skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought it worth mentioning that a startup called UNDO (https://un-do.com/) is already doing this - and have designed a carbon credit methodology with Puro.earth (https://puro.earth/accelerate/undo-enhanced-rock-weathering-...)

The crushed basalt they use is already a byproduct from quarries they partner with from what I understand.
> they include rather obscure rules as to which lane you are allowed to drive in at any moment and americans do not like to learn new rules.

Do they?
I guess it probably depends on the country. Here in Sweden I'm pretty sure you can drive in whatever lane you like (unless they're explicitly labeled). But normal lane-swithching rules apply ofc and, importantly, when you enter a roundabout you have to yield to traffic in all lanes of the roundabout, not just the outermost one.
Learning to handle a 3-lane wide roundabout outside Inverness Scotland, in right-hand-drive (that I only had 2 days of experience with) in full rush-hour was pretty fun.
The tenants concept is really cool and something I'm fighting with right now. I actually went single-tenant from day 1 (not exactly on purpose) and it's a been a pain to find a DB solution that will work well for me.

I absolutely love PlanetScale but having 1 database per client means paying for 1 plan per client. I'm B2B so I have way fewer "clients" but my load is incredibly spiky for each client (75% of the time they have near-0 usage, 20% of the time they have a tiny amount of usage, and the 5% they use a bunch). As it stands right now their heavy load never overlaps so I've been mulling over a move to an RDS cluster where I can run multiple databases on the same hardware.

I'm not super interested in migrating to Postgres (though I think my app would move relatively easily, I don't use anything super MySQL-specific, it's just what I know) but I'll be watching this project as it moves forward. I'd really like to not manage my own DB, it's not where I'm strong and I'd rather focus on other things.
> What if the discloser doesn't have the funds or the skills to setup a dedicated website?

Evidently they just get ignored, if their account of direct disclosure to Apple is anything to go off of.
We are of quite differing tastes.

I like Egan's Permutation City

Banks' Excession

Hugh's Fine Structure
> or are very relevant to 99% of the things he is actually spending time and resources on

Twitter is irrelevant; he is doing product (read: design for manufacture) design on electric cars, battery systems, rockets, internet access satellites, brain computer interfaces, solar, humanoid autonomous robots, and tunnel boring machines, in approximately that order.

Twitter is like 20th on the list, but it’s a great target for narrative-based outrage (“the bullied one gets rich and buys the playground” etc). Also note that if you truly believe in freedom for one-to-many publishing of all legal speech (as I do) then an increase in racist publishing is naturally going to be a consequence of that. Freedom
of expression for all is far more important than censoring racists (which doesn’t stop them from being racist or stop the spread of racism anyway).
AWS is vastly more profitable than Amazon's retail business.
That should be an easy bug fix in Svelte.
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> The point is it will never achieve anything if it keeps getting delayed by the FAA.

If Elon didn't want things to be delayed so bad by the FAA maybe he shouldn't have launched on 4/20 for the lulz without adequate launch site infrastructure for such a launch.

The FAA shouldn't let them launch until SpaceX has proven they've done the work and have done their best to mitigate these issues going forward - both the actual consequences and the decision processes that led to them. From what I remember the FAA basically rubber stamped SpaceX's incident report (or whatever it was called) that the Internet reported as being from the FAA itself.
Release size is ridiculous, and they refuse to do anything about it

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/6187
Wow I would literally say the opposite. I even use GCP docs as an example for my engineers on how to write proper docs, and did several workshops using the GCP docs as reference. Happy to share the presentation if interested.
Sure, I am not playing armchair rocket scientist, I claim no expertise.

