skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gore said in that talk that a number of countries are still increasing their production of fossil fuels. There's nothing we can do, short of war, to force other countries to stop releasing CO2, so it seems to me that carbon capture is the only solution. As the article says, "That fight of leave it in the ground we're not going to win."

The top comment makes effective carbon capture sound impossible, but to put it in perspective, the Interstate Highway System in the US alone used "enough [aggregates] to make 700 mounds the size of the largest Egyptian pyramids."[1]

If the numbers here are right, carbon capture would be (very) roughly 2x the size of the IHS, compressed into a single year, and repeated every year. An enormous project, but spread out across many willing nations, and perhaps helped by the fact that CO2 diffuses naturally through the atmosphere and doesn't have to be transported like sand and gravel.

Difficult but doable, if the political will existed.

1: https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/interstate-system/5...
I did some similar experiments some time ago. It includes Makefiles, Rakefiles, SASS, Ruby erb, Jade, m4, and a few other tools.

https://github.com/W4RH4WK/static-page-generators

Over all, I quite like Ruby since it comes with rake and erb.
He's 88 years old and has been sitting on this information not cashing in for 60 years.
Well, JFK’s nephew is running for president.
Literally all ideas about carbon capture make sense when you think about the main goal of all urgent projects: draining public money from the taxpayers and storing it into offshore accounts
Wouldn't using containers help with that? Stabilizing the whole environment by pinning it to a known-working distribution + version.
If having fewer magnets means less rare earth consumption for the same performance, then that's a benefit in itself - the same one as is being claimed for this motor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37454238
Ask the jeweller to put one natural rock on a table, among 1 synthetic and 8 Zircons, and let she choose the one she likes more.
Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Functional Language (1998) [pdf]
This a fascinating wiki entry. Thank you for making HN a more interesting place for all.

On a separate note, it seems the ornate courtship is offset with regular polygamy. I might be reading too much into it and try to extrapolate to human behavior, which is way more messy.
> Crazy that he chose to keep this secret for six decades. I wonder what possible reason he could have to bring it up now. Hmm, hmm, hmm.

Maybe because he's 88 years old and likely to die soon? More or less a deathbed confession.

Consider that Watergate's "Deep Throat" Mark Felt only came forward at age 91.
Right now I haven't gotten past the drawing board phase. But I have spent more than a few hours hashing out the morality of the idea with friends and family. In the end, I always come back to the fact that the tech itself would HAVE TO BE FOSS; Ipso facto, the extent of any guardrails would have to be limited to sternly worded recommendations for how it SHOULD be used.
Much like the stance that the US NAVY has taken with the TOR project.

Edit:

However, I also know that the average grieving person doesn't necessarily have the skills or desire to compile source, fine-tune a llm, etc..., so there would most likely be an opportunity for people to create a paid turnkey system wherein a digital archivist helps the grieving person create the avatar.
In such a system, I would probably recommend that the product be tied with:

1) A Grief Counselor

2) a nag system for when interaction time reaches unhealthy levels

3) some method of alerting the grief counselor directly when certain thresholds of toxic interaction are met
Trying to derail the money train, are we?
Chinese scientists say breakthrough a step towards scalable quantum computation
I drank sooo much canned coffee during my time in Japan. I really wish it was regularly available in the US. You can get Starbucks drink nonsense but I want real, decent god-fearing black coffee.

