skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your MWh of solar costs $10 but is only available at a particular time, your MWh of Methane energy with CO2 collection costs $50, and storing the solar energy costs $80 then you've got $10 left to use 2MWh to turn 1MWh of CO2 into something you can bury (it doesn't need to be as energy dense as methane).

No need to violate the first law (which is irrelevant) or the second law (which is a much harder criterion than the first and is relevant).

Not that I support CCS as a solution as it has many unchecked externalities. Better to make ammonia or methane or hydrogen or methanol or something from sunlight ajd burn that if you need the energy density and storage needs of fuels.
Switched from the Pixel 2 to Pixel 5, the length of the screen is ~20% bigger, so I reduced the resolution height to the size of the Pixel 2 (1080x2340 -> 1080x1920). feels great to me. only drawback is the notch https://i.imgur.com/2eHFfjg.jpg ..
I'm just struck by how cool those assignments are — I feel like this might be one of the biggest differences in school quality, most of the stuff I've had to do at an unremarkable school felt a lot more like "fake problems", but this OTOH sounds like something that would actually get me a lot more motivated even if I had no clue where to begin at first
Renewable Energy Is a Scam
Deeper blacks leading to better contrast and saturation mostly, although OLEDs are again superior in that regard.
And the UK too:

https://www.buildingmaterials.co.uk/nuts-and-bolts/guides/4x...
No. This Bartosz is a fantastically talented IT person who, in their spare time, creates hand crafted interactive explanations of stuff. https://ciechanow.ski
Google Cloud is a weird thing. It's got Google quality:

- technically amazing: BigQuery and GKE are great

- really half assed as a product: console is somehow slower than AWS despite the latter being the most tech debt of the lot for having invented everything, support half witted, and honestly I had a card declined and even Alibaba Cloud didn't suspend my shit

If you have one of their premium support things you'll get faster service but I think I'm not hyper keen on them for general stuff.
Low power consumption doesn't affect picture quality and brightness wasn't an issue in a typical home TV setting, which is usually a lot dimmer than a retail sales floor. Plasmas were amazing at most things that do benefit picture quality.
In the Netherlands (Europe), where I reside there are plenty of jobs offering 36 or 32 hours. I think most employers are ok with it since they often also work 36 or 32 hrs. Quite a lot of people share the 'load' of bringing up a family, taking care of parents or sick family members & basic house chores & therefor will (have to) work a bit less than 40hrs.
Explain the wrong reasoning and flaws in these videos:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DXpLAB5219A

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LmlAYnFF_s8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwbd1qGvTeQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ4KoxeTu-8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3eXLwH9J8

I will take your words by face value and assume that none of these videos used or needed any amount of intellectual rigor and that he is not very smart. Okay, but if the bar is that high, then it appears that whatever scam kickstarter he debunks wasn't even on the scale of intellectual rigor or smartness.
Number of Fields medalists at each award year
(Award years occurring every four years):

2,2,2,2,2,4,4,2,4,3,3,4,4,4,2,4,4,4,4,4

- The total sum is 64. An even number and a power of 2

- The only two odd numbers are equally distanced from the beginning and end of the sequence

- Until the first odd number sequence A279401

- From second odd number sequence A321319

Mathematicians don't like odd numbers? :-)
No. A lot of sites have ad tracking added to their app bundles which aren't wrapped in a try/catch block.

The tracking code is usually initialized first, before the rest of the code in the app bundle. So if the network request fails due to ad blocking, the tracking code breaks. And if it isn't caught, the rest of the code doesn't load.
Do we see much of this for AWS? Asking for a friend...
Waymos drive so slow, any Tesla with the same "driver" would kill anyone else.
I understand the size of the app install market and you're absolutely right to point that out.

However you're saying Apple is blocking Facebook. No one is blocking anyone. Apple is saying you have to ask for user consent before gathering that data.

