skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The white paper says: "The stimulation fluid was a slickwater treatment design with a low-concentration friction reducer additive."

I know secrecy like this is par for the course in fracking, but it would certainly help them escape the stigma of fracking if they broke the taboo and started talking clearly about what crap they are pumping down into the ground. I think if they said, "we put this much of this stuff down the hole", it would help to understand what the risks are.

For more information about what might be in their fracking liquid, see:
https://petrowiki.spe.org/Fracturing_fluids_and_additives#Fr...

The friction reducers are often "anionic copolymers".

For more information about how the friction reducer polymer degrades in the environment, see: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41545-018-0016-8/#Sec5

I would like to know more about this. Is an expert can chime in with better references than these, I'd be grateful to read them.
For some reason, I never liked that all the code playgrounds have separate windows for HTML, CSS and Javascript. It makes it hard to grok what is going on. Does the CSS and JS get injected into the HTML? Is it loaded via injected <script> and <link> tags?

I'm also never sure what magic gets wrapped around the html I type. Does this thing add a DOCTYPE? A header? Or can I define my own header? Etc.

So I made this one, where you edit just a raw html page and see the output right away:

https://no-gravity.github.io/html_editor/

The code is here:

https://github.com/no-gravity/html_editor

One way I often use it is that I copy the whole source (via view source) of a page, paste it into the html_editor, add a <base href="url_of_the_page"> to it and then I can try realtime changes with all the external CSS and JS being loaded just as it is on the original page.
> You simply cannot keep data forever.

I wonder if the data that they're collecting for targeting advertising is also being deleted, because you know you can't keep it forever, right? Oh that's right, of course they're not deleting that. Stop parroting corporate talking points.
ChatGPT Finishes Game of Thrones
Not OP but presumably they click a relevant ad because it is relevant...
The alternative is worse, I believe.
I like ligatures but I chose to not use them. I pair program a lot with juniors/people less exposed to nerdities and I don't want them to have an unclear experience or having to explain for the nth time "how to do the solid arrow".

In the end, they don't make that much of a difference other than being a small source of aesthethic pleasure. zero impact on supposed readability
Librarian: all the books are free here...
For things I really love, I buy second hand dvds or Blu-ray's, rip them with makemkv, transcode with an ffmpg script, and serve with Plex. I now have nearly 1000 movies and some TV series.

I have Netflix (for me and wife) and Disney+ (for kids) most of the time, and add other services temporarily if there's something on them I really want to watch, and then cancel.

I never rent or buy online content, I'd rather buy second hand media and add it to Plex.
Nothing surprising there. Of course most of the choices remain backwards, but it's not as bad as the base Google guidelines.
Ask HN: Leaving company to go freelance, what to ask for in a reference letter?
Hi,

I'm leaving the company I work for to open up my own freelance consultancy & training business. Specialising in B2B eCommerce.

I've gone from Senior Technical Support to Customer Success Manager, and am currently training a group of new hires in tech support before leaving and I am leaving on good terms with the company.

Ive asked my manager and the Sr. Director for references, and they all asked me to think about where I wanted to be not now but in my next job, and list three things I want them to highlight.

This was before I decided to start my own business. I'm not sure what to ask them to highlight and was wondering what HN community would ask for in this situation?
Amazon says it’ll ditch plastic padded mailers
"Tidy" may have been a better word than clean.

The natural state of a home is tidy. It was probably empty when the current resident moved in. The natural state of a website is fast. A tiny website can be delivered in one packet.

The home only becomes messy through action. Not intention, but action. Someone has to dirty a dish for there to be dirty dishes. And it's not like you can avoid these activities, that's what a home is for.

It requires a countering action to put things back as they were. So it's action on both sides. Action to make things messy, action to keep things tidy. It's the second action we admire in the tidy home, the fast website.
Small bug report: 1) Clear the site data so you don't have a saved playground preloaded. 2) Focus the Javascript text area and type a singular "f", nothing more, nothing less, no other interactions. 3) The playground compiles, the cursor position in the Javascript text area is reset incorrectly.
I'm sure once the demand is there, the silicon will be mass produced.

