skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm skeptical -

You've shown a proposal, not a reality. (and the proposal didn't even mention a "shield" that I saw, but I may have skimmed past it). I didn't see a price tag, nor a timeline. Money can boost research speed, but not remove the need entirely.

Second, If the cross section of the earth is 1.2x10^14 m^2, one of these would...well, we don't know, because the link mentioned volumes and length (the 10k km is a potential "span length" and wasn't tied to being "one" of anything). I failed to find the cargo volume for a Falcon 9 or other rocket (everything is in mass) but I think it's safe to say that you're talking a lot of launches which clearly aren't trivial to do.

Third, and most importantly, you've just decreased the amount of energy coming to earth. You've not solved the problem, you've changed it.

I love tech, but I think it's worth noticing the ratio of times someone says "It's [just] an engineering problem" versus the number of issues that have been actually been solved in this way (seeing the problem, spending a boatload of money, seeing problem solved). Most of our industries are based on the fact that we KNOW they can grow into more, but figuring out how and the complications thereof are literally the work of countless lifetimes.
Since this would be over the poles, agriculture would not be impacted. There would likely be a substantial impact to ecology of these regions, depending on size of the shade of course.
I’m talking about the early 1990’s.
Speech is either free or not free, there is no middle path.

If you want free speech, you accept the consequences. If you want “regulated” speech, there are consequences.

That’s it. I would argue that the level of satire a society can cope with, is directly proportional to the quality of democracy the society has.
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...Mr. Burns?
Unfortunately, you still need to convince the billionaire that the project will make him into a 10-billionaire, otherwise he’ll just keep it in the bank, or bathe in it or whatever rich people do with all the vast piles of money they are sitting on.
Sources to what you're speaking of (especially ones pointing at Hillsong) would be useful to improve this discourse.
It would appear that someone is suggesting that a conventional transmission would be an improvement, which I find unlikely.

But yes, it can be massively improved. IIRC, this car is beat in acceleration by a Tesla Model S P100D, which isn't exactly a supercar.
> An obvious step towards reducing CO2 emissions in the US would be raising taxes on gasoline.

It seems we are past the luxury of looking for incentives to reduce CO2 emissions. It's about reducing CO2 emissions right now, no proxy allowed, no IFTTT schemes.

There might be a bare minimum amount of CO2 allowed, it's fixed. We could monetize that but it doesn't matter. We can't go beyond that amount.
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Not only is this analogy bad (sunlight helps plenty of bad things grow, things even detrimental to our survival as a species), but it assumes that you're dealing with rational actors. Stop naively assuming this. It's a bad assumption. There are people out there who will argue in bad faith and have no interest in reasoning or truth. And there are people who will fall victim to those bad ideas. Religion, terrorist factions, general cults, hell we can barely keep our own actions in check while we actively harm the environment.

The idea that if you just say the right, True (TM) thing then people will flock to it so not only naive it's so obviously wrong if you look at a laymen's perspective on basically any subject. It's also just a waste of time for the subjects typically in question. The communication of ideas has changed. It's a chaotic free for all. We've over done it. It's time to have a serious and reasonable conversation about the current state we find ourselves in, least we shoot ourselves in the foot with blind, headstrong optimism about ideals that don't much the reality of human nature.

In before someone references 1984 blindly and displays the ever-popular dystopia-prediction fetish that's so prevalent in these conversations.
Looking at the two diagrams shown lower down in the article, I can't be the only one that thinks the "Before" looks infinitely superior to the "After".

Yet another third party service to depend on which has unknown reliability or future business model plans.
1. Lawyers are licensed by the state to work in the interest of the public

2. They (along with lawyers like judges and legislators) create a guild with its own language which has the side-effect of empowering knowing lawyers over a reasonably literate layman

3. The public is now required to "ask a lawyer before doing anything" for "their safety"
T4, an open-source data hub based on S3
Nope they are using the same SharedArrayBuffer as their memory object.
Technically, you are right, but if multiple processes use the same shared memory is there a real, meaningful difference? You can do efficient, parallel computation in a browser, does it really matter how it is executed under the hood?
This kind of reporting kills people. I'm always amazed at how irresponsible US newspapers are around reporting suspected suicide.
> It's rare for a real in-house lawyer to tell the business, "we can't do that." More often, it's "here's how we do that."

I've found the opposite. Saying "no" is almost always a safe answer, or at least an answer that won't get them fired, which seems to create a bias that direction.

I'm sure it's a bit different when the CEO asks, but most of us unfortunately have to go talk to the company lawyers without running things.
Neither would any of the other proposals in the link for extracting carbon.
> any western country

I pay between $50 and $80 per month on a prepaid plan that generously gives me 20mb(!!) of fast Internet a day.

What you describe would cost about $40, or with a more realistic 2GB at least 50$-60$ per month.

