skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem is searching for prior art. There are AI search tools but they usually aren't good in my experience. It's rare that an AI search tool will return prior art that can be used in a rejection. Usually the prior art these tools find is related but not good enough. But sometimes (perhaps through random chance), a solid reference can be found. I found a 102 reference (the strongest kind) a few weeks ago for a recent application I worked on by using an AI search tool. I missed that reference earlier due to a text search I did missing some synonyms if I recall correctly.

Don't take my word for it... here's r/patentexaminer on the USPTO's latest internal AI search tool: https://www.reddit.com/r/patentexaminer/comments/ybbb60/is_t...
The whole process has a scaling issue build in, meaning you would need to scale both required time and people for the review process as time marches on.
One aspect these iron fertilization experiments have ignored is albedo. Leaving any sequestration on the table, and just focussing on keeping the albedo of equatorial oceans low for as long as possible has the real potential to avoid absorbing massive amounts of solar heat into the system. That doesn't solve the co2 problem, but because you can negate the feedback loop aspect of the problem, and perhaps even make natural sequestration occur faster if you lower temperature enough. One thing I haven't been able to figure out from the data from the experiments, is how long these blooms last. The tonnage of fertilizer and the size of the bloom, yes. Also, the experiments were done in eddies mostly to isolate the effects. So an open equatorial ocean experiment would be needed. Along with better local temperature monitoring. Some satellite imagery to verify albedo would be a plus. As far as ballpark numbers, if the bloom stays equatorial, you would need about 1.5e9 USD per however long a bloom lasts in order to maintain an albedo that would initiate snowball. That is scaling linearly up from the area affected by previous experiments vs their costs.
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Huh, I've always wondered about this style of code formatting and never fully understood why people did it.

Your explanation makes good sense. I guess I just wasn't seeing the forest for the trees. ;)
There is nothing magical about BECCS.

At the power plant it is a matter of putting together technology that already exists. All of the elements such as amine strippers, pyrolysis, oxy-fuel combustion, etc. have been around since the 1970s. The literature has a "stopped clock" appearance in that people have talked about these things in the context of "clean coal" and biofuels for a long time without anything being built.

There are two problems with it.

One of them is that any kind of carbon capture is expensive and competes directly with a power plant (maybe the same power plant) without the CCS equipment. To win that competition, the operator of the power plant either needs to be fined for emitting CO₂ or has to be paid for capturing it, to the tune of $50-$100 per tonne.

Another is that the ecological accounting for biofuels is frequently not favorable. When you consider water consumption, effects of land use, and the effects of inputs, many biofuel schemes (such as Ethanol from corn in the US) seem to be a net negative.

The cheapest BECCS scheme is to capture CO₂ from the alcohol fermentation process, this has been implemented with great success

https://bioenergyinternational.com/adm-starts-commercial-sca...

Ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil is much better from an ecological and economic perspective and it would cost something like $30 a tonne to capture CO₂ and inject it into a saline aquifer but politically it seems impossible given that most international bodies think that the real problem in Brazil is deforestation and that somehow promoting agriculture in Brazil is going to cause deforestation despite the fact that the Ethanol industry is mostly around São Paulo and nowhere near the rainforest.

In principle there might be some agreement that Brazil gets credits for BECCS and also gets credits for protecting the rainforest but the latter is somewhat nonsensical in that there is a mismatch in time between processes that emit CO₂ (say you spend 5 hours on a plane) and the need to protect a forest forever to sequester a finite amount of CO₂.
The issue is why would a social media platform choose to use this? They jealously guard their user count and engagement, and would not want to share.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_cosy
Maybe you would be a good candidate to compile a number of Reasons Why Fortran Should Be Used More Often.
I will agree with you that most languages should just be gc. Rust is niche; targeted at applications where you need control over memory and layout. It is not a good general purpose language.

That being said, most of things you pointed out as “no reason to be this complex” do have good reasons. String and &str could be renamed to StringBuf and StringSlice. The String type lets you manipulate the string value, but it is a bigger type than a slice (&str). &’static just indicates that the string slice will live for the entire program. As you continue to learn Rust, more of these distinctions will make sense to you.

GAT’s themselves are actually a great example of a feature that adds capabilities without really adding complexity. They feel like they should have always been there, and I feel like anyone who has worked with the language for a while has implicitly tried to do this and was surprised it didn’t work.
Facts are evaluated by collecting evidence. Congratulations, you found some evidence. But so did I. And you're willing to completely ignore the evidence I presented.

