skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>He was nearing the bottom financially. “I’ve gone through my savings. I’ve gone through my 401(k). My unemployment last check is next week. I have about $2,000 to my name, and after that, I don’t know.”

I don't mean to be callous but as he was spending down his 401k why didn't he get a lower level job somewhere? A lot of this story seems to be about an older man in tech that was too prideful to get any job he could get until he found work at the caste level he was accustomed to in the past.
Because they don't remember the previous ones. Most people ignored crypto until a year ago.
Yeah, bean counters do like to know their amounts out to the penny. That would require a pretty big slide rule.
I use Zimbra. I've been running it as a selfhosted service for 8 years now. It does need quite a powerful server (it's written in Java, so it needs lots of RAM), but it works wonderfully, and their web interface is just great!

Maintenance is quite simple, just install updated versions when they come out, I haven't had any problems with it.

Regarding mobile integration, I use Android. Any IMAP client will sync mail correctly, Zcal and Zcard for synchronizing calendar and contacts.
I'm worried that it's too late for carbon removal to prevent some of the worst effects (since no large scale carbon removal plan can be implemented overnight) and we need to look into more short-term ways of reducing warming such as albedo modification.

Or in the terms on this page, we need a Plan C.

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They actually do list this, I didn't notice at first since it's not a carbon removal technology.
2018 SBC Annual Report: Downsizing Amid the Ruins of Decline
Artificial photosynthesis.

Basic idea is a nanoscale metal-organic "hack" of common bacteria systems to develop efficient pathways for the conversion of sunlight and CO2 into useful fuels. Massive search and simulation required to find ideal candidates. Which could then be incorporated directly into carbon emission sources such as factories and power plants.

One recent example is hybridizing M. thermoacetica with "magic" Au22 nanoclusters

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/harvesting-solar-fuels-t...
HP updates Spectre x360 2-in-1s with webcam privacy switch, more battery life
> Every normal person is capable of assessing their environment

I've walked up and down that sidewalk hundreds of times, in dry, wet, and cold conditions. I have never thought twice of walking down it in the rain.

From visual inspection, the water was not obviously soapy. All it looked like was a wet patch of sidewalk. It looked just fine to step on.

> IANAL but I believe the legal standard that would be applied is reasonableness. Is it reasonable for a person, traversing a highly-inclined street, in freezing weather, to expect the street not to contain any frozen patches of water.

It wasn't an ice slick, it hasn't rained or snowed in the past week, so the street was otherwise bone-dry. There was no indication that the situation was dangerous. I've never seen anyone else, before, or since, be stupid enough to dump a bunch of soap on that sidewalk, either, so its not exactly a common hazard.

It's not that bloody hard to run your business without creating a hazard to the public. I don't care if your revenue is a million, or a billion dollars a year. Get it right, and don't hurt people.
Trying to say that crime is biological is just a classic example of misunderstanding correlation and causation at best, and an attempt to justify hate speech at worst.

You're 100% spot on that it's not biological, but more than likely just a result of the other factors associated with class and access to wealth.
Politics are generally decremented on the front page. It's not just N, but rather HN, after all.

It is news, though. It is the second time that a carbon tax has been on the Washington ballot. It may pass this time around.
I recall a recent blog post by Mozilla where they said they removed most of the overhead in JS <-> WASM.

I agree, without data, the observations cannot be replicated or discussed. I'm sure there's a simple explanation for each point.
This is a gem. Fun, Physics, CS and written by John Walker, founder of Autodesk, Inc. and co-author of AutoCAD.
How could this have never been shared on HN so far?

It's dated 9th August 1995, so the date in the title is wrong.
Zelle works quite nicely between (bank) apps and has been as fast as Venmo etc in my experience (in the US). https://www.zellepay.com/

I think the interoperability is nearly solved for the quick transfer world as well. Cross-border is solved through remittance schemes as mentioned up/down thread.
Surely it's not just wealth though - if kids grow up in a family environment where breaking the law is normal, I'd very much expect that to affect their attitudes differently than if they grow up in a law-abiding family.
Halfway? I didn't know they made a lightweight version of that model.
But lawyers almost always give advice off the record, you can't prove anything. In my observations, situation I described is very common.
Coinbase is trying to be the interface between the government-regulated world, and the code-regulated world.

