skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would have thought the connection between the sequestering of nuclear families in single family homes and the dwindling of communal childcare/rise of expensive commercial childcare options to be fairly obvious.
There are studies. Killing some species of mosquitoes may be entirely beneficial. But if this happens to succeed, what will be next ? Will we use this technology to eradicate another specie and discover too late that this one was very important ? We are creating a precedent. I favor eradicating some species of mosquitoes, but this should stop there. My worry is that human is rarely able to stop after a success. What will be the failure that will cause us to stop ? How devastating will be this failure ?
You can hate all you want, but by just hating you won't change anything.

It's truly baffling to me that people don't see very clearly that Amazon is not the problem here.
How are they windfalls? For whom?
Do candidates need to be living in Europe or Africa, or do you need them to work in those time zones?
It doesn't take a huge amount in the way of active suppression: hire a some of the brightest industrial chemists and pay them well to work on your stuff instead of untested, unprofitable algae technology. Other smart people will similarly work on financial derivatives or cost-per-click optimisation instead of money-losing algae.

It's not a conspiracy, it's just capitalism chasing returns.
But are they carbon negative? I don't think so
I had a look (I think few weeks ago). In terms of network, I think IPster is suppose to be more peer to peer, as in; it doesn't have to be between a company and a candidate. If I am working somewhere and I know my company is looking for someone, I can just ping my friends so they know.

Thanks for sharing
The EU has a minimum VAT rate of 15% and an average of like 20%, so a huge amount.
Floatplane is a video service built by the people behind the popular Youtube channel LinusTechTips. It is not a direct competitor to Youtube though. The platform makes it easier to let paying fans get videos earlier but it is not meant to build an audience.
Do you also find it remarkable that people don't despise the people who get defrauded more than the fraudsters?
I did use axonometry in the early versions. While it did work well for surfaces with faces, lines and particles floating in 3D space were extremely confusing because you couldn't tell what's closer. Supporting different projections (and generally exposing the lower-level renderer details like controls) is a great idea, and should be a quick fix — I've made an issue https://github.com/thoughtspile/grafar/issues/7
Why doesn't HN link to /best in its header?
I check https://news.ycombinator.com/best from time to time and wonder why it's not linked in the header. Is there more to it why that's not the case?
If you read my comment you'll see I'm not saying the other thing isn't true, just that it isn't a factor on why dating sites are set up this way.
Chicago GDP = $619B
IL GDP = $897B

Agriculture is a small fraction of what IL produces.
This page has a link to "Try Excalidraw+ for free", but I didn't find a way to try it when I clicked there.

I found I could try it at https://excalidraw.com/

This looks really good and I'm going to try it out at my work. I haven't found anything so far that comes close to a real whiteboard. If it works out maybe we'll get the + version.
Nights are merely day minus light. The days are just ... long.
If you dont understand the structure of danish corporations, then sure, I see how it could be seen as funny.
Fixed — thx and hugs!
Note taking with non-linear power
Tax avoidance is legal, even if morally reprehensible. Evasion is illegal. There's no mention of evasion here is there?
Hey, this looks interesting! I realize how essential telemetry is in the information age even for sizable open source projects. For example, Firefox does a lot of privacy preserving telemetry to provide insights on metrics such as how many people are utilizing a given feature.

Any open source project which helps do telemetry in a private manner is a good thing in my books.

I'm just curious, who exactly is your target audience/market with this project?
The argument is the law allows for deducting of business expenses. The law does not allow for deducting of house renovation expenses for personal taxes.
That is simply not true.
Large destruction of natural ecosystems is a disaster for the planet we need to use less resources not more.
We could create mechanical replacement which works with sea water and doesn't require us to wait for a decade to get result and likely more optimized for just one task.
Yes, there are some species that require desert conditions in order to live. They have adapted to this particular harsh environment and the conditions in these places help keep out competition for the scarce available resources. You really should do some basic research or at least watch an Attenborough documentary because "everything you know about biology" is apparently quite limited. Yes, deserts have less life and far less obvious signs of it given the lack of resources, but that also means that the web of life between the various organisms is far more fragile and takes a lot longer to recover from any injury or intrusion.

A far better place to put solar panels are in places where we know the impact of people and machines will be barely noticed and where life will spring back quite quickly. Put them in the middle of farmland. We have far more arable land than we need to be using, taking it out of production for a decade or two will be good for the soil, and it will spring back to life within days of the construction machinery leaving.
GH pages cache can be very annoying sometimes.
Many people have raised concerns about introducing modified genes into mosquito population, but nobody seems to care about insecticides usage on mass scale, which leads to proliferation of resistant mosquitos by means of evolution.

