skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well json is everywhere so I think it’s mostly too late for companies to change all their internal protocols and apis to not use it. And note that a big advantage of json is that many applications can process it without a schema—you don’t need to know that the username field is a certain length, type and at a particular place. It is also easier to know if json is valid than a random binary format. The advantage of something like the algorithm here is that you can put it into your shared libraries[1] to get a speed up for free. If you spend (making up numbers) 1% of your cpu time parsing json and this speeds things up 4x (note: possibly more because other parsers get more of an advantage in micro-benchmarks from the branch predictor) then if you have sufficiently many servers you can cut your server bill by 0.75% which can be a large amount of money for the largest companies.

[1] this won’t work for all languages as the OP parses json into a flattish object where fields may be looked up rather than some language-specific data structures (like js objects or python dicts or whatever)
A chassis is the trailer to carry the container. The truck pulls the trailer/chassis.

Often chassis dont have cranes to (un)load containers themselves and therefore require cranes (capex heavy assets). Such cranes aren't everywhere/in surplus.
Old Street Roundabout was the centre point for the main London tech hub, silicon Roundabout.

As the Roundabout turned into a more pedestrian friendly junction perhaps pause for thought about Silicon Roundabout’s role.
You have this way: https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/scripting.html#wi...

and truly static executables are coming: https://www.timmons.dev/posts/static-executables-with-sbcl-v...
This. It is _a_ line of defense, like so many others. Same as obscurity can also be a line of defense.
Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy
> Generally I think the world would be better off with less super massive companies who no longer have a founder with morals and a vision to guide the company away from a purely profit motivated future.

I think that's the crux of what Google got caught doing here. You don't need an Ivy League law degree to understand that what is laid out here is a slam-dunk case on collusion/anticompetitive grounds. I hope they have to face some kind of accountability for it. I hope these attorneys in Texas can deliver that for all of us at a level above "slap on the wrist".
> As if there wouldn't be dozens of pharma researchers whistleblowing 'we have the cure but our lab won't sell it'.

Precisely: lack of information is also an information. Such a simple, even beautiful way to look at things, yet so commonly ignored.
Oh, don't you worry. Average person's labour being taxed highly is not considered a problem. It's rather a solution to many problems.
Owning individual stocks is the same expected value than owning ETFs for almost all retail investors who are non-corrupt. Studies have looked at this and shown that regular investors in single stocks consistently underperform. So there's no real financial reason (in expectation terms) to do so unless they have corrupt intent. Of course someone that just got rich off NIO or GME probably differs but that doesn't speak to expected value which is all that matters for decision making.
Since switching to React functional components I haven't once felt a need to switch back to class based components. The hook ecosystem just feels right. I suppose it's a matter of opinion at this point, but I do really appreciate the hook feature of React.
Your dataset could, instead of gigabytes in a single request, also be a very large number of small requests all sent to a server to handle. Each message might be easily human-readable, yet the whole system would benefit from expedient processing.
There is certainly product placement. But I’d agree Netflix doesn’t feel as egregious as GOOG or FB.
> but everything else solely for political reasoning, especially F-Droid, is further evidence of diminishing integrity in this space.

Supposedly F-Droid is 'Free software' but also violated the first freedom on how a user should user their software as they wish.

So does that mean F-Droid is NOT free software and on top of that FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, Mastodon or Matrix clients should also not be packaged because there are bad actors on those platforms who are harassing other users?

Oh dear.
Can you provide a real example from the wild where mailto: linked to a file for download? Because otherwise it's hard to see how that's a counterexample to the principle I articulated, which is specifically about downloading files, a function web browsers perform routinely.
So let's do some math. Let's consider natural gas. According to the US government [1], natural gas produced 1.358x10^12 kWh of power and 5.6x10^8 metric tons of CO2 so 1 metric ton of CO2 equates to ~2400 kWh of produced power.

This post suggests the energy cost is ~230kWh/ton.

This is an important sanity check because it means that (capital costs aside) and if it scales you could technically remain carbon neutral for a net output of energy.

While this is of course only in a lab and they mention "battery" one should remain skeptical (since pretty much every battery "breakthrough" is nothing more than marketing for research funding).

This may be in the paper but in this summary I didn't see anything about how the CO2 needs to be delivered. Does it need to be in a relatively pure form? What sort of preprocessing is required?

As for the capital costs, it's hard to say anything concrete here other than if silver and Gallium are catalysts, they're both relatively cheap at that scale (Gallium seems to be <$250/kg according to some quick Googling). Catalysts tend to have a lifespan so those aren't one-time costs generally but still.