Of course they have to make more compromises to accommodate the side with the guns, than the immaterial one.
The article traces the Bogle's family start in crime back to the Prohibition era. While there are, of course, a host of reasons why people become criminals, ridiculous laws are a contributing factor. The War on (some) Drugs is repeating the same behavior and expecting different results. It's well past time to end it, along with the human devastation it causes.
C02 in the atmosphere is going to need to increase by 2x-4x before cognition becomes a problem. Meanwhile indoors co2 jumps to these levels within hours of poor ventalation.

I minuter the co2 in my office and vent when required.
14% is big enough to include in a reduction scheme, no? I don't understand wanting to exclude it.

First two points (subsidy removal and carbon tax) would apply to all uses of fossil fuels, not just transportation.
> we are taking the power to limit speech (which the
> founders felt was too important to be wielded by the
> government)

Someone spray-paints a swastika on your car. Do you think the founders would mind if you painted it over?
161 comments and no one has mentioned Glenn Greenwald and the Intercept's prolific coverage on this issue? I'll do a quick websearch and fix that.

Should Twitter, Facebook and Google Executives be the Arbiters of What We See and Read? August 21 2014 - https://theintercept.com/2014/08/21/twitter-facebook-executi...

Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored September 12 2016 - https://theintercept.com/2016/09/12/facebook-is-collaboratin...

Then: Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments December 30 2017 - https://theintercept.com/2017/12/30/facebook-says-it-is-dele...

"hate speech" from:ggreenwald on Twitter - https://twitter.com/search?q=%22hate%20speech%22%20from%3Agg...
Anatomy of Twitter Bots: Fake Followers
iPhone XR Review: Almost all the best for way, way less
Trying to be first at a game no one wants to play.
This isn't so bad. Maybe it's because I'm used to an onslaught of interruptions and I automatically dismiss them. What hits me the most is when I'm halfway through an article and then the interruptions re-appear. You're never comfortable in your browsing.
He said "without the complicated stuff" and "Dreamweaver". Github Pages is all command-line and uses Git for file transfer, does it not? I think the OP is thinking drag-and-drop folders through FTP like good ol' Dreamweaver.
I'm glad you have the option and whatever keeps you running is a good thing, but I love exercising with as little as possible. It gives me a good time to truly unplug and be alone with my thoughts, I also think it lets my body set the pace.
Fucking around with the ocean on a scale that's going to move the needle on CO2 in the atmosphere has a very high probability of serious unintended consequences.

Iron particles won't replicate, but the chemistry of the ocean could change dramatically. We don't know what happens at scale, and we probably don't want to find out.

Find another solution.
That's how you end up with echo chambers and parallel online universes.
Jair Bolsanaro: Too ugly to “deserve” his rape
Interpretability and Post-Rationalization
Care to share some interesting ones of these projects? Genuinely interested.
> a fake chat window

Exactly, I hate the bait-and-switch of chat windows.

"Oh hey there, do you have any questions?" pops up after a couple minutes on the site, then you reply with a question and you get "We will respond to you within a couple hours, you are important to us".

I think it erodes your user's trust in you.
Indeed,

The problem is that, given we're failing the straightforward task of curtailment even now, what are the chances that we can successfully achieve curtailment and sequestering in the required time-frame?

Curtailment is a large task but we know what to do. Sequestering would also be a large task but what to do is uncertain. Curtailment so far has been a corrupt circus with "pledges" and other indirect inducements ("carbon credits") being most of what was done. These indirect inducements primarily served as speculative vehicles and advertising gloss.

