skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China has many hands. They will end up closing the coal plants as they turn out uncompetitive. China doesn't mind building things and leaving them unused; they have millions of hi-rise apartments that will never be occupied, and indeed have no plumbing or wiring because that was known up front.
> How would a prototype of a project that "packages" energy for transport also not just be perceived as a total waste of effort?

Because the technology there doesn't rely on literally sucking all of the atmosphere through a machine to achieve some sort of positive effect.

We can do napkin math and conclude already this machine achieves nearly no results - and worse, it took over a decade to achieve nearly no results - and even worse, to scale this thing to a level where it does actually register some sort of impact is unachievable.

Again... doing the wrong thing is often worse than doing nothing at all. This machine, and all DAC's like it are a complete waste of time and resources.
They're a lot more culturally relevant than "90 employees" would suggest. And, sure, NYT is probably happy to report on their rival's misfortune.
I've stopped using anything language specific like Guard or nodemon. Instead I use the inotify commands on Linux and entr/ack on macOS so no matter what I'm doing, I can watch for changes in a directory.
Aah yes that is pretty cool. Puts the link in the body and the title in the subject.

Well should have used that more!

I do like a board which I can search later though and also multiple boards for different friends and family etc.
Sued for what, exactly?
Right, yes nobody on HN ever complains about GDPR. Sure thing.
I mean, why would the USA get into it? It’s an off topic question, but what do we gain from an independent Taiwan that’s worth getting into a war with China when we have so many issues domestically that need those resources?
I think its more like "what will you do when you need need hiking boots and you've got snow shoes and no budget"
This is what I thought of as well.
The difference between the EU and Russia is that when the EU screws up, it makes the news and everyone can read it.

When Russia screws up, they ban their press from reporting on it.
Google Bets Big on Government Business with New Division
You mean any country will relinquish fossil fuel use when it's economically profitable. Only some countries will choose to do it when it's simply feasible.
Hyundai gives first look at Ioniq 6 EV as market share surges
Done quickly enough, it might be enough to keep Congress from falling back under control of the insurrectionists, come mid-terms.
For people who are on a visa, it's even more problematic as they may have to leave the country on short notice until they get another job.
I think an algae system could be in the pennies per tonne. Russ George has an algae scheme that could even be profitable, though possibly scaling only into the hundreds of Gt.
Whistle sounds like it could work as well.
It needs 5.1 to be actually useful though:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/fanotify.7.html

In the original fanotify API,
only a limited set of events was supported. In particular, there
was no support for create, delete, and move events. The support
for those events was added in Linux 5.1. (See inotify(7) for
details of an API that did notify those events pre Linux 5.1.)

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....

And https://lore.kernel.org/git/87czs1d6uy.fsf@evledraar.gmail.c... to link to fanotify discussion on the git mailing list (as well as some flaming about the feature not being supported on linux).
An IDE is aware of the structure/meaning of the code, giving in much more power.

sed absolutely cannot rename all the occurrences of something like a class method, since it would require deep dependency graphs to find all the class instances.

In an IDE, I can do something like this:

# All three classes have a do_thing() method.
my_instances = {
1: Class1(),
2: Class2(),
3: Class3(),
}

my_instances[1].do_thing()
my_instances[2].do_thing()
my_instances[3].do_thing()

In the IDE, I can rename the do_thing method for Class2, and it will correctly change the line "my_instance[2].do_thing()" to reflect the new name, leaving the others alone. This is not possible without something mostly indistinguishable from an IDE.
>We just get nothing in return for it.

Maybe you don't, but a lot of wealthy people who can afford to hire tax professionals do. For example, how certain famous billionaires[0] have received billions of tax free income because they took the position that it could be classified as a certain type of income.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-24/peter-thi...
I know what substack is and I fell for it.

13 people losing their jobs isn’t national news and they know it.
Humans would not engage in warfare if they didn't think it was of benefit.

In fact, the first labor saving invention was to steal someone else's food. All animals practice it when they can. That's all some species even do - we call them scavengers. Like vultures and hyenas.
I don’t see anybody here claiming that’s git’s fault.

But it is an argument supporting the claim being discussed: that the statement “It is very hard to permanently lose work” is not quite true.
Math logic/reasoning self-education with embedded deductive tool
The https://prooftoys.org/ website presents logic and basic
mathematics of the real numbers. It includes a practical embedded
deductive system for learners whose background may be just ordinary
high school mathematics. The site includes:

1. An introduction to logic through pictures, basically interactive
Venn diagrams with explanation. This is a point of view on
propositional calculus.

