skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's zero evidence that peace without weapons is possible.

How do you apply that? To countries? Cities? Schools? Homes? Individuals?

It gets ugly fast.
Electrochemical cells (especially PEM electrolyzers) are notorious for containing materials far more expensive than copper (noble metals). But they pay for themselves much more quickly than you might think, if you can get offtakers to actually purchase and use the resulting products.

The biggest challenge facing these climate tech industries right now is the chicken-and-egg problem. You can't make anything cheaper than the centuries-old fossil-based competition unless you do it at scale; you can't scale it without offtakers; offtakers won't participate unless it is cheaper than the status quo.

There are compounding issues with expensive infrastructure upgrades (e.g. airplane or maritime engines that need to be upgraded to handle new fuels; pipelines or fuel trucks that need to be build to handle hydrogen, etc) that further push out the break even date. And then you have oil & gas companies inserting themselves into these efforts in order to greenwash their businesses, causing many would-be supporters to oppose entire clean technologies due to the perception that green tech startups are in bed with the fossil industry.
Mystery of US warship's final resting place solved by accident
A formal program with funding, faculty and grad students would greatly help to make something which is not superficial. (Although I don't know of how much making art is a university subject, art criticism seems to be more in vogue).

Currently, undergrads take double majors (Witten was a history grad!). But, this doesn't tend to happen at the graduate level. The obstacles can be getting funding(siloed into departments), and courses being demanding enough already for one subject.

Faculty sometimes do hold a side appointment in other departments. But, the main incentive emerging from the academic job system is to get specialized expertise and publish in high reputation journals.
I recommended Manjaro in the past when people asked which Linux because they're fed up with Linux.
I won't do that again.
Does this support headphones/audio too?
Ah yes, conversational deadlock. The best way to release the lock is to say you need to go to the bathroom. Sometimes it just wasn't meant to be.
food delivery is for lazy people. youve managed to completely and totally misdiagnose every aspect of this situation in 5 sentences. quite impressive really
Have there been any recent developments in "lab-grown wood"? The last time I looked into it there had been some research on it (also at MIT), but there didn't seem to have been any updates for a few years.
Please give us an update here if you can! Stand strong.
I don't know what "artificial" is supposed to mean here. Landlords respond to incentives; if letting out a unit means they'll be stuck with a rent controlled tenant (or in the US, stuck with a tenant-favorable legal environment that will leave them on the hook for damages and missed rent) then the smart thing to do is STR or use the apartment as your own guest home etc.
> By filling up seats with lower fares, it allows the whole route to be profitable.

Is this assuming that there would be empty seats if the hidden city nonsense wasn't allowed?
Hang on, it's only the same if Just Eat bought GrubHub from the government. Otherwise, the $5.5B isn't removed from circulation, it's in the hands of the previous owners of GrubHub
Thanks for sharing, as always. I was surprised you didn't touch on taxes. In the past, the main thing that kept me from selling any business was taxes -- I'd make more if I just kept it running over n years in maintenance mode. After all is said and done, a boostrapped seller seems to get significantly less than sticker price, especially after income and capital gains tax, since LLCs don't qualify for QSBS. How did you navigate that? Did your final take home amount meet your expectations? Anything you would optimize for future exits?
A lot of the top researchers are working on making LLMs more capable, so it's not impossible for new breakthroughs to occur, they might not just be as rapid paced as the last two years or so.

There's also lots of utility to be found with the best LLMs today. I'm working on something myself, and have seen others pushing the boundaries in hackathons and startups. So that's a lot of innovation and value that's definitely not a bubble.
Show HN: CinemaGuide, Every UK cinema listing in one place
CinemaGuide allows cinema goers in the UK to discover nearly every film being shown near them in one place.

I built this so that cinema goers in the UK can quickly and easily plan trips to the cinema, without having to spend ages trawling different websites.

As far as I'm aware, no other website in the UK offers this service.

Would be great to hear any feedback you may have!

