skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes a valid point that the amount of energy required for direct air capture (DAC) is extremely prohibitive and far beyond current capacity, but assume for the sake of argument that this is a problem that could be solved.

This still leaves the problem that the industrial plant and chemical feedstock required to physically do the DAC at the scale of billions of tons per year is several orders of magnitude beyond what is possible with current supply chains and natural resources. You would have to strip mine the planet just to have the raw materials to build the necessary DAC infrastructure, and we need those resources for other critical things as well.

Some proposed DAC chemistries have upstream mineral dependencies that, if done at the scale required just to offset a year's emissions, would consume all known global reserves immediately. This is not solved by recycling because of compounding loss rates; recycling is not 100% efficient, and the amount of energy required to improve recycling efficiency is essentially exponential for rapidly diminishing returns, and we already have an energy problem with DAC.

DAC at any scale that is not an exercise in futility will be an exercise in environmental and economic destruction at unprecedented scale. The solution would almost certainly be worse than the problem. There really isn't a path forward that doesn't involve dramatically reducing emissions and letting nature remove the excess carbon.
That's exactly the point - there's some sort of disconnect and people just want to say "they're wrong" instead of trying to figure out why people feel that way.
There is a similar issue playing out in Boston too, where the MBTA, the public transit authority that operates the busses and trains predominately in the Boston metro, is a state entity.
Strategic Computing Initiative
Those unpowered gliders pictured in the article weren't something I knew much about until I saw it as part of a d-day in real time video. [0] Fantastic solution to a pretty specific logistics problem. I appreciate how the solution they arrived on for how to quickly get everyone out once they landed was to give the four men at the back spanners to quickly unbolt the rear end of the vehicle.

0: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsIk0qF0R1j4nZd_D0GWK...
Capturing only makes sense at the emission sources where the co2 concentration is high, like at power plants or tailpipes. But that would mean the costs would be borne by the emitters but they'd rather externalize those costs to all of us.
And adding 40GW a year!

> Total U.S. solar capacity is expected to double over the next five years, growing to 438 GW by 2029.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/06/usa-solar-panel-manufac...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40620880
Yes, the sad reality is that the US is non-investable, specially for foreigners. Any project can be cancelled at the whim of somebody somewhere in the political structure, and what has been accorded in one administration can be easily canceled in the next. It is nowhere's land when it comes to investing.
Caring about something deeply above external motivations, especially external validation is by itself neurodivergent. At the very least, you have to be highly introverted, which is rare.
The people implementing the economic destruction are promising a silver bullet to instantly fix everything.

The people who promise modest, incremental improvement are much less appealing in that environment.
If you replace words with negative connotations with other words, those new words sooner or later get the same connotations.
The first bug bounty platform for AI/ML
If you already had an RPI pico, couldn’t you use something like
https://github.com/kholia/xvc-pico
from the start?
Thanks for playing and for the feedback! Definitely going to work on getting out an calmer alternative mode.
https://kagi.com is by far the best out there IMO.
There should be word for the fallacy where you conflate a group's average opinion with that of the inevitable subgroup that sends angry tweets about a topic.
I just wanted to say they probably now have 24/7 GPS-enabled tracking devices on them :) [1] It seems so dystopian! And as if the whole world is extremely dangerous except your lawn, also at the same time there's zero trust in your kids and their friends.

[1] I seriously wonder about the legality. Don't kids have rights to? And some right to some privacy?
Who are also foreigners, as they didn't just *apparate" there.
This seems to be what Anthropic and OpenAI did in their research

Golden Gate Claude - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459543 - (60 comments, 16 days ago)

Extracting Concepts from GPT-4 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40599749 (144 comments, 2 days ago)
Why should you continue to be a customer with these companies in that case?

Sounds like learned helplessness to me
> Speaking English

Not worth discussing until some serious improvements to the spelling system. Currently learning it requires learning two obnoxiously independent systems, the written and the spoken.
Thank you.

I have also tried to start my own business, but that is not going well.
There is a great quantity of breathless commentary on What AI Can’t Do informed not at all by ever actually trying one.
It's true that HE is a backbone but there is an enormous difference between having bits of your traffic transiting a firehose and sending your entire session thru someone's endpoint.

The latter is much more comprehensive and identifiable.

This isn't to throw shade at HE; I don't recall any complaints about their integrity. It's just to say HE's tunnel is in a practical position to monitor, should they choose or be compelled.
And there’s some reason I should believe the assessment of some random LLM algorithm is more reliable than my own in trusting that I am reading a guy who I’ve met and talked to a couple times, who writes in a specific style and responds to people on Twitter every day, speaks in public regularly, and has been a prominent blogger with a consistent level of output for about 20 years?
Cool!

