skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is perfectly reasonable to give farms access to lower cost fuel to allow for lower cost of food

If what you want is cheaper food, why don't you subsidize food production directly? Or give money to people to buy food, which has the advantage of being something you can target directly to poorer people.

Subsidizing fuel used in the production of food leads farmers to use more polluting options than they would otherwise, since fuel is artificially cheap.
QBasic was my first programming language, which I was introduced to at about 13 years old. Today I am a senior engineer and the passion for programming all started back in that ugly blue screen around the turn of the century.

I was introduced to the programming language when I visited some family in the Midwest US. I had gone with my cousin to the home of a kid named “Robbie” that lived in a neighbor.

Robbie is what people today would call a, “script kiddie,” and he introduced me to a variety of his “hacking tools,” mIRC, and QBasic. I thought it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.

I spent the rest of my time during that trip in my aunts basement trying to write my own QBasic games and downloading other people’s QBasic projects and trying to modify them.

I began to attempt to write my own Zelda-esque game and was completely baffled by the concept of z-ordering and my giant green square of grass continues to cover my character and flash when I would make the character move around the screen.

It was all an absolutely mess, but it was my introduction to programming, and it changed my life forever. I was absolutely enamored with what I had discovered, and it was the beginning of a lifelong journey of exploration in technology.

Thanks Robbie, wherever you are.
tdarb has a nice one called pblog (https://pblog.xyz). It uses pandoc, xsltproc, a shell script, and a makefile. It's barely a SSG at all.
Out of autonomy, out of food.
Out of a job, out of blood.

Rising flood raises all ships. The stakes will get higher for all of us.

Edit: Besides, the GP's got a slav sounding username. One would be wise not to assume civilization rates in excess of 75%.

Strong slavs make bad times. Bad times make strong slavs.
If you want total financial control over people, you sure want it over the whole population, and not just those who already have too much to lose to actually protest or do something against the government.

Since the "two missed meals" that are between today and a revolution are most probable for the poor, skipping them would be bad for the overlords.
>It's not clear at all from the article, or from any other of these carbon capture schemes I read about (just yesterday there was one in the front page of HN -- and in fact, _that_ article[0] said that this method literally burned gas for heat), how they achieve this.

Is this specific enough for you? It seems to avoid all the pitfalls you mentioned.

https://climeworks.com/co2-removal
protobuf can certainly be type safe, but "protobuf" means many things, which is confusing. My understanding is that type safety comes in the form of generated clients/servers.

> That is projected upon it by people who do not understand it.

This is the the most Googley response possible. If it's so hard to understand, maybe Google should have done a better job of explaining it?
I seem to remember the author awhile back writing about how it was their first major project and there were a ton of things they'd learned and would like to change.
> seminar course on self driving

what's self driving, you mean like, self-driving cars? driving yourself to greater heights or achievement?
> Idk its in the JS ecosystem so HN will probably hate it lol.

Not my style, but it's your site so do it your way.
Cause they likely have some internal metrics we are not aware of that has a priority over the search quality.
> 21. A widower was showing some friendly guests around his garden. "Look", he said, "There is the tree where my three unhappy wives hanged themselves". One of the attendees, who was a husband, asked for a cutting from the tree - that he might plant it in his garden.

That one can be traced back to Cicero:

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Gesta_Romanorum_Vol._I_(187...
Because privatization of essential services has gone just so well in other areas of life, why not extend it to 100% of financial transactions.
This is true, but that's usually why people talk about "CO2e", emissions equivalent to emitting a ton of CO2 at ground level. When people talk about the climate effective air travel, that's usually the units they're using.

https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/tool/defini...
> In the various online forums there was frequently an ongoing argument over who left, for what reasons, where they ended up, and are you a member of that forum, and so on.

In my experience, groups devoted to niche topics tend to have this sort of drama and discussions about who goes to which other forums, with rivalries between groups with similar interests, etc.

