skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the active countermeasures contemplated, like ocean fertilization and accelerated olivine weathering, also tackle acidification if they work at scale. Solar radiation management does nothing to fix acidification though it can possibly interrupt feedback loops that would make acidification even worse.

I agree that many technologies for replacing fossil usage have now achieved or are close to economic superiority, and that change can come very rapidly with economic superiority. But I also think that reaching this point has taken too long and now we will need active measures as well as emissions cuts.
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> People don’t really want micropayments as it turns out because people get decision fatigue.

Fair point. What I’m really interested in seeing is if they can maintain their peg.
Sure, put the job history out there if asked. No need to lie.

It's easily explained by the truth: "I'm changing careers", "The job market is tough", "I've always loved acting", etc...

Heck, before I got married I thought it would be fun to be a waiter at my favorite restaurant a couple nights a week. Meet people, work on my people skills, good food, occupy some time without getting myself into trouble...
UMesh
So is this by the same people behind 'vanilla' perl (Larry etc)?

I am assuming not but could not immediately find the information on the (mobile) website.
I feel just as much empathy for my colleagues. No one is wrong, or right in this situation.

You're exactly right that it ends up being, "do this, then that", and the problem with following those instructions is you learn almost nothing. You're running a playbook, and have no context as to why.

Before I did this, I followed that structure, and 6 months down the road, I had learned not nearly enough for the time frame.

So I've just stopped, and am following this approach. At the very least, I will (and do) know and understand a lot more. At the cost of being a complete deliverable sink.

The issue around communication is that, I really don't understand what is being said often. Essentially the things that people (rightly) assume is base knowledge, is not base knowledge for me.

So the only way to get there, is to really study, take courses, learn about and rip apart what these things mean. And that takes time. Lots and lots of focused, intentional time.

Now I'm building the foundation, and I'm learning a lot more, but I'm delivering a ton less. It's a challenge, but I will take responsibility for that, and just keep working hard to get better.
> However, either I overwhelm them or they don't want to put in the effort

I've seen both of these a lot. Eventually you end up classifying coworkers as "people who want to learn" and "people who try and get you to do any difficult work for them".

I will dial down the overwhelmingness and dial up the helpfulness a _lot_ if you land in the "eager to learn" group. If you regularly show yourself to be in the "do my work for me" group, I'll eventually just throw you some keywords to google and point out that I'm busy getting through my work (possibly while Ccing your boss if I'm in "a mood" or if you do this all the damned time).
> But lawyers almost always give advice off the record, you can't prove anything.

If it's of any importance, a lawyer should be more than willing to provide their client with their advice in writing.

This isn't much different from how one shouldn't perform high-stakes transactions without the certainty of a written contract.
With access to an oracle for the USD value, you could make a pretty decent stable coin in Ethereum. You could also create options that trigger on USD-ETH values. This would allow for some hedging against price-moves of ETH without being full-on pegged to the dollar.

The real issue here is getting a USD-ETH oracle.
Parties in Virtual Worlds are great in this regard, since you can see not only someone's name but also their IM address, profile and sometimes notes you've made about them in the past. So I know I'd appreciate it in RL.
This is kind of the inverse of detecting an exploit - If you as an NPC start leaving notes around the world describing the quest, and eventually someone makes a request to the shopkeeper for the crystal key, you know you have successfully injected instructions into a player's task queue.
Do you know how much easier it is for me to look at the mathematical definition of something and transcribe it (almost) quite literally directly into Julia code because of it's 1 based indexing?

I'll tell you: it's very, very, very easy.
And when a language makes things easy, people tend to like it (that's one of the reasons people like Python after all).
> Generally a good song can hold up when performed on a single piano or acoustic guitar, and obviously with a singer[1]. The problem here is not you: it's the songs [...] using an impressive production to disguise weak songs.

I was going to take exception to this and say that a lot of choral music doesn't really fall under this because a soprano line on its own is often not great, but I think instead there's a different point to be made: don't try to take 3-4 parts verbatim out of a larger arrangement and expect it to work.

A piano, for example, does not play the same arrangement with just a choir as it would with a choir+orchestra. Similarly, a good 2-part version of a 4-part song with soprano melody[1] is rarely obtained by taking the 'soprano+alto', 'soprano+tenor', or 'soprano+bass' parts of the 4-part, but instead by using 'soprano+alto/tenor/bass' or even 'soprano+all new harmony'.

Basically, don't judge a song by how good a 1-2 parts sounds on its own. (Said differently: the important harmony or even the melody can move between singers/instruments throughout the song)

[1] Of course, for complex songs the best 2-part version of 4 parts can approach 'S/A/T/B+S/A/T/B' as the melody moves around.
And yet again head over heels. Most Teslas made today won't even be around to drive when SDC becomes a reality.
Totally true. I didn't write this as a knock against node at all. I think there is a lot that is great there.
I was just describing my experience trying to get a project from an experienced, but opinionated in the sense that they had a set of tools they felt would work best for our project, freelancer up and running so that I could make a few changes to integrate it into our development process. I was just trying to give a counterpoint to the idea that node is somehow easier to get up and running than python.

