skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not 40% efficient at turning CO2 in the atmosphere into fuel (If we had a technology that could do that, I would not worry at all about climate change), it's 40% efficient at turning highly concentrated CO2, from say, the chimney stack of a coal power plant into fuel.

Which is what makes it nearly-useless. The solution to energy generation that emits CO2 is not trying to recover it from the chimney. The solution is eliminating it. This can solve the problem of concentrated CO2 emitted as an industrial byproduct of non-energy-generating chemical processes, but that is not a major contributor [1] to our carbon emissions.

[1] Cement manufacturing is often pointed to as a major CO2 emitter... Yet it is responsible for ~1.5% of emissions in the US (~8% in China). So, you could make a bit of a dent in a small fraction of our emissions, but it doesn't come remotely close to solving the overall emissions problem.
> Which smartphones block call recording? Every brandname Android I have had enables this feature for voice calls. (Although the feature is missing for app calls, and I'm now at least 5 years behind the newest phones.)

This explains a lot because this is a more recent development. https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-is-banning-call-recording-...

As the article says it was blocked a couple years ago but there was still a loophole which is now being closed as well. Though it's by blocking apps using it from the play store which can still be avoided by sideloading so technically there still is a loophole :) But it's definitely seeing more and more restrictions.
I wonder what the best space vehicles today look like. We may only know decades from now. If having spy satellite photos reduces the chance of WW3 by even 1%, it’s worth the wait
I read them all the time. Why? There's a lot of interesting stuff there. I come back later for comments.
Some of us lived through that time and despise pixel-art. It didn't even look like pixel art back then because the monitors were blurry. [1]

You're welcome to like pixel art if you want. I don't actually like the new aesthetic either, but I respect the choice--and I do like similar approaches where it's not high-res painting or 3d rendering and instead is abstract art.

[1] https://weareludicrous.com/blog/2018/pixel-sharp-graphics-at...
The logical turn after "For better or worse, this is where I hang up, a little shaken." is really something else.
Maybe the dark web makes people feel safe and they let their guard down? I cannot imagine why else someone would use their own email address in any transaction or operation.
opens notepad,
writes each thing on a separate line,
presses 1 to 5 for each line.

done, requires no internet, browsers
The example link goes COBOL->Elixir.

I like this idea of writing Elixir and outputting COBOL. That way it can interface with the operating environment (CICS, IMS) exactly as a natively written COBOL program does. Not that COBOL syntax is particularly hard to learn one by one, but as a whole isn't very memorable. Why learn a programming language with peculiarities like a natural language when I can use something concise that translates to it? There may not need to be a step to eliminate the COBOL output step any more than a language that uses C or js as a target.

I've only seen two kinds of CICS programs in the wild: 1. screen I/O using preformatted BMS maps, 2. transactional with input buffer and output buffer. A third kind was one I wrote for sending dynamically generated terminal stream data for a hypertext online documentation system.

Any of these could be written in Elixir with appropriate libraries and translators. The company I worked at generated the BMS maps and COBOL source from assembling program components with an inclusion/override macro processor and wysiwyg editors--think Visual Basic for mainframes targeting both CICS and IMS.
My personal opinion, not a linguist:

All languages start as dialects, and the point at which they become a separate language is arbitrary, more a matter of opinion than a hard rule.

Languages are created by people speaking another language badly.
The US hasn't used PST to describe current time since March 13th.
Unfortunately I built a memory palace out of my childhood home, so that is an area I'm very confident in (and yes, I've double checked my palace with pictures and it all lines up).
Electrify America Raises $450M to Further Boost Expansion
You're right that middlemen are productive in the generality.

But

> Being able to link up a customer with an on-demand driver adds a lot of value into the system.

This is only true if the driver's rates are something the customer is willing to pay. Finding that match is the primary job of a middleman; a lot of American services matching this basic description gloss over that part of the match entirely.
The genius is the one selling the shovels to the gold diggers
> No, because for you to sell it to him, you'd have done the background check, and transferred it to him. That is the point.

