skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the UN/IPCC proposals for holding warming to "only" +2C (which is still fairly catastrophic--all coral reefs will be dead, for example) are already assuming that magic unproven negative-emissions technology is deployed at scale.

So from that perceptive, it's nice to see that somebody is in fact working on inventing this technology. But it's not going to 'stop' climate change.

A more honest headline but less-catchy headline would be "Unproven technology might help us avoid our current path to worst-case climate scenarios"

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https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...

> As you can see, in either scenario, global emissions must peak and begin declining immediately. For a medium chance to avoid 1.5 degrees, the world has to zero out net carbon emissions by 2050 or so — for a good chance of avoiding 2 degrees, by around 2065.

> After that, emissions have to go negative. Humanity has to start burying a lot more carbon than it throws up into the atmosphere. There are several ways to sequester greenhouse gases, from reforestation to soil enrichment to cow backpacks, but the backbone of the envisioned negative emissions is BECCS, or bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration.
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What Is the Better – Merchant of Record or a Payment Gateway?
sounds interesting, any links?
+1 for the browser situation nowadays. Sad state of affairs really.

Even if some young guy looked around on the Internet seeking to build a new browser, all you see is advice on not to do it and use existing libraries, engines. I'm not saying it's untrue but it's not surprising that browser situation ends up here when that's the widely accepted attitude. But then again, wonder what would have happened if Linus Torvalds listened and gave up on Linux.
Check out Blazor[0], and you can touch the DOM through JS interop.

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/razor-component...
Nostalgia aside, can a network without border gateway peering be considered an ISP? It seems like a more apt term might be dial-up network provider.
I have a Moto G6 Forge purchased a couple months ago, and it lists no updates available with the last update Jan 1 2019.

This is just the android ecosystem these days, don't count on security updates?

(This phone is actually my first smart phone, I can't even explain why I had a flip phone for so long... except this. But I'm still figuring out what to expect from em.)
Which looks like a "distro" somebody developed from their parents basement in their pajamas.

I'm sure there's some such distro doing all kinds of inane shit one can think of, but, like the fact that some people are cannibals, doesn't make canibalism an actual established practice in society.
I think if we could muster a couple hundred dollar per ton carbon tax and use the revenue for removal, that would do it. Means putting about 4% of global GDP towards it, forever, but it could certainly be done. Back of the envelope call it removing 20 billion tons of carbon per year. 4 trillion dollars a year.

That's leaving aside the fact that we won't, of course, but it's not physically or economically impossible.
It's not just that it's insipid. More importantly, this sort of thing makes it just that much harder for the women who have been killing it to be taken seriously.
Define "we", because AFAICT Europe has always leaned towards restricting freedom of speech when necessary for the (claimed) overall benefit of society. See for example the right to be forgotten law.
> denominations of Judaism

Which is mostly irrelevant, given the large and diverse groups of secular Jews worldwide. More importantly, you've moved the goalposts from having to defend a fairly extreme statement to trying to defend something like "Jews are more likely than average to support the modern state of Israel", which is just kind of obvious.
That sounds more like speculating than investing. I always view investing as simply a hedge against inflation rather than a true money making venture.

If you are investing put it in a low-cost index tracker sheltered in a tax efficient vehicle (in UK that would be ISA or private pension scheme). Let it compound forever. That's probably what I would do.

If you've not heard of him, look up Harry Browne. He recommended splitting your portfolio four ways: gold, cash, bonds, stocks. He reckoned that way you'd do OK no matter what was going on in the world.

If you feel more like speculating perhaps learn poker and take a trip to Vegas? ;)
only 13 beaches on Taiwan

Who says an invasion has to be of the mainland? Have a look at the location of Taiwan's Kinmen Islands on the map.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinmen
I know that for everyone here, it was obvious from the start that Mars One was never going to fly. What really gets my goat is the utter gullibility of the media. Here are a few of the articles from The Guardian:

22 Apr 2013: Life on Mars to become a reality in 2023, Dutch firm claims

19 Jan 2014: Why we want to spend the rest of our lives on Mars

9 Feb 2015: Mars One mission: a one-way trip to the red planet in 2024

17 Feb 2015: Mars One shortlist: the top 10 hopefuls

19 Feb 2015: Why I want to be a passenger on Mars One

30 May 2015: Can Mars One colonise the red planet?

It was always complete bullshit, anyone with a smidge of technical or scientific background said so repeatedly, so why they did write about it so many times? Yes, I know the proximate reasons – Mars One had a good PR agency, The Guardian wants clicks, etc. But The Guardian is meant to be a good, trustworthy news source, and here they were giving credibility to what I can only describe as a scam artist, or at best, a completely deluded entrepreneur.