From my own experience:

I drove to Bocca Chica three weeks ago and also took the fantastic helicopter tour from south padre, while it was awesome to get ridiculously close to the launchpad (walking behind the dunes gets you really up close) unlike at Vandenberg, KSC where you cannot get so close from public land this easily it definitely looked like an inconvenient site

- roads are pretty narrow and don’t look to be that high load bearing for heavy traffic and are being worked on (it is single lane in part as they are still working on it piece by piece to strengthen them), it takes a while to go from Brownsville to Starbase

- there is also a border checkpoint that takes a long time to cross during peak hours > 30 mins on the way back.

- you can actually see the Mexico border (a light house) from the OLM, I was getting cell signal from Mexico. It is less than 10 miles, so close to the border comes with its own problems was my impression .

- limited space to expand either Starbase and also at the launchpad. You can fly close only to starbase and it is quite visible from the air.

I am no expert, these are just a tourist’s observations, however in 70 years of American rocketery smarter people than me private and public have done the research and rejected places like Bocca Chica before for good reason.

Claiming that this is the perfect spot and no other feasible location and it is just that I don’t know(which I don’t) better seems a bit silly?

People can make mistakes not every decision makes perfect sense in hindsight. It does not detract from the work they have been able to do so far.
Ah right. Previous versions of the beta did not monitor the interior camera. Did they state what version they are claiming to be using?
Me too, but I wonder for how much longer ...
isn't the helium shortage affected by the market price of helium?

just like we were afraid of peak oil until we broke through the price barrier to distilling oil from tar sands and suddenly there's plenty of oil to go around as long as people are willing to pay $80/barrel ?
For two people on different incomes, life phases etc
Wow, what's wrong with people making their own text editors though?

I know quite a few people who use Helix and they seem to really enjoy it. Doesn't sound worthless to me.
It’s multipolar trap/ coordination problem. The costs of carbon emissions are diffuse and borne by everyone, while the costs of changing your behavior are mostly borne by you. It’s just a sad fact of life, and to solve it the only feasible way is to change the rules to making decarbonizing cheaper than continuing to use fossil fuels.
Few years ago, I created the undefined gooselet.

https://kay-is.github.io/undefined-gooselet/
I'm glad someone finally said this. There is so much concern for "The government is spying on me" but the truth is, if you're doing something illegal, I don't even want you using it. The government only cares when you do something and they are forced to step in.
could someone explain to me why the ROM set changes with every release? it makes me think the developer is an idiot.
Collaborative decision-making often draws criticism as creating paralysis and undermining social harmony. At least some people calling for one-man rule is a perennial trait of human societies, from the ancient desire for a king or caliph to modern supporters of authoritarianism. This phenomenon makes me wonder if some of the population would happily surrender decision-making to an AI model that they feel is adequately smarter than them.
AI product recommendation startup building 'starting point for shopping online'
I believe that IntelliJ can do this for remote servers. It installs an IntelliJ agent on the server and it’s like remote development, your real IDE becomes a lightweight client of it.
Before we blew past 400 ppm carbon in the atmosphere this might have made sense. Now it would probably be more accurate to phrase the implicit proposal as asserting the answer to rampant biome disruption may include some cautious biome engineering.
"My experience is that roundabouts help but don't solve"

Because they don't remove the idiots from the roads. The same people who willfully ignore right of way at stops signs also ignore right of way in the roundabout.
There absolutely could be (profit I mean), if we taxed fossil fuels enough.
> - ProductHunt started out as a newsletter, with the founders themselves hunting and curating products.

I can't remember if it was product hunt or not, but there was one such site that actually started as a way for the developer to feed attention to their other startup. Turned out producthunt (or whatever one I'm thinking of) became successful instead.
Agree. We will prioritize how to migrate from Nile. At the Postgres level we don't want any lock-ins. We would have APIs that simply SaaS workflows that users may choose to use.
Oh also, the bus factor would be 2. That's my brother (Sean) and I (Steve).
if following is all you care about, then you can just use the RSS feeds.
Yes Google Cloud Run is my go-to for all my side projects, and AWS doesn't have anything equivalent. Never saw any reason to use AWS for that reason as Google has everything else I'd need. And if I just want a cheap VPS, would prefer to use something cheaper like Linode or Digital Ocean.
> My experience is that roundabouts help but don't solve. E.g. if there is a complete traffic jam

Agree, when at or near 100% utilisation, its slower than a normal junction.