I like 38khz modulated IR more than 115kbps, you can get really good range at low cost and power, without high parts count, and if you have large amounts of data rather than just stuff that takes advantage of directionality, you can do it over Bluetooth for cheap.

Never got a chance to play with 115kbps though, seems like it could be pretty cool, but I'm not sure what I'd do with it.
I for one cant believe that no major company like

- dropbox

- Mozilla

- nextcloud

- Backblaze

has forked ChromiumOS and replaced the backends with their storage. That would be wonderful.
Agreed. Great job.
I’m a consultant, but I’m confused by what you said. What do you mean “put down”?

Fwiw, generally speaking we try to train and mentor our clients so that they don’t need to depend on third party contract work.
Nope, this is no good. PWA works really well with Chrome though
I find it draining to be around idiots and listening to their boring life stories. I guess that makes me an introvert.
According to the Japanese wiki page on bread, it was introduced in 1543 then banned as part of the Christian bans. They mostly ate whole grains, then used flour for noodles.
> 50 thousand API endpoints exposed by microservices.

So feature wise, there's profile page of each user, there's searching page with filters, there's inbox, some recruitment tools I'd imagine, job posting, apply to the job and such along with search and recommendations for that too plus analytics for each of the component above certainly there would be some internal advertisement management platform.

What else I'm missing? So 50 thousand endpoints for all that?
What, you can't grind rice, make flavour out of it, and bread out of that?
I guess he's never getting put back then.

RIP Kevin
This mentality sounds similar to Peels principles of policing. Get people on side and work to keep them there, ignore minor transgressions when there is a larger goal etc. The devil is in the detail though and achieving compliance is far from easy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
I didn't ask how people survive without bread. I asked whether the Japanese had bread before the Portuguese got there.
Just because you can't read or understand masterful code, does not mean you should deny someone else's mastery of Python.

Are the "people from diverse backgrounds" (whatever that means) denied any of their rights and privileges by a programmer's use of "advanced" code? No. Quite the contrary: less-experienced people may still read, learn from and improve themselves by the advanced/beyond-their-level code they encounter. So what's your real issue?

Code is written to solve problems; not to please the lowest common denominator. If you can't read code, you're that denominator, and that's on you.

I find your statement terribly odd too. A true Python master tends to write highly readable code; idiomatic and Pythonic code tends to be readable, unlike in other languages. So if you can't read advanced Python (or even use list comprehensions, which are basic in the Python scheme of things), you're not qualified to opine on what "advanced mastery" of Python entails.
Are these really that much of a problem if the wells are far from urban areas?
AMD's new processors easily double FPS in modern games

I bought a 3600 in 2019, but a 7800x3D would blow it out of the water after just 4 years due to more cache, hitting 5Ghz, faster DDR5 RAM

https://youtu.be/B31PwSpClk8?t=800

shadow of the tomb raider, 152 FPS to 382 FPS

some games wouldn't double the FPS, but I'm really just looking to hit 280 FPS on my 280Hz monitor
Seems interesting as a project, though I doubt the stated goals can be achieved with any new constructed language. I mean, congratulation for the great work, thanks for sharing this with the world and wish you all the luck to succeed with these goals, sure.

Let’s say this is technically the best solution among simplest naturalistic language ever conceived so far to use as an international auxiliary language. This is a ecological niche already largely populated.

Providing the best technical solution, as we know, is only the optional cherry on the tip of the iceberg. What really matters for the stated goals is the community. You can definitely attract a few conlang lovers with some elegant proposals, but that’s about it.

