skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking glass, haarp, auto-assembling and remotely controled nanostructures -- essentially remote 3d printing in a way, they call it claytronics iirc
In other words, steel is a long-term sink for carbon.
How about the expansion of the universe?
If web sites get aggressive that declarativeNetRequest no longer works well, I could see the mass migrating off Google Chrome/Microsoft Edge to alternatives, including Mozilla Firefox.
I’ve worked in both “tech” and “tech-adjacent” roles over 20+ years. The tech-side of the equation often compensates better, the adjacent roles can have job security like you’d not believe, though it may be a bit boring. YMMV
One thing that’s missing in video calls is eye contact.

You both are looking at each other’s faces, which are not the camera.

Seems like it would be possible to transform the person’s eyes so they’re looking straight forward, not down.

This matters more in applications like therapy over video calls.
Yes, CP/M was Z80 and I did give you a 6502 specific link, but it's still pretty much the same group of collectors and hackers. People who collect one pretty much always are also interested in others from the same computing era. I follow and am followed by several of them on Twitter. They're easy to find there.

I have a breadboard Apple I clone (6502), and a lone Z80 chip waiting to do something some day. People into retro computing overlap in a big way. I'm not in the same country as you, or I would certainly be interested.
Plastic production worldwide is 300 million tons. I am not sure how this would convert to tons of CO2 as it burns (each carbon in the polymer chain associates with more oxygen in the air so it becomes heavier) but the world's CO2 emissions are 30 billion tons, so this would be in the order of 1 to 3% of the whole world's emissions.

Not saying it's good, but burning plastic if it has environmental and health benefits is not out of question. Probably most of it is burned already (it definitely is in Asian countries).
The Fed does not control the 10 or 30 today. They implement policy primarily through the ST money markets. They could and likely will do more under yield curve control though. See Japan.
> Your use of the passive voice here

Let's try again, "For somebody who just had 1% of their lifespan re-assigned by Phil Snowberger here". Does that make it clear where the problem is now?
I don't know where you got that statistic, but regardless of how true it is, I suspect the reason so many are imprisoned without having a jury trial is that they waived that right[1] and took a plea deal.

>In a just world, this new development should mirror how jury trials work for the rest of us - anyone demanding a jury trial to avoid regulatory censure should be subjected to such horrific penalties if they lose, that nobody in their right mind would ever choose that option. Sadly, we do not live in a just world.

I'm assuming this is sarcasm because you're describing a Lovecraftian bureaucratic horror-show.

[1] I'm sidestepping the reason for why this might be so common, which likely has to do with the lack of public defenders and high caseloads though I don't have actual data that supports this.
A particularly interesting bit from the article:

> Voyager has already relied on backup systems to last as long as it has. In 2017, the probe fired thrusters that were used during its initial planetary encounters during the 1970s -- and they still worked after remaining unused for 37 years.

Incredible that the thrusters still worked after 37 years with no activity. Talk about engineering rigor.
> "...fabing chips for others). This is a business opportunity that wan't overly visible a few years ago. Global economics have changed and that presents a new opportunity they are positioned for and jumping on."

That's not really true, and it's not even the first time Intel has offered foundry services. There was Intel Custom Foundry a decade ago.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/altera-and-intel-ex...
BodyMap: Learning Full-Body Dense Correspondence Map
The big difference in cost is in the number of months of aging. Cheap Parmigiano-Reggiano might be 20-24 months old. It gets much better tasting, and more expensive, at 36 months, and better still (and more costly) at 40 months. We'd buy Parmigiano-Reggiano at Iper La Grande, a massive grocery store (imagine if a Wegmans and a Target merged) in northern Italy; there 40 month old would be about twice the price as 24 month old.
> Yeah, can you imagine the horror of making the congressmen actually do their job and pass the laws, instead of delegating all their authority to unelected, nameless, and effectively unaccountable bureaucrats

