skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you have the dichotomy wrong.

A registered agent is, among other things, a services mailbox. And a “shell” company, whatever that is, isn’t necessarily offshore.

Many US companies, even very ordinary ones, incorporate in Delaware for various, mostly good, reasons. IIRC even YC strongly recommends this. Unless the company actually has an office in Delaware, it will use the services of a registered agent in Delaware to satisfy the requirements of Delaware. Then the company will register to do business in whatever state it’s in. Or it could break the law and not register.

The only funny business here is that, at least traditionally, there is no requirement to inform Delaware of the beneficial ownership structure of the company. This seems to be changing — the US is pushing back against companies with anonymous ownership.

The big question, to me at least, is why anyone expects bad actors to fill out fancy new forms correctly.
Another point others haven't made, which Terraform Industries points out: that using solar to make Natural Gas is going to be the cheapest form of natural gas production.

You can effectively short circuit the existing fossil fuel industry and pull the hydrocarbons from the air instead of the ground to stay carbon neutral. No need to re-invent industry.
> But you often have to bend backwards to explain the complexities of reality where sometimes women oppress women and men who oppress women at the same time oppress men even more.

Not really, in all systems of dominance you have oppressed who embrace the cause of the oppressors, often not consciously. There are a lot of women who defend patriarchy, even if as a whole this is detrimental to them (and pretty much everyone). See also Black people who endorse racist theories about White dominance, etc.
Then let's not mince words. Ethnic cleansing shouldn't be softballed.
Khan academy will teach you all of pre-k, high-school, pre-calc, calculus and infinite series pretty well. mathsisfun.com is a great resource if that's ever lacking. High school physics on khan is good to give you a practical application of the concepts if they seem too abstract.

I found Strang's youtube lectures the best for linear algebra along with 'vector maths for 3d graphic'. Khan's linear algebra course seems like more a collection of practical things you can do with linear algebra rather than a coherent cource but it's still a great resource.

Khan academy's multi-variable calculus is good enough to give you a reasonable grasp, but I'd call it a good complement rather than sole resource.

I've tended to go through the cycle of watching the lectures, then doing the exercises, going forward, going back after a few months to ensure I understand the whys and not just the hows, and then writing my own notes. Machine Learning et al is a great practical application of all this maths.
Didn't downvote you, but that's not a hopeful attitude. If the damage is done, figuring out who to blame doesn't repair it. Sometimes we gotta clean up somebody else's mess or nobody will. As programmers, quite routinely I suppose :P
I use https://github.com/marcosdiez/shareviahttp all the time, to share with other phones or with my ereader or PC.
The civilian count of October 7th was 695 people. Not that that makes it any better, but it's about a 50% increase to push it to 1000. The population of Israel is about 9.5 million. So your actual ratio is closer to 1 in 13500 or so.

If we're keeping the scales, then an October 7 situation happens in the Gaza strip every time about 170 die. I think if you look the numbers of the current and historical conflicts it might help shape perceptions.
I used to work in this space, so will explain more about what this actually is.

"Card-linked offers" have existed for a while now, and I know they are supported by at least the Mastercard, Visa and AmEx networks. How it works is:

1. A company that provides the card linked offers goes out and markets to brands that they should provide an offer. The idea is that someone who uses their card at this brand will then get cash back or some discount (e.g. "Sign up to get 10% cash back when you buy from Whataburger.") For the brand it's basically just a new marketing channel.

2. Importantly, the way I've always seen it work is the user must sign up for the discounts, or otherwise sign up for something that says "I want to be eligible for any discounts your platform offers". That is, the cardholder sees a list of promotions, and they then must tap on each one that they want to subscribe to. After that they will get discounts if they shop at those stores.

3. The card-linked-offers provider then gets notified by the card networks when there is an intersection of (a) a cardholder that signed up and (b) shopped at a store that offered a discount.