Thank you!
... in hindsight :)
Neat, but the "Diffictulty" slider is a bit of a misnomer, IMHO. Puzzles with more pieces just take longer. I'm not sure what would be a better label, though. (If I were feeling uncharitable, I would propose "Tedium", or perhaps "Carpal Tunnel Risk" :-)

I wonder if there might be a way of changing the difficulty without changing the number of pieces? Like maybe putting gridlines between the pieces, so that you can't actually see the seamless connection between two correctly-oriented pieces?
anecdotally, that's not what i recently experienced. I used to envy cheap cross-Europe flights, but somehow nowadays I can fly from SF direct to Paris for $250 or Cancun direct for $150 (cheaper than roundtrip Uber to SFO)... local Europe travel didn't feel that much cheaper all of a sudden.
Not in my experience. Make sure you crank up your bandwidth settings.
I can, but I won't. The state doesn't like it, because it bypasses the points at which they control the system (largely without due process) and I don't wish to make their jobs any easier for them.
"Geophone" is the device you seek.

Amplifying and digitizing the signal is straightforward for an experienced EE, but you might look into acquiring some Raspberry Shake hardware which has it all already done.
Don't forget `tainted` (https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec#Laundering-and-Detecting-Ta...)!
This example is one of the entries into the rabbit hole called "science".
Well, netting ~95%¹ of the extracted carbon as new release on the atmosphere is technically better than 100%. They could be using nitrogen instead.

But yeah, it's quite underwhelming.

1 - Wild guess. But it's certainly less than 100%, and certainly not by a lot.
I am sure that your work in discriminating what's happening deep underground with nothing more than passively recording surreptitiously available signals at the surface level on non-specialist hardware is of interest to a few governmental offices.
> I think planned is far to strong a word.

It's not. There were literal campaigns across the world to limit childbirth.

> I think that instead, it is simply a byproduct of the cultural adoption of hedonism (which places happiness above other human goals) and consumerism (Which places material acquisition as the primary means to achieve ones goals).

All culture is planned.

> Hedonism and consumerism are pushed by a broad by swath of interests, from industry to government, so there is no need for a grand conspiracy.

It's not a "conspiracy". It was open government policy. All over the world. China's 1 child policy being the most prominent and heavy handed approach. But governments around the world implemented a 2 child policy.

https://mothership.sg/2018/05/singapore-stop-at-two-children...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-child_policy

In the US, we didn't even have to implement such government because of media control over the masses. The "native" US birth rate has been below replacement since the late 1960s. Thanks to media conditioning.

To show you how easily people are manipulated, people now think everything they disagree with is a "conspiracy theory" because the media told them to.
You might not care for it, but prepared food delivery was successful decades before anyone imagined it being ordered on a smartphone.
If he's suicidal, he could become homicidal. The first time my family experienced a manic psychological break from a cousin we just stayed in the house with him after a brief psych hospital stay. He then had some sort of further hallucinatory break and he was racing around the house -- literally like a mad man... very heart breaking... We called the cops and had him committed as we really could not take care of him at all and him running around like a crazy man could get _him_ shot by the cops. After he got help, was diagnosed bipolar, and was on his meds, he told us what his hallucinations were and the story in his head was that we were threatening his family -- that will turn most men homicidal, so we were very lucky.
I don't juggle. At all. When I am WFH I am at work. My office is in the basement, separated from our living space. My wife is a stay-at-home mom, and I took 12 weeks off each
time when 2 of my babies were born. Even with these advantages, parenting is hard work. We are certainly blessed. I can appreciate now the recommendation to "Embrace the phase". It's a precious period of time and I only get to enjoy them like this and give them these memories one time. Who cares if the house is a mess? I'm reading them a book instead.
The markup’s not too bad and the delivery charges are substantially lowered by signing up for a membership, which is around $10/mo (or free with higher end credit cards)
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Google maps(wuth google location service) is alao crazy accurate underground somehow.
another to add to the list is high-altitude modifications. using mark bittman’s guidelines ingredients and temperatures become a function of altitude. recently i’ve been using llms to make the modifications for me.
You're obviously not a clown then!
36k in a small company is a non-trivial operating expense, esp. for hype-based tools that won't live there tomorrow.

