skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right (current state of the art), but also wrong (in the spirit of the question as I read it).

If energy prices go down, e.g., from continuing decline of solar, then it may be very cost effective to store energy as hydrocarbons which are synthesized from cheap energy + CO2. E.g., make natural gas from the air and sell it cheaper than it could be extracted and transported.

In this scenario, rather than paying exorbitant fees for CO2, the cheap energy could be used to extract it from the atmosphere where it is abundant.

Before anyone bites my head off - consider the tyranny-of-the-rocket-equation problem of burning gas to transport gas from source (wells, refineries, etc) to consumers. Then consider that the sun shines most places, and CO2 is effectively uniformly distributed. So Synthesis wouldn't have to be cheaper at the source if it can beat the price at the consumer via avoiding huge distribution costs.
"Worlds Within Worlds:The Story of Nuclear Energy" by Isaac Asimov (1972)
The list of US firms are media companies and also the reason people choose their products is software.

Why didn’t Sony, Nintendo and Sega become the biggest firms in Japan? They were well positioned to become its biggest media companies. Why is WhatsApp adopted widely without preloading but not LINE, which was way ahead of the curve in terms of media apps?
You could post this as a Show HN when you're ready for people to try it, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. Waitlists aren't great HN submissions since there's not much to talk about in a waitlist and it's a talking site.
What matters is that the Falkland islands are considered to be a part of UK's sovereign territory.
When it gets to Microsoft-level telemetry, yes, I'd say monsters. This situation? Less so. But how it so easily approaches such levels needs consideration. There's simply a prevailing view with data where "if it exists and we can access it, it are belong to us" and collectively it is monstrous.

I'd rather people become overly (even unreasonably) sensitive to it than keep going with the flow. It's too easy to start with innocent bits, then more and more until real-time surveillance style Windows Recall shittery.
Bluetooth was disabled but the USB port... wasn't?
I have myself gotten to a point in my career where my expectations no longer fit the standard model of a job in a company. And that is OK in my opinion.
When that becomes the case, starting your own company offers much more freedom.
Folks specifically don't trust journalism because they willfully switched to low quality news sources that intentionally spread hyperbole, propaganda, and opinion pieces in lieu of actual journalism. The market has spoken. Folks like this shit.
Kurzgesagt recently made a video about Final Bomb which would have destroyed a big part of planet earth, some 400km would have immediately burned https://youtu.be/E55uSCO5D2w
Nope. While it's true that the F-35 lacks a ram air turbine (RAT), it does have an auxiliary power unit (APU) that can power the flight controls, avionics, and electro-hydrostatic actuators as long as fuel remains. It also has a battery that can power critical systems for a few minutes when all else fails.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/e...
Kafka is an append-only log, not a queue.
That sort of application is just spitting into the ocean when you're talking about global CO2 emissions and sequestration.
Apparently extremely rare, 1 to 2 per million per year in the US:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22118-appendi...

I had confused it with pancreatic cancer in my head, given the extremely fast timeline :(
Grab is also a bank
Tell me you weren't around for the PlayStation 2 marketing blitz without telling me you weren't around for the PlayStation 2 marketing blitz.

They actually named the thing's CPU the Emotion Engine.
A tree gives you wood. What are the valuable outputs of grasslands?
Also doesn't help travelers who aren't too familiar with English - I always wonder how many NY-bound tourists have stepped off the train at "Newark Penn Station".
Is there a development environment for this which is graphical and interactive and as easy-to-use as say Visual Basic 1.0 or Livecode (formerly Runtime Revolution which was a HyperCard clone)?
Codeium launches Windsurf – the first agentic IDE
I was at an Open House at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [0] a few weeks ago, and one of the researchers was doing something adjacent to this -- recording the sound of earthquakes for analysis. Will try to find who it was.

[0] https://lamont.columbia.edu/
Could ask the same question about $PTON. As another commentator said, “British empire levels of value destruction”.
Miss you all dearly.
Show HN: Wewod – A Social Score Tracker for CrossFit WODs
Hi HN!

I built Wewod to provide athletes worldwide with access to a global leaderboard of scores for well-established benchmarks in the CrossFit and functional fitness communities.

What sets Wewod apart from traditional tracking apps is that it combines a logbook with social network features. While most apps focus on individual tracking or offer paid training programs, Wewod is dedicated solely to benchmarking. This makes it an accessible tool for both amateur and professional athletes to compare their performance.

My motivation came from a passion for the sport and some personal frustration - after trying several popular apps, I found their UIs complex and limited by paywalls. I wanted to create an app with a simple, fun, and intuitive user interface.

I’d love for you to try it out and share feedback on the user experience. Even if you’re not familiar with this niche, your input would still be invaluable.