In fact, I would have a lot of the same opinions about getting a python project started as has been voiced in many of the comments here regarding node. I would say "Don't worry about things like conda, virtualenvwrapper, etc. You just need to create a new venv for each project, activate it, and use pip to install any packages you need"

But I'll acknowledge that sometimes you need to do something a little outside the norm and it starts to make sense to rope in some other tools.
This is great, and something I can use in client projects. I'll also include this as a recommendation in my SharePoint classes that use SVGs for data visualization. Excellent script!

(I never did understand why CSS can't style referenced SVGs, personally)
I like your idea of time-arbitrage. I think Uber and AirBnB are good examples of startups that have created value by operating in loosely regulated areas. Still, I haven't anything emerge from the crypto space that appears to have a true value proposition and is not intimately connected to the exchange rate of virtual tokens
This whole thing reeks. The only company that could be hurt by this is Supermicro and it's a small company, it reached 2B back in 2015 and has only declined since. This matters because if this is a con fueled by an SMCI short then such a short position would need to be so big it would draw the attention of SEC. Something this big, it's not worth for anything less than hundred(s) of millions and then you are sitting on a short position of like what, ten, twenty percent of the entire market cap of SMCI? This makes no sense.
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Not sure I understand what you are saying, but it sounds like you’re suggesting people should be open to taking on roles that they see as beneath them (roles that are more and more junior) as they age. This is the exact opposite of the expectation in most other professions, where as you gain experience, better and better more senior opportunities open up.
I would love to know when a none draft version of this document is expected to be available. Is this the latest version?
This seems mostly right.

That said, worth noting that the fleet management/maintenance expertise will be of unknown/unproven value for managing self-driving cars. No domain experience; just spitballing...

- Unmanned SDC might have significantly different refuel/recharge/cleaning/roadside assistance/accident-response needs.
- Unmanned SDC availability/hours/mileage patterns are likely to differ significantly over time when they aren't tethered to bodily functions.
- The size and location of fixed fleet-management infrastructure may be suboptimal for different patterns; they might start off as an advantage but become a drag as players with less inertia optimize.
- SDC sensor maintenance is going to be a big unknown to these companies.
- Their liquidity and vehicle retirement/acquisition processes may not be compatible with rapid fleet replacement without outside help.
- Even if they do manage a rapid replacement cycle, the throughput of their fleet management processes may be closely tied to their normal acquisition cycles.
- Unless they're going to choose that moment to transition to an app-only-ride-request model, they may have to overcome significant design/software/hardware dev challenges of their own to handle non-app customers (i.e., being hailed on the street, taking verbal directions from people who may be drunk or not know where they're going, stop requests, destination changes...).
Not that it matters, but Coinbase is worth way more than $1.6 Billion
And as long as he "shows up on time and isn't strung out on drugs", he can still get hired and stay employed.
Link [3] is about libertarians being more analytical. From the article:

> Democrats/liberals measure as somewhat more analytical than Republicans/conservatives
"Is that what I think it is?" is such a brilliant MacGuffin line
I'm always worried when a system seems to have no drawbacks. The strengths of Perl 5 and Perl 6 and the speed of C? That sounds strictly harder than either writing Perl 6, or the decades of work put into optimising Perl 5.

What are the limitations which make this achievable?
I know so many 60-something engineers. Maybe they're not valued in the bay area, but out in the real world there are lots of 'em. Yes it may get harder to find a job at a hip new startup. Lots of boring but well-paying companies, however, are more open-minded.
Haha, I had that same chain of thought. I’m sure we aren’t alone.
I thought you were making a humorous reference to the comment trashing dropbox when it was shown on hn.
Completely fair. But it always goes both ways, it's usually never as clear (to me) that one side is at fault.

For example, I've asked several times for clarification and got no response back. Now you're busy, and rightly so, you deliver far more than I do, but I considered those ignored contacts. Maybe you legitimately just missed them.

Do I keep repeatedly asking? That's the right thing to do, but as a human, it's a hard thing to do.

The reality is, there needs to be a communication channel back and forth, there is no hiding the details, but the channel needs to be there, and respond. If either side doesn't fulfill that minimum, there is going to be a lack of information.
Also Dijkstra's arguments are pretty weak and unconvincing. If anyone else had made the same arguments, no one would ever refer to it.
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I don't think age is a red flag. Over time potential employers start to value accomplishments more than potential, that's all.
Depending on the jurisdiction, anything discovered in a detailed inspection of this sort will have to be disclosed to any future buyers.