HF Transformers is great for prototyping and research, but should not an interactive tool like this be based on something more speed-focused, like llama.cpp?

Any plans for languages beyond English?
Diving into mathjax CSS injection attack
> On the other hand, it is hard, and I secretly hope the industry can change so that people like me can have a place.

In some ways, things are better than ever for folks like you. Starting and running a one-person business making software is feasible now but would've been much harder in decades past.

> Second, I work alone on code that is entirely in my head. ... Rust is great for teams ...

Unfortunately, industry has problems that are big enough that they're not easily solved with one person. So tools that work to bring about a team's success will be valuable. As will individuals who work well in teams.
That's interesting to say the least... it means that there are MANY MANY more azure tenants that are used to send spam :/
If you want another tough challenge, try division operators with longer equations and advanced division enabled. Quite evil at times.

Thanks for feedback on the timer, that seems to be common so I'm going to work on getting an alternative option out soon.
A fitting symbol for the importance of maintaining appearances in China.

"How is the real estate market?" "It's all under control."

"How are businesses doing?" "Our business sector is innovating and growing."

"How is the financial sector holding up?" "Stable and reliable."

"How is the economy?" "Growing, well-positioned."

Good luck figuring out how much is truth versus embellishment of the truth!
Hey, you're the one defending White Supremacists, dude. That's a lot worse than anything I've ever done. If you don't want people to know that about you, then you shouldn't have done it.

PS: Roger Stone is 71 years old, not a teenage boy. And teenage boys can be racist, too. Stop acting like one.
I argue that it has already ended poorly for the republic since the republic effectively no longer actually exists and what does exist is a fraudulent and inherently illegitimate government based on its own words and actions.

The Constitution that created the federal republic is essentially an agreement, a form of contract. It has been violated to every degree and in every imaginable way possible that the only thing holding any of this together is that people still have not realize that they still trust in a lie.

I get indications that there is possibly a kind of realization starting to work its way through the country, where people are starting to realize just that … that they’ve been had, defrauded, conned, lied to, deceived, stolen from, plundered, and abused.

We shall see how deep the cracks go once an economic event stresses the foundation. I’m agnostic on which way it will go or if the crack will cause the foundation to crack catastrophically. I could make arguments either way.
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Note to self: Do not interact with hours-old troll accounts.
I care about my job, enjoy my work, and I take pride in being able to deliver things, but I don't know how to deliver value for my traders here.

I'd really appreciate some perspective from seasoned data-engineers who might have seen this KDB as a data-lake pattern before, and what they did about it. Not just technically, but how they managed the organisational change of KDB for the KDB quants.

I also just don't really know where else to ask. There's not really an online KDB community, and you have a lot of KDB devs who are really good at KDB but know barely anything else which makes me skeptical of their advice.
This is not my experience at all. Being diagnosed directly led to immense stigma over and over. You are literally giving people the language they need to stereotype you and put you into a bucket by getting diagnosed and telling people your diagnosis. Stigma is literally an iatrogenic consequence of diagnosis itself, never mind diagnosis stopping stigma! I hear "Autistic" thrown around as an insult maybe 10x more than I heard the same 20 years ago.

People feeling safe because they're not alone does not end stigma whatsoever either.
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Just like in 2016, republicans will never choose diet-coke over coke. The appealing to republican voter strategy has never worked when they can just vote for a republican. Not that it matters for the political consultant class, they can get higher fees the more mailers they can send out when they're losing talking about how the republicans are ruining America.

Don't take democratic politicians at their word, they only care about keeping their money flowing into their coffers.
This article is about fundamental limits imposed by the laws of thermodynamics. Asserting it is not real limit is like asserting the speed of light is not a real limit.

You can't go faster than the speed of light by "radical increases in efficiency".
Maybe many and even most are on the spectrum, but not all are.

And even then, its a _spectrum_ meaning every person has a their own unique mix of, lets just call them quirks.

Meaning they (and you) are more than a single word like "autism". In fact in Sweden we've moved away from the "autistic diagnosis" because it's too simplistic. It's dangerous to be too caught up in "being autistic" that we hinder ourselves and others when we can do more.

Signed, a dad with autistic tendencies and a 4-year old child with may quirks that already give us quite a lot of challenges.
I'm sure apps like this are targeted towards an already paranoid and crime-obsessed demographic, and they're going to be full of false positives. Not sure you can take that sample as representative.
2024 Russian propaganda includes deepfakes, sham websites, social media swarms
You can see it in the Mona Lea CO2 measurements. We've gone from steadily increasing increases to constant increases. Soon it will be increases that get smaller every year
When defining a format, you can absolutely set limitations. If most use-cases can use a simple format with this limitation, they can, and the rest can use the complicated one. Data formats don't have to be 100% universal.
> Japan is not in the Occident.

