skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't pull CO2 out of the air. CO2 in the air is at 420ppm meaning you would need to process a huge amount of air to get a significant amount of methanol.

This pulls CO2 out of "where carbon dioxide occurs in maximum concentration - for example directly in the exhaust gas stream of large industrial plants". One example would be fossil fuel power plants...

It's an interesting technology but is bound to be co-opted by those who will pretend it is a reason to allow fossil fuel extraction to continue without limit. Eg [1]

Also, many uses for methanol, such as as a fuel additive, release the carbon back into the atmosphere. Once the fossil fuel is extracted and burned, the carbon has moved from the slow cycle to the fast cycle - and it'll stay there.[2]

[1] https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/ccs-will-not-sol...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle#:~:text=Fast%20an....
No, the testing process is not the same. See the “data gaps” section in the FDA’s EUA review for Pfizer’s vaccine [1].

[1]: https://www.fda.gov/media/144416/download
> If your gun shows up in a crime, you get indicted as well

so, someone breaks into my house while I am on vacation for three weeks, ignores the alarm, rips open the gun safe, takes a gun, kills someone...I go to jail?

but even in the case of actual straw purchases, the buyer is often victimized by the ultimate intended user...gangs browbeating vulnerable people etc. doesn't excuse the crime, but imprisoning a mule won't stop much
OK, that's two ways it could leak - data breach, and honoring an FOIA request. And that makes me think of a third way - improperly redacted evidence in a court case.

Paranoia about my data in government databases wasn't on my radar 15 minutes ago...
>This seems like a reason to dislike all databases that hold this kind of information

Yeah, we wouldn't want the ability to pay people what they're owed, or what they've given to Social Security when it's time for payouts, or what people have criminal convictions for various crimes, or who owns what license plate, or who is registered to vote, because we want all those things to be as wild, wild west as possible. right? No need to track how much money you have in the bank, you can just trust them. No need to track how much you've paid off a loan, you can trust them to tell you when they feel like it. No accountability, no tracking, complete ignorance on everyone and everything...

Or we can have databases because they are extremely useful for a modern, well functioning society, and try to mitigate negatives as much as possible.

>It's not like the old days where an attacker would have to haul tons of paper around and go through it manually.

You mean longer ago than most people have been alive? When things were vastly slower, making them unusable with the numbers of people we serve now? When you paid more for most things since the slowness and overhead of every was also people having to go through all the records manually to get things done?

Good idea. We can set mankind back nearly 100 years, or if we really try, let's push us back before any automation.
Its a timed release on Switch so it's temporarily exclusive, but the other consoles will almost certainly follow.
> That’s the second biggest $object I’ve ever seen!

– Guybrush Threepwood, when seeing something big
I've been pretty disappointed with existing slider libraries because of their horrendous impact on the browser's main thread, and they also cause layout shifts which is a total pain in the neck to get rid off - They do not provide any way to fix the layout shifts in a idiomatic way.

So, I decided to create a slider library that focuses purely on being as fast as possible but still pretty push fully featured and super customizable. The library I have created is 30x faster than slick, 15x faster than swiper - while still being 5x smaller than slick and 19x smaller than swiper in size.

Despite being so small and fast - it still has lots of features and customizability.

I've just released V1.0 - Do check it out
Wow, broad question. I know for pharma it's skimmed off the supply chain. But I have a hard time believing all black market guns, or even the majority, are stolen from residences. I imagine this is a case for low-level criminals, sometimes, but again some proof would clear it up.
Anything resembling senior developer salaries.
It's being studied but none of these kids/adults use it as a day-to-day language.
Out of the gate, genetics. Genetically homogeneous cultures would be much easier to provide healthcare to, because you have less diversity of outcomes for treatments.

If there is genetic predispositions to life expectancy, and I'm not saying there is per se, only that it's plausible, the more genetically diverse your country is, the closer to the mean life expectancy you would be, and homogeneous countries would effectively be a form of life expectancy data-mining.