like, it's a rounding error as IT budgets go, but throwing a bunch of money at something that's already considered dubious is silly. That's 36k in bonuses for Juniors, or a X-Mas party, licenses for software that you'll actually use.
You only have to avoid the newer hardware if you don't want to check for compatibility. It's just a rule of thumb to increase your odds of success because most people don't want to investigate every component. If you check for compatibility and it's supported, then you can use the newer hardware. I would have thought that was obvious, but clearly not.

It also matters how far along in the product life cycle it is. If it came out last week, it may not be supported yet. If we're nearing the refresh point then it may be supported.

> When I buy a Mac or a windows machine I don’t have to purposely avoid newer hardware to ensure it works.

But you are also comparing apples and oranges (pun incidental) and shifting the goal posts. If you buy a Mac, then you aren't building a gaming PC, which is what the rule of thumb pertains to. You're buying a complete system that has been integrated and tested. You can do the same thing with a Linux machine from various vendors (Lenovo, Dell, Framework, among others), in which case you don't have to do any investigatory work because (just like with the Mac) it's been done for you by the manufacturer.
How about if the government doesn't tell us what to do with our bodies to start with?
From the article : "The work was supported by Shell, through the MIT Energy Initiative."
Would it only exist to make people believe we can burn fossil fuels since a solution is around the corner ?
There are two factors at work in my opinion.

Doordash prioritized selection, they did online ordering even when restaurants didn't want it. Eventually the demand was high enough that restaurants adapted. Grubhub focused on the traditional take out restaurants. Doordash also mixed in multi-delivery to handle mixed alcohol/food purchases.

Beyond this, tech always follows a power law distribution in returns. Doordash is the number one player, and as such will be about 10x bigger than the next runner up. How much of this is network effects/first preference vs. manufactured return is anyones guess, but most people do not want to spend time price matching doordash/grubhub on orders - so whoever has the bigger network/more customers will get the most folks.
I think a good example in support of your statement is the superfluous metrics wantonly spewed by, eg, Firefox. A cursory perusal of about:config will list many many default settings which are completely unnecessary for normal browser function, eg dom-battery, general telemetry, dubious DNS and dozens (maybe many dozens) of other better examples I've seen but don't immediately remember. The privacy holes here are mostly by design. Clearly more than necessary hardware info.

There are endless examples of data flowing where one wouldn't expect. Doesn't IP6 wrap the MAC address into the IP? This alone is pretty significant. It goes on and on, but I don't see this as an excuse to go full-nudist in a fit of futility with all data.

And another thing I frequently wonder: who benefits? I honestly don't see things functionally improving in a way that I can't live without as a result of all this telemetry. I don't see that many people clamoring for the kinds of improvements this telemetry is supposed to enable. I know technology does improve, but I just can't remember where things were so bad I needed to mass-email my dossier to the world. Generally, I just made a forum post or bug report.
Looks like https://dockerswarm.rocks says that the site is deprecated.

https://dockerswarm.rocks/swarm-or-kubernetes/ says "it's not sensible to build a new product using Docker Swarm Mode"
All of this is being insanely overcomplicated.

Throwing more complexity at a simple problem might be "fun" from a nerd's POV, and, TBH, building this USB device sounds fun. But entirely unneeded while introducing more points of failure.

A simple solution to your problem:

1. Get a monitor with a built-in USB hub (nearly all of them?). Consider getting a USB-C monitor to reduce the number of cables to 1.

2. Don't use Bluetooth (for a keyboard, for multiple reasons, like needing the keyboard available in early boot). Get a keyboard/mouse with an external USB dongle like Logitech's Unify or Bolt, Corsair's SLIPSTREAM, or any of the other billion options that exist.