No phone included.

Yes this is Switzerland. But having owned phone plans in many western and non western countries there definitly are big exceptions between countries.
Thank you for both comments! I'll look into that app.
This would be true for if there was only one type of motor involved.

For this car, there will likely be two spikes very far apart, with ICE picking up as electric is dropping off, effectively smoothing out the valley between the two peaks.
In Germany we have Albert Frey, a Catholic singer and songwriter. I didn't know for years that he was Catholic since he is a major source of worship songs in evangelical churches and beyond.
I that must say thank you for your effort... About the kind of person you tried to attract, well, at least you gave them many colors to choose! I found the color choosing strange, why someone concerned about security should bother about color, but I see it was your attempt to attract more people. Maybe if you place a tamagotchi inside it people will be more interested. :) just kidding. I really respect your project!
Why is there oxygen lacking at such a small depth while oceans provide oxygen for fish at several thousand meters below the surface?
Perhaps some background info can help. Beidou I was developed in early 2000s. And at that time Chinese military satellite wasn’t advanced at all. Even though beidou I is vulnerable to anti radiation missles, it’s the best they have and at least it worked well for purposes such as border patrol and terrain survey.

My point is that many things in China may be explained by the party wanting more control, but two way transmission of beidou I is not one of them.
Only if you assume that everything that a given person says is bad/unwelcome. But, people aren't like that, and hold all kinds of different views on different subjects, some of which they may have extensive background in, and others that they are just pulling out of their nether regions and are subject to all kinds of biases.

For example, despite what anyone thinks about what Trump says (I think he's an idiot and a clown), he does occasionally say something that isn't complete BS (please don't make me try to find such an example).

You just can't go down that route and expect a good outcome. In fact, I would argue that you're going to end up with the opposite result that you intended because you'll, inadvertently, end up giving more attention to idiotic ideas than the ideas actually deserve.
Actually in some cases you can. E.g. Gear S3 uses proprietary charger that is rated at 0.7A, 5V at the input. And several people reported watch raising overheat alarm when charging with select 3rd party chargers (not all). Apparently Samsung made it so the watch charges will really weak power, slowly and using powerful 3rd party chargers may push it out of the rated parameters. No permanent damage reported afaik.
On the other hand, their cost per mile is a third of the SF-Oakland bridge, meaning we could have had three bridges for the same price if we let Chinese build them.
Every time I post a $60k engineer job, I get 30 resumes. There's no shortage.
How does access control work? There are plenty of APIs that need to validate access (e.g. ping or raw IP sockets can require sudo). If it's all running in-process it seems like there's no security you can implement, or the security mechanism would end up being super-complex like inspecting the TCP packets (which may solve networking use-cases but doesn't do so well for all the APIs).

*EDIT: Unikernels are neat as replacements for VMs since the abstraction layer can be much less costly/higher performance. They cannot be used as regular applications running on the OS due to how security is implemented.
> 4K is still the "storm on the horizon" that no one's graphics cards are truly ready for in an affordable way.

I wouldn't call it a "storm on the horizon". I am fortunate to have a GTX 1070. If I turn off anti-aliasing, 4k at 60hz seems to work perfectly well in just about every game I've played. (Older steam games like Deus Ex:HR and Dishonored, HotS, WoW, Mechwarrior...). Most things are built with antialiasing at 1080p in mind, and running it at 4k (without FSAA) seems to be similar workload.
I want to see a quantum-resistant PAKE, because then you can use the resulting key material to do symmetric crypto (which is generally resistant anyway).
i wish there was a better way... i make about 2 bucks a day on a site that costs many more times that to run and most of my success (haha 1.00 a day is a success? meh) is based upon luck - that changes every month depending on what google thinks my content is worth...

yet those that cheat the system or have the money to "pay to play" dominate it... just not sure that they're actually making any money.
> With Bitcoin, even if Coinbase blacklists you, you can still send your Bitcoin to other accounts and exchange it for things

This is not so. Coinbase and Gemini (I haven't checked others but I'm sure they're the same) will freeze your assets entirely if required by law or if you violate the user agreements in some flagrant way [0] [1].

[0] https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/190...