For Apple to use their own first-party data to personalize the App Store, you have to give them permission - they ask you for consent upfront.
Ditto is the real deal and the best CRDT database out there atm.

There are expressive CRDT libraries like Yjs and Automerge but these don’t give you persistence.

There are mature databases out there that include CRDTs, like Redis and Postgres EDB, but these have very limited semantics.

Ditto is a proper database with a rich set of CRDTs. It’s well engineered, the team are great and it has a compelling DX / realtime APIs.

Source: working with CRDTs at Vaxine.io
Society doesn't require many people to work to sustain itself (we have the recent example of the pandemic). If we could enjoy for a while what we have built until this current moment, without inventing or creating anything new, how much time will it take for society to collapse?

Animals live a life of leisure without much work, and they don't have the infrastructure that we as humans have. They don't collapse.

How much work is essential in a society? Medical, agriculture, logistics? If we stopped creating new hardware or software for a few years, how much impact will that have on society? I would want to run a test to see the results.
Yeah I know there are some methods, but in my case it's in September, 3 weeks out and for reasons out of my control I could not book in May already. I'm not even taking "spontaneously tomorrow", and last I checked even 1-2 months in advance can still be more like 60 rather than 20 :(
Well, the point is that neither large models could be trained, nor could a trivial model which is known to have a set of parameter values, that satisfy the given task.
Yeah I'm very curious about this. I assumed that because my taxes have been purely proportional in the several places that I've lived that this was generalized to across the U.S.

This is the first I've heard of a city adjusting taxes down.
Which I what many here who worked through the IE dominance have been warning against - yet the only thing we hear is that other browsers are the “new IE”.
Ask HN: Chatbot between Client and their customer
I've been looking into integrating my chatbot business logic between my clients and their customers. I am assuming my clients are using a dedicated number for this service.

What services can help me achieve this?
SoA in C++ isn't that long, here's my version (which for sure does not have the utility functions defined here though, but is useful enough for me): https://github.com/celtera/ahsohtoa/blob/main/include/ahsoht...
Dream is far more batteries included than koa these days, so my analogy no longer works well. Regardless, great framework. Far exceeds the other ocaml web toolkits
It sucks that they gave you conflicting information that resulted in this but I wouldn't trust having my cloud infrastructure payments be handled using a single credit card.

If you have a spend of over $2500/mo you can apply for invoiced billing directly from Google or if you have less than that you can contact a GCP reseller partner to get invoiced by them.

Some GCP reseller partners also have a close relationship with Google and the contacts that come with that relationship.
Partly I agree and its the reason I have been disappointed specially in Toyota trying to protect it cash cow and supply chain. They are not really getting into electric cars. Even today they are trying to hedge with hydrogen fuel cars its as they feel hydrogen cars will require the least amount of changes for their supply chain.
Looking through your comment history it seems that you have interrogated any poster who was ever mentioned patent problems, and demanded that they provide you with sources. It is not clear why they are required to do that.

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-holdings-inc

That is quite a jumble of overlapping / inter-locking patents. The goal is to prevent competition using similar technology. It looks effective. And to answer your next question, no I'm not in the display industry, just thought it seemed interesting.
The heat that came off my Panasonic GT30 was _crazy_. Replaced it earlier this year with an LG OLED after it mysteriously wouldn't power up one day. Still, lasted the best part of a decade which isn't too bad.
So there are products on the market that TDoA/Interfereometric emitter localization via ad hoc soldier portable units. ELTA has one product like this for example. They typically sync a decent local oscillator to GPS/GLONASS, and send that data stream along with any sampled signal that the network is communicating to do the computation.
I recently helped my sister-in-law move house. I smiled a little at her little TV. Looked like a small flat screen from one of the first generations.

Of course, I also configured the Internet access. This also included testing that Netflix etc. was working smoothly. When the stream reached the highest quality level after a few seconds, I was extremely surprised by the sharpness of the image, the clarity and also the color rendering.