Facts are a thing, and it's worth deriving them by looking at the available evidence.

It makes me really sad to see someone who is absolutely convinced by the media narrative, who won't even look into other evidence.
So for 20% of the situations, you have to do more than 20% of the work to get 80% or less of the payoff?
Seemingly-Critical Distinction: Happily Mundane Parents, posting mundane photos / videos of mundane kids doing mundane stuff. VS. actual or wanna-be Social Media Somebody parents, posting heavily edited / scripted / produced videos (often with music), and (in effect) hoping for internet fame. (Or the article also mentions a kid with major medical issues and a post-happy parent getting them really-unwanted fame. Probably plenty of other scenarios with similar endpoints.)
I agree. I feel like a lot of people's perception of China was formed in 1995 and has not been revised since. I hear it all the time online. Their buildings suck and are liable to collapse at any second. Their infrastructure sucks. They can only manufacture junk, and can only do it poorly. They have zero initiative and can only rip off western tech and innovation, etc... It's just not true anymore.
>Essentially no private individual can stand up to a corporation that wants to bring the full weight of millions of dollars against them in the form of legal resources. Even borderline ethical tactics like burying the opposition in paperwork are far more effective when the other side is literally 1 guy.

So long as the state also makes frequent use of this disparity the loophole will remain open. The state would rather let corporations run over individuals then give up the power to do so themselves.
> I'm dreaming of a C with only pointers that has an optional VM (with and without GC) and namespaces, string and stream included.

It'd be really nice to be able to trigger some scope-exit behavior, too, IMO.
It's rather funny (funny: strange) to me that we live in a day and age when "the look of a store" is a recognizable thing. How did we manage to steer this ship into such strange waters?
Pretty sure that dots and slashes break hashtags on almost everything else that supports hashtags. This is a feature request disguised as a bug report.
To call it 'self-funded' is a bit of a stretch. Most rail financing went bankrupt and had to have been bailed up by the government at some point.

Even though rail was a greenfield project, native treaty rights were trampled, that should also be remembered.

Technology wise, it was WWI that killed rail, unintentionally. All the trucks, post war, were dumped and sold for cheap. Companies bought them up and started hauling goods to market, without having to buy real-estate, or a factory, near a rail line.
And how exactly does that differ from Facebook?
Penrose tilings
The DC metro is ridiculous. I'm cynical enough to think that the only way the Silver Line would have been done faster would have been to shutdown DCA so politicians would be forced to use Dulles. Even then they would probably just have drivers.

IIRC, there are issues with the concrete used on the new platforms too.
Nope

$ echo aaaaaa | grep -c a
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Public transit in all the cities you listed places is a joke when compared with the rest of the world, regardless of how heavily they're relied upon.

The Boston metro unexpectedly stopped running for a bit earlier this year.

I grew up in one of these cities. It's not uncommon for a certain type of person to refuse to ride the bus or train
I just don’t see a fair use angle making it very far here. Obviously the “true” test is to actually argue it in court and get a ruling—but it’s fair game to kibitz and make declarations of how you think a case would get resolved, were it to go to court.
I actually know more than one person who did this or their parents did this. The made it work because they all basically retired early (e.g. late 40s, early 50s) using the strength of their US/European currency versus the currency in their home country. Basically, they spent 15-20 years working and then went back and became teachers. None of them moved to the relatively HCOL areas in their home countries though - more to 2nd or 3rd tier cities or more rural areas.

First thing they did was purchase a home, car, furniture, and that took care of the typical monthly expenses that eat into your salary. The rest went into CDs or other fixed income accounts. If you combine that with a teacher's salary, it's more than enough to live a basic and comfortable life.

I think the only caveat here is currency value fluctuation. The laws and rules about how you keep your money in accounts (e.g. American Dollar versus local currency) can vary a lot and change over time. The weakening of a currency can basically force you to change your plans. Some people have to "unretire" after a while.

None of the people I'm thinking about were "rich" by Western standards when when they lived in US/Europe. So it's not a story of some startup millionaires who went back and lived a life of luxury.
Later exchange which is absolutely savage:

Parag: You are free to tweet "is Twitter dying?" or anything else about Twitter -but it's my responsibility to tell you that it's not helping me make Twitter better in the current context. Next time we speak, I'd like to you provide you perspective on the level of internal distraction right now and how it hurting our ability to do work. I hope the AMA will help people get to know you, to understand why you believe in Twitter, and to trust you -and I'd like the company to get to a place where we are more resilient and don't get distracted, but we aren't there right now.