You can get the Japanese stuff at Asian markets near me, and I do regularly, but it’s not nearly as convenient as it being in convenience stores.
I guess is the equivalent of Waschküche in Switzerland? A most hated institution which fortunately is slowly dying out
Use margin: auto, unless you want to make people mad in which case XHTML just gives you the much more convenient and less semantic <center>
Australia and New Zealand have probably the best coffee (on average) of anywhere I've been, if you like milk drinks. The UK has a lot of fantastic coffee shops, but it's still overrun with Costas and a lot of places have added flat whites to their menu, even though they can't make them well.
when firefox started lagging because there were to many open tabs, i took advantage of that lazy loading feature and restarted the browser, causing all tabs except the active ones to remain unloaded.

now i installed an extension that suspends tabs that are not visited for a while. that keeps active tabs to a few dozen, so i never have to restart any more because of that.

apparently i have more than 3700 tabs (spread over a dozen windows, each window for a somewhat defined activity, which should make cleaning out a bit easier, since tabs are related, although i would still have to take some time off to clean through all off them).
direct link to document, https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...
My point about the 30% rule for rent is that you calculate that based on pre-tax income. I provided median post-tax income, so to get pre-tax you need to know how much people are paying in taxes.

I really don't understand your point here since it truly seems more emotional than data-based. Why are you focused on mortgages / home ownership as opposed to being able to afford to live somewhere? What do vacancy rates have to do with affordability? Why don't you provide a single concrete example of a majority of Canadians being unable to afford rent or being "filtered out" as you originally claimed? All your points here are tangential and don't support the argument.

"Canada is completely messed up" is a common refrain online these days, but I just don't see it either in the data or in talking to friends who live outside the Vancouver/Toronto popular areas.
I got a Minitel (I think it was a 1B) a few years ago and did a few things to get it up and useable as a small terminal.

First was, my version required a key combination to be input in sequence to trigger the video mode change from whatever the original was to roughly double the lines/chars, then turn off local echo, and up the baud rate from 1200 to 4800. And unfortunately I could not send these keystrokes over the serial port.

I had considered attempting some sort of ROM hack to enable these modes all the time but never went through with it (also my main ROM was soldered to the board, not removable like some later models)

Eventually what I did was use a Teensy uC and a system of optocouplers wired to the keyboard matrix that 'pressed keys' in the right order at the right time to enable the mode I needed automatically on powerup. Timing was difficult as if I attempted to 'press' the keys too quickly or exactly together it would misinterpret or drop the commands.

Now that the terminal would auto-configure itself upon power on, a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B running Raspbian in CLI-only mode with a wifi dongle was shoved inside it and hardwired to the serial port (with a TTL level shifter between it and the Pi's UART) and I had this setup running a few small programs I wrote to display weather, stocks quotes, 'screensavers' etc.

I had the unit on my kitchen countertop by my coffee machine and for a while would turn it on every morning to check news and whatnot. Something about it was just super satisfying; the limited information meant my morning coffee wasn't overwhelming- just the day's weather, a few stock quotes, and a few headlines pulled from the BBC. All with this super cozy glow on the white-on-gray CRT.

Unfortunately I eventually pulled it off my countertop and cannibalized the machine for other projects. The whine of the CRT wasn't something I wanted in my kitchen running all day. The little keyboard was cute but the keys made any lengthy input tortuous. And the power draw just for the nostalgia factor every morning didn't make a lot of sense when I have my laptop nearby anyway. I have no idea what the power consumption was but the little guy could put off some heat that is for sure.

Sadly practicalities won out over the aesthetic.
Neither autographed memorabilia nor original paintings are regularly produced through the systematic exploitation and murder of entire populations, and neither autographed memorabilia nor original paintings had their value fabricated through a sales campaign which leveraged romantic conventions of western culture.

It’s not really a reasonable comparison.
Net negative carbon emissions requires money. Somebody will have to pay a lot of money to capture and sequester that carbon. Their plan is to have the oil pay for it, but eventually it will have to be us.

Their solution doesn't solve the problem, but it's a step on the path towards a solution.
Around the time glossy displays became fashionable a colleague of mine got a new laptop
from work. He opened it and there was a huge scratch across the display. So he went to his boss and asked if he could send the laptop back, because of the damaged display.

He sent it in, got it back after a while, but the scratch was still there, so he sent it in again.