It was of course an "old" plasma TV, which makes my panel in the TV at home look pretty bad.
Regarding the Great Barrier Reef, it's not as simple as you're saying:
https://theconversation.com/record-coral-cover-doesnt-necess...
I often deliberately publish code with no license.

It means any hobbyist can play around with it, but no company with a legal team will touch it.

It appears as an oversight rather than a deliberate decision to restrict who can do what.

And often that's exactly what I want.
> Large corporations do exactly that - and easily getting away with it due to multitude of reasons.

Large corporations don't pay taxes because of taxation tricks. These small business don't pay taxes because they never fill a tax report.
> Honestly why stop there?

ICE cars were a lot better than horse- and cow-driven carts (I should know about the latter, my entire childhood at my grandparents was spent in cow-driven carts on the way to the the hay-growing fields and back, think this [1]), while I don't see EVs better than ICE cars.

Yes, on some technical parameters they are better, as you mention, but on many others they are not: the charging times will never come down to reasonable times unless we discover some new laws of physics, which in turn causes people like me, who live in apartment blocks, to not be able to have a EV (I'm not going to spend half an hour and more every few days at an electrical charging station), prices will never go to the same level as ICE cars (unless ICE cars become even more expensive thanks to new extra taxes imposed from top-down), the EVs are "dependent" on their computer OSs, I have very rarely met a computer OS that is easily updatable and maintainable after 10 or so years, as such, most of the EVs will become a pain in the ass to own after those 10 or so years (as it now happens to smart-phones after 3-4 years).

[1] https://alpinet.org/foto/2003/10/22/ZjkyOGRhZDE5ZmZmNjUwMjEw...
A CRDT is a way to solve multi-leader replication without having the application code resolve conflicts.

This is what is required to build an app where any instance (node) can be offline for an arbitrary amount of time, but still be able to share state with the rest of the nodes when it's reconnected.

To implement this, every application node keeps a vector clock per register (an atomic piece of shared state). The vector clock allows any node the compare its own version of the register with the state received from any other node. Two values of a vector clock can either be causally related (in which case the most recent write wins) or concurrent. However the concurrency is from the system's perspective, but not necessarily from the user's perspective. An extra physical timestamp can be kept at the register level to order concurrent updates in a way consistent with the user's time perception.

Now, having the hybrid clocks in place to version each register on each node, the system must implement a protocol to ship every register update to all nodes (reliable broadcast).

Once all updates are shipped to all nodes, it's guaranteed that all nodes have the same (most recent) state.

(I built an offline-first product and had to roll my own protocol)
How does this kind of display actually work? I mean how does it transport the different colors to the front of the pixels while still keeping them separate? The 1-color e-ink is pretty straight-forward but those multiple colors require some new tricks.
Supposedly it's already happening, although I think in this particular case Nissan is just whining and can't actually sell the car because it's outdated. https://jalopnik.com/nissan-killed-the-gt-r-in-europe-becaus.... The regulations are thankfully only going to get stricter.
>> I would not spend one moment of my remaining short life doing something purely because a capitalist system forced me to do so. That's the ultimate, probably unachievable, goal.

Given your profession, a capitalist society is by far the most likely way for you to get what you want. What do socialist-type EU countries pay software engineers again compared to the United States? How much money do you need to save to achieve your dream? The US is without question the best country to chase that goal.
On a reasonably popular open source project you will have bugs aplenty. It gets tiring having to apologize for them, and it also wastes space, and there isn't a need.

I like to acknowledge bugs instead, phrases to the effect of: Thank them for finding it. Hope to address it in the future. I see what you mean, let me have a think about it.
Choice. And not having to charge another device.
Honda Civic Type Rs have a speaker system that makes more impressive engine sounds for the driver. Maybe Ferrari can go with that
You realise that this quote supports what I just said, right? It takes massive funding increases to consistently increase budgets year over year for over a decade by that much after inflation adjustment given how huge the NHS budget already is. Go on, compare the budgets between those periods in actual pound sterling terms and then think about how much more tax had to be raised to sustain that (or rather how much debt had to be issued).
In Germany, keeping 1W running continuously costs you around 3€ a year (see below). So, if you were to leave 500W on continuously, we'd be talking 1500€ a year.

