skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Studies on happiness--as hard as that is to objectively study--show it is more closely related to social status than absolute and total consumption.

In other words, the SUV or sports car apparently has more to do with making people happy by making them look to be of higher social status than the actual utility of those goods.

This is also demonstrated in the South Park episode Smug, which criticizes hybrids. From a public policy perspective, the greatest reduction in CO2 comes from getting people into economical cars (like a 42+mpg --or higher in EU models--Civic) rather than in necessarily Hybrids or electrics which not everyone can afford. The greatest co2/$ reduced is actually going from average to a civic-like car.

Perhaps cultural changes away from materialism, as well as effective public policy may be important in reducing global warming.

But what we get is more "War on Poverty" style bureaucracies and activism which has become a self-perpetuating and wasteful industry of its own.
As a hobby project, I'm building a tool somewhat similar to Atlantis/TFE. It's free though not yet open source - https://docs.geopoiesis.io/manual. Not sure about your exact use case, but it's distributed as a Docker image and apart from Terraform it allows you to run arbitrary scripts (for example, `tflint`). We're using the project internally at Deliveroo, so it's production ready, but I haven't had the time to do all the proper open-source work around the landing page, and the documentation is still a bit meh. Still, give me a shout (email in my profile) if it ticks your box, and I'm happy to help you get started.
Reminder to be civil during dialogue.
Not everybody is 100% on AWS. For people that work on multiple clouds, terraform is an obvious choice.
Fun fact: I've heard from a friend working in trains that the Norwegians are envious of how efficient we Swedes are in regards to trains. To them, we have struck the perfect balance of maintaining an OK railway in relation to the very few krona we spend.

I agree with you, it is a joke.
In residential deal, the legal review comes after the offer has been accepted and the title co has provided a title commitment and proposed title insurance policy but before closing.

Depending on the discovered issues, if any, your offer may be voidable or in a worse case you will have to forgo your earnest money. Still better than losing the whole house years later because of something like an incorrectly handled DIY divorce.
I'd like to propose a different scale removal, for anyone that may have the means to do it: home and office CO2 scrubbers.

CO2 concentrations are higher indoors, and they're affecting our cognitive ability. Atmospheric concentrations are going to be high for human cognition, especially in dense urban areas.

Better indoor ventilation will help, but if outdoor air already has higher than optimal CO2 concentrations, scrubbing that air is the only option left. Given the number of air changes needed (assuming 10X), a home unit would need to scrub CO2 from around 100,000 liters of air a day per person.

Small-scale removal is likely much more expensive than industrial BECCS or other carbon capture technology - but the value proposition would be fresher air for healthier, smarter workplaces and homes. Sell me cartridges of enzymes, and take spent ones with bicarbonate for reconditioning, and I can feel like I'm helping the planet a bit while making my life nicer.

https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-levels-dire...
Traders and forex
It is no secret to anyone that 90% of investors who decide to enter the forex market end up failing. With such low success rates, why are there people who still try? The answer is that Forex is a great place to earn a lot of money and today there are people who make their living trading forex.
Today, there are many who take advantage of their sporadic moments of success to pretend they are successful in Forex. These individuals try to deceive others with huge profits that they were able to obtain with luck, but that they can hardly maintain in the long term. On the other hand, the really profitable operators are those who can generate profits consistently over time. Although the large institutions and investment funds are those that handle a large part of the volume in the Forex market, there are people who, thanks to their incredible strategies, have left a mark.
Perseverance is part of that power so great that some traders have to move forward, Fernando Martínez Gómez-Tejedor is not the exception, he has commented through an interview a few years ago that when he started he lost a lot of money, but it was his desire to recover the lost money which led him to anticipate all the schemes expected in the face of financial crises and stock market crashes. He currently owns virtual banks, companies as a trader, and is known in the world of finance and even as a collector of works of art and terraplanista.
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I thought the recent UN report was saying that we'd need more like a $5,000/ton tax at this late stage.

Here's a right wing source: https://www.heritage.org/energy-economics/commentary/un-clim...

> To accomplish such a feat, the new IPCC report proposes an energy tax of epic proportions. It claims that, to keep warming in check, by 2030 we’ll need to impose a tax of between $135 and $5,500 on every ton of carbon emitted. And that’s just for starters. By the end of the century, the authors say, we’ll have to jack the tax up to as much as $27,000 per ton.

