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We're out of completely safe options and have to try to navigate between various risky options.

Another way to put this - we're not out of safe options if we're not doing the safe options. We may need to do risky options once we are fully engaged in doing the safe option but today, now, we have not yet acquired the ability to even do the safe options consistently.

Sure, maybe the risky options will be necessary but if efforts to do the safe get pissed away with corrupt deceptions, how are we expecting efforts to do the risky efforts won't suffer the safe fate?

That some amount of CO2 production is being reduced almost at random isn't much of an argument that human society has the ability to choose a path and follow it effectively. How many fake versions of sequestering do you think scammers will come up with if the money ever appears?

A regulatory body capable of doing CO2 reduction might have the competence to then regulate sequestering. Random activity by supposedly concerned citizens or something just invites abuse.
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De facto, not de jure.

Perl’s COM module was excellent and made Windows very scriptable. This was back in the 90s.
how do you control carbon emmssions of those who produce olivine ?
Persecuted people tend to kill themselves more often, yes. That's not the evidence that humans are hardwired to be straight white cis Christian males.
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Then I don't understand you. What is important to address the problems you outlined is the question of "How brain activity corresponds to the felt experiences (as reported by subjects)?", not "Why there are felt experiences corresponding to brain activity?"

Even if we had the answer for the second question (say, "There is immaterial soul which is responsible for our felt experiences and that's why we feel"), it will not help with pain treatment.
TL;DR: The unusual bloom seems to be a direct consequence of the natural disasters hitting Japan over the course of this year. "Direct" as in "typhoons ripped off a lot of the cherry trees' leaves, but missing leaves are also a biological signal that start the blooming process".

Unrelated to that, the regular cherry blossom event has been happening progressively earlier due to climate change. The typhoons and heatwave that caused the irregular bloom were likely influenced by it as well.
No commits since April. I think Antti has left the project and started a brewery or something.
I'm not 100% sure if I understand your comment (it's a bit confusing), but as I understand it using the singular they as a pronoun is fairly new, even using the singular they in other contexts isn't. This is what I meant with "singular they" (perhaps I should have been clearer about that).
I agree. Of course such system have some pretty important downsides. I'll perhaps have to pay more attention to people then.
Do you know much CO2 we release to mine and move 1 tonne of olivine?
> Hell, I'll never own a car that dings at me until I fasten a seatbelt if I can help it either.

Serious question: Why? I've never found it particularly helpful myself, but what's the big deal about a sound that reminds you to put on a critical safety device that you should already be using anyway? Do you really find yourself hearing those dings for long enough that it becomes a serious annoyance? If so, don't you think the ding isn't the actual problem there?
I know it's not exactly the same thing but you could check out something like the Purism laptop[1] and you could run Tails from a USB key[2]

P.S. I wouldn't assume that someone called Joanna is a 'he' LOL

[1] https://puri.sm/learn/why-purism-computers-are-better-than-p...

[2] https://tails.boum.org/
>no free lunch guys.

Nobody asked for a "free lunch", those people already work very hard for what they get.

So, it's not much "no free lunch", but "I'll do a token gesture of giving you more while taking your money from elsewhere, because I'm a hypocrite greedy bastard".
>This is said every single time when "JIT" is mentioned but I've never heard an argument how that might be possible

I'll explain it but you have to pretend that we are in the 90s, so before you continue reading click on this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JphDdGV2TU

"Modern" CPUs achieve some of their speed by executing multiple instructions in parallel, using a pipeline: the first stage fetches an instruction from memory, hands it to the second stage that decodes it but while the decoding is taking place the first stage will have already started fetching the next instruction from memory.
Conditional jump instructions of course ruin everything, because you need to know the result of their evaluation, before you can decide which instruction is the "next" one.

"Modern" CPUs work around this by always assuming that the jump is never taken and then, if it turns out that the jump does get taken, rolling back the partial work that they did.

As it turns out the vast majority of conditional jumps in a program always go the same way, i.e. any given conditional jump is either always taken or never taken. If the compiler knew which way the condition went it would be possible to lay out the program in a way that jumps are almost never taken, for maximum performance.

