skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no faith in machines that suck the atmosphere through a straw. The thermodynamics and fluid dynamics just don't pencil out. We need to remove something like 3.5 Tt of CO2, so 3.5 Kt is nothing. Our only hope in this regard is solar/uv-powered systems, mainly biological, for example algaes in pelagic waters (that grow and then die and sink to the bottom of the ocean). These systems aren't trivial to build either.

For other GHG and pollutants there are uv-powered systems like TiO2, olivine etc, though there are also limits to how much they can do.

Basically we have to "mash our hand on the keyboard", i.e. try to do them all, but I can't see machines like these making any meaningful contribution.

Note: I'm working on methane destruction straight in the atmosphere, so I'm putting my money (and my time) where my commenting is.
But it's not even in general it's about Chrome's specific implementation.
In this tutorial, we examine the Few-Shot Learning paradigm for deep and machine learning tasks. Readers can expect to learn what it is, different techniques for implementation, and details about use cases for Few-Shot Learning.
TFA makes it pretty clear that the energy source is geothermal.
South Africa Risks Race War by Stoking Xenophobia, Opposition Warns
Central and Western Europe have been farmed for thousands of years by that point. Farming in Southern France/Iberia was already well established around 7000 years BP (before present). By the time of Romans, the hunter-gatherer's lifestyle was wholly displaced from the area, with only minuscule fraction of resident population engaging in it, at best.

See e.g. First Farmers of Europe, https://www.amazon.com/First-Farmers-Europe-Evolutionary-Per...
Interesting that they named the customer now,and he is well known in the industry but it still doesn't warrant that sort of agreement
It shouldn't take that long, probably not even a year. It's basically 80 shipping containers filled with fans.
Dragonfly Cache Design
Are all the dollar amounts in the simulated tax output at the top of the page inflation adjusted?

For example, I inputted married, with no dependents with $500,000 salary and in 1977, the federal amount was $299,864 and in 2020 was $133,947. I assume these amounts can be compared without further adjusting for inflation?

Tangentially, did federal taxes really come down that much?
On that part, I never understood why people put Netflix in there, except for making it easier to pronounce. Netflix feels neither like a sheer evil corporation nor an abusive quasi monopoly, nor a giant in any specific way (why would we put Netflix in front of Disney for instance?)
I'm not sure we ever tried unplugging the cartridge from the device while inside the console, that sounds like it would have been a good idea.

IIRC it was mostly how the wedge on top pushed things down so the bundle would correctly be detected as completely inserted, eventually the Game Genie was pretty much required.
And when you are playing around with git to try this strategy and it's not allowed you get the wonderful error message "should not be doing an octopus".

(IIRC, from some version of git from about 6 years ago)
> if Puerto Rico or Guam or Texas wanted to leave the U.S. (which they don't), and they held a vote, and a supermajority voted to leave, why wouldn't we let them leave?

Texas has a 2 trillion dollar economy with shipping, electronics, manufacturing, oil, electronics, etc, 28 million taxpayers, a lot of military bases and assets and miles of coastline and ports. You don't just let that leave.

We're not the UK or EU - if Texas tried to secede they would just learn what it's like to be on the business end of an American military "liberation."
Anyone who has had to do business in China will be familiar to one degree or another. When I worked anti-piracy, we had to secretly operate in-country servers to track video websites and certain bit-torrent traffic originating there.

Getting everything stood up, and staying functional was a truly abysmal experience.
Everything is going to be okay.
Sounds like a lot? How many oil wells do you think the world has built? There are 2 million operating oil and gas wells in the U.S. alone. Building carbon infrastructure at scale is something humans are good at. We just need to reverse the sign.
Any tips for getting into the "climate industry"? What are the most promising technologies that aren't just greenwashing?
Price is set at the margin. The price of a commodity is equal to the cost of production of the most expensive unit that meets demand.

Let's take good foo. Foo has three producers, A can make them for $1/unit, B for $2/unit and C for $3/unit. If A can satisfy demand then the price will be $1 and B&C won't make or sell anything. If A&B can satisfy demand then the price will be $2. But if A, B & C are required to meet demand the price will be $3 while A&B will be rolling in the profit.

Therefore the fact that the price of electricity is going up commensurate with fossil fuel prices is good evidence that fossil fuel electricity is the most expensive source.
What's the methane destruction project you're working on? Enjoy those 24x carbon credits, that's good stuff.

Regarding the main part of your comment, what is it you think people should be working on instead?
My workplace gave me a choice between an M1 Macbook or an Intel-based Lenovo. Even though I'd never used a Mac full-time before, it was a no-brainer and I picked the Macbook. It absolutely does matter.
Clipboard Goodies for Productivity
>But Apple rolled with the punches are still doing great in PRC.<

But not allowed to sell books or films, apparently too corrupting of the delicate moral sensibilities of the Chinese people.

