skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is general it's not so clear cut.

If I make wheat and you run a bakery I might offer you a 30% discount for the next 5 years, but only if I'm your only wheat supplier.

This sort of arrangement allows us to spread the risk of market uncertainties over that period.

I can then build extra capacity, and you get a cheaper product, or one with less price uncertainty.

Maybe we should do away with this, and say that bakeries must buy wheat like airlines buy fuel, i.e. through more complex financial instruments.

Now, I may be doing this because I'm one of only two companies making wheat, and I'm looking to drive the other one out of business. That's basically what Intel was doing here.

But it's not clear to me that we should conclude that exclusivity deals in general are bad.
Dog Breed Data Explorer
Put this together with my son to learn more about popular dog breeds. Data source: American Kennel Club
Imagine listening to an architect speak, finding out in the middle of his boring 2-hour lecture that he's 4000 years old, then at the end hearing him refuse to answer a question about how he designed Stonehenge because he's sick and tired of talking about that.

I can sympathize with the architect, same as you can. He is 4000 years old, after all.

But I can also sympathize with anyone who attended only to hear about Stonehenge and now wants their money back.
I find it more satisfying and clearer to say it's when day/night are the same length everywhere on earth/for everyone on earth.

For me that prompts thinking about the earth with its tilt in relation to the sun and the two points in its orbit where that could be true.

Within that framework you could bring up pendantry how "definitions" of day/night mean this doesn't imply day and night are each 12 hours. Actually I find such pedantry more interesting in this framework; it's just clearer that we're saying globally there is always more day than night under this particular definition.

It also IMO prompts the even more interesting pedantry discussed in this thread about it crossing this point at some random time during the day, we don't hover in that point of the orbit for 24 hours.
Whatever. Nothing unique about Lou in this regard.
I'd go with Wormavator has more punch to it.
This is only a problem because concert venues want to charge below market price and have the scalpers take the heat while they get their cut both ways. You can’t magically get around the market price. If you price too low you’ll have scalpers. If you beat the scalpers you’ll just have not enough tickets and a few people get tickets at below market value. Maybe that’s more fair but if you’re a fan that doesn’t feel comfortable buying tickets to a concert a year in advance, it’s likely you’re not going to be able to go at any price.

People just don’t want to deal with the reality that the Taylor swift tickets that start at $40 or whatever were never real to begin with
The venn diagram of the so-called nerd community and OSS participation barely overlaps.

I’ve never been to a Comic-Con, I don’t play games, I don’t watch “Linus Tech Tips” — or YouTube at all — and I’ve been deeply involved in OSS for three decades.
Sibling comments are rather affronted at this, but I happen to agree that leaning into technology to reclaim what we lost to technology in the first place is not actually solving a problem, it's slapping a bandage on and juicing up with some morphine.

Technology can't give a person more than the set amount of time, energy, and attention they have by virtue of being human. We're cramming more and more into our lives, but I doubt that in general we feel more satisfied and fulfilled. You can add and add until you can't. At some point you need to subtract. In this community there's likely to be at least some stigma around not optimizing every last second of your life, and personally I think that attitude should be stigmatized. It's insulting to personal dignity.
I know, I was there.

My first job back then paid $4.75 an hour, and I bought my first home for $37,500.

So go on, keep fucking telling me things were harder back then.
I think derailment would be unlikely as the train would be slowing to a stop, no? Unless you are picturing something way more adventurous ...
It sounds like you're upset that I am pointing out the obviousness of thing you're requiring evidence for, and you're jumping to my use of sarcasm as a technical rule break to threaten reporting me.

I'll make my point without sarcasm then: Asking for proof that "men need fathers" is so common sense and obvious that denying it suggests to me that there is no evidence that you would accept. If you're serious and actually want me to find you studies, please describe, in detail, what evidence would change your mind. I want to have a clear understanding of the requirements and goal posts before I make effort towards that. If you don't want to do that, then unfortunately I can only conclude the question was in bad faith.
I made the android† port of Wormhole William[1] specifically to help transfer some encryption keys that I didn't want to ever live unencrypted on a server in the cloud.