The denialists have stalled for so long that it's too late for anything except drastic emergency actions, and then they complain that the drastic actions are too extreme. Personally, I think we're doomed but we owe it to future generations to at least try.
As a general rule I try to avoid putting sensitive information onto services that could accidentally be turned public facing.
The technique may be different, but the results seem to be identical to what you get from the standard method e.g. described in Section 2 of http://www.njohnston.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/minimal_s... or section 1 of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.5108.pdf; or as implemented by https://github.com/superpermutators/superperm/blob/master/bi...

This method produces superpermutations of length 1! + 2! + ... + n!, which was believed for a long time to be the best possible. But Greg Egan’s new result shows it’s possible to do a lot better than that.
Because not everyone runs everything on AWS?
https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries has some (submit a query, then read source/hide blur).
If only there weren't other countries that we import goods from. If I drive a car made in Canada, Mexico, China, and the US what do I contribute as a consumer to CO2 production?
Cherry-picked examples are not invalidating my analogy. :P

American healthcare is broken for reasons other than free market/capitalism. And I actually come from Poland, and experience first-hand how socialized medicine sucks,a and see how left-leaning Americans love to glorify and ignore problems with public health care, which actually sucks in practice, just a bit less than then oligopolic, corporate, overregulated model from USA.

I don't want to argue more about healthcare. My analogy is quite accurate.

Critics of manual-memory management will always bring up totally broken C model: how insecure it is, tedious etc. and compare it with a decent example of heavy, complex automatic model: Java GC, and ignore whole bunch of problems with Java GC that one experience in practice, that are fundamentally unfixable. The best way is actually a modern, lightweight manual-memory model like in Rust.

Just like the best health-care model would be a private, lightweight, competitive market, with just the right (small) amount of government tuning and incentives.
I recall buying one after that in the UK though when I went to work I switch to calculators.

We did still use log tables at college in the late 70's early 80's though the course I was on still had belt drive's in the syllabus - yes the dawn of the industrial revolution type belt drives that ran factories in the 18th century
I once started thinking through what we would want out of some kind of ideal carbon sequestering device. I thought that for the scale of the problem, they would need to self-replicate, and run on some natural energy source, like solar power. Then, I realized I had just invented the tree.
Agreed, but UNIX remains relevant, or at least easily transferrable to Linux, while Vax remains a niche platform.
I agree. I'm enjoying so much the reaction...
Can’t you just do a private transfer to a fresh wallet?
I hear people saying that about Monads sometimes.

Statisticly people representing themself in court have very little chance to win a case.

The sheer amount of data you need to assimilate to just have an idea of what you need to do makes dealing with law a complex matter. Add this complexity to jargon, social and political dynamics and of course, experience, and you have a very complicated problem.

The law is not just an isolated set of words of paper. It's an intricate piece of a several systems.

But you don't need to go this far to prove my point. Take any recent bill, and make your grandma read it, then write a summary of it. She votes, but can she understand it ?
"Digital dollars?" We already have that -- it's called the US Dollar. Only 10% of the USD money supply is in physical paper or coin form. I receive my wages electronically and pay my mortgage, car payment, insurance, student loan, and buy groceries and entertainment without ever touching printed/minted money. And I suspect I'm in the majority on this point.
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It does, but "centralized cryptocurrencies" are still useful in that their similar technology makes interoperability with "proper" cryptocurrencies easier.

It's money with a standard API. Whether the actual "value" part of it is centrally controlled or not, many tools made for one will work with the other.
This is not necessarily true as demonstrated by Steven Chu's 'Paint the Earth White' campaign.
Very excited to see this come to fruition. Julia is really nice to use on parallel clusters and this will really improve that experience. Especially since that exception stack PR just merged: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/28878
> as the University of Maryland criminologist John Laub told me, it’s because any suggestion of a possible biological or genetic basis for crime could be misconstrued as racism.

Or, it is because biological and genetic factors aren't as powerful at predicting crime as other factors. The idea that crime runs in families indicates a biological factor in crime is nonsense. Families and children that start in lower deciles of wealth are likely to stay there. Social mobility is awful.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. - Edward Gibbon
I’m not sure that compressing to a liquid would be necessary. https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Gas_centrifuge , which is describing the uranium enrichment process mentioned by Ichengify, states that the separation occurs while the uranium is still a gas, with the heavier fraction just being scooped out.

Also taking a quick look at the natural separation of gasses in Earth’s atmosphere, it seems that the uppermost layer consists mostly of hydrogen, helium and CO2, and that’s just under gravity.