A static compiler can't do this but with a JIT you can run the program in bytecode a bunch of times and then use the information you gathered to lay it out in the best way possible.

All that I've said is 100% true and empirically verifiable. The reason this didn't work out is that in the early-2000s all x86 CPU manufacturer started adding this specific optimization directly inside the CPU. They started keeping branch counters and using them to guess which way conditional jumps were more likely to go.

There's other optimizations that a JIT compiler can do and a static compiler can't, but the story is similar. Big x86 manufacturers can do almost anything a JIT compiler can do and that's why the technology is essentially obsolete.

There's still some value in distributing a single binary that executes at near-native speed everywhere, but that's basically it.
One of the things I find interesting about Carbon Engineerings process is that it requires a lot of heat to separate the captured carbon from the fluid (I forget what the fluid is called). Last I heard they were using natural gas for this (with more carbon capture tech attached).

I wonder if they have considered using concentrated solar as the heat source instead? The temps are pretty high and obviously there is no carbon capture needed so it might be a cheaper way of doing it.
Also you already build those plants out in the desert so you probably have a lot of cheap land available to put the units nearby.
It is not visible in the profile. (The email field is hidden for other users and only used for password resets AFAIK).
I believe it's a subset of 'flounderinglings'.
I’m starting to give more thought to the term “natural disaster“.
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Note I have no affiliation with Circle or Coinbase.

Ethereum tokens have far wider support among industry players and consumers, and a far larger set of compatible applications (e.g. state channel networks that allow near-free and instant ERC20 transactions, like Celer).

>>while their token contracts are way easier to setup

Setting up an ERC20 contract is literally a copy, paste, brand and broadcast job. In any case the technical cost of setup is not a factor that's relevant to large companies.
I think the world MUST start to make/tell the difference between (web)apps and web pages. Slack does not need to be written in js/html. Skype does not need to be written in js/html. They do those in electron just to avoid having to maintain X different code bases.
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Setting PYTHONBREAKPOINT=0 in someone's profile script seems like an amusing prank ;-)
What I hear is an intentionally cheesy argument against a set of cherry-picked claims that are not even in the original comment.
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If it was sometimes/often used to distribute cracked apps, then it was also almost certainly used to distribute apps with other added "features" (malware), in which case, the connection with play protect isn't that crazy.
It's much easier and cheaper to state that Aptoide is in violation of their ToS, and simply remove the app. As you can see here, the courts don't always rule favorably.
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Probably not. The author seems american; The site has a very US news bias, and only has US politics filtering.

Which is a shame. I hope the author plans to expand it to have a more global viewpoint.

For those that don't know - 'Blake's 7' was a 1970s UK sci-fi TV show that had a portable 'super-computer' called Orac, whose personality was arrogant and aloof. The show was set in a dystopian future where a despised militarised government rules the galaxy. Still worth watching even now to be honest.
The point being that Dubai is a model for the rest of us? Or, if not them, the UK (London)?
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The camps, and BBC mentions this too, is less about Uyghur identity but about imprisoning Muslim followers to stop following Islam, you can tell because they've taken in Kazakh Chinese too and likely devout Muslim Hui who are basically Muslim Han Chinese
The natural successor of perl5 was supposed to be ruby, at least in the early 2000s. Python is nothing like perl (by design), but got adopted for the same tasks nonetheless.
You don't have family, do you?
I'm so thankful for HN comments, because I simply can't read articles written in this manner, I really don't buy this US-magazine writing style. What happened with inverted pyramid?! If I wanted to read a novel, I'd go to a library.
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To me this sounds like a perfect example of failed communication.

Every question answered with “I am on it” or “top of the list” is often no real question intended to get deeper knowledge about the issues, but a rhetoric question acting as colourful wrapping for a “get it fucking done”.

Yes it might be legitimate for you to tell them to get it fucking done ― but will this help? If you are lucky it might, but there are better ways.

Instead of monitoring them it could turn out to be more productive to make clear why this task is important to you (”It seems unimportant but it is blocking important Task X”), why it is them who need to do it (”I know it is annoying, but I can’t do $Y because of reason $Z”) and finally really ask them (”Maybe you have a better idea how to solve this”). This will show them why it is important to you, why they are the only ones who can help and that they have at least a little bit of control over it.

