skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're correct.

Flaring in the refinery is under upset conditions to alleviate the pressure from excess hydrocarbons which need to be vented. Much better to burn it into CO2 at the source rather than releasing flammable, toxic hydrocarbons directly into the atmosphere. Where the carbon content in the form of unburned methane would end up acting as a much more severe climate stressor for the period of time it takes to naturally become oxidized into CO2 eventually anyway, from which point the carbon then remains in the atmosphere as the more familiar CO2. Either way the same amount of CO2 is building up and not going away on its own.

Each decade you go back, refineries were more commonly flaring routinely, it can be so uncommon now that unfamiliar new residents who have crowded into these towns can be completely astonished by the noise and brightness all night sometimes when it does happen.

But in the oil field however, flaring can be an ordinary operational procedure. How would you feel if you had an oil well out in the middle of nowhere and it produced a decent enough amount of oil to pay for the liquid handling & transportation, but the natural gas that comes up with the oil is not worth enough money to even begin to pay for the gas-handling infrastructure? Namely pipelines which can be many miles to a gas gathering area if there is one within reach, but even the combined oil & gas from that well might not be able to cover it.

Either way flaring is just for waste gas in the refinery, and a waste of gas in the oil field. If this gas were to be recovered instead of wasting it, it would be beneficial to those wanting to use it in their gas stoves and heaters, but it would still end up as the same amount of CO2 in the atmosphere afterward anyway, even if none were wasted at all. Of course they wouldn't even drill that many oil wells if the consumers weren't as enthusiastic about the products, something about supply & demand but that's above my pay grade ;)

Could be that the idea of banning flaring was intended to reduce the carbon getting into the atmosphere, but there is no provision about what to do with the gas otherwise. Plus maybe the "best available technology" may be considered acceptable, and it looks like the "internal combustion" flare-replacement hardware was about off-the-shelf already, probably to allow refineries to flare more discreetly without disturbing their neighbors.

So if you've got an oil well that needs to flare more discreetly, there's probably a salesman who wants to talk with you. There's a whole lot more oil fields than there are refineries, could be a lot of incentive there. Might even be enough incentive to do a little political lobbying. Who knows?

I don't have the data in front of me regarding the infrared wavelengths, resolution, bandwidth, and sensitivity from overhead, but I expect that the heat signature of conventional flares is more easily detected than the specific detection of either methane or CO2 concentrations coming from suspect facilities.

Which could be a complaint giving rise to the type of article here.
@pavel_lishin yes! It's just storing a value that is alphanumeric string of another object's _id
Show HN: Ragdoll Studio - the creative suite for character-driven AI experiences
The goal of Ragdoll is to be the absolute best free/open source AI creative tool for making:

- Stories

- Copywriting

- Icons

- Logos

- Animations

- Photos

- Illustrations

- Concept art

- TV shows

- Podcasts

- Cinematics

- Cutscenes

- Films

- Music

- Sound effects

- Speech

- Game NPCS & characters

- & more!

There's also a Community Site where creators can share their AI creations (stories, games, movies, etc.) and also the Ragdolls they used to create them: https://ragdoll-studio.vercel.app/

Think of a "Ragdoll" like an "AI Character" (in a character.ai sense) that uses RAG to let the user "load knowledge" and extend the character to go way beyond storytelling: For example, they can create art and music in a certain style.

See examples: https://github.com/bennyschmidt/ragdoll-studio/tree/master/e...

Ragdoll is also easily forkable :) The underlying AI lib, the backend API, and React FE components are all broken down into separate libraries. So if you wanted to create, say a LeonardoAI competitor - you can just fork Ragdoll and focus on the image part (it uses Stable Diffusion under the hood).

The next step with this project is to get a good Desktop app so end users can just download/install, then I will focus on all the different modalities and really start to take this project to the next level (with video, etc.).

Thanks for checking out my project - any/all contributions are welcome!
It's all kept but it's not a nice UI. When you change a question you get (on the site, maybe just desktop?) a left and right button to move between the different variations.

One thing you could do is import your data, as the exported conversations have this full tree last time I tried.
> companies won't fix reducing fossil fuel usage, we have to look at cause and effect.

Group for responsible solar is a fake charity funded by the oil sector that files planning objection to every solar farm in Britain, including noise complaints and ‘they should be on the roofs’ and then objects to the solar panels being on the roofs too, because they ‘ruin the view’.

They’ve made it illegal to build wind turbines on land on UK

They objected to an underground electricity cable to France because it would ‘ruin the landscape’

Oil companies are players, they protect their profits and you are getting played
And I guess POSIX tries to pick all three, at least most of the time. It follows UTC mostly, except during leap seconds when it changes the duration of a POSIX-second to be 2 SI-seconds (positive leap second) or 0 SI-seconds (negative leap second).
Awesome visualisation, and great write-up.
On mobile (in portrait), a lot of longer titles get culled as their origin scrolls off, with half of it still off the other side of the screen - wonder if it'd be worth keeping on rendering them until the entire text field is off screen (especially since you've already got a bounding box for them).

