skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dumbphones are so dumb. I just used Apple configurator, installed special profiles that block social network sites / news sites and few addictive apps.

If you want you can block all of appstore, block safari etc.

Why would you block uber on your phone? Also I can still use messenger to chat with my friends and don't have to force them to sms me.

Plus I saved money as I kept my iPhone.

I also can take high quality photos and videos.

I can use google maps.

Dumb phones are dumb. Why on earth would anyone buy one?
Which is why its time for NYC statehood. The interests aren't aligned. The city fills alls the coffers just to get fucked over again and again by shortsighted, spineless politicians.

Why should our greatest city be held back by the backwaters upstate?
> It also bypasses ridiculous property taxes.

A majority of states have property taxes on vehicles, and they are often higher than property taxes on real property (and in states in which much real property is assessed far below its actual market value for tax purpose, the same is generally not true of vehicles), so, YMMV quite a bit on this.

OTOH, vehicle are a depreciating asset, so over time you'll lose value subject to tax unlike with real property where that is less likely. So, yay, I guess?
This happened recently on Taylor Swift's rerecording of 1989 - a persistent tone at 15KHz on multiple tracks [0]. The Taylor's Version records have to be some of the most carefully-produced albums around, given that the goal is to accurately reproduce existing recordings, so it's amazing that it made the final release.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/TaylorSwift/comments/17iv3r2/for_pe...
Good catch. It gets at technical competence, but it isn't constrained to that. It's more of "good at what the org ostensibly is about," vs "good at ensuring the org lives on."
If it would be LaTeX, tree-sitter includes a paraer for it [1]. Not BNF though.

[1] https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
then some would sell at the same price they bought plus their profit under the table.
Probably don't need new law. It looks like a textbook unenforceable penalty masquerading as liquidated damages clause.
The numbers he posts are not all that bad really. It's 181kWh per metric ton CO2. At an electricity cost of 5 cents/kWh that's nine bucks per ton. That's quite a bit cheaper than the actual cost projected by real projects, so I'm not sure what he's debunking.

In terms of energy, some emerging tech is pretty close to ideal. Princeton has a project they claim can do 0.7 gigajoule/ton, or 195kWh [1]. And MIT is claiming one gigajoule/ton, or 278kWh [2].

If we transition to a wind/solar/battery grid, the cheapest option in the US at least is to have about four days of battery and 2X overproduction [3]. So that's a lot of extra energy basically available for free. Even today, with relatively small usage of renewables, utilities sometimes let electricity costs go negative [4]. If capital costs aren't too high, then DAC can run whenever there's excess energy available.

Of course, capital cost will be a big portion of the expense, though it'll decrease as we scale. Climeworks and Carbon Engineering have estimated $100/ton in total cost, which equates to a dollar per gallon of gasoline. Many places already have gas taxes higher than that. And the MIT and Princeton methods should be cheaper at scale than current methods would be.

Actually eliminating all our annual emissions by just doing this would of course be madness. But if we tried, and charged emitters for doing that, then most emitters would find it cheaper to stop emitting instead. Then we'd naturally end up only using DAC for emission sources that are very hard to eliminate.

After we hit net zero, we'd be smart to take CO2 down to a safe level. Call it 100ppm of reduction. Hopefully we can do some of that with reforestation and so on, but let's say DAC is our only option. One ppm is 7.8 gigatons CO2, so we're talking 780 gigatons to draw down. At 200kWh/ton that's 156 TWh, not far off from the world's entire energy usage for a year, matching the article's estimate.

But if we're at 2X overproduction on energy, then we'll have that much energy available. Only the capital cost of the equipment would really be important, and by the time we scale it that far, that should be fairly low too. The methods I linked use cheap, readily available materials.

So it looks pretty feasible to me. We can call this a "distraction" and put up with the terrible consequences of whatever high CO2 level we reach by the time we're at net zero, or we add DAC to a wind/solar/battery world and get down to a nice cool 350ppm. Since it takes time to scale, and climate feedbacks give us a time limit, we need to develop and start scaling DAC now.

