skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's captured oil basically, not captured CO2. (Don't say "captured carbon", when you mean "captured co2", because it leads to confusion - do you mean burned or unburned carbon?)

And since we are still pumping oil of the ground, leaving a different form of oil (plastic) in the ground doesn't accomplish anything useful.
When the government goes soft on crime, you need to look deeper to find the truth about matters. And make no mistake, it has gone soft in some places. I would pay extra to have a background check turn up everything it can, so I can make my own determination.
I'm curious if you can get that setup to work reliably (and if it's performant when done). It looks like Azure uses SMB to mount a share so Sqlite + SMB caveats apply (generally getting synchronous writes and locks working correctly over a network filesystem). Additional details https://www.sqlite.org/draft/useovernet.html
This kind of thinking is something I internalised while doing 3D game engine development during the early era of hardware GPU cards. The growth curve was incredible!

I learned quickly that the constants were the slopes of the best fit on a log graph. And that you could never intersect that curve with $today, you had to estimate your delivery date and use the intersection at that point for all planning. E.g.: vram budget for textures, polygon count limits, etc…

I’ve never seen this kind of thinking by management at any level, in any industry outside of computer game development.

I’ve tried explaining it to IT managers to no avail.

E.g.: don’t get a 10% discount now by buying 200 servers up front in a single sale! Buy 100 now at full price and 50 servers that are twice as powerful two years later.

Nope… got to get those sweet volume discounts…
SiO2 is glass. So it's a micron-sized silicon chip inside a glass capsule.
The ‘five pandemics’ driving 1M U.S. Covid deaths
Thanks, I have used Scribus for DTP jobs in the past and it's good for that type of workload, maybe though it's a bit overkill for what I need (just converting assets created in other SW to CMYK, so that I can send them to print) but I agree that it could do the job if needed.
Yes, I came across this recently and almost submitted, but it seemed like a minor development by the same team on news (discussed here) a couple of years ago, and searching around there was similarly titled stuff from mainstream news going back years.

Seems to be one of those things where, if you're not in the field, all the news is the same and sounds like a breakthrough, but it'll be 20y out from actual adoption for a while.
People pay money for books. It's a much harder sell for a web page.

Listicles do show up in print though. I see them at the grocery checkout stand.
let's be honest here, many IT jobs could get the work done in 20h/week. all the rest is a fucking circus.
(the name might not be ideal - but the project seems to follow on thematically from prior work by OKFN and datakick, and perhaps others)
Vector-Quantized Image Modeling with Improved Vqgan
It's funny too because just having got a lot of money is de facto uninteresting. It's potential energy, a coiled spring that has not been sprung. It has no consequences on anything, all "could be" and no "is."
> The utility of oil-based fuels is the energy density in combustion. Burning plastic doesn't come close to the same exchange.

The energy density of plastic (by weight, not volume) is virtually identical to that of oil.

Yes, the machine used to burn oil vs plastic looks different, but coal plants can burn plastic without much modification - and they would be much much cleaner than coal when they do so.
For solar and other intermittent sources to be viable at scale, a continental long haul grid is needed, as well as a way to store power. Generally, you need 2x intermittent capacity to replace non-intermittent, as you need to be able to provide power, and store power at the same time.
Yes there is.

The problem is that it's a real black market, the cheese is stolen and sold on the black market without any assurance that it was handled or aged in the correct way, just as you would imagine in a black market.

So even if the source material is legit, the final product being sold is probably not.

And the illegal profits are hard to quantify, because it's a black market after all.

> there is a thriving black market, as an estimated $7 million in Italian Parmesan cheese has been stolen in just the last two years. Parmesan cheese has proven to be an ideal target for culinary criminals. In order to be certified Parmiggiano Reggiano, the cheese must age for at least a year.
Not all illegal things get to the court.

Not all lawsuits are resolved in favor of the plaintiff.

Not all sentences involve jail time.

