skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why haven't we just done it

because fossil fuel companies engage in grand fraud, for example they create astroturfing groups like 'citizens for responsible solar' which go around the country and file objection to every solar project that needs planning permission.

They got on-shore wind turbines banned in Britain. They got construction of solar panels banned on all land except low-grade non-agricultural land, so like steep hills of Scotland where it is impractical. The underground power cable to France was blocked because it would 'ruin the landscape'.
With aggressive deployment atmospheric carbon capture, we might still be able to get it back down below 1.5 before the Atlantic currents collapse.
Try being more aggressive with your marketing-- don't wait for people to go to your site, go herd them there yourself.

Use your tool to scan high-profile Instagram photos and for anyone with >n degree of baldness, market hair restoration products to them. I recommend the indirect approach: subtly comment on peoples' photos with stuff like "oh man, I remember when my hair started thinning..." Don't do this to people's wedding and engagement photos unless you're trying to be Evil.

Don't even suggest they are balding, just remind them that baldness happens to people of their age and let their own vanity and insecurity do the rest. Followers will see that as well and since so many fashion themselves after influencers, you'll appeal to their insecurities too. Engage a sibling comment or two for legitimacy and then steer people to your site to check for themselves. Then you recommend hair growth solutions.

You technically could just spam every account like this, but targeting accounts where baldness is an actual threat will keep the scheme covert for longer. Attempting this on anybody with a full set of luxurious locks will blow your cover.

You could also sell your own product. Private label some Latisse sourced from India or something. That stuff is marketed for eyelash growth but would probably make hair grow on a piece of sheet metal. The retail US price is exorbitant.
Having lived through the early horrors of WoW patches and updates, I have nothing but praise for how WoW works today in terms of updates and distribution.

My favorite feature is how it supports incremental loading. WoW is a huge game, but you can start playing with a fraction of the assets. It will play in a downgraded way with place holders and lower quality assets as well as skipping entire areas completely.

You can reinstall from scratch and be up and playing in minutes. It’s one of the hidden joys of the platform that players mostly take for granted, but I appreciate the no doubt legion effort involved to pull this off, to change the wheels on a moving train, and to deliver just uncountable amount of data with little drama and great performance.

So kudos to you for whatever your contribution was to making such a core facility to the system so painless for the end user.
Now its time to revive uBO for Safari, same model imho.
Are you sure that the disagree button is because they prefer positivity? I am not a social media user, I have none of them, but I've always read that social media eat their lunches thanks to flame wars, would it be possible that the non-existent disagree button is because a disagree button would be a passive way to show disagreement, while a message is more likely to generate engagement?
It’s funny how this is phrased as if it’s shocking. Real wage growth has been very poor the last few decades. At some point it needs to catch up to other costs or the system is going to break down.
> "Put it in a can and bury it under a mountain" is a sufficient waste disposal strategy for a pretty long time

It's simple in theory, not so much in practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_Mountain_nuclear_waste_r...
From the article:

> Another example is figuring out the right tradeoffs between using local SSD disks and block-storage services (AWS EBS and others).

Local disks on AWS are not appropriate for long term storage, because when an instance reboot the data will be lost. AWS also doesn't offer huge amounts of local storage.
If your argument (or the argument you're standing by) says "the spent fuel can be recycled", but then you say "well even if we can't recycle it we can just bury it" (which by the by, is what happens a reasonable chunk of French nuclear waste), it makes your entire argument (or the argument you're standing by) sound... how do I put this.... juvenile.

We know it can be buried. That’s what we're arguing against.

What kind of mentality does it take to think that "aha! We can just bury it" is a gotcha response when someone says "but what about all the nuclear waste".

That's like saying "what should we do about plastic waste?" "Aha! We can bury it".

> so about 7 years' worth of powering the whole country

Wow, what a long term solution you hate there.

> less damaging that the current fossil fuel "strategy"

You realise that literally no one arguing against nuclear power, thinks fossil fuels are the alternative right?

What is it with nuclear proponents and ridiculous straw man arguments.
+1 on the excel

It's a very popular tool and plus its almost available in every organization and there's so much you can do much with excel that it literally blows my mind.

For example I read about a Japanese artist who used excel to create paintings
what made it rough? reliability or just the integration?
Nothing, once it traded on the public market anyone with the capital can gain control.

The thing is it most likely not going to happen, because they would almost certainly get a better deal buying majority interest before any IPO.
A potential complication is the source of your traffic. It can be global. What works for an American audience may not work for a _____ audience.

Sometimes it makes sense to have Amazon affiliate ads for countries where that's a thing, and maybe toss the rest to Adsense.

Big $$$$ in hair transplants, but ethical to vet your vendors.

