skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't get that impression from the article.

> But even if that bears out, multiply $100 by even a single gigaton—barely enough to make a dent in our annual emissions—and you’re talking about $100 billion. (The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that by 2050 we need to be removing at least 10 gigatons of carbon. Every year.) That’s on top of the hundreds of billions of dollars that would be required to build the plants themselves.

Big numbers, sure. But if they can hit the promised $100 per ton at scale, and we have to remove 10 gigatons per year by 2050... we're talking like $1T per year in operating costs. That's a bit more than one percent of current global GDP.

Maybe I'm missing something, but for an existential threat, that kinda seems like a pretty good deal? Even if it ends up a couple times that at scale... still a pretty good deal?
Seeing those files with capitalized filenames, please tell me they're using a case-insensitive filesystem. I hate capitals on case-sensitive filesystems.
“When someone prints a new NFT, it drives up the value of the top 5% of the NFTs in that category, while driving down the value of the other 95%.”

Sure sounds a lot like a pyramid scheme.
> Although dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of explanations have been offered to account for the dodecahedrons, no one is certain just what they were used for.

There's no shortage of ideas, and it's ok to share your ideas, but the interesting point is we just don't know which of the many ideas is correct.
IIRC one of the earliest copyright laws, Queen Anne's Statute, was made to protect creators (artists, writers) from reproducer-distributors (ie printing press owners).

I think this is the origin and principle aim, to allow production of works professionally - with all the skill and devotion that implies - whilst protecting the creators. Copyright seems to have been steered heavily away from that aim by the usual suspects who rent-seek in preference to adding value to society.
I'm currently in JoCo as well and my subdivision is much, much less diverse than my previous home within Kansas City city limits. My son's school is 80% white, 99% non-economically-disadvantaged, 93% students without disabilities. It's not representative of my past life experiences in KC, Boston, SF, Seattle, or SoCal.
Why do they say it’s a RCE (Remote Code Execution) if it requires changing a configuration file?
It never existed. That "URL" got mangled. Click through to the HN thread that was the real referent of the comment.
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Never thought I would see someone compare Fargo, ND to SoCal. Obviously everyone’s preferences are subjective, but that is quite an outlier opinion.
If it was a tool for commerce you would expect them to appear all over the old Roman empire and especially in Italy but according to the article they are only ever found in the northwestern parts of Europe. Also, if the purpose was validating currency the holes would need some markings indicating which hole matches what coin, wouldn't they?
Atmosphere, Minneapolis's hometown rap group, summarized the vibe there very well in their song "Say Shh":

So if the people laugh and giggle when you tell 'em where you live

Say shhh, say shhh

And if you know this is where you wanna raise your kids

Say shhh, say shhh

If you're from the Midwest, and it doesn't matter where

Say shhh, say shhh

If you can drink tap water and breathe the air

Say shhh, say shhh
Insurance is one of those areas of knowledge where, unless you're an expert, you can easily be told true statements that are highly misleading. Overlap that with the law, and you get a fantastic tangle of misleading information that can cripple your ability to make good choices.

It's probably true that, technically, liability insurance is only available once the driver loses in court, but that means very different things than it implies. For one, the driver has no knowledge of the court case, in many situations. The insurance companies work with one another to figure out who is paying what, and the insured is largely uninvolved.

You can "be told" many things about a system you're unfamiliar with that sound, on their face, absurd, but upon inspection actually make plenty of sense. This sounds like one of those things.
British Columbia forces you to buy liability insurance from the provincial government and it's awful. The premium calculations are illogical and inefficient. Bad drivers are subsidized by good ones, the rates are among the highest in the country and the govt manages to lose money on it.

My experience in other provinces with private insurance companies was much better.
I recall hearing during the Deepwater Horizon incident that the leaking well was a mile deep and the temperature at that depth was over 200C
Congratulations from someone who has passed three of the exams, and then bailed.

I would hire anyone who has passed even a single SOA/CAS exam in a Data Science role in a heartbeat - likely above most other candidates. While I don't directly monitor the "State of the Actuaries", I would have expected the industry to better poise itself as the penultimate "Data Science" candidate-incubator and stretch beyond insurance. I haven't seen an actuarial program that didn't cover computing science as part of degree requirements - and in my case, I also met all degree requirements for BSc Statistics. I did see however the SOA added a predictive analytics exam, exercised in R language.... so that's a start.