You make a good point about how laws might and should change. A return to the wisdom of the Ming period trade with Japan seems in order: a strict tally-trade quota system, based on transparent reciprocity.

One university student for one university student. One streaming service for one streaming service. One telecom for one telecom. One chip for one chip. Disruptive at first, perhaps, but eventually both fair and salutary.

The days of casual forbearance of 骗老外 attitudes belong to a halcyon past for China.
Masking might not be effective on a population level, true, but on an individual level it may make a difference (wear N95, proper fit, etc etc ....) Still I agree, this does supply evidence against mandates.

Off topic but reminds me reading about how on a population level humans congregating in towns/cities was great, but terrible at an individual level (more diseases etc...)
35 Kt... per year... but yeah it's daunting and we need more scale.
7.5 tons/household/year. This is good for 4800 households. Nice, but nothing, ultimately.
and simultaneously it will be lost immediately
Malthus was wrong, hopefully Gretha as well
Three Arrows Capital falls into liquidation after crypto crash
Does it also serve as a test-bed for improving the technology? Like with fusion reactors that will never themselves be energy-positive
Maybe? Flintlock muskets were fairly new technology around the US revolution - less than 100 years before that, people would have been using match locks and arquebuses - relatively the difference is probably similar to the difference between a smith and wesson revolver and an AR-15.
Imo, the solution to co2 and plastic pollution won't be a piece of high tech, it will be a form of fungi.
Second bullet point: Non-OSS shareware :(:::::::
There are already self replicating carbon drawing machines. They are called trees.
Buyers of art are paying for artistry. The product is the art itself, or something closely related. Buyers of software are paying for working productive machines with inputs and outputs, same as a train or a tractor, but which happen to be virtual.

Sometimes it takes artistry to build machines, but it's an incidental input, not the product. People who design a ship don't usually expect a cut of the cargo it carries, no matter how much more effective their artistry made it.

As someone else points out, a company which owns IP or rents out capability (like a SaaS) might be a closer analog to artists getting royalties.
I'd worry they make things worse and suffocate plant life near them.
I think the real problem is not this. But that comparing these average salaries is meaningless even if the responses are truthful, the sample of respondents is representative, and the sample is large.

Clojure developers have a different distribution of unobserved skills and motivations than JavaScript developers or Go developers. So the difference in average salaries could be due to the robustness of the language, due to the pockets of the industry that use them, due to unobserved skills and related reasons, or even due to differences in how much Clojure vs. other developers value amenities like the novelty of the task that they are working on.

It would be interesting to see more than just a comparison of averages. But collecting good data to capture the finer details is hard.
> a quite rare class of magic trick where the method is actually more amazing than the effect

I once heard this described as when you hear the method of a trick, a great trick is one where you go "Ah!" with amazement instead of "Oh", disappointed.
Sorry, misread your comment
Hey all,

Years back I created this site with a few friends as a joke, though over the years it has started to blur the lines between joke and serious endeavor.

We were upset that there seemed to be no agreed upon standard for what common food items should contain. We started with a simple set of questions: what makes something a breakfast burrito? When is a grilled cheese actually a melt? Etc. we hoped we could help answer these critical questions.

We took the design (and some CSS) for the site directly from the IETF including the top colored bar.

Over time we’ve gotten more people involved and helped grow the ambition of the institute. This year we took on our biggest project yet: attempting to create a rules-based system to categorize all food (RFC #5).

We’d love more interest and contributions from anyone who wants to help classify food and generally help with solving the critical problems in food-related protocols.

Links:

About Us/Our Goals
https://iifrp.org/about/

RFC 5: A General Taxonomy for Food
https://iifrp.org/rfc/RFC-5.html

Twitter
https://mobile.twitter.com/iifrporg

Edits: add links
US GDP is bigger than the EU's https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...
You can try to back out, which was in fact extremely common, especially among the poorly trained. Soldiers in trenches couldn't even let their head protrude above the edge (to not get shot by snipers), and had to live in horrendous conditions for months.
I feel like wankerpanzer sounds a little bit better ... wankpanzer makes me think of a special tank you enter to jerk off.
Didn’t take a close look but the 1986 (?) tax code update close major tax avoidance pathways (passive loses and tax shelters in wiki link).

I think one issue with calculators like this is it doesn’t account for excluding revenue that now has to be included.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Reform_Act_of_1986
In the US at least one court found that IPs were not PII

https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2009/07/10/washington-cour...

