skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She's most likely some upper middle class privileged white woman "journalist" (used very loose) who thinks she knows everything about a place because she spent a week there.
How can I get in touch with you please? I’d love to plug this into what I’m doing, there is a lot of synergy.
I recently heard about Carbon Engineering, a B.C. Canada based firm that is extracting carbon from the atmosphere and making liquid fuel -- they call it "recycled fuel." Apparently it can be used in existing combustion engines. And it is already up and running.

Something on the order of 10,000 of these industrial plants could get us carbon neutral rather quickly.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-company-...
Beyond that, they need to be paying people, micropayments of course, for the content. That way they truly are considered a publisher and they employ independent contractors to create content.
If there is a need for electronic cash backed by USD and controlled by a central party, why use crypto/blockchain at all? To solve that problem a central database on a controlled network could do just fine?
I would not consider that "evidence that deplatforming works", in the context of the parent comment.
I would agree for non bitcoin cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin has already established itself as a worldwide currency/store of value.

Outside of bitcoin, smart coins failed due to their inability to scale. Bitcoin copy pastes or centralized currency coins are useless, day traders were obsessed and let these gain popularity. I do not expect these to last. Privacy coins have a chance to survive, but they will likely need to fix scaling issues.

>Coinbase monopoly

Give it less than 1 year, this board knows that development takes time. Feburary this year we were told by the US government that crypto was not going to be banned. This was huge news for everyone that had crypto for the last few years.
The article already quotes a 3P charger that passes the certification and is available to purchase.
why isn't video content auto-playing???
IBM did a JVM (J9?) that used stack checkpointing and interrupts for some of its GC tasks. GC pauses were nearly instantaneous instead of instantaneous, because all threads have to run to a safe point before the mark phase happens.

Various real time systems have used amortization strategies to spread out GC overhead (eg, each memory allocation will GC up to 10 objects).

There are options available.
How can stable coin ever maintain the price? People can still speculate and sell it for more than a $, and buyers can buy it for more than a $.
Coinbase Launches Stablecoin USD Coin (USDC)
Before I even knew I could consider myself entrepreneur (or Wantrepreneur) I tried years of everything and it was lots of fun and learning. I never made more than a few dollars these years, even when I tried, but when I did I was happy.

Then I finished my education, did my years of professional work (which I think is kinda relevant to do) and realized I hate work.

Only then I found all these phrases and tips around being entrepreneur. And well it didn't help at all.

Only when I started to make things out of pure passion and being able to let go when things sucked I started to get things that stick.

And fuck most projects I start still go nowhere. However some do. And i am cool about that.

Don't give up. But give up trying to make money. Make great things that you need. Recreate things that you know you can do a lot better, and never stop. Things will eventually work out.
SOLD OUT is the new brand
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Well, if you don't have a problem with ostracizing groups like ISIS or white supremacists, then maybe we don't disagree that much.
Is this Circle Pay?

Ever going to give us Bitcoin Cash? Would love to sell mine before it hits 0.
You are correct, everything is boiled in a pot prior to fermentation pretty much the same way that malt is first turned into wort and then fermented in order to make beer.
This is Gustaf from YC. I wrote the first Carbon Removal RFS.

Planting tree is actually a great carbon removal technology. Unfortunately most forest owners in the world don't know or don't have incentive to care the about the carbon impact the forest have on the climate. Biggest reason forests are taken down is to grow cattle for beef. If you are working on a startup to reverse this we'd like to fund it too
We're discussing the clear and defined understanding of what hate speech is.

You lost the thread of the conversation the moment someone confronted your belief that it doesn't have a clear definition.

The reason you lost the thread is because you're struggling with the internal contradiction of your belief.
Most of the successful entrepreneurs I know that run real businesses--not the "startups" that have been all the rage the past few years, but real, money-making, profit-earning businesses--address the legal and regulatory stuff from the beginning. It's part of their business plan and business model from the beginning.

This is true of the one-man contractors to multi-billion dollar corporations. Real entrepreneurs don't wing it. And for the ones that don't worry about the compliance stuff, it's because they're paying a ton of money to specialists like me to do the worrying for them.
> Can we stop mentioning planting trees as ultimate solution everytime carbon capture research comes up?

Fine, but by the same token, the absence of progress on climate change is because there is no political will, not because it is hard. With enough adults in the room, we could have solved this problem 20 or 30 years ago at comparatively little cost.
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Using technology to fight counterfeit medicines in Africa and South Asia
>> I understand the qualms of environmentalists

As one of those environmentalists, my qualm isn't so much that this may be dangerous but that carbon capture tech (and associated "carbon capture and storage") is often championed by people looking to delay implementation of technology and laws that limit carbon emissions. It is far more energy-efficient to curtail carbon emissions than try to capture it once emitted. The most efficient use of money is to do things like close coal power plants in favor of solar/wind. Once all the coal plants are gone, then is the time to focus on capture.
Easy. Stop subsidizing fossil fuel exploration, extraction, and movement (ie. pipelines). Make carbon emissions expensive, and you'll see them go down.