[1] https://gemini.com/user-agreement/#account-closure
If you live in California, forming an LLC in another state just means that you are now paying that other state, and California. You also get the joy and privilege of filing two state income tax returns. Oh, and the real kicker is that you're now subject to being sued in either state.
Sounds like you hate white tech bros
Fortran IV came close. You could put spaces in the middle of identifiers, keywords, and numbers, and the compiler ignored them. The language did not require spaces as separators anywhere. Spaces were only significant in Hollerith constants (what we'd call string literals today) and in columns 1-6. Columns 1-6 were reserved for line numbers, comment signifiers, and continuation marks.
Better than the worst isn't a favorable comparison. And there's been attempts but they lie and dissemble at every opportunity to the oversight committees. Remember when they tried to redefine the word 'collect' to mean when they actually looked at the information so they could say they don't 'collect' information on american citizens? Or that gathering information on every call you make isn't surveillance because they don't collect the contents of the call as well?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2013/07/nsa-lexicon-how-...
you're right and it tends to become more and more like that. On the other hand they are so simple you can pretty much pick up any song after the first couple of lines.
How far did you get until you got it? It took me until just after the email subscription modal...sighs
Not really? If I have a dinner party involving 6 guests, and my recipe calls for (<ingredients per portion>*6) then scaling down that ratio may give me 4.5 portions.

I don't cook things without purpose/specific goals. I'm cooking to make enough for the people I'm expecting.

That's not to say it doesn't make sense, just not how I've tended to see things cooked.
I drove several times 25-km tunnel in Norway. It is the single tunnel for traffic in both directions with one line in each direction. It is not scary especially after driving through several older narrower tunnels before. The biggest problem is that it is very borring to drive through. To make driving less borring it contains 3 huge caves lit by light with different colors. It helps, but not much.
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Wouldn't sun shades blocking any amount of sunlight have a negative effect on agriculture and endanger the food supply?
Anyone have a source for the "25-page report"?
I get that this is meant to demonstrate the elegance of the slide rule, but boy oh boy am I glad I can just punch some numbers into a device and get the answer. What a pain in the butt this looks like.
This is mentioned on the website under "Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage".
A Chinese-built replica of the Titanic will set sail from Dubai in 2022
Yeah, the fade animation is a bit on the long side.
> A login cookie being set would trigger the legal requirement,

Are you talking about the EU privacy and data protection directives? Because they have an exception for Authentication, Session and Security Cookies as well as several other types of cookies which are necessary for the function of the site.

A user that is logged in should not need to see this either.
Okay, I clearly got a bit too passionate. Let me try and clarify, civilly:

Hate speech is always an attack.

Whether it's overt (Westboro, the N-word, Swastikas, homophobic slurs, etc.) or more subtle ("the 14 words", "88", etc). Supporting the "right" of someone to use hate speech is supporting their right to attack (and thus violate the rights of) others.

Whereas, by preventing those attacks, nothing of value is lost, and real harm is prevented.
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You forgot to hijack the back button :)
Perhaps there's the chance that they're interested in their legacy being saving the human race. There will probably be statues of them, schools named after them, and who knows what else if the plan succeeded.
How is that a common unified protocol? I can't send between the apps.

Additionally, I need a debit card or bank account to use them at all. With crypto, you don't.
Pro tip as someone who has experience in LLC-busting litigation: an LLC for an individual side project is totally a waste of time and money. In order to maintain the separation of liability, you need to maintain separate bank accounts, financials, everything.
I think it was wierd that the UK office finally came upon their own "redemption" moment for David Brent with the movie that came out a couple of years ago. I felt this was actually inspired by the US version where even though Steve was initially incompetent and selfish, by the time of his departure his incompetence had mellowed down a lot and his social "integration" was quite the highlight.
I've seen it firsthand, and I'm far outside the valley. Experienced, well educated older applicants dismissed by far younger managers giving vague reasoning e.g. "I just didnt see the passion...the energy wasnt there....". Its really sad.
If it's taught us nothing else, I'm grateful for the whole bitcoin mania for teaching us some humility about computer security. It seems the consensus is forming that a computer that's connected to the network is pretty much insecure by definition.
> I would argue that the level of satire a society can cope with, is directly proportional to the quality of democracy the society has.

So where does that put America :)
Even apart from the Streisand effect, conspiring to suppress crappy ideas gives them undeserved credibility. "They didn't want you to hear this."
Getting really good at carbon capture (specifically direct air capture) could also have the side benefit of proving technologies that drive in-situ propellant production within the carbon dioxide atmosphere of Mars.

Similarly, this could drive a net carbon-neutral source of natural gas on Earth.
It's mostly because of the high nicotine content, and the nicotine they use is a salt form rather than nicotine base. The salt form absorbs through the lungs more readily similar to the form of nicotine in cigarettes.
A system which makes no distinction between any of these use cases and treats them all the same sounds very appealing to me.
An example would be MS SQL Server on Linux, it basically makes use of library OS to run Win32 on Linux.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-a...
Deplatforming works until new "free speech" platforms like Gab arise to replace the old.
If you have the battery replaced using the official channels you have warranty, both on the new battery and the repair.
> you do have to be willing to work for established companies that don't operate on hipster frameworks.

Well, one man's established company and non-hipster framework is another man's cave and commodore 64.

