skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on where you are! On Mars, for example, it's going to be far more cost effective to get carbon from the Martian atmosphere and water from the subsurface than to ship carbon feedstocks from Earth.

Currently, these technologies are approaching parity on cost fairly quickly. It's basically at the prototype stage presently, so much more expensive, but widespread adoption and economies of scale could change that within several decades. The upfront costs are quite high, similar to any petrochemical complex, i.e. in the multi-billion-dollar range for any facility capable of significant industrial-scale output.
Let me know if my little project helps for the situation

- Website: https://webdigest.pages.dev/
- HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34409691
Why they choose same name as Australia city?
Pacemakers definitely need security though. Although I don't see why they can't use AES like everything else.
> Part of me is tired of spending so much of my life in front of a computer.

I left my job 2022 February to not sit in meetings and mostly be a preventer of bad engineering rather than a builder of good stuff. On a good day, I told people how they were wrong - on a bad day, I told them how they were wrong, again.

If you have the option of taking a sabbatical, I would recommend taking one out of your own choice rather than being an unemployment statistic due to your own lack of motivation.

I quit rather than a sabbatical, because I could hand-pick my successors for the roles I occupied and it was better to kick about 3 people into core roles & get them promoted for it, than have them do the work only for me to show up 8 weeks later to hand it all back in for no benefit to their careers.

Took me 3 months before I didn't feel the need to "accomplish something today" to feel good about my day and mostly I went through my Netflix list, read through a ton of books that I've always meant to read and went for walks to the coffee shop instead of driving.

This isn't the first break of my life and it's technically possible to double your summer break in a year, because we've got options for winter.

The biggest thing that has always helped me in these situations is to head to the other side of the planet, because being in a cold place with short days feels bad when you wake up and there's nothing to do immediately on your mind.

I just got back from a trip to Patagonia and the only reason I haven't headed back to New Zealand again, is because I'm now interviewing again for jobs (also kids, kids need to be in school).

If you are talented, with a significant experience going back years, the fact that you took a break from your career to do something else for a bit isn't going to matter to a single employer. Oddly enough, I also spent enough time away to be out of the no-competes for a few work related systems, so my open areas expanded because of a break.

If you're tired of work, don't find another job - you probably need to remember who you are outside of work, before you can go back in to do something else.
It's not fair to compare anyone else to "the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events ... maintaining a towering standard of excellence to which the rest of the industry aspires"

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
Does anyone else feel kind of wowed by how this technology’s exploits are also quite similar to a human? You can kind of trick it into divulging information not meant for you by somehow “persuading” it to tell you.

It didn’t want to tell me how to do something unethical until I said, “well, it’s for a school play.”

It’s like the thing is born yesterday. It’s intelligent but it has no street smarts. It can be fooled easily.

Perhaps the solution to address these exploits is to give it street smarts. Teach it that people can be sinister and be out to con it, and the like. Does it need intuition?
The Cube Keyboard
And this blog post describes their adventure: https://code.blender.org/2022/07/gitea-diaries-part-1/

Which includes the famous start of the gitea shitstorm: "And, quite significantly, we’re in the finishing stages of having a support agreement with the Gitea project to have them support us in our migration by funding work on missing features, code and bugfixes that will be available 100% to Gitea users under Gitea’s MIT license."
> they dont try just creating a mastodon instance but that would too cheap

Nothing there states it will NOT be a Mastodon or rather Fediverse/ActivityPub server. A likely outcome of this is, that their online video platforms will get ActivityPub support as explained here by Leonhard Dobusch, a member of the ZDF Board of Directors that approved this: https://chaos.social/@leonido/109829771565248856 (german)

But you cant start a project to explore Open Protocol options and pre-empt the outcome. The working group on this will figure out the best plan and it will likely be ActivityPub, because what else is there ?

> What a waste of public money.

You have very strong feelings about something you don't seem to know much about.

> Public media in Germany also has a very strong left bias.

*Educated people have a strong left bias.

Also your first link bases this on a poll of "Volontariat" journalist, meaning journalists in the beginning of their career, meaning young people. Congratulations for proving: Young people tend to be leftists. Applause for this groundbreaking discovery.
The way that controller and charger are mounted to the chassis without any real shock absorbing measures is asking for trouble, I've done something similar and I think that half the work was to make sure that shocks from the road on the frame did not make it to the electronics or the battery (and that system has worked well for about a year now).

Also, the electronics are mounted out in the open and on top of a small bit of wood, that works well in the lab but if you're going to be biking and end up being rained on it may well cause issues, just using splash proof connectors isn't enough, you need to protect the electronics from the elements by eliminating direct contact with the elements. Much like in a car: all of the connectors under the hood are waterproof and they are under the hood, not out in the weather.

