skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its more insidious. Give us hundreds of billions of dollars for carbon capture, we'll capture and ... use it for enhanced oil recovery.

Shell Is Looking Forward The fossil-fuel companies expect to profit from climate change. I went to a private planning meeting and took notes: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/shell-climate-change...

Algorithm:

1) Give us trillions of dollars in subsidies[1] to extract oil, well, because, people need it

2) Give us billions of dollars now for carbon capture (and this will increase), shows Greta's picture, because, erm, we are taking action on climate change

3) We'll extract more oil [3] (enhanced oil recovery, EOR) using the captured carbon to increase both (1) and (2)

Oil industry is exceptionally good at stealing everyone's money. Now there is some light on climate change, you can bet that oil industry will get hundreds of billions of dollars. The climate conversations are completely taken over by big oil: Sultan Al Jaber was named President-Designate of COP28 UAE in January of 2023. He is the chairman and a founder of the UAE's renewable energy company Masdar.

Trillions will be spent worldwide on carbon capture (not just the plants, but infrastructure for EOR such as pipelines[4]), all of which directly goes into big oil pockets.

[1] Worldwide subsidies for fossil fuels surged to a record $7-trillion in 2022, equal to 7.1% of the global gross domestic product, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-08-28-fossil-fu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Nations_Climate_Ch...

[3] Out of the 27 commercially operational CCS projects worldwide, 21 inject carbon dioxide into oil reservoirs to force out petroleum: https://www.landclimate.org/what-is-happening-with-carbon-ca...

[4] CO2 pipelines: There are now about 5,300 miles of CO2 pipelines in the U.S., but in the next few decades, that number could grow to more than 65,000 miles

[5]It Will Cost More Than Total Future Production to Clean Up California Oil Sites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36182016
> I felt back then that this community had a very unhealthy relationship with the quality of their software and the work of security researchers.

I suspect a Network Operators mailing list is going to be full of people trying to keep production up, with the tools they've got, rather than the tools they'd like. Thinking the software quality on the routers they're using are dogshit is probably just called "Monday" and thinking their peers' routers are even worse is called "Tuesday".

I can understand they don't appreciate "research" done on production systems that might cause issues when they already know their equipment sucks.
Everyone always says this but I’ve never heard it from an actual evolutionary biologist. Some genes evolve faster than others; in fact, some genes have themselves evolved to be able to evolve faster.
Obesity is caused by eating too much. If you don’t eat then you won’t gain weight, there is no subverting the laws of thermodynamics.

It sounds callous but if you go to Africa or visit a prisoner of war camp you won’t find many fat people and so blaming chemicals in America for so many fat people doesn’t make much sense to me.
Even Margaret Thatcher made a speech about global warming. George HW Bush also believed in it.
In addition to other answers, I’d speculate there’s no strong negative selection against moderate allergies. There might simply be no evolutionary disadvantage to being slightly itchy and having running nose for H.sapiens.
> Is it just me?

Probably, depends on what you think is "fulfilling." A career in tech is about using tech to solve problems. I don't see a lack of those. If anything, we have more than ever! You need to adopt the mindset that problems are opportunities.

Notice something here: it's not the tech that makes your job fulfilling, it's the problems you're solving.
I know it's probably bad for me and that I need to stop, but I love sous vide meat. Especially steak—it's perfect every time.
> I long for the days of a (small!) daily standup coupled with simple Kanban and an issue backlog.

That's what we do at my company and it works pretty well. No process is perfect, but we really try to keep meetings to a minimum for devs. Daily standup is literally 5 minutes.
I don't understand this perspective, the need to wait for mountains of published evidence that something is "bad", or "bad enough" to do something about it. Plastic is toxic, we all know this. It's everywhere, it's in the food and in the water. In reality it's the "Citation needed" reflex that's the reddit-tier reaction to stuff like this, because it pretends that humans can't or shouldn't make decisions unless we all sit around in a peer-review committee to review the "data". Perhaps in some contexts that perspective makes sense, but again, in this one, we all know plastic is bad (for us and the environment).
They may only eat 2 meals a day but they likely snack too. If you only eat 2 meals a day and do not eat between meals you are most likely going to be a normal weight.
Advantages over https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/?
So happy to hear it. The closed-not-closed state of LCM was exasperating for several years and I know several groups of folks were trying to engage to bring it back to life. It was such a great site for informal learning and did a good job of highlighting the region's contributions to computing. Seattle needs a computer museum!
I'm gonna need some more hard evidence before I believe that microplastics in the human body play a strong causative role in both infertility and changing IQ scores (and first you have to convince me of the import of IQ scores).