Those could be reasons why "Bob Woodward, and the other leakers of the Trump tapes and Project Veritas (PV) are still not convicted yet".
Until 1976, are you sure? This docu shows "Le Fromage de Comté" and it's dated 1927:

https://youtu.be/icu-oMerROI

One of the legends points out the similarity with Gruyére, but it still calls the French cheese Comté:

"Le fromage de Comté, analogue du Gruyére suisse, se differencie de l' Emmental..."
Just curious, did you get 2000 as in eight hours a day, five days a week? It just reminds me of the rough estimate of the number of hours worked in a year which I find funny to think about the sun going to work in an office for five days a week, eight hours a day.

8 * 5 * 50 = 2000

so the sun gets two weeks vacation a year :)
Geez, apparently billions of dollars can't buy you thick skin. Elon should just call ESG pedos next..
Cool. Sounds ideal for garden production too. I would love a perennial patch of that. And yes, I would malt it for beer too.
It’s suggesting that there’s probably not much of a point to it.
Hrm, I figured Japanese is doing this in a sustainable way, but I can't help but wonder about the half a billion dollar price tag. It's a massive public works project since it's partly tax funded that benefits particular sectors.

Since they've been doing it for 1400 years, superstitiously inclined people will be adamantly against making changes to the interval.
The truth is that addiction, like all mental illness, is complex and unique to each individual.

Diagnosing mental illness generally consists of identifying some number of symptoms out of a possible list - often something like five out of eight possible. That means two people can be diagnosed with the same thing with only two overlapping symptoms.

So basically, don't listen to the guy who starts with "I'm not a psychologist" and then decides to play armchair psychologist.
Nice! Thank you for the link
Yeah we need good things to do with cheap power that don't always have to run and aren't too capital intensive (Making them need to use more expensive power). I'm not sure what is best between Desalination, Aluminum smelting, Crypto mining, or what other good alternatives are.
Yeah I had the same question. I didn’t see any mentions of radio in the patent, but the product description document [0] does say:

——

Is the radio frequency signal from the p-Chip harmful?

A. No. The radio signal transmitted by p-Chips is so faint that approval from the US Federal Communications Commission or similar agencies is not required. Emissions fall well below FCC radiated emission limits defined in CFR 47, 15.209.

——

The illuminating laser wand does have a radio receiver. More info in this related patent [1], especially at page 21.

[0] https://www.isenet.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/PharmaSeq_W...

[1] https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/43/da/03/c648387...
Nice! Do you know if/when it's going to be merged, and if this is the same as the PR linked in this other comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31422001
Make it useful for Web3 addresses and you may have something great.
Pretty mainstream to use Parmesan cheese rinds as part of making soups and stews of various kinds https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-use-parmesan-chees...
AC is a huge load for much of the US. Covering that with solar is a huge win even if you need something else for 10pm. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
The problem is you're effectively stuck with either Google or Samsung if you want decent performance, update availability, spare part support and the security of not having Chinese spyware embedded on order of the Chinese dictatorship. And Google is known for delivering absolute lemons as hardware, with next to zero support to make stuff worse.
I started my career in Telecoms in a field adjacent to billing systems, and industry lore is that only one in three billing systems project succeeds in delivering anything, and only half of those fail to meet requirements.
If we're talking about this:

https://crowcpp.org

Then the project is pretty active, has multiple commits per week based on its log.
Just use sheetjs https://github.com/SheetJS/sheetjs
I thought this was going to be about https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2022/04/12/libs... (which did impact Psst very briefly but the maintainer was very quick to fix/hack it).

In theory, Spotify's inability to provide a real library/SDK for streaming should be a reason to ditch them. But none of their competitors can boast any better. Nothing about this is technically difficult so it must be a made-up problem thanks to licensing/DRM/lawyers/etc.
I still think that’s not something you’d want to have come back from a government background check. As long as they they are dutifully reporting the truth of the matter in terms of how the government ruled on the case then that seems like enough.