I’m not a chemical engineer, but I’ll have a stab at what the energy for the process might be. No promises that I can reach an answer.
But this achievement is less even impressive than a "OK, we've done the US, now let's look at other countries"

The problem is that the US can export it's carbon-intensive industries and even consume new carbon intensive entities produced by other countries. For example, US investors certainly consume a modest fraction of bitcoins mined in China and bitcoins wind-up consuming not just a lot of energy but also form a new source sort of carbon-intensive production.

Solar and wind power are becoming competitive with oil in general but this can never by itself halt hydrocarbon-energy production 'cause as it's relative price drops, there's always a practical use for hydrocarbon-energy close to the source, where pumping it out of the ground is nearly free.
That's called bio-char, and is referenced in the submitted link here.
> the level of satire a society can cope with, is directly proportional to the quality of democracy

You're contradicting yourself: First, you deny that there are graduations in "freedom", saying it's all-or-nothing.

But then, a democracy's quality is apparently proportional to its freedom of speech, implying that there are, indeed, nuances.
I'm very happy to see this new interest in saving our planet among the tech elites (this includes the recent post from Bill Gates). Maybe we are not all too stupid to save our planet...
Why would that threaten them?
From the appearances, it has a lot of potential. Iron is extremely plentiful and has a very large impact on the small systems it was tried.

It is possible that inefficiencies take such a toil that it stops being viable, but it's not the opposition that make people think it can have a large impact.
How this is not on top of HN for the past month?

It's not the first time I see a comment like "actually, a $critical-legislation is under vote this/next week somewhere". It feels that the important cases lack marketing.
IKAROS handled that by spinning very slowly to remain rigid with centrifugal force. To be practical you really can't have one single structure but a swarm of medium sized shades would work much better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statite
If the article posted last week is to be believed [1], which I do, then transportation makes up a relatively small portion of emissions (14%).

Also, the demand for gasoline is very inelastic. Very little driving done today is for pleasure, so the cost would have to be raised so much that people are reducing driving out of necessity/looking for alternatives.

Finally, consumption taxes on necessities act regressively (ie the poor are taxed proportionally more than the rich).

[1] https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-clima...
But that's missing the point. You're saying that we have to then sell these two messages - one of which is being supported by actors that are not acting in good faith.

Message 1: yes, this could have unpredictable and devastating consequences in new and exciting ways, and you are directly responsible for it.

Message 2: (current message) we shouldn't do that and you're already doing enough because you have a more fuel efficient truck than you had in the 90's, and you use LED lights.

For most people, that's what's in the back of their head, I would argue. (note that I'm not agreeing with either).

How do you sell that?
It's way too late for that. Recent UN report basically says we're hosed by 2040.

We do not have decades to develop a mature space-mining and construction industry.
Didn't realize it was a joke, got frustrated and left after 2 clicks and left... decided to check the comments... you win.
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> What people are concerned about are the newsfeeds and timelines, specifically. Companies like Facebook and Twitter and YouTube love to pretend that their newsfeed/timeline products are just like chat apps or phone calls--neutral messaging platforms.

> They're not. And the specific reason they are not, is the algorithmic timeline and content suggestions.

They're not because they're public, akin to broadcasting. One to many. In the past such has always been more or less under careful control. Public broadcast TV and radio were under control of dogma and moral, and it wasn't feasible to make your own. Publishers could opt not to release a manuscript if it didn't fit their ideology.

Consider the following thought experiment: "Twitter and Facebook were exactly as popular as they are now but they'd show everything only chronologically (last on top). Do you recon the control problem would be solved at that point?"

Now consider the following thought experiment: "Twitter and Facebook are only private 1:1 conversations. Do you recon the control problem would be solved at that point?"

In example #2 (regardless of it being chronologically shown or via an algorithm) the communication -whatever it might be- only goes to one person, not the general public. This contains the strength of propaganda (such as fake news or hate speech) greatly.

Also, remember that there are all kind of biases [1] even while we're not aware of them or when we are weak to fall for them.

[1] It is worth summing them all up but I am by no means an expert on this subject. I'm currently reading the book "The Confidence Game" by Maria Konnikova and it explains various of them in detail.
Why complain when it's open source: https://jasom.github.io/pid/index.html has both improvements I suggested, plus a display of the X and Y error values
> There is such a thing as 'progress', after all.

That's a bold claim that too many people accept without question and about which too few actually consider the implications.

