skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wetlands are a huge source of methane emissions:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5054/

I am wondering whether destroying (instead of conserving) wetlands might be a way of reducing climate change. Not an idea I like.

On the other hand, the plants will also be absorbing CO2 which is longer lived and also causes other problems such as ocean acidification.
Quite simply: it lets you build portable apps with near-native performance. Same source for both your desktop browser and your phone. I really love using it to make audio apps like this one: https://bungee.parabolaresearch.com/bungee-web-demo, also it's great for other real time rendering / visualisation in the browser.
Not much human civilisation 2.5 million years ago...
No environmental laws or worker protections? Is this based on truth or prejudice?

Subsidies and mandates are good when the EU does them but bad when China does them?
How is that different than web developers being required to dance to the tune of basically every major browser? They all have little oddities that have to be taken into account, speaking as someone who has done quite a bit of web development, every major browser has it's deviations from the standard, intentional and often otherwise, that require little tweaks to one's code.

And to be totally honest with you, a lot of Safari iOS's quirks are unambiguously good, pro-privacy practices that frustrate the shit out of surveillance marketing firms and I quite hope Apple keeps it up.
Being able to rewrite your essay after feedback makes so much sense.

I wonder why this isn't standard. I guess the extra work involved.
I’m running Ollama with the hopes of putting together some grammar/typo checking workflow for my writing. Not directly related to Ollama, which is working great so far, but does anybody know of any place I can turn to for questions? Like, some sort of stackoverflow for LLMs?
Oslo to Bergen or Stavanger is still 400-600 km through very mountainous terrain.

1.5 million live in the Oslo metro which is a significant proportion but you're not right at all as far as the rest of the population is concerned.
Meanwhile in reality China spreads anti America propaganda at school while in America, China runs positive China propaganda classes and programs.
It's been amazing to watch the 3D printing space grow as far as it has. In just the last 10-20 years it's gone from something only dedicated people were able to build and get reasonable results to high precision devices any hobbyist can get their hands on for a few hundred bucks.

I have two resin printers and a PLA printer and I never expected at-home capability to get this far this fast.

But, that's still all effectively plastic we're talking about. I think the problem with metals is still well.. metals. The same types of metallurgy needed for 3D printing have been researched and hit almost a dead end with injection molding (I know there are some metal injection molding systems out there, but it's not hit anywhere near the strength of machined steel yet)
I'm not proficient at reading minimized code. Maybe you're better at it than I am. The ChatGPT output helps kickstart a meaningful discussion about the content of the code.
https://archive.ph/xWq0o

This article is simping hard for businesses formerly doing the absolute bare minimum to make online shopping viable so they can get out of their expensive storefront leases now just increasing prices without having to say they're increasing prices. The mental gymnastics required to say that the cost of shipping and returns which we've been paying the whole time is something we've been getting undeservedly for free is appalling.

> But in a larger sense, the pushback from retailers is a good thing. Free shipping is not actually free. It involves massive, expensive logistics operations and often leaves small retailers at an impossible disadvantage compared with their much larger competitors. The too-easy shipping and returning process consumers have come to expect is harmful to the environment.

Oh gag me, free shipping and returns isn't free because corporate daddy is so generous, it's not free because it's baked into the price and consumers have signaled a massive preference for $x+y with free shipping over $x item with $y shipping.

Also there's no way in any universe that the cost of getting an item to me physically via my car and a physical storefront is better for the environment than the Amazon or FedEx truck taking what would have been hundreds of trips to the store and making one run for everyone. I don't have a massively efficient logistics network.

> They are charging to send stuff back, shortening return deadlines, and refusing to accept some items entirely. Retailers want to dissuade consumers from making returns at all — or at least force them to do it in a more profitable manner, like physically bringing stuff back to stores.

Why even bother with the charade? You don't have to offer returns at all and consumers understand that some items are non-returnable like sale items. Well because they need to say they allow returns or else folks won't buy. So you just rug pull by making it difficult while technically saying you still allow returns.
Unions do not help everyone. Unions often impose artificially high labor costs, which results in a lower amount of jobs being created. The real impact soon becomes apparent when companies start to lay off those union employees because their margins are slim and they try to automate as much as possible, instead of hiring people to do the job.

See the recent UPS layoff, just after 6 months of a great union deal: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/difficult-disappointing-ups-l...
That 3-step pattern is common, but it's not much better for paid products nowadays (e.g., the Garmin/Navionics purchase):

1. Pay for lifetime license for offline product.

2. "Offline" product has a backdoor and is remotely updated.

3. Continued use requires a subscription. No features were added. Some were removed.

4. PR spins this as for your own benefit.

5. Parent company gives all the liabilities away to a subsidiary in another country who can go bankrupt to make legal recourse more difficult.