So what’s the plan for making Mini endorsed by a large sustainable community? What kind of ideals, values and social goals it is attached to? What Mini brings on the table for its aimed community to thrive that no other previous constructed language can also provide for people who don’t have ease of learn as sole and primary consideration?
"2023 State of the API Report" should be titled "2023 State of Postman Usage Report". I don't say it has no value, but it's clearly tinted with Postman angle of view (and business alignment)
I think a lot of ERP stuff is like that - pays well but few people regard it as fun - not least of which is that end up with knowledge of very niche technologies that don't really progress very rapidly.

Edit: Mind you for job security and cash generating potential they are can be pretty good - years ago I knew of people on £3000 a day in the UK working on very niche financial systems - but you basically had to have a lot of domain knowledge (financial consolidation) and decent development skills.
Also, as you pointed out elsethread, dlclose makes a lot of things in a runtime implementation very hard. For example one reason that C++ exceptions are expensive is that they need to guard against unwind tables suddenly disappearing.
I’m not acquainted to TP, can you precise what you mean here or provide some link about this?
I expected nothing else but downvotes. It is pretty representative for the times that peopel can not stand viewpoints which do not align with their own.

And no, I am not going to post my personal medical history on HN in detail. My short description of the incident is already personal enough. Besides, what would that help? Everyone picks their own convenient opinion these days, all that can come out of this is that people publicly will doubt my personal experience, which is not useful for anyone.
The donkeys have been domesticated in North Africa (Egypt) and then they have been brought to other places as domestic animals.

The onagers a.k.a. hemiones live in Western Asia, extending to the west until the Northern Arabian peninsula.

The territories of the wild donkeys and of the onagers a.k.a. hemiones did not overlap, so they never encountered each other in the wild.

The geographical separation is why they have evolved into different species, because they share a more recent common ancestor than with the horses.

The wild horses lived in Europe and in Central Asia, even farther from the places where wild donkeys lived.

These hybrids must have been obtained by intentional interbreeding, but the initial idea could have arisen by watching a male wild onager trying his luck with some female domestic donkeys, when they were not closely guarded. Such males are certainly not very selective when sensing females in estrus.
>> I'd question why you'd ask an LLM something like this instead of Wolfram Alpha, or just look up the answer.

That's because OpenAI dedicated an entire section in claims that GPT-3 is reasonably good at arithmetic. See Section 3.9.1 titled "Arithmetic" in "Language Models are Few-Shot Learners":

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

Whence I quote below:

Overall, GPT-3 displays reasonable proficiency at moderately complex arithmetic in few-shot, one-shot, and even
zero-shot settings.

The reported results are pretty poor and too poor to justify even the relatively weak claim above (although the rest of the text in the same section very clearly and strongly implies that GPT-3 is doing something else than simply memorising a table of sums, which is an altogether much grander claim). OpenAI themselves seemed to be dubious enough about their own claim that the Arithmetic section of their paper was only included in the preprint (on Arxiv) and not in the published paper (in the 34th NeurIPS).

Yet, the claim in the preprint was still enough for people to forcefully argue that GPT-3 can do arithmetic, that it can learn the rules of arithmetic, and other impossible things before breakfast.

This is a discussion that goes back at least 3 years (judging from my comments where I point out that it's nonsense). It seems that the arithmetic ability of large language models is now a well accepted truth in the minds of the general public, who will casually use it to do, say, their maths coursework etc.

So blame OpenAI who made the big claims.
It can well be a pulsar with matter around which by accretion slowed it down and peaces of the same matter block accasionally the emission.
We can say that for just about everyone though.
Eventually it will succeed.
Making a fork of ChromiumOS is easy, the hard part is getting laptop makers to use it. If you fork Chrome you lose all the integrations with Google services and those are valuable to users. Think auto translation, Google account sync, other stuff.
That's very specific to US society. Authorities treat computer intrusion more seriously than many violent crimes because it can affect companies and the government.

Companies and the government can spy on people all they want (see Snowden) but the reverse is punished severely (see Assange)
Rice flour has no gluten, so no, you can’t use it like wheat to make bread.

You can make cakes with rice though, which they did have.

