skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, regulation, I forgot to mention it. That's another pillar of the argument that we know from history that we can't rely on our current structures regarding how we receive SV's rate and style of "innovation".
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Can I ask what led you to this decision? I'm genuinely curious.
And how much fossil fuels are required to pull the lithium out of the ground?

I don’t have the answer I’m just helping you understand the criticism
Worth stating that “something right” in this case is adopting life-saving technologies like seatbelts and airbags, exactly the kind of thing the original article is arguing against.
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The trademark drama is separate to the drama that caused this resignation. The primary issue that the author of the github issue is citing was due to a speaker being removed from a keynote speech at rustconf because of (depending on who you ask) internal communications breakdown/competing project politics/outright racism.
This is why I think we should never have brought in unleaded gasoline. Flying still uses leaded gasoline because regulations are written in blood. Pretty insane that we just let car manufacturers switch to this when a properly regulated transportation system would never consider such a high risk operation.

It’s probably best we return to the tried, true, and most importantly safe system: leaded gasoline.
If you did look at life altering injuries and financial losses, you'd find fewer of those too - cars today are measurably safer, from tires, to better seatbelts, to airbags, to ABS - cars in virtually every way are safer. I'm actually reasonably certain that bicycles and scooters are more dangerous than cars.

The one exception to this is danger to others, modern cars are probably more dangerous to pedestrians than cars in 1976.
Yep, totally wrong movie for a 15 year old. There's no action at all.
The other issue is often it is government employees who have been paid by laws passed by congress (appropriations) making these requests. So the act of making the request potentially makes the appropriation a violation of the first amendment. I don’t think it’s a stretch to interpret the government using money to pay people to request twitter to remove protected speech as ‘abridging free speech’ and such appropriations as congress passing a law. There is similar case law for how publicly funded universities must conduct themselves. Though, even though you could make a similar argument for how public universities work I suspect courts have used a different argument to justify that framework.

But it’s very weird to me that universities run by the state must be viewpoint and content neutral in their speech restrictions even if there is no explicit law passed by the government to restrict speech but the government is allowed to employ a mass of people to make ‘requests’ and such requests don’t need to pass a viewpoint and content neutrality test. The situations are very similar because in both cases there is not an explicit law passed by the government punishing people for making bad speech.
If you’ve driven along the gulf coast the cost of oil is obvious. Growing up it was beautiful view of glistening water under a beautiful sky. Now it’s a post industrial view of oil platforms as far as the eye can see. Where fracking happens there’s earthquakes in geologically stable areas. Etc. Lithium extraction isn’t for the light hearted, but the deposits aren’t as vastly dispersed and extraction and processing happens in a smaller foot print. (Unless you consider extracting from ocean water, but even then the industrial footprint is contained) oil extraction is sprawling and pervasive, and once a well dries up, become discarded blight.
Instead of supplying any energy to these facilities, one should reduce the production of some coal plant by the same amount of wattage. That would have a better carbon balance.
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Though if you used a normal codec but only output I-frames at very high quality you'd end up pretty close.
> And home values are one thing that governments are most likely to protect through drastic policy changes

100%. Home owners are one of the most selfish voting blocs out there, and will punish politicians for not perpetuating unsustainable policies at the expense of the greater social good. That makes it a very good investment, at least until society completes its transition away from capitalism to a new kind of feudalism.
The supply may be so limited that it may even be the case the demand from the limited amount of people able to afford it at these levels already exceeds it.

Despite how hard that is to believe, market equilibrium may not have been reached and prices may still rise.

In a properly functioning market we should see rising supply to meet demand.

Unfortunately regulation (zoning) prevents that. So until regulation improves to allow for more supply, everything else is a bandage.

That, or make it so somehow people stop wanting to live in large metros by eg creating economic opportunities in other cities.
Thanks for the swift response! I've been interested in haptic feedback for a long time, but so far have not come across any general way to calculate the acceptable power dissipation for a given motor and driver circuit. Physical controls have so much to offer in ease-of-use, but the chief downside of them currently is that there is no easy 'two-way binding'.
Uh, we just weren't recording the amounts of carbon dioxide that were being removed from the sky in the past, by green stuff that we've killed off. The sad reality is that we're (net) emitting record amounts of carbon dioxide.
Direct Air Capture is slow, but I think is a better solution than the "don't cut down trees" offset that we've historically seen. I hope that continued investment in DAC leads to new solutions to make it more effective.
I’ve noticed an uptick in students wearing masks in class (I teach at a university). Definitely a minority, but up from near-zero to now maybe 10-20%. Unlike previous waves, the university administration is studiously avoiding mentioning covid at all, and not recommending for or against anything, so it doesn’t seem to be driven by top-down policy decisions.
At the time we worry less and give deference to the government. Sue later if they screwed up.