And a million other variations. My go-to strategy has been reducing the surface are of entities who could exert influence if (when) they turned evil, not using some otherwise excellent products as one particular sub-strategy, but that only goes so far. What do y'all do?
Well, it is not as binary as “plants absorb greenhouse gases” or not. In this case, as you read the article, it says, “At the same time, water released from the melting ice is moving sediment and silt, and that eventually forms wetlands and fenlands.” which is the key -- it is forming patches that are producing methane.

Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Just as, paddy (rice fields) produces more methane during its early growth period than producing Oxygen or absorbing Carbon Dioxide.
>As a rule Chinese students are more attentive and less rebellious than their American counterparts.

As an American who's taught both native born American students and recent Chinese immigrants, I confirm this is true, much to the embarrassment of my national pride.
Is it "Photo Pea" though?

I've always thought it was like "Utopia" but for photos.
Link to project: https://fold.it/

Biochemistry mystifies me in same way that most other sciences to do not. It’s amazing to me that they can, in theory, derive useful insight or scientific leads from people playing.

Does anyone have an ELI5 on why/if this is more efficient than just iterating through combination programmatically?
> Canada did not have strict lock-down rules like much of the world

Canada is big. The covid rules were by province. Quebec in the east had lockdowns, but the fires discussed in the article are in the west.
Checking online, this [1] appears to be one of the most heavily referenced on StackOverflow for downloading both user entered and automatically generated transcripts. (Python based)

[1] https://github.com/jdepoix/youtube-transcript-api

Notably, Google really needs to have an obvious API endpoint for this kind of call. If 1000's of programmers are all rolling their own implementation, there's probably a huge number that constantly download the full video and transcribe in data harvesting.

Kind of surprised honestly it's taken this long for Youtube to fall prey to massive data harvesting campaigns. From this article [2] and this paper on Youtube data statistics [3] there are ~14,000,000,000 videos on Youtube with a mean length of 615 seconds (~10 minutes).

You'd think people would be interested in:

8,610,000,000,000 seconds
143,500,000,000 minutes
2,391,666,666 hours
3,274,083 months
272,840 years
27,284 decades
2,728 centuries
273 millennia

Of live action video on nearly every single subject in human existence.

Also, the paper's really cool and extremely sobering about being a "content creator" based on the 1% get all views.

[2] "What We Discovered on ‘Deep YouTube’", https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-m...

[3] "Dialing for Videos: A Random Sample of YouTube", https://journalqd.org/article/view/4066/3766
It's the default on Ubuntu and RHEL, which are the two most popular enterprise distros. Ubuntu is also the most popular consumer Linux distro.
A small Rust binary indeed (2022)
There’s interesting corollary to this: you don’t get to decide what you are worth to other people.

Before you start firing replies, let me put this in context.

I have plenty of friends who like me for reasons I don’t understand. I’d never consider being friends with anyone like me. I don’t know why anyone puts up my mood swings, occasional bouts of stubborn overconfidence on something I read on Wikipedia once three years ago, and a long list of other bipolar bullshit.

My friends see something in me that I don’t. They aren’t bothered by the same things I am. They get to choose how much I mean to them. And I am forever grateful for that.
Perhaps they know something we don’t. The news outlets won’t shut up about EV demand “slipping”. That could be because they don’t like Musk, but it could also be real. In a post-truth society there’s no way to know.
WeWork's Neumann.
Aha, I didn't see the comments to the Gist. Thanks for that.
That’s not dynamic content. It’s okay to have some optional JavaScript to dynamically update the scores or whatever. But that’s no reason not to show the main/initial content without JavaScript. As a user I certainly prefer regular content to not update by itself, though.
You have not stated a case.
I take Elon at face value when he recently said “We kind of dug our own grave with the Cybertruck”
“Encrypted” means a set of data is processed with a password so to make it garbled, to both humans and computers. If data doesn’t involve a password of some shape or form to process, it isn’t “encrypted”, no matter how complicated of a state it might be in.

“Obfuscated” is another word, that is used to describe a thing that, while requiring no password, intentionally made complicated to achieve similar effect.

Hollywood style “the system is encrypted” is not real. That’s total technobabble, I’d say like “soft boiling a dinner plate”, nobody knows what it even amounts to.
Additional vote for TowerRex. We have a couple of their card boxes, and they are perfect for travel with a trading card deck plus dice/tokens.
Doors aren't usually in my dreams either.
The simple truth is that scaffolding commandeers a public good for private purpose. Developers may say scaffolding protects pedestrians, but it’s really there to protect the construction firm from liability.

And what does the public get in exchange for the usurpation of its property? Nothing. The greatest cost is erecting the scaffolding and taking it down. It stays up until there’s no chance it will be needed again, because capitalism.