(When you see modern gluten-free bread in a bakery/supermarket, it’s still basically a cake recipe, tweaked to resemble the texture of bread)
You should still be able to play online. Only the new features such as HD graphics and ranked matchmaking are locked behind the SCR purchase.
Agreed. The browser itself is amazing though.
Redundancy in a natural language is not necessarily a bug. It can be considered a feature. Speach is transmitted over a noisy channel (as everybody knows who has ever tried talking/screaming to a friend on a busy street or a concert), so needs to contain redundancy for error correction purposes. A lot of that is context (there are only a handful of things my friend could be screaming at me at a given point in time), but a lot is that it's enough to hear parts of a sentence to infer what it's about.

Many different contexts make use of this redundancy. Air traffic communications is another example where synonyms are chosen to minimize misunderstandings yet still be concise.

Minimizing redundancy also minimizes synonyms, which can be undesirable. Another example is poetry.
Woah "power-up" (as in the mushroom Mario takes to be double-sized) is originally Japanese! Never noticed how it's not grammatically sensible English.

Similar to how "long time no see" is either from Mandarin or pidgin English.
Thanks for the link, that was so great. I was in such anticipation of a "classic but inaccurate" Bald Eagle scream that I genuinely fist-pumped when it actually happened.
> I was not aware he was ill. Always sad to hear people that are taken by cancer.

It was pancreatic cancer, which is the deadliest cancer. It kills very quickly and as far as I know, it's impossible to cure.

It killed my mom: 3 months between diagnosis and death. She didn't want treatment because it couldn't save her; it would only postpone the inevitable and she didn't want to spend the rest of her days in hospitals.
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this is a means of preventing other companies from using YouTube videos to train AI. Google will have access to the whole of YouTube uploads, whereas the rest of the world will only have access to the videos that were uploaded by active accounts.
There are uses for `-A` that aren't just for jumping into hosts. I work on code in ephemeral containers and need to use git against remote git servers. If I had to use a key local to the container, I'd have to constantly add new keys to my git servers.

Of course, I have secured by agent from abuse. I use gpg-agent as my ssh agent and make it visually confirm every use of my private key.

I even set up those containers to use forwarded GIT_{AUTHOR,COMMITTER}_{NAME,EMAIL} envs. So other people can work on the same container as me and git commits we make are still attributed correctly.
Surely legend of the era. Remember some obscure court restrictions for him at the time, not quite sure they were real, or hoax, or urban legends...
Quantity over quality inevitably leads to this outcome.
I think we should have a link that isn't totally broken. I guess a lot of people here read the headline and came to comment and share some anecdotes, which is totally fine. But the link is broken, so we should at least fix that. Here are a couple of alternatives:

https://www.engadget.com/kevin-mitnick-formerly-the-worlds-m...

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/kevin-mitnick-1963-2023.ht...
Why crypto?
YouTube Premium Quietly Hikes Subscription Prices in the US
Programmers spend all their working hours interacting with text. How the text is rendered on screen is arguably the most important aspect of their work, followed by a text editor, and programming language.

If a certain font works for you, by all means keep using it. Just like nobody should tell you what editor to use, a font is also a matter of personal preference.

That said, certain fonts have features that many find advantageous. I like that Iosevka is narrow, which means I can fit more text horizontally. Legibility and not having ambiguous symbols is also important. I also dislike ligatures, and want my font to be able to render multiple alphabets. But ultimately, I just like the way it looks. It renders nicely in all sizes and weights. All of these might be features your font choice also has, or you might not value some of these as much as me, which is perfectly fine.
My reading of the comment above is that Geothermal uses the same chemical/physical process to fracture the rock and has to dispose of those chemicals afterwards (or leave them in place). Fossil fuel fracking needs a continuous supply of the chemicals and a continuous problem of finding a reservoir for the used chemicals so the impact is much, much higher.
That’s because Walmart is using Walmart Pay as a vehicle to track you and your shopping purchases. They can’t track your habits the same way with just a card.

