skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A ton of {coal,petroleum,natural gas} emits {2.6,2.75,3.2} tons of CO2. 8.5 billion tons of coal burnt every year. 4000 billion cubic meters of Natural gas/year (~3000 billion tons - gemini), Global oil production is 4.5 billion metric tons/year.

I don't see a reason to subsidize fossil fuels, release all this carbon, and then subsidize fossil fuels companies even more to capture something thats measured in parts per million.

And all this to waste 67% to 75% of energy. See Rejected energy: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2023-10/U...

We'd be better off not burning fossil fuels, we have the technology today. People are ok spending billions on carbon capture. But are against subsidizing EVs, ICE cars emit 1 ton of CO2 for every 2500 miles, every car emits 5 tons CO2/year. For a lifetime of 20 years, thats 100 tons of CO2. Why not fund EVs as carbon capture? Or is the only path forward to give money to fossil fuel companies?

Twenty-seven DAC plants have been commissioned to date worldwide, capturing almost 0.01 Mt CO2/year[1]. Thats the equivalent of 2000 EVs.

[1]https://www.iea.org/energy-system/carbon-capture-utilisation...
Nicely done! I thought I was cool when I soldered my kit keyboard from KBDFans; now I gotta step up my game!

Do you have a .GIF for that rotating rainbow effect, or a sound test?
This is cool but I wish I could just have a 75% portable Bluetooth keyboard. I can't justify buying a foldable phone with a million screens but would love a Psion like keyboard with 4 and a half almost full size rows that I can slide out from below my phone with no folding and just use directly without getting in the way of my rear camera. Has anyone seen anything like that? I am really happy with laptop scissor switch rubber dome keyboard profiles, I loved the Psion but I just want a Bluetooth keyboard. Sorry it's not directly related!
Because Enterprise don't have to offer you a Ford? I'm in the UK and your chances of getting a Ford are slim to none.
Civil war era muskets fired 14.7mm caliber bullets, and revolutionary war era: 19-20mm, which, bullet-for-bullet probably accounts for the increased danger. Something I read said they have similar energies as modern ammunition--a few thousand joules--but smaller, faster ammo means reduced recoil.
That would explain a lot! Do commercial re lenders typically have to buy out the mortgage holders when they foreclose?
Finetune a GPT Model for Spam Detection on Your Laptop in Just 5 Minutes
Ah no, I view them all as superfluous. I don’t need more noise in my life
It wastes vertical space, most people have horizontal monitors. On mobile devices it takes up a lot of the screen despite them being vertical.

It sometimes breaks thing like "space" to scroll, depends where focus ends up.
75% is basically everything except the numpad, so if one isn't a big numpad user it's nice to have your mouse a bit closer.
Japanese gacha machine sells CPU's for 3.25 a piece
I had exactly the same experience.

After using the Ergodox since around 2020 it is hard to see going back to a non-split keyboard. It helps that I also swapped to a trackball at the same time and I find the ergo of having a trackball between a split keyboard to be excellent.

Also, having the backspace key as the "home" key for my left thumb has greatly increased my typing speed....I make a lot of mistakes.
There is also a diminished value of mobile phones today vs yesteryear.

* Twitter is dead for all intents and purposes
* Lots of mobile apps are dead/dying and people aren't using them in the same way they used to out of privacy or concerns - such as checking in where you eat or tracking your exercise/fitness. (Nike really screwed the pooch here) and see twitter dead
* New phones just push performance which isn't really needed when people merely surf the web or click a few apps while they take a crap

I'd say a lot of the mobile apps are dead/dying because they gave up on the app store paradigm and went subscription. Take myfitnesspal for example - where its 80 bucks a year to subscribe to use USER GENERATED CONTENT and it isn't shareable because its not an app purchase, but rather a sub. So many apps did this now that the family share is useless..

and lets not forget phones are getting expensive in plans rather than more affordable.. remember the days of cable? that's what carriers like verizon are doing where its hard to avoid disney, hulu or game subs or other crap when you just want a cell phone plan
Isn't that just WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or Telegram or Snapchat or Discord but worse?
> Most of the people I know who pursue creative/crafting hobbies alongside a software development job have chosen to work for well-known big companies

Guilty (although retired now). When I could apply creativity to my job, I did so, but I think I prefer to have had the outside-work activities to have been my creative outlets.

The application to express creativity in software is fairly narrow in comparison to other activities and, as was pointed out in this thread, physically creating with your hands (rather than virtual creating with your keyboard) is ... real.
Beyond China, countries like Singapore and Malaysia have their own blend of Mandarin/Hokkien/Cantonese/English/Malay/etc. the particular blend may differ from family to family, even within the same village.
Yeah, good reminder about Testing security. But some packages with serious security issues get a fast pass from Unstable to Testing sometimes.