[1]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile

†: There's also a working iOS port but its not released on the App Store because of how hostile Apple makes that process to open source developers.
Well, that seems like exactly the difference: It's not about obscurity, it's about curl not being a daemon and therefore a poor fit for p2p protocols.
A _significantly_ more helpful comment - thank you!
Not "just water". Ultrasonic humidifiers aerosolize the water including whatever particles are on the water (e.g. calcium).

This is in contrast with steam humidifiers, which evaporate "just water". This is due to water evaporating at 100C, and all other particles stay in the heating chamber.
Huh? I took a class on geoengineering taught by a woman who'd done work on ocean iron fertilization and a man who'd done work on sulfate aerosol injection.

Also the average "Ask HN" gets zero replies. I tend to "lean in" and answer a lot of them but that might say something more negative than positive about be but you can tell I am karma motivated by my score and I think I deserve more upvotes for this than I get.

I'll add to the other person's comment in that you probably won't find just one input for your figures but you'll find many of them.

You might find one paper that says that an acre of wetland holds 10 tons of CO2 and another that says it holds 15 tons of CO2. (I just made those numbers up)

In fact it probably depends on the wetland and if you spent a lot of time looking at papers you might find 20-30 numbers. All this is fine because this reflects real uncertainty and you're either going to say "the average is 12 tons with a standard deviation of 3 tons" or you're going to repeat your analysis with a wide range of inputs to do your sensitivity analysis that way.

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My take is that soil carbon is like "dark matter" in that it is really mysterious. If anything is fraught it is soil carbon because Bayer sure wishes farmers quit plowing to control weeds and just spraying a lot of glyphosate everywhere which might be good for the carbon balance but the glyphosate almost certainly has unwanted side effects.
This really resonated for me. I work in academia in a STEM field in Japan. For the first decade or so, I was always happy to help people who were struggling with writing a paper in English, and gradually developed a reputation for being the guy who could "get you published" in Nature, Science, Cell Press etc. But I ran into the problem of the limitless demand for this kind of editorial work (due to the massive pressure to publish and the generally poor English ability of many scientists in Japan). It got to the point where I didn't want to meet people because I knew the conversation would turn to whether I could help them, or theur friend, or a grad student, fix a manuscript. Finally I just told everyone who asked that I had to stop for health reasons, and my life is so much better now. I had worried that this might cost me some friends, but it made me realize that the only friendships it cost were ones based on them asking me to do unpleasant work for free.
> Rich people tend not to loudly enjoy the show, so the atmosphere isn't there

Citation needed.

Rich people are the main audience at all organized events of all kinds. Do you think you can take you and your kids to an NFL game if you're poor? The main attendees of Taylor swift? Women in late 20s - mid 30s working corporate jobs.
I don't think those are the only reasons house prices are high now.

Why don't you try telling the whole truth.
That's what source maps are for (assuming they work).

Still leads to strangeness when the minified code doesn't have statements that corresponds 1:1 with the original code.
This is a pretty complex build to throw together in such a short time, and it is super impressive

I could have sworn I saw Morton Subotnick performing with something like this back in the 80's (with Electric Phoenix, maybe?) but Googling is giving me nothing. Does this ring any bells for electronic music fans?
Hm... I guess the user hostile could be a feature not a bug. Obfuscation.
Oddly, when people mention Empire, I think of Peter Langston's Empire rather than Walter's.
Petoskey stones are a good fossil to search for if you are looking to lick some rocks.

Pretty location specific though.
Understanding loss functions: Hinge loss
Offline Mode has technically been in Payday 3 all along
Assuming they are working and were created yeah. It just seems like another hack layer on top of something that really doesn't seem to add much in the first place. I mean, if you're wanting every last bit of performance, maybe just use WASM or something? Bonus, always obfuscated.
I don't have an answer to the math question but carbon sequestration is an important topic. Related, sometimes with pop-sci/layperson citations:

-Beavers will play a role in bringing back wetlands. They can do it better than we can. See book: Eager, by Ben Goldfarb (maybe you've read it already?)