Exactly what is going on is what you want, you don't need to add "they shouldn't have done anything in the first place" as if they very act of trying to prevent misinformation that was actively leading to the spread of a contagious virus was fundamentally flawed.
They often don't. Wage abuse in the restaurant industry is rampant. The current purpose of tipping is to have staff that essentially works on commission so restaurants don't really have to pay them, and getting 20% off the gross usually isn't a bad deal... But if you get a string of shit tippers, $7.25 an hour isn't worth much in rural Nebraska, let alone cities where most restaurants exist. This is a career for many people who have families to feed and clothe, mortgages and rent to pay, etc. "But they still make minimum wage" is an excuse that dissolves once you move beyond places that employ part-time high school students. Your electrician would also survive on their other customers if you stiffed them— the difference is that it's illegal. Even though stiffing waitstaff is not illegal, our country's social contract states that you tip a minimum of 15% (and usually 20%) when you dine out. If you stiff them altogether, they even get taxed on what the IRS assumes they were tipped at a minimum.

No matter what kind of BS justification people break out, usually styled as a righteous social protest supposedly in defense of the people they're screwing, not tipping employees making tipped wages is, morally, theft of services.
Meta’s VR technology is helping to train surgeons and treat patients
Yup. You can just have your crafted webp (This is the patch for the ImageIO bug https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+/902bc919033...) image with the .png extension (inside your passkit - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Us...) and you send it to your target..
That (betting pattern analysis) certainly happens in snooker betting and snooker has only around 100 to 200 pro players.
Is Ubuntu Linux spying on you?
Love TW.
"~40k people die in the US from human caused car accidents every year (~12.9 deaths per 100,000 people, ~1.37 deaths per 100 million miles traveled), and we're getting squeamish about the robot that never gets tired, drunk, or inattentive?"

And never is held responsible, never compensates its victims and never gets punished.

It's anybody's guess. No one knows who will be held responsible. I find it difficult to imagine a so-called "tech" company accepting responsibility for damages, injury or death caused by software, but who knows.

In the one case so far in AZ, Uber was not held criminally liable. Instead an Uber driver plead guilty to negligent homicide. Uber quickly settled the civil case with the victim's family. The amount of the settlment is not public information.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/backup...

https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/29/technology/uber-fatal-crash...
by close you mean proxy files?
They usually get reposted the next week.
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Curious about the terms. They're not bad.

"interest rates are set based on the U.S. Treasury curve at the day or days the funds are drawn, according to the tenor of the loan, plus a liquidity spread equal to “three-eighths” (0.375%), plus a Risk-Based Charge. The risk-based charge is intended to make DOE’s charges closer, but not equal, to commercial markets by increasing the interest rate as the credit risk of the project increases."

https://www.energy.gov/lpo/articles/program-guidance-title-1...

Also, cursory look shows the situation for Eos is questionable, at least from my view.

"Eos reported a second-quarter loss of $131.6 million on revenue of only $200,000 (???:emphasis mine, see commitments below) and a $23.2 million cash balance as of June 30. It has raised about $90 million in capital so far this year and can raise as much as $84.4 million more through existing agreements with investors."

"The company reported booked orders of $86.9 million"

"Eos also claimed a backlog of $535 million in pending projects under binding commitments with customers and another $1.5 billion in firm commitments with letters of intent signed with project developers."
To batch it (I think, trying it now): https://github.com/B16f00t/whapa
The Boltzmann brain theory is not something I have heard before but have to say I love the idea.
The thing is if the universe is infinite and you believe that, then by default many other things also have to be true.
I do hope the universe is infinite which means I exist many times over in many different states of being, hopefully one such state where the Canadian housing market isn’t so crappy and I get to afford a house one day ;)
Look into the fabs that make RISC-V processors. At some point Intel Foundry Service will be spun off as a separate company, so invest in that when it happens.

Disclaimer: Not investment advice.
If you want to turn it back into an oil like substance you will need to expend more energy than you originally got out of it thanks to thermodynamics. In practice it is even worse than that since separating the CO2 from the N2, O2, and everything else in the atmosphere is also energy intensive.

The general idea is that you grossly overbuild your renewable energy production (solar and wind mostly) and during the middle of the day when the grid is fully saturated and all of the storage systems are filled up you dump the excess energy into carbon sequestration. This is why people are so angry at NEM 3.0, it's cutting the excess energy production we need as a prerequisite for saving the environment off at the knees.
No, by close I mean you'd hit the same use case and have similar attributes.