Levy a revenue neutral carbon tax which anually redistributes to consumers the "average" tax per person.

Stop subsidizing suburban sprawl. Build more high density housing near mass transit. Walkable neighborhoods and such.

These are all obvious things we should have started decades ago.
I'm not actually working on it, unfortunately. There's too much risk, not enough time, and we're in the middle of migrating to a different environment where it would be an even weirder thing. But I think it's a good example of a place it could work, and it would be a lot of fun.
XGBoost predictions with PostgreSQL
Apple isn’t rolling up to the Wells Fargo and accepting a 5% spread. If you personally want to exchange a ton of money open an interactive brokers account and you’ll pay 0.08 basis points (0.0008%) minimum $1. If you don’t want to trade that much, check out compareremit.com and see what people are paying retail, it’s actually very competitive. In the popular USD-INR corridor you could pay close to mid market rates plus zero commission. This is a solved problem.
Trees don’t make money for Venture Capitalists.
Probably because planar things are easier and cheaper to make with limited machinery, instead of sculpting a shape out of a large block of material.
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Is a career in cryptocurrency worth the time and investment?
Currently looking for a new role as a full stack web developer and I have taken interest in the world of cryptocurrency. Currently looking at a startup that provides a platform for fighting criminal and illegal activity surrounding cryptocurrency, however, my question is whether this industry in question is a good idea in regards to investing a career in this sector.
Real World MMO Is a Scale Model, Player Avatars Are Internet-Controlled Drones
I'm glad someone mentioned it above, because my favorite solution is still "advanced weathering" of rocks:
http://www.innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/oli...

Just US $250 billion per year to offset ALL of humanity's carbon emissions. Yes I said ALL. It would cost less than the ongoing 'war on terror.' If I was rich I would be building autonomous mining robots so I could do it myself because I'm not confident governments will take action until it's too late.
Shared memory parallelism in Julia with multi-threading
(Edit: I agree with everything else you're saying.)

Is the difference between the First Amendment and the moral principle of free speech really that nuanced?

It seems to me one has to be thinking strictly in terms of a single country, a single period of human history, a single document in order to conflate the First Amendment with the moral principle of freedom of speech. This is a very narrow view.
The Book "Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes" reveals how cultural biases influence how we interpret/misinterpret the Bible. One of the examples given was the difference between our (western) individualistic culture and the collectivist culture which the Bible was written.
I don't know about this case, but as you get older and more experienced/cynical, enthusiasm for most of the available programming jobs does become a limited resource, at least for some of us. It's a good idea to try for early retirement if you can.
I make significantly more than that and my ACA coverage is almost free.

There are all sorts of problems with this, such as:

- assumption of a car (within 5 miles, cycling is completely reasonable, and it improves health)
- single income w/child apparently? That's not my situation at all
- Why does laundry cost $30? Most places near me are $5-10
- Why is my mobile phone $75? I can find lots of plans for cheaper
- why do I start with $1k? I've had way more than that since I was a teenager; I always keep 3-6 months of expenses for precisely this reason
- why does not paying a bill for one month result in immediate closure? Most utilities don't shut off services until 3 or so months of missing payments

However, the app is pretty eye opening because it _doesn't_ fit my situation. I'm very interested in helping the poor get out of the cycle of poverty (it's my life's goal).
Living on the command line: Why mistakes are a good thing
Huh ... this is kind of a fun idea. Kicking this around a bit, it's similar to how you separate U235 from U238 for enriching Uranium. I wonder if you could back into the energy requirements from that process (assuming it isn't classified).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge
Carbon Engineering and Climeworks are two incredible companies working on Direct Air capture and Air-to-Fuel and we'd like to fund more companies like them. There are less than 5 companies worldwide that are serious about getting Direct Air Capture to scale. The world need more bets that that on such a promising technology
Would like to see YC address the economic incentive problem with carbon sequestering. How do you incentivize companies and individuals to capture C02? What lessons from the failed cap and trade systems can be adapted to a new "sequester and trade system"?

Solving this problem would open up resources to this field. Right now we suffer from global bystander/freeloader syndrome. The cost of global warming is spread to thin/gradual across the global population.
I mean, do we know that local toxic algae blooms are the only effect this will have?

This to me smells like it could have potential unforeseen consequences like the Deepwater Horizon cleanup.
It's not arguing semantics when biologists are describing two separate things.