A couple of days latter he was called into the bosses office to pick up the fixed laptop again. Boss gave it to him and casually remarked that he'd better check if the display was OK this the. Colleague opened it right there and - big surprise - the scratch was sure still there.

After he'd stopped cussing, while his boss was silently looking at him, boss - still without saying a word - tore away the protective film, which just happened to have a big crease across the screen, to reveal a flawless glossy surface.
In my town, there are "sudden killings" of let's say a particular person. No reason why they would be killed or they were a particular target, but everyone is saying " there is no reason to kill this person".

The authorities, in the coming weeks, months do a "shootout" where another person is killed and they declare "in an operation today, we killed the perpetrator of the previous killing. Case closed".

No one is arrested, no suspect is made public before the second shooting and no one asks why no due process was followed.

Its like clockwork and we can count out such instances in more than 2 dozen in the past 20 years if not less.
Adding a pinch of m4 [1] can give you a bit more of flexibility while sticking with the same barebones approach.

I used to maintain a small website built like that some 20 years back. But I can't see the model working today, personal websites excluded. The problem is that the approach essentially enforces Web 1.0 roles: You either need every contributing user to be html-proficient, or someone willing to assume the drudgery of being the "webmaster".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language)
Or more likely, like with the Lidl story last week, the domain expires, gets bought by some spammer, and will host Chinese porn ads in perpetuity.
Author here. Thank you for pointing this out! I have updated the post.

Boss was launched in 1992 (which was already a long time after canned coffee had taken off in the 70s) and only hired Tommy Lee Jones in 2006.
Why? Even in the day these were mostly used as novelty, party cameras or for shots you didn't want the photo finishing shop to see.
The problem with conversations about this topic and similar topics (9/11) is that almost no-one who cares about the topic deeply enough to have an argument about it online is interested because they're just super into ballistics and forensics and don't care about the political implications. It's all motivated reasoning because they don't like the _implications_ of the official story for whatever reason (or, alternatively, the conspiratorial reading), or they're selling something to the people who don't like the official story (or the conspiracy).

You think you're having an argument with someone about the facts and what you're actually doing is having a conversation with someone who is deeply invested in defending their _entire world view_ which means they just can't accept whatever argument you're trying to make. You can go after each argument they make and dispense with them in turn, and they'll continue to invent new ones -- for decades if they have to. It's like trying to argue with a christian fundamentalist about the logical impossibilities of noah's ark. And it really doesn't matter _who is right_. Nobody is going to be arguing in good faith about it. Probably if you're about to comment on this post, you've got some motivated reasoning behind it that has nothing to do with finding out what really happened.
From my experience, the feeling that "Node.js ecosystem is more-or-less completely broken" comes only when you're trying to create package supporting both CommonJS and ESM (see https://gist.github.com/sindresorhus/a39789f98801d908bbc7ff3...). Just rip the ban-aid and convert all your code to ESM and you'll be much happier (otherwise you experience something like https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2023/08/esm-modernization-...).
Well that is the reason for it to exist, vs. straight rm? I wouldn't do that to someone, at least not without asking, either.
> While the kernel per se is solid, the userland has zero backwards compatibility

That is entirely wrong.

It is not because your latest distribution does not provide old/antique glibc by default that it means you can not run it.

It is currently pretty trivial to get a 20 years old glibc (or whatever library) recompiled under Linux to run your old game and call it a day.

Software like Nix nowadays even make that surprisingly easy with sandboxing.

That is currently the strength OSS and something you will never be able to do on Windows. As long as the version used is known and the source not lost: Software lives forever.
Element Six [1] makes all sorts of synthetic diamonds for industrial and analytical applications. Some are actually quite cheap, although there’s some irony perhaps in that they’re a DeBeers subsidiary.

We use these diamonds in my lab for experiments with nitrogen vacancy centers, which are an interesting platform for solid state qubits.