In most (all?) states there's no need for a background check or any kind of record keeping when two individuals are selling/transferring to one another [0]. Between states it's another story.

> Same as car titles, or mortgage deeds, or others items in society that transfer ownership.

There's no constitutional right to any of those things, which is what makes the situation different.

0: https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/federal-ccw-law/f...
Ask HN: How can an AI/ML model distinguish between normal vs. sarcastic opinion?
EXAMPLES:

- "I love how I have to watch 3 minutes of adverts before I watch the video."

- "This [DISGUSTING LOOKING FOOD] looks delicious."

QUESTIONS:

- Wouldn't the AI have to have human level understanding of the subject and the context around it?

- Couldn't this lead to AIs creating products/suggestions that are the opposite of what people want?

- If this is a real problem, is there a technical name for it?
> This of course runs into the problem that the government doesn't have a regulator for the Internet.

The thing needed here is a regulator for payment services, not one for the internet. That's a much narrower scope.
25 percent of California adults live in households with firearms.
Wonderful. A380 transatlantic flights were the most comfortable way to get from California to Europe (London or Paris).
Bingo! I did the same on an Atari.

Also, a lookup table for the Y address, plus a fixed X address can get bitmaps blitted to the screen quickly.

For special case graphics, just code in the addresses, unroll the loop and use index X or Y to handle screen positioning.

LDX XPOS
LDA IMAGE0
STA SCREEN0, X
LDA IMAGE1
STA SCREEN1, X
LDA IMAGE2
STA SCREEN2, X

.
.
.

No multiply needed. Y addresses either coded at fixed position, or generated at runtime based on some event and or when there is time to compute it all off screen.

Trade RAM for speed!
These exercises are writing mathematical proofs that basic machine learning algorithms behave correctly. They are "pen and paper" not because you are manually solving a large equation that a machine would normally solve, but because we don't have automated theorem provers capable of proving interesting machine learning theorems. I would expect a typical 1st year grad student to be using a resource like this.

If you don't understand the purpose of proofs, then this resource is not aimed at you.
As a legal matter, the Presidential popular vote is also “fully inconsequential” to the selection of Supreme Court Justices, or anything else.

We’re only talking about the popular vote insofar as Democrats try to delegitimize Republican administrations by insisting that they are a minority party that can gain power only through the quirk of our voting system. But in doing so they conveniently ignore the House popular vote, which Republicans routinely win.

You shouldn’t drink your own Kool-Aid. This Nixonian “Silent Majority” thinking is bad for Democrats, insofar as it causes them to get over their skis. In 2010, Democrats lost the House popular vote by almost 6 million votes. They lost it by 5 million in 2014 and 1.5 million in 2016. The House popular vote is a far better proxy for where the parties stand with the electorate.
Can someone explain to me why there hasn't been a crypto payments use case that solves this? Of all the fields that crypto should be able to gain adoption in, one where people don't want their standard accounts and credit reports to reflect they subscribed to any porn, however bland, seems like the ideal (legal) use case.
He still uses pen and paper - there is a staff of 3 engineers that takes his doodles and designs and inputs them into the CAD program Red Bull F1 team uses.

His PA prints out his emails on paper and leaves a stack on his desk.

When asked he said he is more efficient this way and he is bloody Adrian Newey - he is also a very good racing driver so he can "speak" the same language as their drivers.
This argument reminds me of Taleb's note on Minority rule:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

"The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority"

"The black-and-white character of these societal laws can be explained with the following. Assume that under a certain regime, when you mix white and dark blue in various combinations, you don’t get variations of light blue, but dark blue. Such a regime is vastly more likely to produce dark blue than another rule that allows more shades of blue."