There are animals with two sexes and three genders. There are animals that can change their sex. There are animals that can change their gender, but not their sex.

We're talking about separate concepts, and it's not a silly, meaningless effort to define separate terms for them.
>> Since the implants were small, the amount of code they contained was small as well. But they were capable of doing two very important things: telling the device to communicate with one of several anonymous computers elsewhere on the internet that were loaded with more complex code; and preparing the device’s operating system to accept this new code. The illicit chips could do all this because they were connected to the baseboard management controller, a kind of superchip that administrators use to remotely log in to problematic servers, giving them access to the most sensitive code even on machines that have crashed or are turned off. (Source: Bloomberg with emphasis added to highlight key points for discussion)

> That first part starting with “telling the device…” is nonsensical. If you are in the industry or read our Basic BMC and IPMI Management Security Practices piece, you would know that this is false.

This is not a very well-written article. How does this website's "best practices" document refute Bloomberg's story? The obvious problem is that not all organizations follow best practices, including many that you'd assume would, and those that do don't always follow them consistently. More subtly, if the BMC is subverted, you can't rely on to follow its normal programming or configuration: even if you have a segregated management network with no network access, the subverted BMC isn't required to use it and can use the "shared port" instead.

When you're dealing with subverted hardware or software, you have to throw out most of your assumptions about how those things work that were formed in normal cases. It's clear that the authors of this article did not do that.
Stop polluting entirely and plant trees? All of these useless ideas above could be solved by getting rid of the endless growth required by capitalism, but nobody wants to give up their Alexa to save the entire population.
Is there a clear definition? Who gets to define it? Who gets to choose what definition we use?
This work has been a monumental collaborative effort and I think the eventual outcome will be pretty spectacular.

I gave a talk at an MIT Julia meetup a few months ago that the author of this PR also spoke at; I found his talk to be an insightful overview of this work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdiZa0Y3F3c
How about investing in lobbying? If $10B were sent to politicians, perhaps they’d implement a carbon tax?

The future of the world is presently in the hands of pasty white men on Capitol Hill. Why not sequester their carbon (hot air) first?
How We Got Featured on HN and Medium, 46K Views and Why Сontent Is King
You're conceding a huge problem with DNSSEC. Yes, support for ECC isn't great. Either RIPE or APNIC was tracking it and last I saw something like 1/3 of the deployed base can't handle it, meaning effectively that everyone is stuck with the lowest common denominator of RSA and ECDSA. Meanwhile: the p-curve ECDSA that we're talking about seeing deployed is already very outmoded. And, unlike RSA PKCS1v15 signatures, where the concerns are theoretical and not practical, P-curve ECDSA is practically problematic. It could take a decade to get to the 2018 standard for curve security (presumably, a Schnorr-like construction on a curve like 25519).

Meanwhile: nobody relies on DNSSEC today. I'm not kidding when I say the root keys could land on Pastebin tonight and almost nobody would have to work late or even get paged.

Doesn't it seem just sort of plainly obvious that we should drop a flag on the broken protocol we're looking at now and re-do it properly with modern cryptography?
The primary issue with this argument is the imbalance of the situation. There is an enormous difference in the amount of effort it takes to make a false claim (that sounds nice enough for people to believe without evidence) and the amount of effort it takes to refute said claim, especially if the refutation hinges upon mechanics that most people do not understand. In the unlikely scenario that most of the people who listened to both arguments happened to accept and understand the right one, there is still another huge hurdle. The fact is, the short, wrong claim is optimized for remembering and regurgitation. It is easier to remember that than to remember the complicated refutation, or even remembering that there was a refutation. Even in the ideal scenario where all other parties accept and remember the good argument, the person espousing the false claim can simply leave and continue to make the claim. When also taking into consideration the fact that most people do not have the knowledge and eloquence to make the good argument in the first place, it seems intuitive that the bad argument would still easily make its rounds.
Pain in Ear and Jaw
No mass is teleported, that's the key. A state of one mass is copied to another mass, but no mass is moved in the sense that would invoke General Relativity, as far as I understand.

I suppose teleporting a state in such a way that the target mass would change its motion in a significant way ("accelerated") without affecting the source mass is impossible, because it would break the conservation of impulse.
We can manage grassland and savanah. Grasses exudate a lot of their sugars (carbon) into the ground feeding the microbes. Holistically managed grassing is all about timing the regrowth and recycling the nutrients and fibers through the cow.

The prairies are amazing ecosystem pumping carbon into the ground when properly managed.

The knowledge is available, but this ted talk only has 2 million views. https://youtu.be/vpTHi7O66pI
Traders, including HFT, are incentivized by the underlying value to keep the bid/ask spread very tight.
Nobody said being wealthy is wrong. It was stated the system is unethical that allows one to die on the street with nothing, and another to possess all, where enough is available for everybody.