Tech Stack:

- App: React Native, Expo, React Relay

- Backend: Self-hosted Hasura with a custom persisted query layer using Nginx and Lua; Express; Firebase (authentication only); Cloud SQL

- Website: NextJS

- Infrastructure: Google Cloud, Terraform

- Observability: Datadog

Thanks for your time and feedback!
Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE
At Codeium, we've been building AI-powered extensions for a while (we first launched our VSCode extension with autocomplete a little over 2 years ago!), but we've always thought there would come a day where we would hit the limits of what could be achieved within existing IDEs, so we decided to build our own: Windsurf (yes, it's yet another VSCode fork :)

We've stuffed a lot of cool features into Windsurf—a super fast autocomplete model, an inline diff generation experience that feels truly native, but we're most proud of Cascade, which is an evolution of the sidebar chat experience that many other extensions have. Cascade can perform deep reasoning on your existing codebase, access a vast array of tools that allow it to run terminal commands and find relevant files, and it's omniscient of all the actions that the user has taken independent of invoking the AI. (You can for example, start implementing a change manually and just ask Cascade to "continue").

We've been using Cascade internally at Codeium on our actual production codebase, and we're getting actual value from it. We hope everyone here does too! You can find a bunch of demos of Cascade on our website but I want to show one that I made myself using Cascade to solve an interesting cryptography challenge:

https://youtu.be/LbYepFmVB20

Cascade was able to explain the problem to me, install some libraries needed to interact with the challenge, give me some pointers towards a solution, and implement an attack that I described to it all by itself.
With his first sentence, "I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale." the author reveals his arrogance and poor communications ability.

First, a power washer is a violent device that strips the surface from its target. It's not something that you aim at people or animals. He needs a very different simile, maybe spreading seeds.

Second, must he speak only in non-English jargon? When did the acronym SOP become a verb? Does he want his Operations group to just "SOP" everything? Does he not want the group to do what we once called "kaizen", continuously improving upon the standard procedures?

His notions of how to delegate may be fine, but in my organization I'd want somebody other than him to be in charge of it.
To be honest, bluesky will become the left version of "Truth social". That's good for them in the long run (ad money) but it'll be another echo chamber. I follow both left-leaning and right-leaning people on Twitter and I don't see the "balance" going one way or another.

The other thing is reach. Twitter, Fb, Instagram are global brands. It'll be really, and I mean difficult to move the rest of the world to other platforms (TikTok is the exception because they went ahead with video from the get-go).
There's further evidence for flash flood (or mudslide?) though: IIRC, they need to be buried very quickly and thoroughly for fossilization.
According to docker: "Compose has traditionally been focused on development and testing workflows, but with each release we're making progress on more production-oriented features."

https://docs.docker.com/compose/intro/features-uses/

Sounds like dev, and test tool with production aspirations that isn't actually there yet to me.
Every time you like/dislike/watchlist a movie you're posting data. When you're watching a movie your progress is constantly updated, posting data. Simple stuff but there's possibly hundreds of thousands of concurrent users doing that at any given moment.
As someone who has worked in IT support: The problem is that people using that shadow IT will come running when they produce real tangible damage, because they lose data or some totally ridculous workflow stops working and you now have to reverse engineer some undocumented database format to extract at least the most urgent data. I am not a fan of IT GESTAPO, and everything should be measured, butbif I learned one thing it is that people will do the dumbest, riskiest shit if left tontheir own devices.

Also: if you work with certain customer data a good way to not only loose your job, but a ton of money would be to e.g. put that data into your shadow IT that might be running on some servers somewhere. E.g. people constantly asked us to use Zoom "because it is free and works", but we were in the public sector and a contract with them that guaruantueed the privacy of our clients would have costed a significant fraction of our yearly IT budget — and we are required by law to have such a contract.

When you then ask those people if they want to part with that money suddenly nobody is so adamant anymore.
I love this strategy until I run into someone else who’s read it. Then it’s just two people wait()ing each other.
The extension that solves information overload
Information overload is prevalent. Too many tweets, too many newsletters, never ending reading lists.

People write pages to say what could be said in paragraphs... Paragraphs to say what could be said in sentences.

This browser extension fixes it.
"The Gist of It" uses ChatGPT to provide instant, intelligent summaries of any selected text.

It's most definitely a "wrapper", but it provides a nice micro-optimization of something we have to do daily: skim long-form content to figure out if we want to read it more attentively.

You can add it to your browser (and see a demo) here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/the-gist-of-it/okgj...

And you can see the code here: https://github.com/mauricedesaxe/the-gist-of-it

I know this is self-promotion, but the app is free and will stay free. It's just me giving a small nugget of value to the world.

I hope you try it, enjoy it and (why not?) make an open-source contribution to it if you think it could be better.
> Unicode is uniquely worse for Japanese than for any other real-life world language

I'm not seeing any reason this is worse in Japanese than Chinese.