I've personally experienced a glaring cultural and technical difference between work environments in the SF/Seattle areas and ones in other technology hotspots - even within the same company.
The primary advantage is not any kind of architectural wisdom or specific knowledge, although that may be the case in some instances.

1) Having the 'magic of the founder' in place is worth a lot. Imagine young Engineers getting to sit on meetings with 'the World's Once Richest Man', world renowned, influential, 'powerful', and the 'creator' of their initiative. It's like a celebrity who is paying attention to you and is meaningfully participating in something you are doing. You'd never forget that meeting. It's exciting and inspiring, and adds meaning or resonance to what you do. It's like being a little bit a party of mythology and gives emotional impetus to the original 'raison d'etre' of the company.

2) Satya can use Bill (I don't mean negatively) to move the needle in areas where Satya couldn't alone. CEO's, surprisingly, don't always have a lot of power. They are like nervous feudal lords, always worried about popular revolts, public opinion, antagonism from the nobles (i.e. other execs). So having someone with the tremendous power of 'authenticity' is like gold. If Satya and Bill agree 'we need to move the company in this direction' ... Satya alone would have a lot of convincing ... but if 'Bill says it' and starts propagating this idea in all-hands and in meetings, then it's a done deal. It will happen for better or worse. Having the 'founders word' is such an amazing thing if it works in a situation.

3) Maybe he was always doing this, but having his 'extra organizational outreach' is powerful. Calling up big CEO's of customers, politicians, lobbyists, governmental people etc.. Who's going to turn down a call from Bill Gates? Nobody really :). So it's a big thing to have him create connections and pave the road ahead socially.
I don't think it's far stretched to assume that eating less cancerous chemicals put on our food leads to less cancer.

I haven't read the study yet, however it seems pretty obvious.
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>Rather, violations are based on arbitrary criteria of "dominance" - which is popular with certain ideologues but has very little support in showing that this is actually a good metaphor for understanding our society.

I'm fascinated with why people don't acknowledge power structures as having any influence in how one part of society views another; that there is currently no hierarchy in society.

You just haven't ever needed to interface with this idea and therefore believe it's not a defined concept.
This strikes me as a timely and important sentiment.

When we demand that Twitter ban anti-semitic tweets, or that Cloudflare block white supremacist websites, or that Youtube deplatform Alex Jones, we are taking the power to limit speech (which the founders felt was too important to be wielded by the government) and handing it to middle managers at software companies. The de jure rule is "Freedom of Speech shall not be infringed" but the de facto rule is "Don't say anything that would upset the advertisers."

This seems like a Bad Idea (tm) but until/unless a decentralized Mastodon/Scuttlebutt style platform gets traction, I don't know what the solution is. It's a natural result of relying on private apps as a primary method of communication.
At a discount maybe, and only along the border, try showing up in the north and waving around some USD. That’s a pretty naïve attitude, to think you can show up anywhere and demand they accept your USD at face value. I think this all further proves my point.
Your post could have been made by me in 1995. I barely graduated high school and had lied a lot, mostly to my parents. I joined the US Air Force and some time in there, I just decided that lying was more trouble than it is worth. Now, I never lie. Ever. Period. It is very freeing. Now, as for your career. I wouldn't be so down about not knowing what to do. My career track was Air Force->College->Electrical Engineer->Technical Sales->Embedded Engineer->Software Developer

Not necessarily the model of climbing the ladder, but I've learned something at every stop along the way. It's amazing the things that seem trivial at the time, but 20 years later still provide value.

It sounds like you may need to spend some time on what kind of person you want to be. Don't put too much of your identity into what you do for money. Maybe spend some time trying to help others. Helping others can put your own struggles into perspective.

Good luck. I'll be praying for you.
But guys who will own this "stablecoin" somewhere in Cook island offshore would surely provide support in a timely and legal manner.
Those aren't just ideas- those are vicious actions. I don't think giving access to those we are actively at physical odds with is within bounds of debating ideas.

I doubt the founding fathers were inviting Quislings to their debating societies during the revolutionary war.
Also, even namespaces and enums aren't that foreign, and are still "JS compatible" in that they transpile to perfectly normal JS code that you can still use quite obviously in other JS code (enums create a list of constants and sometimes a reverse lookup map; namespaces create ugly, nested, mergeable object literals and IIFEs just like Grandma jQuery used to bake back in the bad old days before module systems). From one point of view they are nothing but syntactic sugar for common JS patterns.
That's what it sounds like from the description:

> Going forward collaboration features will be available for free to practitioners and small teams, at an affordable price to businesses, and Terraform Enterprise will remain our world-class platform for organizations adopting Terraform at scale.

It's not released yet though, so it won't be reflected in the pricing page yet. The beta starts "early next year".
Or like LinkedIn, ask for microphone permissions when you touch the homepage.
I can't tell if that's some crazy shit or if I am old now.