skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my city at least, parking is in perpetual short supply.
I'm always slightly disappointed that I can't just Buy Now one of these passion projects for my wall. Truly wonderful art.
> Name a company that is legal to run that SHOULD have it's owner's identity hidden...

Every single one of them. If you don't want to do business with a firm that's evasive about its ownership, that's your prerogative, but forcing anyone engaged in business to have sensitive personal information about them recorded in a centralized database that will be a beacon for corruption and abuse is invasive, anti-social, and dangerous.

> Only those that dwell in darkness fear the light.

You are of course welcome to post your full name, home address, phone number, social security number, annual income itemized by source, credit score, and any other personal information you feel should be exposed to "light" right here in this thread.
The housing markets in Germany and Spain are awful, at least in the cities where the jobs are. And in Spain there's the youth unemployment crisis as well.
> so the cost of CO2 capture has to be well below $110/ton

they say $250/t in the article, but could you expand how you came to "A ton of natural gas requires 2.75 tons of CO2"? Where 1.75t of CO2 is disappearing in result?
> Stop arguing for this about cost, or "family friendliness", or preschool availability, or anything else, because you are immediately missing the actual reasons. NIMBYs are racist. It's that simple. Zoning and land use is designed to keep minorities away from "pure" suburbs.

Counterargument: The same/equivalent zoning, land use and NIMBY problems happen in countries that are racially homogeneous.
Lead to? It is doxxing.
Multi-corporate effort would likely need to start by first agreeing what is image quality.

Image quality folks are more cautious and tradition-centric than codec devs, so quite an initial effort would be needed to use something as advanced and risky as butteraugli, ssimulacra or XYB. With traditional objective metrics it would be very difficult to make a competing format as they would start with a 10–15 % disadvantage.

So, I think it is not easy and would need substantial investment.
Ask HN: Have you ever had to set up an RCP/gRPC server? Why?
Why should someone consider setting up an RPC/gRPC server instead of just using REST APIs, GraphQL, and other approaches?

Are there particular types of applications, use cases, or scenarios where the benefits significantly outweigh the added effort of setting up and maintaining an RPC server?
I get that but now what? We give them all criminal records (or more things on it) and they’ll be back on the streets? Or are we jailing them?

I’m sure it’s real, but is the problem that the drug use isn’t illegal? How does making it a crime again help?
I don't think it's evil, but I just don't think it's very good either.

And a graphics format better be damn good (i.e. much, not just a little bit, better than what it's hoping to replace) if it aspires to become widely supported across applications, operating systems, libraries etc.
Very unfortunate that the mobile layout of the devblog has so many fixed elements on the side, they are distracting and can’t navigate the page without feeling some discomfort
Rookie numbers. How much did Uber lose? Wirecard?
Good to know that Apple does not collect and store this data. The original issue, however, is that the banks continue to share this data with wallet providers. I have seen notifications on my phone wallet when using the physical card, which I found suspicious.
This system bassicaly just gave everyone a score from 1 to 100 of how luckely they are part the military wing of hamas.

Another system would signal that target is at home and it's time to bomb. This system was using phone to geo-locate and due to nature of living in Gaza phones transfer hands often.

Without Lavender they would have dropped less bombs IMO.
> There’s a whole school of thought around having the boots on the ground make their own in the moment decisions.

So when the war crimes trial happens the higher ups can throw their subordinates under the bus and claim ignorance. The Nuremberg defense was about blaming superiors. I wonder if the reverse, blaming subordinates and computers will be known as Hague defense, after the apartheid officers in Tel Aviv are taken to court. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
Do you have enough military experience to say this? Or are you just guessing?

I’ll guarantee that it’s the latter.
Hmm, I wonder if that is related to why the use of 3G barely just rolled out and why they still aren't allowed to have 4G. Maybe that would require an upgrade of Stringray-like equipment?
> non-anonymity. There's also a pragmatic argument that it deters bad behaviour which is another reason to justify this.

that goes both ways .. tax collection, arbitrary and capricious enforcement of regulation, scrutiny-as-punishment .. these things are as old as cities
Yeah, just with different variables (depending on age)
> The following investigation is organized according to the six chronological stages of the Israeli army’s highly automated target production in the early weeks of the Gaza war. First, we explain the Lavender machine itself, which marked tens of thousands of Palestinians using AI. Second, we reveal the “Where’s Daddy?” system, which tracked these targets and signaled to the army when they entered their family homes. Third, we describe how “dumb” bombs were chosen to strike these homes.

> Fourth, we explain how the army loosened the permitted number of civilians who could be killed during the bombing of a target. Fifth, we note how automated software inaccurately calculated the amount of non-combatants in each household. And sixth, we show how on several occasions, when a home was struck, usually at night, the individual target was sometimes not inside at all, because military officers did not verify the information in real time.