> you may actually increase the risk of collision due to negotiations about right of way happening every time a car can move forward.

That shouldn't be the case. Ideally you should always have priority from one direction (like in the UK, germany and the netherlands.) The generally rule is that when you come to the round about, if you see someone on your right(in the UK, left everywhere else I imagine) you stop and wait for them to drive past.

> two or three lane roundabouts with complex exit decisions you need to make on a split second

The driving exam will test you for this in the EU. The lane you chose is directly related to where you need to exit. If you are going straight over, or less, then its the outer most lane. Anything more than 180 degrees you take the inner lane. Exceptions will be clearly marked in both floor markings and signs well before entry.
You have completely missed the point. Sorry. I am talking about fact, that coal plant is running 24/7 because it can't be easily switched on/off, which is important for countries like Germany which are using fossil plants as a backup for intermittent renewables. Try to read whole thread.
I felt they had to dumb down the ending for audiences and gave it an unnecessary homage to the creator.

My read was similar to yours. At least on the film I felt they actually wanted to make and instead only got to hint at. While the primary storyline is there about a woman’s struggle to promote feminism only to be told she’s disparaging the cause of women; I think the second story is more pessimistic. The scene where the men ask for a share of the political power and are explicitly denied is jarring and frankly outrageously unattended to in the end of the film.

The Ken’s are a metaphor for women and the feminist movement. The Barbies are the men. Which kind of fucking brilliant imo. But they decided to water it down and make the ending about Barbie’s individuality and a joke about her vagina.

On the most abstract level, trashing your moment in the sun to ditch your actual plan and instead make a joke about your pussy is pretty meta feminist though. /s?
Look - if you can optimise your workload over a capital cycle cloud is not for you. Especially if you are a technology company and have the bandwidth to deal with servers and ISV's properly.

If you are a changing, growing, non-technology company then cloud is the place you should be. You will get screwed by Oracle, you will get screwed by Accenture. You will not be able to optimise your workload and you may as well get screwed by aws/azure/gcp and not think about infrastructure that much instead.
I've seen 2 lane roundabouts brand new in the US.
Not sure if they still do, but they definitely integrate more directly now.
I mean, a brunch in Budapest will set you back more than Berlin, the coffee is the same price as London etc.

It's not like, ex eastern bloc in the 90s.

Some travel to update your view on the world is in order my friend.
While we're at it, why not transportation by pipe and warp zone?
My mind was absolutely primed by most of those

In a Bangladesh market, a small potato bag costs 5 taka,

a medium potato bag costs 7 taka,

and a large potato bag costs 9 taka.

Yet, a single potato in that market costs 10 taka.

How is that possible?
You don't think satellites have been a godsend for environmental conservation?

Would banning space development in the U.S. help us actually fix any of those low-hanging problems?

> go ahead and speak to some low-income folks at your local dive bar.

Are low-income folks at a local dive bar particularly knowledgeable about the subtle tradeoffs involved in effective government regulation?
It is now.

It wasn't in the past.

It wouldn't be if they had to compete with providers that also wanted to compete.
For small tasks or things that pop into my head I like braintoss, it sends a mail to my inbox with the txt/pic/voicenote. I like it because I do5get sucked into my inbox. I have it setup to open on my phone with a double tap of the power button.
Great question. Nile supports shared tables for this purpose. Shared tables are regular tables that can be shared across all the tenants in another table. We have example use cases and how this works in Nile here https://www.thenile.dev/docs/tenant-sharing. Let me know if this works for you.
This post, along with this Simon Wardley thread, https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1088780650860158978?s=20, attracted me to finops as an engineering problem. Consumption based pricing is really tough for a lot of orgs to handle at the $1M+ range, so much so that it requires dedicated software to line things up.