And I don't know the Japanese education system. I know that the Chinese high-school-equivalent mathematics curriculum is slightly different to what I've seen from English and French and German (and American) schools, so the current Japanese system might be different as well. (Though, the Chinese system also has the issues I've described.)

> By the way, the "solution" cited in the article is "divide the blue radius by 3", with no proof,

Many results in mathematics are published without proof, and are still considered significant. Heck, Euclid's Elements, which is known for its generally rigorous attitude, omits full proofs of several results.

> Also, the article incorrectly transcribed the problem from the photograph into the computer diagram,

Arguable. I'd say they just chose different values for the free parameters.

> and the original woodcut doesn't even show an eclipse

You're right. But it does show a sketched ellipse – at least, that's similar to how I drew them before I became familiar with computer-rendered examples. The insistence on geometry diagrams being to-scale is a fairly recent phenomenon: generally, owing to the difficulty of producing to-scale diagrams, the attitude has been "don't trust the diagram", and the focus when creating a diagram is making sure that intersection points are obvious.

Look into the modern tradition of curve sketching.

> and the problem doesn't make a whole lot of sense (the red and white circles are completely irrelevant to the problem)

They're not irrelevant: they constrain the relative positions of everything as the size and position of the blue circle varies. They're not relevant when the blue circle is at its maximum, but that's part of solving the problem.

> Finally, the article title is a clickbait lie.

The subtitle, “A Historical Look at Japan’s “Wasan” Math”, is much better.
> This has kind of always been the case hasnt it? The governor of the state has special powers over NYC. At least they have stepped in and bullied the city before, usually because the city is broke or has some crisis it needs the state to sort out with a pile of money.

To the best of my knowledge, the governor of New York absolutely does not have "special powers" over NYC. NYC's boroughs are normal municipalities for the purposes of state law.

You might be thinking of the MTA, which was formed as an independent state corporation after the city's bankruptcy. This is a source of persistent local funding headaches, but is not a "special power": the MTA's board is intentionally not fully appointed by the governor, to prevent exactly this kind of unilateral maneuvering[1].

I don't really think this has anything to do with remote work or RTO, etc., either. Congestion pricing was a pre-COVID policy that's been on the table for well over a decade; it's sound policy purely in terms of making the MTA financially sustainable and reducing congestion and air and sound pollution within Manhattan.

[1]: https://new.mta.info/transparency/leadership/board-members
The intent is to de-stigmatize the labels. I consider myself a "weird nerd". I find the use of the label affirming. Perhaps ASD or other symptom descriptive way to describing things would be more "correct". However "weird nerd" is what the other parts of society use to describe these terms. Using the term to describe the positive aspects of these symptoms helps to take the sting out.
Great education simulation! Thanks for working on this.

Curious about this: I am hitting a boundary-condition like behavior drawing a straight line at a 45 degree angle similar to the sibling comment.

Curious if it is due to physics or due to the simulation.
I think it shouldn't though. I feel at this point it's rational for liberal NYC voters to vote Republican, regardless of the candidate. The dynamic here is that state-level Democrats consider NYC totally safe, and because of this they consistently prioritize the swing suburbs over the city. The way to break this dynamic is to make the city less reliable for Democrat politicians.
I am talking about now. In the end Indians were conquered with all the consequences. If they wake up now and start the war for independence it will be exactly the same situation as with Chechnya with exactly the same results.
I don't really accept the validity of people who are generally more functional and conventionally successful than average being called "disordered" in the first place. It seems like a weird arbitrary insistence of the medical system to simply pathologize anybody who fits into a certain box.
I'm understanding your statement to mean that caring about something because of itself, without external motivation (like validation or money), is neurodivergent. So neurotypical would be to only care about something if you profit from you caring about it? Is that reading correct?

If so, I have to disagree vehemently. That is not my experience at all and feels extremely homo economicus and - to be honest - depressing. I want to care about things I like and that bring me joy, even if no-one pays me for that or validates my choice.
> When I see videos on the internet all the time of criminals just walking into stores and grabbing whatever they want while the security guard looks on and does nothing because the police will side with the criminal if he touches them, it is perfectly valid to assume that crime is worse.

How many videos have you seen on the Internet of stores just calmly going about business with no shoplifting going on? The number of videos on the Internet is not an indication of any overall trend. The stuff you're seeing makes it onto YouTube because they are outliers.
> Try to get an appointment to see a doctor

Done this literally dozens of times over the past couple of years for myself, kids, and wife and have never had an issue. Even been offered appointments same or next day. Am I missing something?
Not really. When your car will start rusting inside, because water got in through rusted through holes, then without extensive repair it can't be saved. Such repair will be more expensive than remaining value of the car.