It's also not clear how much of each material is required.

Not to be a broken record on HN, but I've often said--and I'll repeat here--that I don't believe altruism will solve greenhouse gas emissions and global warming: it'll only be solved when it becomes economic to do so.

Another way of putting that is when the cost of carbon capture and/or non-greenhouse gas emitting energy sources is profitable, that's when you'll see change.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11
Hum... You are comparing a process that separates CO2 from a gas with a process that chemically breaks CO2. Those things do not compare.
> A week before the meeting, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it was considering making changes to its interpretation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which prohibits companies from collecting information about kids under the age of 13 without parental permission.

How would that work in practice? A lot of us here operate websites. Your website gets a request. How are you supposed to tell the age of the person that request came from? Maybe Google / Facebook have enough data to identify the person and their age, but ironically, they would have to collect information about them to determine that it's a person they shouldn't collect information about.

Certainly no child in the history of the Internet has ever lied to a website when asked their age.
The idea that what works for insects or small birds should work in larger scale if you just have materials does not hold up.

Small insect wing aerodynamics is closer to high viscosity aerodynamics. Viscous forces are more important and efficacy of lift generation from an airfoil is less important. Air can be considered incompressible.

Reynolds numbers (Re) - orders of magnitude.

10^7 for helicopter main rotor
10^4 for large insects
10 for small insects

Helicopter rotor aerodynamics is in laminar flow region limited from above buy the transonic region. Airfoil lift is the most important thing and laminar flow is important.

Insect flight is mostly turbulent flow. Generating enough lift using leading edge vortex and half strokes like insects do for helicopter sized object and rotor sized wing is not self evident. At least the wings should be much larger than helicopter rotors and flap very slowly.
Many FAANG(-N) employees receive more in compensation in the form of shares of an individual company than they do in cash. I don’t want to force them to quit their job (or cut their comp by more than 50%) if they want to contribute in local politics.

If this were broadly adopted, companies would be forced to switch to all-cash offers, to create long-term incentive plans that don’t use something the legislation defines as shares, or just be content to exclude politically active people from being employees. Some might be happy with that last outcome.
Fear and disgust are powerful motivators.

Once people give their minds over to them, they cannot conceive that others are not fearful or disgusted.

People in such a state of mind view others who are not fearful or disgusted as a threat, even after taking measures themselves to mitigate any threat.
Anyone know what happened with Jaron Lanier & Glen Weyls idea for data intermediaries - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5ri-KktNs

I thought that was a good idea. People get paid for all the attention suck instead of so much going to the tech firms.
> and other ad exchanges were also dirty

Bingo.

I'm glad to be out, tbh. I built some cool stuff, but Jesus.
> Yes, you can virtualize and OS and WSL is a nice way to do it?

Yes. That's the point. Installing Linux using WSL is several clicks away on the Microsoft Store, rather than wasting hours migrating, rebooting, formatting, dual-booting and then installing a Linux distro on the system.

WSL saves lots of time and makes installing Linux on another partition or in general a waste of time.
Are you suggesting that the author should censor himself to appease extremists on both sides ?

I would say that on the contrary, this kind of blogpost can be useful to make people that can still change their mind to think about this issue.
The "loosing the job" part is almost the same.

In the GDR, the state went large ways to distance themselves from facism and the anti-semitism of the past, while in reality, the jews weren't treated in a reasonable ways, couldn't get their property back and such nuisances.

My mom was a teacher in the GDR, and she made the mistake of asking "How are the jews in the GDR doing now?".
"...dismissed concerns about the platform’s role in 2016 election manipulation." - A great deal of people dismiss those concerns, including myself. Is dismissing those concerns, because we believe they're insubstantial, now a crime that you can get whistle blown on? You would think these whistleblowers would be revealing crimes, but they're just revealing things that half the political spectrum wants to talk about. It's actually quite boring.
trust != thrust, just so you know.
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Interesting (semi-related) video here from the graphics editor of NYT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860d8usGC0o
Yeah. How is change supposed to come when they control the system that's supposed to bring it about? If you try to fix things outside the system, you essentially become a terrorist and the government gives itself license to do unspeakable things to you.
Google is known to develop stuff in an RPC-first kind of way. Makes me wonder if higher-ups are able to just write a quick script to do this, without lower level employees even knowing.
Faang salaries are pretty good when you are starting out, but they level of pretty quickly.