/resists urge to bash the term "Data Science" as a Science... because it's really just a combination of {actuarial,stats,cs} which are real science disciplines.
Meeting a desire is not a bullshit job, depending on the desire. One example in the book is a receptionist. Some places need receptionists to answer phones or receive packages, but one receptionist was hired at a firm that didn't need her to do any work - but a competing firm in the same building had one, so they wanted one too. Meeting your desire for nice hair, even a desire for a butler to pick up your laundry or whatever, is still meeting a need, but it's less superfluous than "I need you to sit there because someone else has someone who does something similar)
What about a dedicated Hetzner or OVH server your employer would let you expense the monthly cost for as an educational expense or similar?
In addition to the other comments, it should be pointed out that not everyone needs car insurance but everyone will require medical attention at some point.
I don't want to attack you, but its hard not to attack a comment like this. Building more housing won't solve the homelessness problem, building a lot more housing might lower prices a little bit which might mean that some middle class families might be able to buy a home, but that is about it.

Nobody is living on the streets in SF because houses cost too much money. If money was the only issue then they could easily move to a different town where housing is cheaper, there are many places to live that are cheaper than SF.

In my opinion whenever someone says the main problem is the price of housing they are saying it because that is their own personal problem. They want to buy a house, and they think the prices are too high. Why do they not mention unemployment? Or addiction? Or lots of other issues? Because those aren't their own personal problems, so they focus on the one thing that matters to them personally, and that's the price of housing.
A New Generation Stacks Up Championships in an Old Game: Tetris
Wouldn't the metal be quite... cold?
https://archive.ph/WMX1C
Similar, but made with wood and nails, which makes way more sense for a knitting aid. Much cheaper and easier to produce.

Also, the dodecahedrons are found in sizes ranging from "4 to 11 cm" in size (according to Wikipedia). That _might_ make sense if there were specialized ones for everything from kids to very large adults, but then...why aren't they found in clusters? You'd expect some towns in the Roman Empire, where gloves were made, to be full of them (in sets, not individual pieces). Instead, they turn up individually and fairly randomly throughout much of the Empire. They often turn up in coin hoards, too, which is an odd place to store a glove-making doodad.
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My experience with "hustle" culture is entirely the opposite. "hustle culture" folks are loathe to do any work at all until you can tie to directly back to value, usually for them.
I am surprised that it is not more widely known that the Latin issue of D&D did mostly use D12.
Nit: The released energy from the bonds is not the energy you have available to sequester the carbon at the end.
I watched a four-tone college Corolla rear-end a metallic fleck baby blue Bentley being driven from N to S Austin. Since I was stuck there (caught in the pileup, but undamaged), I chatted with the valet. He said that the Bentley would be totaled -- no purchaser would take it, obviously. He said the dealer insurance would handle the whole thing; there was simply no point in even calling the kid's insurance: the car was probably easily 5-10 times the kid's liability limit.
I've been having this problem for the last couple of months. Correctly using my (altered several times) password that I don't use anywhere else. The attempts come from the Isle of Man. It could be any of 3 different devices that have been compromised. I've run 5 different keylogging detection programs on my machine and get nothing, so wondering if it's a Chrome extension exploit?
It bugs me that they give you sample questions, but they don't lay out how you can solve it. I think it's still calculators, pen and paper, but ... that's the kind of detail that matters.
Well for a start, worker coops are not commanded from the top down so the owners don't get to just ignore customer complaints, because the owners, being the workers, are the ones taking customer complaints. Worker coops don't solve the problem of the profit motive though, where solutions that hurt the bottom line won't be implemented. That's an issue with markets themselves.

I'm far from an expert in this, and I'm no utopian, but I think it's important that we understand and identify where the problems in our society come from.
After that work is done though, the value of the content being transcribed is increased. They are solving the problem that the actual dialog spoken by the actors and audio cues aren't captured in a non-audio format yet. Axie is creating problems when designing the gameplay and allows people to sell solutions to it; they could easily just provide the "value" at the push of a button.
I designed an abuse-resistant, fault-tolerant, zero cost, multiplayer game
I'm just wondering if this tool is for taking the measure of finger size to make rings? but then it seem kinda odd to be inside of wealthy woman grave.
> including a network request

The wording in the CVE description of “an attacker with permission to modify the logging configuration file” really obscures that fact if that’s true.

That wording means something very specific to me (and I would assume many others) - my immediate assumption was that it refers to an actual file on disk on the machine running Log4j.

If it can load config over a network request - I feel like this would have been useful to point out in the description?

Unless this particular issue is just restricted to local file-based config?

Sadly it’s late here so I don’t have time to read up further right now. I’ll reserve that pleasure for tomorrow morning…!
To clarify. This has happened several times of late with my account, even after having changed my password, that is exclusive to LastPass. LastPass successfully catches the invalid attempts (I also use 2FA), but still, a bit worrying.
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When ever possible I try to ignore cities... I firmly believe high population density is the root of most societal problems.

That aside, I never said there were no skyscrpers I said they were rare compared to area's like NYC...