So, in that case, it would be to the best interest of the seller to reduce their asking price and/or fix the major problems that were found, so that they no longer have to carry this legal burden going forward.

Yes, this happened to me and my wife (she's the lawyer in the family), and this resulted in us getting over $12,000 cut off the purchase price of our house, in addition to getting a number of major problems fixed before the deal actually went through.

IANAL myself, and I can't make any claims that anyone else will necessarily benefit in the same way, but that detailed inspection of the house-to-be-bought can be worth 10x the cost you pay for it -- or more.
NippleJS is a totally cool name! Guy is insecure, not your problem. Move on, is what I'd recommend.
To me, faith is the reason people give when they don't have a good reason for believing in something.
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And, because until and unless there is a prevailing adoption of the surrogate coin in place of its pegged reserve (that is, everyone just assumes and "knows" a USDC is worth a USD), the sponsor has to stand ready to maintain the peg, that is, buy it for $1.00 no matter what.

Even the golden dinar would have the problem if it were nominally worth, say, one silver shekel, and the Caliph switched to demanding jizyah in shekels. All of a sudden, absent a massive bank keeping the 1:1 dinar:shekel peg, the dinar would drop in value and the shekels would rise relatively.

The problem is, of course, compounded when the coin becomes a slip of paper, and again when the paper becomes a mere number...
Can't spam detection check if it's the same email with a +1? Seems pretty straightforward.

There's no scarcity in available email addresses. If your security depends on people not being able to register new emails, you've already lost.
How is it decentralized if the stablecoin must be pinned to a rate? Where do you get the rate from? Does this involve an oracle problem?
Meritocracy means that a political system is organised so that the "meritorious" get power, where merit is based on performance.

You are talking about getting rid of ranking, possibly the concept of merit. It isn't possible to have a meritocracy with no concept of merit, but that is much stronger than not being a meritocracy.

For example, I could rank a team of 5 from A+ to F, then put cousin Ahmed in charge because he is a relation of mine. That would be a system that is not a meritocracy, because to be in charge a person would have to be related to me, but there is still a concept of merit. I would expect my cousin to then consider merit carefully as he divides up tasks.
such a cool name
I wonder how plausible something like this is on Apple’s App Store.
You're still shifting attentional focus. Which has a big impact.
Another view: Fucking up teaches you _way_ better lessons that studying and coursework.

I often joke that the reason I get paid what I do is because of all the expensive mistakes I've already made on some other companies dime. A big part of my role as and older/senior tech guy, is to tell war stories carefully selected and curated to give very strong hints about how my less experiences junior devs are about to get things wrong.

Some people never learn from other's mistakes - but if you've got expensive mistake stories to share, try very hard to ensure the people smart/perceptive enough to benefit from them get to hear about them... Give them the chance to "stand on the shoulders of giants" (even standing on the shoulders of ordinary people is better than making the same dumb mistakes they've already learned from...)
The real innovation here isn’t more time for family and friends (perhaps more time for scrolling social media?) but rather to eliminate a layer of the economy often filled by immigrants and people of color.

The real convince is to not need interact with people who aren’t of your social class.

/s
> Another instance of the "more data is better" fallacy.

More data is better. The fact that humans have better algorithms that need less data does absolutely nothing to negate this.
>Gmail also allows "scammer+1@gmail.com" and "scammer+2@gmail" to be the same account.

This is a well-documented feature that has many legitimate uses. If you're trying to stop fraud, clip any gmail addresses after the +. For example, I believe Facebook does this.
The article compares Cryptocurrency to Religion, roughly speaking.

First, there was financial chaos in 2008. Then with a bang, our Lord Satoshi Nakamoto solved the double-spend problem and created Blockchain, and He saw that it was good.

Second, you have your prophets: Vitalik who is an "alien sent to help us all" and Joe Lubin who has "seen the light". These are men that have been revealed something about Blockchain that no one else understands, thus them being a "9 out of 10" in terms of how much they understand the Blockchain. You can never truly be a "10 out of 10" because that spot is reserved for our Lord, Satoshi Nakamoto. But Vitalik is a Higher prophet than Joe because of his closer connection to Satoshi, having been so involved with Bitcoin so early.

Then you have your priests, there to aid the prophets: Vlad Zamfir, performing the ritual of computational wizardry in the corner of the room as the common folk surround him and praise Satoshi. Emin Gun Sirer interpreting the Holy Whitepaper out loud and vulgarizing its content for the masses.

Then you have the Temple: Twitter. Great truths such as "ok can you guys stop trading" are recorded in the Gospels (IRC archives), and propagated and interpreted throughout the Twitter Temple by the priests.