That said, it's a neat idea.
China’s Fleet of Balloons Prove Hard to Detect as They Survey the World
Be cheaper to buy them for 2.4 billion
The negative development in our service business underscores that we have much work ahead of us to stabilize our business and return to profitability," said Siemens Gamesa Chief Executive Jochen Eickholt, who joined from Siemens Energy last year.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/wind_power_make...
Excellent advice. Will do.
To be completely honest, I was planning on doing a "Show HN" in a month or two, but someone posted the link today and it caught me a bit off-guard -- that's why the docs and examples aren't there yet :)

There's definitely a bit of a learning curve because the docs are few and far between, but in general, everything is much simpler than it seems. The people that have adopted it already have been able to do so within a couple of hours with minimal guidance from me.

For passing filters to the data source, the API there is still very experimental (it was just an idea in my head until last week!) but I've been working on it recently. Here's a blog post showing a small bit of that new API and using it to dramatically optimize a workload: https://predr.ag/blog/speeding-up-rust-semver-checking-by-ov...

This is my full-time project right now, so stay tuned and expect a decently steep progress trajectory :)
The European Union can collectively defend itself against any conceivable invader. What it can't do without US help is bombing countries far away, as it lacks the military logistics and force generation to do that well. That's the main purpose of NATO since 1991, and the UK along with France really like having the option to bomb meddlesome African countries into civil war, so they play along.

There is no scenario in which Russia could successfully invade an appreciable part of the EU, even without taking into account European nukes.
In my experience, if your prompt contains the phrases "social media" and an ethnicity/gender, ChatGPT refuses to answer even if what you're asking is actually good. For instance, I asked it to write a copyright for a post on Instagram whose target audience are <fill_your_target_here> and it replied by saying that "it's not appropriate to discriminate against said group of people on social media".
I'm pretty sure it's just a fun way to spell folks
My mantra

- Don't use anything that has recommendation engine. Especially the opaque ones. I don't need to watch "what Crypto crash means" when I recently searched and watched Cricket videos!
- The only exception is Hacker News.
- If I want to watch something on YouTube, be goal oriented. What exactly am I here to watch.
- I've also cut down on streaming content. Started buying the content I wanna watch. I feel paralyzed and drowning with the array of content from each provider. And somehow they never have the content that I exactly want.

Started enjoying boredom a lot more with my kid.
What's worse - people tricking AI, or AI tricking people?
Assuming that Machine Learning is a hype buzzword, you need not a lot. But from my view MathStat is more important than Calculus.
I suspect that if Netflix had truely comptetive content they “might” get away with that plan. But for me at least they are teetering on the edge of “meh” and I could probably do away with them without much thought. I’ve been a customer since the early days of mail in dvds.

But they have lost a lot of their edge due to the companies that make the shows and movies starting their own streaming services and keeping titles to themselves.

I think Netflix thinks they are more indisposable than they really are here.
There is many more studies on infrared. On mices, on humans.

Search "medcram infrared"

I am becoming more and more disillusioned of the medical system (I have seen a bit of how it work from the inside)

Pharma make all the repeatable money

They buy their way into anything: research, institutions, government, media, doctor formation.

The best possible business for them is multiple chronical disease that need daily medication and unsurprisingly, it’s exactly what is happening to more and more people each year.
First words aren't always interpreted as referring to the mother.

> The further one gets from that original source of comfort, the more complex means they employ to try and return, ceaselessly failing, always repeating the same thing over and over again. This is the origin of all language, all logic, and all of human society for Freud.

Dubious.

What of the people whose mother died during childbirth? It does not seem as though they are fundamentally different from everyone else.

I don't think Freud has anything to contribute to, much of anything, anymore.
Right. But Docker is not a charity. I think that Podman/Buildah is actually a superior solution. This might unfortunately mean the ultimate demise of Docker, Inc. as we know them.

To be fair, I literally use Docker everyday. So I'm not necessarily rooting for its demise. But I'm seemingly happy that innovation is at least coming from somewhere in this space.
In that case, how did his life change from his net worth going up 9% after layoffs? Which was the comment I replied to.
By Christopher J Portier, the same Christopher Portier that served as a special advisor for IARC while at the same time secretly accepting money from law firms involved in glyphosate litigation. The IARC study was edited to remove evidence to the contrary to its findings.

https://www.judicialhellholes.org/2019/05/14/california-cour...