Retro-anything communities in particular. Retro-anything also has the added flavor of "what they are doing these days is wrong, back then we would do $THING instead and it was so much better."
This stings. I work as one of the less-technical people in group of developers and maintain a fairly extensive flat-file database in Excel. I wanted to re-implement it in Access, but my boss said "No," because he was afraid if I left he wouldn't be able to find anyone to maintain it.

Also, Access isn't available with all Microsoft Office licenses. Excel is.
And hence people who care about privacy have two numbers.
For 99% of all people in the world, Zuckerberg will always be known as a brilliant mind who created Facebook - the social network. Right up there with Einstein and Elon Musk. They don't know about any abusive shit, don't want to know, and will never know.
I find pd.read_sql pretty useful for integration with SQLLite too.

https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.read_sql...
I'm guessing it won't be used unless paired with an iPhone/iPad or a Mac running a recent version of macOS 12 (Monterey).

I currently use a wired Jabra headset that's falling apart that I want to replace with wireless. After reading up on it, I concluded that Bluetooth is a huge step backwards for wireless headsets compared to a dedicated protocol. I just ordered the Logitech H820e which uses DECT instead of BT. Some of the Steelseries wireless gaming headsets also use a dedicated protocol, but those are much bulkier than I wanted.
Banks can freeze your account for undisclosed reasons too so I'm not sure I see the point.
Sorry for being obtuse. I was referring to a mirror. The point being that people take objection to DALLE being characterized as a mirror but it behaves similarly in this regard
That's true but we now also have things like Reddit providing those links.
I think this is a good thing. It will prevent Terrorism, and keep us all from buying Porn, so no more onanism or Luciferian child abuse and cannibalism. Also will eliminate drugs.
second the regex
I agree that memory alone is not sufficient to "prove intelligence".

Above, I wrote a paragraph sketching an example of complex behaviours, entailing creativity, humour, longevity, planning, memory, storytelling, object recognition, social skills, etc., as a "clear display of intelligence", not a minima, to use as a counterpoint to merely "recognizing a giraffe".

So I think you've missed my point, or, I've severely missed yours. If I have, sorry! As a general feeling toward internet nitpicks, we're unlikely to work in good faith to help each other out from here, so I'm out.
# successful promo packets per quarter
Who said machine learning had anything to do with "understanding" or "reasoning"? There's no reasoning or understanding in these systems. Just probabilistic computations based on big data. And before you go saying "but that's how your brain works too", that's not the case. Because your brain can do a heck of a lot more than these big data magic tricks that we call machine learning can do.
Top lower did once shade smoothly into bottom upper. A solid voting cohort was there. The last of them were the Baby Boomers, who lately wonder what happened to the rising prosperity they grew up with.

That prosperity continued, to a height unimaginable at the time. But their children and now grandchildren get a constantly decreasing share of it.
That's correct. I don't know their scope. But there could be many ways to expand it.

For example FB has an sdk that you can install in your app and then follow your user across the internet and serve ads to them.

Apple could do the same.

Not sure how privacy would come in.
This comment is identical to the one you responded to.
By the time gen-z kids become adults, video will be so common that they will wonder why our generation didn't document family moments more often.
Criticism: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware
I watched this talk a while ago and it initially blew my mind and made me very upset with the state of OSDEV.

The speaker basically says OSDEV ignores the reality of modern computers. There are multiple binary blob operating systems with direct memory access running on a modern computer. OS researchers live in a linux bubble ignoring this. While this is true, I don't see how this is a technical problem for engineers to solve. This is a cultural/political/economic/moral problem.

Companies want to keep their stuff secret and governments want to be able to put backdoors into computers. How can an operating system software verify that the hardware is doing only what the operating system is telling it and nothing else if the operating system cannot verify the circuit layout of the computer? How can software verify the circuit layout? Afaik the only way to do this is look at the chip(s) through a microscope which is out of the scope of OSDEV.