I stumbled upon [1] using it that reflects your comments on comment sentiment.

This also reminded me of [2] (for which the site itself had rotted away, incidentally) - analysing HN users' similarity by writing style.

[1] https://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
Kangaroos! Tragatschnig is Austrian, not Australian.
It does, and further provides an easy way to remember it: Food that you can't easily make in your kitchen with standard equipment and ingredients.
Oh, I'm sure they do. I'm questioning whether Hertz would accept that. This whole thing is very dumb.
That's been my thought too. All the big studios are competing for an incredible amount of money each game. Isn't there a decent formula for producing hi-fi rush games "cheaply"? How many people are needed?
We have deer seasons for a reason. Lots of times you can only hunt the male bucks to keep populations in check. People have decimated populations. Look at the Goliath Grouper ban in Florida and how the species has recovered.
My long-standing observation has been that while nature may abhor a vacuum, she also really, really loves sigmoids.

That performance vs. training data is not linear, but logarithmic, doesn't exactly come as a surprise.
From the executive’s perspectives, DRM is working just fine.

People can’t just go get a random browser extension to save videos.

Alternative and unlicensed clients are illegal.

Sure, there’s some piracy - but even at the end of the day, pirates would watch a smartphone recording to save a buck.

To them, DRM does not have to be perfect to be a good investment; any more than copyright needing to be perfect or Speed Limit sign enforcement needing to be perfect.

Plus, every layer of complexity that gets broken, is another line for convincing the DOJ or the Jury about malicious intent.
Syncthing, actually.

I think you were joking but the benefit of designing software at personal scale is often an exponential reduction in complexity.
The only problem is that it also replays the part which caused the universe to crash.
Literally none of what you mentioned has anything to do with conservatism.

Hell, speaking as a Japanese-American (aka a racial minority), conservative people by far have treated me the fairest because they truly don't care about someone's race.

I mean actual conservatism, of course. Not "conservatism" often thrown around in these conversations to label out groups.
Curious what model/finetune/etc you're using for "text-to-SVG"?
Thanks! Yeah if there's enough interested users I'd love to turn this into a live service. Would an email subscription to a set of communities you pick be something you'd be interested in?
ChatGPT.

Translate the following Python program to Lisp.

Yes, I forgot to add "... and no crap." ;)
Best analogy for me is juice vs fruit. Its easy to gulp down 2 glasses of Orange juice, but cannot eat 8 oranges. Unprocessed food usually is more wholesome and makes you feel satiated.
Couldn't scene groups just keep the exploits for decrypting streams for themselves? Is there any way for Netflix/Widevine/PlayReady to detect this?
We need to rub at least two brain cells together to conceive of anything resembling a viable plan.

"Buying" some small amount of barrels during a rare market anomaly, then burying them in the ground is supposed to accomplish what exactly?

Great, you buried 50,000 barrels of crude - congratulations. Now what are you going to do about the 20,000,000 barrels[1] the US will consume tomorrow? Look, oh no, your buried oil leaked into the water table!

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pipelin....
F# too. And Elm. But I get your point.
> ... energy usage in the transportation sector of the US.

Climate change isn't limited to one country.

Additionally, you're also mis-quoting your source. According to your link, only "about 28% of total U.S. energy consumption in 2021 was for transporting people and goods from one place to another". The 54.2% you're citing is the percentage of light-duty vehicles that make up that 28% of energy use. In other words, only ~15% of energy usage in the US is from light-duty vehicles.
This has been my mental model as well. I often use two analogies to describe this.

The processed a food is the more likely you’re eating a “Product”, i.e. something that’s been designed to consumed and enjoyed.

I don’t say that as a necessarily bad thing. We’ve making foods more enjoyable for the history of civilization (broccoli was bred by humans from a wild cabbage) but industrialization has given us an ability to create new things faster than our biology can adapt.

The other analogy is to think of UPF, especially nominally nutritious ones like protein bars, as the nutritional equivalent of power tools. They can be really powerful for dialing in your macros or taste desires. But must be used carefully and are potentially dangerous if untrained.
Syncing Postgres Partitions to Parquet in S3 in Crunchy Bridge for Analytics
People considering this project should also probably consider Graphile Worker[1] I've scaled Graphile Worker to 10m daily jobs just fine

The behavior of this library is a bit different and in some ways a bit lower level. If you are using something like this, expect to get very intimate with it as you scale- a lot of times your custom workload would really benefit from a custom index and it's handy to understand how the underlying system works.