I could further get into discussions of negative outcomes as governance population size increases, but that's a much more speculative discussion. I would say that in smaller countries, where you're much more likely to know someone who is a friend of your representative, you'll have better long run outcomes of governance because you can govern much more pragmatically and less ideologically.
While I know it's not trendy, I'm still building plenty of both informational websites using Umbraco/.NET as well as web applications, using progressive enhancement. On occasion a client will have a concern that requires doing CSR (such as adding an unlimited number of "rows" in a virtual table or similar where a round-trip would prevent them from getting work done in a timely fashion), but for the most part the websites and applications I build server-rendered are very fast and performant. I still use front-end tools for minification/bundling/transpilation, along with caching, to get fast load and execution times.
And also the vast majority of straw purchases and lying on background check forms are not prosecuted in the first place, despite there being clear evidence for a slam dunk case. Hell, if you're the president's son you can lie on a 4473, have your girlfriend steal the gun and throw it in a dumpster, and then write a book about it and you won't get prosecuted.
Exactly. I'm not a great fan of PHP but nothing has produced more killer apps in the last 25 years.
I wonder if there are cases, where worker just outsource some of the work to a guy in a cheaper country.
You push your code and only god knows where it runs but cheaper and more webscale.
What’s the context? What is the research of? Is consent required / has it been received? Is this a common practice? Is it common to sell non-fetal tissue for research purposes? Etc etc

Linking to a cryptic 575 page long PDF file is too conspiratorial to take seriously.
There are so many guns in this country (far more than people) that criminals don’t need this database and don’t need to rob someone to get a gun.
> Serverless is almost always a trivial cost compared to VPS.

Not my experience. Our AWS lambda cost is close to $1K/month and the usage isn't that much so we could easily host this on a few (for redundancy) of the smallish VPS instances for far less money.
Is it a crime when the government doxx someone?
Ask HN: Do you load test your applications? If so, how?
I have the impression that most folks in small/medium businesses don’t do as much load testing (maybe they don’t need it). Even in big enterprises, it seems not to be as widespread as I thought. Do you load test your applications?

If so, what tools do folks use to generate load? How do you visualize and analyze results? What currently sucks?
I'm certainly all for edible gifts. I don't need any more clutter.

I'd just as soon not get one that I'd feel weird about eating for being supremely expensive... but I can say that I'm happy to have "slow food" that somebody put time and effort into.

I'm not sure where I'd draw the line between the two. Perhaps a factor of 2. Maybe even 10. But please don't give me a $100 mango.
Tell me about it!

"Chickenshit Minimalism - The illusion of simplicity backed by megabytes of cruft."

https://medium.com/@mceglowski/chickenshit-minimalism-846fc1...

(The article is also available on my personal site - about 18kb all in - for anybody who would like to read it not on a slow and increasingly walled garden website.)
Would there be any noise ordinance issues if I'm practicing with my 25-pounder (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_QF_25-pounder ) between 10pm and 6am?
Reuters used to be one of the fastest. They took care of that with their 2021 redesign.
It's not illegal to sell a gun to someone as a private citizen, so what are you talking about?
No, it supports my point: ie. that disruptions to the electricity grid are caused by high price of gas.

Your point was: in the past there were higher prices, but no major grid disruption.

My point: the grid wasn't reliant on natgas in the same way back then as it is now. we have never been as reliant on natgas as today while simultaneously experiencing these high of prices.
This thought crossed my mind, but I couldn't figure out quite how to get it to work. I think the fundamental flaw with using a deterministic process to create the state is that an adversary can immediately reproduce a matching system if they make the measurement, and then we are back to needing a deterministic process that takes longer to occur than transit time.

After a bit of tangentially related thinking (see below), here is one possible way, and why I don't think it works. One could deterministically create a metastable state in a quantum system, e.g. by pumping a certain specific amount of energy into it. Then to figure out how much energy there was present, any additional amount of energy from by the measurement would cause the state to collapse. Unfortunately having the measured value in hand an adversary could now reproduce that state because the original process is deterministic.

For example, a classic "easy to produce hard(er) to measure" is creating aqueous solutions, where a bunch of different solutes are mixed together (I always think of ACSF, artificial cerebrospinal fluid, because I used to have to make it all the time). The creation of these can be entirely deterministic.

Unfortunately all you need is a good analytical chemist to get an approximation. Even if you used specific ratios of different isotopically pure salts they could probably reproduce it, and you would want something that would cause an irreversible change on physical tampering, such as an oxidation, cleaving, or isomerization so that you couldn't just dump the contents and put them back. All of these are tactics that delay an adversary by presenting them with a measurement and combinatorial problem, but doesn't provide the "measure once" property we need.
I'd take a language that have built in support for tagged union over having to import a module and rely on templates

I know of sumtype, and i think it is a mistake for D to rely on this for such important language feature

I'm not a language dev, so i can't do much to help, using switch/union/enum is more natural, is cleaner, and is easier to add support for IDEs, everyone on the same page

That's in areas like this where the language falls short, and i can see people instead choosing alternatives

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/sumtype.d

a mess of templates and imports to std.traits

using this will make your compile speed tank.. another reason to avoid

it's very sad that people recommend this instead of asking for built-in version, makes me sometimes reconsider my choice to use the language

if they expect language improvements to be templates, what atrocity will be added next?

this is on the same level as std::bool from C++
I did something along these lines, but a realtime ghetto version. I had a computer that sat there with windows speech to text API constantly running. Once it reached some word count or time span, it would do a google meme gif image search, and show the top four hits. It was pretty amusing when it would get things completely wrong.

