to update at display refresh rate. The current solutions I tried (like Sixels, or iTerm2's imgcat) are good for rendering static images, but not for realtime updates.

This would allow me integrate actual graphics into my "C64 emulator for docker" instead of just a subset of the PETSCI character set :)

https://github.com/floooh/docker-c64
Did you read the WHOLE article? They specifically note that these systems ARE good value for money as-is.

I’m not sold on these yet, but at least read the entire analysis. These 10-25w machines are matching 4-5 year old desktops, or running the same $/performance as current machines in their metric.
There's a random number generator in the root chain (i.e. the beacon chain) and validators are assigned shortly before validation and may require validation of any random shard. The validator can validate blocks in a "stateless" manner, meaning that they don't have to validate the entire shard but can still validate a single block (which is necessary, because if validators needed data for all shards it would destroy the scaling benefits)
Did we read the same article? It seems to explicitly mention that:

"These units only cost around $1,500 as configured, however, so the fact that they are half the performance shouldn't be unexpected since they are also half the cost. What will be very interesting to see is how performance will shake out as Adobe improves support for native Apple Silicon and when (or if) Apple launches a higher-end laptop - or even better, a more powerful desktop variant than the Mac Mini."
*You can’t barrel up bytes in the middle of the ocean.

https://news.microsoft.com/innovation-stories/project-natick...
satire is missing from the title.
"The ancients destroyed their civilization by funelling an ever increasing share of resources towards some kind of elaborate game of numbers".

People in 100 years will be saying this about social media, not Bitcoin
>"How long should we quarantine to minimize health impact, and maximize economic recovery?"

You're not asking a scientific question, you're asking a political one, because you also want the economy to do well, which is political.

There are two conflicting questions there, in reality; "How long can we quarantine without affecting the economy?" (Answer is like 0 days)

And "How long must we quarantine to eradicate the virus?" (Answer is around 140 days if a single quarantine unit contains up to 10 people and they infect eachother on the last day of symptom-freeness).

Because the question is not only political but considers two conflicting requirements, you can either satisfy both in a bad way or satisfy one well and abandon the other.

A similar situation occurs when you are tasked with optimizing the material usage for a product. Science can tell you how little product material you need so that it performs to spec and it can tell you how much you need so that it'll perform it's function as long as possible. The balance informs the price of the product but politically capitalism wants you to prefer a low price, similar to how capitalism will prefer no quarantine and lockdown.
The real criminals are the California CCW laws
Is the cheapest Mac the best Mac? M1 Mac mini
>I wonder if, given the source of the article, the author might just have a vested interest in making their own systems look good compared to the Macs?

I don't think they succeeded. The Apple LAPTOPS held up really well against the optimized relatively high end desktops. Every advantage (price, size, cooling, software, architecture maturity) was on the side of the desktop and they are only twice as fast. That's a pretty slim gap.
Please scroll all the way down before commenting; they note that these are half the price of their current offerings and rank about even on a price/performance basis.
same here! Until 2008/2009 I ran FreeBSD 5/6 on one of my internal business SCSI RAID servers, AKA home business cloud ;-)

Compiled it myself, compiled PHP/MySQL/Apache, tweaked it and it always worked.
If it took little to no effort to get gold, then it wouldn't be valuable. The only reason something like gold is valuable is because it's scarce, and it's scarce because it requires a lot of work to extract. Am I missing something here?
Actually they do clarify that they are not comparing similarly priced systems. But yes, that could have been made more obvious.

Also they compare the apple silicon performances to older systems as well, to have a better comparison point. But again, they could have made a (much) better job of displaying the data.

And still, indeed, Rosettta2 is in the way, so that's no real result here.
> Another way to look at it is that these new MacBooks (and presumably the Mac Mini) are roughly equivalent to a desktop that is around 4-5 years old.

Given that the M1 Macbook Air goes head to head with the 2019 Mac Pro in a lot benchmarks I find that hard to believe.
This is not a new thing and this company isn't the only one doing this. Lead Forensics (https://www.leadforensics.com) and ClearBit (https://clearbit.com) both offer it.

The fact that they're still in business and have business presence in Europe is quite telling about the incompetence of various EU data protection agencies.
I think this should be selected with a command-line arg, show "human-friendly" output by default, and "pipe-friendly" output with a special argument.
Saying that linear regression is machine learning is like saying that newtons laws is chemistry. There was no machine learning before computers, just regular old optimization algorithms.
What about planting TREES?