Chicago is probably the closest, but a skyscraper is generally defined as building over 100m, indy has like 9 of them over a pretty large foot print, so ...
Then maybe it's fine to be "pay to win"? Seems like millions of people are enjoying their time spent, and are willing to spend more time to continue to win.

Who are we to judge?
> Are you assuming that the comment you are replying to is in regard to vaping indoors in public spaces?

We are because I cannot count the amount of times I've seen ignorant vape clouds billowing away from someone or smelling a fruity floral vape aroma in places where its not allowed. All vapes have done is make it easier for people to smoke where they shouldn't.
To be fair Chicago really is the exception here, its downtown core is far bigger than that of any other Midwestern city.
Neither Boston nor DC are that bad. I hear Philly is trying though, no recent first hand experience with that one.
You must be good to work with. Not knowing everything is normal, but not every team can take that to heart.

I can picture Minnesota to the west of Wisconsin, but I can't pinpoint Minneapolis on the map in my head. (I went to college in the Chicago area.)
Honestly, now that Apple has proven you can run a POSIX OS on a case-insensitive filesystem, I'd think any "let's clean up the directory structure" project should be leveraging that work and going full case-insensitive. Case sensitivity should be avoided for anything outside of passwords and base64 and the like
Norway became Europe’s biggest power exporter
Except instead of a fixed (or decreasing as people slowly accidentally lose or leave the game with them in their bank) amount anyone can make a new (ugly as hell) party hat any time.

Oh and the party hat could just disappear leaving you with a receipt saying you own... something no one can see any more.
Yeah I just saw your rsync example above and it's indeed a very nice feature, to not have authentication, because at those times that I would need this I would certainly not feel up to hassling with installing/setting up Gotify (I do have a Gotify server running though).

I shall setup and play with this, thanks!

Edit: It was exactly for things like `bash long-running-script.sh ; notify "done"` that I installed Gotify in the first place, but I've never actually used it like that. This I surely will!
GPU mining Bitcoin hasn't been reasonable for many years unless you have very cheap energy and no access to ASIC miners.
This was a brilliant read on a technically taboo subject
Only to the extent that it shows you can't simply compare the vintage of two systems and declare the older one safer by dint of battle-testing.
To be fair, orthogonal just means something that’s at a right angle to another line. I’ve heard people refer to something that is opposite, or an antonym to parallel (or in sync) as orthogonal.
> the grandparent seemed to be stating that enjoying living in a place like this in the Midwest requires being white and straight

I don't think they meant that you can't own a house and lead a nice life if you're not straight and white. I think they just meant to say it's difficult to 'fit into' Midwestern culture if you don't fall into certain identity categories. While I'm from the Midwest and have fondness in my heart for it, I have to concede this is true from experience.
The core of the problem is housing. The passage of recent bills that grant homeowners the right to subdivide their lots and potentially put 4 houses without objections from their neighbors is a good step. But it's too little, too late. The two main groups of people who have built wealth: (a) Highly skilled immigrants who came here in droves and (b) Young people who came here in pursuit of their dreams are both utterly unwelcome here. Existing residents who own housing are open in their disdain for these groups of people, and wish that tech had never exploded, threatening their "lifestyle". The dysfunctional politics at the national level treat highly skilled immigrants as a nonentity, focusing all their efforts on appeasing or amnestying illegal immigrants, because their sizable numbers guarantee that they will be a significant source of support for them. The worst outcomes are for the young immigrants, who see that they have no future here because they can't make long-term plans because of neverending waits for permanent residence and citizenship, and can't own even modest homes because of the utter indifference of locals to the housing needs of others. Add to this the neverending turf wars of the dozens of jurisdictions that prevent mass transit from ever built (which enable other large conurbations such as the NYC/Northern NJ area to provide housing to much larger numbers of workers), and it's a miracle tech and the workforce that drives it is still here. Something's gotta give, and the pandemic has made the other shoe drop. It remains to be seen if the past two years and perhaps the coming year are just an aberration, or whether the changes are permanent.
It's called a tree.
This is really nice. I was thinking about coding some generative art but after a short while it started feeling cold, unlike these nice landscapes. Use your favorite image search on "generative art" and you'll see that most looks plotted and mathematical, despite some of it being very good looking.
Wild. I guess the NSA black bag job at Google was 2013, which led to SSL everywhere. I guess most folks still had the hard and crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy model on the inside mindset. Time flies.
>I don't see a scam anywhere.

They are telling the government they will pay out if the insured party is at fault for an accident, but in some (many?) cases they don't actually pay out. That sounds like a scam to me.
If you state two facts of equal import, they aren't necessarily linked. But if they are of different levels, and one happens before the other, only people who are implying a connection or who have a clinical condition lump those together.