After say twenty years, my friends on Wall Street are mysteriously richer than I am. Of course the ones who didn’t survive the early treadmill aren’t included, but I guess that’s the trade off. Engineering is fairly stable and well paying, but you don’t get million dollar payouts unless you are a founder.
Sirum (YC W15) is hiring to help automate safety-net pharmacies
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Don't forget the Inoffizielle Mitarbeiter, please. The denouncing culture in the DDR is nowhere comparable to what happened in the BRD.
I think you are over estimating a cross over between these customers. Cheap Mexican brick weed is still being sold because legal cannabis is pricing poorer users out of the legal market.

Legal stores are employing people legitimately and paying taxes, so I don't mind if some dealers now have to quit or diversify. The more jobs we have in legal drugs the fewer required in the illegal drug trade. This is a net positive to society.
The negative influence of Big Money in politics has been proven to be vastly overblown. Small dollar donations ar much more dangerous as they tend to come from the most engaged & partisan members of society and encourage pols to be much more extreme in their rhetoric
I thought the tech companies we are talking about do do some very hefty R&D, at least compared to other companies. For example, Amazon plowing all revenue back into expanding for 2 decades, Apple obviously invests quite a bit and just came out with a leap in processors, Google with its many services including Maps and self driving cars, Facebook and VR, etc.
Bigger wings means heavier wings, and greater torque needed to actuate the wings, which means more power needed as well as greater stresses involved, all of which means even more mass, which eats into your payload budget.
But.. are these "mediocre representatives of U.S. corporations" representative of the average U.S. citizen?
30% ruling (was 35%) is a good place to start.

Running your own BV was always stupidly expensive.
This is a rather limited viewpoint which overlooks a lot of other components and factors, such as natural predispositions, what a person enjoys doing, AND what benefits others.

I think the "Ikigai" diagram tells a lot here.

https://www.performanceexcellencenetwork.org/pensights/wp-co...

And in case that link breaks, this google search for similar.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ikigai+diagram

I personally believe in leaving the money component out of it, given what and how our society incentivizes financially. Other than that, I think it's a great philosophy.
It is a tool of thought _for smart people_. But thanks for that, um, like, uh totally awesome Wikipedia link! +1
Spotlight does indeed do this so Mac users don't need this. Might help Windows and Linux users though. I use voidtools.com's Everything tool to search for filenames quickly on Windows as it uses the NTFS index to do near-instant searches, since the Windows Indexing Service has been poor since XP...
This might help if you are looking for content instead of just filenames.
Well, sure, if you have a lawn and stop maintaining it, the result will suck. That’s not the alternative though, which is environment appropriate landscaping. Out west that’s often succulents and hardscape. Where I live in the Midwest, that’s perennial flowers and prairie.
> but it still can't leave the "lab"

What makes you think this is the case? That's not my impression at all (for reference, I develop software in Rust professionally).
Having some trouble figuring out how to benefit from this.

I can't think of a scenario where JSON handling is our bottleneck; almost all of the massive-data-handling tasks in my entire career have usually been handled by our database of choice.

Largest individual JSONs we've had to handle like on import tasks and such were about 300mb, which proved extremely easy to manage with stuff like JSONStream -I think we used a hand-rolled analogue back then but JSONStream is actually pretty cool, check it out-

What is the use case here? data lakes?
The answer to the second question is definitely no. Violence victims are definitely not better adjusted They get PTSD and can’t handle much smaller harms.
This makes sense. I have not bought a CD in well over a decade, because high bitrate MP3 or FLAC are so much more convenient.

I doubt a lot of people buy CDs because they like CDs. Vinyl is something else, though, especially if you consider electronic music and DJ culture. And then there's people who insist Vinyl just sounds better, which may or may not be a placebo effect. And I remember when CDs became popular, some people complained that Vinyl was just more aesthetically pleasing because of the cover art and picture discs.

So yeah, it makes sense. I guess Vinyl is going to stay around much longer than CDs.
I really puzzled why no one switched to hooks + suspense. I started to use suspense when it was alpha - you don't need any support for this from react itself: just catch promise in error boundary and display placeholder.

This makes everything is so easier:

const data = useQuery('/api/user/:id', {id:1});
return (<span>{data.name}</span>);

No error handling, not loaders, just one line.
The cost of 230kWh is around €30 in Norway (lower during the summer), the CO2 quota price is around €60/ton.

Norway is now building pipes to pump CO2 down to the old oil wells.