I am curious who "we" are- a royal plural?
The implementation is similar to before where the sql support is loaded as a library that translates to k - however it goes a few steps further by supporting (not an exhaustive list):

- Intermingling q and sql in the same expression. e.g SELECT * from qt('marketSnap`IBM')

- extensive joins, aggregates, sub-selects, cte, parameters etc - whereas the SQL92/'99 support was v. limited

- Distributed support for executing/joining across multiple targets - allowing a gateway sql query to run against in-memory (rdb) and on-disk (idb/hdb) databases. We are also testing support for querying external databases through 'virtual' tables (as if the data was stored natively in kdb+). The sql support will never replace Q APIs but we're really keen to see what our users will try to do with it. e.g single-pane governance/data mesh patterns

- PostgreSQL dialect and wire support to allow sql/no-code users to connect from 3rd party tools using the ootb PostgreSQL connectors (tableau/powerbi/glue etc) without loading and maintaining special odbc/jdbc drivers for kdb+. Queries generated via tools will push down aggregates/predicates to execute directly against kdb+ (versus the legacy import model)

Specifics aside, I hear all your points loud and clear - and agree with sql being inferior to q-sql (opinions are my own!) - but the intention is not to replace q-sql here. We're simply opening/democratising the technology for less advanced users by enabling new options for them to get more value on day 1 without the typical on-ramp usually required to start using/writing analytics in KX.

With the ultimate aim being that they see huge performance benefits when using KX (even via SQL) vs. other databases with minimal changes to their applications.

From there we hope they will begin to use more q-sql and realise how much easier and succinct it is to express questions against their time-series data e.g window functions, order and temporal based queries.

For some colour on the topic, SQL is by far the biggest request we get from new users (especially outside finance) - so this will help us grow the community and create more opportunity for careers in new sectors for kdb+ developers.

p.s
We've invested heavily in better tooling for kdb+ this past 2 years which you may not have seen but I'd mostly love to discuss your ideas/requests and share with Product Strategy who I spend a lot of time working with.
libraries don't look like this anymore either
The 0.1% figure comes from OpenAI: https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1410037309848752128 (person disagrees w/ me, the image is what's relevant).

I talk about Lodash one-liners because it makes it pretty obvious that Copilot is not just copy-pasting code (which would be copyright infringement). It's quite unlikely (even if we consider all variables to have the same name), that Copilot is copy-pasting an exact copy of some other snippet, given that the snippet is very specific to my problems. (I'm not asking it to write a generic math function, I'm asking it to use lodash on data structures in my codebase to accomplish a very specific outcome). By quite unlikely I mean (1 / (2 ^ 32)), if we consider the one-liner to be composed of 32 different AST nodes.

> Is a Markov chain "Creative"? That's essentially what you're describing here.

Have you read the paper that (eventually) inspired Copilot? "Attention is All You Need". It's not a Markov chain. There's many, many, many different steps / layers. I think if you know & understand the fundamental building block that is responsible for it working (the "transformer"), then a lot of the worries around plagiarism go away.

Also. What is coding if not a search problem over a very large space? I'm searching for the next N lines to write over the space of all possible lines. To guide my search I use things like my prior knowledge.

In my head, this knowledge is encoded using neurons. In Copilot, the knowledge is encoded in parameters. Abstract concepts in my head are encoded in neurons. In Copilot's "head", abstract concepts are encoded using "embedding vectors" of 512 bytes (maybe more / less, not sure). Yeah, maybe I use more than 512 bytes to encode a concept, but still, I don't see a huge difference. If I'm not plagiarizing, then I can't imagine Copilot is (except for in the 0.1% of cases where it's over-fitting)
And which nation has ever turned its other national cheek when aggrieved? (Don’t say France)
Have you looked into git-annex?
On the scale that Climeworks is operating at? Probably not really.

You can read that "downside" more generally as DAC (and carbon sequestration in general) is expensive, and no one really knows how efficiently we can do it, especially at the scales we'd probably want.

It's also an expression that current low/no carbon energy sources are globally sufficiently constrained that we're in no real position for large scale (aka meaningful) DAC (and many other forms of carbon sequestration - perhaps not all) deployment.

Climeworks is clearly out to iterate and gain experience to be well positioned for a presumed DAC (and sequestration) market that may form as all of the easy to decarbonize sources and processes are converted. We're... a ways off here.
We already have gas plants that only run for short periods of time. So there's no need to build more or shut down the existing ones. The important part is to stop burning fossil fuels and venting the CO2.

Which is most quickly done by installing renewables and not running the existing gas plants.

I have no real objection to paying money to firms that keep gas plants ready for use. It's the money going to the people who sell the gas that I fret about. And again, the quickest way to reduce that flow is building more renewables, now.
There are some projects run by corporations who create and sell tokens, and whose founders have made claims promising returns derived from ongoing operations and investments.
I absolutely hate Nim for spoiling pretty much all other programming languages for me. I wish it gained more traction. Congratulations on your book and keep up the great work, Araq. You did an outstanding job with Nim and I wish you all the best!
Given how widely used git is, we must also empathize as widely as possible. Meaning, users of git are on a spectrum from hardcore engineer with two decades of Unix experience to casual hobbyist.