Also - nature seems to be doing it in the north.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-green...
> Pan-EU laws where a law is really an agreement to pass a bunch of laws by the member nations who then enforce them using whatever enforcement mechanisms they have. By passing the agreement as laws through their own legislatures, they in effect become a part of each member nation’s national laws

These types of EU laws are called EU directives, which as you described first need to be "transcribed" into national law by the respective parliaments. As a result they don't go into into force in all member states at the same time, and there is some more leeway concerning their implementation.

However, there are also EU regulations, which are immediately binding in all member states in their original form as soon as they are passed by the EU, much like US federal laws.

It is true though that even for EU regulations, the EU generally does not have their own enforcement capability and so there can still be differences from state to state on how strictly regulations are interpreted.

The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is an example of the latter kind of law, btw.
I've been involved with ethereum long before the presale and never once has there been any expectation of a soft cap. Nobody removed a cap. If you don't like an uncapped coin, use Bitcoin and help them figure out how their coin is going to maintain security after the mining rewards start to dwindle.
Why wouldn't you use the train for the non-work event?

I don't know where you live. What I do know is in many cities they run 2-4 train in for those who start work at 8am, and then run them back out at 5 pm after the people get off work. If this is your case, as it is for many, then I agree. They don't want you to take the train to those evening events.

It doesn't have to be this way. A train could run every 5 minutes all day long. If your city did this would you still insist on driving?
> Some of the most scientifically illiterate people I've encountered are the people who say things like, "We listen to the science when it comes to COVID-19". Let us be perfectly real. When it comes to political decisions based on forecasts, you are not "listening to science".

This feels like a straw man to me.

First, let's be very clear: There is absolutely a cohort of people out there who are objectively denying the scientific reality of covid. Those denials ranges from the absurd (e.g. covid doesn't exist, it's a conspiracy, it's going away), to the distorted (e.g. covid is no worse than the flu), to the simply wrong (e.g. masks don't protect you, they actually make you sick).

I think the refrain "we listen to the science when it comes to COVID-19" is short hand for distinguishing oneself from folks in the groups above.

Let's also be clear that statistics and modelling are scientific methods. I'm frankly a little baffled that you've attempted to draw a line between these two things. Science can absolutely help you assess questions like "How long should we quarantine to minimize health impact, and maximize economic recovery?" Will the answers be probabilistic? Yes, absolutely. That doesn't make them any less scientific, and to suggest they are suggests its own form of "scientific illiteracy".

Further, "the science" is very clear: lockdowns are effective, masks help, social distancing helps, contact tracing helps, and so on. "The science" is also clear that none of these are quick fixes or panaceas. They're all part of a web of interventions that each provide some small measure of protection that, taken together, can help keep the pandemic under control. This is the "Swiss cheese" metaphor in action.

Science can also be used to assess the effectiveness of these methods versus their tradeoffs by, again, employing statistical approaches. Are those methods foolproof? No. But they're far from guesswork. I'd argue it's this basic misunderstanding that leads people to, for example, dismiss climate modelling...

Now, ultimately, the decision as to what to do is a political one, not because statistical models and methods are flawed or inaccurate, but rather because there's always going to be a range of trade-offs, and the trade-offs we make are ultimately a political decision.

But the least we can do is expect our politicians--not to mention the people around us--to assess those trade-offs based on rigorous facts and statistical methods. That's what "listening to science" means.
I'm the creator of htmx, happy to answer questions
I booted up PCJS's Windows 3.10 image to have a better look. See here... https://i.imgur.com/l4WP44R.png

The image uses the CGA color palette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter#Color_p...) of 16 unique colors (`identify -format %k pb.png`), the first 8 columns. The other 6 columns are dithered colors.
The operating cost of a m1 data center would be a huge.
There is no reason why Linus can’t run on the M1. But since Apache is in BigSur is Linux required?
Here at Datamart, we believe in providing end-to-end solutions which are
What science can do is provide estimates with error bounds. Sometimes the error bounds are extremely large during a developing situation, and people should absolutely be aware of that. There's a major discussion to be had about risk/reward tradeoffs in the face of high uncertainty. (E.g., the relative cost of mandating face coverings is pretty low, even if the science is temporarily uncertain.)

However it becomes impossible to have such discussions when a large contingent of the population are ignoring all of the scientific data, and instead basing their opinions on motivated reasoning, faith, or political preferences.
Repeatability can be such a pain. Company I used to work for had separate product and marketing teams that didn't talk to each other much. Which meant that by the time the recording was finished a new product update had been pushed out which made the whole recording obsolete.

This problem inspired me to build https://RecordOnce.com which does the re-recording automatically and periodically.