[1] https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2024/03/14/engineers-...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remo...

[3] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/grid-storage-b...

[4] https://archive.is/WfUIJ
It's the author of the article that seems weird, not the researcher.

A major risk in academia is picking a dead-end niche. We hear about the people who picked an unlikely winner. This one picked mRNA vaccines. The inventor of MRI scanning had similar problems. He was almost fired. Those two succeeded, eventually. But the people who work on E-beam lithography or vaccines against addiction didn't do so well. Both of those would have been huge if they worked well. You can't tell in advance. If you could, the problem didn't need research.

A more useful way to look at this is that doing it and selling it are different skills. This is why companies have separate R&D, production, and marketing departments. If you face a hard problem in one of those areas, you can't devote enough time to the others. This is to some extent a time management and division of labor problem.

Academia is not team-oriented in that sense. At least below the principal investigator level. Once reaching that level, university PR departments are happy to hype any modest advance into a major breakthrough. Below that level, it's a cold world. Academia seems to have built itself a dysfunctional world - a huge bureaucracy, not much of a career path for real researchers, and a shrinking pool of full professorships. So anybody who is any good goes to a startup now.

Henry Kissinger, who was not lacking in people skills, once commented that "academic policy is so vicious because the stakes are so low".
As a former sysadmin at a business ISP about 25 years ago, I do not miss SORBS and friends. They probably got better when taken over by a professional team, but by then I had moved on into another industry and did not have to manage mail relays. I don't miss that one bit.
Respect for your knowledge, yes - but if you're the world's top expert in Subject X, while simultaneously world-renowned for being an unpleasant asshole, don't expect people to interact with you more than the absolute bare minimum required to do the job.

And frankly, nobody's irreplaceable. If you're #1 in the world, but casually drop racist and sexist slurs, odds are that the #2 expert in the world isn't that much worse than you, nor #3..#10.
The comment above mine said "Academia pays absolutely terribly for an elite job". But earning doesn't really come into a truly elite (status-wise) job, because the person doing it doesn't need to earn to live.
This hits me with the nostalgia of playing GURPS with friends. GURPS Cyberpunk being one of my favorites.
It's NY State, not Manhattan. Neither NYC nor any individual borough "sees" any of the money from congestion pricing; it's handled at the state level.

But for the state, certainly they can: it's state roads and state transit infrastructure, maintained and paid for by the state. NY didn't tell NJ to kneecap NJT's budget[1], or to develop car-dependent cities and suburbs.

[1]: https://www.nj.com/news/2024/04/nj-transit-study-targets-600...
No different than the president issuing executive actions to stop or make a law.
Absolutely, but the format described is neither TSV or CSV. That's perfectly fine, but don't call it CSV or TSV if it does not handle the specified ways that those work.
Yes. I'm talking about spam originating from Gmail and Outlook, not received by them.
While this sounds like a lot, it's important to remember that the US consumed 4,000 terawatt hours in 2023, so even at 180GW now, and an extra 40GW a year, these numbers are a reason to get angry at why it's taking so long to get serious about solar instead of celebrating a victory. Until we're adding ten+ terawatts per year, numbers that says "it's going to take over ten thousands years for this to even be relevant" are not good numbers.

They're, of course, good numbers for the folks who had been hoping to switch and are now on solar, but they're not good numbers at any scale bigger than that.

And to clarify, because it looks like folks didn't realize this: the target isn't the current consumption rate. It's the rate we need to service everything that comes online "because we now have enough power", from EV-ing the entire US, to GPU mining (or whatever it's fad equivalent becomes), to industries we offshored or outsource because they needed too much electricity and weren't economically viable.