It's a classic "jacking off butterflies" response. That's a reference to the TV show Childrens Hospital, in which one of the doctors finds a cure for cancer and it's butterfly semen. One of the other characters says something along the lines of "We both know cancer is an amalgam of unique conditions, it should be impossible to find a single cure" but they brush it off and starting jacking off butterflies. That's how I feel whenever people try to reduce complex social phenomena to a single simplistic cause. "We both know it can't be just this one thing, but let's pretend it is because that's easier to solve."
So is the recommended solution a giant concrete vat that costs a fortune and that's the downside?
That's pretty dismissive. The article mainly addresses the premise that Sweden's actions produced a better outcome than other countries including ones which had a predilection for social distancing. This is by no means universally conceded.

It would be nice to think that other countries could learn something after accepting that Sweden actually had a better outcome.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. A web app having its own icon and spot in the dock/task bar makes it easier to switch to.
Google tests watermark to identify AI images
Came to ask the same thing. Save CyberChef for offline use and it does way more than this.
Oh... So that's how you end up with class names ending in FactoryFactory... Factorisation at any cost without making sure it makes sense and will keep making sense...
The concentrated minerals and metals in the waste, as well as the chemical additives used during the desalination process, are incredibly difficult to contain given their solubility in water.
I don't know about ketchup, but mayonnaise turned out to be far easier to make at home than I anticipated.
Maybe y’all are more talented developers than me;

But I have found repeatedly that building the wrong abstraction is on the path toward discovering and building the right abstraction.
Or like there is no long term sustainable planing for not just ground water put a lot of things like infrastructure projects which lead to increased ground water usage. And like who has enough money (or political "friends") just gets what they want with at most paying a bit more, even through sometimes the answer should be no, no matter how much is payed. Because what point is accepting a lot of money for selling something you (as a entity like a city) needs to survive. If that person was willing to pay that much for it you likely won't be able to buy it affordable some where else when you need it.
Worse, for those 12 parameters (invariably booleans or if you are lucky enums) functions is that usually only a small subset of all possible flag combination is tested (or even meaningful). Worst part is when the flags are directly or indirectly under user (or configuration) control and the application can go into uncharted territory.

Worse still, good luck refactoring those functions when you have no idea which combinations are actually meant to be supported and what their original semantics where.
It’s really surprising how hard it is to customize Firefox considering its image. Wanna change a shortcut, tough luck. Wanna change the UI? Hope you’re a web developer. Wanna build a native app with it? We’re the only browser that no one is working with.
He just means that junior developers don’t understand hyperboles because they don’t have the intuition yet.
Yea, I've not spend my second month in record high temperatures not able to use much water because the reservoirs are running out and the wells are running dry. I'm not breaking new numbers of record high days every day. I'm not breaking records of low rain fall.

Oh wait, I am.
For those that don't know before clicking the link: this is a fork of https://rome.tools/

I've been using Rome for awhile and think it's an excellent project with a ton of potential. I'm excited to see the project grow beyond the original company and see a second wind.

I think this fork is a step in the right direction, excited to see where it ends up!
Someone hired a PR firm and launched a campaign. That is all -- continue living your life.
>A big part of me feels like these are government problems, as the average person is preoccupied with paying the bills, feeding their kids, and all the other trivialities that we deal with on a daily basis.

And what about when those people vote for their immediate rather than their long term needs? The man who just wants to pay his bills and feed his kids wants cheap food and cheap gas, and for prices not to go up. His politicians can't affect the sort of change you're suggesting because their opponents who promise more cheap garbage win too many votes.
The challenge is that Swedes tend to be relatively healthy, antisocial, and sensible (as suggested by the paper) isn't either very actionable or quantifiable. Though there is an implication (which is a clear agenda in this paper) that explicit government policies didn't make a whole lot of difference in this case.
Holy crap, there are planes that flew with 50 horsepower engines? Were they made of bamboo and canvas?

Apparently the great creeping evil of airports is ... suburban housing.
Here :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4426466/
Or https://it-tools.tech
Whatever merits of Elixir there are only 10 Elixir jobs in the whole of the UK according to Indeed.com. Adopiton matters.
A good example of this is operations type stuff, like the pile of shell scripts or terraform files or whatever that get used to deploy your app. These scripts benefit greatly from a one to one relationship between the thing you're creating and the written text describing it. Not having a situation where changing one thing breaks everything else is a huge help there.
This article isn’t making a distinction between the interface provided by an abstraction and the implementation details of that abstraction, which I think causes it to come to the wrong conclusions.