As someone subject to a significant body of federal regulation on a technical subject, I would absolutely prefer to have those rules in the hands of the level-headed experts who currently control them rather than a bunch of loud-mouthed politicians - politicians who would still have to gun for votes every N years, and wouldn't bat an eye at doing so by turning technical rules they don't understand into culture war fodder. No thanks.
I don't know the details of this, but a guy I worked with once told me he did work detecting underground structures using gravity measurements. I guess there's lots of relatively affordable equipment to so something like this.

https://archive.epa.gov/esd/archive-geophysics/web/html/grav...
They integrate with ~220 agency sites as of this year. The holdouts (IRS, VA, TreasuryDirect, etc) will integrate soon enough.
I'm totally pro-renewables but think that there's enough money out there so that it doesn't have to be an either/or scenario.

Modular thorium reactors would be a huge win if realized.
The typical answer I get when I say this is "but Firefox is too slow". I don't experience the issue, but that's pretty much always what I get told. No idea.
This is fascinating, neurosurgery really is something else. I am surprised it takes that long to close.
I sincerely hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we are in the very early innings of a major global economic recession. If you like your job, I strongly suggest putting in an honest effort and work week. This past 5 years in particular have been incredibly cushy for employees, and that is about to change rapidly. I highly doubt many (if any) companies will employ a 4 day work week in a year or so.

I could also be wrong here and the correction won't be this harsh, but just throwing out a different perspective I don't feel is being shared across Hacker News enough yet.
> I can't get the grocery store clerk to help me find wheat tortillas

You definitely could if you asked.

This was my calculus professor whom I then did undergrad research with (ML just before deep learning became the hotness; not my major).

I actively stayed in touch and developed the relationship, eventually working with him in multiple projects/startups.

There are many paths to develop this kind of relationship.

One thing I have read that I think makes a lot of sense is don't ask anyone to "mentor" you. Just grab coffee/lunch and ask them questions. When they give you something actionable, go away and act on it. Then come back having taken action before asking for more advice. Do this a couple dozen times and you now have a mentor.
Hopefully they also take time to upgrade their archaic forum software. Even a basic search is a terrible experience. For a company fighting for developer mindshare, it’s surprisingly bad.
That’s very interesting. Are there any books that go into detail about this?
And here I am just waiting for the revival of Hyper-G :-D

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220349551_The_Hyper...
I see why you're saying that, but I'd love a reference that supports the per-dollar argument.

Is it possible to just spend infinite dollars today and solve the climate crisis by tomorrow?
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Yes, and when electricity is used to do work, the vast, overwhelming majority of the energy used is turned into heat.

So solar panels are moving heat, not sending it into a black hole somewhere.
Diver here. I'm looking at these four pictures after the fact, so I already know they're fake. They're good, but they also have some weird flaws. That said, I don't think I would have immediately recognized any of these as wrong on Facebook (maybe the diver photo).

- The nudibranch (slug thing) on the green coral doesn't look like anything I've seen in the Caribbean before, and the coral also looks odd for the region. That said, this is probably the most difficult photo for me to differentiate. I would have accepted this as a cool find of something I haven't seen before.

- The grouper (big fish) photo is actually pretty good, although DALL-E has misplaced its eyes a bit. That said, the lit foreground and dark noisy background are exactly the look I would expect for someone using a basic camera + lights with wonky post-processing.

- The diver photo is a horror show. There's a hose going nowhere on her back. It looks like she's blowing out of a harmonica instead of a regulator. Bubbles are collecting around the top of her mask for some reason. Her fins look like they were badly Photoshopped. Nothing looks right here.

- The lobster photo has a real but subtle flaw: Caribbean lobsters don't have big claws. It also looks like it's under a rock like you would find in cold waters around Massachusetts and Maine instead of the Caribbean.

