skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potential Uses for Carbon After Captured from Air?
I've been reading up a bit on Direct Air Capture (DAC) and Carbon Scrubbers since I believe this is an important thing to be working on for keeping Earth as a good place to live for humans.

From my understanding, these devices capture CO2 gas through a filtering process. Is there a way to convert CO2 gas into other chemical compounds that could be useful to us in other ways. Maybe we could make carbon furniture or countertops etc. as a luxury storage device. Or whatever you mix with CO2 to make new gases/liquids/solids that those have uses to. Just exploring the space, does anyone know what to do with CO2 gas?
Does "user" mean "distinct human" or "user account" in this context? Need to keep in mind the culture of throwaways.

If 10% of users make a throwaway at a rate of 5 per month, then 100 monthly humans == 150 monthly usernames.
I think it's moreso that we need stronger decentralized options to be adopted. Google embraced both email with Gmail and jabber with Google talk. With Google talk they eventually reached a high enough usage rate that they closed it off, and effectively killed jabber, because there wasn't a large other service using it. With email though, they couldn't do that. They've slowly made it harder to interact with Gmail from outside Gmail. But email lives and can't be locked down.

I think the protocol needs some work, but I think ActivityPub and the fediverse, with Mastodon and Lemmy and the like, are the way forward. Centralized sites will always have this problem, because they spend VC money for growth, and eventually those investors expect their money back. If a site is just one part of a large ecosystem, investors can't push the site to close off like this for a profit and control.
Program design in the Unix environment, by Pike and Kernighan (1984) [pdf]
No they don't. Source: the entire archive of Internal Tech Emails.
There’s also a wide class of conspiracy theories that are the favorites of the mentally ill (mostly paranoid schizophrenics and those with delusions of grandeur) and the dimwitted (mostly about the government being all powerful and wanting to kill us with no rational motive, ie FEMA camp stuff, which then gets mixed into their personal politics).

The government doesn't need to do anything to discredit legitimate conspiracy theorists, these types of people exist independent of the government.

There are absolutely smart, open minded, intelligent “conspiracy theorists” but because they’re not obsessive whack jobs they are unrecognizable by that term.
Does this have any application to SOTA ML?
I imagine the pioneers of this were the camera-sensor folks (mostly Sony?) doing BSI ?
A priori, you can’t know whether this is accurate or a hallucination.
Man, I was just getting my problem solving hat adjusted ("Hey that looks pretty close to the sea, maybe they could get the plane on a ship") and I got to your comment. Thanks for the update though!
> You just don't get there unless you are fantastically competent at what you do.

lol, or you convince Softbank to hand you a hundred million dollars. There are some competent people in tech but just because you're an executive doesn't mean you are competent, rational, or even smart.
Back in 2009 I used to date a girl in Connecticut. She was attending Yale. She was a very nice person but very sloppy. She would always break something or spill something, it was her nature. One day she told me she's running late with school stuff so "meet me at the lab". I came in, got thru security and went to her lab. There she was feeding some 200 mosquitoes sick with malaria, buzzing in a rather small jar, all packed there nicely. This was her assignment for 3 weeks that she had to do twice a day. I could never get over the fact how little security was in place and how, if jar would break, there was absolutely no way to catch them all, in the middle of summer, with all windows wide open. I will never forget this story...
I'm an DevOps/SRE guy by trade, spend my days wrangling supermassive Kubernetes clusters etc. I've come to the conclusion that the "middle class" is especially well covered by NixOS. Generally, for any situation where you're running a bunch of stuff on one big ol' server, NixOS is going to be the least stressful and most productive way to go once you become familiar with the ecosystem.
Those are not the people at that level.
"Faces of Meth" was a thing in 2004. The meth epidemic has been going on a long time.
when a subreddit goes private, nothing really happens if you are already subscribed. try visiting one that went private that you are not subscribed to.
Does Backside Power Delivery mean the silicon area of the chip will be placed upside down on the motherboard to ensure efficient heat dissipation? (Since the power source will be on the opposite side compared to current day silicon)

P.s. in case you never heard of BPD technology, https://semiengineering.com/challenges-in-backside-power-del... is also informative (thanks @rektide for the Anand link!)

Edit:

Relevant quote from TFA which somewhat answers the above question:

> Of note, because the carrier wafer is on the signal side of the chip, this means it presents another layer of material between the transistors and the cooler. Intel’s techniques to improve heat transfer take this into account, but for PC enthusiasts accustomed to transistors at the top of their chip, this is going to be a significant change.

TL;DR: No.
You should read 1984 - you're in for a treat.