[1] https://worker.graphile.org/
A lightweight net will do the trick. Super simple, cheap, as close to 100% effective as you're likely to get.
> Good on these employees for sticking by their ethos

I disagree. The improper use of political power is generally bad, even if it achieves good outcomes.

For example, if US threatened to sanction any country where tobacco could be sold to under 18s it might reduce the global cancer rate by some amount - but the damage to the global system of governance would outweigh any realistic benefit.

Similarly big tech companies have immense de facto power, but they should use it sparingly. Otherwise they undermine the parliaments, courts any other forums where energy regulation should legitimately be made.
> I really don't see why so many millions (billions?) of dollars have
been spent on technologies which so far have never kept the bad guys
out.

Sunk cost investment bias [0].

Past a certain point, even when the outcome is obviously futile, it
becomes a mixture of accumulated momentum and pure bloody mindedness
to "build it if it kills us". Companies like Microsoft or Sony
have entire departments of people working on "rights management".

Nobody has the courage to just say, "Sorry guys, this is a fool's
errand, we're going to shut it down and move you all onto something
more productive".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
No video game company is worth investing in...

... Except in the rare case that the returns you want are in the form of good games, rather than cash. Then invest all you want in companies that don't constantly make excuses about why they need to exploit their workers and customers.
Read the example code, have a sinking feeling that is not taken from a real tested example. Either there are multiple unexplained symbols or teh code does not actually run.

For example, in "Implementing a Workflow" the execute_activity refers to Purchaser.purchase, which is not declared anywhere.

If the execute_activity times-out after 1 minutes, the status does not seem to be updated anywhere.

In "Running a Worker", do_purchaser is passed as an activity, without explanation. (I guess I'd need to read the fundamental Temporal docs?)
yes they did say that, we can all read
Thanks for sharing, I'll have a read, looks very relevant and interesting!
I generally don't mind C++ for most code when it's absolutely necessary, but I'm not a huge fan of std::variant. Using std::visit to exhaustively match all cases feels hacky. It really would benefit from being a first-class language feature. It's more impactful to a lot of day-to-day code than other things they've worked on, such as coroutines.
We already got a glimpse during covid. Sky is not going to fall. Looks like they are making noise so China makes some sort of deal with industry, that the spice shall flow come what may.
> I don't trust my IDE

You trust it not to prang your program, right?

> and select the first autocomplete solution.

I have never seen an IDE mess up Lisp brackets.
I see so much breathless adoration for Erlang and Elixir, how come it hasn't taken over the world in all this time?
One big advantage of using queue inside DB is that you can actually use queue operations in the same transaction as your data operations. It makes everything incredibly simpler when it comes to failure modes.

IMO 90% of software which uses external queues is buggy when it comes to edge cases.
I think he alludes to "lore" more than statistic. In the CD/DVD age anti-piracy measure like region locks, DRM, but also annoying banners you could not skip would often make consuming the media with a regular CD or DVD player so cumbersome, that you were almost forced into ripping the media onto a hard disk first and consuming the media with VLC or similar.

The inability to just consume media using official device to on rented or purchased disks encouraged ripping, sharing and downloading.
I take umbrage with "frozen meals." Very often a frozen meal has straight up whole vegetables or pieces of meat. Freezing is one of the best ways to retain nutrition of vegetables etc as well.

Totally different than white bread or hot dogs.
most people also do not care about factory farming. think the claim is that it is hypocrisy if you care about the animal suffering when you will just kill it at the end
Microsoft never really got gaming like Sony and Nintendo. Yes, at the end of the day all 3 exist to make as much money as possible, but Microsoft has been the most consistent in pushing the shittiest stuff into the gaming landscape. Paid online, DLC, live service games, even their dashboard since the 360 era has been all about how they can extract the most amount of money from gamers.

Sony and Nintendo have done their fair share of crappy things, but they also have just as many awesome games that "respect" gaming. I can't think of a single recent MS game that hasn't been an absolute flop in terms of just providing a great experience.
Here is a resource for you to examine:

"The Encyclopedia of World Problems"

https://uia.org/encyclopedia#:~:text=The%20Encyclopedia%20of....
Sure, nobody cares to configure it "properly" whatever that means and I wonder if it's even possible. I'm also just an engineer in the team, I can't push through changes like this to abandon epics.

I wish we should just set Jira on fire and switch to whatever else, but it's close to impossible when you have hundreds of engineers and PM-s using it. We're stuck with it probably forever.
Eh, especially if you're just using Linux and FreeBSD (doubly so now that they're both using openzfs) it's easy enough to keep pool features compatible. Obviously you need to either pin to a compatible feature level or avoid upgrading the pool, but I don't think it's terribly hard.
An obituary from the US Forest Service for Frank Albini, for anyone interested (pdf): https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2006_andrews_p001...

The father of film director David Lynch also worked for the US Forest service in Montana funnily enough: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/pressenterprise/name/do...