Tbh this feels like making a machine that points at a random point on the map by rolling two sets of dice, and then yelling "more blood for the blood god" before throwing a cluster bomb
Molecular weight of methane (CH4): 16

Molecular weight of CO2: 44

One molecule of CO2 is needed to get the carbon atom to make one molecule of methane.

44/16 = 2.75

The 1.75t of CO2 that went missing is the oxygen, which obviously isn't in the methane.
What about the Lindy effect is in contrast to reading Hacker News
Chasing profits didn't cause slavery to end, it was the abolitionists who were standing up for human rights. Historically massive social change doesn't come from the top down like you are describing. It would be akin to saying LBJ was a civil rights hero for his legislation. Sure, he signed it, but the civil rights movement of 60s is why it was possible in the first place. Hardly can one deserve credit for playing a forced hand.
You paid for it, why not?
Well now I'm wondering; it might not directly run an Apple ][, but what about the Apple ][ compatibles like the Laser 128 [1]? It doesn't use the same ROM as Apple, they licensed Microsoft Basic directly from Microsoft and then added the missing functionality themselves.

I guess someone would have to see how similar it is to a vanilla Apple ][.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_128
While this is impressive to some degree I just today watched Climate Town’s “Natural Gas is Scamming America” (https://youtu.be/K2oL4SFwkkw) and the entire natural gas industry is tainted beyond belief for me now. It’s not like they were a positive thing in my view before, but on the whole natural gas seems to be just as if not more detrimental than coal for climate change mainly due to how much is leaked out but also how much energy it takes to ship natural gas to other countries. The idea of creating carbon neutral natural gas seems great, but can we maybe avoid holding energy in one of the most climate-change inducing gases out there?
Amazon pays $1.9M to workers in Saudi Arabia harmed by labor abuses
If Google sells a part of its business to another company then the data required to operate that business must be included in the sale. That goes without saying. And a lot of companies "sell user data" by that metric.

Also, there is no indication that Squarespace has received any user data that is not required for them to take over Google Domain operations (so they would get a user's domains, billing info, etc but not their Google Maps location or their search history).
Bizarrely content-free comment. Lots of text to say that a place x that is not y is not y. Yes, obviously these are two different places.
Operation Paperclip et al
I came across your works learning and consuming all things Forth and Subleq. It was great to read over how you approach things. I wanted to purchase your book but Amazon says no...will there be another run?
This is a bizarre take. I've seen it multiple times, in multiple threads now. Somehow your only options are "kill women and children" in large amounts or carpet bomb. I feel like there are dozens, if not hundreds of other options if anyone gave a damn.

Ultimately, it's a calculus of "us vs them" and which lives are valued or devalued.

Relatedly, are police justified when they shoot at a house with 500 rounds, killing the suspect and their entire family that happened to be in the general vicinity? Is the math "one law enforcement > n lives as long as one was a (potential) badguy"?

If you wanted to do this with minimal civilian casualties, then you bring the ground forces in, block by block, and you clear things the old-fashioned way. You take casualties, but those are casualties who signed up to be "warfighters".

Now this IS inflamatory: I think we have a lot of warfighters and cops who are just plain cowards, that's the mentality. Why have a class of trained and armed people who are so afraid of dying that they'd rather kill anything and everything in their path than potentially be injured or killed?

I thought the ethos of the warfighter and law enforcement was "act as a shield, act as a bulwark, save lives, give my life so that others may be free, etc etc". Nowadays its "nah I'm not going in that school, there's badguys with guns and I might die, just stay outside".

That leads to a failure of imagination where somehow "blow up a building with innocent people as long as you got your target" seems somehow justified because you didn't risk a 'good guy' life. Cowardice.
If you don't trust the project, you wouldn't contribute to it.

The state actor may be able to fake identities, but that would still allow tracking the identity to a particular state... and if caught multiple times, that state would start losing credibility and projects may choose to stop trusting people from such nationality, unfortunately, or at least require more strong evidence the person is real and trustworthy if they come from known rogue nations.
The average CEO's insight into the wider economy is zero. When a CEO (or anyone for that matter) says "a hard truth about x" where x is some complex system like the economy, roll your eyes.
That's not RCS though, that's Google Messages. It's a platform-specific encryption feature not part of RCS in any way and will not be a part of the implementation when Apple adds RCS.
Surely if Israel is bribing in one direction and Qatar is bribing in the other direction, someone is not getting their money's worth? That is, the final result is either that the "western world is entirely bribed and blackmailed to stand behind Israel" or that they don't stand behind Israel.
Yes, well said. Doing exactly this kind of thing for months with ChatGPT is what convinced me the idea could work in the first place. I knew the underlying intelligence was there--the challenge is giving it the right prompts and supporting infra.
That also doesn't really happen right now and I'm not sure a summary is an improvement whoever writes it. You can just run that article through an llm yourself to get a summary - comment threads are useful for discussions with other humans about the content. What's it adding to the conversation? Are you hoping that everyone starts replying to the summary to discuss so it's replies take over to become the discussion for the article? If not, does it just get pushed to the bottom since nobody interacts with it, and then what's the point? It could be nice as a feature but as a comment I'd argue human summaries or AI summaries are pretty much just spam. Because unlike the archive link comments that people post where there's a clear point that it's done and you don't need to post another one - what happens if you don't like the summary? Or if it's controversial and nuanced? Summary wars? I feel even more strongly about that now that I've thought through it - no I wouldn't feel different and would dislike both equally.
Phones and social media have replaced parents. Its' the reason there is less connection between kids and their parents, their peers, teachers, everyone.
I had difficulty accessing this at first so I made an archive link: https://archive.ph/70mI4