And here, I just google'd up what you'd expect: A bitcoin-based platform for trading carbon credit. Now you can use the certainty of damaging the environment to make a promise to repair it.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ibm-and-veridium-transf...
Well, if it needs a ton of money to have you worry professionally then your sampling is biased towards large companies. The businesses I am referring to were all profit-earning.
Don't you think that there's perhaps something wrong with a perfect solution presented with no drawbacks? Something like that screams, "incomplete knowledge of implementation or externalities"
So does anyone know why this isn't happening more? Surely there are plenty of super wealthy tech titans, Hollywood stars, etc. that care about climate change. They could buy up rural land that is suitable for forestry and start planting trees, or prevent deforestation. Even small time donors could make an impact. Land in the US is cheap, right? What am I missing?
How one man built the Sharper Image into the world's wackiest gadget store
> Now everyone is in on it, so we're getting confronted by parts of society we could pretend didn't exist 10 years ago. I don't know why I didn't see it coming.

Did you have the same biases I did? At that time and age (my teens, mostly), I just assumed people with different values than mine were ignorant, and so naturally they wouldn't be capable of using advanced technology.

I'm not proud of that, but there's still a _lot_ of that sentiment kicking around, including in the form that giving people additional access to technology and knowledge will educate the masses into the "correct" set of values held by whoever's pushing for greater technological adoption.
The Army Stymied Its Own Study of the Iraq War
Since I couldn't flash my own OS in to the BMC components, where I work those ports and the 'combo' bmc+normal ports are not used on public facing networks.

A BMC really should be just a fully open minicomputer. Ideally there'd be a slot for something like a Raspberry PI to be used as an add-on BMC card.
Nope, I'm near expert-level in Python3 and recent JS, with well-rounded platform and industry experience and it still took me a year to get hired last time. Didn't work so well for the guy in the article, did you read it?

Ageism isn't the only problem though, just as big is that no one will allow you to learn on the job. With the explosion of tech stacks it should be a requirement, but the opposite is true. Tech interviews under the gun are another.
DOHC2: Command and Control (C2) Over DoH
A 4°C increase in temperature will lower people's quality of life a whole lot more than any minor inconvenience you'll have to endure in the short term.

If the government had any backbone at all they'd rally people around the idea of committing to it and getting it done. In World War II people lowered their "quality of life" to support the cause. It can be done.
If you are on AWS and don't expect to ever leave, then CloudFormation is ok. Not as elegant, but does the work well enough.

If you are not on AWS you are out of luck.
Desert flooding even happened before by mistake in the US:

It was not long before the Colorado River began to wreak havoc with its erratic flows. In autumn, the river would drop below the level of the canal inlet, and temporary brush diversion dams had to be constructed. In early 1905, heavy floods destroyed the headworks of the canal, and water began to flow uncontrolled down the canal towards the Salton Sink. On August 9, the entire flow of the Colorado swerved into the canal and began to flood the bottom of the Imperial Valley. In a desperate gamble to close the breach, crews of the Southern Pacific Railroad, whose tracks ran through the valley, attempted to dam the Colorado above the canal, only to see their work demolished by a flash flood.[197] It took seven attempts, more than $3 million, and two years for the railroad, the CDC, and the federal government to permanently block the breach and send the Colorado on its natural course to the gulf – but not before part of the Imperial Valley was flooded under a 45-mile-long (72 km) lake, today's Salton Sea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River
I've been watching a ton of Machine Thinking's videos lately. His series on Metrology (scientific study of measurement) is super interesting. He talks about how to work your way up to precision manufacturing from a set of granite slabs. We owe a ton of thanks to the scientists and engineers that developed techniques to produce very accurate gauge blocks from which the entire modern world is built on.
We're going to need carbon removal tech AND a decrease in emissions. From year 1750 to 2007, we've added around 820 000 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. We've already got way too much CO2 in the air, and we're still adding around 35 Gt per year extra.

We need to find ways of getting this carbon out of the air.