Snowpiercer as well.
Intel Details PowerVia for Backside Power Distribution, On Schedule for FY24
you don't get to classify my comments as "shitposting"

i'm summarizing well-understood opinions of the ecosystem
The upgrade instructions are in the release notes. It looks long but is pretty straightforward if you haven't installed software from outside the debian ecosystem or created a frankenstein mix of packages from non-stable, non-backports distro versions.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch...
In the same vein, I encourage neighbors to park their cars on the street rather than in their garage or driveway so the neighborhood street becomes narrower for traffic due to a row of parked cars on each side of the street. Works better than posted speed limit.
That Rootclaim analysis seems sloppy as hell. From the "Show More" of the outbreak location section:

>Thus, the ratio of zoonotic:bioweapon:zoonotic collection:modified lab escape is 2:5:100:50, or a reduction of a zoonotic origin by 50x, a bioweapon origin by 20x, and a lab escape by 0.5x.

Those aren't the same ratio.

>To account for the possibility that there is a yet unidentified reason why Wuhan is a more likely location for a zoonotic outbreak, these numbers are
generously
adjusted to a reduction of a zoonotic origin by 20x and a bioweapon origin by 15x, with lab escape remaining at 0.5x.

But what they actually apply is a reduction of a zoonotic origin by 20x and a bioweapon origin by 15x, with zoonotic collection at 2x. Which isn't the result of applying that adjustment to either of the original ratios, so apparently they've just applied the lab escape factor to wrong category
Any manager let alone high-ranking exec is instructed (in management training and through many many reminders) not to put anything in writing that they would not want in precisely these types of leaks.
Lots of people seemed to have really liked it.

As an example, when I was staying at a backpacking hostel in Perth, Australia many years ago the entire lounge area was packed out by people (during the day!) when it was being shown.

That was ~70 people, many of them who were walking by initially but saw it on and stuck around to watch it.

In that backpacking hostel, there'd not been anywhere close to that number of people watching any other movie. So, there was definitely some kind of interest by people. :)
My best guess is that somebody will write a clone. It's not rocket science.
It's a bit bizarre as a book review.

Here's my review of this book: it's the single most useful book I have read in my life. I have used the basic ideas of the book to navigate all the challenges of my life so far, including the greatest one: becoming old and sick. Frankl survived a death camp and came out with his humanity all blazing. If he can do that, then I can face my milder challenges. I'll be okay.

Meaning is found in how we respond to the challenges of life. Especially in how we respond to unavoidable suffering. It's an action and an attitude. It's never merely information and it isn't theory.
There are plenty of no-fee brokerages and market makers arguably narrow the spread.

But it doesn't really matter if the percent who lose on net is 50% or 51% if you're at the 75th percentile. And a large plurality of people are. You don't have to be in the top 0.1% to come out ahead.

The reason for the usual advice is that 50% of people are below average. And then they get mad when the market proves it to them, so the advice that keeps them satisfied is to buy an index fund.
Pay more attention to your grandparents and parents, learn their common sense so you don't discover "optimizations" and "life hacks" from blogs. You will save time not having to discover things people have known for centuries just by paying attention.
It's the opposite for me, I tried Phind a few times and couldn't get a valid answer to questions I could answer myself... Perplexing.
From https://twitter.com/WxNB_/status/1667935251547521028

"I’ve never been more depressed looking at graphs. This year has already entered uncharted territory in many key respects, and the upcoming El Niño will only make matters worse. We’re not ready for what’s coming."
It is a chemical imbalance in the brain that causes depressive thoughts and bad thoughts and dark thoughts. Needs the right medication and/or therapy to overcome.

Sometimes you need the right food with the right vitamins, or take vitamin supplements to get better and treat that chemical imbalance.
Ask HN: What are current (viable) alternatives to Reddit?
How do you juxtapose this with the fact that Reddit is still unprofitable? Engineers cost money. Venture capital isn’t an infinite well.

The profitability of a business is a testament to its sustainability (or lack thereof). Persisting unprofitable structures is inherently unsustainable - despite how valuable they may be to users.
That's a design patent for trade dress - not a copyright.

https://issuu.com/bidc-blog/docs/0717-018_bidc_blog_-_tradem...

https://www.rd.com/article/coca-cola-logo-red/
That kind of over-generalization is flat out false, biased, and shows a lack of understanding about these things.
Security is generally considerably more challenging with containers than VMs.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/#docker-daemon-attac...

"Running containers (and applications) with Docker implies running the Docker daemon. This daemon requires root privileges unless you opt-in to Rootless mode..."

If they can log into the server and run docker containers themselves, you've probably inadvertently granted permissions that could be escalated to gain root access, if they were a sufficiently skilled adversary (or their user account is compromised by one).