One of the bigger bangers from the chapter:

"Yes, an intolerant minority can control and destroy democracy. Actually, as we saw, it will eventually destroy our world."
You can set up Postgres with three lines of bash and a Unix socket. It is more work; I wouldn't say it's appreciably more work, and if you need more rigorous data modeling (I frequently do) then it's worth considering if this is the mode in which you'd like to run your data stores (I wouldn't, but latency isn't the most critical thing for stuff I do).
> But guns are effing dangerous and it is important to know where they are.

It might be important to know where they are, but it's definitely not important that you know where they are.
Precedents of the Unprecedented: Black Squares Before Malevich
> everything after the space up to the newline currently ignored

Oh I didn't know that, that's perfect!
Does someone know approximately how many times per day this plane would orbit the planet? I was wondering to try and figure out how far it has "flown" to date. You could say the plane has an incredible range!
My solution (to use exclusively DAC for the CO2 supply) looks like that difficult to you? I really think it is the best way to go.

It is different, in my opinion, to emit CO2 to create material goods that will last, and to create CO2 for itself that maybe will be vented for maintenance and will need to be refilled.
Read up on isolates. Really interesting stuff! It indeed seems to be a better and more natural fit for something like SSR route handlers, as far as i understand it.

> More framworks will add support, and it will be a virtuous cycle.

I'm in the early phase of developing a SSG in (TypeScript) Node currently. I think i'll study isolates and Deno a bit more, before going further. :)
Luckily the Chaldeans are now starring in the world's highest-earning mobile game.
A digital payment rails that functions like cash, as in my bank can’t prevent me from handing it over to whoever I want for whatever legal reason is a critical aspect of a free society that has gone digital.

You might disagree with bitcoin and co being the answer for this, but it’s the only tech that’s posed a viable solution as of now. Viable is not perfect. But if this article bothers you, at least understand this a (the) major aspect of why people work on serious cryptocurrency projects.
So with ublock origin it would be great?

Do you see why we all use it?
Vampire fetish stuff seems harmless to me, but I'm not surprised Visa and Mastercard don't want to get into the weeds of determining the difference between special effects and actual self-harm / mutilation. There is a whole lot of gray area in between there (piercing fetish, etc), but they probably feel compelled to draw a line somewhere. Whether or not the video seems to show blood (real or fake) seems like a criteria that can be judged with reasonable objectivity, and errors on the side of caution.
Something that the people hyping Java in its early days would've done well to remember.
It's an incredible waste. The best and brightest slaving lifetimes away for things that will hopefully never be used, and if they are, for death.

If only we could just agree to staff military research on all sides with the biggest wasters and toxic personalities and let the rest of the world get on with something that doesn't leave other humans splattered across some battlefield.
Sure there is, you can't sell a gun without requesting a state background check, and if it turns out you did you're liable.
I am pretty sure there were at least a couple of commercial games and applications written in valFORTH on the Atari 800. Possibly Action! also; for some reason I thought Paperclip was written in Action! but apparently not. There were a lot of magazine games and utilities written in Action!, though.
I feel like in today's world they are also kind of utilities. This is where the trouble starts. If you want to run a business these days (especially online) you need a payment provider in many cases, and pretty much always need a bank account.
> Is there a plan for what happens to vim when the maintainer gets hit by a bus?

Why should there be? All code is freely available; anyone can do anything they want with it.
Neat. It's like a hydraulic hybrid for the grid.

Hydraulic hybrid vehicles recapture 75% to 80% of braking energy for reuse, which compares very favorably to electric batteries.

Something like this paired with intermittent sources like solar and wind could make them viable.
Why hasn't crypto made inroads into this world yet? Porn is historically an early adopting industry (online payments, thumbnail play w/scroll, VR, etc.) and this seems like a theoretically optimal use case where someone would desire some level of anonymity or at least some obfuscation as to their identity
We examine intent for homicide too.
Can you name another country with ten million people and anywhere near the impact on global pop music as sweden?

