skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never had UCC but that sounds a lot like what cheap instant coffee tastes like to me. Initially I thought it might be an auto reaction to old break rooms when people were allowed to smoke so I associated instant coffee with cigarette smoke, but I had a cold brew in a bottle the other day and that same sensation happened.
OMG I had a manager do this... I asked him to email me a bug report and he sent me a PPT.

Honestly he could have written a 2-line email. He probably thought he was giving me Important Information. But as I got to know the guy I realised he was just an idiot.
I really hope that in my lifetime, and hopefully very soon, manual SLRs make a comeback. If not a come back then started manufacturing of the old greats again. I loved the photography but not the disposable digital photography. No, I was never an expert photographer and I don’t even want to be one. I just loved taking photos and the whole process of it and the fact that you couldn’t just take any number of photos you want.

I also looked and take photos and then again looked at those photos. These people just take photos and never and never look at those photos usually again.
Hero.

There are very, very few things more despicable than cheating in sport. Any victory against that vile rot is to be highly commended.
> I am waiting

1997 calling, they say they have that wysiwyg tool you’ve been waiting for.
Imagine how long it actually takes to build one structure like that, even with modern techniques.

You're perhaps thinking of how long it took to build more modern mega-buildings like the Empire State Building or Burj Khalifa. But those are much lighter weight than the great pyramid (365k tonnes and 500k tonnes respectively, compared to the 6M tonnes of the great pyramid).

Building even one such pyramid per year would be a huge project for a wealthy industrial state. And there aren't 1500 wealthy industrial states in the world to help with the others.
I think its meant that all revenue for the sports will go down, so also player salary bargaining positions
If you have a predictable pricing regime can you vary the power load on a diurnal cycle? Say, drawing more at noon and less at 7pm each day? If so it could still be useful to shape the demand curve (ie use power when solar is cheapest so that meeting the evening peak doesn’t require as much overprovisioning) even though this doesn’t help with inter-day variability of supply.

The problem I’ve always seen with this sort of plan is that the refinery is extremely expensive and so you don’t want it idle; it’s cheaper to overbuild solar than to turn off your refinery for 25% of the day. But interested if this applies here, maybe the energy-intensive bits can be made cheaply?
> Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky

A.k.a. plants?
I think it was more likely an emergent effect of rubbish file system and disk cache behaviour, little or no prefetching, etc, than any coordinated activity in SMB?
Even if you ignore the difficulties of start / stop the factories and imagine we have a new manufacturing process that can be restarted immediately, having idle factories and employees sitting around doing nothing for half a day would be a huge money sink
Getting another turn? Two blue mana sounds about fair.

Back in my day: https://web.archive.org/web/20220529033205/https://magic.wiz...
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They may be hard to find, but in the Netherlands - you can't find them. There are a few "paid" toilets (if you have exact change) in the cities (Rotterdam, Amsterdam) and maybe other places.

Needless to say, if you go out - just plan on holding it in until you get home.
Yes, Doom! I am reading this and I think to myself: nobody here was kid/teenager in 90s?

It was Doom on 8-10 school computer network PCs for me, absolutely fantastic times!
Okay, you cram as much housing as you want in an area, then what? Just because you build X number of houses does not mean that X number of people will move there. That is what I'm saying, your order of cause and effect is reversed.
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News to me that they have. I am still regularly encountering them.
It's what I've observed, and experienced through personal interactions.

The sample size of the people I've interacted with is admittedly very small.
I am always impressed by the collective memory of HN commenters.
All screenshots are from Microprose Magic.
My 600SE has been largely out for action for years, with only a trickle of film available. Results were predictable when Polaroid and Fuji peel-apart film were available.
The modern Polaroid film is anything but predictable or even vaguely good, especially for the astronomical prices. Zink gives about the same qualities.

Fuji Instax in all its forms won this battle and there’s a cottage industry of Instax-holding backs being 3D-printed to retro-fit older cameras like the 600SE or anything with a Graflok connection.

That said, if the outcome of modern Polaroids is exactly what you’re after and an SX70 is not your cup of tea, here’s your new toy.
If you want something that's not "libraries on libraries," use Angular. And if you don't like Angular, you have proved my point, that the "integrated approach" is simply not good, because you cannot make your own decisions to improve parts you don't like. Hence why I said I use React and not Angular.
Charcoal is stable in the ground at least for a couple of centuries, probably longer, and reasonably good for plants. So you can just till it under or bury it.
No way, you can't run a factory for 1 hours a day. Aluminum is only "solidified electricity" under normal circumstances. Not when capex is 24x because the normal price of electricity in the UK for most of the day is ~7x what you'd pay in Texas (which isn't even that cheap globally)
I have made the dehyped title more conspicuous. Still working to improve comment summaries.
Flotilla of boats carries atomic clock on Thames
My 20 min mile went down to 16 min pretty quick!
Thanks! I have asked it to surface more controversial and surprising viewpoints now.
> As I recall, they bundled the entire VB interpreter into every executable. This seemed scandalous to me at the time.