2. A brief presentation of the rules of the logic of "simple type
theory" at a raw beginner's level.

3. A number of completely rigorous simple proofs, some in pure logic,
and some about real numbers, starting from the classic "complete
ordered field" axioms that define the behavior of real numbers. The
proofs are all done by computer from the ground up using the logic
and axioms (with a handful of gaps). The proofs are all available
for reading online, down to any level of detail, interactively, and
at the reader's discretion.

4. A web-based tool that lets you build and edit your own proofs.

I am seeking user input on the site, and will gladly answer all kinds of
questions as far as I am able.
That's like saying the Christian god is the true god, whereas in fact they're all equal nonsense.
Well that is understandable since most people are, at best, amateurs outside of their field of expertise, and sometimes within too.

But thankfully not everyone's opinion is of equal competence nor should they be treated as if they were of equal competence. And we don't have to spend much time worrying about these folks.

For example, if thousands in positions of importance started advocating to replace the publishing industry that would be worrying.

But I highly doubt several thousand disgruntled junior folks could destroy the publishing industry, even if they combined their efforts and committed their all to it. And I would bet very few of these folks would ever climb into positions of real importance so they aren't much of a latent threat either.
It's really more 'go on dick'.
Neat trivia: Intel recently backported a microarchitecture to a bigger node to cope with fab issues at the time. The 11th gen "Rocket Lake" parts are a 14nm backport of the 10nm Ice Lake processors.

From what I understand, doing so was no small effort and is considered a strong triumph for the team that accomplished it.
Maybe also look at MUSHROOM [1].

[1] http://www.wolczko.com/mushroom/index.html
It's interesting to see how often BCI's are trending on HN
Board is admittedly very useful! This is exactly what I've had in mind for tracking a 'reading list' of sorts in reference to a conversation I've had with someone for both our reference.
Freemium for up to 50 users, source available, but not open source. If you want to give it a try, reach out to me at ebeland at browserup.com.
Massive algal blooms where there are no fish need give no one nightmares.

Once we are electrolysing lots of water for the hydrogen, dissolving the waste oxygen in river outflows could start to save the current dead zones. But restricting over-fertilization would have a bigger effect.
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This is amazing. Would there be a way to estimate future year taxes? For example, knowing past years inflation numbers could you run possible scenarios of future tax brackets?

The adjustment process seems to be opaque[1] but perhaps you could use a regression to estimate it. Then you would only need the ability to make those adjustments in this program to run future year scenarios.

1: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-provides-tax-inflation-adju... (I’m uncertain whether this is based on some predetermined formula)
Basic operating system written in Scratch3
You can own a cannon today. I think you can own any type of cannon that was manufactured before like 1890 (memory is fuzzy here), a "saluting" cannon for funerals and what not and otherwise you have to pay for a tax stamp then wait for the paperwork to go through. State laws vary.

Cannons are pretty neat devices to construct, especially if you try to do bore drilling with any period accurate methods.
But giving the false impression that we're in the midst of a very dangerous pandemic is a bad thing.
Bwahahahahahahaha. This is America baby.
I’m likely just getting it the way I want to, cause it seems equivalent to me. The difference is that you seem to find (no oracle) -> (free will) arrow having a structure, while I think it is too much of a stretch. It goes like that:

If the reason an oracle can’t exist is fundamental chaos, then that chaos cannot be connected to results of free will without handwavy logic, it would span too many abstraction levels to be useful and/or predictable. The assumption to be made here is that whatever free will is, it must be a similar oracle which predicts chaos instead. Not a direct contradiction but in the same spirit.

One may also view that second oracle as not predicting chaos, but instead acting on top of it, or simply being it. Not sure if you meant this or not.

If an oracle could exist, then yes the chaos is broken (it is no more). The case where an oracle can’t exist for a different reason is still to be explored.

Edit: realized that I’m using “chaos” in place of “uncertainty”, please assume they are the same here.
Want to double-down on this. I read "native" and immediately assumed the main selling point was perf - which enticed me to open the link.
> you will live the consequences of "the enemies of the West" from a mostly economic perspective.

Did we already forget about political interference by "enemies of the West"? I mean, not just brazen election / referendum interference, but driving political narratives to stoke up internal conflicts? That is usually achieved by funding political extremists, but controlling the feed algorithm will work even better.

This isn't just a US problem either, other western countries have also been affected.

At least our own governments have some accountability to us. Foreign governments don't even have that, so I'm ok with them being the first ones to give up the tools of influence. Of course I would prefer if such tools did not exist at all, but it will be a while until we get there.
Generic Amazon Rant
I cannot sign in into amazon.com because they try to "send message" to my phone number, and it never arrives. Maybe sending messages to Russian phone numbers in 2022 is considered a bad move and they don't really send it -- only say that they did.

And there's no way to reach customer support via email, you have to call some US number.

First they lure you by "send the sample of this book to your Kindle" button, and then such a dead end.
And the rate for White victims in the USA is 87% (from within the article). Fairly similar.