I’m not arguing that every dollar of that is because of their funding system. But their outsized impact is clearly partially due to their funding system. Denying that is like denying that y combinator helps businesses succeed. Funding when you’re getting started matters
You will never not get an upvote from me. Thank you for everything that you do. I've been hooked since your USB power supply teardowns!
Yes, payment processors should 'process' all legit payments. However..

Visa/Mastercard hire people to do risk analysis though, those people are rightly assessing that pr0n payments is a higher risk than the insurance premium is worth. Which is newsworthy itself, goes to how credit card fraud is overtaking the insurance market and maybe those 2 companies should invest in that area.. But that's gonna take too long.

There are a lot of reasons for that. On a 'credit' card this makes sense. They own/lend the outgoing funds, you just pay them back with some interest.

The debit cards are not, the debit card is your balance being debited. Instantly. With 0 interest. I'm not 100% sure about the insurance on that, but from experience the bank itself will be the point of contact to dispute a payment that is fraudulent. The bank may or may not pursue lost monies from the insurance or debtor etc. But VISA as a whole, just processed the transaction.

There used to be, in Ireland at least, a debit card issued by banks under the name "Laser" so it was your 'laser' card you paid with.. Only in recent years, I realised this was competition. So V & MC cornered the market, "Use at X amount of ATM's worldwide" etc.

I would love to say "there is a way out, once the payment processors process without influence from V/MC" but imagine, a payment processor not accepting one of those.. That's game over.

I do think companies like N26/Revolut and co have standing to create their own 'standard' after really generating an incredible userbase, would prefer maybe open source but financal companies are slow to adopt.

Imagine a payment gateway standard that wasn't restricted, open source/readable and had it's own userbase. I'm not a proponent of using crypto as currency but you can see why they got carried away. The problems to overcome are just... Well, bureaucratic.
> The solution (if they're still babies) is to simply speak to your kids in your first language all the time.

No need for them to be babies. That will work as long as they're younger than 12, and probably for a few years after. But if the kids have already learned to speak another language, they will hate this approach.
Backstage Capital, firm backing diverse founders, has laid off 75% of its staff
It can't because sarcasm often relies on global context not available in the input, and there hasn't been any good research.
John D. Cook seems like the type of person who would inevitably rise to the top of their chosen profession, regardless of which path they took to get there. He is very intelligent, creative, and determined to do things his own way.
Yes. Email is generally best-effort response and people need to be understanding. It's not even always the best tool for the job.

UNLESS dealing with email is your primary job responsibility. Then I would fully expect you to have your act together.
What if it increases it by 1%?
No way to know for us, but typically, 75 to 90 minutes per orbit.
>> So are you suggesting Visa/MC shouldn’t comply with laws & regulation?

Of course Visa/MC should stop payments for illegal activities, but they go after legal activities as well. That's the issue. If selling adult services or goods is "illegal," then the US law should codify it, not leave it up Visa/MC/processors to decide. And it Visa/MC straight up banned these sort of payments, it wouldn't be an issue, but they play favoritism for some companies and ban others out right. Not to mention, many legal businesses lose payment processing ability without even a reason. They claim that even giving a reason will give violators too much information about their internal security.

The EU is actually building their own payment system to combat this [0] and I really think the US should as well.

0. https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/payment-services-psd-2-directi...
I recall the Journal News, of New York, making an online map of locals who held gun permits, back around 2012. Of course, someone published the addresses of those journalists who were -- unsurprisingly -- all boo-hoo-hoo about it.

I wonder just how "accidental" this leak was.
Yeah, and then it will be used again starting this November. It hasn't gone away permanently IOW, unless you know otherwise.
To a technical person, the above would probably look like an overly simplistic business video with no really deep technical information or insight...

Should I have posted a video like that be on Hacker News, which is a deeply, deeply technical forum?

Well, perhaps not!

But you see, while at first glance this video looks like an overly simplistic business video, it addresses an underlying, yet mostly never discussed problem common to many technical people!