The target is one, and probably two, orders of magnitude more than current consumption.
The congestion tax is underwater in statewide polls. Its not like she's looking out for some special interest here, her constituents unfortunately just dont want the congestion tax.
Can't speak for Tokyo, but there are streets in my American suburban neighborhood I avoid because of (presumably) animal-deterrent noises. I'm also 40, and surprisingly can still hear them - and an audiologist had my ears tested last month, and said my hearing is excellent for my age.

Which is a bummer when I have to cycle around several blocks to avoid hearing the squeaks that are physically painful to my ears.
Great title. I feel like in some sense we've lost our way with compiler design. Languages do not help us write code that require minimal optimizations to run fast enough on most workloads. Instead, we overoptimize with -O[23] everywhere which slows down our development process and makes all of our code inscrutable. Better would be a faster -O0 experience and good profilers/observability so that we only optimize the hot spots (which could mean isolating specific subcomponents and compiling only those with optimizations on).

Of course it's much easier to just globally turn on release mode and optimize everything whether it matters or not. This both slows down the development process considerably and leads to bizarre issues like this.
How much xylitol is there in things that a dog might eat? When I imagine any kind of artificial sweetener, I assume it's hundreds or thousands of times sweeter than sugar and the quantities present are correspondingly lower.
Ok, take 100 people, with $100 each, and have one round of $1 coin flips between each 2. A significant number of bets overall, 4950. Each person has wagered 1% of their net worth 99 times, something that we all agree sounds quite scary. And yet there will be no busted people, most will likely be between $80 and $120. Repeat this 10 times, a ridiculous amount of gambling - still most likely no bankruptcies, and the total utility, if we assume log, has barely dropped by 1%.

I simply do not believe that we are making such a subtle societal optimization by frowning upon gambling while encouraging all kinds of other risk taking, like investments and properties.

And the other scenario where insurance just acts as a drain on the overall system seems to indicate that it is not inherently positive for utility either
Only if you anticipate your data having commas in fields, which is somewhat rare in my experience (as in I’ve never seen it at all).
It sounds to me like you probably are introverted, but might not be familiar with exactly what that means, or how neurodivergent is really is from much more common extroverted people.

Most extroverts aren't ruthless machivellian self interested people like you are worrying I am claiming, but they are focused primarily on fitting in and being accepted by others- and do choose their activities and behaviors mostly based on that. Their interests are genuine, but the biggest factor in them is usually who it connects them with, and how it makes them appear to others. What do your hobbies, car, clothing, etc. say about you and how will that affect how others see and treat you?

Introverts are, as the name implies, more inwardly focused- and although they enjoy social connection and acceptance also, it can be exhausting and therefore less motivating, and generally takes a back seat to more inwardly generated concerns. It is often wrongly confused with being socially awkward or shy, which isn't the same at all.
> Also adding firewalling to SSH is hardly “kitchen sinking”

sshd is a service. It may be one among dozens of other services running on a host.

Now imagine for a moment, if EVERY service on the host took that approach. Every backend service, every network-facing daemon, every database, every webserver, voip servers, networked logging engines, userspace network file systems, fileservers...they all now take security into their own hands.

Every single one of them has its own fail2ban-ish mechanism, blocklists it manages, rules for what to block and how long, what triggers a block, if and when a block will be lifted...

Oh, and of course, there is still also a firewall and other centralized systems in place, on top of all that.

How fun would such a system be to administer do you think? As someone with sysadmin experience, I can confidently say that I would rather join an arctic expedition than take care of that mess.

There is a REASON why we have things like WAFs and IDS, instead of building outward-facing-security directly into every single webservice.
Shades of Graeber in this essay:

>There was a time when academia was society’s refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical: it would seem society now has no place for them at all.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7004628-there-was-a-time-wh...
"The three-d bb knows all!" --- Phineas J. Whoopee
> Any non-trivial engineering or research is a team effort

There's plenty of counterexamples in the software space, to the point where most great software was originally written by a single person - C, Unix, Linux, Git, TeX, Python, Ruby, Perl, SQLite, QEMU...