Best would be if we could create actual products out of it, such as aggregates using advanced weathering like Blue Planet ( http://www.blueplanet-ltd.com/ ) or creating carbon based building materials like stones, insulation or others.
If we combine this with bio-energy we might find systems that are already profitable without carbon credits.
Sure, in theory. However, organic produce isn't that much more expensive than conventionally grown produce, but organic meat is way more expensive than conventionally grown meat. I expect someone choosing organic foods will likely eat more veggies than someone eating conventionally farmed foods.

Also, it's pretty hard to find organic fast food. Most restaurants that push organic foods are a bit more expensive, so again, people would likely avoid them.
Another possibility:

Using a sledge hammer, break the slide rule into N pieces, taking care to insure that N is greater than the sum you wish to compute. Now to compute the sum of A and B, count out A pieces into a paper bag, then count out B pieces into the same paper bag. Now empty the bag onto a clean workspace and count the total number of pieces to produce the result.

https://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~steve/astrophysics/webpages/baro...
That's exactly how I feel as well (in my late 30s). After awhile, the passion does wane. Cynically, why would I have passion to work long hours for another startup who is going to "change the world" through marketing ad-tech, possibly failing and leaving me without a paycheck?

I've gotten to a position where I'm doing just part-time now, ultimately looking toward early retirement (or, working on whatever I want).
You can cut emissions even more by eliminating the need for cars, but as that would put a huge dent in the automotive-central industrial complex that is the United State, nothing short of apocalyptic conditions are going to make that happen.
Polygon had a really interesting article about the use of different film formats (IMAX, Super 16mm, 35mm) in order to convey different emotions in the viewer.
https://www.polygon.com/2018/10/14/17971246/first-man-imax-d...
Recently watched and enjoyed it though I had some issues with it. 1) shaky cam was very annoying. 2) I thought there was way to much focus on his wife and would have rather more focus on the space program.
Maybe, I would personally go with C++.
>most Uber users will pay whatever the price

So Uber is charging their current rates as a way of giving back to the community or whatever? If Uber (or even Uber and Lyft) were to double their prices tomorrow there would most certainly be a drop in volume. Just a couple of days ago I took a Lyft from the airport for no other reason than that a cab would cost about 2x. Yes, there are also circumstances and places in which Uber/Lyft is demonstrably better than a cab but the decision can also just be about who is cheapest.
Given the wealth disparity in some places it is actually surprising how law abiding most people are. Keep in mind that the rich have a disproportionate effect in making the laws in the first place.
Why take a private bus over a private ferry?
Not really.

One involves a neutral role, in which subscribed feeds are delivered to users without modification or filtering.

The other involves an active role on the part of the platform for any number of reasons: increased engagement, removal of voices that may cause perceived damage or lack of trust in the platform itself, or other, more ideological reasons.

I've noticed an intentional avoidance of distinction, lately, between active and passive behavior on a number of fronts, from sexual activity, to medical advice and intervention, to social media publishing. It's a pretty crucial component in ethical analysis that I suspect is being intentionally blurred.
> This interpretation hinges on interpreting successful sub-majority writes as not necessarily successful: rather, a successful response is merely a suggestion that the write has probably occurred, or might later occur, or perhaps will occur, be visible to some clients, then un-occur, or perhaps nothing will happen whatsoever.

> We note that this remains MongoDB’s default level of write safety.

This sounds pretty scary. How does it compare to other distributed dbs, like Riak? My understanding is that Riak lets you specify how many nodes a write must succeed on to be considered successful. Are its responses more reliable? Is this just a "distributed computing is hard" situation?
We're passed 400 ppm globally, and urban areas are much higher. Indoor air is often 1000 ppm - how many air changes do you need to get that down to a reasonable amount if your intake is around 450? 500?

And do we know for sure that 500-1000 is fine for cognition?
Over My Shoulder – John Walker's Reading List
In a vacuum, I would not say that's hate speech. But there are complexities in the advocacy for capital punishment in the current context of the US's criminal justice system.