1W x 24h/d x 365d = 8760Wh
8.76kWh x 0.3525€/kWh = 3.09€
I don't know what's going to happen in the future. No one does. I don't have all the facts. And even if I did, I would need a galaxy brain to integrate them all into an outlook. Not everything is publicized. There are many groups of people who work to further their own agendas. We aren't one globe, one humanity. It's a nice idea, but it doesn't reflect reality.

I base my pessimism on the childishness I see flourishing in adults who have lost contact with reality because they've never endured serious hardship. These people can be easily manipulated because they have little fear. They have never made life or death decisions. So they don't understand the significance of forming an accurate model of the world. The result is a nation full of dreamers. Such people are ill adapted to the real world and will naturally be ineffective in all that they do.

There are very strong incentives for forming an optimistic outlook. None of these are conditioned on data or serious consideration. I think people look for reasons to justify how they want to feel. In other words, optimism precedes the reasons one has for being optimistic.

Voltaire lampooned optimism very well in Candide. His ultimate conclusion was: don't waste your time on idealistic notions of a world in which terrible things are always happening; instead, tend to your garden--do your best to improve what you can and no more. This is a wise suggestion. Optimism and pessimism are both traps. They are pathological extensions of present conditions.

I wish I could heed this wisdom...
i use my iMom.
> Ha, that's not true! Which is what's really bizarre!

TBF this is from my personal experience, so I'll probably ask my carrier why.
When I ate insects I fed them compost. I tried one kind that I could feed rest products from forrestry, but I didn't care much for the taste.

The discussion of SCP in feed is the same as soy beans: we can eat it ourselves. Why accept a 3-10x efficiency loss by feeding it to chicken and pigs? We are already eating SCP, and we are bound to eat more of it in the coming decades.
IMO we really need regulation on how support is done by big tech. It should be really hard for them to close accounts like this.
It does not work that way in my place. You write "hello" and if there is no immediate "hello" back, then you leave this aside until there is. There is no staring at anything.
>> If you’re doing a micro-startup, you need valuable tools and insight today. You don’t care about 12 months from now. You certainly don’t care about $99 twelve months from now…

Exactly, the value is in the present, not in the future. This is so clearly obvious that anybody purchasing it knows that there's no value exchanged for the recurring fee and thus the recurring fee looks like a shady cash grab and is more likely to result in less overall sales.
Ou wouldn't be able to tell a VW ID4 EV from an ICE car.
No idea?! It's quite obvious that they can smell humans from afar, as they converge very quickly when you go outside, especially when you're sweaty. What a clickbait title.

I've never found any repellents to work really well, but birch tar oil does OK. Easiest to just cover up the fleshy hairless portions, keep moving and aware/paranoid, and avoid outdoors from dusk to 3-4AM.
Personally I'm not going to worry about switching until the old API is deprecated, but it should be very simple to write an adblocker for Manifest v3. You could put together an MVP by plugging EasyList into the new APIs in probably ten minutes. Obviously a fully-featured blocker requires a lot more time than that though.

I'd actually expect a small performance increase because the browser is preloading the block list, rather than querying it every time.

uBlock does provide some other feature like disabling network pre-fetching, and I'm not sure if those can be fully replicated. But I tend to prefer the performance improvement of pre-fetching anyway.
Fashion changes, but this is probably mostly confirmation bias.

Don't worry about it, this is made-up and just encourages you to be nostalgic and fearful.
So, golang is no longer suitable to nicely process json documents.
Steven made the Whacko AVS packs for Winamp back in the day under the name UnConeD, which were easily the most impressive visualizations I ever saw in AVS.