Interesting stuff though. It will force me to be more skeptical when I look at people's photos in the future.
Isn't it only something like 1 in 4 people who use ad-blockers in the first place? Of those, how many actually use uBlock Origin? Also, outside FF, aren't all noteworthy alternatives Chromium at this point?
> start a family

If by this you mean make babies, maybe later.
And also they were marine biologists and local dive masters.
Join a hacker space.

You’ll be able to go there one evening a week and do that hobby project around people from different walks of life, and you’ll keep that entrepreneurial attitude via discussions with people at startups, consultants, etc that are using the same space. You’ll avoid being “boring” professionally by encountering all the wonderful things other people work on.

Then do a hobby the other nights — go dancing, join a band, play board games, whatever.

- - - - -

Maybe I’m just incurably naive — but I still view myself as working on “big ideas”. But I’ve come to two conclusions:

1. I’m okay making my life about that — in a way a lot of people don’t want to.

2. I’m okay with that being a lot of time/effort/heartache — in a way that a lot of people choose to avoid, because it’s easily cost me 6 figures pursuing that, rather than a stable Big Co job.

I think what’s most important is to live the life you want to.
Interesting, I wonder if the non-deterministic behavior of Transmeta's processors makes it harder to perform cryptographic timing attacks on them. Anecdotally, I once owned a netbook that used one of these processors, a Vaio PCG-U3, but didn't notice any difference in speed when compared to other netbooks employing Atom processors, both were practically unusable even for basic activities.
Is a company putting their ethical principles over profit necessarily a bad thing?
Agree, and at some point you have to let the inexperienced surgeon operate or in 20 years there will be no experienced surgeons. Not to mention the "inexperienced" guy has been doing it for 4 years.
Sounds like they're building on the work in the 90s of Dr. Kio Marv with OILIX: https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/OILIX
> Your mentor wishes they weren’t boring

Good observation. He is insecure about being "average". He's far from average, but has clearly risen to a place where he doesn't feel more successful/intelligent than his peers.
when they're off season, is the flavor still better? no use using something that tastes worse and consoling yourself that it would have been tasty had it been a different month
I think it's possible to be a "boring" entrepreneur:

> Most software is boring one-off applications in corporations, under-girding every imaginable facet of the global economy...

> It does not matter to the company that the reporting form is the world’s simplest CRUD app, it only matters that it either saves the company costs or generates additional revenue.

source: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

I'd pick the option with the more compelling "why?" That's probably the most important question.
10 million people is pretty damn tiny when compared to the 4 and some billion internet users out there, though. Even if 100% of them moved over, isn't it just fractions of a percentage point? Why would Google care at all?
We are on Postgres 12 still, I am hoping that foreign data wrappers improve to the point they are more usable. When we last assessed it, we saw highly erratic behavior. The promise of fdw (in lieu of ETL pipelines) for many cases is tremendous, but I got the sense that the query planner needed a lot of work still (as of postgres 12).
This is a fun chess variation. Id like to see this on Lichess.
In Singapore, mask wearing is now optional outdoors. But I still see a majority of people (including myself) wear masks while outdoors.

I suppose this may mean that Singapore is moving towards the way the Japanese wear masks, which was well before COVID-19 hit.
Interesting that they talk about how hard it is to make a business out of it:

>I felt at this point that I’d hit a dead end. Press and fundraising would be tough and require some extra creativity and force. I spoke to friends about hiring them, and had polarized answers. Overall, this project had become less appealing.

Seems to me there is a lot of money to be made here if it works. The interesting thing about porn compared to say TV is that people have very, very specific interests and basically just want an infinite amount of content within that interest. It's not like with TV where cooking shows become popular, and the people that used to watch dramas are now watching cooking shows.

So the ability to generate highly specific content tailored to an individual's very precise requirements seems potentially very lucrative.
Renewables developers are actually raking it in, if they are good at what they do. Due to the tax incentives, it requires very particular types of backing.

Up until recently there were very lucrative power purchase agreements that would offtake your solar generation st great rates for decades.