I started helping maintain https://ec2instances.info in my spare time and the code base is literally full of IF statements to paper over AWS billing quirks. Later, I joined Vantage, one of the companies linked in the article.

It's a little bit undecided whether finops will have the growth that devops did but the problem is seemingly felt very acutely.
>Pathfinder 1 has a hybrid propulsion system, with two 150 kilowatt diesel generators working alongside 24 batteries to provide power for the electric motors

300KW is 1500 m2 solar panels at 200 W/m2 which given the airship's length of 120 m means 15m width - i.e. the airship can just be covered with those lightweight flexible solar panels (with 1500m2 of those solar panels weighting about the same as those 2 diesels and say 300 gallons of fuel) and be self-sustainable for unlimited flight time.
Elon Musk is already working on the pipe part. Climate change is working on the tornados for the warp whistle.
Sergey and Larry combined have a majority of voting shares
I disagree with both.

> One explicitly, that Starship will work in anything resembling its current design and promised operational paramters.

We have a test flight behind us, which showed many tens of seconds of the stack flight. That's a big achievement validating the rocket architecture and general parameters. Frankly I'd assume we crossed equator in rocket development here, we're in completion stage more than developing.

> This is by no means as guaranteed as you make it out to be (it's very much an if, not a when).

You know, there are no physical laws which prevent Starship from working. SpaceX shows economics on their side. At this point it's not guaranteed that Starship will fly - because it's hard to predict the future - but it's a pretty safe bet that Starship can be made to fly.

> The promises of rapid reusability are very much up in the air, and the whole many-engine design is also not proven in the slightest yet.

There are many successful many-engine rockets. Soyuz has 5 engines but 32 nozzles firing at launch. Falcon Heavy has 27 separate engines. Saturn-I had 8, Falcon 9, Black Arrow 8 - the last one just 4-5 times less engines than Super Heavy. To say it's not proven in the slightest is bending the reality a bit too much.

> Secondly, you're assuming that reusable rockets are better than one-time use ones. While this may be true for certain kinds of missions, it is not at all clear for many others.

It's important however what those cases are. By now we have a good history of Falcon-9 launches, where for a number of years we have a substantial reduction of cost to orbit for a wide variety of payloads. So maybe - maybe - there are many other kinds of missions where reusability is a disadvantage, but those kinds are clearly in substantial minority.

> Reusable rockets fundamentally will have lower payload for the same thrust, for the simple reason that they need fuel for the return stage. They will also need to be made from sturdier materials to survive reentry, which again limits their capacity.

That's technically true, but arguing this is a bit like arguing that a car made for a single travel would be lighter and cheaper that the one made for repeated use. True, but quite irrelevant for most practical cases.
If it were a good idea from the perspective of farmers, then farmers would already be paying to do it themselves. This isn't the case though, so you will have to pay farmers to do it.

Why does it even have to be on farmland in the first place? If it's such a great idea with no environmental downsides, then dump the crushed rock onto other land instead. Then you can dump more of it without being limited by whatever is optimal for farm yields.
I suspect a few factors.

* Egress pricing margins ensure lock-in which makes it hard to builds competitors to “commodity” services (eg you can’t spin up your own price-competitive S3 within AWS). Lack of competition means less innovation and more expensive pricing.

* While compute costs don’t necessarily come down, the CPUs get more powerful. At scale, this should be the same as prices coming down. However, it’s not exact and cloud provides pocket this difference as profit / R&D investment.

* SRE costs are a huge chunk of own infra (managing servers at scale). If you’re small, this is a negligible cost. If you’re a large business this is a huge cost. Cloud providers target large businesses so the savings when you’re smaller are less obvious.