Progress is improvement. It's moving forward. The notion requires accepting the idea that you were at one point behind where you are now or not as developed/complete/refined. That's fine if you are talking about technology or some other mundane topic, but to make that claim in the context of Christianity - a religion ENTIRELY dependent upon the veracity and completeness of the stories and traditions it is based upon - is to call into question the entire faith.
CloudFormation and Terraform are both excellent tools, and they're sufficiently different that I've seen folks successfully using both. The pattern I've seen and actually hope to implement at some point in my work is building a CloudFormation stack using Terraform and then yielding it to an external, specialised tool that will transactionally manage its lifecycle without all the faff of calling individual SDK methods.
Frankly, I'm not going to read this article or evaluate its claims.

But it's interesting. Apple (mainly) and Amazon and a few others seems to have successfully turned the narrative to the question of whether or not Bloomberg got played.

At that point it seems like Bloomberg has to put forward something a lot more concrete than "X anonymous sources told us so" or lose all credibility. (Or they can retract, though at this point, after multiple double-downs, it would would take a wholesale editorial clearout and significant time to return to credibility.)
Same device, same year, more impatient. Just like most of the web apps I have to use (facebook,slack), it feels terribly slow compared to what I have been used to before (before what? before. the web constantly gets slower). Meanwhile, I run crouton on the same device and can do amazing stuff with blender, git, emacs, latex, python, etc.

Weird how the web allows seemingly simple task to become so performance intensive for the computer. Reading email and performing similar tasks is nothing new to the computer world (thunderbird, outlook, evolution have worked well and fast for years).

It seems that somehow, throwing more developper at a given problem (such as email interfaces) seems to only make products slower.
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BTC still around $6K, wake me up when it's at 2k or 10k please.
Doing an interview with Ian Goodfellow. What questions should I ask?
Hi,

Ian Goodfellow, coauthor of the brilliant book Deep Learning and research scientist at Google Brain, has agreed to do an interview for my data science community (www.blackswans.io).

If anybody has any ideas of questions to ask him, please post them below!

Thanks
> Instead of pretending they don't make choices, they should be introspective and thoughtful about the criteria they are using to make those choices.

They're stuck, however, because many of the people who bought into the myth of objective, non-biased algorithms have gone down the rabbit hole of the garbage recommended by those algorithms. To those users, attempts to cull the garbage will be interpreted as censorship.

Add to that there is no way to improve the recommendation systems (from an ethical standpoint of "improve") without hurting engagement.

Add to that HN's allergy to government regulation.

It's going to be quite a rollercoaster ride over the next few years. :)
Imprecision is fine for engineering and can be compensated for. But this is not true for managing money, which is why floating point has historically not been used in accounting applications.
YC should instead focus on solving real problems, like how to democratize sharing pictures of dog-sitters over a blockchain.
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Yes but the complexity serves the interest of lawyers collectively and individually. I would argue that is precisely a conspiracy against the public interest.

Put another way: nobody individually profits when the law is made simple and clear.
Generalized Data Structure Synthesis (SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper) [pdf]
True.

Or put it another way: people get this awesome, always updating, huge library about anything.

And they can't even spend a few seconds of effort to get the content.
Uber definitely has the levers to become profitable anytime they want since they are entrenched in hundreds of major cities in the world. At the end of the day they control the supply and demand of their own platform and most Uber users will pay whatever the price is since they have been a necessity in many of their user's lives.
Armstrong's sons consulted on the movie and said it basically came out true to life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAAWLO55-I
That just seems like the only role Ryan Gosling ever plays - I don't think he ever has more than a page of dialog in any of the movies I've seen with him (though the love interests are always throwing themselves at him anyway).
> "quick fixes" like iron seeding, which has just as much a chance of going awry as Australia importing cane toads to deal with their crop insects

The iron particles aren't going to breed and make more iron particles.

> let's just curtail CO2 emissions

So we shouldn't aim for zero (or even less)? Because 'curtail' will never reach zero.
Depending on the advice they could take away his license because a 20k payment fairly obviously creates a client-attorney relationship.
(s)he's joking, but the only reason I'm sure is the use of "modest proposal", not the actual content.
Policing “hate speech” will just create niches where you won't be censored. It's only a question of time until someone comes up with an idea to monetise that. Imagine a platform where “moderate speech” will be banned because it's against the house rules...
I currently would trust them right up until the point where they receive a subpoena from the government because I said something they deem icky.
Getting worldwide collaboration on c02 emission should be actively worked on, but we can't expect it to succeed. We need other technological strategies to augment diplomatic strategies.
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