So to me it looks like Chase is essentially just taking this in house. Whether you think that's a good or bad thing is up to you, but just know that lots of other companies already did this, and these card-linked offers have been enabled by the major card networks for some time.
This has nothing to do with Ultra HDR. It's "simply" a better JPEG encoder.

Ultra HDR is a standard SDR JPEG + a gain map that allows the construction of an HDR version. Specifically it's an implementation of Adobe's Gain Map specification, with some extra (seemingly pointless) Google bits.
Adobe gain Map: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/gain-map.html
It's an excellent way forward because it's not only carbon-neutral, it can also "fall back" to pure CO2 capture should we ever get a decent enough grid & storage mechanisms to afford that.

Really exciting work!
Show HN: Semantic App Search
> Although recently not doing so well due to one lawsuit, they have a wonderful rule that nudges management to add new products to its portfolio sooner and more aggresively than other companies, so I associate them with innovation.

What rule is that?
Sorry for the late response... I'm new here :)

I don't have exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure you can get significant discounts starting around 100 parts. So not much at all.

Another thing to note is you can already get parts for significant discounts in 1-off quantities through legit Chinese distributors like LCSC. For example, a XC7A35T-2FGG484I is 90$ on Digikey and 20$ at LCSC. I think a personalized deal for that part would be cheaper than 20$ though...
Wow, this is the first time I heard about that. I wonder if Lightroom uses high precision math.
Hydrogen is much more difficult to store.

It escapes easily from any container you put it in and causes hydrogen embrittlement for any metal you try to use to contain it.

Apparently it can be stored in abandoned salt mines and we probably will use them for that eventually but you dont always have one of those handy.
The war in Gaza is unlike Ukraine because Hamas does not issue uniforms or clearly demarcate military targets.

When the US was in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda learned that the US (generally) won't shoot ambulances. So what became the most valuable vehicle to Al Qaeda? Hamas took notes, but Israel doesn't seem to care as much as the US.

Also, besides all that, once something is used for military operations, it is fair game as a military target. Regardless of civilians. When the law was written it was assumed that governments wouldn't intentionally use their civilians as protection.
Not purchasing something is a pretty paltry way of communicating our "demand" that it not be manufactured in a harmful way.

Maybe I wouldn't have bought it anyway, I should still be able to demand that it not poison my water.

It's like we have the upvotes figured out but are lacking the downvote feature.
I really hope this succeeds and sets precedent against the rampant anti-consumer licensing of media beyond just videogames.
This is fundamentally why I find the technology / media narratives fairly compelling.

I tend to agree that the first order issue is that people seem to increasingly subscribe to "demoralizing narratives". But not just climate change. I see the same phenomenon, just with different narratives among my more "right wing" loved ones. Instead of the demoralizing narrative being climate change, it is that society is crumbling due to the decline of religion, or because men aren't manly enough and women aren't womanly enough, or because people like them are being censored into oblivion, etc.

But why is it that all these different kinds of doom narratives seem to be spreading so much and getting so much traction now, when they didn't seem to in the past? I have trouble seeing what else has changed significantly enough to cause this, if the explanation is not mass adoption of a new kind of media.
maybe proprietary software just isnt so good?
So pricing is 1c / GB-month, compared to S3 IA at 1.25c / GB-month, a decent saving but not massive, no archive or deep archive options though, I wonder if / when these will come.

What sort of negotiated rates can you get from AWS for bandwidth I wonder, at the moment, that’s seems like the only real benefit from CF I think.
SBF sentencing: some thoughts. SBF got no favoritism
This practice is akin to physically and mentally abusing a puppy, let them grow into a fearful and aggressive dog then say: "what an aggressive dog ! they need to be euthanized"
This comment made me curious.

