skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the cheapest and easiest plan by far,

It’s the simplest plan, but I’ll argue we are seeing it’s pretty difficult as it requires changing the behavior of a lot of people, if even just a little abd/or changing policies of a lot of countries.

I’m not saying plan A should be somehow abandoned or slowed (so perhaps B is a bad name because it’s typically used when A is abandoned) But it should be complemented. We should also investigate the stupidly sci-fi get-rich-quick (or perhaps lose weight fast?) schemes. Technological solutions might at least buy some time for the slow change we are seeing in behavior and policy.

And yes, I realize there is a hazard that some of these schemes risk giving an impression that the problem is being solved, and plan A isn’t necessary. That can’t happen.

I also realize that anything other than simply limiting emissions is a complex and expensive plan, but even a complex and expensive plan is better than a simple and cheap plan that is politically impossible.
Actually I think there is already a 9/11 VR experience:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/30/9642790/virtual-reality-...
> The politicians largely reflect the people they govern.

Someday I'd like to visit the universe you live in. It sounds nice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire
It's true. Climate change really is modern day religion.

A volcanic eruption is more likely to cause the climate to change.

The war on climate change suggests that humans are capable of preventing a volcano from erupting.

The poles are shifting as well.

Pollution is a separate issue, of course we should keep everything clean, but when the climate stops changing, that probably means the planet is dead, like Mars (setting up a colony on Mars makes absolutely no sense either)
A billion people consuming more is surely bad for climate change though, no?

Millions of people pouring into 1st world countries and consuming more is surely bad for climate change.
I think the preference is that he shouldn't have to work because of medical issues.
There was actually a very clever paper on nano materials which, instead of emitting IR on the blackbody spectrum, emit it in a band the atmosphere is transparent to. Reversing the greenhouse at ground level.
Neither of these do what I want. Preferably I'd like to see something like a Wirecutter review.
From that link. Holy cow: "“Looking forward for reusability, we don’t believe it really, really counts unless you can turn it around rapidly, or almost as rapidly, as you turn around an aircraft,”.

I had no idea they were aiming for this level. That is just mind boggling how drastic a change it's going to be.
This is a pretty good summary of the situation.
Losing? We already lost.

It's probably too late to save modern civilization, the new war on climate change is about making sure we don't make the planet uninhabitable for almost ever land animal. But, our chances of accomplishing that are pretty good (of keeping the planet habitable, not failing to do so), especially as we lose billions of people that will die because of catastrophic climate change.
> but I don't really see the negative side to this service.

1. They have changed the terms out from under their customers. Some pre-paid for a year of service.

2. They continually show movies as "prime time" when they really just aren't. Movies in empty theaters at 10 am going for full price.

3. Go check their twitter feed. They have had _numerous_ issues lately. People aren't getting what they were promised when they opened their checkbooks.
>Letting them stay in the forest is nice, but you would quickly run out of room.

No you wouldn't. There is massive deforestation all over the world. If we planted so many trees to offset carbon emissions that we accidentally solved that problem, that would be a huge environmental benefit on its own, and it would hold an enormous amount of carbon.
> There is also a performance overhead with iterables

Though, for the sake of pedantry, it's not something that can't be handled by an optimizing compiler that understands them. Haskell, for example, is good at this.
IF you go that route, it begs the question of "why bother?" You're putting everything in the hands of one entity and then adding in a ton of complexity and slowness. Just use a database or something right?

So what's the justification your company used for a private blockchain in lieu of a database?
I think it is naive to expect someone to be better simply because they hold public office. Politicians are as fallible as anybody else...but I don't think that's a big problem in the long run. In the long run they will reflect the choices of large swathes of people. I think politics/policies are lagging indicators. For examples I give rulings on slavery, voting for women, voting for people of colour, legalisation of same-sex marriage, (bans on smoking in certain places), etc
I've had no issues with wildcard certs and Cloudflare as my DNS provider.
It's not an "Uber job". It's an "Uber shitty one-at-a-time contract that looks like a job but really isnt".

If you study your history, Uber is playing out exactly like how unregulated taxis played out in the 1910's and '20s. Scammers, lack of insurance, injuries, kidnappers, rapists, fare games were what the scene looked like then. The public demanded regulation, and thats what we got. In some locations, regulation went way too far (NY medallion garbage).

Long story short, Uber is an old scam. And in those kinds of scams, everyone except the company owner lose. The customer loses because of lack of insurance and higher risk. The "employee" loses because the money they get doesn't cover wear and tear of vehicle, gas, and minimum wage.
I wish this worked for me in interviews. Saying "I don't know" is often an instant rejection in many interviews.
He made that number up. The most expensive possible iMac Pro is ~$13.5K (see here: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-pro/3.2ghz-1tb).