I think the bias is that in the first example mosquito genes are considered unnatural, yet in the second nobody cares about genome. "Not directly manipulated means natural"
Monte Carlo method is even used by chess programs. Having the engine quickly play multiple games against itself, from a given position, is an alternative method of evaluation, probing how the position holds "in practice".
Why should I believe this site?
I'm much more concerned because this is a species that is very closely tied to human interactions.

Having -potentially- genetically modified organisms sucking my blood and introducing who knows what into my blood stream is non-ideal.

We've also got an incredibly bad record of fucking with ecological systems: See basically all of austrailia (Cane Toads, European Rabbit, Feral Goats, etc).
Fraud != Paying the amount of taxes you're required
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Why is nuclear energy so bad though? 99 percent of the plants dont blow. The waste fuel is miniscule in size and easy to contain compared amd fossil fuel, which cant be contained.

Nuclear seems like a perfect solution to immediately reduce climate impact while we transition to proper renewables.

It seems like the semi localized environmental damage of an occasional nuclear accident is far less bad than the constant global damage of carbon.
What do you mean by anonymous connections? Without them being logged in and you actively tracking them, it is anonymous. You'd be reinventing the wheel to de-anonymize the user if you want to track users across devices, which is certainly not anonymous: existing companies use advertising IDs or cookies, based on the problem. There is no way you can identify users across devices devices (or solve this problem better) than Google and Facebook, since you run in 1 application, they run in almost all of them.

"We did look at syncing all this with RTC data channels,", that's when you use a reliable service with additional functionality like history and presence, not WebRTC data channels, that might be why you struggled. It sounds like you should be using WebSockets for this type of data.

It sounds like you're trying to build chat for ecommerce websites, but isn't that Intercom, tidio.com (free tier alternative). Agora is lower level, but also solves these problems and more: messaging, audio, video calls. I don't think any of these offer cross device identification without having users log in on all their devices.
Ok, so when are they going to stop operating in the market then? They're consistently losing money they should just shut down right?
> just like ordinary citizens

Have you ever paid more than what you were required to?
He acknowledges helpfully at the outset that he's not a CCS expert. He's just posing questions by which you could evaluate whether a company is doing anything remarkable, isn't that correct? This isn't a proposal for a CCS company or anything -- more of a guide on how to poke holes in a proposal for such a company.

A side note, I had never heard of Casey Handmer before seeing this. I'm wondering how he appears to be a software developer at JPL but markets himself as some CEO-for-hire on only interesting problems...
> The net world population is going up. Any non-zero growth rate will eventually saturate the planet.

There's a huge difference between "saturating" 10 years from now or 1000 years from now.

And population growth has slowed down to a crawl. It's enough to bring just a dozen, or less, countries out of poverty to achieve basically zero growth.

> We are already beyond capacity.

We are not.

> causing each person to boost their resource consumption.

Overconsumption is a problem, and should definitely be solved.
Think of Floatplane as more of a Patreon competitor with a video component, than a YouTube competitor.
> Not all of the contents made accessible via the page was even illegal

Would you say the same if 30% of the links on the site were to child pornography? Why does it matter that some of the links on the page were to legit content? DDW did the same and was still shut down by the DOJ.

> and the page itself is not illegal

I doubt that there are many places in the world where getting paid to distribute links to darknet drug markets isn’t illegal. The US certainly isn’t one of those places.
I think the difference between Tax evasion and tax avoidance becomes moot when the corporation you're talking about spends huge amounts of money on shaping tax policy.
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Hey there,
Thank you so much for sharing this, it's super important to realize how smartphones are impacting us every day and how almost all social media platforms and distracting apps are designed to steal as much of your attention as possible and keep you as hooked as possible.

I'm working on an iOS app called Opal (https://opal.pm/hn) which can help you lock/brick distracting apps on a set timer or all day long in the background while still keeping essential apps like mobile banking active. Think of it as a smarter airplane mode that's designed to help you be more intentional with how you choose to use your phone.

We believe that better and more humane tech is ironically an actual solution to the problem tech has created for all of us. With Opal, it's all about building a healthier relationship with your phone and using everything in limits. It's not about drastically reducing your screen time but you can totally achieve that too if that's what you want to do. We want to make people feel good about the time that they do spend on their screens and not feel guilty that they've spent X hours on their phone this week etc.

I truly believe this can help you get "un-hooked" from apps that are distracting to you and help stop the doomscrolling.