Our carceral system is widely recognized to be deeply racist in practice and in philosophy. This being the case, it's not an unbelievable stretch to say that when someone holds a belief in capital punishment, there is a good chance they also have parallel beliefs that rationalize capital punishment as a functional part of that racist system.

In that case, such advocacy is part of their rhetorical framework of hate speech. The clarity of the definition of hate speech gives us to see the context of that.
All Power Labs, a company that makes biomass gasifiers, has estimates for the amount of carbon their technology can sequester (http://www.allpowerlabs.com/carbon). This appears to be the most viable process forward, as not only can one create a ton of electricity, hot water and air, but also biochar which sequesters carbon in the soil in a beneficial way for an estimated 10k years. (full disclosure, I'm an ex employee).

Equally exciting are the biomass gasifiers that utilize Stirling engines, such as those made by Microgen (http://www.microgen-engine.com/) as they are external combustion engines which are quieter and have better runtimes and maintenance cycles.
The United States fully intends to reverse course on that and fire up coal plants in order to something something jobs.

The reason it was falling was because of strict emissions standards and a strong EPA, both of which are basically gone.
Most credit card limits don't touch what a company'd be asking a VC, dontcha think?
Google is a rational company, and pays as little as it can, provided it still attracts people they're interested in. For example, Warsaw Googlers earn less than half of SV ones make.
Also the Chicago Deep Tunnel system is pretty massive

"Phase 1, the creation of 109.4 miles (176.1 km) of drainage tunnels ranging from 9 to 33 feet (2.7 to 10.1 m) in diameter, up to 350 feet (110 m) underground, was adopted in 1972, commenced in 1975, and completed and operational by 2006."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_and_Reservoir_Plan
>Making decisions about what content your audience sees is an act of publishing, even if it's executed via complex algorithm.

This is true. And it is more difficult than most people want to even come close to dealing with. Let's say that you wave a wand and you have a bot that will 100% eliminate every racist claim ever made on the service, burying it and showing it to no one. You have just made it impossible to talk about racism. By killing the discussion, you will enlarge the groups of people who would never think to use a racial epithet, but who harbor deep convictions that different races have genetically-driven differences in capability and some need coddling. That is racism. But you can't even point that out, let alone discuss why it is factually wrong, on a sanitized platform.

On a sanitized Twitter, Megan Phelps-Roper and her sister would still be members of Westover Baptist Church, protesting gay funerals and spewing vitriol. They might not be able to do it on Twitter, but they'd be doing it elsewhere. Because Twitter was NOT sanitized, and because it WAS possible to confront people with total refutation and challenge to their most closely-held beliefs, Megan Phelps-Roper was convinced that her own position was wrong and destructive. And because of that lack of censorship, that permission to offend and call out, Westover Baptist has 2 fewer people working daily to hurt others. Anyone calling for a sanitized online platform is calling for a death of discussion, a death of social progress, and a death of any opportunity for the ignorant to learn.

In the 1960s, it was profane, disgusting, and obscene to suggest that interracial marriage should be allowed. It wasn't just 'a different opinion.' It was a view that made people sick, that riled up violence, that led to name-calling and hate. And it was only because the public forum was able to bear that hate, those insults, etc, that progress eventually happened.

Eric Schmidt in his book 'A New Digital Age' makes the argument that people like himself should take the reigns and kill discussion so that he might make the decisions for society. Were he around in the 60s, he would be fighting to lock down discussions about interracial marriage. He, and many like him, see the public having heated discussions and roiling in conflict and conclude they are mindless and incapable of policing themselves. This is a view as old as time. It's Conservatism. The old kind. The kind that backed kings, pharoahs, chieftains, etc. The kind that said some people are simply Better and destined to lead, while others are Lesser and destined to follow. Don't be surprised, but many are comfortable to accept that role as a follower if it means less responsibility or need to think. Conservatism died out near the end of the 18th century and through the 19th but there is no reason it couldn't re-establish itself with a fresh coat of paint and maybe with the help of some automation.