Note that most price comparisons show that the iMac Pro is actually quite the deal.
Is there an optimistic argument to be made that we are winning the war on climate change?
Sure - either way it's not a "fair" survey. If I were making this survey trying to be scientific and somebody posted it to HN with this title I would be quite upset at them for priming a large number of my participants.
congrats Letsencrypt!
Hanscom I bet
Absolutely. And with rights come responsibility. If Jones' platform ends up boosted, it will be fair to say Facebook contributed to it.
That sounds like a needed social movement waiting to happen.
That is indeed what it seems like. We need a 10x improvement in this space. That can only happen with carbon capture and ability to regulate CO2 in the atmosphere. Not "planting trees", for God's sake.

The whole conversation around emissions and the massive politicization of this is disappointing. Emissions reduction doesn't seem to do much. We need a Manhattan project to produce carbon and weather manipulation technology.
Are you serious? Everyone regardless of age should get medical care. It's as simple as that.
That number varies significantly by gender and race. For example, hispanic women live almost a decade longer than black men.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6335a8.htm
In the original case, pretty much any real (as in NOT My/Maria) database would've worked (knowing how to use it would've helped, of course), but for columnar analytics Monet is pretty nice, too, and ever so slightly cheaper than Vertica.
Framing it as binary serves only political ends.

At best, you could frame it as "people willing to act sufficiently to meaningfully combat global warming" and "everyone else," but the former group is far smaller than "those who wish to act on it."

Put plainly: It will take far more dramatic action than most climate alarmists advocate to even have a measurable impact on (let alone solve) global warming. The opposing side isn't just "those who ignore it," it's most people who rationally evaluate policy claiming to be capable of a significant effect.
I was curious about this and wanted to share some quick calculations on how viable this is:

A tree can absorb as much as 48 lbs of CO2 per year [1]. This is pretty vague cause this can vary by tree age and size, but let's use this arbitrary number

In 2014 the United States generated 6,870 million metric tonnes of CO2 [2]. 48 lbs is about 0.021 metric tonnes [3]. So...

6,870,000,000 / .021 = 327,142,857,142.85

327 trillion trees!! The population in the US on 2014 was roughly 317 million people [4]. This means for each person we would have to plant

6870 / 317 / .021 = 1,031.99 trees

Just north of 1000 trees. That's 1k additional trees that need to be planted just to offset our CO2. Crazy

[1] https://projects.ncsu.edu/project/treesofstrength/treefact.htm
[2] https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions
[3] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=48+lbs+to+metric+ton
[4] https://www.census.gov/popclock/embed.php?component=pop_on_date&date=20140101
OpenBazaar is tied to cryptocurrency, which makes it a non-starter.
Ok, thanks. Sounds like you are not a fan of mixins! :)
We said we'd ban you if you kept posting like this, so we have.
Yes, America has the First Amendment of the Constitution.

It's a principle based approach to speech in that it's free unless it incites violence. Like Maxine Waters last week telling her followers to harass Trump supporters.
It's generating useful material for us and fully biodegradable at the end of its lifecycle, and even self-replicates. What's not to love?
> We need massive innovation across all our uses of fossil fuel.

I am tempted to say, for the sake of the conversation, that what we need is people in the street.

Your post is about getting better tech. Fine. Following posts are about how taxes will solve the problem because incentives.

It's a lost cause.
No, clearly most people don't pick their passwords from a 10k wordlist. My argument doesn't rely on them doing that: my argument relies on them picking bad passwords. I am using 10k wordlist diceware-style passwords only as an entropy estimation of a pretty good password.
I agree it should be, but the insurance broker lobbyists probably wont allow that :)
You should look into the digital humanities. Basically, its a big basket, at least on the US side of the pond, where all that stuff goes. The downside is that you are probably not going to get your MS in CS through it.
Facebook, YouTube and Apple Remove Alex Jones and Infowars from Their Platforms
Maybe I don't understand how this works exactly, but I couldn't find any article to read (using Medium's homepage as my reference). The homepage contained language selector and a 'playground' hyperlink above it, and clicking on it does nothing.

What am I missing here?
Objects that Sound
which database app?
Wow, I love the "hatching from the egg" metaphor. Like you, I have no idea if it's applicable here, but it's a great metaphor.

The future may well consider today's environmental degradation as simply a necessary step to the glorious future they live in, and be amused at the parochialness of the people of the time who were worried about it.

I'm doubtful about this outcome, though. If we do significantly degrade the environment, and even if the degradation was arguably necessary, I'm doubtful that "the glorious future" will judge us kindly.