Elon: What did you get done this week?

Elon: I'm not joining the board. This is a waste of time.

Elon: Will make an offer to take Twitter private.

Parag: Can we talk?
> unless I'm missing something?

Yes.

$ echo aaaaaa | grep -c a
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Being able to run software is what makes a computer valuable. If you constantly break software, the computer is useless.

Fortunately nowadays we have more resources to throw at the problem and can run such software in containers, VMs, or other such isolated sub-environments when necessary, but that wasn't always the case.
Loop Optimizations: taking matters into your hands (2021)
So I was wrong, it’s very loud.
Just because people tend to behave in an obnoxious way doesn't make it even an ounce more acceptable.
Yes and I think journalists in particular have believed that badge meant they belonged to a different class of people and it is the main thing they're angry about with the Musk takeover.
related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33490730
Same, but: how do you know what to link on social media? You have to browse one first. I'm fairly online, so I do end up browsing several different social media sites, but most people aren't. They have the one or two that they like, and they use those. Nobody wants to manage ten different platforms, a successful solution has to make it seem like you're only on one.
According to the article, and plausibly in the photos, there is a hub motor. The pedals and chain are freewheeling, and assist only.

Spacing and pedal arm length look to me like they'd be very uncomfortable though.
This is because there are multiple markets for gas, depending on when and where you want the gas.

The price for gas being delivered today is not the same as the price for gas in January. Because in the meantime, someone needs to store it.
> Imagine how embarrassing and annoying it must be for Chinese people to see the relatively sub-par quality of the end result.

While this may be true for many shady developer-led real estate projects, it's absolutely not the case for the country's major infrastructure projects like airports, subways, high speed rail, highways, bridges, dams, etc. They rival or surpass anything you will see in the west in scope and quality, and built in a fraction of the time.
I've driven (daily even) a 600awhp car and didn't feel that way. I'm not trying to beat anyone on shifts, I'm trying to enjoy my car and drive. It's not always a numbers game.
Ada is one of those languages that I really like in theory, but don’t really get to use it because I’m usually better off picking something else (for any number of reasons, but right tool for the job, y’know)
Kroger and Albertsons are merging because Everything is an Ad Network
And as a result, Apple platform developers have to tell their customers that Apple is breaking their stuff: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/5E0D-522A-4E62-B6... which certainly doesn't earn them goodwill among the dev community.

It's a trade-off, I don't think you can declare one strategy better than the other in absolute terms.
Facebook is being paranoid and by integrating TikTok-like algorithms into Instagram they're alienating the majority of their users.
It's not like you need to use sudo on Linux. And sudo has been maintained by an OpenBSD developer since the early 90s.

Aside from what the problems and benefits of sudo may or may not be, bringing up sudo in a "BSD vs. Linux" debate is a red herring: it's just completely unrelated.
That would presumably be part of the defense's argument. That even though the game looks similar to IKEA, no one actually thinks it _is_ IKEA.

I'm not saying IKEA has a fool-proof case, or even is really worth the effort, but if people are looking at a thing that looks like IKEA and saying, hey, that's an IKEA, then that's probably enough to get it heard in court.
@xyz.com/abc is the best I've seen so far.

I think inverting this is also a sweet spot. It lets you drop context if on a locally federated node:

@abc/xyz.com

@abc[/xyz.com]

@abc

The username first prioritizes the human, and the host instance lookup can be added with tooling [1].

We should weigh ergonomics, visual distinguishability, ease of parsing from plaintext (important), ease of typing, visual aesthetics, simplicity, and extensibility.

We should collect dozens of candidate formats and weigh them on these (and more) dimensions.

[1] (eg. autocomplete that doesn't change the previous buffer, unlike, for instance, Google Docs chips).
The Sega machine has a correct controller and much cheaper than a mister. Both are great options depending on what your are looking for.
`&` and `'` do mean something: `&` indicates something that's borrowed, and `'` indicates a lifetime. (`static` is a specifically blessed identifier given to a certain lifetime.) This is explained in https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-03-lifetime-syntax.html#..., and the static lifetime is explained in https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch10-03-lifetime-syntax.html#... .
>it's not like you can't just drop it

In the US? No we absolutely can't. College football is practically a religion. Its cultural importance cannot be overstated.

I don't care about it at all and never have but oh biy do other people ever. People's lives revolve around it.
Deploying a web application to the cloud (2009)
I’m pointing out the fallacy of the argument as a devils advocate.
> As a now non-owner of even a smartphone...