"Closer scrutiny of the IARC process reveals that it was advised by an “invited specialist,” Christopher Portier, in its work on glyphosate. At the same time Mr. Portier was working for the agency, he was being paid by the Environmental Defense Fund, an anti-pesticide group. Moreover, Mr. Portier received $160,000 from law firms suing over glyphosate. When asked about this potential conflict of interest, Mr. Portier initially claimed to be advising firms on other IARC-related lawsuits and not glyphosate litigation. He later acknowledged that his statement was wrong. It is also worth noting that Mr. Portier had no experience with glyphosate prior to his work on it for IARC.

Following Mr. Portier’s arrival at IARC, the final glyphosate study was altered in at least 10 ways to remove or reverse conclusions finding no evidence of carcinogenicity. The agency removed multiple scientists’ conclusions that studies found no link between glyphosate and cancer in lab animals and statistical analyses of studies with negative findings were turned into positive ones. The determination that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic” was based on “limited evidence” of carcinogenicity in humans and “sufficient evidence” in experimental animals."
Google AI chatbot Bard sends shares plummeting after it gives wrong answer
Someone who's addicted to video games and can admit it is a rare bird though!
>> Customer data sizes followed a power-law distribution. The largest customer had double the storage of the next largest customer, the next largest customer had half of that, etc

> I’m no statistician, but I’m like 99% sure that’s an exponential, not a power law

I'm no expert either, but it seems correct. The power law distribution has each X value in an X/Y series decreasing by a specific factor, like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#/media/File:Long_tai...

The exponential has each X value increasing by a specific factor, like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_function#/media/Fi...
You don't need to scale for performance, but you do for reliability. SQL databases still tend to rely on having one server that never goes down, or at best having a replica and a semi-manual "promotion" procedure.

Kafka does what a datastore should and nothing more. It's what databases should have been. High performance is a consequence of that good design, but the good design is valuable in itself.

I would always start with Kafka. There are so many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with an SQL database that will bite you later, sometimes in a way that may corrupt your data permanently (e.g. read-modify-write logic), and you'll almost certainly end up having to change your data architecture to the one you'd've started with if you were using Kafka. Or you can just throw it in Kafka from day 1 and a lot of bad ideas just become impossible because the system gives you no way to do them.

I was also working on phone systems in the 2000's that ran at "web scale". We used MySQL, but we essentially built Kafka on top of MySQL - tables for every intermediate step in the process, and a way for the next step in the processing pipeline to mark which rows it had started/finished consuming.
I think Java is a solid choice for a data heavy application in 2023. As many have mentioned spring boot is a man excellent choice for the Java backend . You should also take a look at JHipster. It combines the strengths of Java with a modern front end like React or Vue or anything else of your choice to make a modern front end .
I cancelled HBO Max solely off of Infinity Train going away. I cannot fathom why their execs went so hard on the anti animation spree. From other articles I read they were just refusing to pay artists and license holders, including for content from their parent corporation.

I thought streaming companies lived and died by their content catalogs. Can anyone give a plausible argument for why HBO voluntarily slashed theirs?
Tighter loop in the supply chain. Less extraction of raw material. Same benefits as all recycling.
Really? I thought Docker was pretty widely used at companies for deployment, etc. At least it was at my company ~1 year ago. I wasn't aware that Docker was on life support in any sense.
Oh reddit has always been a guerilla marketer's wet dream lol
I see it as the other way around. Now you only need a single PDF exploit to compromise the browser and in bad cases, a single PDF can compromise the entire system.
What businesses can learn from Netflix’s account sharing plan
> You have clearly thought about this quite a bit; you expounded at length in your original comment, which if I had to guess only glances upon the totality of your reasoning to present a summary of it here.

Correct. And thank you for the compliment.

And also great questions.

> Can you elaborate on why in your use case moar power is a requirement? Basically, fleshing out what would go in the "Need" section of the NABC model (and a partial preview of "Competitors")

So in my use case, more power is not needed. However, when you have a million users, there will be a user with a use case that requires that power. That is, unfortunately, the curse of generality.

As an example, most people think that full Turing-completeness is not necessary for a build system. At least one example I know of shows this to be false: processing TeX and LaTeX. This is because the process involves doing the layout; resolving links, footnotes, etc.; redoing the layout for the changes; redoing the resolution; redoing the layout; etc. This continues until a fixed point.

This iteration until a fixed point means that you can't use set iteration; you have to use a while loop. And a non-Turing-complete language simply cannot implement a while loop, by definition. If it did, it would be Turing-complete, in the sense that it could compute anything that any other Turing-complete language could. You could try to add a while loop to a non-Turing-complete language and keep it non-Turing-complete, but it wouldn't be anymore because the very existence of while loops makes a language Turing-complete.

This gets into the theory of computation (about the only time my Bachelor's in Computer Science is useful), but suffice it to say that if you need a while loop, you need a full Turing-complete language, and Turing-completeness technically make the most powerful kind of language.