I feel like this speaker has gotten me all riled up about nothing.
I'm pretty sure most of the people prefer cooler shopping center and falling governments, than obeying corrupt politicians and being hot everywhere.

A few politicians decided to print a bunch of money, and we got the economic crisis, and now a few politicians are in a dick measuring contest with A LOT of taxpayers money and a bunch of dead ukranians, and again, the normal people suffer due to the energy crisis.
Global heating means almost every sea turtle in Florida now born female
This is such a childish nonsense response to a nuanced well articulated argument.
The nightmare of targeted individuals in the age of paranoia (2017)
Show HN: 3D Topography of Your GPS Track
As a hiker and (ski)mountaineer I've always been a bit disappointed of how most apps fail to properly depict the topography while analyzing GPS tracks. (I know that Strava offers some kind of 3D view by now, but I still wanted to build my own thing)

That's why I started working on https://cubetrek.com

It's still very experimental, but you can give it test-drive now. Any feedback appreciated.

It essentially renders your GPS Track as a 3D model within the topography. As an example, here's the Bishorn, a 4000 m peak in Switzerland: https://cubetrek.com/view/5807

The front end is based on Babylon.js, D3.js, the back end is Spring Boot and Postgresql with PostGIS. There's a summary on how it works at the very bottom of the homepage.
exactly. or even ask these AI systems to define it. Just like a parrot, they'll repeat what other say without actually understanding what understanding is.
On one hand, named varieties are propagated via cloning (cuttings, tip rooting, air layering, tissue cultures, etc.)

On the other hand, new fruit varieties are bred all the time. Human breeding programs can produce huge variations in a few decades. I have pluot trees that are hybrid species developed very recently.

And think: 650 years ago, Europeans barely even heard of the tomato and potato!

Human pressure on agriculture can
both speed things up
and slow them waaay down.
There are several local governments in the US requiring cash payments specifically because there are still major unbanked segments of the population.
My interest in graphics started with this game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game)
Since it was a .bas you could modify it and see how it worked.
There's a ton of situations where someone should have their bank account closed. Watch a Kitboga video for an entertaining example.
That's so legit.. I just spent 3 hr reading code of shader toy last night at 1 am, all I could do was changing color... And it was in a variable named c1
3% is actually not bad for what it gets you: fraud detection, not having to lug cash to the bank every day, reduction of theft and employee mistakes, better recordkeeping for taxes, a way to handle refunds, and cleanliness. Small merchants often use Venmo where I am, and they save 3% in exchange for that awkward dance of sending payments.
I only majored in CS because I had to major in something unless I wanted to drop out of college and join the Army. I'm not passionate about it; it just pays reasonably well because somebody has to make boring-ass CRUD applications.
The only thing I think that matters is the cost. To sell at scale and displace other foods, it is going to have to be as cheap as chicken. There is no point building a large factory that can produce this stuff at quantity at the price of wagu beef, because there is no market for that product. Even to vegans you are competing with tofu. Cost is why Quorn remains a niche product.
That is their point
> You know why many Americans are on the edge of medical bankruptcy?

It’s nothing to do with the tax rate, and entirely to do with the insane insurance system that does not even try to keep costs reasonable. The UK gets this correct with the same tax rates (when you include property tax) as the US.
Cash is the illusion of autonomy and control of one’s financial destiny to those who don’t believe in regulation as a recourse mechanism for financial inclusion.

The solution is not cash, it is regulators who will kick the door in when you’ve suffered injury in the course of using financial infrastructure or services.
The US needs to get on top of this. Most other places I know of don't have the cashback cards because they limit the fees that can be charged.