1. https://e6cvd.com/
GitHub – promptfoo/promptfoo: Test your prompts
I've clearly been reading too much AI stuff...though that's a 1B parameter model...
The asymmetric nature is great for smaller manpower counties. Drones will equalise combat for smaller countries and reorient it to capital and industrial capabilities.
While you're correct that whitepapers can mislead, you really should provide an alternative reputable source or give potential methodological critiques rather than mere motive disparagement.
Going to need proof. Others who've tried this have not been able to reproduce the result.
When I said I used alt tab to switch contexts I meant applications as I said I run my applications full screen.
> a pinch of m4

nononononononononono for the love of everything please no

m4 isn't even a good esolang!
I have fond memories of growing up with Casey's pizza. I pick it up any time I am back in the Midwest.

I can't place it, but it has its own distinct charm.
Funny I am setting up a blog with Pelican which uses “make” for executive control.
Geoengineering is like an emergency tracheotomy. It might keep us alive for a bit and we might end up needing it, but it isn’t a solution - just a desperate patch that buys us a little more time.
Nowadays Italian coffee is more about the machines and various methods of extraction than the beans themselves. I assume at some point the northeastern African connection provided Italy with better quality coffee than what was available in America but globalization and small batch roasters changed that.
I got a natural diamond for my fiancé but with a twist: it's an old stone that the jeweler I choose recycled from old jewelry. Same for the gold, she's used old gold
Just want to say, I don’t follow or play this game at all (tried it once or twice years ago but that’s it), but that was a fascinating read! Very interesting from both the ludology and business perspectives.
>The rock is a rock, but its exaorbitant price serves as a threshold for potential mate selection.

Indeed, but don't we already have much more practical things that serve the same purpose? For example a nice house/apartment or a car. Things we own, even what kind of furniture we have. All this communicates ones ability to provide for a family better than a rock. Gold itself is much better (preferably in bars or coins, not jewellery).

The problem with diamonds isn't that they are only a token of value. The problem is that they are extremely overvalued during the first purchase in jewellery. If one could buy an engagement ring for $10k then 10 years later sell it and make profit with regards to inflation (like it was a gold coin/bar) I would have no problem with it.
I was there 3,000 years ago… I used SSI’s in the late 90s/early 2000’s before replacing all that with PHP which was a huge step up at the time. I am more than familiar.

The convenience here is largely in being able to use GitHub Pages to host the page while being able to do almost anything you want for a build process. It’s really neat.
I am not a regular submitter, so I didn't know this was in the guidelines.
I suspect this ZF motor is like what is described in this paper [1]. An air gapped transformer is used to transmit power to the rotor and diodes rectify it. See Figure 1.

This [2] appears to give a good summary of PSM vs ASM vs EESM and introduces iEESM (i is for inductive excitation instead of brushes, sounds like the ZF motor) at slide 14.

[1] Design of Inductive Power Transmission into the Rotor of an Externally Excited Synchronous Machine

https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1226682/1226682.pdf

[2] https://cdn.vector.com/cms/content/events/2018/vEMOB18/01_In...
Interesting. So I'm a weird sort, I imagine, in that I'm the type that has been using Linux and shell scripts for 20+ years, but never actually done any big-time coding, and thus I really don't know "make."

Point being, I do something very similar to this; except I first simply write/create my website in Zim-wiki, but then I have a bunch of little tasks to "clean up," i.e. fix/modify some links and then use the Canvas API to update my main course page (which, because I hate Canvas that much, simply links out to my own site).

Why make instead of shell scripts?
A 2.5 meter (8 foot) wall topped with very floppy chicken coop fencing dangling outward from the top. They absolutely hate it because it doesn't feel stable (which it isn't)... And closing off every hole at ground level, I have to admit that I have a new appreciation of the size holes that cats can get through.