(The metaprogramming doesn't really add power according to the theory of computation, but it does compress the program required, in that less code is necessary, which makes the program easier to hold in one's head. I think this is what Paul Graham was preaching for when he claimed that Lisp macros were more powerful. But there is also the possibility of the language placing artificial limitations while still being technically Turing-complete. Metaprogramming is meant to remove those artificial limitations.)

> Is it possible that the need is really just perceived and not actual, e.g. in the vein of programmers who demand the use of features in dynamic languages for things where they don't truly need that power?

Most of the time, yes, it will just be programmers that think they need the power, but they don't. I totally agree with that.

But there will be a time or two when the programmer really does need that power, and it had better be there.
Obligatory XKCD. https://xkcd.com/810
Every answer is “this is covered in another post. Duplicate.”
You got it, and thanks for replying! I added a ps to my original comment, to elaborate.
The comment I replied to called USA the butcher of Yugoslavia.

Personally I’d call the groups committing literal genocide the butchers, not the groups taking action to stop it. To each their own opinion.
Is this a joke or meant to be a useful tool?

Part of the challenge of StackOverflow is finding the question that matches your situation. But that is a pointless act with ChatGPT -- just ask it your exact question. Duplicates be damned.
Yeah I have a recurring issue where docker desktop on Mac will use >100% cpu with no containers running (verified with docker ps and docker stats commands). I’ve tried all of the troubleshooting they have posted online. Currently got it down to ~40% cpu usage when idle, but no guarantee that it stays there.

Tried switching to podman with docker-compose and podman-compose, but can’t get the auth to work for private repos on dockerhub. So basically just accepting my fate of crazy idle memory and cpu usage.
The solar inverter for my off-grid setup does allow for fallback to grid power if the solar and battery are out. So I would be able to do stable "partially solar" power without having to dump power back into the grid. Still not sure it's worth the cost, as you'd need a very consistent power draw to make a return, or batteries that make the return take even longer.

Still a fun project though, and not something I built to make a return on.
But would ukraine devote resources to do this sabotage, when they're actually short on resources? And where did they get the ship and the movement of troops/operatives to pull such a thing off? Surely, a rogue ship in the most heavily monitored sea would throw off alarm bells.

Not saying they can't have done it, but it would have required more resources than ukraine would spare imho. And if they have such resources, would they not use it instead to sabotage something else of more importance to russia? Such as their oil or gas fields that are still operational?
Perhaps they had not much traffic that day and wanted to keep one runway busier to save on maintenance or something.
Why are you writing this comment then and spending your time on HN?
Kevin Liu banned from Microsoft Bing Chat after prompt injection
I mostly no longer contribute to stack overflow.

I don’t ask questions, because people take a very carefully explained, explicit question and post irrelevant stupid comments on it (“why are you doing this?”) instead of answering the question.

I don’t answer questions, because people upvote wrong answers and vindictively downvote answers to the actual question (which is why everyone posts comments instead of answering, because you can’t down vote them for it).

People care more about karma than actually helping.

The quality issues are real, but really?

I care not at all if 90k+ karma folk leave. Just leave. If you don’t like what it is, go hang out somewhere else. Why are you there if you’re not trying to help people?

What I care about is the people patiently answering questions in a way that is correct, not antagonistic, not ducking off because it took more than 5 minutes and they can get better karma somewhere else.

…almost like, a dedicated support community who care about a topic. That’s a nice idea. You could probably find one of those for your topic of interest and get help there from nice people. That’s what I do now. The folk there are generally quite lovely, because they actually care.

The people on stack overflow, by and large, are not nice, do not care and won’t help you if you have any really hard problems to solve.

An AI would be just as good, if it had decently accurate answers.
Real Question: What is wrong with Netflix? (The "N" in FAANG, right?) The only thing I can think of: Work life balance does not sound good. It sounds like you need to be "pro-athlete" level and are constantly at risk of being laid-off or replaced by someone better. That said, they pay silly good money. But are they evil to their customers? I don't see that.
Awesome game! Really like the simple interface :)

On a sidenote, anybody know how to solve level 29 in 11 moves? I got 12 but can't seem to figure out 11 move solution.

Update: Got it now!

@kuboble : Have you thought about having solutions/hints in case people are stuck?
I've been using doubles for currency knowing full well that i probably shouldn't. for 8 years now. so far I've only noticed being off by a cent here and there. yep.. just don't care. will cost more than a penny to fix it now.
That would be great! I meant it as less of a slight and more of a reflection of disappointment after seeing Linux headlined in the title, only to see a tiny footnote exclude it for many cases.
Everything is PI when you connect enough dots
Widely used, but I don’t think it makes a whole lot of money to sustain itself