What your describing sounds like it should stay out of government hands just on an ethical basis
Static analysis and type inference for SQL strings in PHP
Cory Doctorow (if that's his real name) is not a good faith actor. He bends the facts to suit his position.
You are putting crypto mining on the same level to humankind as making drinking water?
I've never had anyone say "No, how dare you negotiate, offer rescinded"

Do it.
The truth would prevail. Isn’t that what the weasel was fighting for?

Navalny faced your “justice”, because he’s a true and actual hero of his nation.

I can assure you, any true patriot would walk down Navalny’s path. Not Edward Snowden‘s path of treason and cowardice.

I have no love for Benedict Arnolds.
500 microns is pretty big for a food contaminant. It's about 4~5 hair widths, so I reckon your tongue can probably feel it and it might break under your bite.

I would bet it's safe if swallowed whole, but chewing? Not so sure.
Problem is, this applies "in reverse" to battery technology. Don't buy 1TW of storage today, buy 500MW and wait to see what's coming. Defensible, but possibly not what we actually need.
It is easy enough to connect from firebase functions to a cloudsql instance and the pricing is pretty good for the lowest tier (which is also easily scaled up). That said, might as well just use gcp cloud functions instead.
That's cool!

You can also put local gitignore rules in .git/info/exclude , but i have a hard time remembering that exact path for some reason.
Isn't the Jordan decomposition the most fundamental one for theory?
To the best of my knowledge, the US has never done that. What they have done is dump dairy, which is both directly subsidized and indirectly subsidized (by grain subsidies).
Breeder reactors produce more fuel than they consume.
OKRs written properly drive business and development initiatives. They should be boiled down to the smallest team so that they can make a big impact on the business while not doing worthless dev work.
I'm guessing it's the one that says "If your data doesn't exist in at least 3 separate locations that you can access, your data isn't safe".
In New Jersey at least, King's supermarkets sell chopped up rind in small containers.

Source: my Italian mom buys them for me and I munch on them all the time.
But there are big telecom companies and big chip companies, etc.
I swear the buyers at Costco must be living their best life.
Agreed. I generally assume that any headline with the structure "X new thing could solve Y," where Y is a massive problem that everyone wants a silver bullet for, is clickbait. I've seen too many of them at this point.

Everyone wants a quick fix for climate change and pollution because it will absolve us of doing the hard work that the problem really requires. By all means, we should pursue such moonshot ideas - but like you said, it will be used to virtue signal some false idea of "progress" while the problem gets worse.
And technically it's in the casein label in the rind, which is not eaten anyway.

It already has the batch number etc.
Ask HN: Is there any text editor faster than Notepad on Windows?
..in terms of startup time.

I am not saying open a terminal than open a text editor. Because in a Windows machine the terminal needs some to initialize.

Except for startup time the features that make Notepad the best text editor in the world. -

- Ability to quickly copy and paste from the global clipboard

- Quickly change zoom with mouse scroll and essentially mouse support

- Word warp

I have tried gvim, sublime text, notepads, notepad++ but nothing beats Notepad's startup time.
Building for fun vs building for profit are very different and it's important to set your intention for a project, even though the line often gets blurred.

When you are building for fun, it is for yourself. When you are building for profit, it is for other people. When you are building for fun, you get to decide what to work on and when to stop - usually when it is no longer fun. When you are building for profit, other people decide what you work on and when you are done - usually when no new features are requested, you have no competition, and you have absolutely saturated your market. This rarely ever happens so you always have something propelling you.

The biggest failure most engineers encounter is they build things nobody asked for. They build products without customers lined up, for markets that do not currently exist, with only feedback from themselves. This is because they built the product for fun thinking they were building it for profit.

The line between the two is very easy to blur - especially when reading OP's blog where he genuinely sounds like he had fun building his projects, but I guarantee there was also a lot of very unfun background work done in the name of profit.