-Reversing climate change feels like it is going to require a massive cultural shift. To get to the point of large-scale wetland recovery we'll need government regulation and widespread public support and cooperation. I don't know this happens within the next seven years or so, but it has to. Maybe it'll turn out that Voyageur 2 has revealed our position to the Vogons.
What is stopping the existence of a refund mechanism there?
Is there a description of what the different attributes are and what the numbers mean?

I'm having trouble understanding what "Mental Stimulation" is, and what a high or low score means.

Or shedding. Does a high number mean more shedding or that their shedding is easier to manage.
Lol. Yeah. That space elevator thing was funny.

“CRISPR modified silk worms produce threads made of buckyballs for space elevator”

It’s a fun thought I guess. You’d need a pretty massive crop of mulberry bushes.
> Harvard could charge $500K per year

They do, they just price discriminate.
They should fire this guy.
There's a fork called stunt / improvise that implements hashmaps. I'd love it if the list syntax was changed to use square brackets, and then if the hashmap syntax could be curly braces.

I've also wanted to give each object an isolated environment (make each one an actor), but I haven't thought too deeply about how exactly that would work and look. I've been planning in the back of my head to do this at some point in the next year, and was planning on implementing on top of the original codebase, but if there's a rust version, I'll use that.

I know it wouldn't be compatible with existing cores, but I'd be using it as the backend for a graphical ui anyway.

How did you go about converting the code? Did you just read through it, or did you start with a c to rust tool? I always thought the programmers manual and codebase were quite concise and readable.

One last thing, there were patches in the 90s to add journaling on top of the checkpoint system... Did those ever get merged into the main codebase?

Thanks for doing this! I'm excited!
Awesome. It was worse in the 90's, but still glad to see it happen. Intel had top engineers, but they achieved dominance through hefty use of machinations, and not through merit alone. Who knows how many billions Intel acquired through slimy legal actions.
From what I can tell the issue here is that the author has produced a WASM module with minified dynamic dependencies. This is not an issue with the runtimes but with the earlier compilation toolchain.

In another thread it was suggested that Emscripten was used, but its runtime wasn’t provided.
The parent’s response was completely grounded in logic and was reasonable. That has nothing to do with gender. They didn’t deserve that response.

Your topic and hypothesis sound interesting - best of luck working through the problem.
I thought it already was required and if you specify adkim in your record.
This could be the step forward in compute efficiency we need.
I don't understand why this was downvoted several times, what's the problem with the parent comment?

Edit: well it seems that I have absorbed his downvotes, better this way ahah
This is PR.
Either the CEO is on borrowed time or he’s a spineless fuck given that he’s AWOL and is pushing this guy forward.
It seems extremely unlikely that a company could successfully argue people writing fanfics for just themselves with the aid of an AI is sufficient to cause any harm to a business. The scale is minuscule. It’s likely not a substitute either.
Mold really is a big improvement, I'll give you that. (I'm a big fan of mold, to the point where I happily joined the Github Sponsors when it went more open recently.) But, the compilation stage is a tough nut to crack.
Which, honestly, is a much more pleasant experience than going to the concerts under discussion. I don't enjoy the music as much, but I also don't have to jump through hoops, compete with scalpers, or put up with the rank smell of weed hanging over the concert venue.
Imagine CRISPR hardwood trees that rapidly grow as tall as Redwoods while maintaining their broad cover and proportions. Would be great both for lumber and to plant in neighborhoods. A Navi/night-elf tree for every subdivision. Having the view and the shade in hot weather may be worth the risks of permanent shading and falling limbs. As long as they're sterile.
Was this not just a bender?
Yes good call. 5 means high and 1 means low. I’ll add some better descriptions. Thanks!
One robber baron’s gamble on railroads
This looks way too much like the editor in Pentacom' BitFontMaker https://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/
This patch makes curl utilize a gateway for ipfs:// addresses. It prefers a local one but can also use public gateways. It makes no effort to verify that the final product's cryptographic hash corresponds to the one in the address.