Can you think of cases where current popular sentiment is similarly charitable toward the past? Overall, I think we are quite morally critical of the past, and not very accepting of the tradeoffs that were considered necessary at the time.
I am, but I'm trying not to do it manually -- I actually use cert-manager[0] on a tiny kubernetes cluster -- which means when I make an Ingress for an application (app.example.com) (which does what it sounds like), watcher processes kick off and go get a cert for me with http 01 validation currently. This works thanks to cert-manager being able to automate the process of setting up the proper /.well-known/xxx route with access to kubernetes features.

cert-manager also supports DNS 01, but of course they support the bigger providers (so they'll take some options and do the web requests to set up the TXT records)...

I haven't looked into it a crazy amount (since in the end I can still just make multiple http 01 validated certs), but was just curious.

[0]: https://github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/
Boston has had at least one $1B+ tech IPO (not including bio) every year for the last decade. There have been as many High nine-figure, billion-plus acquisitions in the same period.

Boston doesn't get much in the way of national PR, but it's arguably the 2nd best city in tech, measured by liquidity over the last decade, in the country.

And not just in boring security/B2B areas. Wayfair is a top 10 ecommerce player. CarGurus has thoroughly beat TrueCar. DraftKings created its category.
MoviePass was an attempt to disrupt things. As with a lot of "disruption", it's based on delivering something cheaper to the consumer. They thought they understood the costs and how they could provide more for less, but then they ran into a lot of issues that the established players have already solved. Usually at a cost.

Another example is Uber. They're still losing money. And they've taken quite a few reputation hits as well. Mostly because they didn't fully understand or appreciate the cab business, which is what they essentially are. There's no one to screen drivers, so you have issues where drivers and passengers get in altercations at a greater frequency. Ride share drivers aren't required to actually know the area. And a host of other things that I'm sure I'm not aware of. And all those things do cost money. And those costs are included in the cab fares. Uber thought it could either circumvent those costs or were just ignorant of them.

MoviePass thought it could present a deal but make it up either in bulk or by resting on whales. Theaters hardly deal in "bulk", especially post facto. You can buy out a screen in advance and you can usually negotiate a deal, but you must buy out the entire screen. And MoviePass does not have the userbase to justify that. And the customers of MoviePass aren't "whales". The people buying MoviePass are people who would find $30 a month for access to a theater a deal. People who see more than 2 or 3 movies a month.

They went full underpants gnome on their business plan. I'm sure their step 2 was filled with convincing speeches and projections, but sometimes incredulity is the correct answer. "How do the plan on making money?" was something they apparently needed an answer for.
Wow, you have to be crazy to just blatantly ignore LGPLv3. Coming into compliance with the kernel style GPL is easy enough, but v3 is a whole other ball game.

If I was Garmin, I'd fund one of the guys they stole from to fund an injunction. Wahoo is a US company, it's easy enough.
Additionally, I assume gyms are still profitable even if all of their members are making regular use of the service. The marginal cost of a single customer use is negligible. MoviePass cannot say the same.
> The FBI cannot arbitrarily manipulate SpiderOak's further statements.

Maybe not directly, but they could be coerced into it. A sort of "it's in your best interest to redact XYZ.. or else" unwritten statement would do the trick for most folks.
I think its one of the few places where the profit motive aligns to be somewhat lawful neutral if not lawful good.

McDonald's was one of the first businesses to realize that on the Interstates you get all sorts of weary travelers at various states in their journeys. Some may only need a quick restroom trip. But just making that restroom trip makes them a captive audience to maybe buy a snack they didn't intend to. Or that goodwill of offering a quick restroom stop at one of the trip makes it more likely the customer will return for a meal at the other end of the trip.

McDonald's expanded so rapidly down the US interstates for just this reason, so its interesting that that remains a core value to corporate even knowing that there are plenty more options when travelling than when McDonald's was first starting out.

I know anecdotally so many people that still look for those golden arches when in need of a quick leg stretch or a restroom break on a long drive.
We've been really happy with Asciidoc at work. We maintain multiple large versioned documents as a team and had been using Word and 'Track Changes' to do updates. We've now moved them entirely to Asciidoc and are using Git for tracking and approving changes, and the difference is night and day. We considered Markdown at the time, but things like numbered lists incorporating paragraphs, metadata inclusion, and the need to specify certain elements about the final published version meant that Asciidoc was a clear winner. To get all of those incorporated using Markdown would have meant implementing one of the Markdown dialects, and then ensuring that everyone's tool-chain that thought it spoke Markdown wouldn't then munge it to death.
Or inside Unit 731.
(developer) happiness questionnaire
Build space stations and moon bases?
Its purpose is providing independent access to space for ESA member nations at a reasonable price

What if the "reasonable price" changes?
It depends on what your goals are. If it is human survival, then yes. If it is about maintaining the current global economy and modern civilization then absolutely not.
If Wu felt that writing about the controversy would damage her standing in China, then he shouldn't have done that. Seems pretty straightforward.
Oh huh, that's interesting... So we could just lay down large sheets of that material on a desert or something?
Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo C.E.O. Behind Health Drive, Steps Down
Why are kids entitled to hundreds of thousands of dollars in inheritance?
I don't think a large rendering farm is as expensive as a huge amount of animators and artists who are talented enough to saturate the render farm.