Let me know if you do give it a try as we want to make it work for you and for anyone else in a similar position :)
Collecting minimal data (or no data at all) is also a way of being 'GDPR compliant' :)
Long distance high voltage DC inter ties are a thing (there is one running from Washington to southern california), but very costly to build.

If you have a truly ridiculous amount of free or almost free photovoltaics somewhere, you could theoretically crack hydrogen from seawater and compress it into tanks, ship it elsewhere (using hydrogen powered ships, hopefully) to be run through giant proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Right now its economics are prohibitively bad. But do the math if the electricity to run the cracking process was far under 1 cent per kWh...
Yeah that should work. If I do 1 request per second with 64 IP addresses, I'd expect to find ~110 videos after 1 year of random sampling if there are 1T videos on YouTube.

110=(64*3.154e+7)*(1,000,000,000,000/2^64)

(The other thread that assumes a 62-character set is wrong because they forgot about '-' and '_'. I'm fairly certain a video ID is a urlsafe base64 encoded 64-bit int. 64^11==2^66)
Think about it for a moment. How far would you need to transmit power for this to be useful without storage, and from what longitudinal spread of locations?
No that’s not what happens either.

Apple wasn’t sued or fined and didn’t go to court, the ruling compelled Ireland to collect additional tax from Apple and Ireland was the one who went on and spent tax payer money on appealing the decision in the EGC.
20TB is not the limit but what is included in the VPS costs. Afterwards it's 1€ (plus VAT) / TB
Is there any solid information about Google using TPU for the search engine, or is this an assumption you're making?
Next steps links should be fixed now. The problem with conflicting scroll / orbit on mobile needs more thinking, thanks for the feedback.
Another perhaps even cooler and not so unrealistic that people are actually working on it, is building the solar farms out in space and beaming the energy down to where it’s needed!

Edit: OK I looked it up again and there are two stages. The one that's having actual work done is beaming energy between two places on earth, but the space one is being "explored".

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/25/...
> A plant is basically a self-healing, self-replicating CO2-capturing machine running off solar power and some chemicals.

Not in itself. When the plant dies, it rots and all the carbon goes back to the atmosphere by the action of fungi and bacteria.

Plants can function as the zeroth step in a carbon capture pipeline. The actual capture happens when the plant dies and you bury (or otherwise process) its tissue somewhere so that the carbon cannot go back to the biosphere.

Just growing plants and letting them die is purely carbon neutral.
If it didn't make net profit as GP suggests, it's unprofitable. If it did but shuffled the money via subsidiaries to present that it didn't, it's called tax evasion indeed.
Implicit in my first comment is the transmission losses...
Yes, 'www.burrito.consulting' looks akward, but most people born after 1960 will recognize it as the URL for a web site.

People outside tech generally don't realise that domain.tld and www.domain.tld are two separate hostnames, and adding www. makes it much more recognizable to the general public.
This is something I've been deep into recently. Just a couple of days ago I published a short paperback story (grimtalesbook.com) written and illustrated by AI - GPT-3 for the writing in this case.

I liked the analogy aimor made in this thread between the level readiness of autonomous driving and autonomous writing. From my experience that feels right, we're not at L5 yet - you can't just let the AI write continuously because you'll just end up with junk wrapped around some nuggets of gold.

In the future if we get to 'L5' writing, your child will have the ability to say 'OK Google, tell me a story about my adventures as a dragon slayer' and Google will respond happily with a perfect bedtime story. And the next day, you'll get a physical copy of that story in the mail. Luckily, that future isn't here yet.

The way Grim Tales was written with GPT-3 was by using some human intervention to keep the AI on track to write a cohesive narrative with a plot and dialogue. A couple of rules like removing anything that doesn't progress the narrative, and keeping the narrator in first person meant that the story was far more readable and didn't meander around like common examples.

Right now - for professional writers - AI is probably good enough as a co-pilot used to create alternate scenes at points in the narrative, or as a tool to help with writers' block.
Most of these games are on the older side and are probably making negligible amounts of money. Monetizing your backlog for $0.1 per install when 1,000,000 people install your app gives you a lot of valuable funding for your next game.

It's also totally distorted because it's free. If the game cost money, it wouldn't have sold nearly at the same level.
That's very shallow dismissal. Yes, it's true "just planting a lot of plants" will lead to disappointment. But it's the same as with "just build lots of solar panels/windmills" without any systematic thinking.

Natural and sustainably managed biomes don't require irrigation. I know, there are deserts where much biomass won't ever naturally grow, but no solution is suitable everywhere.