Most of these now have huge teams maintaining them of course, but the initial research and engineering that was needed to come up with the golden egg is usually a one man show. C designed by committee is COBOL.
Even "standard" cars have become bigger in past decades. In many countries the norms of width and length of parking spots have been updated. So it is not just pickups, but pretty much all cars outside very few models like maybe Smart.
We already are. Wind and solar are already quite cheap, and getting cheaper. I used to worry about grid-scale battery storage but sodium and iron-air batteries pretty much have that solved for reasonable cost too.
Why have I only started seeing these outliers in the last few years? Also, the worst part of the videos isn't that they happen, but that they are allowed to happen. If the criminals weren't calmly going about their business without even wearing a mask and instead running from the security guard it wouldn't be so frustrating. If the news stories had a mugshot of the police arresting them quickly since their face is all over the internet it wouldn't be so infuriating. If the police didn't allow the criminals to run open air fencing operations right outside BART stations, I wouldn't be this mad.
I don't quite see what the outbox pattern has to do with the two generals problem.

The point of the outbox pattern is that a durable record of the need to send an event is stored in the DB as part of the DB txn, taking advantage of ACID guarantees.

Once you have that durable record in your DB, you can essentially treat your DB as a queue (there's lot of great articles on how to do this with Postgres for instance) for some worker processes to later process the queue records, and send the events.

The worker processes in turn can decide if they want to attempt at least once, or at most once delivery of the message. Of course if you choose the later, then maybe your event is never sent, and perhaps that was the point you were trying to make to the interviewer.

They key takeaway though is that you are no longer reliant on the original process that stores the DB txn to also send the event, which can fail for any number of reasons, and may have no path to recovery. In other words, at least once delivery is now an option on the table.
> since they share the memory bus so one can slow the other.

You can look more into this in this video by Kaze Emanuar, famous N64 romhacker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwls5SpNn1s&t=427s
There's a reason for everything.
Show HN: ChatGPT/Gemini experience for open-source LLMs in the browser
We made a ChatGPT/Gemini-like interface for WebGPU open-surce LLMs in the browser. Chat with Gemma, Llam3, Mistral and more with no server side processing - everything happens locally in your browser. Utilizing WebGPU and WASM.

Try it out: https://chattyui.com/

Repository: https://github.com/addyosmani/chatty
That's an awesome name. ("Puce" is French for "Computer Chip" in this context, "Octo" as in Octet).
That’s impressive. I’m sure I’ve done this many shutter clicks in one day.
And third party app stores?
What does it say about the underlying issue if they can’t simply use their smartphone like a dumbphone which is certainly possible? I don’t think thats solved. These are people who sound like if there was a bowl of candy they’d have no control not to eat it all or something. Sounds like an issue for the psychologist not a tech issue.
What's wrong with delta lake?
> In 2011, the average age at which a biomedical scientist gets their first R01 grant to establish their independent career as a PI is 42

This is ridiculous! The best researchers won't be much better at 45 than 25, so it's just wasting 20 years getting "experience" and moving up the ladder. But by nature of getting that experience, they're going to give up on actual innovation.
Keylogger discovered in image generator extension
"U.S. Remains World's Top Destination for Foreign Direct Investment for 12th Consecutive Year"

https://www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2024/04/us-remains-worlds...
Genetic issues are more prevalent in communities that practice inbreeding. Eliminating inbreeding seems to be an easier fix than genetic therapy.
> The core demographic being targeted here is driving onto the streets to park and go to work, not to drive into Brooklyn, Queens, or LI.

Charging them is fine, but that is not the basis of the lawsuit from NJ. NJ is complaining about people using NJ to go around Manhattan.

> To my understanding, the plan with the congestion charge is to waive the charge when drivers stay on highways and freeways

Can you show me that policy or map? Because when I checked that was NOT the case. The only time charges are waived are the two coastline roads that go around Manhattan. All other transit traffic is charged at full rates. When you enter from NJ you do not go on those coastline roads, you go through Manhattan.