Fourthly, you have your warriors, guarding the Temple: Jimmy Song with a cowboy hat, planting his foot on the ground, pointing at the heretics entering the Twitter Temple and charging with religious fervor: "Shitcoin! Scam! Get out of the temple!".

All the while, the Blockchain glows mysteriously as our coal plants feed it more and more energy. Perhaps when the Messiah comes, we'll learn that Blockchain was a parody of Humanity all along...
A second remark:

> Whichever he chooses, the color will be the same as that on the corresponding side of the full-size coin that Alice inserted into Vending Machine A.

The full-size coin that Alice inserted into Vending Machine A is no more (more precisely, its original state is lost). I don't think it makes sense to say that the color would be the same as in a measurement that was never done and can never be done. But I guess you can say that the probability distribution of the colors he will see, no matter what side he chooses, will be the same as if he had looked at the original full-size coin held by Alice.
see the addendum on the follow up post: https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/getting-bind-from-join....
Pushing Left, Like a Boss – Part 5.2- Use Safe Dependencies
The significant atmospheric carbon is in the form of CO₂ and CH₄, which are both greenhouse gases. If we "just" removed the carbon, we'd be left with O₂ and H₂, which are mostly harmless.
I have communicated with no response given. I'm not obfuscating anything, and have spoken to other coworkers about the issues asking their help as well to understand context.

The key is that I have to continue to communicate even with a lack of response. That is my responsibility, to not take a lack of response as an excuse to stop communicating.
How I cheated the Apple Podcast charts for $5
In my experience, it is the good business lawyer (whether in-house counsel or outside counsel) who will tell you what the risks are, and then it's the choice of the business to decide which risks they want to take.

However, there's also the case where the shitstorm is so bad that they lawyers have a legal and moral obligation to tell you (and the CEO, and the Board of Directors) that what you're doing is wrong and illegal, and maybe even quit over grossly inappropriate or negligent activities.
I've really enjoyed https://www.codewars.com/ although I haven't used it in a long time.
Isn't this an exceptionally lossy, and circuitous feedback method?

When I'm managing a team, I'm spending all of my time ensuring that any obstacles are obvious, and that everyone has the stuff they need. This article seems to recommend leaving out details and waiting for people to ask for that detail.

Normally I'd prefer to be as clear as possible.

1. Our goal is to meet [objective], by [timeframe].

2. The plan is to accomplish [supporting tasks].

3. [Supplies] for tasks can be obtained here. Likely you will need X.

4. Distribution of duties is thus.

Notes: Any ideas that will accomplish objective faster/better are welcome. When we run into large obstacles or need help say something. Identify bad decisions (especially mine) before they cause big problems or waste a bunch of time.

Conversely this article wants to stop at step #1, and then wait for people to figure out 2 & 3 on their own. Which is probably exactly why they haven't started work.

Perhaps I've been blessed with excellent team members, but I've only encountered a handful of truly lazy people. Whereas, I commonly encounter fractured teams because of competing objectives, unclear tasks, and ambiguous goals. Engineering tasks to have hidden canaries is trying to solve the uncommon problem (lazy professionals), by exacerbating the more common problem (ambiguity during a coordinated effort).
Ask HN: What daily-life design patterns do you use that could be productized?
It doesn't look like that math accounts for the energy/cost of crushing all of the olivine to the specified granularity? It might be 250 billion to get the raw material, but its going to cost a lot more to process and distribute it all...
The "Pluggable VMs" goal is just a bad idea IMO. The more generic you make an interface, the more you ruin it. Tight integration may make certain things harder, but it allows better control over the pathways for performance optimizations, and keeps the implementation simple which inherently increases maintainability. And in practice, only one of these VMs is going to actually be used by 97% of people, and the other 3% can do the extra legwork themselves in a maintained fork if it's really that important/beneficial to their niche.
But having experienced direct help, what it actually means is someone talks over my head no matter how much I say I don't understand.

That sounds like a problem to me. I don't know your situation, but when this happens to me, I am blunt and assertive that I don't understand what they're saying, like "I did not follow any of what you just said. I have no idea what X and Y are, and my understanding of Z is... Is that correct?"

in the short term people may think less of you, but in the long-term you will actually learn this stuff assuming you have a helpful mentor. If the senior engineer's job is to break things down for junior folks, and you're not understanding their explanation, then they're not doing their job.
Your post is utterly and needlessly condescending. Exactly what prompted you to respond to the other poster like that?
I don't think so. It seems to be those that are not the current perl5 maintainers (perl 5 porters), or the perl6 devs. But I could be wrong.
How is that more descriptive?

The most natural name would be "replication" (of the quantum state), but given than the original is lost and only the replica survives "teleportation" doesn't look so bad.
This is a hard question. I don't have an answer for you, but if a situation like this arises, we'll be sure to clearly communicate our thought and decision process to our customers. Thanks for asking!