Trees can and do last longer than 100 years, and even after death they don't puff release co2 immediately. When left undisturbed, large part of carbon is left fixed in the soil.
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You're talking about the principal author of the
Einstein–Szilárd letter to FDR. He literally started the Manhattan Project.

Einstein's political and social views evolved throughout his life, something he had in common with many highly intelligent people. As a result, it is possible to quote-mine Einstein to back up almost any point you care to make. This is a perfect example.
You are missing the point. I am saying that macos ships with zsh nowadays, having bash 4 installed for legacy compatibility.
> a location east where its still light.

You've got your directions backwards.

7pm in NYC is 4pm in SF, so you wanted to use solar power to provide evening energy then you generate in the West (SF) to power the East (NY).
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Hi all,
our team is now playing with the technologies like Machine-learning translations + Speech synthesis processes.

We are testing these on the project which has a code name polyvid.io and gives us the idea of the proper technologies usage.

The project allows you to have a synced video translation into multiple languages. Pretty useful if you do not want to decode the video yourself! Just enter the link on the home page and select your language.

If you want to have a look and give any feedback, I am more than happy to have a chat or listen any critics. One thing to note, that is an early stage prototype, so the resources we use are limited for it for now.

Currently, you can translate from all English videos to any of the listed language below and vice-versa:

Chinese,
English,
French,
German,
Japanese,
Italian,
Russian,
Spanish

* We hate to re-invent the wheel, so if anyone knows something similar, PLEASE send the examples so our team does not spend a half of a year on re-creating some existing functionality!
Amazon operates for soon 3 decades on global scale, without making a profit as you say. Can't possibly imagine where that long a runway is coming from; maybe the crux here rather is some creative accounting.
Right, at a competing video site we had vendors trying to sell us specialized encoding hardware most of a decade ago.
Uppercase brand names feel more premium
This might be relevant: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~juhan/super_spec.html
I think those custom TLDs will work just fine. It might confuse customers a bit, but most of them will just type "burrito.catering" in Google and miraculously reach the correct website anyway.

EDIT: In case it's not obvious, the fact is that most people don't type the website address in the URL bar. They type it in the Google search bar.
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Exactly! I think a lot of problems that we have currently are being tackled by fighting symptoms instead of looking at the source. We can't make the world around us work in our ways. We'd be much better off working with the worlds way and improving upon that.

With this mosquito problem, I can think of multiple things that need to change: insecticides, herbicides that influence the places where birds nest, birds and other small animals are affected by both insecticides and herbicides because their habitat is being destroyed. Herbicides influence the ground on which we grow crops, the ground gets infertile, fungi and small ground animals aren't working the ground to keep it strong and a welcoming habitat for the whole food chain.

As long as we keep killing the smallest in the food chain, we kill eventually the bigger ones, and leave ourselves with problems like this.
When the corporation also owns news outlets, heavily subsidizes political parties, spends on lobbying, they are very much a political entity, and a major shaper of the system.

Treating them as rats in a labyrinth makes no sense when they're the main creators of the labyrinth.
Deserts have been growing though, particularly the Sahara due to human activities like farming and grazing animals. So perhaps there’s opportunities to reduce deserification by combining solar and agriculture, and also provide power to poor regions.

According to this link there is promising benefits:

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/09/combining-solar-farming...
This[0] Google blog from 2017 states they were using TPU for RankBrain which is what powers the search engine

[0] - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...
Very interesting description. Are you familiar at all with the details of FPGAs for these very same tasks, especially the EV family of Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC? They include hardened video codec units, but I don't know how they compare quality/performance-wise. Thanks!
i think they do more general purpose things like downsampling, copyright detection etc which doesn't have globally available custom asics. i think gpus don't do encoding/decoding themselves, they have separate asics built in which do the standardised encodings
Then I suggest you start following his blog :)

Casey's writing is second to none on doing engineering analysis.

A few of my favs:

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/the-spacex-sta...

https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/supersonic-ele...
Do I have this right: 90,000 homes each pay $1400 [1] in electricity, so $550M is paid back in 4.3 years. Makes the economics look pretty good, assuming distribution costs are not much higher than 50%

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46276
The program, yes. The name, probably not.
Losses in high-voltage direct current transmission lines are approximately 3-4% per 1000km. Wikipedia has a good article on HVDC btw.
On Unix and D&D, Nethack borrows a LOT from this lore. Guess why & are the demons...
Sequence analysis in Bioinformatics, for example to align sequences and detect homology and as in HMMER: http://hmmer.org/
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I wonder if that could be a viable approach, having a separate "writer" and "editor" AI