3. Plug keyboard/mouse into monitor, plug random computers into monitor. Bam. Unified mouse and keyboard without any pairing.
Yeah this was a very poor and incorrect understanding.

Many assumptions.

Tax isnt to curb inflation.

The wealthy do get taxed.

Everything about creating money and to whom was wrong.

Look, everything makes more sense if you ditch that entire understanding and look at it like this:

The speed that money moves in an economy is more important than the revenues the government earns. So the government’s ability to collect tax actually isnt the priority, and it isnt controversial when your entity earns and has nothing for the government to collect.

No individual politician is responsible for this view or would even lead with it, but the aggregate outcome is that the government incentivizes some forms of transactions. If you do them, it wont tax you, and if you do something else it will tax you on the remainder. For example, you just want to earn income and save? This is the most heavily taxed because money is not moving in the economy and you are penalized for trying to take no risk.

In this case in the article, taking risk is incentivized. Just Eat moved ~6bn dollars to grubhub’s prior owners a couple years ago, in exchange for shares of grubhub. This is the velocity we want.

They sold it to someone else and realized a 90% loss. That’s a side effect of taking risk and the government allows tax deductions against future gains.

Just Eat can make 5.5bn tax free now if they ever have any profitable trades. Money moving in the economy into businesses and assets is more important and incentivized.
As one of my contributions to “failing to satisfy the standards of either field” (math, astrophysics, or fine art), I wonder whether you would love or hate https://www.ouruboroi.com
Grass always do it better than trees.

And the GP is quite wrong, because almost everything will be more efficient than trees or grass. Machines are just way more expensive, that's why nobody ever made them.
Worst case scenario, you can always still turn it into wood.
> bird deaths

Ugh how long will it take for this to die?
'Fossil Fuels Are Still Winning': Global Emissions Head for a Record
> AGI in a couple of years.

this will be the new "fusion in 10 years", but with the added downside of expending a small-country's worth of carbon per day while not actually getting us there.

like, of course sam altman is going to talk about how close they are and how they need more money.
WebVM 2.0: Full Linux Desktop GUI in the Browser
People had paper maps and often precise directions that they had on their laps or a human navigator using those maps or directions. They stopped at gas stations to ask for directions (or didn't--guys refusing to stop to ask for directions was something of a trope). So obviously they managed but probably in ways a lot of people today wouldn't find satisfactory.

How did you manage before smartphones and even email/text for meeting people and generally coordinating activities generally? People managed.
I have never used any of these delivery websites, but I assumed grubhub was fungible with Ubereats/Doordash/Instacart. All of them being websites that pay independent contractors to pickup and deliver things.

https://careers.grubhub.com/drivers
Requesting Spotify access_token's to use their API in seconds
Ever tried using spotify's api, just to realize getting access tokens is hell? sure, you can do the implicit grant, but it is interactive and lacking power. The only way to get "real" tokens is by going trough ̶h̶e̶l̶l̶ their auth-code-flow. Implementing that can be enough effort to make you simply abandon your idea/project. spoken.host now provides you with those tokens easily. get them via the UI or with simple, authenticated http requests for automation. Happy making/coding!
So true. This is the sort of thing that is so exciting from a usability and engineering standpoint. Until some marketer gets their hands on it and decide that they can increase the ROI on microtargeting advertisements by 0.1% if they use this data. Suddenly, we continue to slide into the advertising and propaganda driven attention economy dystopia.

Here's to the future!
In a Different Class Than a Raptor Engine [video]
aye Chegg is cancer, no RIP here
> the app could also look for other Transit users nearby

That seems unlikely in an environment with no cellular / wifi signal. Theoretically possible, but expensive for battery and probably disallowed by the OS.
Nice website dude. You can increase the rendering speed though.

But sexy idea.
400nits is way too dim, especially for $650.