Yesterday my uncle died and my dog got hit by a car.

versus:

Yesterday my shoelace broke and my dog got hit by a car.

Why am I bringing up the shoelace? And why first? For want of a nail the kingdom was lost? There are people who can't filter events by intensity. That's a separate diagnosis from BPD or NPD, but it's still something to keep an eye on. You either don't know you are saying something salacious, you do and you don't care, or you do and you are enjoying the buzz it creates.
I grew up in North Dakota. I lived through some brutal winters. There's no way I could have lived in Minneapolis. The river adds a new dimension to the misery of winter.
Show HN: ChainlessNFT, a NFT Without Blockchain
It does also explain why they are not found all over the Roman empire but mostly in the north (the article mentions England, Germany, and the Netherlands) where it is probably COLD for the average Roman legionnaire
If we trap it in biomass, it will escape if anything happens to the ecosystem storing the carbon (like a forest fire).

The fundamental problem is that the earth was in a balance, with regards to carbon; a bunch was trapped in biomass, and cycled through the carbon cycle [1]. Then humanity did two things; we destroyed a lot of carbon stores (with agriculture, deforestation and setting off soil erosion), and (more importantly) dug up and released even more carbon into the carbon cycle. It will not be enough for us to only trap it in biomass, we need to permanently remove it from the cycle.

We definitely need to do both, and storing carbon in biomass is probably more cost-effective currently, but if we're going to restore the balance, we'll need more than biomass.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle
Ask HN: Is the real goal of NFT's to take control of virtual currencies?
I am sure this will sound nutty but please follow me on this weird path my brain has taken...

At first glance I thought NFT's were just a strange spin on the art world and a cash grab or possibly even some stretch of the concept of a ponzi scheme. And maybe those things are also true. But then I took a few steps back and a few more steps back.

For many years I have said that the central banks would never allow cryptocurrencies to become popular and if they did, they would destroy them or find a way to control them.

Fast forward to today. Cryptocurrencies are becoming popular and suddenly NFT's appear. People are jamming blockchains full of copyright theft and profiteering from it. The items can't be removed from the block chain so the only logical move would be to shut down any exchanges that are using the same blockchains used by NFT's. Simultaneous to this I see some big banks contemplating creating their own cryptocurrencies / blockchains.

Am I stretching the lines to connect the dots? Should I switch to decaf?
I can't stand this kind of thing, but I do enjoy a lot of games that basically punish you until you develop enough skill to beat them. This is its own form of "grinding," I suppose, but one I find much more rewarding than essentially being rewarded for the number of hours I'm willing to do monotonous tasks.
I am still stuck at using INI/JSON/TOML for configuration files. :D
The current TeXmacs release is stable. Requiring no bugs is unrealistic and impedes progress.
Pay-to-earn is such a scam inflicted on the poor though. Imagine you've been trying to get a job for months, your meager savings are dwindling, and a company says that to get the job, you need to pay them $100 to run a "background check". Of course, you don't get the job. but you're still out that money. On the remote chance that you do, it'll take you almost a week at minimum wage to earn back that money, and you're likely to have to wait 2 or 4 weeks until you see it (which you don't have the money for). None of this works from an economic standpoint, it's outright slavery!
Dealing with lying and contradicting adults as a young person profoundly disorganizes your sense of reality.
> What SpaceX could do is provide a module that connected to the StarLink inter-satellite laser links they are planning to add in between the StarLink satellites.

Yea, that was basically the idea I was asking about, but like you explained, it seems laser links are expensive and rare still, so I guess that isn't an answer for at least a while yet.

Thanks for the great answer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbv41abhC3c

For those interested.
Getting a bigger house will not solve anything. You are chasing the wrong goal. I recommend getting therapy so that you can find out what is really going on. If you have enough money to have a home, food, health etc. but are still unhappy then it is not materialistic things that is the problem.
- Happy to vouch/solemnly declare that I have no financial interests in competing products, am not part of a PR campaign, etc. -- I prefer the title "Security Mensch", i.e. I'm just trying to fix problems when I see them :-) (I know you were saying it in jest! 0 offence taken)

- Thanks a lot for the great summary!

- To me, the hardest to understand is now 3 reports of people changing their passwords, and then receiving a new "Someone just used your master password to try to log in" email. That's mind boggling.
Well, you made up for it later on and that's what counts! It does make you wonder how many clever kids end up being just a little bit too clever and take themselves out of the gene pool. Probably more than a few.
Hurray. I acquired a user. :-) Let me know if you have any questions or problems. I am usually pretty quick to react. You can leave questions in GitHub issues [1] or in Discord [2].

Also, there are a few more examples here [3]

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues

[2] https://discord.gg/cT7ECsZj9w

[3] https://ntfy.sh/docs/examples/