Now, I seem to be able to access the original anyway. But I'm leaving that here in case anyone else needs it.
Hm, are you suggesting they're currently in the process of reimplementing it in a safer and/or more maintainable way as part of Chrome?

In that case, that would just be extremely bad messaging (which I also wouldn't put past Google). Why agitate half of the people on here and in other tech-affine parts of the Internet when they could have just publicly stated that they're working on it and to please have some patience?

Public support by Google, even if it's just in the form of a vague "intent to implement", would be so important for a nascent JPEG successor.
While it is simple to blame Google for traffic surge, the thing is that I have them on my RSS reader for years and I barely visit the site even once a month.

Articles are not interesting to me at large, 99.9% of the time, there is no comments sections to correct them or engage and challenge authors or other readers, seems like owners so not care about what their audience has to say. They only care about views. There is no community at the site, so they are at mercy of a search engine without spending a dime on advertising.

There is only room for a few "best top 10 Pokemon ROM hacks" articles... It was good when it last, but all comes to an end...
That is because it is underpriced.
I think we probably already see the most important ones, such as the one today. If there's an article that particularly deserves having the flags turned off, people can always bring it to our attention at hn@ycombinator.com.
the challenges of achieving financial independence are unbearable sometimes
Limited liability companies were created to allow risk-taking in business. They impose a social cost when they fail, but it's one we accept because the ability to have a crack at creating a business, without being personally bankrupted if it fails, creates more economic activity [0].

However, it doesn't mean we have to accept their usage for tax evasion or money laundering.

[0]: Caveats - depending on your jurisdiction, don't trade while insolvent, don't personally guarantee business loans or leases.
> Not sure if you are part of the research team but a follow up question nevertheless.

I am not.

> what would it take to develop another widely supported image format? Would the research stage already need to be carried out as a multi-corporate effort?

I believe JXL will be very successful sooner or later, it already has a lot more support than many other attempts at new image formats.

But in general, the main way to get fast adoption on the web is to have Chromium's codec team be the main developers.
HN would be the first to tell me Jobs didn't invent the smartphone. /s

I could see conservatives blaming Obamaphones - making them accessible to all classes.

I wonder how the Holden Caulfield's, Johnny Stabler's or the Over The Edge kids would have done with smartphones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Edge_(film)
Bolting a Cloudfront distribution onto a S3 bucket is pretty well-trod territory, though, and doesn't have these sharp edges. (Has a couple other ones, but they're less common.)
It really depends on what you classify under embedded. Everything more expensive than a Padauk or newer than PIC will have hardware support for the stack, and also most likely have the heap provided by newlib.
That's the idea. Gotta pump that land value!
Most credit unions get their technology supplied by one of several “bank in a box” vendors such as fiserve or fis. Those companies have relationships and technology integrations with many data brokers and media firms like Cardlytics.

That’s not to say they do have programs like this but only that they have the capability, usually just by making a phone call to their account manager.
Most of those state privacy laws will not do much when a federal law governs the situation, e.g. Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in this case.
Right. Criminalization is entirely illogical since it just exacerbates the root causes and doesn’t even really help with the symptom. And most people can’t even fathom that there’s an alternative.
Chemical fuels are dramatically easier to store and transport than electricity. Batteries are heavy and expensive compared to a tank. Time-dependent surplus electricity (which is basically a guaranteed situation on renewable-heavy grids) is basically free, which makes efficiency concerns approximately moot.

Instead of letting excess capacity go to waste, you use it to create chemical fuel, which can be used either just as storage to be later burned in a peaker plant, or you can use it as fuel in mobile settings (trucks, planes, ships, etc) where energy density is important.
Show HN: What if programming languages were music genres?
Last holiday, I stumbled upon Sono.ai, an AI music creation tool, and spent a good few hours creating some nonsense - and flooding some friends along the way with it.