Kroger finally gave up on Kroger Pay if only because they realized customers were still entering their alternate ID/phone number during checkout so they could still link your data together.

The funny part is Walmart in Canada fully allows contactless… almost as if they don’t care they aren’t getting that customer data up there.
How to Use Digital Signage Software to Engage Customers
Very sorry for your loss. Fuck cancer.
44 min from where I'm sitting.
Huge code bases are never gonna be "obvious". It's all about optimising for a balance of tradeoffs.
They use that at work on some of the freeze seating places.

It's quote buggy and resource hungry on macos and didn't play nice at all on my Ubuntu.
Discussed a year ago (173 comments): <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31304539>

(HN allows reposts after a year or so: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25757154>)
This is getting weird now.
:-(. Always sad to hear such news. Stay strong mate!
I don't think there's any sense in getting the Max, since you aren't even getting the highest amount of RAM.

$1000 spread over 8 - 10 years vs starting to waste your own time in maybe 5 if the air gets slow. I'd recommend #2.
Google Introduces AI Red Team
their ads are not worth it. they have become way too expensive and results are not good
In high competitive keywords, yes. But these sites don't have backlinks (https://i.imgur.com/9ka6yV1.png). So if you wanted to beat them you either write new content that matches the search intent (like OP) or you find good backlinks.
put this at the end of your ~/.ssh/config

Host *
ForwardAgent no

ssh config uses tabs for indentation, make sure you got those right
> Optimize for the reader, not the writer

> Use only spaces, and indent 2 spaces at a time.

These conflict in the C++ guide (as well as shell). As I’ve aged, 2-spaced code doesn’t provide the necessary contrast for me to easily read & scan code, but rather than picking a larger number or using tabs so users can configure the value, a low, hard-to-read number was chosen.
Some people denounce all use of agent forwarding because, by default, ssh-agent doesn't confirm with the user before signing a request with the users private key. This means, if you ssh into a compromised/malicious host with your agent forwarded, malicious code on that machine can just silently ssh into other servers as you.

This trick has been used in the past by blackhats to escalate from a compromised CI environment to full production takeover.

GauntletWizard probably meant to respond to your parent in this thread.
My understanding is probably not. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) used to image the supermassive black holes has an aperture the size of the Earth. The objects they imaged are close and massive. And even then, they had to do funny sophisticated image resolving to get an image.
I would put that in the introvert spectrum. Complaining about "shallow" interactions is, I think, a big telltale sign of introversion.

I wouldn't call deep conversations a form of socializing, like being alone, this is a bubble, except this time, there are several people in the bubble. Extroverts don't like bubbles, and I am sure deep conversations are draining to them (I am not one, so it is just a guess), and they may want to break free of them, for example, by bringing in other people. On the contrary, in social situations, introverts will want to form the bubble as soon as they can, keeping the small talk and all that to a minimum.
It's very hard to transport humans to other planets, but a bunch of robots are already exploring Mars. I see no reason why a superintelligence would want to confine itself to Earth.

Why compete with humans on Earth if there's the whole Solar system to exploit?
Oh no, that sounds horrible
"The biggest mistake a competitor can make is thinking Salesforce is a CRM"

A lot of CRMs seem to evolve into general purpose platforms - Salesforce and MS Dynamics being the ones I am familiar with.
Can we please not cringe everything into coin & blockchain talk.
Literally just Angular if you use RxJS, which the author evidently thinks is too hard to understand and so dismisses it.
In Portugal we call it "pão-de-ló"
Social media is too much for most of us to handle
> It's more like sugar over state machines instead of sugar over callbacks

they are equivalent [1]. There are scheme compilers (a language with have first class continuations and often heap allocated stack frames) that compile everything down to a giant C switch statement.

[1] well, continuations are strictly more powerful of course, but the stackless subset needed for async/await is the same.
Statistically, medical error is the third leading cause of death in America, so it's not surprising.
How the hell is the guy supposed to be able to identify the account from this post? It gives no identification.