Apparently, TAI specifically defines the second (in terms of cesium transitions) at sea level (where gravitational potential is equal). I never knew that second part.
curl -sL https://github.com/backblaze-b2-samples/cloudflare-b2/raw/main/README.md | head -n 1
# Cloudflare Worker for Backblaze B2

yes, it's a worker
The Hidden Brain podcast came to the same conclusion in the Escaping the Matrix episode featuring Jonathan Haidt.

https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/escaping-the-matrix/

TL;DR: It's phones and social media. We're social creatures who rely on dynamic networks of diverse opinions, but social media perverts this. We build static networks affirming our own opinions and that leaves us afraid of the unknown.

My favorite point Jonathan made is that if you look at the world as a whole, the spectrum of morality is actually incredibly diverse! Nobody sets out to build an evil ideology. Empires, caste systems, and communism were all built from moral foundations, even if their values are alien to us. In light of this, instead of asking why so much of the world looks backwards from an American liberal perspective (full disclosure: my perspective), a more interesting question is why American liberals adopt such a narrow view.
Yes, it does use git underneath, with the idea of exposing a very simple subset of git functionality to the user. There's also some locking and transaction logic involved to ensure integrity and thread safety, so it wouldn't really be straightforward to expose the repo directly.

I tried to build the backend so that postgres, the file system, and git would combine to form effectively a single transactional database.
Thanks, I was on the team that did Ultra HDR at Google so I was curious if it was being used here. Didn't see anything in the code though so that makes sense.
Does optane have an advantage over RAM here?
> I think people are worried no one really understands how AI picks the target.

Yeah, I mean, black-box murder is never really desirable... but is it fair to assume AI will never be able to elucidate its reasoning? And that also seems a bit of a double standard, when so many life-and-death decisions made by humans are also not entirely comprehensible or transparent, either to the general public or sometimes even to the other individuals closest to the decision-maker.

Sometimes it's a snap judgment, sometimes it's a gut feeling, sometimes it's bad intel, sometimes it's just plain "because I said so"... not every kill list is the result of a reasoned, transparent, fair and ethical process.

After all, how long have Israel and Hamas (or other groups) been at each other's throats, with cries of injustice and atrocities about either side, from observers all over the world? And it wasn't so long ago we destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq, and Russia is still going at it because of the desires of one man. AI doesn't have to be perfect to be better than us.

If there's one thing humans are really, really bad at, it's letting objective data overrule our emotional states. It takes exceptional training and mental fortitude to be able to do that under pressure, especially life-and-death, us-vs-them pressure.

Humans make mistakes, too, and friend-or-foe identification isn't easy for humans either, especially in the heat of battle or in poor visibility. Training for either humans or AI can always be improved, but probably will never reach 100% accuracy.

Maybe we should start putting some hypothetical kill lists in front of both humans and AI, recording their decisions, and comparing them after a few years to see who did "better". I wouldn't necessarily bet on the humans...
> They claim a breakthrough in converting hydrogen to natural gas, but natural gas is by far the cheapest source of H2.

Are you serious? Water is right there!
This seems very interesting, but I think the interface choice is not good. There would have been much less friction if this was purely a GitHub/GitLab/etc bot.
Ask HN: Why are Starlink satellites being named Starlink-30000+
Does anyone know why the latest starlink satellites that are being launched have names in the 30,000s now.

If you look at the latest satellite launches here: https://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=latest-launches you can see that the last one is STARLINK-31628.

When I google it it says that there are 5,504 Starlink satellites in orbit as of march 2024. Which basically fits with the numbers in some of the starlink trackers I found online.

There's a full satellite list that is outdated by about a year where the satellite numbers for Starlink start at 1000 and go up to 6126 and often skip certain numbers. https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/satellite-database

There is a list of all the starlink satellites on that N2YO site but for the life of me I can't get that page to fully load. https://www.n2yo.com/satellites/?c=52

Anyone have any insights?
It seems unlikely based on what has been revealed about the system. It seems like Lavender is a classification AI that plugs static details about a person into a NN of some sort and spits out a score of how likely they're to be involved with Hamas. Score above a certain threshold and your home becomes a target for a dumb bomb.

