skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coal alone kills a million people a year worldwide. If we take the EPA's value of a statistical life of about $10 million, that's effectively $10 trillion in subsidies just for coal deaths.

We don't typically consider being allowed to pollute to be a subsidy, but we really should.
Yeah, they'll include a dongle that will break in less than a year with very casual use. Ask me how I know.

FWIW, this isn't true in my experience. I've kept mine in my pocket jangling around with my keys and use it frequently, and never had any issues.

Also, I already have headphones. I don't want Google's USB C headphones. They wouldn't need to include any of this junk with the phone if they didn't remove the jack in the first place.

If you already have headphones you like, it seems like this is no different between Pixel/iPhones.
It doesn't matter if people use more if it's renewable. Cheap renewables cause energy use to go up? Hooray!
> People don't care about their privacy, it's a simple as that.

People DO care about their privacy. However, due to the market dominance of platforms like FB and others, they have no real reasonable alternatives due to lack of competition. So they have to choose between tolerating FB's practices or going with another service with worse UX and/or fewer features.
See also more-itertools for lots of other things in this vein.
> That's exactly correct. Every action you took voluntarily was your choice.

> You are always doing whatever you want to do. You may tell yourself many stories in your head, and we can dispute free will, but as long as we assume it for the purpose of this discussion, what you do is your choice.

I understand what you are getting at, and I agree with the basic fundamental idea within a certain context. However, we have to be careful with how we extrapolate and attempt to re-interpret words and phrases such as "choice", "want", "feel like doing [x]", "deciding" , and so on.

The part quoted above basically makes those words meaningless. Regardless of what one thinks about free will, those words have great utility and fulfill roles in the human experience for which there isn't really any replacement.

You yourself demonstrate this quite plainly in your last sentence, when you say we should "decide" what we really "want" to be doing with our life.
My thoughts exactly. A repeating axis that goes "2010-2017-2010-2017"? It would be difficult to make it less intuitive.
That'd be great but the word "storage" does not appear in this article. For wind/solar to truly be cheaper than fossil, the cost of storing enough energy to get through a few windless nights has to be included.

Backing up by natural gas doesn't count; natural gas is a fossil fuel and if you take methane into account it might even be worse than coal.

Hydro and geothermal don't need storage but they're also geographically limited. We can't expand them arbitrarily the way we could expand wind/solar. This also means using hydro to store energy from wind/solar can only go so far.

None of this matters in the near term, since we can certainly expand wind/solar a lot before we run into problems. But over the next several decades we need to replace fossil entirely.
"Be contrarian."
In the case of the national grid, here in the US with _very_ few exceptions, the price of electricity includes the cost of generation and the transmission grid. These are not socialized through the tax system.

The exceptions include the Federal power marketing agencies [1] charged with marketing power from the hydro dams built during the Great Depression. While their initial cost was born by the country, their ongoing operation and maintenance costs are recouped from Transmission Access Charges.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Area_Power_Administrat...
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You can see bus locations on the individual bus route pages, for example: https://www.mbta.com/schedules/741/line
There could be some leaked transcripts where they discuss it. Or other internal documents, or a pattern of behavior where they give up easy wins in favor of keeping the trust of their users.
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Not in any of the areas I'm familiar with. For instance they can't even fix long-standing standards-compliance bugs or other interop issues in Blink or YouTube or Google Search... they're way too busy pushing redesigns and features that will help them keep their tenuous performance leads on their own web properties.

They have very intelligent and capable folks trying to "do no evil", but ultimately they're a business, not a charity. They rarely actually care about their engineers' opinions unless it helps with public image or maintaining a competitive edge (no matter how artificially) or helping them start a new product line (or close one that isn't paying the bills).

Thankfully I will say that it sounds like there is just enough blowback over the past two or three years that it's not all bad. But it's certainly not a place that I would call "run by engineers", and hasn't been for at least 4 years now.
I can't take this too seriously because most of the subsidies they talk about are actually externalities for which cost estimates are extremely imprecise. This is a real thing, but lumping them together with actual subsidies feels misleading. Also not sure why a nominal comparison is meaningful. The actual impact in terms of resource allocation will be due to $/MWh.
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This is inclusive of storage.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/solar-wit...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-12/a-powerfu...

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/an-interview-wi...
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Solar and wind power have the cost trend of a technology. Not quite Moore's law, in that the percentage drop per unit time is less, but the important point is that it is an exponential decline.

Fossil fuels have the cost trend of a commodity; it goes up, it goes down, it goes up, depending on demand. Whereas technologies have a cost that drops as demand goes up, commodities have a cost that rises as demand goes up.