Probably not as fast but it would scrub well.
Llama: ... Therefore, Sally has only one sister - herself. Does that make sense?

User: yes

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Um... no!
Wonderful to see such a well documented open source hardware project! It does show though how much more difficult these are than software projects. 3d design and printing, hardware sourcing issues, the need for careful component selection, very poor support for automation of the toolchain, etc etc. As a minor hardware tinkerer this is both impressive and daunting. Bravo!
It must take at least what coal releases when burned, but there are two catches…

The first is that it could use intermittent renewable energy. Solar PV during the day is already cheaper than coal. Just run CO2 removal when renewables generate surplus.

The second is that coal plants are heat engines. Most of the energy released burning coal is rejected as heat. CO2 removal might in theory be made more efficient than this. So it might not be quite as bad as it appears at first glance.

That being said I still doubt this technology could make a dent in the problem without massively cheap energy. It would require either solar panels that are as cheap as vinyl siding or something like practical high yield fusion.
This is just a distraction from solving the root cause so this company can keep wrecking the environment.
The article made this extraction sound pretty trivial compared to other lithium deposits. The clay is close to the surface and won’t require significant mining.

> ‘They seem to have hit the sweet spot where the clays are preserved close to the surface, so they won’t have to extract as much rock, yet it hasn’t been weathered away yet.’

> Benson says his company expects to begin mining in 2026. It will remove clay with water and then separate out the small lithium-bearing grains from larger minerals by centrifuging. The clay will then be leached in vats of sulfuric acid to extract lithium.
This is clearly meant to be sarcasm, but I think you've got your facts wrong: commercial jet airplanes don't use leaded gasoline. They use Jet-A and similar formulations, which are essentially just kerosene[1] and contain no lead[2].

(I think you're thinking of avgas, which is used by piston-driven engines. These don't appear much in commercial aviation anymore.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel

[2]: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/leaded-aviation-fuel-and-enviro...
Arguably we reached peak oil in 2019:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265203/global-oil-produc...

It's hard to extrapolate a trend though - there was a dip caused by COVID, and global oil use has been growing since then, but it's still not back to where it was 4 years ago.

Also a lot of people think peak oil means that we suddenly won't have any gas available. No. Peak oil means all the easily extractable oil is gone, and so all future projects need to use more capital-intensive, technologically-advanced extraction techniques that cost more, and so the price of oil goes up, and then we use less of it while it's replaced by other technologies. Which is exactly what's been happening for the past ~5-15 years. U.S. is back to being the world's top oil producer, but all of it is in shale oil fields that aren't economically viable below ~$50/barrel, and so gas will never go back down to the $1/gallon it was in the 90s.
The resource really isn’t the carbon itself but it’s stored chemical energy. Without new energy input, the carbon in CO2 will never become a hydrocarbon again.
> If everything were to be as safe as aviation the whole world would come to a screeching halt standstill.

Trains are just about as safe as planes. Busses too. It's really just cars that are a major outlier. [1]

[1] https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics...
For those who want to help out with adding all public toilets to OpenStreetMap: I made a website to make this easy: https://mapcomplete.org/toilets

You can see all toilets without an account and add a missing toilet or update information with a free/libre OpenStreetMap-account. Adding information also means it'll get picked up eventually by many of the navigation apps out there (such as Maps.me, Organic Maps, OsmAnd, nearly all of the cycle+pedestrian route planners, ...).

And there are many other thematic maps - a template system makes them easy to setup: https://mapcomplete.org/
Something similar could be said for alcohol and tobacco. I think we're looking at a chart following chronic, recreational use.
Java has sum types now with sealed interfaces and pattern matching. Records have detructoring out of the box, and I believe supporting it for general classes is in the works.
Seems like a sunlight rich area such as the Nevada high desert is about as energy friendly as one could imagine. The main requirements seem to be water, sulfuric acid, and (of course) power.
By Gen Z, for Gen Z.
OpenCog Hyperon – An open source framework for AGI [pdf]
> but what happened to supply?

Insufficient labour. Anyone who builds houses was booked up for years. It looks like this is finally starting to turn, but that doesn't help right now. You need to build houses in the past to be able to live in them now.