Chances are that if you're installing a server that's new enough to need to run Debian Testing (or newer), you probably already know what you need to know. So yeah Testing is more for Desktops.

I tried the reportbug utility once, it made up an email for me (related to my machine's hostname) and I never ever heard about the bug again. Couldn't find it on the web interface. I'm not that stupid and I failed to report a bug. Beautiful web interfaces are a million times better for bugs, and they're also capable to send e-mail notifications to whoever wants them.
"Less self control needed" which is your argument in this follow-up comment is very different from "Nothing to do with self control" in your original comment.
Yes, the Centaur upper stage was and still is using balloon tanks.

I think this is the failure you're referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imkdz63agHY

And here's a picture from ULA/Tony Bruno showing a Centaur tank in their factory, being supported by a rig: https://twitter.com/torybruno/status/1435553806792728579
God Originally Had a Wife
if the people in the place being annexed don't want to be part of the freest country in the world, who are we to say they're wrong
More discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/Archaeology/comments/1ciilfo/god_or...
If you don't mind loosing your 10% discount, sure
You always have the option of using a match block if you don't like those chained calls. But I do agree, it's a bit bolted on and kinda ugly.

> More terse is not the same as more readable (in fact, I find the reverse).

I generally agree, but I also find that "all explicit" also hinders readability because it tends to drown the nitty-gritty details. As always it's a matter of balance :) And I think that neither go nor rust are great in this matter as one is verbose and the other falls in the "keyword soup" with the chain call, the closure, and the format macro. I'm pretty sure something in between could be found.
Before I swapped to a split keyboard I liked the numpad-less/fractional keyboards because it allowed my mouse to be in a better spot on my desk as it required me to keep the keyboard centered without having to reach so far to the right to use the mouse.
The future, not the past, is rewarded.
still the same. Alphabet nor Apple have any real incentive to change this (commercial incentivization to maintain it notwithstanding).
> A large saw is specifically built to allow doing a single, precise cut, in exactly the same way, over and over again.

Ignoring hand tools, which give you precise, tactile control ... I'd still argue with this.

There are tools for specific things and they're meant to reduce error. But a router (woodworking) can be used to do half the stuff you want/need to do. A table saw can make straight cuts, rabbets, joinery.

The tools themselves (outside of specialty ones) are generally multi-purpose and allow for experimentation and creativity.
> boomers that don't really understand technology running the government.

Back when the decision was made, most of the people running the government had studied engineering. A very common pattern in all industries in China are laws that ultimately lead to protectionism by forcing foreign companies to only work with local partners. This is exactly the consequence of this law. I'd be very surprised if that was not intended by law makers from the get go.
Edonia grabs €2M to turn microalgae into ground meat alternative
> The HIPPA rules on health data are fairly strict

Depends on how you define "strict". They're pretty onerous to comply with, but they don't really provide patients with anywhere near the level of protection that most people think. It's better than nothing, but in reality, your data is being legally shared with an arbitrary number of entities, without your consent, and without any way for you to even know who has access to that data.

If that data is breached in any way, in theory the reports are supposed to trickle up the chain eventually. In practice? If it's more than one or two subcontractors deep, you'll probably never find out (unless the breached data is posted publicly and you stumble upon it that way).

Also, the cap on penalties is shockingly low: $2 million for all violations of a given provision per calendar year. And that's for willful neglect. If the cause of the violation is determined to be lower than willful neglect, the maximum violation is even lower.

For a very large and well-capitalized company, that might as well be a cost of business.
> If you don't assert yourself on the world, others will assert themselves onto you. This is has always been true.

I very much agree with this.

> What's not to like about some corrupt autocracy somewhere becoming part of the freest and most prosperous country in the world?

This not so much. The success of the United States has been, in part, due to avoiding overannexation. Culture and politics can change, but geography cannot. Mexico, for example, has terrible unproductive geography. Economics drives a lot of politics. Annexing countries like that would be a net burden. Their trafficking and other crime problems are not a matter of culture. The tail does not wag the dog. You can't politic the earth into submission but many will try.

It can be argued the United States already has this problem with some of its states, but their proximity and lack of natural borders requires them to be assimilated. Manifest destiny was a carefully considered thing and not as stupid and reckless as some people want you to believe.
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW)
Not everyone has or knows how to use the app
But what does "Windows-style fullscreen" actually do? It feels like it switches into a different video mode (even if the resolution is the same), and back when my monitor was a CRT, I could even hear a faint click inside it whenever a game entered/exited the full-screen mode. So there was definitely something special going on, but what?
China Launches Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon
For me, I just have an external num pad.

I was finding I was getting elbow pain by having to cock my arm a bit to use my mouse.
For me it allows me to input whatever I need to input, without leaving home row.