Edit: Don't just take my guarantee for it, read about his challenges for One Item Store https://tinyprojects.dev/projects/one_item_store
Can you tell us what specifically about Excel is causing you problems? Planning?
Analytics? File size? Too long to calculate growing files? If you are facing scaling problems, you should look into SaaS solutions. If you want quick deployment, a smaller, earlier stage SaaS company might give you more flexibility. Or if you are okay with slower deployment, more traditional / established SaaS platform might be the way to go. Happy to recommend a few solution providers depending on your needs. Many newer SaaS companies these days integrates well with Excel these days so you might be leverage a combination of Excel and these new SaaS solutions. Worst case, you can use a service like Zapier or Workato to integrate your Excel with another service using API calls.
This is the case most contemporary neural networks as well. It turns out for many domains, a "good" local minima generalizes well across many tasks.
Seeds. Like for plants. Life is the most amazing technology out there.
Elon Musk: Democrats have become the party of division and hate
I criticize people all of the time. I feel it’s my duty because most people won’t do it. And, often, the people being criticized want and need the criticism. To them, it’s better to get the feedback directly and discretely than via gossip. This practice has the side-benefit of helping to repel people who can’t take criticism.
This is a bit of a cynical take, if a solution is 1% likely it seems natural that 99% of the time the solutions aren't viable. Implies the 1% is still possible.
Latex.js (JavaScript Latex to HTML5 Translator)
Anytime you hear "labor shortage", remember there is an employer going, "I want someone else to do this for me, but not for that much".
The moment Blender's basic navigation and UI clicked for me was when I realised it was vi for polygons.

Gimp's interface is a bit janky but after the initial frustration it's always made sense to me... then again I started using it as a replacement for my own image editor which I made as a university student project, so maybe there's a reason for that. :P
Superseded by something else. No surprise there.
Firefox went through this before with the migration to WebExtensions in 2015. (That's when I stopped maintaining an extension that I no longer cared about.) I guess it's Chrome's turn now?

I expect, though, that users won't mind as much? I run very few extensions these days, due to the security risk, not wanting to vet extension authors, and not wanting to pay attention to the security implications of updates due to things like author changes.
It's unfortunate that feelings about masks are framed as "hate". You don't have to love them, or hate them. You just need to use them as much as possible, indoors.

I frame mask-wearing as "love", in the sense that I love being alive and healthy and I want others to have the same.
"Be yourself, everyone else is taken."

Just do what makes you happy.

Be with people who you like and who like being with you.
Just to get the same audio quality in BT earbuds are going to set you (me) back 10x more compared to wired ones. And then what all the sibling comments said.
You that like its a bad thing :-P
It is fantastically frustrating, as it makes wealth-building through home ownership impossible. The land will nominally hold its value, but the $300k+ you spend to build a house literally just... vanishes.

This might have made sense back when houses were cheap to build, but now, houses in Japan are probably twice as expensive per unit area compared to the US. Salaries are low as well, so building a house here is basically a one-way ticket to 35 years of wage-slavery.

Don't even think about a used house, because they were built to a level of cheapness that defies logic, along with a complete disregard for utility. A 1970s rubber-stamp development home in the US has better design, no joke. Windows, light switches, and walls will be allocated by a pseudo-random algorithm that somehow maximizes inconvenience:

"Hmm... what could we do on this wall? I know, a gigantic off-center window that looks directly out upon the wall of the neighbor's house! Let's also make sure the kitchen sink underneath it is also off-center, but differently. That 'sketched by a drunken, retarded misanthrope' effect doesn't just happen on its own: you gotta work for it."

"We've got this other wall over here, how can we make it even more useless? We've already sketched in a massive off-center window that looks right into the neighbor's lavatory, but I dunno. Something's missing. I think we left some utility... ah, that's it, we need to drop the window below countertop height."

"Remember, electricity is a fad. One 20A circuit is plenty to cover an entire six-meter wall. In the kitchen."

Did I also mention that a "big" housing lot is 1/20 of an acre? Usually no yard, just concrete.