The World Central Kitchen attack appears to have used smart munitions (missiles from a drone) on a mobile truck.
> Whatever policy you implement, end result must be that stuff costs more and people live with less: virtually no personal cars, no for-fun-flights (vacation), force people to wear same pants for years and repair them when they get damaged.

> That is hard pill to swallow for many, even for somewhat environmentally-aware beings.

You’re not wrong but I think adding some context would be helpful here.

That appears to be the situation now but it didn’t necessarily have to be this way. If effort in earnest was started earlier to develop the technologies necessary for transitioning off hydrocarbons, develop renewable energy generation, and so on the transition may not necessarily be so severe. And the policy which enabled this delay did cost consumers any way due to the active funding of a pro hydrocarbon influence campaign. Though I would guess the total cost of that policy is still much lower than actually trying to transition.

I think transitioning is a much easier pill to swallow if you realize that the decision will be made one way or another eventually and that it’s better to be proactive rather than reactive when trying to solve such an existential issue. That is, if one believes the science and cares about the future beyond just one’s self. Unfortunately that influence campaign I was mentioning earlier did a good job of denying the issue, used bad science to deceive, delayed climate action, degraded efforts of those fighting against it, etc. However I do acknowledge the ability to care beyond just one’s self is, to a certain extent, a financial privilege.

Incentivizing having less children is also another long term approach to limit emissions as technology becomes more efficient. Though it seems this has already been accomplished unintentionally in many places.

I’ve gone on kind of a rant but my point is yes the necessary policy decisions are more severe today but it absolutely did not have to be this way. And that is important to keep in mind because that campaign is still actively at play today.
> The product's changing so fast that our demo videos usually get outdated fast.

That's a pretty weak reason to not make them. You'll never make a demo by that logic.
Compiling HLL constructs in some of those scenarios ultimately produces a jump statement. So, it makes sense that a higher-level version of a jump would be helpful in the same situations.
Anna's Archive Datasets
Because we kinda know how to do natgas storage/transport/use at large scale, while we're not quite there on the hydrogen economy.

Higher complexity hydrocarbons likely have higher synthesis costs, and if you want to enter the market, you probably want your pricing as competitive as possible.

Same for the biomass approach.

It is ultimately an approach striving for as much simplicity as possible. That's firmly baked in their culture, too - see their home page :)
8-bit JPEG actually uses 12-bit DCT coefficients, and traditional JPEG coders have lots of errors due to rounding to 8 bits quite often, while Jpegli always uses floating point internally.
Happy to see this in HN (thanks for submitting it!). OP here. AMA
You missed a zero in 9/11’s case.

Also, I wouldn’t go into such numbers, because if these matter, then actions of Hamas are very easily justifiable. The story is way more complex than these numbers.
Show me one of these things do something more complex then a front end intern project.
> Very few customers would want hand-crank windows and individual manual locks on doors.

I would pay extra for a car with those features! If only. Alas, your point stands, because there are (apparently) very few people like me.
>and us a favor :)

So there is a plan.
Launderers are always incorporated. If they weren't, they wouldn't be able to launder.
What's he hosting story for Bun? Is any major platforms offering bun hosting?
There is something like a generational divide going on here. Much of the older generation remembers the wider Israeli-Arab conflict (ongoing since 1948, and arguably even decades before that) as "Israel's neighbors repeatedly invade it to try to wipe it off the map." But the last such war was 1973; even the Second Intifada ended in 2005. For the younger generation, the conflict is largely "Israel repeatedly invades its neighbors to tamp down on terrorism." In other words, Israel has largely shifted from being the aggressee to the aggressor in the conflict, and sympathy naturally tends to lie with the aggressee.