Something similar would make an interesting art installation.
Know a good Doxing lawyer? I know people who would happy be at the start of things rather than part of a class action that results in $0.33 and free credit monitoring for a year.
> It's better to burn out than fade away.

Why?
Surely you can see a difference between someone choosing to announce “I own a gun” and a state published database of gun owners?
That's a bit of a straw man. Even closing loopholes around private sales would improve the situation somewhat, and a majority of Americans definitely support that.
You misunderstand my statement. I was answering your question, not arguing that the leak was good.

I don't subscribe to the argument that firearms serve as an effective deterrent to robbery, so it almost certainly can't help.

But you asked where the black market gets it's merchandise. Theft, smuggling, and straw purchases immediately spring to mind. It would be interesting to see data comparing the effectiveness of each.
That's weird, It seems to be working fine on my iPhone.
Can you let me know which version of Safari You are using?
21% of Americans (69.1M) are on Social Security which is largely living paycheck-to-paycheck.

So only 37% of the working Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. Sounds largely unchanged since the 1970s.
And I'm not sure about the cheaper.
> hydrogen gas

Which is unfortunate since the vast majority of our hydrogen is manufactured from fossil fuels.

It's really almost laughable how many "solutions" to emissions are ultimately accounting tricks.

People keep arguing there are solutions but atmospheric CO2 continues to rise and an increasing rate. Planet doesn't care how clever your argument is for using "less" co2.
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down
Neil Young, maybe.
Wat? The fed bought mortgage backed securities, so property owners, bankers, and real estate agents were the primary beneficiaries. Look at who was in charge.
It was like that before when this was a static website, but JS actually speeds up subsequent page loads via Turbo links. The other great thing about Turbo's JS architecture is that it doesn't really block things on the initial load.
And some are just 2a and happen to have voted for Bernie. But yes, there are many that like to brag.
This site takes all the content from wikinews. There, that's the comparison.
Taste is certainly subjective, and I'm also not complaining that styles evolve. But can somebody explain to me what the art style is even trying to do? I mean this purely on an intellectual level, regardless of personal preferences.

Because I have a hard time recognizing the noses as anything but face wounds in some of the shots, and I wonder why the colors were chosen this way. Characters don't stand out from the background very much, which again, is an intentional choice of colors. And the animations seem to happen mostly via rotations and stretches in the 2D plane, which makes everything look flat. (I think that's also what gives the "flash game" vibes that another commenter described.)

Is this supposed to look like it's made out of paper cutouts (in the style of other games with a "hand-crafted" look, like Paper Mario or Kirby's Wooly World)? That's my best guess, but I'm grasping at straws.
> Also making sure there are no secondary sales without background checks, which is supported by (I think?) the majority of Americans would help.

How would it help at all? They've already proven willing to break the law with the straw purchase.

> All of these would stop repeat offenders, and if I recall, the majority of straw sales are repeat offenders knowing they don't get in much or any trouble buying guns this way.

You don't know what you're talking about. It's a felony, and precludes you from purchasing or even possessing a firearm ever again. It's not possible to be a repeat offender.
Agreement signed paving the way for Finnish and Swedish NATO membership
Those same people getting the guns are more and likely removing serial numbers.
If there can only be a flamewar in response to it, then it's definitely against site guidelines.

If there needs to be a flamewar, let it play out somewhere else. Not on HN.
> I'm curious if anyone has data indicating that a jump table is faster, enough to make a difference?

Anything that touches the branch predictors on these modern, crazy CPUs, is going to be too complicated to really understand from a performance perspective!

I'm pretty sure that jump tables / if statements all touch the branch predictor. Things will be high performance if the branch is consistently predicted correctly, but good luck figuring that out without just running the darn program on a CPU.
Nobody else is entitled to occupy space in, or take nourishment from my body. It's their problem if they can't survive outside of it.

Just like it's not murder to refuse to have your organs transplanted to save a life, because of your right to body autonomy, it's not murder to evict someone living inside it. Refusing help to someone isn't murder, even in a life-or-death situation - and if it were, I've got a long list of impositions for you.
I don't think this is accurate, certainly law firms are ahead of technology firms and I think traditional finance firms are ahead of crypto firms. I'm not sure how frats are relevant here, nor sports teams.
The soundtrack is seriously awesome!