You probably don’t want to know how Electron works then!
I would suggest we bury the carbon instead of building pyramids from it. That seems a lot simpler.
Canada does not have a housing supply problem. That is the big lie told by governments to make themselves look good. It's mostly a cost of money problem. When the cost of money was near zero for so long, especially during the pandemic, people loaded up on debt, increasing the demand for houses, driving prices to insane levels. Now that the cost of money has increased to the (historically low) level of 5%, the demand for housing has decreased, listings are flooding the market, and prices are falling.
I was shocked to see the price tag on this. On the other hand, I could see it being used as mostly a marketing tool to provide an aspirational product to essentially set an anchor price that makes all their other lines feel more affordable. I honestly found that when I looked at their product line, all of a sudden, a $150 instant camera felt "affordable" after seeing the $600 one. I won't be buying one, but this had some small effect on me.
People Sitting on Stoops on a Fine Day in New York City in the Late 1970s
> the foldable sx70 is just too nice. who wants to carry around a brick?

Edwin Land was the Steve Jobs of that era, the SX70 was the iPod of that era. His Wikipedia page: a pathetic 3,000 words. Dieter Rams (another Jobsian figure) doesn't figure much better, but nothing he ever designed was as big as the SX70, as brilliant as he was. And Land was actual scientist, he made meaningful technologies for WW2, he's practically a war hero, and yet, who the fuck knows who he is outside of Walter Isaacson readers?

Polaroid.com picked some cool photographers. It feels like social media adjacent stuff without being so low brow. I'm surprised they didn't do Elsa Dorfman. They are missing a lot of opportunities with the heritage. Of course they didn't show me a Andy Warhol, but then again, they probably don't have the rights to do that.

If you're going to be a heritage brand, you ought to think how to equip the greats, the Weegees and the Diane Arbuses, who could surely make interesting stuff with a Polaroid. But if they lived today, they'd use a D700 and an ultrawide, a DSLR composes a lot better than an LCD screen or an EVF and sensor technology has practically peaked in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RyiS-mrp1c). The real problem is that Apple is so painfully apolitical, social media photography on iPhones is the layperson equivalent of crapstraction, so they'll never deliver something advertises that it's for "getting the shot," they'll stick to advertising that it's for "getting the shot [of the totally uncontroversial everyman thing that is personally interesting / sentimental only to you]." You know, something consumerist and literally disposable, like a polaroid.
Where will I go? Anywhere but Flexport
This is the result of a poor org structure and poor leadership, not something particular to SRE.
The devil is always in the details.

I can see this improving things simply because the possibility/process of accountability is likely to result in more responsible behavior from everyone.

But I can see your point too.
Yeah but normal people tend to refuse to be the ones to suffer when we have private jets producing more than our cars emit in a year in a single flight.
We’ll destroy the upper class before we let them use climate change to destroy the lower classes.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— E. W. Dijkstra
Plants are basically self-replicating solar panels with efficient CO2 removal & storage.
Man you’d be a popular politician
I remember being terrified of applying my aftermarket Thermaltake cooler on my Athlon XP, so I waited until I went to a local LAN so I could get someone more experienced than me to install it.

To this day I still get anxious applying CPU coolers, even though they're a lot easier to install. Thanks anonymous person from Auckland's LAN at Upper Harbour stadium (I can't remember the name of the event).
Somehow Java library home pages all trigger an automatic reaction in me. "This is marketing fluff" followed by an immediate cmd-w.
Here here! How vile does one need to be to betray fair play? When this trust is broken it completely dismisses the values of hard work and playing by the rules. But are these things still valued by everyday people?
Went to Mt. Moiwa in Sapporo back in Feb 2019, at night. It was super cold (to me as a Californian). Maybe 20's or 30-ish F.

Nothing like going inside the observatory at the top and grabbing a piping hot bottle of Royal Milk Tea from a vending machine.
I may be completely wrong, but I have read that the underlying chemistry is endothermic, which is to say, requires energy to occur.

In other words, you have to generate energy to remove CO2 from the air.

Problem is, how do you generate that energy - on the civilizational scale required - in a way which produces less CO2 than you're removing from the air?

Right now we're already failing, globally, to replace dirty energy with clean. India IIRC has an aspirational goal to be off coal by 2070...!

How do we manage to produce a purely green civilizational-level energy supply, doing it all a second time over as well, and now or soon, to start producing the energy to remove CO2 from the air on a scale which will matter?
> I have a hard time seeing this going anywhere.