This means that commodities can remain cheaper than the technology for a long time, and then suddenly lose that advantage, and when they do they will probably never get it back.
>> Nobody responds well to being told what to believe, so vilifying the gurus will often only hurt your credibility with their followers.

Which is funny, because ultimately, the people who fall for that kind of idea are not "thinking for themselves" as they often say- they're still, ultimately, trusting someone else to tell them what is true. They just choose to place their trust in crackpots and charlatans, who don't know what they're talking about or are actively deceitful, rather than listen to recognised experts.
I've been thinking about this myself. Small bits of text is free. The occasional photo is free. Maybe not video.

You could also treat brand pages as what they really are: advertising. Charge them a weekly/yearly fee to have the ability to run such a page.
You need MDs to prescribe the meds known to help curb the addiction and then you need support systems. Maybe that support system could be an app combined with family/friend support?
That is not the case here. The term everyone in the energy industry uses now is the "LCOE" (levelized cost of electricity) that does an apples-to-apples comparison (e.g. removes subsidies). For example, the investment firm Lazard puts out an annual comparison report on the LCOE and last year wind was cheaper than natural gas on an unsubsidized LCOE basis and solar is getting within a dollar per megawatt-hour of natural gas[1].

However, raw solar and wind only gets you to about 50% penetration before you start having to add storage in addition to renewables, and that is still about 5-10 years away from being cheap enough to take us from 50% to >90%[2].

[1]: https://www.lazard.com/media/450337/lazard-levelized-cost-of...

[2]: https://www.lazard.com/media/450338/lazard-levelized-cost-of...
If that's true then there's no need for legislation because the service contracts cover it. Law is only needed if the contracts are ambiguous.
The Energy Information Administration estimates that the US has 234*10^9 barrels of oil in reserves (unproven but technically recoverable). At today's rate of production that's about 64 years. S. Yamani's quote sounds very likely to come true.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_the_United_Sta...
considering nearly all commercial blu-rays are protected with AACS (which you have to bypass to rip), what you're doing violates the DMCA. also, there's a growing amount of content from streaming services (netfilx/prime originals) that's not available on blu-ray and is not trivial to rip.
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You’re right. If they had said something slightly different, I would be mad. It certainly isn’t behavior to condone. In a political context, it probably is racist.

That said, I still do not think I would call it racism. Most of us prefer to be around people our own age when given the opportunity—for shared culture, lifestyles, etc. Is that ageist? I really don’t think that bigotry really applies here. It’s much more useful to apply solely to actions, which are easier to reason about. Discriminatory personal preference can certainly be harmful, but it seems like a distinct social phenomenon to bigotry.

More pedantry...

> So, the reason you'd admonish someone for saying something horrible is that they indicated they were thinking something horrible

No, the reason would be fear that they would act on their thoughts, or because their speech did affect people, not that their thoughts are themselves immoral.
You're conflating energy concepts "capacity" with "energy"

The grid can have wind/solar and fossil. Generation is dispatched in "merit order" -- when wind/solar is has a lower marginal cost, it will serve load. During other periods (like those windless nights), the fossil will still generate.
I've run across a number of not just anecdotal accounts of long longevity, good health and lack of disease in a number of different indigenous cultures. I get the uncomfortable feeling that we are persistently and myopically comparing ourselves to in terms of health and longevity (and happiness/satisfaction for that matter) to what has been essentially a pathological state of human existence in the newer civilizations of the last couple thousand years. And still in modern times the diseases of civilization are raging as hard as ever.

For a good example, read the description of the Crow Indians in the last appendix of Journal of A Trapper:

https://books.google.com/books?id=49HTAAAAMAAJ&printsec=fron...
I have a heavily-patched version of less-popular sandboxing program (appjail). When I want to handle some files from questionable origin, I create a directory (~/jailboxes/gregs_avi_files) and use appjail to switch to that directory in terminal. Unlike firejail, appjail defaults to full $HOME isolation (and have knobs for Xorg support, so X11 apps work out of box without access to parent /home). There are command-line switches for X11-based and pure terminal environments. It is also possible to whitelist/blacklist individual files in /dev etc. from command line.

I don't use Flatpak etc. — all of my jails use system-wide libraries and executables. They are just launched inside sandbox environment.
> It's sad that Buzzfeed News is considered a legitimate source by some.

Everyone has a different definition of "legitimate source" these days.
Hey kiddo. I will share my career history with you. I'm not sure if it will apply in today's market or not. I started at a startup and had lots of good times and made some life long friends. It wasn't about the money at that time, it was the love of the game. Coding for hours on end then sleeping next to desk in sleeping bag so I could get right back to work when I woke up. Offers from other companies came and went but my loyalty to my fellow coders was top priority. After the company went public I was able to write my own ticket there. Today I am retired at forty-five years of age. My family and I live a nice comfortable life + I have lots of loyal and g great friends from the trenches that stay in touch. But like I said this is just my experience, today's market might be a total different ballgame. Good Luck to you and yours.
> We also missed out on Google Voice, will miss out on whatever TV play they're making with YouTube.