You typically avoid this particular problem by having a CI/CD pipeline build, deploy, and run the containers. No one has permission to do this except the pipeline. Grant devs ssh access to the containers, using appropriate network rules to limit access to trusted IPs, and ideally behind a jump box in a VPC.

VMs give you a lot of OS-level protections for free. For one thing, getting root access to a VM shouldn't compromise the host or other VMs (in the absence of a 0-day, anyway).

Unfortunately, it sounds like you're pretty far down the Docker rabbit hole already. It's probably much more trouble to switch now than it's worth.
I think you misunderstood me as advocating for the system that exists; We very much agree. But as long as housing is an investment, the rational thing will remain to try to pull up the ladder behind you.
You make a lot of good points. There's also the issue of scale. The US has a lot of land mass, and a whole lot of people at the very opposite edges of that huge land mass. Sneakernets work better across shorter distances.
I’d like to continue using the site, but third party apps are the only way to do so in a bearable way.

The mobile site and official app have terrible UX and bugs that make the whole experience rather infuriating.
Well I don't have any mildly interesting anecdotes about dating a bat who got sick in a cave, so I guess all the evidence points to a lab leak.
Would this be a big challenge to fix in JXL?
Exactly, this is giving serious power to the government over peoples privacy.
wait till you learn about Wikipedia.
Seems to be about "Radio New Zealand":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_New_Zealand
Where's the part with the virus being collected and brought to a lab in Wuhan where gain of function research was done prior to the outbreak? Feel free to include that in your formula.
It's bizarre how the US attempted to block Cuba from getting the Internet, and still blocks Cuban Internet through many means ( https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/other-site-policies/g... ), but the presentation is that the suppression of content is of Cuban origin.

It reminds me of when the US said Cubans were not allowed to leave Cuba, and the mental hospitals and prisons were filled with political prisoners. Castro announced anyone who wanted to leave Cuba, even those prisoners or mental patients, could go to Mariel harbor and leave if they wished. Suddenly the US did a turnabout and began demanding Castro stop letting Cubans leave Cuba, and too many were prisoners and mental patients, when the US suddenly discovered those were the inhabitants of Cuba's prisons and mental hospitals.
It's illegal when a company has a monopoly, but otherwise that's the nature of business. The line of thought that 'apple has a monopoly in iPhone software distribution' never seemed very compelling to me since they don't have a monopoly on mobile phones in general.
> For literally anything else it's useless and I see nothing in 2.0 that fixes it.

Sorry, you must be holding it wrong. It is useful and flexible enough for countless applications. It was defined in the 80s and still used universally today, so objectively the opposite of useless and terrible. It is limited though.
You can and should assume sufficiently likely things. It's a waste of time to worry about probabilities with enough zeroes.

Especially because in the real world even a mathematically perfect system has a baseline failure rate. If the chance of hash collision is orders of magnitude lower than the baseline failure rate, then there is no downside to using that hash.
> Please note that Christianity is characterized by its emphasis on Jesus and the New Testament, in contrast to say Judaism.

Also note that Jesus was jewish and he explicit said he came to uphold the old laws and prophets ( old testament ). And the bible contains both the old and the new testament for a reason.

> Feel free to criticize Christianity as well as other religions, but the criticism is more fruitful if based on actual practices or authorative texts such as the Catholic cathecism

I quoted the bible. What's more authoritative than that?

> In 318, Constantine I considered infanticide a crime

So constantine I should be credited, not catholicism?

> The Council of Constantinople declared that infanticide was homicide, and in 589, the Third Council of Toledo took measures against the custom of killing their own children.

So these christians went against the word of god? As I said, the bible and therefore christianity allows for infanticide. God himself commanded it. Obviously I believe infanticide is wrong. But to credit christianity with the banning of infanticide doesn't pass the smell test.

Also, it's hard to take anyone seriously when they claim the bible is not an authoritative christian text when it's the foundation of christianity.
It's also pretty clear that some mods have relationships with Reddit admins and use that to skirt the rules themselves while bringing the hammer down on subs they don't like.

The funny part is occasionally I've come across subs without mods (someone started the sub, then stopped using Reddit), and they've mostly been great. But Reddit tries to crack down on them, and they also have ways to push power mods into any sub that gets too big.
Reddit was 99% awful and this won't make it any better.

If you want change, vote with your eyes and go elsewhere out of reach of absurdity.
I was only able to install Lands of Lore (1993) a few times before one of the disks crapped out on me. It's the one devastating floppy failure that I remember =)
BSI requires avoiding having wiring on both sides, so that there's a side where no wiring will interfere with incoming light. But it does at least share the idea of polishing down the die so the layer of bulk silicon under the transistors is very thin.
Corporations are governments. At some point you say "we want this operation to be run via rules" so you make some rules and form a government that runs under those rules. You usually will need a license to form a sub government from whatever larger government you will be operating under.