The problem is one of scale and expertise. These projects are smaller than the many billion dollar capital projects that fossil fuel companies usually embark upon. Those large fossil fuel projects also have super long payback periods, not too dissimilar from renewables.

However we don't see a ton of fossil fuel expansion even with the current price spike, because there's a huge huge huge risk that any new projects started will never pay themselves back. ESG efforts have reduced appetite for capital expenditures, and other shareholders are demanding strict capital discipline. Which is for the best for all involved. We can't afford, environmentally, to star any new big fossil fuel extraction projects. The big question is who will be left holding the bag as we phase fossil fuels out.
> friends

My mentor is also a friend. Not sure about my other friends and family. They all seem to love me and just want me to be happy.

> yourself

I'd like to create some things. Maybe businesses, maybe not. It's pretty great that I made it to where I am, though, especially given my background.
Thank you for choosing to maintain your artistic integrity. You made a good choice and I'm glad to read your story.
With a modern heat pump, it is more efficient (most of the time) to burn natural gas at the power plant and then use the generated electricity to heat the home (after accounting for generation and line losses, and other efficiency drains) than it is to burn the gas in a modern, super-efficient gas furnace in the home.

So whether we fully renewablize™ the grid or not, we still should encourage (read: subsidize) the replacement of gas and heating oil furnaces with heat pumps.
I'm pleased to say that my problem has been promptly resolved now as well.
I am so fucking exhausted with the content marketing on Hacker News. It’s not that it has no value. It’s not that there isn’t a place for ‘developer evangelists’. It’s not about this piece. I’m just sick of it.

I come here for a refuge from manipulation- a place where people can share and debate things on their own merits. Content marketing is a not-so-sly way to insert one’s business interests into these types of conversations I enjoy for the purposes of driving metrics, sales, and series A’s.

I hear that taxation and billing and collection are complex. Try to implement WA State destination based sales tax for digital only goods. Where is the relevant tax district? It doesn’t align with zip codes or congressional districts. Municipalities move and reshape the landscape like rivers do. Is a billing address representative of the location of the purchasing party for tax purposes? We took this to a tax judge in 2014, and their final response was ‘do your best’.

I would love to read a blog post with such a war story- about parsing the tax rate soap API into a relational database that can not slow down a checkout page. About how time zones affect rate calculations. Where rate file updates accidentally modified past transactions and how to model data to prevent that. I don’t want to hear something is hard so you should buy my services. Not here. Not on a call to my cell phone. Not ever.

Business leaders need to determine which complexity they want to their developers to tackle- what is the most valuable for profit growth and risk mitigation. If the audience is business leaders, appeal to them directly, and take it somewhere else. If it’s to appeal to software developers, it shouldn’t be attached to ulterior motives. We see through it and we resent it. To the extent that we have influence over purchasing decisions, I’m likely to punish companies who regularly engage in this behavior.

Content marketing is different than creating useful content as a marketing strategy. I’ll raise Digital Ocean as an example. Their sysadmin content is top notch, and I’m happy to give them business for it out of gratitude. That is my decision. Nobody is trying to convince me of how to invest my or my company’s resources.

We get it. Auth is hard. SMS is hard. Billing is hard. None of it is core to most companies core business. If you really want to make your point, show me some code to prove it. Or spend your content budget on something that helps people. Just don’t think you’re going to win me over with a sales piece on HN. You’re not. I’ve already forgotten your name, and if it does come up I’ll have nothing but a negative memory to recall.

Sorry not sorry.
A Passenger's One-Star Review of the Ride in the Trolley Problem
Show HN: Visualize Query Params in Table
I use 1Blocker which is good enough for most browsing. I've tried one-man side projects like Wipr but I suppose they can't compete with an organization.