The casual group may include people very young/old, people with no (significant) background in programming, people that had little formal education in general, non-English speakers, people with cognitive limitations.

When you approach Git like that, neither the commands nor the concepts behind them make any sense.

Saying something like "see, git is just a merkel tree of immutable objects with a unique hash id and a commit is a blah blah..."

...makes no sense whatsoever to the casual group. They are alien words and concepts that are not relatable to the actual task: I just want to version manage something.
Just a headsup, but shitdick may come off as homophobic depending on who you release your shitgibbon on
That makes sense, Linux has many highly performant IPC options that don't involve the network device. Just the time it takes to correctly construct an ethernet frame is not negligible.
Money is already digital, highly automated and internationally scaled. The American payments/settlement system is arguably more decentralised than blockchains. Crypto brings unique attributes to the table. But being digital, automatable and international aren’t major differentiators.

To the degree we’re seeing a persistent class of winners in crypto, it’s not users. And it’s not VCs. It’s Wall Street. Because this is an old, dirty game. Some folks just gave it a new paint job.
If this interested you, you'll probably love this video series that reverse-engineers the “passwords” used by old NES games for saving data: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzLzYGEbdY5nEFQsxzFanSDv_...
> They also made it a four-CPU system, with all CPUs operating in the same 64-bit global address space. It also needed a good 1,000 amperes at 5 volts delivered to the backplane through a dozen welding cables.

That is absolutely terrifying.
Large segments of America have free lunch. Some segments don’t because we let them run their districts of the empire how they want to run them. Some segments of America have installed these cameras, most have not. Do you have any evidence that there is a single region of America where they have both installed these cameras and refused to have free lunches or are you just low brow bashing on America?
This also applies to the U.S. too, we see it today how the US influences the entire world using its Tech hands, an example would be how Facebook always try to silence any activists in Palestine against the Apartheid state.
This is the result of a request in 2020 by two senators to the FTC to investigate TikTok for collecting MAC addresses on mobile computers with corporate OS, e.g., iOS and Android. (Another reason these OS are inferior, IMHO. We cannot chose our own MAC address. Randomisation of MAC address for WiFi is a poor substitute for having the ability to set MAC address to whatever value we choose, random or non-random, i.e., control. "We'll do it for you", with no option to DIY, may be providing a convenience, and only in response to user complaints, but it is also taking control away from the owner of the computer. Corporation controls the MAC address, not the owner of the computer.)

The senators were alerted to the issue by the WSJ:

http://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/tiktok-tracked-user-data-usi...

TikTok (Musica.ly) was caught violating COPPA rules in 2019 and fined more than double the amount that Disney was fined in 2011, which was the highest fine ever issued for COPPA violations:

http://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/musical.ly_p...

There were allegations after 2019 that TikTok was violating the terms of the 2019 injunction and were still violating COPPA.

Like Google and Facebook have done in their communications after being caught acting unethically and/or illegally, TikTok rolled out the cosequent changes to their website/app with the accompanying phrase "You are in control".

Nothing could be further from the truth. If you were in control, you would disable advertising, for starters. :)

When you thought you were controlling tracking by changing your advertiser ID in Android, you were being misled. TikTok had stored your MAC address and could link it to the prior advertiser ID. MAC addresses are PII under COPPA.

In 2021, the Dutch DPA also fined TikTok for violating online privacy laws protecting children:

https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/sites/default/files/at...
Since we're talking about investments, did the person cleaning the office invest the time to become adept at programming? Unlikely.

The cost of an item is often linked to how much was invested (because that is linked to how much it took to come to fruition, and therefore, how much it needs to sell at to recoup that investment). It's not only the 8 hours that is invested, it's the previous investment that needs to be recouped. That's one reason behind why different people cost different things, which is ultimately down to quality.

We're back to the initial question but at least we've dispensed with communism in the meantime.
I agree that we need to do be exploring all options, but we need to make sure not to destroy other parts of our environment in the process.

Massive algal blooms in the ocean gives me nightmares.
For what it's worth, here's Google admitting that GoogleBot causes POSTs:

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/11/get-post-a...

Automatically triggered POST is not sufficient to keep the bots at bay.

They seem to be implying that only automatically triggered POST are acceptable, but that was also >10 years ago.

With the way things are going, it might be that any on-page confirmation buttons won't be sufficient to keep the bots at bay. Maybe it's time to fight back, check the user-agent, and serve the bots a CAPTCHA?
Were you not around during the great fuckwaffling of '06?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=F...
My guess is its abundance of plosive consonants as compared to most other instrument names.
Difference is scarcity
> no?

Technically no, due to GC.