The overall rate is brought down by the volume of black victims (predominantly killed by others blacks), and the resistance to supporting police within those same communities.
The universe isn't a morality play where we are damned because of our bad behavior. We have options. We should use science and reason to decide what to do.
The thing about warfare is the side that is better organized and led tends to win. Strategy and tactics play a huge role in victory, and don't arise spontaneously. I would expect it to drive society to more complexity.
Going straight to the Godwin point, I see...

Nothing about covid was known from the start besides the structure of the virus. And while we made progress, there is still a lot we don't know, and we expect the unexpected.

Even if based on current research, you are right on some point (speaking generally), saying "I knew it, it was obvious all along" only shows that you don't understand science. You didn't, you took a guess and by chance, it was right. And your "onslaught of studies" is most likely cherry picked. Because mask mandates are a contentious issue, there are many studies going both ways. No matter the facts, it is an attitude worth "cancelling".

You can have opinions, I have my own, some turned out right, others did not, but they are just that.

But one thing to note: there are many countries in the world, all with different cultures, with a wide variety of covid strategies. Though some did better than others, none of them managed to keep covid at bay, all of them suffered in some way. If anything, at least in the beginning, dictatorships did better.

How future generation will judge us? The idiots will look down on us, the smart ones will see what we did right, and what we did wrong, both will be precious knowledge that will help them make better decisions.
It's shocking to me reading about some of the litigation involved in that case. While I can appreciate that there are interest groups that want to ensure affordable housing is built, all approvals should have come to a grinding halt until the special interest groups and the development company could come to a private contractual agreement. In the absence of an agreement, the appeals process should be one of arbitration, in which the court can enforce a compromise that makes neither party happy.

Instead it seems like everyone is just submitting documents to approvals committees independent of talking to each other. And the judicial system is forced to deal with an overwhelming number of individual cases.
None of these vulnerabilities are "theoretical" (they're maybe a bit stale, is the worst you could say about them).

A reasonable first approximation would be that all writeups about new vulnerabilities are intended to drum up something, so that's just about the least interesting thing you could say about a post like this.
》The containers are blocks of fans and filters that suck in air and extract its CO2, which Carbfix mixes with water and injects underground, where a chemical reaction converts it to rock.

It uses A LOT of water! Bitcoin mining is propably more ecological than this.
Yeah, it took me some time to get it that the concept of "patch" is actually quite fundamental in many git commands (rebase, cherry pick, merge (it's basically applying patches from common parent and other branch)). I wasn't used to those because as a developer who uses Windows, diff[0] and patch[1] were not popular there.

But I don't mind "Merge Request/Pul Request" that is basically everywhere now (github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc). It's clearly simpler for novice developer to get started with this workflow that with "patch workflow"

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_(Unix)
that and the keyboard lag is quite noticeable (even in an m1 machine)

what is going on in software where you cant even compose text in realtime...
Penrose: Create beautiful diagrams just by typing math notation in plain text
Nice. The name has me thinking of other adversarial versions...

A two player (or you against the computer) where the goal is to play the last move, switching turns.

Another idea is a two player game where you add up the points as you go along, so as you play you try to strategize how to force the other player to give you more points.

Probably a lot more multiplayer ideas like "power ups" which can alter the board at each jump to a new factor of 2.
Cancel student loans for guns program.
Burroughs machines have 2 sorts of pointers - effectively pointers to offsets on the stack (indexed by a full display so you can do full algol scope semantics, more than just C) as well as pointers to heap memory (base and bounds, with paging for large objects)

So recursive routines get access to their own local variables
Is the reason that they’re a totalitarian regime?
They should probably do what everyone else did. Move away and find something else to do. Coal mines employ a fraction of the miners they employed 100 years ago and produce more coal. Maybe have them look up what they did.
Part of the fun with that show is that Penn speaks out loud and slips in key words the performer will understand, they don't often move on to whispering.
Have you seen https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit? It's used by the Windows team to manage a monorepo containing most Windows source code.

Unfortunately that approach was put in maintenance mode since it didn't seem like it would be supportable on macOS.
Warfare also provided the motivation (and the resources) for much better medical care. Major advances were made during each major conflict over the last 200 years.
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Yeah I much preferred Mercurial from that standpoint. And branches there were correctly named branch. But you kinda, sorta, can get "what should have been called branches but don't exist in Git" by using named tags when you "start a branch" (a real branch I mean, not a Git "branch").

> Mercurial branches don't work like this: they are actually stored as part of each commit, so even with ambiguous commit graphs each commit still has a well-defined branch.

I wonder which operation would not be possible with Git had Git gone that way. And hence I wonder too what's that operation that Git can do and that Mercurial can't.