To be fair, us Canadians are in the same boat. You can be literally a stone's throw from the U.S. and still not get a lot of features available. Voice was never available, Wallet took several years before it was rolled out here, YouTube Red isn't available here either. Hell, most new Home/Assistant features take months to arrive here too.
> natural gas is a fossil fuel and if you take methane into account it might even be worse than coal

Huh? Natural gas only produces about half the CO2 per unit of energy that coal does.
This is, on balance, great news. However, when it happens, nations like Saudi Arabia and Russia (that depend on oil revenue) will encounter a cataclysmic change in their situation. Are we actually ready for a world in which Saudi Arabia and Russia have cratering economies? It could get ugly.
Questions to ask when making up your own mind on this issue: AMDOCS billing customer list includes how many major US telcos? How much customer data is required to generate a bill? How much billing is executed in real or near-real time? How much is hosted off-site on non telco infrastructure? How many non-billing services? (Someone elsewhere here already mentioned 100% of voicemail is now outsourced to AMDOCS at one telco). Incidentally, the source for this article is also conveniently based in Maryland.
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As I said in my post, Eventbrite can't compete because all the organizations are posting events to Facebook exclusively. You would have to get them to change that practice before users will move.
$10 million per person fails the sniff test

Global GDP per capita: $17,300
Global life expectancy: 72
72 * 17300 = $1,245,600 upper bound
Saudi Arabia will probably become uninhabitable as temperatures rise. That’s gonna be a mess.
I agree, but entirely ignoring subsidies also won't inform you when renewables have reached the magical point when they become the "obvious" thing to do regardless of global climate change. When they become cheaper than oil/gas without a penny of government discount, then no matter how you slice it renewables have "won." Game over. They will be the future.

Environmental benefits, unfortunately, haven't been enough for them to win. The financial battle is really the thing that will tip the scales.
Couple tricks on getting started:

- Use the 15 minute rule to get started, only agree to do 15-20 minutes of work to see if you are flowing in that project, most of the time once you get started and loaded up the project in your mental space you can easily flow on it. Pomodoro is nice as well, but the 15 minute get started rule has less commitment needed and usually works, or just plan to do at least one tomato and you end up doing many.

- Leave a currently solved code part partially done or leave a compile issue on the area you were working on, then wake up the next day, finish that part and you can flow right into other work because the domain is in your mind.

- Multiple projects and work on another project during procrastination or a thinking spot of the current project. Have main work projects, side projects, fun projects, some are more fun, more work or just tedious/rote that you can use depending on your productivity or work style of the day.

- Motivators and triggers: music (usually a playlist that is used during work to make it more regular), coffee/gum/work food, focus by turning off distractions except for breaks, stand up regularly and walk around when stuck on any issues that need to be done, and visualize shipping.

- Creative Open/Focused Closed state: do creative work in the open state, block out time and explore, do must be done work in the closed state, minimize distractions and exploration [1].

- Start the day right, work on something simple or one check in for instance before reddit/HN/news or distractions, sometimes the first thing you do in the morning can influence your whole day, reward yourself with distractions but base yourself in production at least 2 to 1 productivity to fun/distraction.

Ultimately be a pro, a pro can start working to a high level even when they don't want to, sometimes you need to jump start or get a rolling start but you can develop a habit to get moving and ship.

[1] https://genius.com/John-cleese-lecture-on-creativity-annotat...
King County Metro (Seattle) had a system like this back around 2003. Interestingly enough they did not have GPS on the buses, they'd simply instrumented the trip meter which was plenty good enough since buses were (usually) running along fixed routes. The real time location of the bus was displayed in a fairly crummy Java applet, but at least for the route I live on it worked great. I just waited for a bus to show up on the map about a mile from my apartment and that gave me plenty of time to walk to the nearest the bus stop.

I have found One Bus Away to be completely inferior, to the point that I usually don't bother to check it.
>> I am perplexed by the whole thing, because any thoughts you are likely to have (stupid people, trolls..) are wrong.

I know. I've struggled with that kind of thing too. Educated, intelligent people who are competent and successful professionals will suddendly start spouting madness like anti-vaxxer propaganda and refuse to vaccinate their kids etc. I've had some heated arguments that made some people upset that I really didn't want to make upset and now when they start, I just shut up and stare at my plate awkwardly, like. It's not like I want to win any arguments. It's just, educated people should not talk bollocks like "vaccines cause autism". It's just not right. It's like listening to your mother describe her favourite porn or something, it's ...disturbing.