This lack of verification is expected with HTTP, but not with IPFS. curl should verify that the resultant output conforms with the IPFS address or else just have users input the gateway/ipfs HTTP address as you always could.

curl can operate in a pipe mode and that adds additional complexity in respect to verification.

IPFS gateways can serve you in a manner that allows continuous(?) verification: <https://docs.ipfs.tech/reference/http/gateway/#trusted-vs-tr...>

This would in theory allow curl to block the pipe until it is able to confirm that a piece that arrived is verified or abort a tampered-with file early. This would take quite a bit of work to implement however - since it seems like there is no maintained IPFS implementation in C: <https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipfs-implementations>
“Rust: The Longest War” is a really good book I once read regarding this topic. Highly recommend checking it out for further reading… https://books.google.com/books/about/Rust.html?id=sEHqBgAAQB...
If I say that a certain observed behavior is probably due to a certain hidden reason (whether I'm right or off the mark), then that will appear cynical to those who think that the reason is nefarious. That's not my problem if I think it's a fine, even commendable reason.
No. But I don't need another news outlet doing the same Ticketmaster etc story as everyone else. Just don't need it. There's been plenty of mainstream/tech news stories on the ticket problem, Taylor Swift etc, c'mon.
Once you get above a certain threshold you start to prioritize you start realizing that your time is more important than money. That threshold is different for everyone, but I think 600k is well above that for most people.
You also use UFO to mean aliens:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37629528

(Insert joke about how you wouldn't do that if you actually respected me.)

FYI, I'm an environmental studies major. I'm aware that in the real world, figures vary. A lot.

There are lots of smart people on HN. I'm hoping to not have to reinvent the wheel. At least not too much.

If anyone can point me to some formulas that already exist for what gets used to calculate climate change targets, I would appreciate it. I'm excited to learn that wetlands loss potentially accounts for a substantial part of the problem and is largely overlooked.

I would like to begin running some numbers on this dreary Saturday rather than just stick with "It's a whole lot!"
Because everybody has a world class vehicle of their own? It's a different and reasonable system of transportation.

I'm sure others may disagree. They can cry all they want. Reality has demonstrated that this is a reasonable system, even if it isn't rational by their standards.
This is very cool! I have a MUD (that still has a fairly active playerbase) written in straight-up C. Been working on it 20+ years now, and always had some curiosity about rewriting it.
Not every event is Taylor Swift and prices are dynamic.

Great example: I bought a bunch of tickets to take my little league to a Mets game, which turned out to be the game where David Wright retired. I sold the leftover tickets, which I purchased for between $12 and $30, for a minimum of $350. We built a batting cage with the proceeds.

On the other side, whenever I’m in the city for a few days, I’ll try to score a cheap premium ticket from a season ticket holder who can’t make the game - and frequently do.

IMO the biggest issue with tickets is that it’s 2023 and we live in a pseudo libertarian business climate. It’s a market that should be regulated, as the ticket platform has an incentive to optimize their own self-dealing. The platform gets a vig for each transfer, so maximizing transactions is the optimal path. I worked for a company whose successful entry into event ticketing prompted a buyout by Ticketmaster.
>If Earth had no air, this wouldn’t be an issue (though there would be other uncomfortable consequences).

They don't mention in the article what those 'uncomfortable consequences' are, but if you asked the average person what would happen if all the air around the earth suddenly disappeared, they would say 'we would all suffocate'. This is of course true, but we would likely succumb to the effects of suddenly being exposed to the vacuum of space before we died from the lack of oxygen.