My daughter has a previous model. I came to the conclusion that this camera is not for consumers, rather, maybe useful for events or pubs to photograph participants and to immediately place on an event wall. Though I've never actually seen the device used for this purpose, I honestly can not find another use case where another device already popular on some market is not a better fit.
Should have been Rene TBH. Pat is the wrong type of engineer.
The word 'factoid' means what the communicating parties agree it means. As per my observation, on HN it currently means something like

"a small probably unimportant but interesting fact"

(wiki definition for factlet[0]). I don't like it, but HN is not the place to cultivate our own language, dang will shadowban and eventually ban us :\ Best we can do is using the word factlet, and hope people will switch to it.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid#Versus_factlet
> I'm having trouble seeing how it'd be feasible to do all that while expending less energy than you can get out of the resulting gasoline.

Use biological solar panels AKA plants.
https://archive.md/TcVQe
> As such, we will almost certainly want to artificially remove CO2 from the atmosphere - go "net negative" rather than "net zero".

We need to change society not only to stop increasing the emissions (because that's what's happening now), but dramatically reduce them. Also we need to change society to handle the impact of climate change as well as possible (but for sure climate will make our life more difficult).

Nothing is worth doing if we don't dramatically reduce our emissions. Whoever says "no but you see, I don't have to cut my emissions because I am working on CO2 removal" is lying to themselves.
Boss Coffee, Rainbow Mountain blend is my favorite. Really hits the spot.

I live in the Bay Area as well and I've found that both Mitsuwa and Nijiya markets haven't had them in stock nearly as much as pre-COVID; guessing some logistics/supply chain situation that still hasn't quite recovered.

I'm going back to Japan next month though, so my cravings will finally be satisfied!
Look at wastewater COVID load estimates, most places aren't even trying to get reliable estimates from testing anymore: https://biobot.io/data/
https://support.google.com/a/answer/178266?hl=en

This is if the domain (company.com) is managed by Google.
Many very very smart people are working on it.

Are you saying all of these people are scammers? Are you saying that they aren’t smart for working on it because the idea itself is a scam?
The TP-7’s disc does have haptic feedback in the menus, it clicks and resists based on the context. It’s a solid design.
> I've no doubt that a sudden cataclysmic change to international trade would spike food prices and increase poverty-derived food insecurity. But I doubt there would be physical calorie shortages.

If there was a sudden change, there might be calorie shortages. However, I agree that if importing become more expensive over the longer run, or even if there was a quick change, but one that could be predicted years in advance, there would be no calorie shortages.

However, the same is true for lithium: the UK could mine its own lithium, if importing become infeasible. I am not sure though, if it would make commercial sense even then: you can make batteries (and other gadgets) without lithium, and for many applications you can make do without batteries at all.

Eg instead of solely driving electric cars with home-grown lithium batteries, on the margin I would expect more people to take the train.
Good point, Card Kingdom currently does not buy bulk but I'll wait, seems legid.
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> Still, funding technology like this early can have an outsized effect.

What about the effect of making them feel good instead of actually making useful efforts, like working on reducing consumption?
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Sure (and that is crucial for various reasons, mostly related to fire hazards). But for the same reasons building roads is cheaper than building tunnels, burying carbon is harder than stockpiling it on the ground. At a minimum, you have to move a similar volume of soil to the carbon you're going to bury, and then move some of it back. And of course, a volume of soil equal to a certain volume of carbon is almost certainly heavier, since carbon isn't all that dense.

So yes, building 1500 great pyramids of Giza is actually a low ball estimate. The right image is burying 1500 great pyramids of Giza - which is much harder and more expensive.
I would go the other way: If an offer is rescinded then 3 months of salary is to be paid.
For going back to your employer I think if you have a good relationship and the position is not filling it should be a nobrainer.
I find this building's title of cottage preposterous, this is a mere hovel if I've ever seen one.
The sort of infuriating thing is that Time Warner Cable, now part of Charter, as recently as a few years ago applied broadly the same leverage to LA sports fans. They bought the local rights to the Dodgers and Lakers in 2013, and charged high enough fees on the networks carrying those games that TWC / Spectrum was the only carrier of consequence. So, if one wanted to watch the Dodgers (and to a less extent the Lakers), TWC / Spectrum was the basically the only option for TV. This situation prevailed until 2020 (!) or so.