The content is so light, if it even starts to take off, it should be inexpensive and worthwhile translating into other languages. Maybe do paid translations for more common languages. For others... there's always Google Translate. If you can translate it to target language and then back to English and it makes sense, it probably makes sense in the target language.
Mad props. You did the hard work required to understand this concept and explained it well.
Lots of Fortune 500 to 1000 companies lack the ability to recruit the best and brightest. And mostly they don't really need them. But when they do, consultants offer a ready made solution to get a project done.
There's a BIG difference between "My mobile carrier, who knows how much I spend with them on a monthly basis and my home address, probably date of birth and other customer details, also happens to know where I physically am" and "This piece of malware on my phone is intercepting every message I send"
Ask HN: Indie Mobile Apps that are making money?
Hello

We hear a lot about SaaS but are there any indie app developers who making money by developing full fledge apps and being used by a lot of people
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/vMBom
We need to do both, and also capture CO2 at an unprecedented scale.

We’re going to need a ridiculous amount of electricity to fix the atmosphere.
Hack your brain, if there is inflation people are looking for a store of wealth, over the last 50 years this has manifested primarily in real estate and stocks. Institutions that have access to large amounts of credit or flows from the government, receive money from investors. When the printing starts stocks rally for these reasons, its the cantillion effect, those closest to the money printer get richer.
Or run the 68k mac OS 9 in emulation. It's fun to watch it boot up like lightning.
HDTV experiments started in 1979 with MUSE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television#Jap...

In the US, HDTV came out in the mid 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television#Ina...

It's not "deep" that producers at the time anticipated that re-runs would be broadcast on HDTV. In the 1990s, a lot of producers preferred the look of film over video; or even considered it a better overall medium.
I remember reading somewhere that Polish children do take longer than speakers of other languages to achieve full fluency, due to the complexities of the Polish language.

Unfortunately my Internet connection is super slow right now, so I can't look for references.
Yeah… there was one movie star who was heavily influenced by a movie she was in and became an activist against nuclear despite not having any background in nuclear power. Yet, ironically, many environmental movements and organizations hopped on her[1] bandwagon. Most have realized the error in judgement. Better late than never.

She raised the anti-nuke monster that is only now being neutralized.

That’s forty years lost right there.

[1] Jane Fonda.
Semantic Similarity as an Intent Router for LLM Apps
Yeah, I just built a system that I would love to have used FreeBSD on, but the driver (and CUDA) situation. It's a rough spot to be in.
They go hand in hand. Having the ability to provide a team to execute on the plan the management consultants sell is a powerful business model.
Let’s consider, that France is importing power from Germany, since at times more then half of it’s nuclear power plants are off-line. Many for months on end, due to their dated and complex technology and lately corrosion problems. Some during the dry summers months, since not enough water is available for cooling.

Edit: Added english article. Thanks for the downvotes.

[0]https://www.grs.de/en/news/situation-nuclear-power-plants-fr...

In German:
[1]https://www.iwr.de/news/stromausfall-edf-abgeschaltete-atomk...
I thought I was just enjoying some juvenile humor drawing dong after dong, then I got to a banana, a cucumber, and three pickles, and realized I was pretty much doing exactly what was intended.
Good job! But does double pressing Ctrl on a Mac activate the voiceover? What sets your app apart?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230821134940/http://fpgaretroc...
(somewhat) interesting question, it might be worth discussing sometime

anyways, do you have any evidence for the causality you suggested here? so far it hasn't been very convincing

keep in mind, as you make your case, that most posters here are smart enough to not fall for a "post hoc ergo proper hoc" fallacy
we are adding vfkit, which is our implementation of the native hypervisor for macos. by default it would currentky use qemu, but lima is an option.
My apple tv has a similar issue. There’s a red dot in front of the user settings menu item, and it logs me out every few weeks. The problem started at about the same time.

(Edit: I’m talking about the AppleTV hardware device, and my iCloud account.)
First, it’s no longer the term of art. Transgender is what you should say. Expressly for the reason you’re bringing up.

Second, a grammatical gotcha is far from a proof. Our language is not a perfect representation of reality.
That is meant to be distributed with the game (hence the name).
Offer a certified Picard rating.
The more bald one is, one gets a more % like Picard.
You can sell these for a few bucks plus shipping.

Remember, baldness is evolution.
You don't see apes on the internet do you?
It definitely can work… it depends on the size of ubi and how creative we get. We could for example just say that banks no longer get to do 10-1 fractional reserve banking and instead all the free money gets distributed to their customers accounts. And do a cap and trade carbon system with auctions where all the revenue goes to ubi. And all the revenue from spectrum auctions. And repurposing some existing spending. And printing a little more money. And congestion pricing. Etc, etc…
> Where has this shown to be realistic at scale?

From a pro-nuke guy: no, it has not been shown. The vast majority of the nuclear fuel is low enriched Uranium, meaning U-238 makes 95% of it or more. A little is transmuted to Plutonium during operation, but more than 90% of the spent fuel is still U-238. We don't currently have the capability to burn that. We may have it one day, but that day is many decades in the future.