Most people like to help other people. But if you just treat them as a blackbox taking instructions and executing them (like a computer), you will get a smaller chance Iof getting a result.

A carnary dies when something fails this carnary stays alive if something fails, so it is not a carnary. Also a MacGuffin is itself meaningless, it is just there to move the plot along and could be swapped out with any arbitray other MacGuffin (a mysterious parcel, a tiny plastic container, a black suitcase, ...)

I know a carnary MacGuffin when I see one, and when I see it, I run
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>>There's no purpose in asking a user to run a full node to write to a blockchain. A user/client runs a node to verify they've been paid.

This is a totally illogical statement.

You can't get paid if you can't write to the blockchain. How are you going to spend what you're paid if you can't afford to write to the blockchain?

>>If you're trusting someone else to tell you you've been paid, you have centralization.

I've already addressed this: the risks associated with relying on a dozen blockchain explorers to validate the blockchain are nothing compared to the risks of relying on someone else to hold the private key that controls your funds.

What they're all going to lie about what transactions are happening on the blockchain? It's open source, public domain data. There's no limit to the number of sources you can poll until you get a confident estimate of the true state of your transaction. Consequently, the feasibility of such a deception being pulled off is astronomically low.

In other words, you're advocating throttling write-access to the point that the Bitcoin-Core blockchain is not able to provide practical utility to the vast majority of the human population, to ward off a total non-risk.
I agree, and I think that's a good reason to deploy a warning about this app(store) and educating the user about the risks. But blocking the installs entirely is a bit much, IMO.
> Where does it end?

It ends when there are no more religious people in China.
If all "goes well" for the chinese government, in 20 years it will be done.
Check the blacklists.
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Great to see google open sourcing its internal cpp libraries.
> Google got back to us. The Pixel 3 does not support 10W Qi charging at all. It supports 10W wireless charging, and it supports the Qi wireless charging standard, but these are two different things. Qi is capped at 5W, and for 10W wireless charging, you need a charger with what Belkin calls "Google's 10W proprietary wireless charging technology."

Google says it is "certifying" chargers for the Pixel 3 via the "Made for Google" program...

Isn't this almost a textbook example of "embrace, extend, extinguish"?
Some decision letters have been already sent by now.

Another chat group of applicants: https://app.openland.com/joinChannel/TKnSVeH
According to some of my team mates, a computer is never wrong. And they would gladly replace the justice system with AI ones. They program computers and they should know better but I am lost wondering at what level they are thinking to even go down this road.
From everything I've researched the opposite is true. Properly managing grasslands (which used to happen naturally with large herds) makes for health grasses which develop root systems, create soil and sequester carbon.

Poorly managed grasslands that are under grazed leads to soil degradation. The answer seems to be intensive grazing followed by rest periods to allow grasses to use nutrients and grow.

More links in my post here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18287434
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> Apple produces all of its own devices and it's impossible to install another app store on the phone without jailbreaking

Not completely true: corporate users can get special distribution licenses to be able to distribute to their employees. https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/
I love that Kliff gives a shout out to Kaiser Health News’ Bill-of-the-Month feature (https://khn.org/news/tag/bill-of-the-month/), which is a really similar project. I wonder if these two projects were independently inspired? Either way, totally a good thing to get more public visibility into medical billing.
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> A classic example of economic growth innovation in price sensitive India is the single use detergent sachet- each of those represents an improvement in cleanliness and hygiene for people who couldn’t afford it before.

Maybe I'm not western enough, but I can't understand that thing. How is a single-use detergent sachet an improvement over good ol' powder? Do you have any articles discussing it?
Sad that American greed is funding this... It is only the beginning though. Us or our children will be in those camps (or ones like them) someday. All funded by our dollars for a bunch of materialistic crap that now (or soon) will be sitting in our landfills and oceans...
Globalism is part of the core philosophy of neo-liberalism, which most mainline political parties were advocating up until the past couple of years when public sentiment went against globalism. Both Republicans and Democrats were in favour of the TPP, for example.