Only in recent years has Chinese overtaken Japanese as the predominant CJK population (for tech products). For a long time the Japanese market was larger than the Chinese market. You can just check the historical GDP as a ballpark figure.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, we (context: Hong Kong) kind of thought knowing Japanese was so cool because it allowed us to type Kanji which we repurposed as Chinese characters in some systems. (I think it was mostly Japanese games or games localized for Japan, and maybe some obscure systems.)

Even today this isn't just a fonts issue. Simplified Chinese uses different codepoints for many of the characters, so international software makers need to localize totally differently anyway. There's no reason they can't use a Japanese font when the language is Japanese.

Why didn't Japanese software adopt Unicode in the early 2000s? Why did Chinese software adopt Unicode?
Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
> I don't understand this. As far as I know, the satellite basically sends its identifier and precise time, and from this information (combined with the information in GPS calendar that tells the locations of the satellites) the recipient can determines its own location.

I'd assumed the GPS calendar was somehow broadcasted by the GPS network too, which kind of means that they also share their location.

> Were you proposing to assume the location of a 5m sphere the recipient is in?

I guess the proposal was to change the problem from pinpoint a single point in space, to figure out roughly where I am, in which case being anywhere in a tiny sphere is pretty much the same as being in a point after you account for errors.
> There's zero evidence that peace without weapons is possible.

I think a world without defenses would not exist. To me it is just a law of nature that defenses need to exist for life to be present. Attacks are part of nature.

However in that comparison I would call the gigaton bomb a self destroying auto immune disease.
Yes, was about this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42114990 . I don't know we ended up here! sorry!
I was pulling similar shit around that age, armed with those old illustrated "How Computers Work" books. This kid just got into something nerdier
I wonder when cars become inoperable without using a smartphone.
It puzzles me too. But as the other commenter here has said, it appears to be a habit of the yuppies. If you are time-poor but cash-rich, I suppose this is a good solution. However, in my experience, people do not use their time saved by doing this in high-leverage activities!
Yeah maybe Musk can clue him in that they’re stupid. Hopefully he doesn’t flip to the pro side though now that he’s big enough to be the bully with the patents.
Exactly right. FTA: "The electrochemical process that converts CO2 into ethylene involves a water-based solution and a catalyst material, which come into contact along with an electric current"

That "electric current" is the challenge. It takes energy to convert CO2 into other chemicals. If that energy isn't carbon-neutral, you're just spinning your wheels.
To remove the co2 we put into the atmosphere will always take way more energy than we got out of putting it into the atmosphere in the first place. That is just thermodynamics.

To remove all the co2 we put into the atmosphere would take more energy than we extracted from fossil fuels since the industrial revolution. And all that energy would, of course, have to be produced in an absolutely carbon-free manner.

So this is and will remain an entirely impractical method of combatting global warming. MIT engineers know this. The people who funded this research know this. Why are they doing this?
How Competition Affects Writing
End to end logistics would be employing the drivers and owning and maintaining the cars used to pick up and deliver.
USA? The forcibly removed thing.

I'd he had one he'd ask for help on his own. Apart from that, people live their lives the way they do.

In mental hospitals they'll meet other people like them and receive medication, however if it's the right medication is a game of trial and error.

How to deal with it? Let him do his. If he wants to kill himself that's his choice.
But he should also get some sleep and leave the building, maybe go for walks and reduce the EM radiation.

That's all I've got.
You'll also need to break up intermediate products. An egg breaks down into yolk and whites. Whites may be used for different purposes, one of them foam. Foam might be broken down further.

Recipes are not a tree.
Journalism might be improved if they all actually quit twitter like they've been threatening to do since Musk bought it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-became-way-too-importa...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/06/27/twitter-i...
I have another variation on this problem: my wife and I get the same emails from school. We both have accounts within the school platform.

So, what usually happens:
1. Both of us get email

2. One of us sees email before other, may or may not do something about it

3. Possibly one of us fwds the email to the other, creating two copies in one inbox.

4. It's not always clear if (2) results in something happening. And by that I don't mean in (2) that one of us said we would do it. Instead, I'm thinking one step further: we needed to pick a Parent-Teacher conference. How do we know we did it?

5. At some point we might archive/delete emails

6. Many of these emails contain admin dates. Things like half-days, dismissal changes, etc. Usually with dates/times that then need to go into a calendar. So, we try to send each other calendar invites (from personal Gmails) to handle.

#6 is often the real problem. We're looking into the Skylight Calender. Some people swear by it. I hear people like Cozi but that app is a mess.
I would be interested to know too, be sure to let me know how it goes!
That's a separate point, sure.