A bad abstraction is an interface which causes the implementation to be more complex than necessary. Uses of the interface might still look perfectly simple, but if the abstraction is bad the overall complexity could be higher.
A diversified profile needs to exist to meet fluctuating demand. I think energy storage or some long term reliance on natural gas is baked in to any sort of emergency response, because nuclear is harder to adjust willy nilly. But yeah it's hard to ignore the largest low-carbon baseload power source
After taking a compiler course in uni I found the emphasis on dealing with syntax mostly a waste of time. To begin with, do yourself a favor and use S-expression syntax (like Lisp) for your language. They're dead simple to parse. With the syntax out of the way, you can get to meat and potatoes of implementing a language. Later on you can always define a "look" for your language, and you can spend an inordinate amount of time on that.
This is a very amateurish take
The author very clearly (at least at the time of writing this) has not dealt with complex code bases.

> If I were to see a confusing piece of code littered with conditional logic, I wouldn’t see it and think “oh, there’s an incorrect abstraction”, I would just think, “oh, there’s a piece of crappy code”. It’s neither an abstraction nor wrong, it’s just bad code.

This is the primary issue. The author does not recognize that poor abstractions can involve more than just a lot of conditional logic. That sometimes, that conditional logic bubbles in places where secondary to where the bad abstraction was made.

A simple (real) example of this. One seen code where "get, these two objects share a field, let's pull out a base object and have them both inherit from it, after all, duplication is bad!". Then later on "hey, here's two other objects with the same field, but they don't have that old base objects field, duplication is bad, so let's make a third base class"

This sort of thinking resulted in a really gnarly object graph. But further, down stream code had to do type checks and casting to compensate for this bad abstraction.

All because the original dev didn't want to duplicate a field on two otherwise unrelated objects.

And worse, you the dev that works on this code years later are left with the option "keep it as is, of rewrite and touch 100s of files potentially breaking large amounts of code)."

Oh, not too mention the unit tests that accompanied such code, ironically, filled to the brim with duplication around this hierarchy making minor charges massive.

On smaller less complex code bases you rarely see this comedy/tragedy play out.
Newer tooling, macros, protocols and access to all of the libraries available for either.
An LLM that’s good enough to replace a junior dev is also good enough to train someone to be as competent as a junior dev. Even better, competent programmers and technically minded entrepreneurs can now afford to “hire” junior dev level LLMs to help them complete their projects and achieve their goals. Further, it isn’t limited to programming but also encompasses every other job that can be done through writing. Every inch of ladder that is lost in corporate employment is paid back in feet of self employment.
You’re making me envious. Before I went consulting that is all I knew, now there is only darkness.
The simple part is UX people working with UX stuff, such as GTK or QT themes. The hard to impossible part is getting a typical open source UNIX desktop to look and behave as cohesive as Windows or Mac. It's a technology issue and not an asset issue.

As for beautiful UIs QT has made a step forward with the Qt Quick and Qt Designer which allow a more UX workflow for the UI as opposed to old school dialog/form design.
I think a major part of the issue is the psychological need for moral consistency. The Holy Madman donates almost all of his money and time to helping those in the most need.

Almost all people would hate to be a Holy Madman - he is a bound slave forced by moral law to voluntarily make his quality of life hell forever for as long as there are people in a worse kind of hell. If you accept opting into charity to a moderate degree out of genuine moral concern (as opposed to status seeking or genuine enjoyment), then usually you also ought indulge more fully.
Not quite what you're asking for, but I do have SyncThing sync all my ebooks to all my devices (phone, laptop, desktop) except my eink reader, and it's very nice! I've thought about trying to get SyncThing set up on a modded Remarkable or something to complete things. As a sibling pointed out, the files are small enough it's pretty easy to have the entire library on every device, and the peace of mind & convenience for planes, etc is wonderful.
I'm vaguely familiar with these topics. StarCitizen is a controversial game, if I'm not mistaken? What's this website about?
See also DevUtils for Mac: https://devutils.com
Hint: hands are very difficult to draw. Also faces and that’s why most cartoons are animals.
A few more would exist as native than the ones that already do and the rest we could use them through the browser. It's not like the UX is that different anyway...
Leachate analysis says otherwise: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00431...
$600M buys you a lot of TBDs apparently.

If this game ever actually comes out and doesn't cure at least one type of cancer the weirdest online people are going to be furious.
Whistleblower alleges Booz Allen was overcharging U.S. taxpayers for losses
Metallurgy is super interesting. The fact that metals - these crystals that would be super brittle and stiff except for a few dislocations - can creep like this is amazing.