Globalism is orthogonal to leftism/rightism. Brexit support was roughly similar among both Labour and Conservative party supporters.
That's nicely balanced and well thought through in my opinion.

I'm particularly impressed by the second last para talking about the Gnu organisation's only two political positions or points, and says: "We don't require you as a contributor to agree with these two points, but you do need to accept that our decisions will be based on them."
> In practical terms, the mole helps chemists measure stuff. It helps express the amounts of atoms or molecules in a chemical reaction. Cause a half-mole of oxygen molecules (O2) to react with a mole of hydrogen molecules (H2) and you get a mole of water (H2O)—equal to about 18 grams of substance.

Every example I find describing the utility of the mole could just as plausibly substitute "dozen" or "googol" for "mole". I'm not clear on what would be lost to science by instead declaring a new number that is untethered from Avogadro's historical dependence on mass or length. Perhaps the deeper issue is that I'm not clear on why the dimensionless mole is a base unit at all.
I've always decided against a normal 9-to-5 job because it feels like a waste of time and like I'm missing a purpose.

I think I'll continue to work like you've described for half a year and save up my whole income and invest it properly. I already have a passive income of 1.5-1.9k€/month pre-tax, I'll invest the 20-30k€ that I'll save up in the next months to get to 3.5-5k€/month of passive income. It's not 10k/month, but I feel like I'm doing myself a disservice if I "enjoy my life outside work".

Do you have the fear of regretting a 9-to-5 life? I've always wanted to be free so a 40h-week doing something I don't really enjoy sounds like a nightmare to me.
Ironically, the universal terms for ‘hashes’ are ‘map,’ ‘associative array’ or, at the worst, ‘table.’ Even ‘dictionary’ makes sense and is definitely used outside of MS.

Hashes are completely different things, the use of them is an implementation detail and not necessary.
There are no “universal” terms. You used hash as an example, that’s already less universal than calling it a dictionary - it’s a hash map/table, and I’ve only ever heard this term from Perl developers.
First time applying. Got the rejection letter. One and done. Will push forward but wont apply again.
You need to consider how the US was originally intended to be organized, which is radically different than what is has become. States were envisioned as practically independent nations which would be tied together by an extremely minimal set of shared rules and obligations. The constitution doesn't really lay out many rules for states at all. What it does lay out is mostly just things preventing states from taking on national rules like entering into alliances, printing their own money, or declaring war.

The constitution focuses on laying out those minimal set of laws for the federal government. So it makes no sense for the constitution to tell states how they can or cannot vote. This was antithetical to the entire notion of what the United States was supposed to be. It was a state level matter. As an aside this is also part of the motivation for institutions like the electoral college - to ensure a strong separation between state internal affairs and their influence on the federal level, which could affect other states.
Transferwise Business offers an international payroll solution: https://transferwise.com/gb/business/international-payroll-v...

(I don't work for Transferwise, just a huge fan of their service)
> The question then becomes, whether we can create new genetic chemistries that are not based on DNA, but some new genetic polymer?

Is this article a PR piece? I am a bit annoyed by the lack of reflection in this naive approach to develop xeno-biology and let it loose in our (only) planetary habitat.

If it were the only statement of the kind in the sub-articles, it would be fine. There is, however, a strong disregard for second/third systems effects. Radical approaches alone do not cut it, they have to 'fit'.

Not that it is easy to do in the first place, but please think about the ecosystem as a whole. It is hard to take these type of statements seriously - but this is YC here, an outlet with a lot of media impact. Please communicate a responsible call for action.
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They've been to court, which presumably means they're publicly accountable, as opposed to pirates who tend to operate anonymously.

I suppose you could send them an Electronic Commerce Directive take-down notice. Probably doesn't hurt them as such, but should get your app removed.

EDIT: The store seems to be somewhat decentralized, with stores being similar to APT repositories. So it may be difficult to target Aptoide directly unless there's a centralized list of stores, in which case I imagine you can get the user's store struck from it. Otherwise you may need to contact the store's hosting provider - which indeed could be a bit of a cat and mouse game.
ELI5: wouldn't it be the job of the compiler ?