skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m not sure Microsoft was ever beloved

They were very beloved, back when they were a scrappy upstart in the 1970s.
Why not? One molecule of CH4 produces exactly one molecule of CO2 when burned. Not more, not less. A mole of any gas occupies the same volume, about 22.4 liters. If you pump all the CO2 produced in the gas field you extracted the methane from, it's a one to one replacement. Since the natural gas could stay there for many millions of years, the CO2 could also stay there for some millions of years.

I personally can't identify a fundamental technological reason why carbon sequestration could not be done at scale. Why do you think it would not work?

Obviously, right now it does not work because why would it? There is no incentive. But if we put a tax on carbon emissions, then I don't see why carbon sequestration could not be a scalable solution.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46676
You can swap the keycaps too
In the USA we transfer a lot of freight by rail.

Trucks are used when rail isn't practical or doesn't exist.
These are the same people that changed Skype from a decentralized to a centralized tappable one at the behest of Three Letter Agencies.
> Then have police report it whenever they pull you over for any reason.

Ah yes, the old have the police collect more information on you idea. What could go wrong?
My thoughts on the demise of the North American station wagon:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324322
I think decoupling is the right word. These south East Asian countries were unindustrialized nations before the hundreds of billions of foreign direct investment and hundreds of billions of intellectual property that transferred from the West to the East.

America exported its manufacturing know how for decades, and now it is taking it back as the trade is no longer as favorable. Seems rational to me. SE Asia came out a huge winner in the process, and now the time has come to stand up their tech and manufacturing in their own.

Much ado about nothing imho.
China’s one child policy is actually even more dramatic because before that, Mao was telling everyone to have more kids, and it worked a little too well.
As others mentioned, the road wear scales with the per-axle weigth. With that in mind I checked out the website and I'm puzzled.

Up to 3 axles, indeed the tax is LOWER if the same weight is over 3 axles rather than 2. Well done, makes sense.

But then, at the 4 axles table, suddenly the prices for weights between 12000 and 20999 kg are all higher than their correspondents in the 2- and 3- axle tables.

What are they try to accomplish here? "Don't put a 4+ axle vehicle on the road unless you will carry at least 21 tons with it?"
My work laptop with Windows just got a notification yesterday requesting me to install some game from the XBox Live store which certainly seemed like a bad use of system notifications. Haven't got any popups though.
OpenAI predicted to generate over $1B
>As long as you don’t display the swastika gratuitously (there is no blanket ban), you’re quite free to organize a racist political party and takes seats in the government.

No.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-ge...
Wondering if anyone in the HN community has had a chance to play with this (or the SR1) and had any thoughts to share.
Oh no, not the scammy casino games targeting children with advertising. What will we do without them? Some people might even be able to charge money for games without advertising instead!
No, that can't be done without some sort of political monetary union. India and China will never agree to join the same monetary union. Their interests aren't aligned. Russia has to maintain good relations with both India and China, and can't afford to piss off either one. And South Africa is rapidly collapsing into a failed state with a dysfunctional economy; lately they can't even keep the lights on. It's all just talk, a total joke.
> embodied CO2 from manufacturing, indirect impacts from increased demand for parking, demand for larger parking spaces

Why would electric cars be any worse than combustion cars for these?
How might life migrate through the universe?
My mistake, thanks for the clarification.

Anyway, Google re-implemented the Java API in many areas, not just wrote code to interact with it. Either way, I think a loadable module would fall under similar treatment.
Who are "we" in this scenario? Over the last 70 years the United States has undergone an extreme course of social engineering whereby every aspect of our lives was re-centered around the car. That could never have happened without government powers and subsidies.
From the article, wrt how the economist claims that decoupling is phoney because the underlying export by china in the process remains the same:

> Startlingly, however, The Economist provides no actual data to support this claim.

Ha! This was a reason I unsubscribed from the economist. A lot of times it makes broad claims and then leaves out the details to support said claim. Almost like it expects the reader to treat the economist like a first hand source and therefore no citation needed.

Good on the author for calling this out and then rebutting with details of their own (not necessarily supporting author’s claims though since I haven’t had time to really think about it just yet).
That's OK. The farmer, supermarket or whatever who can more efficiently transport their goods will have a small advantage.
Well.. you asked for it!

I use my laptop running Linux for everything. I store files in the usual suspects (~/Documents, ~/Videos, ~/Pictures) etc. I also have ~/Storage for random files/isos/vm images, etc. I use ~/Workspace for my local code.

I use dejadup to automatically encrypt and backup core files to my remote server that runs my personal site. This backs up files like my ssh keys, gpg keys, environment configs, secrets, gnu pass vault, etc.

My personal server is where all of my git repositories reside. The personal server is backed up every day automatically by Linode.