There are 4K 165Hz 27" and 32" FALD monitors with over 1000 dimming zones capable of sustained >1000 nits full screen brightness available for $400.
I keep wishing they would integrate with Steam Deck...
4k@32" is pretty pixellated. I'm kinda amused that people find this to be an acceptable resolution for working with text in 2024.
The purpose of diplomacy is to achieve national goals in the international field. Wars happen when two nations have incompatible goals and diplomacy isn't able to resolve them. The wars are fought to achieve national goals, or change the other nation's goals. Diplomacy is ultimately what resolves wars by making the new national goals compatible. Every single treaty or armistice ending a war is a result of diplomacy, even unconditional surrenders.
I would definitely agree with you there, but I also can't blame people for consuming such media. It's incredibly difficult to bury your head in the sand/avoid all media in today's ultra-connected world. Even if I were to ditch my phone, my friends would still be talking about it.

I hope though my perspective in my earlier comment might give you some insight into the general psyche of (at least some) younger folks.
I think the point is that the 'people'/their remains might be findable, but trace or proof of their civilization would not?
An AI winter is coming soon.
> A litmus test for recent journalism is the hunter Biden laptop story.

It's really not. Stories about the families of politicians are better suited for tabloids. They're a distraction at best.

And let's be honest: only a total ignoramus would vote or change their vote based on Hunter Biden. There are a million better reasons.
Only carbon matters
Have you looked into whether a Raspberry Shake might be adequate?
Good Idea. Instead of video can it be audio too?
Boeing ships first two redesigned O3B mPower satellites – SpaceNews
This feels backwards. Wonder basically only exists in the NY metro area, and their coverage is still spotty because it's tied to specific storefronts. They sell pretty OK bowls and pizza, and their main advantage seems to be excellent branding. What's the value prop here? Grubhub may be crappy, but it works and it works globally.
It's weird when you can read articles about how half a country is living paycheck to paycheck but then as you see, these businesses are thriving with the other half of the population.
I would say how much sleep you can survive on rather than need. I definitely feel the lack.
This sort of "citation for acceptance" trading happens everywhere. It's not just Elsevier.
People want to be preached to by activists or advocates for the human cause. This plays a part in whatever we mean when we refer to the present-day decay of public institutions.

Respectfully, I challenge you to ask yourself how you can argue to the contrary and then say that there's great content on platforms and mediums that essentially exist to preach and serve as surrogates for certain institutions (journalism being one of them).

Humanity is at odds with objective truths (i.e., neutral facts) because the fundamentals that support contemporary notions of objectivity were erected by people with implicit biases.

The problem with journalism is that it harkens to an idea of the world that is effectively dead. Journalism is just a string upon strings keeping the marionette-corpse of modern civilization erect. Its own survival depends on Journalists convincing "consumers" that what's dead is alive or rather, just "sickly".

But people who know better are tired of being treated like "consumers".
Japan Stops a Reactor from Starting as America Goes All in on Nuclear Power
MAUI looks really good in theory, I’m curious to hear about anyone’s experiences and thoughts about using it in production.
Google AI tools are surprisingly underrated
> I'd love to be able to talk to Kenton Varda about why he thinks adoption on it was weak.

Oh hai.

Honestly I'm not sure I'm a reliable source for why we failed. It's tempting to convince myself of convenient excuses.

But I really don't think the problem was with the idea. We actually had a lot of user excitement around the product. I think we screwed up the business strategy. We were too eager to generate revenue too early on, and that led us to focus efforts in the wrong areas, away from the things that would have been best for long-term growth. And we were totally clueless about enterprise sales, but didn't realize how clueless we were until it was too late (a classic blunder). Investors really don't like it when you say you're going to try for revenue and then you don't, so we were pretty much dead at that point.
I think you can put it differently: Twitter has changed, the Guardian's target market remains the same. By by now there are so few educated middleclass people on Twitter that as a channel to that market, it's "simply not worth sinking more resources into" as the article says.