I don't know how to deal with that. It just ends up making me doubt myself. Like, if I can't trust education to help me figure out what's true and what's crackpot nonsense, then what?
>Some Evidence

Obviously the studies aren't definitive, but if they were and multitasking caused me to be less intelligent and less able to focus due to "permanent physiological changes in the brain", I would consider my brain to be damaged regardless of whether it meets the literal medical definition of brain damage.
I don't know about the claims re: methane and natural gas, but methane causes warming significantly worse per kg than CO2 does.
It is unsustainable. US higher education costs have risen faster than health care. The fraction of graduates who are behind or deferring their student loan payments has been rising. Queue Admiral Ackbar: It's a trap!

Students and their parents need to have some difficult conversations: 1) How well prepared is the student for a given major? Remedial classes add cost but not credits toward the degree. 2) Does the student have a track record of finishing what they start? 3) Will the starting salary for graduates with that degree permit the student to pay their living expenses and their loan debt? 4) Are the time-to-finish estimates realistic? IIRC, the majority of students in 4 year programs actually take 5-6 years.
Maybe I am. The point I was trying to make is that FB has event organizers sold on the idea that FB is the place to promote an event. So new events will pretty much elusively be posted to Facebook. You'd have to disrupt that advertising mentality in order to convince users to leave.
I dunno, I do prefer having type directed editing (eg. auto case splitting, and autocomplete), so full type inference is less of a holy grail to me.

Damas-Hindley-Milner inference is also hyper-optimised to a specific point on the design space, and does an excellent job there, but (to echo Conor McBride) I would love to see less conflation of the ideas of execution phase, parametericity, and implicitness going forward.
Right, now that ground transportation is close to being solved, we need to get creative with air travel. It's about 2% of global emissions and it's a much harder problem.
Incredibly revealing. Slide 67 is the best evidence for finally regulating these platforms as publishers.
Archie Bunker has a lot of leeway in his social life and armchair social theorizing, but that's mainly because it has little chance of impacting anything (although there are some who would debate that on the grounds that your social life can support your professional life). In this thread, people are upset because it was said to have come from a person who was in power, someone who might be able to realize an unsavory ideal they were harboring.

Edit:
To complete the pedantry, note that the end of my sentence brings it in line with the content your objection to the start of the sentence:
>which gains status as horrible because it congruent with a mind that would do something horrible.
Good tips... setting timers really helps me. It's mini-accountability.

Start a timer and say "I'll finish this task in 30 minutes". It helps my brain skip the random "new tab twitter.com" behavior.
Oh yes, stranded assets are a real threat to incumbent energy companies (the term in the energy industry is called the "Carbon Bubble")[1]. Luckily, Wall Street is starting to generally favor financing new renewable over new fossil fuel sources (since stranded assets are a much greater risk for fossil assets), and in a fight between Big Banks and Big Oil, Big Banks win every time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_bubble
They've already stopped talking to you once they say they will do nothing to help you.
> it performs firmware and OS verification and can stop the boot process if it thinks things don't look right

Well crap. There goes my ideas.
The point is that natural gas (also known as methane) can leak out into the environment during production and distribution, and methane is a very potent greenhouse gas, 30X as bad per mass.

So if burning methane only produces half the CO2 per unit of energy, but just 2% of it leaks into the atmosphere at any point in the production/distribution pipeline, then it's actually worse.
I tried to send an email to careers@alicetechnologies.com but got an error message on two different emails.

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Unfortunately renewable energy economics has to fight against the way that human minds perform time discounting. A wind energy product may be more economically efficient over its lifetime, but a coal-firing plant costs less today, even if fuel costs will add up over time. So these encouraging numbers may not obviate the case for government action in encouraging the uptake of renewable energy.
My apologies for being such an opportunist, BUT, we are hiring for various engineering and product roles at the moment: https://jobs.lever.co/mbta
I hate them because they are clearly trying to feed someone else's monkey brain.
I've started using Netlify for a lot of my freelance work which lately is mostly static sites. It's been a real treat using it from all aspects. I almost wish their lowest paid tier wasn't so high as I gladly fork over some dollars.

Recent site I built hosted on Netlify: https://www.magnoliasmill.com
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Drummers have an interesting perspective on this problem:

http://www.drummerworld.com/forums/showthread.php?t=114491

The linked thread gets into some details that are irrelevant for programming, unless you use a click track to time your keystrokes. However, a lot of the same considerations apply, particularly the need for really strong attenuation, and the same discussions are had regarding in-ear versus over-ear monitors.
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