The flip side of this, of course, is that in places with limited fees it is now cheaper for the merchant to use a card than to deal in cash, as cash has to be counted, reconciled and banked, has security requirements for transport etc. In places like the UK and Australia, lots of small merchants now operate in a cashless way because it costs less.
what’s terrorism?
I still find that they often don’t do what i intend them to
They tried JSON-LD
Dark blue color themes are seriously underrated in modern IDEs. VS Code has a pretty nice one it ships with called Tomorrow Night Blue. Hide and turn off a lot of the junk and clutter in its UI (or just use zen mode) and VS Code can feel a bit like QBasic.
I wouldn't be as harsh with my criticism, but perhaps larger examples of each. Hey here's a lambda + api gateway + r53 + s3 deployment, and how that consistent environment looks under each deployment.

What makes 'x' different/better/more labor intensive than 'y'. Perhaps adding a git repo with all the examples aggregated and call out improvements you'd like to make

All that said, keep making content. Don't let "vapid" feedback bog ya down.
> What does the SoundCloud dev team even do?

Prometheus [1] came out of SoundCloud.

[1]: https://prometheus.io
it's a shame , competition is important.
I really, really like the look of that!
I'm glad to hear that they are working on fixing this, but I would be keen to understand why quote searches have been so much worse over the last ~2 years.
It could also be that the quoted term was in the page source, but not visible when doing a ctrl-f search from within a web browser. Whenever I have been frustrated that a term didn't appear in the visible text, it did show up in the source. So my searches were paying attention to the term, but not in a way that I cared about as a user.
Well, the point I was getting towards is that if you remove the memory-based requirements from the scenario you set out, then it doesn't sound so far off from what something like GPT-3 can already do today. I am trying to reduce your scenario down to the minimal requirements so we can get a better understanding of whether those requirements are achievable by computers or not. If we just rely on "knowing it when we see it" then we might fool ourselves until the point where it's too late to go back.
It's worth remembering that the Great Barrier Reef stretches for 2,300 km, and your video covers a couple of hundred meters of that off one touristy island (Fitzroy) near the busiest town for GBR tourism (Cairns). If we're trading anecdotes, that looks better than my own visit also off Cairns about 20 years ago.

I'm not saying that coral bleaching etc isn't a problem, in fact I don't see how we can avoid massive coral die-off if global warming continues, but we should also avoid generalizing "the reef is dying!" or "the reef is recovering!" based on samples of a single point.
A new car every year is fantasy today. It was a commonplace for upper middle class, before.

A wage-earner could be comfortably lower middle class. A professional could be upper-middle.
VPlanet is another great glimpse in time at QBasic and the game dev community it had in the late 90s early 2000s: http://vplanet.petesqbsite.com/
Yes, this. 50% of the time or more I need to flip to the burger "advanced" menu and add the "Verbatim" constraint.

Apparently Google search has been optimized for the lowest common denominator of an idiot.

Truly shameful. If anything, it's the idiots who should be forced to use the UX of lesser idiots like myself. Let them select the "Hazy" constraint from the advanced menu.

If DDG (or any alternative not incentivized to serve dimwits) would do this by default, I'd switch in a heartbeat and never look back.
I've been using quotes in google forever ago

Google made quotes basically not do anything forever ago. But there were a few good years when it did what people wanted
I am not sure I understand who you are blaming for this. Google will update its Pixel devices just like Apple updates its iPhones.

If Samsung and other phone makers don't push Android 13 on their current phones, then that's not Google's problem.

> I'm looking forward to trying it out, but realistically it's gonna be running on low single digit percentage of all Android phones for at least 2 years.

What difference does it make to you?
I started writing QBasic programs at 8! And boy, did I suck! I too owe it to a childhood friend.

Too bad I lost my childhood programs (along with everything else) when the Chernobyl Virus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus) ) messed up my hard drive and I tossed it (no backups of course).
And I’m sure you have case law that the high priced lawyers couldn’t find that would have convinced the judge in the Epic trial that Apple was a monopoly?
The memory hole has proven very effective.
Look at the wording:

- secretive

- highly-classified

- clandestine

Why do they want us to picture that as a threat?