That problem is simply this:

How does someone communicate the VALUE of themselves, their ideas, their company, their services, their products -- whatever it is that they're selling -- to potential clients or customers, such that the potential clients or customers PERCEIVE the same VALUE of the thing being sold that person selling it, has of it themselves?

?

Most people are terrible communicators!

(Also, a sub-case of this problem is when a Startup Founder -- pitches to an Accelerator, an Angel Investor, and/or a VC of any sort... how do they get the other party to see the same value in the thing that they're creating that they see in it themselves?)

But you see, this problem is a "soft problem"...

It's not a "hard technical problem"...

There is no computer language or toolkit or tooling or methodology that will solve this problem.

And yet, how often in the business world does this "soft-problem" pop up?

I've seen it pop up numerous times, in countless contexts!

That's why Jack Butcher (Visualize Value) -- is a genius!

He's taking one very interesting path towards addressing this problem (I see this problem as being at least a $1 Billion dollar problem, and possibly more, incidentally!)

That's why his company went to $1M in value in 18 months.

So, "an overly simplistic business video"?

Or something that addresses a much deeper, yet all-too-common "soft problem" -- with a potential market upside of billions of dollars?

Well, you decide!

Related:

https://www.youtube.com/c/VisualizeValue/videos

https://visualizevalue.com/pages/about-vv
I very strongly believe AWS needs dead simple dummy-proof budget controls. 15 years and it still does not have it.

And with simple I mean this: "when this service hits my daily/weekly/monthly budget cap of x$, STOP IT AUTOMATICALLY"

Individuals/freelancers, hobbyists, small startups need this. When I started in this industry and write an endless loop, I'd hang the server. Now you hang your future.
Personal freedoms that have no historical basis in the Constitution*.
The special edition art style is much better than this new style.

The special edition is basically a step up from the original pixel art version, so to me it still maintains that original 'feel'.

This new style distorts the faces for some reason - as others have already pointed out.
Generally you don't want to give more information to potential attackers.

The reason is because it allows improved matchmaking of criminals and victims, and allows criminals to improve the efficiency of their crimes. A criminal that's looking for guns could go outside your house, wait until you leave, then rob you looking for the guns and getting out quickly (with a fence ready to buy them). A criminal looking for something else could see that you're not on the list, break in with their gun while you are home, and do who-knows-what to you.

Sure, there are exceptions. Maybe you want a "beware of dog" sign or a "closed-circuit camera" notice that might push the criminals to keep looking for their next victim. These notices are best to prevent crimes of opportunity, and probably better posted on the house than in a leaked database online.
I don't find that more disturbing than cutting off furries, I find it equally disturbing.
> server-side rendering for each request in V8 might be more expensive to host than client side rendering in V8?

Considering mobile, embedded or even considering that my grandmother still owns a i3 4th gen, maybe would be better SSR, but for modern machines i'm not in for SSR, still feels a little bit clunky to me.

> for a properly-chunked app, hopefully most requests for the larger vendor bundles are cached/JITed, and each request doesnt actually download much extra JS.
Yes, cache here helps alot, but saving mobile data still be pretty good, considering some SPAs doesn't chunk it's script files very well.
> an Indian version of chipotle

https://biryanis.com/aboutUs

I frequent the Texas location but didn't realize it was one of the only US locations until now. It's not exactly Chipotle style (which I actually call Subway style) but very QSR/fast casual style. It's pretty good stuff and has a large following for people that I would guess are of Indian decent (I'm white), I feel like that says a lot because they're pickier than I am.
If you're looking for a good Vercel alternative running on your AWS account+ preview environments for your backend you can take a look at Qovery.

Disclaimer I am a co-founder
Why? The sophisticated criminals will definitely use resales of straw purchases, that way they are in no risk in the actual purchase, and they can get any gun they like without having to rely on the luck of the draw.