For the initial recording we also uses rrweb.
(Can't wait to get us on the rrweb donor/supporter list!)
It's not so clear to me that the abbatoir of nature is that great, inherently. You could probably make a decent moral case for wiping out all life on earth, should there be no prospects for it to transcend the bloodbath and disease and botflies and rape and knocking the gazelle to the ground, pinning it as you rip out its living entrails.
Two economists are walking down the street, and one says "Look, there's a $20 bill on the ground over there!"

The other economist replies "Nonsense, if there was then someone would have already picked it up by now."
This is less and less true every year. Similar to the x86 vs ARM performance chart, or any disruptive technology really.

I think the crossover will happen in less than 10 years. After that point an ICE vehicle will be worse in every performance metric, and cost more for less.
Well the Sony Playstation 4 based it's OS upon FreeBSD9 and they still update that today (3 days ago last checked). Unsure upon what the PS5 runs for certain, but can be sure that FBSD will live on and amazing how much from that codebase that people use.

So whilst Linux for many put BSD's to distant past memories, the amount of code from it that is used in other projects/products down the line is larger than many realise and can imagine that more people run lines of code with FreeBSD origins today than early 2000's.
I mean in the UK ours are terrible. We dream of European efficiency as much as you do.
What I'm thinking of would affect freedom 3 more than freedom 0. I guess by "use" I meant "incorporate in another program". But I still think it counts as free and open source because it doesn't actually prohibit commercial redistribution, it just switches to a different license type.

It's GPL plus an additional permission that noncommercial derivative works don't have to share the source code.

Anyway it's probably not actually a good idea.
Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in
I hope not. I hope global warming kills billions of people
Add IPV6 to this scenario and it allows for incredibly fine-grained device identification and possibly/probably location. I can really imagine data-gatherers/advertisers going crazy for that.
They're also real big on Stage 3 climate denialism, as a quick Google search turns up:

https://www.google.com/search?q=quillette+climate+change
Is Linux required given Apache is in Big Sur?

The power efficiency is a game changer.
Covid-19 trade restrictions have been devastating for Africa’s urban poor
Well, actually working with "averages" as baselines before you start experimenting with more complex ML models is a good habit.

Sure, they are dummy regressors [1], but they can be so useful for proving that your whatever ML model you choose is at least better than a dummy baseline. If your model can't beat it, then you need to develop a better one.

They can even be used as a place-holder model so you can develop your whole architecture surrounding it, while another teammate is iterating over more complex experiments.

You could also settle in for a moving average process as a first model in a time-series [2], because they are easy to implement and simple to reason about.

Never under-estimate the power of an "average".

[1] https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.du...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving-average_model
So, um...what are the statistics for Texas, which is the state being talked about?

It's all very well to mention that other states have some firearm homicides each year, but if you don't provide Texas' stats to compare to, it's not especially germane to the topic at hand...
My understanding was that the sheep shearers were specialists and the others were cheap labor.

Note that Norway has strict laws and regulations when it comes to wages, but especially this year it has become clear that certain farms finds all kinds of ways to fleece some of these people anyway:

- rent out overpriced "flats" with bunk beds that are the bare minimum allowed standard

- changing terms after people arrive

- generally try to skirt regulations in every way possible
I think you should assume Pluton will be used instead of SGX, which is so broken nobody has any confidence in it any more.
I have the same problem, but I think it's an extension issue. On Ubuntu it happens, but with same extensions on macOS is not happening. I wish i could debug it.
In my case it happens only when deleting files from the source tree
A small detail glossed over in the article is that New York City has three separate library systems. The New York Public Library, The Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Public Library were all founded in the mid-19th century years before the creation of New York City and it's five boroughs in 1898.

The New York Public library built 30 Carnegie libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library 21 and the Queens Public Library 7.
> suggest yet another ICO out of the ocean of ICOs out there.

I've been working in the space for 6 years. I give no craps about the asset, but yes, I think cutting edge cryptography is fascinating.

I tend to agree that the vast majority of "work" in the space is garbage, as are the majority of assets.
How about both
Ah, that makes sense. I have to let my Gaggia Classic warm up for 10 minutes. I should take your route!
Wait this is some AI?
Once the transition is complete, I would expect the energy counsumed to be only 0.1% of a POW chain, so a thousandth the amount of power. (but I haven't attempted to work out an exact number and am not an expert on these matters)
Engels stole from his workers a special extra salary of 10 times the average just for his own entertainment purpose (self admittedly). He could have instead not stolen that money from his workers, live an extremely confortable life, and still finance Marx, just like Weinstein could have made pro feminist movies without raping women.
https://drhoffman.com/article/15-reasons-why-most-health-stu...