Related, think how a town incorporates in order to form their own local government.
I think for 99.9% of comments it hasn't gotten worse, but there is a .01% that has definitely gotten noticeably worse. There's around 5 accounts I can think of that have been egregious lately.

I'm actually surprised how well flagging works. I don't make a habit of flagging people and I flagged someone's posts that were particularly flagrant the other day and it worked rather well. I always question "is flagging a powerful tool that needs to be used sparingly?" and the experience taught me that we should probably be a little bit more liberal with flagging.

Of course flagging like all power comes with responsibility, so if flagging is used irresponsibly (for disagreement rather than quality), then that power harms the community.

If you use these things, I think it's important to ask "am I part of the September cohort?" "Am I doing this to protect values like curiosity?"

The algorithms involved in down-voting and flagging are clearly advanced enough that they can prevent some abuse.

There is a notion of "is ___ something you are, or is ___ something you do?" It can be applied to almost anything.

Is curios something I am, or is curiosity something I do? It is important to practice curiosity, not to simply "be" curious.
I was part of this test - I've refused to install the app for years (I prefer websites and the option to open tabs for later browsing).

It was extremely annoying for a site I've used for 12+ years to treat me like that. It did massively cut my usage of Reddit (which I would consider to be quite high), I primarily access it from my phone and I all but stopped using it for the week or so I was in the "experiment".
Like what I see so far
> One fair solution for employees would presumably have been to deal with it head on and make competing offers up to the level of the Safari team's actual value to Apple

Money does not solve all problems. Sometimes people leave companies and there is no dollar value that will get them to come back.
Facebook messenger did this too.
I think we need such a School/Job schedule for everybody. 11am-5pm (with two 30-min break in between) should be the max study/work hours. It gives us enough time for ourselves in a day to take care of all other things like family time/recreation/sports/etc. This is even more important today because we have so many things (distractions and otherwise) that demand our time.

A lot of illnesses due to poor lifestyles and bad Work-Life balance would simply disappear and we would all be healthier and happier.
The IPO brokers just care if they can pass the bags to the general public.

And that includes retirement funds and such, especially the general ones that follow indexes of various types.
Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
Given that a person's bookmarks reveal some of the most personal interests, preferences and worries about that individual, it would be nice to erase them from my browser, but have them running on some privacy-focused solution that I can add new links to on the fly. Any suggestions from anyone?
It would be interesting to see what the rate of car accidents per car make and model are.
I don't believe professional engineers are held liable for a legacy bridge that they can't get funding to repair, or a project that was built in violation of their specifications by a corrupt contractor. They're only held liable when the engineering work is flawed.
Way cool article and novel hacking of QR codes!
He is doing a reimbursement anyway, I'm not sure what that would make harder?
I don’t know if they have been resting on their laurels. Alder Lake which was a huge departure from their previous architectures came out at a very good time - just as their previous design was running out of steam. It takes years to get a new design from drawing board to production.

IMHO Intel’s R&D was humming along just fine but the company as a whole had problems pushing stuff into full production. The new CEO managed to get the company into shape enough to actually ship things again.
Verify that their optimizations and life hacks still make sense in the modern era. My grandparents are luddites.
For some strange reason. I have a funny feeling this will be abused.
The right is not known for their meme talent.
> Only when it can handle everything alone it can scale 100x or 1000x.

There'll always be a human somewhere at some level of the loop, at least until we make ourselves entirely obsolete.

If AI can handle 99% of the workload, that's a 100x improvement. If it can handle 99.9% of the workload, that's a 1000x improvement.
That doesn't mean it doesn't matter or doesn't affect them.
If you want piece-of-mind, don't build sandcastles on a corporation's beach with the waves lapping at your feet.
They did it to take market share, and they have, slightly (6% market share against AMDs 9%). If you look closely their software story is miles ahead of AMDs, so I can see them coming to a comfortable second in the next few years… which is nothing small given the leader is apparently a trillion dollar company.
What actually stops amd/nvidia form slotting a card into it, writing a driver, and letting people use it?
Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 5: graphics
Which people are you talking about?
there was a cool one posted to /g/ earlier https://i.jollo.org/ePE3JHak.png
Caffeine is an appetite suppressant, which makes a pot of coffee a quick and easy low cal breakfast.
The statistics would be interesting. While 50% of trades are below average, that might translate to a different percentage of trading entities. (like 5 drunk idiots and one sober professional playing poker in a casino)
What is the sandcastle in this story? Safari?

EDIT: Forgive me, I’m cranky. Of course the communities resting on Reddit’s beach are themselves the castles. I’m so tunnel-visioned on the API aspect that only used that lens.