(You are correct in observing that I have spent way too much time on this over the past year, as I very much would like to buy a home)
Ohh, don't mind if I do! I'm working on CPU libraries to improve compression performance. Does zstd benefit today from ISAs like AVX-512, AVX-2, etc.? Do you foresee the need in the future to offload compression/decompression to an accelerator?

Another Q, what hardware platform(s) do you use to test new versions of zstd for regressions/improvements? I see the Github page shows a consumer CPU in use, but what about server CPUs pushing maximum throughput with many threads/cores?
We measured the percentage of Spammy Twitter users
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I agree with codingdave here. Need more info on what is causing Excel to fail for you.
The truth already came out the day his material was released. He’s been isolated from his country, culture, family, everything he knows and loves and has to fear every day will be the day the US figures out a way to kill him or bargain with Russia to hand him over to death/lifetime imprisonment via a kangaroo court. He hasn’t sacrificed enough?

He’s one of the few patriots. The traitors are the ones working for and especially managing these unconstitutional illegal programs that continue to this day.
How code review works (and doesn't) in the real world [video]
So probably comparable to weekly death during peak covid since it’s mostly low covid and then huge spikes
A trail of dark-matter-free galaxies from a bullet-dwarf collision
Time-of-flight calculations so relay attacks wouldn't work well anymore.
> I’ve tried explaining it to IT managers to no avail.

I've had this experience myself. I usually find that I was overlooking important inputs to, constraints on or goals behind the decision.

> Buy 100 now at full price and 50 servers that are twice as powerful two years later

As someone who buys a lot of hardware for my employer, I can tell you that performance is only one of several interrelated considerations that goes in to purchasing decisions, and is far from the most important.

For that matter, exactly the same thing can be said about the price.
Nothing beats Cacio E Pepe made with the real deal Pecorino. So simple and deceptively difficult to master but the payoff is divine.
See also <https://twitter.com/DokkumPieter/status/1526948862765805577> from the first author of this Nature paper.
This seems like a straightforward way to kill a few hundred thousand people, particularly at a time when global wheat prices will be pushing poorer countries out of the market. I think I'd rather pay a little more at the grocery store and not have that on my conscience.
some folks gonna get that summer body whether they want to or not
Huh. I talked to some experts and they told me NN loss functions are bowl-shaped and have single minima, but those minima take a very long time to navigate to in high dimensional spaces.
Ask HN: Is requiring a demo the best tactic to prevent hackers from registering?
Our team at Segmed.ai (YC W20) wants to prevent malicious users from registering for our application - but not introduce too much friction, leading to churn. We've narrowed down two options:
1. Require a potential user to sit through a demo
2. Require a phone number, text a code, and require the potential user to enter the code

We'd love to hear advice on verifying users and / or the % of drop-off you've seen when requiring a user to sit through a demo.

Thanks!
As a side note, sorry I even brought this up. While I still think it's expensive for what it is, darned if I'm going to chastise anyone for buying a tool they like. I certainly didn't expect the conversation to go off the rails like that.
I put that in there to make it more or less obvious that perfectionism was one of the reasons I haven't accomplished much yet. The point was to probe deeper and see if there's some other insight, because everyone already knows that perfectionism kills productivity.
An engineer knows where analogies apply and where they don't.

My pool of available work is not impacting whatever I happen to be working on at the moment. I am not doing 1 second of work on 60 different projects every minute.
On the plus side I recently learned I’ve got a wheat & gluten intolerance so I shall be doing my bit to fix the imbalance by not eating any
The only good news is that this is not your final warning.
I've seen many companies with a Confluence page of "important links", this is often provided to developers and employees during onboarding. It is maintained and kept up to date.
“That looks great. Just one thing – get rid of the duck.“
It's a limitation of Bluetooth, which is what phones use. I don't think it's bad engineering on Tesla's part.

Given this limitation however, they should highly encourage a passcode to actually drive.