* Elasticity is a huge part of cloud capabilities. Most people use dynamic paygo pricing which is more expensive than baseload demand which cloud provides typically discount because baseload revenues can be used for purchasing additional capacity.
It’s kind of crazy how many cliches you’re spouting that are directly addressed by the movie almost verbatim as if to imply that the movie was trying to pretend didn’t exist
Revenue up 23%, from $27.7B to $34.1B YoY.

Net income is up a whopping 143%, from $4.4B to $11.6B - basically went from a 15% to 34% profit margin (and in line with profit margin numbers from 2021 and prior)

No wonder stock is up 4% after earnings.
So I uploaded one of my standard test files for compression and it actually expanded the file size from 52K to 93K while making the images blurry.
> So while it doesn't make you stop eating garbage, you will somehow, someway figure out how to keep a decent figure.

What makes you say that? Lots of people remain overweight, lots of research shows that shaming doesn't have the impact you say.

Also, lots of people can't physically do anything about it.
GCP doesn't really have the Google problem of lacking support contacts. I've managed relationships with GCP for a couple of different companies now (from startup to mid-size enterprise), and in all cases I had multiple dedicated account reps that I could not only get on a phone, but frequently met with in person.

Maybe the story is different for very very small fish, but I had decent experiences with support even at the ~20-person company spending ~5k/month level.
I am not sure, why are you citing me Bible. I am talking about the fact, that people in apartments does not have way to charge, because there is nowhere to park at a first place. And that's an issue when EU has 50% of people living in apartments.
Well, when you mention it, I do think it's possible to join these 3d roundabouts into a 4d roundabout, essentially putting them on the vertices of a tesseract, permitting drivers in 4 dimensional space to safely meet on the 3d-dimensional surface of a 4-dimensional hyper-sphere.

Of course it's a real spaghetti intersection where you need to potentially navigate dozens of 2D roundabouts to get to any given direction. Which coincidentally also is true for the 2D road network where I live.
They exist, its how animal manures are applied to fields. Likely this would be shipped via trains long distance and last mile with semi.
Man has income. Man owes income tax. Man writes off income tax due to his largess in buying himself a large boat beacuse he let's orphans on it once a month.
1. You should almost always use requests.Session() instead of requests. It's faster, and can make the code shorter.

2. requests can dump to JSON for you by using json=, so you don't need a separate module. It'll even set the content-type header to application/json for you.

import requests

url = '<endpoint>'

headers = {
'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 ...',
...
}

session = requests.Session()
session.headers.update(headers)

data = {
"page": 5,
"size": 28
...
}

response = session.post(url, json=data)

if response.status_code == 200:
print(response.json())
else:
print(f"Error {response.status_code}: {response.text}")
The Earth slowly depletes excess atmospheric CO2 due to the geological carbon cycle of silicate weathering. This is the slow, natural counterpart of the accelerated silicate weathering discussed above. It is too slow to reverse global warming on human time scales, but it means that if anthropogenic emissions ceased Earth would reach its peak temperature in less than a thousand years (ice melting and other reactions to this change would go on for several thousands of years) and gradually decline back to the pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 and climate within about 100,000 years.

My source for this recollection is David Archer's 2009 book The Long Thaw:
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate.
I got a snoo car sticker back in like '08 or '09 in a regular envelope type thingy, IIRC. I think I just asked for one? Maybe it was a form, IDK.
Core.py – New podcast about Python internals
Pablo Galindo Salgado and Łukasz Langa started a new podcast about Python internals called core.py
> There's no verification of the design itself.

I think this is mostly a philosophical statement, but it certainly has truth to it.

Code reviews / rework tackle mostly the code, but not the fundamental design. However the execution of the code tackles the design as well:

- If the design is wrong, the result is bad, that is detected at the execution phase.

- If the design is suboptimal (hard to maintain or extend, bad cpu load, hard to reuse...), well that is usually not solved. IMO that matches your point.
I don't know if it can be taught critical thinking. LLM token-generation is only vaguely analogous to "thinking" at all.

Recursive self prompting with both internal and external calibration might be analogous to "critical thinking" though.