I wonder if they ever crossed paths.
Enums are closed sets and trait objects are open sets. They are conceptually related concepts, but the language puts syntactic distance between the two, and I don't think it should.

There are lots of open design questions for every feature you propose, but all of them have been discussed and have higher or lower chance of making it into the language.
in other states, these penalties only exist for slaughterhouses, if you broke into a Beyond meat factory and filmed you wouldn’t be eligible for same penalties
If the definition of undercover journalism is simply lying about ones identity in order to publish secrets with the intent to cause injury to another party, then yes, absolutely, I'm in favor of outlawing it, and a 1 year max seems generous.
High budget video games are not a good market. Your best bet is Nintendo, but even they aren't super high budget.
I really think we need to come up with separate words for

"Healthy because it isn't very fattening"

and

"Healthy because it's nutritious and doesn't contain stuff that damages your body"

The amount of confusion this generates is enormous, and leads to things like people eating peanut butter to lose weight, or eating synthetic junk because it has low calories.

Cookies are unhealthy because they are very fattening. But if you are normal weight, it's not that big of a deal.

Sausage is unhealthy because it contains nitrates. Overweight or underweight it's not good to consume.
It's where you buy half of a cow
Not too great, coming from the NYT.

The angle is "Ultraprocessed Foods" are bad but skirts around the issue that some are not bad, such as multigrain bread and plant milks. Further, Ultraprocessed Foods tend to be very inexpensive from a cost and time perspective.

The proposed solutions - cooking everything from scratch, cutting out processed pasta, going down to buy fresh bread from a bakery "if you can afford it" - are unworkable for millions of people living paycheck to paycheck.

Maybe it would have been better to frame this as junk food/high calorie/high sugar/high sodium/high carb/high saturated fats are the main problem from a public health perspective. And that's already widely known.
We switched from LastPass to Bitwarden and have been fairly happy with it.
1password has a really nice looking desktop app, but haven't used it on windows.
All 3 of them have cross platform support now so a lot of it simply depends on your needs.

1Password is a better deal for their Teams package compared to Bitwarden last I checked. You get 10 teams users for $20, while Bitwarden is $4 per. Enterprise tier Bitwarden is a bit cheaper though.
In this case a photo wouldn't change anything. "According to the final receipt, the customer gave the Model 3 back to Hertz with the battery 96% full, the exact same state of charge it was picked up with."
Hey Karri, I’m truly sorry for how things have turned out. Our aim was to highlight the importance of design, regardless of the project’s size. We never intended to copy Linear, but rather to consider it as an inspiration for any upcoming tools in this field, emphasizing the need for good design.

Rest assured, we will focus our efforts on these aspects and make sure to rectify the situation.
I don't know the technical details but Winevine claims to have a system for watermarking content, which may allow them to trace the origin of ripped content back to the set of keys which decrypted it so they can be revoked.

https://www.digimarc.com/resources/widevine-announces-digita...
yes, albeit with significant filtering.
> I keep seeing people make this claim that cattle spend their entire lives on feed lots, but I've never seen this anywhere and I've been all over cattle country. Where do they do this?

Nobody does that, it’d be way too expensive. People here on HN have absolutely zero knowledge of how industrial cattle farming operates and have some really bizarre beliefs about the process. Largely because their only experience with it is the supermarket meat section and passing those massive stinky feedlots along the CA I5.

For everyone else: After a calf is raised and weaned from their mother, they are sent to “background” on pasture and the last few months a cow spends packed in a feedlot is just to fatten it up for human consumption. These are usually steps done by different companies altogether. The whole point of beef is utilizing marginal land that can’t grow human food. It converts tons of grassland to usable farmland, and that pasture makes up 2/3 of the total agricultural land in the US.
Or the company that sells the security stickers, for houses.
Perplexity is big enough to be named in Bloomberg?
Small/hungry teams make great games, but they don't make great money. Games from small teams will develop massive fanbases (KSP, Factorio, subnautica, early minecraft) and people will buy their games. But that doesn't matter. Those small teams do not have the corporate power to capitalize on the microtransactions and subscription services that pull the real money.

I bought Factorio long long ago. I still play it occasionally. If the developers asked me for money, say for an updated version, I would send money without question. But they haven't asked. Good game. Bad at making money.
“Careful who you call the bad guys. A lot of "piracy" comes from the people who spend the most money on the content they pirate.”

This is laughably, obviously false. Don’t let the Reddit bubble of all 300 people who do this, or the 1.2% of Yuzu users who actually dumped their own keys, distort your understanding of reality.
In other words it's not necessarily about some scary sleuth carcinogen or some oil that's gonna wipe out your cardiac health... it's about calories and the body's response to too many of them, and the ancillary "ratio" of calories to nutrition being too high.
Computer Space Replica – 3D printed full size arcade cabinet