That said, uBlock Origin is definitely more exhaustive since it has a lot of contributors that will write custom rules for even obscure spammy websites, so shady websites are the main reason I do reach for uBlock Origin.
What do they say when a player is defeated, check out?
If the window you’re looking at is just below your camera, when you look at the window it almost appears that you’re looking into the camera.
You can play this on lichess.org with the crazyhouse variant set.
Back when we thought there would be tons of Voyagers (V’ger was meant to be Voyager 8 I believe)
There is no such thing as a free market.
The First Horror Movie Written by AI – Satire
Apples trillion dollar market cap happened.
Owl: OCaml Scientific Computing
Liquid hydrocarbons can be stored safely and at virtually no cost for years in all sorts of climates in cheap, lightweight containers. Transport is likewise cheap, simple, and safe. Dealing with leaks is relatively safe too.

We have a hundred years of experience dealing with them with all the deep knowledge and huge mass of deeply embedded systems that that implies.

And they are nearly as energy dense as liquid hydrogen.* There doesn't seem to be much "there" there with hydrogen, except generation efficiency if it is generated at the point and time of use.

Reliability, safety, operational life, risk management, availability of expertise, and cost will probably trump technical efficiency, just as when buying servers. I expect to see synthetic hydrocarbons being made with green hydrogen (and green carbon) before I see the hydrogen itself being transported around in any significant way or stored for any significant time.

* Fun semi-related fact: there's more hydrogen in a liter of gasoline than in a liter of liquid hydrogen.
The odd coordination makes it look like a scam.
Hydrogen storage is such a pain that I don't think we will be keeping hydrogen around except for chemical feedstocks.

We will need to convert hydrogen into something else to make it easier to handle. Perhaps ammonia, which is useful both for fertilizer and perhaps as a liquid fuel.
A surgeon might choose to let you die in a bland but predictable way if they think they might be sued for their heroic (but perhaps not RCT proven safe) efforts.

I agree that bad surgeons and immoral practices need to be stopped but the line between best intentions and unjustifiable risks isn't black and white when you step outside the textbook cases.
> I don't know where you got that statistic

It's a well-known number. [1]

> but regardless of how true it is, I suspect the reason so many are imprisoned without having a jury trial is that they waived that right[1] and took a plea deal.

And why do they waive that right?

Because if they don't waive that right, they are subjected to the Lovecraftian bureaucratic horror-show[2] you pooh-poohed just a few lines down.

Take the plea deal, and serve two, or go to trial, flip a coin, and serve ten.

> I'm sidestepping the reason for why this might be so common.

You can't side-step it - you have to look at the system as a whole. It's true that most people can't ever afford to hire a competent lawyer, and it's true that going to trial with a public defender is lunacy, and it's also true that being found guilty at a trial is far, far worse than taking the guilty plea. This is by design - it's a check and balance that ensures most people don't exercise that right.

A right that for most of us only exists in theory is no right at all. It is a privilege, available for the privileged - in the sense that a feudal lord was privileged. It's justice, but only for those who can afford it. It's a complete perversion of equality under the law.

So, of course I'm mad as hell that this court ruled that the group of people most-favored by having the option for a jury trial receiving it, while we go on, and shrug our shoulders at the inaccessibility of it for the rest of us.

[1] https://innocenceproject.org/guilty-pleas-on-the-rise-crimin....

[2] Going to trial with a public defender certainly qualifies as one.
Lenin copied his government from Ford Motor Company. He was a huge admirer of Henry Ford. A corporation is a command economy.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos differ from Lenin and Mao mainly in firing people instead of executing them.
Another related point is that "best" is often a matter a perspective and personal conditions. The right thing at the wrong time doesn't help, but the wrong thing at the right time might still be helpful. We also rarely ever find the best by what's popular or well-known. "Best at marketing" doesn't always correlate with other factors!
Crypto Rout: Another Stablecoin Falls After UST and Luna
It is important to mention the role of randomized algorithms for approximate solutions. See this excellent and practical survey.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01387
One of the things that uBlock Origin does and Google is trying to kill is detecting and blocking ads based on content & display attributes, not just urls.
I guess Knights (which can jump the Duck) just became more valuable.