Having a scuba mask and tank on when the air disappeared would not prolong your life at all. Air pressure is something we tend to take for granted if we are not climbing Everest or in an airplane.
For right now, this doesn't seriously help the problem, for multiple reasons. C++ modules actually tend to reduce compilation performance, since modules need to be processed before their dependents, whereas normal translation units are fully independent of each-other.
Because 99% of the time people don't want immutable addresses. They want something that points to the latest and most up to date version. And when you really do want to freeze something in time you just use one of the page archive services.

P2P just flat out doesn't work for mobile devices too which are pretty much the entire internet userbase now.
Alright, so it's not genitals, cool, cool and it's somehow "gender"-based that makes love across genders to be interesting.

Which philosophy of thought do you follow where gender would have an impact? Is this an argument about dominant / submissive? breadwinner / caretaker? Something else?
Would love some targeted RSS feeds if possible! Especially for the books
Other than Kaiser, Hospitals are profit centers. It’s that simple.
Oil and water separating into layers when mixed also looks orderly, but is in fact the higher entropy state https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/111955/homemade-...
The correctness of your argument is predicated on your ability to predict the future.

> That said capitalism is a state enforced system, which is protected with violence.

As opposed to the hands-off, peaceful Soviet state which flourished without horrible capitalism.
I have a similar story. All my life the letters of the alphabet each had a color associated with it. D is green and K is blue, etc.

One day for no particular reason I decided to pay attention to which color each letter evoked in me. And to my great surprise, it was a simple-ass repeating pattern! Up until this point, I had never actually noticed it. And when I did notice it, it sparked a new mystery for me.

I knew right away that this pattern meant my color associations must have come from some toy blocks or a set of magnetic refrigerator letters. But every single time I saw these toy blocks, or magnets, they never matched the colors in my head!

Finally, about five years ago, a friend of mine out of the blue sent me this link:

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2013/01/fisher-price-synest...

The colors in that link were the same as the ones in my head, and now I knew where I formed those associations. As a toddler playing with magnets on my fridge, that must have been this particular set.

The color association is still there today, and as strong as it ever was. And it kind of helps me recall peoples’ names when I can’t think of them right away. I’ll say goofy shit like, “oh, what was his name? David? Daniel? …It’s some green name.”
For a smart guy Musk sure can be dumb.
Fear and Desire: On Stanley Kubrick’s first film
Anything built with emscripten expects the emscripten runtime to be provided for those imports. The default output of emscripten isn't a WASM file that's meant to be used on its own, but a WASM file plus a JS file that sets up the runtime. It looks like they're trying to use the WASM file on its own and running into the problems that come from that.

Standards like WASI are meant to define a common runtime for WASM modules. A WASM module built for WASI would fit the author's expectations better (as they could possibly find an all-in-one WASM+WASI library or attach a WASI implementation to a WASM library to run the WASM file), though I don't know anything about emscripten and WASI compatibility.

Edit: You can use the STANDALONE_WASM emscripten option to make it not depend on the emscripten runtime and use WASI instead. This is what the author should use.
Because the alterative (mostly Matrix) sucks.
Oh, the puns that are to come. Its like God out of the box jellyfish.
How Cloudflare Is Reducing the Environmental Impact of Web Searches
Yes, I'm aware beavers are a big deal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096975
Relative to human testing, there are not a lot of laws around animal testing

This is also false.

There is a very comprehensive law outlining the laws around animal testing along with hundreds of pages of regulations that go into exquisite detail on what animal testing is allowed and what efforts have to be put forth to minimize pain and suffering.
Visit disboard.org and update yourself.
Everyone in the entire chain. From artist to venue to promoter/booker to ticket platform. None of them want to refund. Not just for the obvious, but they make a killing selling ticket insurance.
When I eat a raw vegetable or a piece of sashimi I'm consuming many pieces of mRNA. Does it matter what these molecules encode for? Doesn't my stomach just chop everything up? Would it matter if a baby ate COVID vaccine mRNA?