Since you use CTRL and SHIFT without problem, basically just imagine having a few more modifier keys. That's all.
It would be hard for some people. I am well conditioned to live on less by my part time job.
Wait, how would you search for something in IRC?
I Spent 24 Hours with GitHub Copilot Workspaces
> So smooth

I had neither noticed that the many times I flew one, nor known that was meant to be a characteristic of them, but ChatGPT agrees with you here. I think I’d still rather take the better pressurised cabin of the newer models tho
>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

- The 4th amendment of the US Constitution
If you are in Poland it ought to be painfully straightforward to remember the losses it caused.
One thing I think is really lacking from the PDF ecosystem is good open-source tools around signing. PDF signatures are something that is legally important in a lot of the world with regulations like eIDAS. Unfortunately it's extremely difficult to cryptographically sign PDF documents with tools other than Adobe's and some other (often more sketchy) proprietary tools. Even if you figure out how to use stuff like LibreOffice or poppler to sign, you'll struggle to obtain certs that will validate without spending an arm and a leg.

I really hope that someone will decide to step in and become the Let's Encrypt of PDF and S/MIME certs, because that will improve public trust significantly.
What's the link to her blog?
This dis-alignment of global values is happening within the West where the fortunes of world-class "winner" cities like New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and the like have diverged from the fortunes of second- and third-tier cities and rural areas within the same countries. The past three or four decades of economic policy has benefitted the middle class and wealthy in many "winner" cities. If somebody bought a home roughly 20 years ago in a metro area with many high-paying job opportunities, that person is likely to have enjoyed massive gains in equity provided that person weathered the 2008 crash. Many people living in these areas also take advantage of a wide range of well-paying job opportunities. But what about the urban poor in these metro areas who can't get a high-paying job due to a lack of credentials? Closer to the point of the article, what about those living in areas far away from booming metro areas?

A significant cause of the rise of the populist right in the West (e.g., Donald Trump/MAGA in the United States, Brexit in Britain, various European right-wingers such as Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orban) is the economic woes faced by people who have been left behind. Think of the hollowing out of industrial and rural America, for example, and how this has reduced economic opportunities for the people living in these areas. Unfortunately, these economic concerns have been eclipsed by "culture war" matters, with a strong belief that the values of prosperous urban areas in the West are at odds with the values of less-urban parts of the West. If urban areas are becoming more internationalist, then rural areas are becoming more nationalist. Some of these populist right-wingers have an authoritarian bent; to quote the OP, the rise of the populist right definitely consists of examples of "cultures respond[ing] to perceived existential threats by rallying around authoritarian leaders, implementing stricter regulations."
Yeah, i read that but i don't think it tells the whole story. In Borneo they live in close quarters with Humans and often observe people (i.e. curiosity) from the forest's edge and may have picked up something via this way. They are very clever primates and hence could have picked up this behaviour in any number of ways.

PS: Also checkout the Orangutan Jungle School video i link here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40244125
Point-to-point can lower cost as well. Cheaper to take off from a smaller airport and less fuel used since you skip an expensive take-off from the hub.
A subset of those is gamers that want the mouse closer to the center, rather than off to the right when using a full keyboard. Especially competitive gamers, because it helps reduce RSI
> tyranny of linters

Thank you for that: "linters" (but as a person's role, not as a tool).

Pretty sure that contributed to my early retirement from the industry. It didn't used to be that way — perhaps because there were fewer cooks; perhaps because of a more cavalier, cowboy-style approach to coding.

I definitely preferred the days of the open range....
I would still say no because that's how i am built
This will be very useful, especially for vertical aligning, but as of today is essentially unsupported:

https://caniuse.com/css-text-box-trim
I would think that this sort of thing happens around most rich billionaires, Trump just happens to be in the spotlight. Would be much nicer if the same scrutiny could be applied equally, not just based on who’s in power
Start small. Maybe just a little model kit. You can get incredibly cheap model kits these days. Get used to the idea that you can start with "bits" and end with "things", and you have agency over that process.
Where does this trope keep coming from that all AI engineers make 7 figures? I'm technically an "AI engineer" but I barely make 1/5th that amount. Not every AI engineer is a PhD holder creating new models from whole cloth. Some of us fell into it, and handle more mundane bits, like orchestration, deployment, and integration of models into existing software.
> The "controlled" part is not always successful.

I'm assuming you're referring to the unnominal situations resulting in the unscheduled rapid disassembly procedures? I wonder how many people watch launches with similar intent as NASCAR races where they're just looking for the crashes or hockey games looking for the fights?
My inflatable SUP is nice, and it is impressively rigid, but I wouldn't say it's light. I got the inflatable because it can be stored and transported compactly. Competition paddleboards and kayaks are fiberglass/composite foam sandwiches, and way lighter than the inflatable variants.