Seems like it starting to get economically profitable to grab CO2 from the air and sell the quota?
Technically these judges should have recused themselves, but is it really a big deal that the judges (or their families) had financial advisors or stock brokers held shares in companies they were probably not even aware of was a defendant? The real question would be how much did these judges make by buying or selling those stocks during the cases compared to rest of their portfolio. I would imagine it’d be negligible
> Wow. We've just had a thread on how Facebook chooses profits over people (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955579) and here's Google complaining that FB "at times" doesn't choose profit...

These are not incompatible statements. Any corporation, once it gets large enough, inevitably veers toward "profits over people," if only in the more benign sense of "if it doesn't make money, it doesn't make sense." Yes, I know, "goodwill" is a thing that corporations strive to cultivate, but, even the concept of "goodwill" has been financialized in modern corporate finance.
The Erlang world is obviously full of bright people with cool ideas, but difficult string handling is a deal breaker for me if I intend to use a language in production grade projects. Is Elixir better at it?
Except that even smart clothes have a functional use: as clothes. Fake shutters have no utility value.

A closer analogy to dressing up for the opera would be artisanal hand-carved decorative (but functional) shutters basic plain shutters. They both have the same utility but one has nicer aesthetic.
Time to start popularising 'Justice is 20/20' then!
Wasn't the same true 20-30 years ago? I feel like you can just choose not to sell or IPO, right?
Conway's Magical Pen
The pdf format is partially to blame for the lack of hyperlinks. Hopefully we'll see more html-first papers in the future.
The typographers and layout people have been advocating short columns since Mark Twain bitched about it. It's their job to break up that text, no matter how they have to justify it.

Of course they find ways to explain how their livelihood is important and needs to be done more. Some of them get paid by the hyphen.
Why do you want to make it illegal for me to contact my representative and voice my opinion on upcoming legislation -- that's also lobbying.
> Android and Chrome pretty much doesn’t have a business case.

Seriously? The most used browser and mobile operating system in the world can't finance their operations? If that's the case, then there could be no browser.

Firefox is still able to finance its operations and so does many other browsers. Google can still contribute to WebKit as an open source project.

Android can start charging a fee for every mobile device (not sure if they already do that?) and cover its development expense. It'll be a saner world where you pay for the services you are using.
Very cool. I really love fish but sometimes find it very annoying to translate random posix snippets from the web.
However, momentum is a problem. The vibrations, and thus stresses, induced on the body of the thopter must be ludicrous. When the wings go up, the body must go down, and vice versa.
I think that mastering any random skill can be fun, and can help with expanding the horizons, but it's a waste of time to do it just because you can get paid for it. Time is not money, time is infinitely more valuable than money, and trading it away in order to spend that time building someone else's dream is a terrible bargain.

Everyone has something that they can do better than anyone else, and give something to the world that no one else can, and that's the best direction to put most of one's effort into.

In a healthy society, it might be prudent to factor money into it as well, I've found it leading me down all kinds of wrong and fucked up roads, where I was making "good money" and was "good at my job" but felt miserable as fuck all the time.
‘Rust’ crew describes on-set gun safety issues and misfires days before shooting
Performance artist is moving 50 tonnes of sand from one pile to another
Because react no longer renders child components in the same stack as the parent after concurrent mode, I think?
I don’t really understand the authors reasoning either. Classes in JavaScript are just sugar around functional closures.

In fact, you can use hooks inside of React component subclasses with a little fiddling [1].

The fact that the official react doesn’t support it is basically a design decision. It’s not impossible, but they just want to draw a clear line in the sand about how they think React code should be written.

1. https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-universal-hooks
My personal view is that I like some drugs (weed, DMT, mushrooms) and will ebulliently buy them and encourage most others to as well, but I’m skeptical that allowing random people to sell heroin, fentanyl and meth is a good idea. But I don’t know if dark net markets are good or evil given the state many addicts find themselves in. Perhaps in my above posts I was conflating “bad” with “criminal” though.

The reason I said it was moving the goalposts is because the initial arguments implicitly assumed drug markets were bad and only listed reasons “Union workers , journalists, security researchers, IT managers, lawyers, and judges and prosecutors” (really curious how some of those really need Tor by the way), but I appreciate you’re a different person so I shouldn’t have said that. The pros and cons of drug markets is a difficult debate. Regardless, I do think a lot of support (and criticism) for Tor is ideologically driven and no amount of statistics about drugs or child porn will change some people’s minds because they simply ideologically like (or hate) the concept at a fundamental level. I suppose it’s the same for all political issues?
So reducing petrol demand (let's say by switching to electric cars) might reduce the economic incentives of carbon capture significantly, interesting thought.