I have a second nvme drive in my laptop that acts as a mirror of my main hard drive. I manually run a "backup" script every month that syncs my laptop's primary folders to the mirrored hard drive's folders. This mainly serves as a backup in the event something horrible happens to the main drive.

I have an external hard drive I also mirror to once a month. This acts as an external backup, in the event the entire laptop dies (stolen, goes up in flames, etc). This hard drive stays in a fire proof safe.

I symmetrically encrypt my ssh key and send a copy to my wife and a burner email address in the event I need my key to get inside my personal server (assuming my laptop is gone and my external drive is missing).

That's it!
Cannabis use disorder is common in one state where marijuana is legal
One CTO's quest to never type “the” again [video]
Racket is such a sadistic way to introduce programming. It's disgusting what they've done
When should you use the IN instead of the OR operator in Postgres?
My one conclusion of international travel is don't expect credit cards to be accepted and just consider it a bonus if they are. As far as AmEx, might as well leave home without it.
I don't understand why Mearsheimer doesn't move to Russia. He seems very impressed by it and have nothing negative to say.
Not soon enough! SWAT teams could use robot dogs with tear gas, beanbag rounds, etc.
It might not be a bad thing.

Most of the justification for police shootings is self defense (of the officers). A robot doesn’t have a right to self defense. It’s well established that you can’t use lethal force to protect property, and robots are property.

A mentally ill person can wave a gun in the robot’s face for as long as they like. They can even shoot and destroy the robots. (Robots are property)

I think a police robot could only shoot a suspect if the suspect posed a risk to a human.

Sending in a bunch of robots with pepper spray + tasers to subdue the armed suspect is probably much safer for everyone, including the suspect.
Why would an electric SUV have any more demand for parking than a non-electric SUV?
I’m not all that well versed in this topic, but I’d be more likely to credit Japanese Industrial Policy than Japanese Mindset.

It really seems like Japan went all in on fuel cell technology.
China has been stealing IP and flaunting WTO rules for way longer than 5 years.
When this happen, there is always a lot of inertia at first, it can take years or maybe even decades, but almost every time the denial leads to a pernicious internal erosion and a sudden collapse at the end.
> even environmentalists hate the carbon tax

That's not remotely true. The Sierra Club and the NRDC are both broadly supportive of carbon taxes, for example.
See https://www.jbpm.org/ for one approach to the problem of long-running workflows which is based on the standard

http://www.omg.org/bpmplus/

which is not quite the programming model you want but it is similarly breaking up "functions" into small bits and serializing the state so that this can happen over long terms.

What you want has been done on an experimental basis, but maybe not industrialized, see

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/734638/language-that-sup...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/145du...
As someone who's worked in various sysadmin/DevOps/SRE roles over the years, there's one passage I'd like to address:

> SRE principles to the rescue

I approve this message

> Regardless of whether you can literally deploy on a Friday

no

> “Can I deploy on a Friday afternoon?” is an awesome way to

no

> We should all be able to say yes when asked the question,

$ yes no

> if we can’t, we have some work to do to restore trust.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. I've seen deployments on a Friday when everyone had weekend plans. I've seen CI git failures with 502 bad gateway. All these moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain. Time for the pub.
Can you show the total lifecycle math where you worked this all out, or are you just asserting it without evidence?

How much bigger and heavier is an electric SUV vs a regular one? How does a ModelY compare to a Mazda CX-5 for instance?
Did the verge seriously cite a single hackernews comment as a source?

"There is a growing chorus of complaints that Google is not as accurate, as competent, as dedicated to search as it once was"

The word "growing" is a link to hackernews
So, if someone said they wanted Brad Pitt to save them from the police, how likely do you think someone will take that seriously?

I would put it in the 0.001-0.00001% possibility. If you fear the mentally ill and make policy choices on that fear, you would necessarily have to ban free speech to mitigate such low risk.
With regards to the cupholder, it's possible that Toyota is re-using parts from other vehicles which do have a third row, to bring down costs on the assembly line. Pure speculation on my part.
Ah, OK. I've actually never heard of GoG Galaxy before, and so haven't ever used it.
I have in the past[1], several times It gets old having the same false things posted over and over. often my posts[1] with the linked are also "flagged" because people here do not want to truth, they want the narrative.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36807942

[2]https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...

[3]https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-world-should-not-ne...
The Arc language, a variant of Lisp that HN is written in, has something like that. I just googled and alas wasn't able to find any examples. But, as far as I remember, you can just code stuff to produce a link and sort of say "on click, run this lisp function" (like a callback in JS etc.) and when the link is clicked, the function is run. I think it relies on all the state being kept in memory, so I'm not sure if that state (and thus the ability to click links) survives a server restart, but I could be wrong.
> Vehicle class based (I believe this is what the US uses?)