However I have no knowledge in the industry, just a gut feeling
Interesting perspective. It doesn't really relate to how I think of it. Useful to know that's how you think.
If it's not handled appropriately, you're potentially making a really poor-taste virtual roller coaster. It could easily be seen as making a spectacle of a national tragedy.
Build housing out of them. There's a 14-story skyscraper going up in Portland, OR made of cross-laminated timber; basically no concrete.
I mean, we have video games that depict both world wars, with very realistic recreations of major battles. Does being in war make it fundamentally different?
You must have missed the 2000s when mortgages didn't have down payments.
> Everyone regardless of age should get medical care. It's as simple as that.

This is debatable. Most of one’s healthcare expenses will be incurred in the final months of life. The population to whom this statistic doesn’t apply is doctors—they know when the marginal benefit of treatment isn’t worth it.

If I had a choice between burning my kids’ estate to sneak out a year in agony or die with dignity, I know which I’d choose. The compassionate response isn’t always the right one.
I did laugh at my own ignorance a bit when they say "given the simplicity of the method", apparently referring to an incomprehensible (to me) bunch of maths jargon.

I sometimes wish I had better maths, but then it's so rarely I ever need it, I think I'm better off learning another language.
Cars are bad but they're a pretty small problem compared to airplanes. A single trip across the Atlantic and back is about equivalent to commuting in a SUV for a year. Per passenger-mile cars and planes use about the same amount of carbon but people tend to take far longer plane trips.
Ask HN: What is the back end architecture of HN?
> cars prey on our weakness for comfort & convenience, and the cities we live in are designed to accommodate cars, not bicycles.

I agree.

Cars break a feedback loop between how far you travel and how tired you are. Bikes merely modify this feedback loop. As long as the feedback loop exists, energy use is constrained regardless of price. But this is also what makes cars so addictive.

Car dependency seems to have peaked in the US, so I am hoping to see a reduction in the future. Removing parking requirements would be a good start.
What do you mean? Doesn't the jump go from 52 to 60?
there's so many calendar libs out there. not many really great options, though, most of the time they lack customization and good maintanance. i see, customization is quite good, hope you'll maintain it and the community adopts your lib, looks nice
I work on OpenBazaar and want to add that we've built it to support people creating custom front end clients for their own particular use case and are not compelled at all to use the reference client.

So they can use the OpenBazaar backend but still have the local focus they want by making a new front end.

We've been working on decentralized ecommerce for a long time and I would love for a fresh group of developers to take a look at it and give us their thoughts. It's all MIT licensed open source.
The word you are looking for is "secured" debt.

https://www.lendingtree.com/glossary/secured-debt/
I'm a little off-put by the creator's attitude towards clients he didn't have a hand in making[0]. And the fact that 5 months ago he said we'd have a windows client around the corner, and yet after taking a cursory look at the two projects, development on one appears to be stalled, and the other still can't support windows, doesn't bode well.

I'm insanely impressed that he's come up with something so good, and I have no knowledge of cryptography and writing truly secure code, so I don't like to complain like this... but it would be nice to have a real timeline so that we can make our own decision about whether we want to use the closed source alternatives.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515637
Pretty sure there will still be a huge demand for reliable base load power in ten years, even if there's a seismic breakthrough in battery technology. And no need to build in unstable countries; simply replacing all coal power plants in existing nuclear regions like Europe and China would be massive enough.
Exactly. I'm tired of the 'you stupid idiot, <tech company> is not the government' argument.

Yes they're not the US government. But fortunately, the US government is the gold standard of free speech around the world.

If companies do not wish to uphold that standard, they'll probably suffer. Like FB and Twitter did in the stock market last week.
The important point is that there are massive delays between these steps:

1. Your brain wants to move a muscle
2. The muscle moves
3. The effect of the move is processed by your brain

And still you think stuff happens instantly and you can hit a beat etc. Our brain just adapts to the latency and removes it from our perception. It it thus not a big deal if you add a little bit of latency between step two and three. As long as that latency is constant, our brain just adapts.

This is of course only true if there are no reference points with lower latency. E.g. if you drag an item across a smartphone, we notice tiny latencies, because our finger moves before the icon – something we can easily see.
I think it's worth fighting hard still, because while we've definitely f&%$ed over the next few generations there is a strong possibility that we could keep the world habitable at least, but if we give up now then there is the distinct possibility we could hit 4C increase and dwindle the human population down to extremely dangerous levels (or even cause or own extinction).
Everyone should get medical care, but the amount of medical care does not need to be equal across ages.
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting article. We sure should be careful with water as energy resource.