Here's the original one in all its Roland MT-32 glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdd2CNlcqn0
If we mean by that, 'Which country has ensured that all adult citizens regardless of sex, race, or ethnicity, may choose reprentatives to exercise the powers of government longest?', then the answer is New Zealand. Universal adult suffrage was first established there in 1893.
Just googling around (not sure about accuracy) https://www.rcfp.org/open-government-sections/k-gun-permits/

> Licenses and applications to carry firearms are public. CBS Inc. v. Block, 42 Cal. 3d 646, 652-53, 725 P.2d 470, 230 Cal. Rptr. 362 (1986). However, certain information contained in the application is expressly exempt. Cal. Gov’t Code § 6254(u) (information indicating when and where applicant is vulnerable to attack, information concerning applicant’s mental health, and home address and telephone number of prosecutors, public defenders, peace officers, judges, court commissioners, and magistrates set forth in the application and license is exempt). The agency must segregate the exempt from non-exempt material. See Cal. Gov't Code § 6253(a).
How does this compare to Jellyfin? It is oddly missing from their Comparisons page: https://www.universalmediaserver.com/comparison/
About a third of adults own a gun. Does every third car you see have an NRA sticker?

Not even close. Because most people aren't trying to advertise it.
I never liked the term.

It often seems to be used by people who demand that others make sacrifices for others and that’s a bad sign, a sign of coercion and exploitation. This is distinguished from considerations about the common good which entail considering the impact on others and how they might be compensated (eg responsible eminent domain), or crotchety curmudgeons who hate things that would even be to their own benefit simply because they’re resentful of everyone. Calling someone a NIMBY seems too often to be a way of demeaning someone who refuses to agree to give something up so you can have something you want.
If you want to steal a gun, just wait around outside a gunshop or gun range and tail someone then rob them for the gun:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/houston-police-crime...
(2020)

Previous discussion from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25193796
I just implemented my first CI action on GitHub two days ago and can't wait to do it again.

You get deep integration that is hard (at least for me historically) to get anywhere else.

I have a monorepo, with builds and deploys for each directory, so if I make changes to only 1 of my n-many directories, it only builds and deploys for that 1.

But with things like Vercel, Netlify, Render, Heroku (rip lol), and others having built in CI, it leads to interesting conversations around centralized CI (GitHub Actions) vs decentralized CI (aforementioned vendors).

I hadn't realized the difference between the two before now, but they have advantages and disadvantages.
If you keep reading about it and still haven't been able to answer those questions, chances are you probably don't need it.

The strengths of Deno over Node are bulleted all over its homepage, but you likely already knew that.
“Instead of the abused, try become the abuser.”

Seems that’s the way society has been going.
>First, the naïve realist believes that their perceptions are realistic and “objective.” Accordingly, other people (at least, reasonable other people) should share their beliefs, preferences, and convictions. Second, the naïve realist expects that any reasonable, open-minded person will be persuaded to agree with the naïve realist if there is disagreement between parties. If there is disagreement, and if the disagreeing party is a reasonable person, presenting the “real facts” should restore harmony. Third, anyone who disagrees with the naïve realist after the presentation of real facts is unreasonable, biased, or irrational.

Well, apart from the choice in naming, you can count me in as a "naive realist" then. I'd prefer "rationalism" or "ideologue" or "fundamentalism" (the quest to seek the least amount of assumptions to explain our observations).

The beautiful thing about logic and mathematics is that derivations / proofs can be verified mechanically: if even a dumb computer can follow and verify the reasoning, so can indeed a reasonable person.

So next there's disputes on observation, say in science, measurements for example. In theory standard measurement equipment and even cables could be produced in controlled conditions such that each cable end cryptographically signs its connection to some device port only after verifying a timely signed timestamped response to a challenge, a response by some external entity (centralized or decentralized). The device say an oscilloscope could similarly sign the measurements it made, when the circuit was in what topology etc... and all of these could have custom security envelopes with PUF's ... All the tools and assembly lines where those cables, oscilloscopes, etc are produced would have similar security controls in a way that the group can audit (at least statistically) that the expected intrusion rate is marginally low...

A popular saying or adage goes like "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; but in practice, there is."

I disagree not with the figurative meaning but with the literal one:

There really is no difference between theory and practice.

But there is a big difference between theory and malpractice.

These psychologists and philosophers really seem to think they harbor very rare insights. But even a toddler knows different people have different opinions, views, ... nihil nove sub sole...

It's a very sad world when people are stigmatized into nihilism in order to maintain the status quo.

Oh how I yearn to live in a publically verifiable society, with verifiable desiderata.
It’s not legal for some people to hold multiple jobs because of visa restrictions. So that could be a motivation for the added risk.