And then I thought, "what if programming languages were musical styles?", taking stereotypes to the extreme.

So I came up with https://www.theaimusicfestival.com/

It is interesting to see the patterns emerge for this type of model. Many instances of 'In a world (...)', 'In the realm of (...)', etc.
Yes, I think that the light being stationary is an important distinction, though it's a good thing to control for because motion complicates things.

I came to the comments here because of a flickering effect (different from what they're testing for) I often observe: the tail lights of cars. Sometimes when I move my eyes (not my head) very quickly I will see a dashed trail from the red tail lights of certain cars (I'm assuming they're pulse modulating for some reason). I've been thinking about this in terms of the often-cited phenomena where our brains 'black out' our vision briefly when moving our eyes. I think this (brain 'blacking out' our vision) is not what happens, and some others have similar evidence: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abf2218
Look I know this is gonna sound cliche but the thing they should do is not engage in an offensive asymmetrical war and bomb a dense urban area full of innocents for basically no reason. Then they wouldn’t need the little ai.
No. But demand for them will be much higher and the prices will adjust.
The problem is that China will rush to fill in the gap, and supply its own CNC machinery to Russia. The quality is good enough (never underestimate "good enough").

Who will stop them?

They have a permanent seat on the UN Security Council - like Russia. They can veto any UN resolution - like Russia.

The real lasting solution is for Russia to implode, and for its own population to dismember the empire into its constituent republics, and for "Russia" to be slashed back to its native province of Muscovy.
Sounds plausible to me. People need things to look forward to — not just for themselves, but also for the wider circumstances that surround them — in order to be able to get out of bed in the morning and feel good about living.

This seems like it’d apply to teenagers even more than adults, between the combination of emotions running hot and having so many years ahead of them. It’s easy to see how someone might become depressed if they believe that their next 60-80 years are going to be some degree of awful.
> I mean, I think the whole point of the act is to stop "rich people" from maintaining privacy/secrecy in regards to the businesses they own.

No, the act has little effect on "rich people". It applies only to non-public firms with 20 or fewer employees, and exempts most firms in the banking and finance industries.

It encumbers your local barbershop and the mom-and-pop restaurant on the corner, but the "rich people" get a pass.

> And that's a good thing.

It turns out that "rich people" have as much right to maintain the privacy of sensitive personal information as anyone else.
YCombinator accepts Cayman Islands LTDs and LLCs too IIRC.

It's not always about dirty deals of trafficking substances and arms, it's honestly desirable for a corporation to be located in a tax neutral jurisdiction and then the various owners can vote with their feet where to locate themselves according to their individual preferences.

The inevitability of death and the fact that you can't take money with you (and also the fact that people accostumed to a certain lifestyle would find their life pretty lacking in a 0% tax country) would compel the aforementioned owners to cash out and start spending at some time and then non-0% tax countries would get their fair share tax on their capital gains, income as well as consumption.

If a guy never cashes out and never spends, then what can you do? They are just monodimensional, obsessed individuals, perhaps heavily on the spectrum too, that's their tax right there, not a monetary tax but still a huge tax and a heavy burden that they "paid" throughout their lifetime.
The idea that a nation with resources wouldn't be able to hold a supply chain without <insert_whatever_western_touted_technology> is just laughable. I just don't understand how a mildly intelligent person could hold this view.
Agreed. I guess the only fair complaining is the text snippet that Google get from sites to put on SERPs, saving a click. This is gross.
They don't need any meridians. The entire place will be one zone. The time will be the same everywhere.

The problem is that the time there will move very slightly differently than here on earth, because of the lower gravity, to the tune of 60 ms per day. That's almost a second every two weeks.

So the question isn't "what time do we set the clocks to?" but "what time will it be an hour from now?" Have a leap-second every few weeks?
Something kicked in my memory when I started that video and for a second I couldn't temember properly if I was hearing the Flying Toasters song or Ever Onward IBM [0]. I remember having a DOS program with a PC Speaker karaoke version of that song, maybe on a disk that also included Alley Cat by IBM too.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oh3gqOEKU
Large publicly traded companies are entirely exempted from this legislation.
I am not imposing anything on anyone. I am only saying that an OSS project that aims to be used as part of important infrastructure should impose at least some sort of identity vetoing and not just make random anonymous users maintainers of anything.

If your project is not important and you don't care about any of this security stuff, feel free to continue publishing your untrustable projects.
In fact he started this company after looking into how they're going to make gas when they get to Mars
Though I personally agree with the core idea of this site, I'm always wary of political websites, mailing lists, projects, etc. that do not explicitly state who's working on them. People or orgs alike. Sure, it might be related to the person behind democracy.io (who's got a Github page), but it's not explicit.

The lack of "about" page or equivalent always make me squint. Some websites may require their maintainers to value anonymity, but it's not a given.