The US allows each of the states/ territories to tax and regulate vehicles separately. In other words, what I might pay in Colorado has nothing to do with what I might pay in New York for the same vehicle.
Used to be a customer of ExpressVPN but after the acquisition, it no longer worked properly in China. Mullvad somehow survives despite their server IP ranges being public
Many jurisdictions require annual inspections. Those jurisdictions could require the inspection include reporting the odometer to the state.

Adding an odometer only inspection requirement to jurisdictions that don’t currently have an inspection wouldn’t be terribly onerous. You could make a device that plugs into ODBII and reads the odometer and VIN and reports it to the state, it would take less than a minute of labor per reading. Combine that with some policies that encourage oil and lube shops to get the device and provide the reading at no extra cost when you’re doing an oil change, and most people wouldn’t see any increased costs or inconvenience.
Non-gas giant has 73 times Earth’s mass, bewildering its discoverers
That's the author's point: they still have a phone, they just found that their experience at this school has helped them break the addiction to it:

> I am now going into my junior year at Midland School. Whenever I am home, I find myself on my phone much less, and then only to catch up on my favorite TV shows and to talk to the numerous lifelong friends I have made at school. Midland helped me change how I live my life. I’m no longer dependent on a smartphone.
Or you just provide someone else’s information. Who says you have to share your true name with your supermarket? Unfortunately it’s very difficult to lie to google
On the other hand, a culture that doesn't lock up repeat offender guilty people makes every interaction with everyone potentially life-ruining. So even in that area there is a trade-off.
People will search on Tiktok for things like "how to get game working on linux" or "how to fix a computer" or whatever. They wont bother with Google and go straight to tiktok.
Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons, studies find
Hi! This is one of those rare side projects that I actually use super heavily :)

I also wrote a technical blog post about how I designed and implemented my 200 keyboard shortcuts: https://erikschluntz.com/software/2023/08/26/compressing-my-...
Wait till you hear about Saudi Arabia.
We need a high quality head mounted AR display attached to a laptop without the screen part, not a 3D screen relabeled as spatial. This is just confusing the word yet again. I have no idea why manufacturers have danced around monitor replacement so much. Starting with the power, weight, and computing requirements of a mobile environment seems counter-intuitive to starting with desktop environments and working towards mobile.
Is there any reputable survey of the tech community on this matter? Amongst the general population, Google seems to be doing pretty well. #35 on this list https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/corporate-brands-reputation...
Why did SpaceX give up on “catching” falling fairings? Its VP of launch explains
It's something that is more alien the longer ago it was that you got involved with the internet, but I've recently seen this firsthand myself and it works. It's not a general purpose search but if you put in terms related to an upcoming vacation, for example, you will find an endless stream of people's videos of any aspect of it. If your hotel has a suite you're considering, search the name and watch videos to see if it looks worth it, etc. It's basically a way of bypassing highly staged and curated ad photos or videos to see what real people recorded.

It seems more like a side effect of how everyone is trying to become an influencer than a new permanent state of being, but for the time being it can be interesting
When the USSR was around, especially near the end, China was actually a quasi-ally of the US. We sold military hardware to them until the Tiananmen Square massacre. We wanted them as a way to counter balance the USSR. Investing in China and engaging in free trade with them seemed like a reasonable way of changing them from communism to something closer to capitalism. China was willing to reform their economic system but we were much less successful in nudging them towards a democracy.

Furthermore, until 2008 and our financial meltdown, China was a willing student of the US. After 2008, China saw how we allowed our financial systems spiral out of control, they turned away and started looking for their own path.

That said, in thing in general, the world should diversify its supply lines. It's just good policy in general -- be it for political reasons, wars, natural disasters, or pandemics.
Definitely what is needed is better early detection but I know that's a can of worms of its own. I commented on the bionic pancreas article as I know it's not a solution to pancreatic cancer, but I'm hoping that continued research in this direction evolves into better diagnosis and cures.
The major driver of inefficient shipping in the United States is the Jones Act. Rail is used whenever possible.
Not the person you responded to, but this[1] is a very thorough and well-sourced criticism of the person behind the campaign to get Kiwifarms removed from Cloudflare. Sections two and three specifically go into the lies, misrepresentation and bad journalism surrounding Kiwifarms itself if you'd prefer not to read the whole thing.

[1]https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...
The probabilistic simulation argument ("we are probably in a simulation") actually requires you to reject that assumption (edit: not reject outright, but you need the assumption that observers of the real and simulated universes cannot tell the difference, so no 6D stuff). People who raise the point that the universe doing the simulation could be very different from ours don't understand what is required for the argument to work.