Wiring is even more problematic. When PVC will degrade, you need to change whole wiring not just the broken part, because changing only the broken part will make more problems in different parts thanks to the fact that you will need to manipulate with rest of the harness and degraded PVC has tendency to get hard and break off. Wiring for the car can cost several thousand EUR because it is basically manual labor without much prospect for automation. If it is car older than 10 years, it makes no sense to do that.
Totally fair. But that was the narrative. And, yeah, there's been a shift from the "narrative" and I have three "full-time" jobs to I can't get a new job offer in spite of thousands of applications but that was never really the norm in either case.
Doesn't need to be related to left-handed past. Just imagine those lanes were the other way around, then if you and me were going on Valhallavägen opposite directions and wanted to U turn over there at the same time then we can easily be in the way of each other.

When you have two multi lane one way roads going opposite ways and want add a two-way connection between them then you often want to put lanes the opposite of normal way. Another example is all roads connecting Chiang Mai's old city outer and inner circle road. The country is left-handed but those connecting roads are right handed, the opposite of Stockholm intersection
This will surely help sales numbers
You shouldn't confuse your stereotypes of people for actual people.

> The Republican party is the party of generational wealth transfer.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. The Republican party is half the country.

"Demographic data compiled in the 2016 and 2020 elections showed that the top 40 percent of income earners preferred the Democratic candidate for president (Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden) over the Republican (Donald Trump), signifying a sizable coalition shift from where the party was in the previous decade."

https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-being-party-rich-could-co...

"Some recent US figures on the distribution of income by party: 65 percent of taxpayer households that earn more than $500,000 per year are now in Democratic districts; 74 percent of the households in Republican districts earn less than $100,00 per year. Add to this what we knew already, namely that the 10 richest congressional districts in the country all have Democratic representatives in Congress. The above numbers incidentally come from the Internal Revenue Service, via Bloomberg, and are likely to be more reliable than if they came from Project Veritas via theblaze.com."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/democrats-rich-par...

> The Republican party is the party of all the economic forces that are unraveling rural communities and turning them into slums.

All of them?

"For decades, the Republicans were seen as the party of big business. Their support for low taxes and light regulation was manna to executives eager to raise profits and avoid government entanglements, and chief executives and big companies were reliable funders of Republicans up and down the ballot.

"Mr. Trump has frayed those bonds. Four years ago, few major chief executives supported Mr. Trump during his first campaign. And throughout his time in the White House, executives from many of the company’s biggest brands publicly sparred with the president on everything from gun control to climate change to immigration.

"'I can’t remember a time when the business community has spoken out so strongly in opposition to an administration on so many important issues,' said Rich Lesser, chief executive of Boston Consulting Group."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/business/republicans-busi...

> Is the Culture War so important/motivating to these people that they are willing to help implement their own economic destruction?

This is the culture war. You're doing it right now.
I read the article. She specifically stated that back to work policies of 3 days in the office, with congestion pricing might go back to full remote. There may be different versions of her comments, but thats what I read plainly in the beginning of the article.
Mental illness is somewhat linked to creative productivity, sadly. Bipolar disorder is somewhat overrepresented in highly-accomplished musicians, artists, and writers (with the trend going as far back as the 1800s).

It would not surprise me if ASD is overrepresented in scientists and engineers.

However, people also imitate their tribe, and seeing "weird nerds" with mental illness may get other nerds to emulate that behavior without actually being mentally ill.
Ok but I’m guessing you’re in the USA where you’d have to pay significant sums for that in some form, as long as you can convince a doctor to sign off.

I’m not aware of a similar problem in England, where prescriptions are currently £9.90 per prescription.

This is my point: the financial cost, as with obesity, is not regulating the behaviour.
You can choose a diagonal segment but it doesn't count even if the concatenated digits give the M.N.
The point is not whether you call it a soliton or a topological defect. It's whether the paper's proposal is about a soliton or topological defect "in the gravitational field equations" or in a scalar field model. I'm saying it's the latter: the author is just deriving the gravitational field produced by a topological defect in a scalar field.
This IA article is by the same Jason Scott of http://textfiles.com/jason/
Where is this center located? Near Iquitos by any chance? And in that case, do you have Starlink, and if so, what speeds do you get?
I believe the rationale here originally was to dissuade people from flipping Cybertrucks for profit, since there's a lot of demand and they want to fill the genuine orders first, so it's been in the agreement for a long time to not resell it, but it's still mad to make him pay 50k for a product he owns.