We don't have to take food from somebody's mouth to prevent them from eating. In an economic system where you must have dollars to find food, you need only prevent them from getting enough money. And I'm not even saying Jeff Bezos does this. Nobody does it on purpose. It occurs naturally is our economic system, so we must determine whether it is ethical.

> The economy is not a zero-sum game...

it's also not a vacuum. The value of the dollars is nothing without a whole lot of other stuff going on. for instance: a 500B/yr standing military to protect the interests that keep those dollars valuable; a labor force that has been turned into a business commodity; the destruction of finite natural resources; the manipulation of the sovereignty of foreign peoples... it goes on.
Maybe use rundeck as a gui? Still a lot of custom code necessary though.
> Special cameras will be on the look-out for drivers on the
bridge who show signs of getting sleepy, among other checks - yawn three times and the authorities will be alerted, local media report.

Now this is a little bit extreme...
For any looking for more info on non warm blooded life being dependent on ambient temperatures to accumulate the energy to perform protein reactions, see the concept of Growing_degree-day

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_degree-day
Liquids have differential densities which allows them to spread into layers. If you have "compressed air" that separates into bands, you're just talking about compressing the air into a liquid phase so it can then be extracted as above. The triple point of carbon dioxide is -57 C and 5.1 atm, so in other words you'd have to get colder and higher pressure than that to even produce the liquid. Then you'd have to spin it down while it's pressurized and cooled.

Could you math it out from there and compare it to the Sabbatier reaction or to just plain old trees? I doubt you'll extract CO2 cost effectively that way.
Today's parents are creating this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/08...
Washington State is voting this week on a carbon tax. That future is now, should voters choose it.
The State of European Food Tech: Who, Where, and What's Next
This is a concern I have moving from a software developer to a manager role. Companies tend to have a lot fewer managerial positions and it can be hard to backtrack to a developer position later in life.
Your original point was that _Coinbase and Gemeni_ had prevented you from exchanging your BTC for fiat currency. There's nothing preventing you from taking your BTC to some other exchange, or just some guy that accepts BTC for goods or services. That's the beauty of this whole decentralized thing.
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Sorry for the confusion, I’m using your bank account as your wallet analog, and saying both services can interact via your bank account if necessary. Whereas not all wallets will support USDC.
I love those podcasts. You should all listen to them.

They are right that we have all the technologies we need to reach 1.5 degrees C. However we need massive acceleration of implementation of those technologies. Like a 10x improvement. We're not on track right now.

The reason we need Carbon removal is because most IPCC forecast still assume a large % carbon removal. And it's going to be important for us to get back to 300ppm in atmosphere. The consequences to society of 1.5 degrees or 2 degrees are so massive and costly that we should anything that have a shot at avoiding it.
I appreciate the focus here and applaud all progress and work related to any kind of carbon capture/sequestration technologies. These approaches are necessary and important.

BUT

I think it is too often overlooked that a fundamental prerequisite for making any meaningful progress in this area predicates on cheap, affordable, abundant "clean" energy. Anytime you talk about hydrolysis, desalination, or increasing concentrations of CO2 in a gas or a solution - each of those processes require non-trivial amounts of energy to do at scale and the limitations are often in the realm of physics. Ultimately, energy from somewhere is needed to break the bonds of the CO2 so it can bond to new inert compounds and that requires lots of energy.
At the rate we're setting up for a future where the entire ocean blooms, dies, and we're left with nothing.

Already jellyfish are taking over. We're killing off so many life forms we're essentially going back in time to the precambrian era.

Instead of looking for "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, let's just curtail CO2 emissions.
Think of it as a "heads up", and prepare accordingly.
You forgot the splash loading screen to load in the tens of MB of javascript
Prove to me that you argue in good faith and are a rational actor.
I don't think I can answer this any more effectively than I did in "Against DNSSEC", linked upthread. I'll just point out that the bad is also the enemy of the good.
As a consumer and professional developer, I feel no desire to wield a power to unfairly bully web services with unreasonable demands about their data pertaining to me.
I thought the big selling point for Lyft for awhile is that there profitability wasn't dependent on shifting to autonomous vehicles, where Uber's was. This seemed to make drivers move to Lyft because they felt they had more job security. Was that just perceived?
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The problem is you now need some actual structure rather than just some thin sheets / inflatable structure or whatever. Further applying even small amounts of force across huge sheets adds up while as you say it's acting like a solar sail.

That is to say it's clearly still possible, just not as cheap as people are assuming.
A key word in that sentence was most. Certainly not all.
Each proposed idea has a section related to energy requirements.