The solution, obviously, is to charge rent. The scaffolder should pay a monthly fee for the privilege of using the sidewalk. Moreover, that rent should double periodically, perhaps every 90 days. At some point, we’d see scaffolding removed because it’s uneconomical to leave in place.
I agree with you, but it does show that having a competent government can make amazing things possible, and having a dysfunctional one with massive corruption makes it impossible. Not Liberia or Oman, but Nigeria, Angola, and Uganda have the resources to do something similar.
Then I’m not sure why you’re arguing that $50 billion would make the problem go away. Care to explain the good faith reason if you have one?
> This isn’t really explaining the logic behind your original statement.

Hence I clarified.
RSS readers have dark mode. I use Feedbro personally.
Pip and gem don't install multiple versions of the same package in deps folders like npm. You need to pin your versions. Installing a package does not normally trigger a neverending cascade of dependencies like it does with npm, cargo or go.

Npm is worse in every way because it doesn't even enforce documentation be shipped with the package nor does it provide easy means to do so like Perl pods or Python docstrings or docs. The result is that most modules do not come with any docs or if they do, each and every one uses its own structure and tools contributing to the general mess.
Low resolution is a relative term. It certainly beats this.
Esri is an anticompetitive company leeching taxpayer dollars that only exists because ArcGIS trapped the government before many govcon laws preventing vendor lock in were put in place.

We would have 10x the mapping capabilities and much higher velocity on defense tech without this parasitic company.

Btw, also recently fined for blatant sexism against hundreds of female employees.
GNOME is very opinionated in its design, it's bound to draw ire. It's the more stable DE out of it and KDE, and the way they handle releases is more friendly to the enterprisey types.
Except you should look at the shape of the country. And the fact that we don't spend much out of that fund.

Hint. Minneapolis to Houston is a shorter distance than Lindesnes to Nordkapp
National pride? One could just frame this as American students teenagers being more independent-minded… and more rebellious (the last part can be both a compliment and not).
The word "win" does have more than one meaning, a collquial one an a legal one. Nonetheless, whynotminot clearly meant it in the legal sense.

drooopy: "Nearly twenty five years ago, the DoJ nearly split Microsoft into two companies"

whynotminot: "Didn’t Microsoft win that case?"

We all know that Microsoft was not split into two companies. That was even stipulated by "nearly" in the initial post. That was obviously a "win" in the colloquial sense, so if that was the intended meaning, then why would whynotminot have even posed a question in the first place? There was no question. Yes, Microsoft "won", colloquially, and just got a slap on the wrist. That was the very background and context of the initial post by drooopy.

So no, you're mistaken about which sense of "win" was under question.

The question would have been phrased differently if it was meant in the colloquial sense, something like, "Didn't Microsoft win in that settlement?" But really, nobody would even phrase that as a tentative question rather than as a statement, because obviously Microsoft came out very well in the settlement, and besides, that was never in dispute with the original post by drooopy, because drooopy was lamenting the fact that monopolists have faced no consequences. Your interpretation of the conversation makes no sense.

Furthermore, whynotminot specifically said, in reference to the Wikipedia article about US v. Microsoft, "which is why I replied skeptically because it says Microsoft had most of it overturned on appeal." This again points to the legal sense of win.
Typical American seems obsessed with what other people think.

Everyone should have some healthy measures to absorb feedback from others, but better to do that when this feedback really happens.

Instead, american society built a babel tower of preemptive behaviours anticipating imagined perception by others, there is some kind of religion built around that.
Wokeism can be viewed as taking this mechanism to the extreme.
You say that as if the prospect of such disturbances weren't used as a pretext for discrimination - because, of course, "those people" are loud/smoke/have rotties and pitbulls/don't take care of the property they're renting. /s The characterization also ignores that the reason those things (lax maintenance, smoking indoors as sequela of tobacco company propaganda/anti-marijuana laws, etc.) do occasionally happen are closely intertwined with social disregard for marginalized groups. In other words, treatment of a symptom, not the cause.

GP's point is that it's difficult to solve the issue without acknowledging that we made a stupid policy decision predicated mostly on class and racial hysteria. If we recognize those decisions for what they are and stop making them, maybe we can get somewhere. It's quite unlikely that your local zoning board forbade duplexes and low-rises 50 years ago because they were concerned about mold.
I couldn't find a single list that had Tesla anywhere near #1; source?
Congrats on the achievement.

One trick part when working on "planet-scale" is parsing and matching the results for multiple countries. I tried some addresses in Brazil without success. Queries like "Starbucks Sao Paulo" return some results but addresses like "Avenida Paulista 100" (or its variations) don't.

