skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only way to remove CO2 permanently from the atmosphere using these technologies is to seek endpoints like diamond and carbon fiber. Regardless, achieving steady state (atm CO2 extraction == atm CO2 injection) would be desirable, then at least we'd stabilize the atmosphere's chemical composition.
I use TBird. I believe there are two search mechanisms:

1) The "Search Messages" dialog that you get to from the menu Edit/Find/Search Messages... Can you say "slow"? I knew you could! I tried this just now, and it seems to be stuck "building a summary file for" one of my local folders.

2) The "Search" box that appears in the title bar. (What is it with scattering tools all around the outside of an app?) This is fast.

The advantage of (1) is that you can limit its search to particular locations, but you pay for that with sluggishness.
Aluminum or magnesium would do comparably fine. The shield can also be finely perforated to cut down more weight.
I’ve been in this boat and then had to justify the choice when integrating with third party vendors whose backends absolutely want names split into first/last components.

We would set up integrations sending the full name in the “first name field” and then a hard coded “notmylastname” string in the “last name field”. And then have about 3 days of back and forth usually including a link to https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... and explaining that no, you can’t reliably use a regular expression to split the full name data into first/last components.
The article focuses on Productivity as a sole cause for employers insisting on RTO. Yet, In some cases, we have CEOs on video record stating how remote work options help them hire and retain top talent.
I feel there are other factors such as government tax write offs/subsidies related to RTOs - eg employees cause retail around offices to have lowered traffic… hence lower sales tax revenues.
Why won’t employers just come out and say it? Your guess is as good as mine.
I find it easy to share photos with anyone - whether they have a Google account or not. I just select some pictures and you can easily create a link for it. (The link doesn't require a Google account to view.) I like to share images this way over texts, rather than sending the actual images.
Surprisingly, it took until last year for someone to actually ask Ken for the code: https://research.swtch.com/nih
I'm in my thirties with three kids; hoping to be done with working in a decade or so. Tech industry is basically free money.
Rich and powerful people invested in real estate. They can afford to run a campaign to keep those investments productive. That's all there is to it. Whenever you're confused about a situation, ask yourself who's going to make a profit from it, and it'll start to make sense.
The headline feels misleading. It is technically true but this proposal advances the cause of getting subsidies for cultivation of hemp.
I believe they're addressing the first sentence of the comment theyre replying to
Does anybody know anything about Jia Tan? Is it likely just a made up persona? Or is this a well-known person.
>What if the maintainer is unemployed?

How many actually existing maintainers in particular of security sensitive parts of open source projects don't have at least some record of employment or education, a modern passport or national ID with eID features, some other comparable form of identification or at least say one reputable person in the community who can verify they are who they say they are?

Are we seriously pretending the standards that exist for ordering a beer in a bar can't be met for software security that literally billions of people depend on?
15 year old time-traveller creates account in 2003 and bumps uglies with grandma before returning to 2024 or something.
What prevents you from quickly unblocking people remotely? Genuine question; I keep hearing people saying similar things about junior team members, but I don't understand what the remote issue is with them in particular.
> Part of the problem is that many of the concepts OpenGL teaches you have no bearing on how modern hardware actually works, so you end up having to unlearn bad habits which OpenGLs messy abstractions enable. OpenGL won't teach you to think in terms of PSOs, for example.

While this is true, for somebody who is starting from scratch there is a lot to learn before getting to the level at which thinking in terms of PSO is important, and it can be easier to get there via OpenGL, which btw still teaches you a decent chunk of GPU-friendly patterns (assuming of course we are talking about "modern" OpenGL and not display lists and such...). Also, with a good command of OpenGL, one can start trying to understand and re-implement rendering techniques spanning from deferred/forward+/clustered lighting, the various shadowing techniques and even HW raytracing eg. via the GLSL_NV_ray_tracingextension, which is - in my opinion - the more important side of learning GPU-accelerated rendering.
Software engineers: How can you afford a house in America with high-priced home?
Explanation: the cited report was obtained under information access law. That's when someone (medias most time) ask for some government (internal) documents access. The legislator can decide to redact parts of it upon release, and for any reason (theath to national security is most often cited). Please understand this report was never to be made public, for the same reason FBI's briefs to POTUS don't get published.

Of course, seeing one getting all worked up upon reading about _censor_ or _censorship_ is understandable given the context was left out, mostly because the National Post audience is local, and the editing line is flirting with propaganda, as this particular piece's purpose was to deliberatebly stain actual government's image.
Google (and most web software firms) are very lucky to operate in an industry where getting it more-or-less right 70% of the time is extraordinarily profitable, and the consequences for getting it wrong in any individual case are trivial.