Curious what you're using these days? I've got an old iPhone that I haven't updated past iOS 14 and have been wanting to just drop smartphones completely when this thing dies. I'm just wondering what I'll do for MFA mainly, and here in NYC it's nice to have maps when you're out (even though I remember the time I got myself around the city just fine without them 15-ish years ago).
Coolify[0] is another good option.

[0]: https://coolify.io/
Microsoft has a systematic approach to applying these hacks so its less expensive for them to maintain them than it would be otherwise.

For instance they changed the implementation of malloc() between Win95 and Win2k that broke some applications that depended on the behavior of the old malloc() so there is a flag in the system for those applications that restores the old malloc().
Made me think of the game "Escape from Tarkov", which has been out for years and has a subset of a mall-setting map called "IDEA" using the same blue/yellow color pallette (1).

[1] https://escapefromtarkov.fandom.com/wiki/IDEA_cash_register_...
This appears to just be the CBR article being sloppy in summarizing Kotaku's reporting. The original article makes multiple mentions of trademark infringement, but doesn't mention copyright at all [1].

[1] https://kotaku.com/ikea-furniture-horror-game-store-is-close...
This one (about half-way in) actually made me cringe: https://danluu.com/elon-twitter-texts/#86
The GitHub Copilot Lawsuit Threatens Open Source and Human Progress
The vague complaints of the CoPilot plaintiffs are nothing compared to the damage to free software and human progress if they won.
Why is that strange to you? What would the alternative, "less strange", reality be?
The past few days' discussion of federated social networking have really brought out the... I don't know how to describe them, KPI-brained people? If you've worked in social networking UX for the past decade your entire professional experience & perception of norms have been geared toward funneling people into the optimal mould to which to sell advertisers the right to manipulate them. That's it! All the frictionless stuff isn't about making peoples' lives better, or "delighting" them, or whatever. It's to ensure as many people as possible are available as grist for the manipulation mill. Myopic, this makes the UX actually very bad. I don't need to rant about all the consent-disregarding stuff we've all seen ("Do you want to enable bad thing? Yes/Ask me later") but fundamentally I don't think we should care about the opinions of anyone applying their corporate UX reasoning skills against the idea of federation, appealing to some prescriptive sense of what people care about.
“My microwave has a picture on it” is what was said; graphic instructions are common.
Most of the cloud providers (at least AWS/Azure) charge about 15-20% more for the "government" data centers. It's really not that much more. It's also not really much different, just slightly more auditing, if any difference at all. You also don't have to strictly be a government agency, you can also be a government contractor.

From what I understand, the infrastructure is really, technically, exactly the same, but just limited to certain customers. It's also, generally speaking going to be as, or more secure than any self-managed datacenter connected to the internet. The transparency could probably be a bit better.

note: used to work for a government contractor that received a LOT of hacking effort as a target.
No, not those humanities. I mean the ones teaching philosophy, art, music, history, etc.
> Linux evangelists were far more obnoxious when Linux was first making the rounds.

Yes, absolutely.

> This is just how tech works and how tech people tend to behave.

I really think that that this old guard mentality needs to die out. Rudeness is protected in the industry because we normalize that it's... what, intrinsic to programming? But that just isn't true, and it's harmful to everyone in the field.
I don't know why people don't look at India more. And China too, but in this case we know the Chinese use WeChat. India has about 3 times more people than the US, UK and Australia combined. China and India make up more than a third of all people on Earth, but rarely ever mentioned.

Indians use Whatsapp, and so does the fourth biggest country in the world, Indonesia.
Had a thought recently that there’s a certain causal link between advertising and loneliness. An advert works best if it comes from a trusted source. And since inevitably it’s mostly crappy stuff which needs promotion, this erodes trust, limiting the comfortable social circle.
As a non-beginner, I feel the same way. I'm not too worried about it at the moment, but it's early in the day (and week) and DST happened yesterday, sooo...
I've thought exactly the same thing before. In my view, the amount of time an examiner gets should be directly tied to the amount of prior art needed to search. And fees should automatically increase as the amount of prior art increases. There should be an inflation component to fees as well.

The USPTO seems to be doing decently over the decades in terms of increasing the number of examiners, though lately I know they've had a lot of difficulty hiring.
From rough memory, IKEA has had apps or partnerships to enable consumers to build 3D models of their place with IKEA furniture. Those 3D models might be widely available as a result, which provides a fairly quick boost to any indie developer trying to build a game.