"soldiers have an ethical duty not to follow an order that is illegal"
> How and why are so many people who aren't financially secure throwing their money away on something so unnecessary?

I challenge the premise of your question.

I don't think financially insecure people are buying food delivery. At least not nearly as often as you might think.

I could be wrong, though. I have read that studies have shown that the majority of people buying lottery tickets can't afford to be buying them.
> When it gets to Microsoft-level telemetry, yes, I'd say monsters. This situation? Less so.

That was my point, yes. And I'll agree it's a slippery slope.
I use Cloudflare Email Workers to manage this kind of thing. It works well, especially for receiving mail, but when you need to respond it does break down a bit. Jelly seems like a better solution overall, but if you need something simple and totally free Cloudflare is pretty good.

I wrote about my setup here:
https://www.commithash.com/posts/a-better-way-to-share-email...
having worked at grubhub and spent a fair amount of time in discussion with ceo/founder matt maloney:

- the leadership during the peak of competition for mindshare in the space was exceptionally weak and overconfident. the grubhub/seamless merger led to a completely split company culture between NY and chicago.

- when they were on top, they were a shitty company with scummy practices (even for the space) that made restaurants very skeptical of them specifically. grubhub effectively ran like a protection racket. they bought up tons of "menu pages" websites and restaurant listing sites and launched fake websites to overtake the online presence of grubhub restaurants (including replacing their phone numbers in google summaries with voip numbers, calls through which restaurants were billed an "order origination" premium for.) they broadly resisted the desire of their restaurants to share ownership of their customers (or even be able to determine who their customers were.)

- they completely lacked the ability to plan long-term or even guess the consequences of any action they would take and would do things like "suddenly, without warning restaurants, offer a 50% off deal on lunch all across new york city," leading to huge numbers of canceled and delayed orders and further eroding their public perception.

- they were already public by the time that uber eats, doordash, and postmates were really aggressively entering the food delivery space and thus had to grow and ship with realistic constraints instead of burning investor money to disrupt in hopes that they would be profitable.

probably a million more reasons beyond that, but just off the top of my head a few ways the ball was dropped/the deck was stacked against them.
Would be even more satisfying if 180 degree turns were less common.

I also wonder how hard it would be to tile with different shapes. Hexagons or squares and octagons could be really neat.
Yes, that's weird. USB is a worse attack vector than Bluetooth.
Probably not to account for people spending lots of time outside the US. The main restriction is not selling items with particular features outside of approved countries but them getting used after being bought elsewhere isn't usually a big deal. India doesn't care about my Grandma wearing her hearing aids because they're not approved in India and if the government doesn't care where's the incentive for Apple to break functionality for customers?
Depending on how long the electrodes last the cost of the system will probably be dominated by the electricity, not the raw materials used in the construction. I have not done the chemistry, but my gut feeling is that breaking all of those O2s off of the CO2 and all of the O2s off of the H2Os is going to be the expensive part of this process.
How Half-Life 2 was made: A story of cabals and Electronics Boutique
How do Sony or Bose have any kind of retail advantage? What stores that sell Sony and Bose don't also sell Apple stuff? Plus Apple has their own stores which make more money per square foot than just about any other retailer.
Sort of describing the DeathWorlders series
> Could we roll back? Not easily. I can’t recall why

I can appreciate the hack to deal with this (I actually came up with the same solution in my head as reading) but if you cannot rollback and you cannot roll forward you are stuck in a special purgatory of CD hell that you should be spending every moment of time getting out of before doing anything else.
Bats be SLAM.
Chernozem.
I am particularly happy with docker swarm with traefik as described here:
https://dockerswarm.rocks/traefik/

Incredibly easy to setup and manage for usual small scale deployments. I use it as one node swarms, and I have setup
- backups
- automatic https certificates setup and renewal
- automatic upgrades to new images
- easy setup of persistence of data on the server

I'm very surprised it is not more popular, with quite some people trying to replicate swarm's features with docker compose, but often in harder to maintain setups.
Netflix has done massive amounts of work on BSD to improve it's network throughput, that's part of them enabling their file delivery from their CDN appliances.
https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2022.pdf

They've also contributed significantly to open source tools for video processing, one of the biggest things that stands out is probably their VMAF tool for quantifying perceptual quality in video. It's probably the best open source tool for measuring video quality out there right now.

It's also absolutely true that in any streaming service, the orchestration, account management, billing and catalogue components are waaaay more complex than actually delivering video on-demand. To counter one thing you've said: mouse movement... most viewing of premium content isn't done on web or even mobile devices. Most viewing time of paid content is done on a TV, where you're not measuring focus. But that's just a piece of trivia.

As you said, you just don't like them, but they've done a lot for the open source community and that should be understood.
An even unsigned x86_64 apps and ad-hoc signed arm64 apps.