And now they’re “indifferent” to the video business?
What's expensive about having a lot of threads/processes? Could those costs be brought down somehow? Would it help to configure the threads as they are starting (e.g. start a tiny thread)?
Cuz some people in developing countries burning wood is the true cause for global warming… (/s)
Nobody is even trying to get estimates via testing anymore, and the tests themselves have been growing increasingly unreliable as the virus mutates - the RAT particularly seems to hardly ever turn up true positives via nasal swabs. Look at wastewater COVID RNA load instead: https://biobot.io/data/
"Like a space monkey, ready to be shot into space. Ready to sacrifice himself for the greater good."
Burying carbon is a great idea. Similar to the great idea of preventing cells from reproducing without limit (cancer). The important question is, in both cases: how do you do it? With carbon there is an additional question: what is the demand? This is the interface with neoliberal capitalism: what is the demand? For cancer drugs, it's obvious. For carbon sequestration, it's less obvious. Currently we require individual consumers to prefer carboon negative products. But that's clearly not sustainable. Assuming we have a technical solution, what then is the political solution?
I have been happily running tumbleweed for a long time, whereas my arch Linux for arm has required hand on healing many times.

Arch really scared me away from running rolling release distros. Services suddenly changing configuration formats leading to failure to start at boot. Breaking package changes that was my fault since I didn't keep up with the forums.

I did have one breaking change with tumbleweed, but then it warmed me and wouldn't let me proceed with the update until I had acknowledged that I would have to fix my openvpn (I think it was) config.
Sequestering billions of tons of carbon every year requires billions of tons of chemical feedstock that we normally produce in the thousands of tons. That industrial capacity would have to be created. Scaling up the mining operations to the necessary level alone would be tangled in politics for decades, since it implies strip-mining the planet for the raw materials.

Many of the emission neutral DAC models I’ve looked at lose 10% — billions of tons — of their industrial chemistry inputs every year even assuming expansive recycling of the input components to the extent possible. The annual loss greatly exceeds current annual production for all purposes.
I always see with surprise these claims about the so-called "fractional scaling", which is something I have never encountered on Linux.

This "fractional scaling" might be a problem of Wayland and/or Gnome, but it certainly it is not a problem of Linux or of X Window System.

In any non-stupid graphics environment you need just to set an appropriate value for the dots-per-inch parameter, which will inform all applications about the physical size of the pixels on your monitor (allowing the rendering algorithms to scale arbitrarily any graphic elements).

Any non-stupid application must specify the size of the fonts in typographic points, not in pixels. When this is done, the fonts will be rendered at the same size on any monitor, but beautifully on a 4k monitor and uglier on a Full HD monitor.

The resolution of a Full HD monitor is extremely low in comparison with printed paper, so the fonts rendered on it are greatly distorted in comparison with their true outlines. A 4k monitor is much better, but at normal desktop sizes it is still inferior to printed paper, so for big monitors even better resolutions are needed to recreate the same experience that has been available for hundreds of years when reading printed books. A 4k monitor can match the retina resolution only for very small screens or for desktop monitors seen from a great distance, much greater than a normal work distance.

Similarly, any non-stupid drawing applications must not specify any dimensions in pixels, but in proper length units or in units relative to the dimensions of the screen or of the windows, and then the sizes will be the same everywhere, but all graphical elements will be more beautiful on a 4k monitor.

This was already elementary knowledge more than 30 years ago, and recommended since the most ancient versions of X Window System and MS Windows. I do not even know when this modern "fractional scaling" junk problem has appeared and who is guilty of it.

I have switched to using only 4k monitors with my desktops and laptops, on all of which I use Linux (with XFCE), about a decade ago, and during all this time I never had any kind of scaling problems, except with several professional (!!) applications written in Java by incompetent programmers, which not only ignore the system settings, so they show pixel-sized windows and fonts, but they also do not have any option for choosing another font or at least another font size (so much for the "run anywhere" claim of Java).
> We will need more wind and solar than required for load to cover cloudy and calm days. I have seen 3x to 5x overcapacity.

The theory being that power would be essentially free most of the time because there would be a surplus. But then wouldn't people just use more? It's only "free" until people come up with other uses for inconsistently available large amounts of power, at which point you have to outbid them.
I disagree. There technologies are missing the point. Fundamentally, they will always require a ton of energy to remove CO2 which is emitted by... our energy consumption.

At some point we just have to accept the truth: we need to work on smart solutions to consume less. Note that I did not say "to make things more efficient", because rebound effects make us consume more. I said "consume less". And that is mostly not a technology problem, it is a society problem.
They need to initially (and then repeatedly) heat the limestone in order to release and capture the CO2 in it. This way they get some really CO2 hungry sand that binds it from the air.

I’d expect it’s the rock baking part that takes the most energy.
Plus wood for building is NOT a permanent carbon storage mechanism. You would need to entomb that wood deep underground where it cannot decay.
Well, at least forests are good for biodiversity, whereas CO2 removal technologies are just completely useless (except for the techno-solutionist cult).
They try to be, but I think they have to put some of their own cash into the pot with small markets to establish initial odds