Honestly switching from Mercurial to Git this weird "branch that aren't branch at all" was the single most WTF feature of Git.
I didn’t spend more time looking for more and I’m not interested in defending myself.

The main general point still stands. All I’m asking for is some scrutiny. By the time information reaches from scientists to reporters and policy makers, there is a lot of malaise and omission of inconvenient truths.

We need more checks and balances. Climate alarmicism is getting out of control. It's become a religion. Scientists that want to report inconvenient results are terrified.

Edit: I found some more: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-e...
That's not the reason. Drugs crimes are investigated in Germany as well, still 95% rate
I think it is very doable for card games with thousands of different cards like MTG. I remember there was an old school SIFT/SURF image retrieval system that was able to deal with tens of thousands of album covers super fast. That was more than 10 years ago IIRC.
You've been locked into mobile phone contracts longer than that. Does that really seem reasonable for the roof over your head?
It's not window dressing, it address the symptoms, not the cause. But it's the symptoms that are causing the problem for us, it's enough to address them. We need to buy time to solve the root cause.

Why would blocking sunlight be a bad idea?
> Massive algal blooms in the ocean gives me nightmares.

Why? How you you think much of the carbon at the bottom of the sea got there? Biological activity, most of small species that died and sank.

The pelagic ocean is pretty nutrient-poor, so anything you grow there is going to need to be farmed. I've been reading that used to be far more fertile before the ecosystem crashed as we decimated the whale population (there are experiments under way for basically adding "artificial whale poo" (as it was jokingly described to me by one of the participants) to try to form little regions of more fertile surface waters.

IMHO you do want to stay away from coastal waters which are a witch's brew of all sorts of things, from runoff to various organic processes. Some algal blooms in coastal regions have been of toxic species (e.g. "red tide" -- those algaes also show up in snow BTW) but most are not that kind at all, and as I note above, in the pelagic (open) ocean you'll have to be seeding it anyway.

You want it to die and sink, but of course it will be attractive to other species some of which will eat it, grow, eventually die and sink, but will probably breath some of that carbon out again. But in the end, you'd want most of it to sink.
>Would there be a way to estimate future year taxes?

You can't even always estimate current year taxes, since Congress has lately taken to making retroactive changes to the tax code even after the end of the tax year (just extending their long-term habit of making changes in late December of the current year).
I think bookmarks are a fine name but I don't really see quibble about branches, which I think are an even better name, but I know it's because I'm seeing it with my git goggles on.

Can you elaborate on what you think branches are a better reference to? What operations or concepts are better expressed in terms of them? I think I'm at the edge of an epiphany here ... but I'm not quite groking it yet.
When you encounter metal cooking pots, nobody is going to be making clay ones anymore.
On the bright side, filesystem operations on Windows are already slow so you don't need to worry about turning on a file-watcher there.
Irrational Exuberance’ on a Plate A bursting of the fake-burger bubble
First of all this state of affairs is unique to the UK, in continental Europe this section 21 business doesn’t exist and 99% of the population wouldn’t consider it a thing of a civilized country (because it isn’t).

S12 invalidates half of your tenancy agreement, to be precise it allows your landlord to renege on all their obligations. A window breaks and you want it to be fixed it? Bad luck, here’s your S21 and may the next sucker come in. It may not be a problem for you, but if you are poor and especially if you have a family, you may have to decide between living with broken stuff (that your landlord is being paid to fix) or being homeless. This is not a hypothetical, this is how millions of people live here.
Can you explain how the comparison to air compressors is at all relevant here? Those move a tiny amount of air.

Your typical tiny PC fan can move 70 CFM, so about 3.5 times the amount of your industrial air compressor. A typical 30 inch fan can easily move 10000 CFM.

Here's what I could find on how the technology works:

> While a few different techniques have been developed, the most common involves industrial-scale fans that transmit ambient air through a filter. This latter component then uses a chemical adsorbent (which holds molecules in the form of a thin film on its surface) to produce a pure, storable stream of carbon dioxide.

https://singularityhub.com/2019/08/23/the-promise-of-direct-...
I'd rather my data went to China than a republican state government trying to punish abortions.
I challenge you to actually do the napkin math here, rather than continue to state your claim that it achieves "nearly no results" without anything quantifying what that means. You might actually be right, but I don't really find your arguments persuasive at all. Regarding sucking all of the atmosphere through a machine, it is unclear why that is either impossible or necessary for this to be useful.
Declassified documents highlight the U.S. role in Colombia's conflict
This is what happens with the other auto manufacturers all artificially prolonging the supply shortage, having dealer networks doing absurd things like charging $10k markups, and other EV makers trying to "end the era of ownership" -- the new market entrant says eff that we're going to make and sell cars people want, and they gobble up all the marketshare.