Good on them for wanting to compete with SpaceX

Journalism in the west is weird, to say the least
Anyone able to tell me the difference between a crypto exchange vs say Ebay selling Pokemon cards?
It's been obvious to me since I spent the summer of 1976 in France, and I was an 11 year old kid.
I use syntax highlighting is to... well, highlight important things.

I think "syntax highlighting" is a bit of a misnomer, "syntax coloring" might be better. Since some type of styling is done to pretty much all code in most of the common themes, you really can't say it's highlighting everything. One principle of design is that in order to emphasize something, other things have to not be emphasized. The syntax coloring just increases the contrast of similarly weighted things.
Every game for every console since the original Nintendo has to be licensed by the console maker - even physical games.
Here's another tip. There are quiet, cheap, slow places you can go that don't require learning another language, or even going to another country. That's not what people really want though.
Ebay should probably have some oversight too
I would like both, can we please have that?
When I was a summer camp counselor, on the first day I would always tell the joke/riddle

Two canadians are paddling a canoe across a vast hot walmart parking lot.
One of them turns to the other and says
"Where's the paddles, Eh?"
His buddy replies
"Eh, sure does."

It's a real slow burner, but invariably after an hour or a day one of the kids would get it and share the answer around and they'd all laugh. Then I would tell

Two seals are sitting in a bathtub full of warm crisco.
One of them turns to the other and says
"Hey, could you pass the soap?"
and the other answers
"What do I look like, a typewriter?"

And, primed to believe that if you think hard enough, QuadmasterXLII jokes really do make sense / have a punchline, they'd entertain themselves the rest of the week hunting for an explanation that doesn't exist.
I'm not quietly quitting. I quietly quit in middle school. All I ever wanted was to hide in my room, smoke cannabis, and listen to heavy metal while reading 70s New Wave sf. Unfortunately, those turned out to be rather expensive tastes, and I didn't have the sense to be born into money.

I'm not interested in killing myself to live. I show up, put in a solid day's work, and get paid. I'm not going above and beyond, I'm not gunning for a promotion, and I sure as shit ain't working overtime unless I get time and a half.
Hah! Somehow my parents had a GW Basic manual (but neither could program), so in my endless afternoons I ported some code from GW's dialect to QBasic's in order to make it work on my newer Basic interpreter.

Without Internet, an empty mind is Basic's workshop.
Australia's been cashless for a long time now and has no laws requiring acceptance of cash so a lot of places are cashless only. Even the old lady who has a tea and snack cart at the train station is cashless here. I'll state some benefits:

Public transport becomes much better. You tap your card or phone and never bother with the hassle of a ticket ever again. You probably never realized just how much of a barrier the ticketing fuss was to public transport but all of a sudden you start using it a lot more.

Small conveniences based on cashless payment start appearing everywhere. I've noticed cashless vending machines for really rare use cases have started to appear where i suspect they'd be too low value/high maintainance if they required cash. I'd put electric scooters/bikes here too. Some things wouldn't work or be as successful without cashless systems. Lot's of these examples but i don't need to list them all out.

Taxation. You may argue this is a negative. I think it's a positive that it's harder to cheat the system. I like fairness. You can argue that there should be lower tax but i won't support any argument that it's OK for some to skip tax while others pay.

Safety. The tea lady at the station is now 100% cashless so simply can't be robbed (well kids might steal snacks off the cart but that's minor).

No more wallets. Australia has phone based drivers licenses and with no cash It's normal to carry a phone and nothing else. One less thing to carry and worry about.

I get that a cashless society would be worse under a totalitarian dictatorship than a cash based society under a totalitarian dictatorship. I'd rather work to avoid the totalitarian dictatorship part than the cashless part though.
Those names are far from good, but they're still different names for each generation. And you can skip the letter at the end for this comparison.
I know. Pythonista gets really close to that experience on an iPhone, but yea it’s not included in the OS.
I wish I knew about json_normalize sooner. JSON is great, but needing to transform it to a CSV/Excel sheet is a toil. Great to know about this one-liner!!