There are many industries where this is not the case: aerospace, medical device engineering, and live TV production all come to mind.
They want people to RTO because it gives middle management who can't get up to date with how to manage a remote team a job to do: micromanage, and because execs have 0 trust in the people they hire.

It essentially all comes down to this, they're worried about people not working when they can't keep their eyes on them at all times. What they can't seem to grasp is that people are already not working much of the time even in an office due to a variety of reasons - smalltalk, watercooler chats, distractions from the all too common open office environment, coffee breaks, useless events/activities that give HR teams something to do, people taking longer lunches due to having to drive somewhere etc.

Additionally real-estate value even though none of them will mention it. People not in the office lowers the value of their investment.
Why is it so important those controls be on a lever? It’s not the only car to put them somewhere else?
OP is right.

In Go you always need a keyword (go something) to start a co-routine, well, in C# you do exactly the same with Task.Run(something), while it also supports async/await.

Additionally, LINQ can make use of background execution via PLINQ, Dataflow Tasks allow to use a DSL to orchestrate executions that happen in the background, the early BeginInvoke()/EndInvoke() can make use of threads or not, and for all of that, we can also write our own scheduling algorithm and give it to the runtime scheduler.

So yeah, it depends how rich the language runtime happens to be, even if async/await are also supported.
The answer we see is that if you put AI generated stuff in places people don’t look at too carefully they won’t care because they won’t notice. I’m not sure that’s great precedent
What the heck is an advertising documentary? Sounds like Orwellian Newspeak for plain old propaganda / astroturfing.

Nothing of importance has changed here. Looking at the picture, I fail to see why this is so controversial. I guess somebody doesn't like that it was in Playboy at one point? This is a picture people, not a mountain to die on.

Who paid $$$ to send this message? Why?
- Sourceforge had become terrible in multiple ways. They weren’t actually a competitor anymore with any competently-run hosting site.

- lightweight site, no ads

- either had tons of features sourceforge didn’t or sourceforge’s site was bad enough I never noticed the features

- gave me, and companies, a reason to create an account and actually engage with it—I think maybe sourceforge was one of those sites that required login for larger downloads (hazy recollection, may be wrong) but I certainly never used it for anything else, if I had an account. GitHub? Issue tracker on repos for software you use, free hosting even just for unimportant junk repos (all I’ve ever had, myself), maybe sending the odd PR, having an account is nice and they didn’t even need to break out the stick to make it nice (though now they have, because normal and non-aggressive use of their site will get you rate-limited very fast without an account—jerks, forcing me to log in even if I’m just searching for something real quick and don’t need any logged-in features)
> states dont want to raise a generation of alpha males with big ego and unsatiable drive to success.

It's unfortunate because regardless of what you think, the so-called 'alpha males' with an insatiable drive for success are the ones representing the vast majority of the tax revenue.
I hope GPU files leads to faster database
I would assume that as an adult she’s capable of making her decisions and we should respect that. Even if you disagree, there is no reason why we need to continue using it and it’s not a good choice purely on technical grounds, so a better question would be asking why anyone would be so committed to continuing to use an objectively obsolete image over the objection of its subject.
The standard argument for office work is that there are some intangible benefits to in-person work and communication that can't be effectively replicated over zoom and slack. The cynical argument is that managers like being able to walk around the room and count their worker bees. The conspiratorial argument is that corporations are in cahoots with commercial real estate developers.

There are debates on all these arguments, but your coffee pot standard is the opinion of most hn users.
I'm not a huge fan of this kind of safetyism argument. Human beings have been injured or killed by most fields of human endeavor, it's certainly unfortunate but unless Richard Serra specifically was engaged in some kind of negligence I don't see how that's really a critique. In the last couple hundred years some person somewhere has variously been killed by swimming pools, kitchens, sidewalks, windows, bicycles, etc. How many people have fallen off say a roof in the last century? Imagine if you said 'no one is talking about the number of lives cut short by roofs'. A 0% injury/death rate is not really possible
As it's not mentioned yet: log2ram already helped a lot in my tiny pi-hole setup.
Yes, but my point was that at the level of performance tools like this are expected to operate at, it’s highly probable that you’ll need to get into incredibly esoteric code. Look at ffmpeg – tons of hand-written Assembly, because they need it.

To be clear, I have no idea how to solve this problem; I just don’t think saying that all code must be non-hacky is the right approach.
These are huge factors.
I work in an industry where a couple firms that are very well run, have large investments in tech/infra and also, were the hardest RTO pushers.

A lot of also-rans that have made piddling investments in tech/infra are now following along and saying things like "well our competitors have RTO".