I think the inflatable SUPs and kayaks are as heavy as they are because of the thick layers of vinyl and nylon that prevent punctures and abrasion.

Kitesurfing kites are made of lightweight ripstop polyester, with a super-thin urethane coating, and have an inflated bladder to help hold their shape. That might be more appropriate tech for creating an airplane.
no need for that tone young man (woman/other).
This is about developing metal-organic materials that absorb CO2 under one set of conditions and release it under a different set of conditions. The whole goal here is to generate a stream of 100% pure CO2 starting with ~400 ppm CO2 - meaning if you want 1 liter of pure CO2 at room temperature and pressure, you need to process a minimum of 2500 liters of air - and likely quite a bit more as you are not going to be 100% efficient.

Making this work is all about minimizing the energy (and thus economic) cost of this first step. Then you need to reduce (add hydrogen and remove oxygen) the CO2 and start building other products - methanol, long-chain hydrocarbons, etc. (that's shipping and jet/rocket fuel, respectively). But why stop there? If you want long-term stable materials, converting the CO2 into carbon fiber is a good option - more sci-fi is a diamond endpoint, which takes a lot of energy, but has many uses.

This will have minimal effect on atmospheric CO2 unless fossil fuel extraction and combustion is eliminated from the energy mix - but it does point to how human civilization can do material and fuel production without having to mine carbon from the earth or cut down forests. In the long run, this is the only plausible option.
What if you are stuck in north korea and the duffel bag containing this landed just at your patio ?

I am surprised this was not pursued more aggressively, in fact.
> A RCT does not establish causality. That's essentially my point. A single study/experiment never proofs causality. You need a theory to explain the causality and multiple studies that falsify other possible causality mechanisms.

This might be a good heuristic for assigning confidence to results, but in theory, an RCT absolutely does establish causality, assuming internal, external, construct, and statistical validity of the study.

Multiple studies may not be better than one good study (assuming the above), which can be tested by looking at the leverage in a meta-anlaysis.

Having a theory is kind of orthogonal to a study finding a true positive result. Almost every published study, true or false, invokes some kind of theory, true or false. There is a joke in the soft sciences along the lines that you make up a new theory for every study.
What time is left after work, kids, sleep, and personal obligations for the median adult?

Awesome hobbies are awesome! But they require time, and in some cases, financial resources.
Helldivers 2 is by far the most fun multiplayer game I've played in a long time

It seems like this is on me for missing the fine print

When I originally launched the game it asked me to link my account, but I don't do that as a matter of course. The dialog did say "this is required to play the game" but then also just had a big ol "skip" button, which I pressed

I wonder if I can use the existence of that skip button as justification to ask for a refund

I'm really hoping they will reverse course on this decision. Remove crossplay if they have to, I don't care about being able to play with Playstation players at all. I only play with a group of friends anyways

I probably just have take the L and either just stop playing make a PSN account. What a miserable future we've made for ourselves
Yeah, that paragraph isn't worth the paper its written on if congress and the courts conspire to ignore it. We de facto do not have privacy in the USA.
> your data is being legally shared with an arbitrary number of entities

And ILLEGALLY shared via non-conformance with federal laws and data breaches.

Just look at the Boeing fiasco and the serious normalization of deviance. You think that doesn't happen when you outsource your entire IT operations offshore to a populace that literally has zero skin in the game.
naive or crazy- I'll let you choose :p
> I'm sure the folks at Disney are at the edges of their seats in anticipation

Until they find out the new tales are about a story teller that let politics ruin all the good stories.
OK, I didn't actually read the "I give up on doing this in Rust" section very carefully.

The article capitulates:

> last time I asked how to do that in my company’s Slack channel, the responses I received were something like “don’t” and “why would you do that?” and “someone please call security.” It should not have been a surprise, as an AST is basically a linked list with extra steps, and Rust hates linked lists.

If I didn't tell myself "go find a good solution", I might have not found someone suggesting "Just use a bump allocator and make your nodes live until one exact, shared lifetime."

The article does agree in principle with this solution:

> In my experience, it’s quite easy to do away with the ceremony of making each node hold a reference count altogether, and instead decide on a more disciplined approach to ownership.

I think this is one of those examples where you get a principled, elegant and safe solution.

You just gotta find it first.

But here it is.

(Also, I read about it on a forum when searching for a better solution than box_patterns.)
How you choose to add whitespace to your code is not a meaningful outlet for creativity. Linters are a great tool for eliminating bike shedding.

I don't think wood working per se gives you more flexibility than building software. It's wood working as an individual, not part of a team, so you can make your own decisions and not answer to anyone. If you were a one man software consultant you would have the same amount of autonomy.