The simulation argument is that if you observe a universe X, and you work out that a real universe X will simulate two universes just like it, then someone who observes that they are in a universe that looks like X is probably in a simulation. That is because for every real X you have two simulated X: even if you assume that there exists a truly real and physical X, it still follows that most observers of X are simulated. I don't think our universe will simulate more observers than there are real observers, but at least this is something we can meaningfully argue about.

If, in contrast, you say that there is a universe Y, and Y simulates X, there are no interesting conclusions you can draw from that. You are comparing "X is real" to "Y is real, and Y simulates X", but there's no reason to think Y is more likely to be real than X. It's possible, but a lot of things are possible. It's not interesting.
Yeah, I'm not convinced, given GM's (and most automakers) reaction to Covid and the continuing chip shortage.

Maybe things have changed; I'd certainly be glad to hear it. But we all know of Wall Street's long history of hatred towards physical inventory.
> One can be anti-extrajudicial government powers and anti-cryptocurrency.

The trouble is the current system has failed to provide both of those at once, because of the incentive structure. The government wants the intermediary to try to prevent fraud or crimethink or what have you so they don't punish the intermediary for making mistakes, so the intermediary makes lots of mistakes and tramples over innocent people without enough power to push back.

In other words, it's much harder to have a non-abusive intermediary than to remove the intermediary.

> For one, I believe cryptocurrencies will be the government spyware of the future that allows for total control over our finances, since crypto evangelists push “code is law” and the blockchain is immutable and completely transparent.

This is true of Bitcoin to an extent but there are at least two ways to avoid this.

One, you can have a blockchain that doesn't work like that but still doesn't subject you to the whims of an intermediary, e.g. Monero.

Two, a blockchain like Bitcoin is completely transparent, but it also doesn't tie your name to your wallet or limit you to a single wallet, so in principle you can use a separate wallet for separate activities without any way for someone with only access to the blockchain to correlate them. Apps could make this easier to automate.

You could also just use a third party payment processor which is only using cryptocurrency for settlement between payment processors, so the individual transactions aren't being recorded on the blockchain. But then you don't have to, which is important to give the user leverage over the intermediaries, and make it easy to switch because anyone who accepts Bitcoin accepts Bitcoin regardless of whether or which intermediary is used to send or receive it.
Meta takes down ‘Spamouflage’ – a prolific Chinese disinformation campaign
The day I stopped using Heroku (2016)
Ironically, as a car enthusiast, I'd love to see something like this. I hate our current timeline where everyone drives a shitty crossover, manufacturers have stopped making cars altogether in favor of shitty crossovers and trucks, and it's more dangerous to drive my fun small sports cars, which ironically produce less emissions despite being performance-oriented vehicles. It is not efficient to drive a massive brick on wheels. It is also dangerous to other road users, and it subtlety leads to the psychology which increases road rage, on top of all of that it increases road wear and tire wear both of which lead to other forms of pollution (including microplastics).

Things are better in road environments where most drivers are in smaller vehicles. I love toodling around in a sports car in Europe. It's deeply painful in the US, especially in locales where the typical vehicle is a lifted truck that has a bumper height higher than the top of my head when in my car. There's way too many vehicles on American roadways that are literally /all/ negative from a societal perspective, and nearly all bad from a personal perspective, that people bought due to perverse incentives impacting manufacturing and pricing.
Banning all advertising would also destroy many small businesses. Interstate billboards are a nuisance, no doubt, but I can’t tell you how many roadside markets, small restaurants, etc I’ve visited while traveling that I’d never have known about otherwise.
No such modal with uBlock Origin and default blocklists :) (Pro-tip: if you use Android, Firefox Mobile also supports uBlock Origin) You can even import anti-paywall filter lists like:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liamengland1/miscfilters/m...
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filter...

Can't imagine browsing web with all the crapware, adds, nags, and trackers.
Probably means people use it for “how do i X”, “Y review” and other types of queries more which certainly rings true just bc of how google results for these are usually about 100% spam
Wouldn't this disproportionately affect electric semis? This would all but ensure that electric semis will never be adopted.
Cradle to grave analysis of most EVs puts them ahead on emissions, even including manufacturing, even with poor grid mixes of mostly coal power. Battery materials are also recyclable, so those manufacturing impacts should decrease over time on a per-vehicle basis.

Smaller, more efficient vehicles with smaller batteries are definitely better and should be incentivized.

If you want to compare them yourself, don't forget to include all of the externalities from drilling, transporting, and refining petroleum before it reaches the pump. Tailpipe vs tailpipe certainly doesn't tell the whole story.
But it also influences behaviours. This could be switching to smaller vehicles (which may not be a net-reduction in carbon dioxide emissions), or alternate means of transportation; perhaps in some areas rail freight becomes viable, or encouraging local production of goods.
Trucks are not the only way to move goods.