This pricing should have been coupled with some new transit roads that do not have any exits in the city.

From your comment I wonder if part of the reason she stopped the project is people not actually understanding what the real charges are.
Wikipedia says both ultrasonic and electromagnetic are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking_sensor

One of the references is for a Mercedes system that uses ultrasound
No idea if others at Twitter suggested this as I can't read the thread (and have no intention to subscribe) but a nice add on would be a score inversely proportional to the travel an iceberg would need to obtain a stable floating position, with ideally the very hard goal to draw it already in a perfect stable way, waterline height included.
The phrase has sounded weird to me for some time but here it strikes me as especially so: "the spectrum"

Just one spectrum, 2 dimensions? Is that all we get? It's a linguistic short-cut, I get that, but I wonder how useful it is, how much nuance it conceals.
Acknowledged. The tutorial is linked someplace deeper in the docs, but I am adding a direct link to it in the docs home page. Should be up in a little while.
you seem to be comparing energy units with power units. 1 GW of installed solar capacity should be give about 1 TW hour of energy per year (365 days * 3 hrs per day as a conservative estimate).
Twitter/X and Substack are some options. Reddit doesn't work, indeed.

I just read your posts... good stuff, congrats! I'll follow your journey.

If you want to check some algorithms I have implemented and connect, check it out:

https://quantitativo.substack.com/

Cheers
Except this simply DOESN’T HAPPEN in the most famous free healthcare system on Earth, so clearly it can’t be a moral hazard.
I also know for a fact these people aren’t getting this for “free.” I just checked and copay is subject to the deductible. Also, I seriously doubt insurance companies aren’t ramping up premiums on these people once they get a chance.

Are these people seriously going “well it’s only $26 a pop so I may as well.” Do you think the (apparently) low price is what’s causing this?
I've experienced human live translators and more often than not they paraphrase a sentence as a whole after it is uttered. I couldn't imagine otherwise because you can't start with translating until the sentence is finished by the original speaker. With human translators there's the additional challenge to translate/speak while listing.
#In a Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong franchise on the outskirts of Phoenix, Rat Thing number B-782 comes awake. Fido is waking up because the dogs are barking tonight. There is always barking. Much of the barking is very far away. Fido knows that faraway barks are not as important as close barks, and so he often sleeps through these. But sometimes a faraway bark will carry a special sound that makes Fido excited, and he can't help waking up. He is hearing one of those barks right now. It comes from far away but it is urgent. Some nice doggie somewhere is very upset. He is so upset that his barking has spread to all the other doggies in the pack.

Fido listens to the bark. He gets excited, too. Some bad strangers have just been very close to a nice doggie's yard. They were in a flying thing. They had lots of guns. Fido doesn't like guns very much. A stranger with a gun shot him once and made him hurt. Then the nice girl came and helped him.

These are extremely bad strangers. Any nice doggie in his right mind would want
to hurt them and make them go away. As Fido listens to the bark, he sees what they look like and hears the way they sound. If any of these very bad strangers ever come into his yard, he will be extremely upset.

Then Fido notices that the bad strangers are chasing someone. He can tell they are hurting her by the way her voice sounds and the way she moves.

The bad strangers are hurting the nice girl who loves him!

. . .

At first, the only trace that B-782 leaves of his passage is a dancing trail of sparks down the center of the franchise ghetto. But once he makes his way out onto a long straight piece of highway, he begins to leave further evidence: a
spume of shattered blue safety glass spraying outward in parallel vanes from all
four lanes of traffic as the windows and the windshields of the cars blow out of their frames, spraying into the air like rooster tails behind a speedboat.

As part of Mr. Lee's good neighbor policy, all Rat Things are programmed never to break the sound barrier in a populated area. But Fido's in too much of a hurry to worry about the good neighbor policy. Jack the sound barrier. Bring
the noise.

https://hell.pl/agnus/anglistyka/2211/Neal%20Stephenson%20-%...