It's doubly funny because they pay less well, and therefore could have instead used flexibility as a hiring incentive. Instead the offer is - we pay less, and make you come into the office just as much! It's like explicitly screening for second-best employees.
Gmail was announced on Apr 1. I vaguely remember people thinking the 1GB was a joke. And it was also advertised as “unlimited” where the space grew with every passing second.
Is there any information on the actual person that introduced the back door? Possible state actor? Or maybe a black hat that was trying to sell the “back door” for cash/crypto currency?
Sure, a few organizations may actually need some obscure feature that Oracle provides, but again, it's niche. For most companies, Postgres provides way more features than they will ever use.

And for the other 1%, it sometimes happens that their need for a specific feature in Oracle DB turns out to be entirely unnecessary.

Not to mention that the vast majority of products turn out to be fancy CRUD apps. Doesn't matter though, Oracle will convince you that you NEED their DB regardless.
In this particular case of sharding a postgresql solution, in my opinion, the parent is right. Any major cloud provider would give companies of their scale assistance. This is their bread and butter. The posts likely hide the requirement of stay on aws, but we don’t know they did not talk about that. Likewise cockroach or yugabyte were also available options.
Daniel Kahneman – Dyads, and Other Mysteries [audio]
Again... this is completely unsurprising. Being forced to use language is a surefire way to learn it. Being surrounded by it will mean most adults will be able to speak it in a few months. There is no way to replicate that in a school environment that is predominantly being taught in another language. You have your spanish teacher for what... an hour... and then go right back to English. As I said above: what's the proposed solution here? International trips for every student... that's just not worth it.
Hey, after I posted that, I went and gave a second look online to see if I could find something that would allow me to develop a local-first app with offline persistence and syncing capabilities.

I ended up finding some possibilities out there that could potentially help me build stuff. One of them is RxDB [1], which offers WebRTC syncing - you'd still need a signaling server, I suppose, but all sensitive information could be synced E2E-encrypted via WebRTC.

Then there's CRDT's [2], which is a universe that turned out to have multiple possibilities that match (at least partially) my needs. In particular, the next thing I want to take a look at is cr-sqlite [3], which might be just thing I needed to kick-off some side-projects.

I'm posting here cause I just found some hope of not needing to build a traditional client-server app and having to deal with all the hassle involved in securing a server (and with fear that my efforts could be not good enough), and I thought someone else could benefit from getting to know these things.

[1] https://rxdb.info/
[2] https://crdt.tech/
[3] https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite
"But all indications are that language has appeared only once and in one species only. Among whom it then spread with considerable speed."

Charles Darwin said something like "If we differ from other animals it is by degree rather than by kind." I recently watched Nature on PBS in which chimpanzees are communicating with each other through gestures and sounds, consistently enough so that researchers have been able to confidently puzzle out some meanings- an example of language among chimps.

When I first read this McCarthy essay years ago I reacted strongly to the hubris of what I quoted. How is he so sure that we alone have language? His lack of imagination and seeming unwillingness to allow for some mystery really turned me of reading anything else he's written (Blood Meridian being the last- to his credit, I still think about themes from that story). I've mellowed a bit on that front, but still- if we don't know for certain that cetaceans, elephants, canids, birds, other primates (etc) don't have language, why say they don't?
Could you name a job with minimal/low responsibility that pays better?
> everything we can ask computers (or restated, math with real-world applications) can be rephrased in terms of finding a solution to a SAT instance

SAT is limited to propositional calculus which is far too weak for most mathematics.
Vivaldi is worthy successor and have those toggles built-in.
What is your product saying 'No' to? What is it standing against?
It’s a little tricky because if someone cloned your voice first they could pretend they were you and stop you from using “their” voice, then do nasty stuff with it. This way they can still do that, but they can’t prevent you from using your own voice unless you have to upload an ID with your voice or something. It’s much easier to enforce this on known celebrities or otherwise well known people than the general public.
ArchitectGPT
I want basic HTML mode back. I don't want chat or instant pestering. I don't want autogenerated replies when I am composing. I don't need a Google calendar. Whatever the next "innovative" feature is, I'm probably not interested.

I loved the simplicity of the old HTML view. One page load, one page render. No progress bars or animations, just a webpage that works. Bad network conditions never create unexpected behavior for old style form submissions. If the request fails, I can always press F5 to resubmit.

My system has 64GB of ram. This is more than sufficient for 2024. But why would I waste it on features that annoy or fluff I never use?

Bring back basic HTML.
I strongly disagree. If you don’t update your dependencies then it’s easy to lose the institutional knowledge of how to update them, and who actually owns that obscure area of your code base that depends on them. Then you get a real CVE and have to work out everything in a hurry.