He has them all for download on the website[1].

You could always see the source code, and I remember as a teenager trying to pick them apart to see how they worked. It seemed so much more advanced than what everyone else was doing. Other packs would have pretty waveforms. Whacko AVS had, as just one example, a spaceship flying through hyperspace in a storm - and it still reacted to the music!

Justin Frankel, the creator of AVS (and Winamp itself), now
makes Reaper, one of the world's best DAWs.

[1] https://acko.net/blog/avs/
> not that hard to use

I can't think of many tools that have their own profanity-based undo site: https://ohshitgit.com/

It's more likely we've all gotten so used to git over the years, we've forgotten how terrible its UI really is.
There is more to the cybersecurity than web apps..

But seriously, do what you want.
The phone is the last but one "urgency" level. It means that if someone calls me on the phone it is really urgent. I would interrupt a lot of things, including a presentation, if I get a call.

If this is to say something minor I will block that person, or never pick up their call again.
Tesla did promise that price increases for the FSD feature would occur as time went on. Probably one of the few promises that there was little reason to doubt would occur.
Although the article 1) is a good reminder that perhaps more people than we think struggle to read documentation and 2) provides useful solutions, I do have some criticism.

As time goes on more often I see people complain about documentation to be 'too technical'. This typically comes from people who are self-taught or went to a boot camp. The author, a self-taught developer who started writing code seven months[0] before writing the article on better readability and usability of technical documentation, prompts to 'avoid jargon'.

Jargon makes documentation more readable and more usable. By definition it is a short description for something common in our field of work. Any non-jargon description would be more long-winded.

The author lists 'avoid jargon' as a method to make documentation more accessible. I opine avoiding jargon has nothing to do with accessibility, at most with inclusiveness. And indeed, right after mentioning avoiding jargon the author brings up 'use inclusive language', including 'avoid using gendered language'.

Whether or not inclusiveness in the way the author describes is important in technical documentation is a separate matter. Let us please not muddy the waters. You have all the rights to share your political opinions, but do not hide them among otherwise fairly objective suggestions to improve accessibility.

[0] https://www.africakenyah.com/learning-to-code-part-1/".
> The british sent their criminals to Australia (a harsh island continent) and they turned it into a thriving liberal democracy.

A misconception. Most people who moved to Australia were not criminals. Contrast that with Germany, which turned itself into a genocide state through the influence of European culture.
Huh, who said anything about donations?
Haha, I am an advertiser on Google and trust me, getting hold of someone is like doing a summoning ritual.
I am using it with my own wireguard instance.
That is like almost 2 years ago (as a side note they also had issues with safari).
That's great as Munro were the group who originally game them a bad wrap regarding their chassis design.

My point still stands and it clearly shows that Tesla have room to improve, just like all car companies.
I am sure a LSTM or even a small 2 layer network can learn to predict the next numbers on the clock from the numbers on the clock exactly one second ago, but that is not the point. Given such a network it will take you forever to make a prediction for second number N=10^315, yet it takes rather short time to divide with modulo.
I found this blog on session management really useful: https://supertokens.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-user...
A cat doorbell based on AWS IoT and TensorFlow
Regulation, full stop. The reason Big tech makes so much profits is because they have no accountability and at their scale, social shaming doesn’t work.
Most Italian companies do this for Christmas/new years eve, but also for “Ferragosto” 15th of august, some mandating even 2 weeks off!!

Italy, as a whole is basically completely shut off during the central weeks in august, with hotel prices easily doubling July prices… go figure out why hahaah

By law, there’s generally 4 weeks go paid leave, and the unwritten agreement is that the employer peeks 2 of them for you…

Tech companies generally dont do this, maybe to feel more international and modern
There is this quip that psychology is really the study of freshman students. Probably because (at least where I live) students are required to participate in a number of psychological studies in their first year.