What nuclear recycling does is to extract unburned U-235 and plutonium from spent fuel. That can only be done once, after that the plutonium is too rich in Pu-240, and only the Pu-239 isotope is optimal for fission. So, those who say we can keep recycling spent fuel, either don't know the whole story, or choose not to tell it.

But many companies are working on developing fast reactors. These reactors can burn U-238. In principle they can burn it all. In reality, I think in the short term they'll burn just some part of it. For example, current nuclear plants can generate about 40 to 60 GW-day per ton of fuel. Various new plant proposals can go to 180 GWd/ton [1]; this is impressive, but it's not the factor of 20 you'd expect from fully burning all the uranium in the nuclear fuel. In the link I provided you'll see two reactor types with higher burnups; they are both envisioned to burn thorium. Fingers crossed, but thorium is much more unproven than uranium.

In any case, even when burning spent fuel will be possible, it will initially be economically non-profitable. And it will be so for decades.

But not for centuries. That's important. Naysayers will try to convince you that spent fuel will be a problem for ten thousand years. But that is only assuming that we freeze all progress to where we are today. Why such an assumption?

If you were to place a bet where you miraculously wake up in the future 200 years from now, would you wager that we won't be able to burn the 20'th and 21'st century spent nuclear fuel, or that we will be able to?

[1] https://aris.iaea.org/sites/burnup.html
You're conflating a lot of things that ought not be conflated

Where are mesoscale "bugs" of cells or the like?

Or is it only on the level of quantum effects and errors of the brain, wherein you're overlaying quantum jargon onto another iconprehensibly complex function?
The "DRM" acronym for Direct Rendering Manager goes all the way back to the 1999 Linux driver for 3dfx graphics cards. It predates the "Digital Rights Management" acronym by at least 5 years.
> they would have no idea of what ISO 8601 was

Maybe this is a fair time to persuade there is an ethos of hillbilly hacker that prioritizes function over form.
>Trust comes from building a healthy ecosystem of users

Trust comes from the publisher/author being truthful and honest with users, nothing else. By publishing source code, an open source software publisher is making a strong statement towards trust: you can see everything. Nothing is hidden (this is not true though when a company uses an open source client and closed source back end strategy).

> There's a litany of open source projects that I have used that have been completely abandoned.

There's also a litany of abandoned closed source commercial software and SaaS products. Keeping commercial software alive requires money. Keeping open source alive requires time. In the end, both are scarce and the author/publisher has to make a decision on what to invest in, and sometimes the software they sold to me last year doesn't get that investment. If it did, I'd still be using NBI Legacy to write documents, I'd be running OS/2, Microsoft Bob would be helping users make Windows work, and I could read news with Google Reader (aside Bob, all of these were at least good products. Bob was... ahead if it's time).
While true, there's a question of why would you bother if you can build nuclear? 60-70% of my states' electricity use is 24/7 constant. Outside of that number, the downward slope between maxium and minimums is very long, and very slow and mostly at night. Nuclear plants are easily variable in fuel burn over these sorts of rates.

The problem with solar and wind is that they can trip offline from the grid very quickly, so the entire question is whether you can plausibly backstop the grid for long enough without the need to spin up an extra powerplant.

With a frontloaded capex asset like nuclear, once you are building it there's a big question as to how much value you get from not using it - i.e. the main benefit of solar and wind is if with storage they stop you needing to build a new nuclear plant.

I would contend that the storage answer is very inadequate: it's not nearly good enough to have a grid which is only running with 1 day worth of banked power when you could have much longer periods of underproduction (which is the way most solar/wind storage solutions are presented). To safely have a distributed grid, you need months worth of stored power to average out the fluctuations. Storage just isn't cheap enough at that scale compared to nuclear reactors.
New Tarantula Discovered in Unexpected Place
If you're worried about blocking ads, Safari is not the browser to use. Just use something better.
Are shorting and longing symmetric? IE, do they influence the market in the same way? They seem much more complicated than straightforward stock purchase and fractional ownership.
Sadly not, it's going to be a Stripe subscription management dashboard!
Show HN: Hotcheck, predict beauty, attractiveness, mood and virality using AI
Hi Guys,

So happy to be posting here!

Today I worked on and built this tool to tell me if i look hot or not on my photos. Also, i integrated some features to tell me which celebrities do i look like.

Any thoughts?
Don't use Firefox on Android. Use Firefox Nightly instead.
>Die hards will say you cant charge LiFEP04 in winter but I do.

lots of marine-use lifepo4s have heaters on board and they're not a lot more expensive, and it's not too hard to diy something to an existing pack, either -- although of course it constitutes yet another draw.
Beyond Risk: Seeing Climate Change as an Opportunity
>If somebody with zero skill in the arts can produce output of similar quality as a craftsman and about a thousand times faster, what is the point of art anymore?