If you have a large code base and organisation then keep doing those upgrades so it won’t be a problem when it really matters. If it’s painful, or touches too many areas of the code you’ll be forced to refactor things so that ceases to be a problem, and you might even manage to contain things so well that you can swap implementations relatively easily when needed.
If your entire database can be lifted into the application's heap, it's probably small enough that I wonder why you've got it stored in an RDBMS... and because Prolog is lexically sensitive (order of sentences and the order of clauses in the sentence affect the eval result) then you would need to effectively load all related DB entries -- or maybe some cursor tricks to load domain entries lazily and the many small queries that entails.

What I've usually seen instead is starting from Datalog (declarative, order-independent) instead of Prolog, and converting that into the relevant SQL queries then loading the results into variables within the datalog context. This splits the knowledge base into IDB and EDB parts.
Also known as inflation.
It should be noted that Xlib has been a compatibility wrapper around XCB – the "modern" X11 client library replacement – for about 15 years now, so it might make more sense to just target that.

(The only thing on the top of my head that absolutely requires Xlib is some niche Vulkan stuff; e.g. VK_EXT_acquire_xlib_display unfortunately has no XCB analogue.)
> Except "people" didn't make this ban, IEEE did.

Isn't IEEE made up of people?

> If people don't want to work with this image, then they might as well not work with it?

Lucky for you that you're oblivious to these kind of issues, but it's not as easy as you portray it to be. Most people will shut up and "just accept it" to not stir the pot. People aren't writing a paper in isolation using this, so can't easily just switch if the rest of the community uses it to benchmark, the co-authors want to use it etc.

> and convince people like you that it's ok to do that.

Please define "people like me". Tread carefully.

> and when you keep defending it using other arguments which are not the ones that led to the ban, you're just feeding a monster.

Don't lie. I've only used the arguments put forward by IEEE in the article.
Can Short Stories Still Shock? (2016)
Full paper:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jacsau.3c00823

It's really more about tethered heterogenous catalyst development, the idea being that anchoring the soluble catalysts on the electrode via a molecular tether (DNA in this case) improves reaction performance on several axes.

> "Here, we demonstrate the first application of DNA “Velcro” to immobilize molecular CO2RR catalysts on electrode surfaces (Figure 1b). The DNA-catalyst conjugates are readily synthesized and have improved stability as compared to the small-molecule catalysts alone simply through the incorporation of the DNA. Subsequent immobilization on carbon electrodes through hybridization to predeposited complementary DNA strands showed improved Faradaic efficiency (FE) toward CO production. We anticipate this method to be a general strategy to more easily and efficiently immobilize electrocatalysts for improved catalytic efficiency."

Industrial development is possible but depends on the lifetime of the catalyst and ease of regenerating it in a timely efficient manner as it wears out.
subversion was well-loved by its loyal users at the time as part of "net culture"; speaking of SVN any other way is revisionist. Meanwhile, plenty of companies sold proprietary source code control, since forever; few people loved those products as rigor and management were the constant, user-oriented features not so much, and there was no sense of community or user-control in sight.
Would you bring a copy of Playboy into the office? Would you say it’s okay because you won’t show anyone more than the upper half of an image?

That’s the problem: it’s nothing to do with what people do in their private lives, it’s about bringing pornography into a professional context. In this case it’s also objectively an obsolete choice for anyone working on modern imaging technology so it’s not even defensible on technical merits.
US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS
I agree. The way I read this, I missed it completely until I searched for it. I was looking too closely at the rest of the code around defines
Didn't they stop making Optane? :(

Also, Optane was like $4 per GB, so a moderately-sized drive, like 256GB, is already above $1000.
> perhaps consider that you're not the target audience.

I literally said, "I realize this post is the High Priest of Ethereum preaching to his disciples" before going on to laugh at his gibberish.

It's fine if you're into this stuff, but the cryptocurrency people can't seem to decide if they're a bunch of nerd hobbyists or the Future of Finance.

If you want to be HAM radio, then fine, nobody except your club needs to understand or care what you're talking about. If you think you're going to upend the world economy and force all the rest of us to use your bullshit, then you better expect the rest of us to demand explanations in plain English.

I could tell my grandma what TCP/IP is and why it's important. Cryptocurrency proponents have been trying (and failing) to do the same to me for over a decade now.
That, combined with AGPL licensing means the other big clouds won't touch it, as their lawyers have (rightly or wrongly) deemed AGPL too risky.
Launching BrainBlend, a suite of tools for product sellers and service providers
Alongside tools for individuals and creators, we also offer specialized services for businesses seeking to develop custom AI solutions.
Both of those things already exist
Wow, that isn't too long for billions in fraud. Thanks for the update.
It was one of Edward Teller's increasingly insane projects. He could really sell crazy weapon concepts.

1. Conceive brilliant and super expensive system.

2. Don't think about basic countermeasures that could invalidate the plan.