With the strongest labour market possibly ever seen in Canada, you didn't find anyone going to build houses because they had no other work. So you throw more money at workers to try to compel them away from the work they were doing and into housing work, but that just... drives up the cost of housing.
Lego is a mole hill compared to the mountain of plastic that is _intended_ to be thrown away - consumer and industrial.
That sounds more like memoization than dynamic programming.
This is going to be the plot of a Bruckheimer/Emmerich co-production, is it? A team of scientists needs to travel into the heart of a volcano to find the lost city of Lithium, but one of them is actually a spy for a foreign power that will try to kill everyone else to prevent the secret to get out, only to be thwarted by the lone survivor, a man who was recently divorced by his wife and just wants to see his children again. He finds another (female) survivor, and together they defeat the spy mastermind and are evacuated by the US Military mere seconds before the volcano erupts.
It's only one word that I have lined out, and 90% of the stories containing this word are written by two authors, H. G. Wells and H. P. Lovecraft. So it doesn't need much context. Believe me, those two make it obvious what they mean when they use the word.

*And 50% of the uses of the word occur in one single story "The Rats in the Walls"
Becoming
Whatever Jack Nicholson convinced you of, I can assure you that reality was far worse.
In tech or IT, the ones who hires are mostly indians so mostly prefer to hire from there, I think even in Canada international students acceptance process, there were some complains that the majority of these students are from India.
Are people paying attention to how the masks fit?

I keep seeing people wearing them under their nose.
For the uninitiated, how do differing european rules make people safer?
Figure 4 is where the article got the "correlation of death to economic status". Figure 4 is a scatter plot, showing each STATE's poverty vs death rate. Yes, you could argue that there is a correlation. However, you can also argue because you are not going into the actual specifics of each murder/suicide -- there is a significant potential for error. i.e., does a state's poverty rate and death rate representative of the deceased's demographics?

What caught my attention is that Louisiana had almost double the death rate of South Carolina. Something is awfully wrong in Louisiana. Below are the quotes that I pay attention to.

Older adolescents aged 15 to 19 years accounted for 82.6% of firearm deaths in 2021

Males accounted for 84.8% of all pediatric firearm mortalities in 2021

With respect to firearm homicides, in 2021, the death rate was 11 times higher for Black children compared with white children

For firearm suicides, white children accounted for 78.4% of all firearm suicide deaths in 2021

Louisiana had the highest death rate per 100 000 persons (17.0), followed by Mississippi (14.8), Alabama (11.4), Montana (11.1), and South Carolina (10.2)
That is not what I wrote.
Try instructions like this: https://twitter.com/nisten/status/1696229059183730833

(link posted above, not mine).
> in 90s there were tons of commercials on TV that said Mesothelioma is a cancer

These were not targeted.

The reality of the modern economy is that if your ad profile says "suggest <major disease> ads", you can be sure data brokers will share that with lots of organizations with various agendas.

I haven't had a chance to review Google's categories, but Meta has fairly narrow categories which could be easily exploited, for instance[1] -- although of course Meta have tried to walk some of that back[2].

And of course even if Google starts out with very innocuous categories, these can always become more fine-grained later. And there are ways to enrich even very innocuous categories using signals from other sources.

[1] https://www.everywheremarketer.com/blog/how-to-use-detailed-...

[2] https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/meta-to-preven...
I'd think that a $250k deduction (per person) every two years is pretty often, no?

I feel like if my entire income stream was buying, renovating to improve value, and selling, and my spouse and I had a family income of $300k per year, and we could only get the income tax waived on $250k of that (me one year, my spouse the next), and thus were only paying income tax on one sixth of our income, I'd feel like I wasn't paying very much income tax.

Though. I mean. Currently I teach post-secondary for a living, so the idea of a $300k two-earner family income sounds like a dream, no matter what the taxes, so maybe my intuitions about the incentives of house-flippers are off the mark.
https://twitter.com/nisten/status/1696229059183730833 ?
StreamSync: Open-source framework for creating data apps in Python
Chemical reactions suck the carbon out of the sky and then store it underground

We used to call this swamps back when we thought wetlands were useless and were busily filling them in to create "productive" land, like farmland, thereby losing 85 percent of our global wetlands since the 1700s.
Not to be that guy, but isn't there a surprising correlation between the availability of the upcoming booster shot and the "uptick" in covid cases? The shot has been in development for a while, and it was only recently announced to be ready, followed shortly thereafter by a bombardment of articles about the covid uptick. How convenient.

Every time I've read these breathless claims of a resurgence of the pandemic, I've attempted to verify it through data analysis (number of positive covid tests) and the data has yet to validate the headlines. So please forgive me if I assume it's not the risk of contracting and dying from Covid that's suddenly increased, but rather the readiness of the latest pharmaceutical intervention.
hi - matroid42@skiff.com. i tried the ai village ctf (defcon 22') myself but would be interested in collabing. haven't checked out this year's yet
Other large cities in the US have exactly the same problem.