That said, there's also something noticeably different about this conflict. For the first time, the reporting I've seen in the mainstream press has generally been trending negative towards Israel. For example, the Washington Post has had a recent article on a press tour the IDF led of the burned-out remains of the hospital it attacked, clearly part of a campaign to justify why it was necessary, and the entire article was dripping with subtext of "we don't buy what the IDF is saying". And even the political headlines are generally framed in a way to keep you asking "should the US even be supporting Israel?"

Israel has already squandered all the sympathy it got from the terrorist attacks last October, and it's well on the way to squandering all residual sympathy from the Holocaust. And the Israeli political and military establishment seems to have zero clue that this is going on.
> the real solution is obvious

If it were obvious it would have been done already. Witness the many variants that try to make it better but don't.

> using proper string buffer types with length and capacity

Which you then can't pass to any other library. String management is very easy to solve within the boundaries of your own code. But you'll need to interact with existing code as well.
Dunno, at least in Sweden the housing market is a real pain to enter. Rentals are available, at least in smaller citities, but there's a real divider between renting and owning. Unless you've got a family to sponsor you, you're basically SOL until you're in your early 30s and you can finally afford the priviledge to be in over your ears in debt.
Politics would be so much better if we focused on these kinds of arguments instead of people defending their identities as business owners or employees.
I disagree, having used Sweep extensively, I've found the GitHub Issue -> PR flow to be incredibly clunky with a lack of ability to see what is happening and what has gone wrong.
Yes, I grind with raw sugar granules something like 20 threads. And then mix it with a bit of rose water, then add to meat marinade or stew. For other cultures mix it with warmed up butter (fat will transfer flavour even better than rose water) or wine
I think every engineer needs a basic understanding of data structures and algorithms to be successful in problem solving during their day to day. Algorithms teach out how to think about problems and Data Structures give you the tools to solve them.

Whether or not you use them in your work depends on the industry you work in. I reckon at Databricks or <insert-tech-focused-company> they used plenty of algorithmic knowledge and lots of complex data structures early on. But for <insert-product-focused-company> like you mentioned, I think practical product development skills are way more important -- architecting BE systems and knowing how to organize FE components in a modular and extensible way. Thinking like a user becomes more important than thinking like a scientist.
What would you consider a website?

Is minimized JavaScript considered an executable?

What about html and css?
Their claim is that this method is still yet cheaper than drilling/fracking.
Israel has been trying to eradicate Palestinian terror organisations with bullets for about 75 years now. Tell me, does it appear to be working?

I'm not saying Israel needs to lay down its arms and start holding hands with Hamas, but at the very least it needs to offer a path forward. An outline of a path towards resolving this. Instead it has closed all avenues, offers no perspective for improvement. And has never really done so (even the Oslo accords was almost entirely concessions from the Palestinian side). It offers noting more than a life of misery in what is little more than a ghetto, subject some the most banal and arbitrary rules (please, explain to me how banning coriander and chocolates keeps people safe).

This is the entire life for many Palestinians. Many have never known anything other than military occupation and a boot in their face flying a Jewish flag, from a Jewish nation, proudly proclaiming that Judaism demands a boot in their face, and when you complain the boots kick harder. If you complain too loud you risk getting summarily executed with no justice. Your entire life is an exercise in cheek turning.

And then you complain these people don't care much for Jews? Gosh, I wonder why. they must've been born that way or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Rust or bust!
I cited consumer behavior as an example, but open any book about sociology and gender studies and you get plenty of examples on how there is a large gap in things we want/do/feel between men and women. That’s obviously a construction, biologically there’s nothing that causes much difference in what we want/do/feel. That’s probably where the disagreement is: my point is that even if theorically (= biologically) there shouldn’t be much difference, in practice (= in our societies) there is one.
OpenSSH merges systemd compatibility patch
This will replace the downstream Debian patch hijacked by Jia Tan of xz fame.
Ah we're multi-tenant. In what ways do you feel like it gets complicated quickly?