Last time I looked (~2018) pelias-parser used some ML training and the results weren't very good for Brazil. I'm guessing in 2024, an open-source fine tuned LLM would do a good job?
I don't quite agree. There's a reason relational won, and continues to win more than a half-century after it was invented, despite no lack of wannabe usurpers.

For your model to work, what would be needed is the reverse: a system which allows me to interact with TSV files with SQL.

For 98% of uses of SQLite, performance and storage efficiency don't matter; we're talking about dozens or hundreds of records. It doesn't need to be well-implemented from that perspective. It does need to be robust. For example, databases solve a lot of problems especially around consistency in threaded systems which this would need to handle as well (although a KISS solution, such as handling all access from one thread / process, and simply blocking other requests during transactions, would be fine).

Something like that would likely eat SQLite's lunch.

q seems close. It'd need to support writes, table creation, and all the other stuff, perhaps be more actively maintained, provide documented API (not just command-line) access, and work with things like ORMs.
>The potential profitability of converting a tower is something only the buyer should be concerned with, not the government.

I have no idea how you could possibly hold such a position, so I'm not really sure what to say. Do you think incentives don't matter? Do you think the government doesn't already heavily involve itself in real estate pricing beyond just zoning via numerous regulatory means and subsidies? Do you think that what gets built in a jurisdiction just isn't its government's concern?
You are right. Audio amplifiers have not historically been power efficient.

In the case of a headphone amplifier on AC power, we don't have to think about efficiency, as long as it isn't ridiculous, like drawing 100W.

Class B amplifiers are only efficient when producing no output, or when producing output clipped to the power rails (like a square wave). Due to being almost fully off or fully on.

For a sinusoidal signal, the worst case efficiency occurs at about 40% of the output power delivered to the load, when the transistors will dissipate another 20%.

Source: https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Electrical_Engineerin... Section 9.2.4: Class B Power Dissipation
I have! A lot of the drafting process for vetting ideas involves having a model generate out a few paragraphs of what the story could entail, but the rest of it is really writing out outlines like this: https://xena.greedo.xeserv.us/files/The%20Layoff.pdf

Then I take that outline, stew on it for a while, and eventually something comes up to inspire me to fully send it into a draft. Then I wait a day and edit that draft down until there's no more to cut out.

So many things end up on the cutting room floor, but it's how you end up with the stuff that's great left behind.
> Giving a fuck about other peoples opinions is a choice.

When you grow up in an environment where other people's opinions mean the difference between receiving care and not, or of getting hit with a stick and not, or of being told you're going to hell or not, it deeply ingrains the belief that other people's opinions are a matter of life and death.

It trains the developing brain to automatically become hyper-vigilant of the emotions and opinions of others, and these bedrocks of thinking carry forward into adult life where they either lead to a life of anxiety and worry about what others think, or a life of unwinding and replacing it with better ways of thinking.

When that kind of thinking gets embedded at an early age, at a time when the victim has no choice in the matter, it's absolutely not correct to say that this is a choice.
For Rust on Linux it's a bit more involved because they use nightly features, which can change from day to day. In practice there's an implicit tiered strata, with features that rarely change and features that frequently change in bursts. I would like it if we formalized that distinction a bit. We already mark when a feature is very likely to change (unstable_features), but not when they are very close to being stabilized.
It’s cool as is, but I think it’s one case of a web app that’d genuinely benefit from having an Electron app that can do things like use the global menubar on macOS and have more robust filesystem access.
It could also be a selection thing though, you'd have to compare "typical American students in a typical American school environment" to "typical Chinese students in a typical Chinese school environment".

Still probably quite different, but maybe more similar than looking at Chinese emigrés vs typical "US average".
I find it irritating that the article mentions repeated measures, but does not try them, much less a mixed effects model. Yes, they are linear models with more parameters, but doing it in lm would be a special kind of madness
If anyone is interested in this sort of thing I started a proposal with a list of ideas and features around a Rails debug toolbar at: https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/proposal-a-fully-featured-...

NOTE: I'm not the author of this tool but they did end up replying in that thread. I didn't even know their tool existed until I happened to stumble upon it on Twitter well after my post.

It would be neat if something like this were built out and included in Rails at some point. Especially with Rails 8 focusing on tool integrations and overall developer happiness.
Quick search suggests BYD made 3.02 million cars in 2023. Tesla: 1.8M
That's because people have been brainwashed by apple to believe this is the only way to be secure.

We need to go back to being able to just download installers from anywhere and running them, and giving people just a hint of personal responsibility.

Application sandboxes are acceptable if they treat any and all applications the same.

If there is a flaw in the sandbox they should fix it instead of charging everyone boatloads of money under the pretense of keeping bad actors out.

Break up apple.
You still have all the people and companies working in the industry paying taxes. And some of the oil revenue still ends up in the government budget directly:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/744826/budget-revenue-of...