My (slightly) tongue-in-cheek proposal for Arecibo: drones. Instead of trying to hold one big antenna up with huge cables, you use an array of antennas flying above the dish on drones. This allows for low cost, easy beam steering (within the limits of the shape of the dish), adaptation for different frequencies, quick stowing when weather arrives, etc. Even station-keeping to the required accuracy doesn't seem that hard (you might have to do some active phase correction). Disadvantages are that you'd need to digitize on each drone (which might bust the whole scheme, SNR-wise), and that drones are quite electrically noisy.

More here: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/11/arecibo.html
Ah, in that case we're on the same page. I'm expecting at least a factor of 1000 to be possible given the apparent higher efficiency of the human brain vs current computers, which is of course terrifying given how good and cheap the various creative AI already are, while also seeming like a prerequisite for robotic/car AI to be all three of "good enough", "fast enough", and "within the limited power budget".
The ideal solution is to separate and capture useful minerals and metals from the waste, but the current (lack of) cost effectiveness is presently a steep barrier to adoption.
> Do dynamically-typed languages inherently damage the environment? Or is it the fossil fuels?

My opinion is that slow languages that use 10x the electricity, with no ROI for the 10x energy use is bad.

High energy use, even if it's clean energy, implies a higher environmental toll. If a country were solely using nuclear and solar, higher energy use results in (1) more nuclear reactors constructed, and (2) more solar panels built. The manufacture and construction of both has an environment cost. Of course, with fossil fuels, the damage to the environment is potentially a lot worse.

> Not that the appeal to the environment matters

I don't think higher energy use is inherently bad. If we can improve the quality of life for human beings, then IMO a higher energy use is justified. I don't really believe in degrading our quality of life to lower our energy use.

My problem with many popular slow languages is that they have a negative ROI for the higher electricity cost. In exchange for 10x the energy use, you have a language that results in less-readable code (a serious issue), that causes more bugs / less-reliable software, etc. We literally a get negative ROI in exchange for 10x the energy use. Which is absurd and illogical.

If Hindley–Milner type inference had been more prevalent in the 1990s, I have a feeling dynamically-typed languages would have never take off. We're moving back to static typing with mypy, TypeScript, etc., but I'm hoping we move away entirely soon from using slow languages for writing servers serving large numbers of users.

If we actually got something in exchange for it, it wouldn't bother me so much.
Underrated comment. When I was growing up I would often read books and do math problems for fun because there was not much else to do. Now I am constantly on the internet watching things and using my brain very little.
> I felt back then that this community had a very unhealthy relationship with the quality of their software and the work of security researchers.

Or they felt like some of us feel about Tesla/Musk unleashing cars with "Full" "Self-Driving" on public roads.
This was an idea of the infamous Romanian communist dictator Ceausescu: he wanted to feed the whole of Bucharest in a single giant canteen. Unfortunately he was toppled and killed in 1989 before this idea could come to fruition.
Solvent-extracted hydrogenated seed oils for one thing.

Canola is an industry term, not Latin plant name, but why would culture repressed by toxic ersatz foodstuffs and microplastics care to know about brassica seeds?
My unfortunate personal experience with various teams is that Scrum is too often an excellent way to close tickets if you don't care very much about quality.

The whole dynamic of fixed-length iterations and "commitment ceremonies" puts heavy social pressure on developers to hit lots of tiny deadlines. And when minor estimation errors occur, there's a risk of developers shipping code that technically meets requirements, but which subtly compromises quality or maintainability. But hey, they kept their promises!

And then you hold retrospectives where you try to find out why production is a dumpster fire and the clients are unhappy.

Even skilled software estimators may be off by 50% on individual features. Over time, this mostly averages out. But chopping time up too finely and applying social pressure to consistently hit lots of micro-deadlines has to be paid for somewhere.

I am personally a fan of Kanban: Keep a priority queue of features. Estimate them as best you can. Allow decision makers to reorder the queue as they learn about customers. This still gives you rough estimates, and the ability to track estimation accuracy. But it doesn't back team members into a corner where they feel pressured to ship two days to soon just because it's the end of the iteration.
Not hydroponics at all but you may be interested in precision fermentation like Solar Foods is developing which could replace a substantial amount of the grain and soy we grow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/24/green-...
I know the words on this site. But I dont know what they mean. "Quantum Economy Scaling", "Subsumption AI", "pCache". Can someone ELI5?

~Im assuming this has to do with a service mesh and kubernetes of some sort. But I'm a bit lost.~

Edit: Ah! Seems like this is a game. But I still have no idea what any of this means :)
And how do you feel about leaded gasoline?
the presentation: https://github.com/ashvardanian/Stringzilla/blob/main/bench/... provides more information (just in case you may have missed it)