If there is an Einstein amongst cats I think there is still a viable path through a tree that is relatively close to fence but it would require some pretty tricky jumps and there would be no way back out.
Very informative overall, but:
jiffy (I heard the inventor of the word it’s pronounced giffy BTW). From Wikipedia: "First attested in 1780" If you said in a giffy I (and my parents) would wonder what kind of a container a giffy was. If you said Giffy (Jiffy) Lube I might know you were refering to a place to get your oil changed from context. If you said you were going to make a GIF sandwich (Jif peanut butter) I would be very confused because what does an image format have to do with a sandwich?
My personal website (https://pablo.rauzy.name/) used to be generated using a simple Makefile.

Then I added features like news and an RSS feed, a way to automatically list my research publications and course materials, a list of books filterable with tags, etc. So now it still is a Makefile but the Makefile itself is a bit simpler than it used to be, but it calls a few Bash scripts that in particular make use of the awesome xml2 and 2xml utilities to be able to manipulate HTML in a line-oriented manner using the core utils (grep and sed mostly).

On top of that I have a few git hooks that call make automatically when needed, in particular on the remote server where the website is hosted so that the public version is rebuilt when I push updates the repository there.

It's been working like a charm for years! My git history goes back to 2009.

EDIT: I just had a look at the first commits…

beccad7 (FIRST_VERSION) Initial commit
d1cc6d7 adding link to Google Reader shared items
6ccfd0c fix typo
d337959 adding link to Identi.ca account

… 15 years have passed indeed.
My high school friends and I built a website and web forum for us to chat about our LAN parties. We also spent one summer turning a dirt space beneath one guy's house into an epic lan room - we put in floors and carpeting and lighting and tables. So awesome.

Some of the best memories of my childhood.
I would try to order online next time someone is coming from USA. KEH is one of the sites I planned check to order from.

(Local scene isn’t really great where I live. I tried.)
What does make bring to the table here compared to a shellscript which loops over the files in the source dir?
Every 5.x release these videos come up and it's never a big deal.
Makefiles honestly are just glorified shell scripts. Some of the syntax is a little odd, but you trade that for a more standarized format and the ability to add different build options without mucking around with argparse yourself.
>How do you think the “carbon” got into the ground in the first place. You’re being gaslit.

When the carbon deposits formed some parts of plants/animals did not break down, because a microorganism that could break them down hadn't evolved yet. They essentially just piled up for millions of years. Eventually such microorganisms did appear and that's why wood rots.

Commercial growers add CO2 to their greenhouses because plants grow bigger when the CO2 in the atmosphere is in higher concentrations. But when the plant dies all that CO2 goes back into the atmosphere.

Our problem isn't oxygen, our problem is too much carbon.
Please give a reference to any textbook or paper that defines real numbers in such a purposefully useless way as you do it, and I'll reconsider my position. Otherwise I think you're just playing semantic games, trying to redefine well-known terms - in which case you should not be surprised that people don't understand you.
TypeScript Prevents Bad Things and Good Things
> It’s an amazing bit of history.

Sure, it's the obsessing over conspiracy theories that I don't get. There's no way to verify the various speculations, so what's the point?
This _could_ be the ideal keyboard. But to find out, I'd have to invest a lot of hours of effort for DIY and/or spend a lot of money. And then what if it's terrible in the end?

This is part of the challenge I face, so I am living with MS ergonomic keyboards until I can either try one of these first, or take a risk.
The syntax takes a little trial and error and usually finding real-world examples, but I like "make".

I had one project that involved downloading a jdk, using it to build a project specific jre, patching some class files with local java sources, bundling it, etc.

Without being a make expert, it took me a couple of hours of reading, finding examples, etc...but now I have the dependency stuff working perfectly. Where it now only re-downloads or re-builds things if something upstream from it changed, handles errors well and points out what broke, etc.

All that to say, for some things, it's worth looking into for it's built-in dependency chain stuff. When you need to run arbitrary outside scripts/tools, it sometimes does things that other build tools can't (gradle in my case, couldn't easily do this, or at least I couldn't figure out how).