I like to think "AI" will make art better reflect its real value, devoid of the tangential flat costs associated with housing, clothing, and feeding humans in the process of producing art.

The consumers at large demand driving down the cost for consuming and enjoying art, and raise hellfire if there is so much as a suggestion of raising that cost. Remember how much controversy there was and still is about raising the standard price of video games from $60 USD to $70 USD? And that $60 USD today is pennies compared to $60 back in, say, 1995.

If the consumers at large demand the cost of art to go down and "AI" will make the process of producing that art better reflect that real value, isn't this overall a good thing insofar as making the price tag more clear and agreeable and closing down sweatshops?
Good people sell good products without telling someone they look like crap.
> it's all just lists.
Yes, Lisp code is made up of lists.

> But it seems like there are so many special constructs and macros, that make it hard to read.

> (loop for i in '(1 2 3)

Common Lisp is a "programmable programming language" meaning that it's possible to make macros like the loop macro that aren't even what many consider "Lispy" - lots of people who otherwise like Common Lisp dislike the loop macro. But, it's a good example of a DSL and how far you can go with making one. Of course, there are other ways to do iteration besides loop, both standard built-in forms such as do or dolist, and even 3rd party libraries like series or iterate.

Also, when macros are expanded they resolve to lists - even the loop macro.

OTOH, something like MIT Scheme which was used in SICP is a much simpler Lisp compared to CL.
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Something feels very wrong about this class of tool (Docker Desktop) being mandatory GUI. I want 0 of the features provided by the GUI that aren't already in the CLI.
Wouldn't surprise me if these type of apps were maintained on a per-contract basis. Godspeed though
Just picked up Neal Stephenson's Fall, or Dodge in Hell today and am 1/4 way through. There's so much animosity & energy against social media that rings parallel here.
There’s a lot of snap bashing in here, but one thing that seems really appealing is that snaps are run in sandboxes and protected by AppArmor profiles. I don’t know how good the implementation is, but sandboxing would seem to alleviate the risk that one of the hundreds of rando-authored packages that get installed on your system might decide to abuse root privileges during installation and quietly take over your system. Also, sandboxing your programs seems like a good idea in general, so they can’t all access each other’s data.
Military recruitment is down. Why don’t young Americans want to join?
Scientists find evidence that Vlad the Impaler shed bloody tears
That’s been my experience so far too. It’s good for giving you some suggestions for things to structure and things you may have missed, but it is a terrible writer ATM.
> (Or we could be building one 400 MW solar farm and one 400 MW wind farm every week instead for 30 years. Point is, though, we're far from being able to do that.)

That's actually lower than what the USA is doing right now.
"The US solar industry installed 6.1 gigawatts-direct current (GWdc) of capacity in the first quarter of 2023"[0]

That is approx 469 MW of power being installed every week.

[0]https://www.seia.org/us-solar-market-insight (first link I could find)
Banks Don’t Love Rich Mortgage Borrowers as Much as They Used To
At a tier-1 hedgefund. I got an offer for its branch in Asia, and I was in the US at the time. It said it would like to make an offer, but it said it can show me the employee contract only in person. I asked I need to see the contract before I fly and move to a different country. I did not take the offer. Also, the compensation happened to be 80% lower than then-current compensation.
> So what if kids can no longer do well in a government institution designed entirely to babysit and to train factory workers?

Well for better or worse, basically our entire society for everyone who doesn't have a trust fund relies on one's ability to both complete that government institution's trainings, along with a subsequent, quite similarly structured public or private institution's trainings directly after, after which we will enter a contract with another entity that in turn is structured similarly in order to earn the right to live.

And we can discuss at length why this is a bad and limiting system that fails to recognize the diversity of the student body that passes through it, however failing to reform the institutions first and shrugging your shoulders like "well that sucks anyway what do we care what it thinks" is akin to telling people in a burning building to make for a rusted out derelict fire escape on the grounds that the last time the place was on fire, it held okay even though that was 20 years ago and several steps have fallen out since then.
That would work, the only problem in either solution is double-writing 8 of the 16 bits on sequential ASCII characters. Might give it a try.
>is evidence that its recreating images from its training set

No it isn't lol. a shutterstock logo is just more common ground for the model because of how often it will appear in the dataset.
The US installed 25.5GW of clean power generation capacity in 2022.[0] That's 490MW a week, so it isn't really all that insane. Meanwhile, the US is on pace to install 3GW of nuclear in 25 years.

Surely increasing the construction speed of renewables from 490MW to 800MW / week is easier than increasing the construction speed of nuclear from 2.3MW to 800MW / week?

[0]: https://cleanpower.org/market-report-2022/