Most studies are wrong.
Video recommendation is the quintessential machine learning killjoy. YouTube and Netflix were a lot more interesting before they achieved algorithmic homogeneity.
> The mother runs through a battery of tests to determine if her baby has a genetic abnormality -- and if so, can choose an abortion.

Providing expectant parents with better information and more choice? Sign me up.

> Unequivocally, this is genocide! Genocide!

If it's unequivocal, why do opposing opinions exist?
I don't know.

I'm not bullish on the "just plant trees, it will fix everything about CO2 emissions" movement....I have my doubts.

Most countermeasures seem irrelevant as long as 1/3rd of the world relies on lignite ash and brown coal as primary energy sources.
> To a neurosurgeon about Egyptian architecture.

See Ben Carson.
Ask HN: Mom and pop stores payment terms
Are you guys familiar with the payment agreements usually happening between mom & pop stores / bodegas / convenience stores and big distributors, brands, such as Coca Cola, Pepsico, or Kraft in the US ?

We are doing some research in this space to know more and understand better this market. Do you have any relatives working in this business ?

From what we've researched so far we've noticed that mom and pop stores usually need to pay after 10 days to 30 days and therefore, lack working capital and cash flow. We've also noticed that distributors or brands are unwilling to provide better terms for obvious cash flow reasons as well.

We are into this idea of building a fintech adjacent solution, that would become a one stop shop solution for mom and pop stores in terms of stock ordering, payments, etc..but foremost, it would be a tool to acquire data on the shop and provide the owner with the best credit line to extend the payment terms. We are thinking about offering some factoring solutions to the distributors as well to prevent any cash flow issues related to his treasury.
Consumer goods is a big industry and we believe that it is still relying on an old tech to operate.

Your inputs are more than welcome
thank you guys for your thoughts
There's another aspect of this overhype of machine learning right now.

Manager - We need to do X, we need a ML Data Scientist.

Engineering Team - there's a simple solution we can use instead of ML.

Manager - No we need a ML Data Scientist, we need to do this right.

Time Passes, hiring a ML Data Scientist is hard, and the problem never gets solved.
The technical infra vs the conceptual architecture enabled the one sided internet per china.
If the point of this is to show the price/performance ratio isn't that far off, okay. However, that isn't super clear, and most readers will see the graphs and conclude the M1 is garbage.

This just feels like yet another apples-to-oranges comparison. Of course the systems with dedicated, bleeding-edge graphics cards (and 4x RAM) are going to nuke the M1 in this regard.
This advice applies equally to a startup taking some form of funding as well. Don't waste time on these things, just focus relentlessly on distribution and your product (what the user sees, not the plumbing).
The point of the article is that many cars get the PHEV nameplate and tax credits, but are nothing at all like the Volt.

The Volt was an EV with a backup generator. These fake PHEVs have like 10-20 miles of battery range even under ideal driving conditions.

The point is the regulatory credits need to be smart enough to see this.

It’s just like diesel-gate, it’s not saying all diesel engines are a terrible scam, just certain Diesel engines.
> When using free open-source software, the license always disclaim any warranty or liability related to the use of the software

Have you find any proprietary operating system that doesn't come with that phrase? The only pieces of software that don't have something like this are very expensive consulting-first specialized ones.
Normal digital setup is better then vinyl.

If you really want to play and use vinyl, you should try to read up on it yourself shopping around and experience it, otherwise you just have something at home because its hip to have it at home.

You might just like the weirder sound from your selection even more.

There are plenty of good youtube channels and videos showing you a varity on options you have to explore.
Not on iOS you can’t. :(
Yeah, I'm joking.

It's just not even close to an apples-to-oranges comparison. Not only is it Rosetta2 but it's also Mac vs Windows binaries. They couldn't add in another variable to make it more different if they tried.

But if you were to build/buy a "AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X", I would check their numbers on geekbench.com. It seems like there's a lot of builds with the same specs and better numbers than even this. For the amount of money they're asking of a desktop, I'll check these numbers elsewhere.
I'd prefer the West blocks China access to its population's intel.
Thank you. I don't even care much about the language. I can code C#, Python, many others and don't mind to learn some new.

What I need is a library to give me high-level TUI widgets (kind of like VisualBasic for DOS, not necessarily WYSIWG - code-first is OK) which would look good.

The one you have linked seems the best I have seen (among all the languages) so far but Spectre.Console looks (literally, I mean the aesthetic aspect) even better.
Idk, could be but given some anti-mainland posts I've seen from them I lean towards non-native speaker from HK
If you go down that road, it'll be much more impactful if they stick around and start killing others, instead. Just saying.