It should never have gotten as far as it did, and I blame the media for this.
High end mesh network devices have a dedicated high band (5.8ghz) backhaul radio in addition to their usual low-mid 5ghz and 2.4ghz radios used for clients.

The extra radio allows them to blow the pants off any repeater in terms of performance.

They also claim to do some network optimization, for example if you have a device that's constantly streaming Netflix it will be assigned appropriate QoS automatically.
Credit card transactions have much higher fees. By accepting them you would put a burden on all of your customers who are not using them.
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> It probably won't. The reason is climate change.

Climate change is going to cause hardship, and aren't people going to respond? People respond to changing conditions all the time. In responding to change won't that cause economic activity? Where I live there are many flood relief schemes that have an overall budget in the 100s of millions. Multiply that by all the schemes needed the world over and you have a lot of economic activity.

I know this is very close to the broken window fallacy but assuming that climate is a gradual process and not a cataclysmic one (and there's no evidence that it is) then mere capital will be deployed or destroyed and deployed. Humans can rebuild their capital. Sure, if it wasn't for climate change that capital would have been invested elsewhere but we're not talking about all capital everywhere. I think it extremely unlikely that the effects of climate change will put the breaks on human progress. However I do think it very possible that climate alarmists might cause policies to be put into place that would put the breaks on human progress.

It'd be nice if we could come back here in a generation, in 2050 say, and see what the near-term outcomes were.
How ironic that I read this at work in IE because I don't have any other browser
It is a heavy, frightening photograph, and an honest portrayal of homo sapiens.
You say that African poverty is obscene, and it is. But that obscenity is not for a lack of effort to help. Aid has been a constant in Africa and in other formerly more dreadfully poor places since WWII when the Soviet Union and the US sought to buy influence and it’s never stopped. Development aid hasn’t helped Africa much though it has far, far surpassed aid to Europe after WWII. Absent colonialism you need a functioning state if you’re going to help. Aid doesn’t work unless the government does. Ghana was richer than South Jorea in 1951. Now Ghana looks promising, like maybe it will develop over he next thirty years but South Korea is developed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/opinion/the-politics-of-a...

> By comparison, Africa is already relatively flooded with aid. The continent as a whole receives development assistance worth almost 8 percent of its gross domestic product. Exclude South Africa and Nigeria, and aid jumps to more than 13 percent of GDP — or more than four times the Marshall Plan at its height — for the other 46 African countries.
> if we are serious about 1.5 or 2 degrees.

Hint: We're not.

The Americans are expecting +4C https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump...
And the UK. They have turned a blind eye several times when saudi women have asked for help while traveling in the uk. And all those countries who refuse saudi women refugee status.
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A global decline from 71% to 58% over 30 years would be tepid and mediocre? In the scheme of the history of the human race? This is subjective, of course, but if $7.40/day is the standard, this looks like significant progress relative to our history.
That'd be an upgrade over edge. Remember, Safari and edge are coupled with the OS. Safari team and Edge team can't even push updates without blessing from the OS teams. Chrome, even on Android, does not have this problem. Ideally we'd have more people using Mozilla Firefox but in the world we live in, I'd prefer people use Google Chrome over Safari or Edge (even when edge switches to chrome).
Not Hong Kong. It started from a good port, good government and lots of poor people and now it’s rich. Free trade all the way.
I will certain look at Blazor when it has matured for creating websites, but I am not sure you can use it to scrap a third party website.
We had some odd issues when sharing a mod file accross 2 main methods that reached slightly different parts of the API. Each would rewrite the mod file automatically in their own way.

I understand that your mod file is always up to date when this happens, but imo you should be able to use them like ivy files for example. (Using the readonly flag unfortunately does not work either).
>Complete win for who exactly ?

The sweat shop workers, the company, the customers.

Sweat shop workers are losing their ability to do mindless labor, next up, they will be using their brains to make low skill decisions where automation cannot. Think Amazon Turk.

Customers get lower cost, likely higher quality products.

Company gets more reliable workforce.

>It's all fun and games until you have to take into consideration the soci-economical aspect of automation.

This has already happened in history. You COULD make it illegal, but then your countries technology will be out performed by another country.

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Its easy to disagree, its harder to come up with your own solutions.
Medium grey text on a white background makes this almost unreadable. I don't know what point he was trying to make, because tow paragraphs gave me a headache.
I believe it is not about acknowledging the existence, but making business.
The 'poor' living in wealthy countries like the US or France are not poor in the sense of Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Uganda, Yemen or Malawi, where by-and-large there are not even paved streets to drive. It's deeply misleading to compare poverty in the developing world with how the bottom third of the US live. Think available health care, education etc.
How has Webkit won? It's basically only used in Safari these days, right?
Not so much a trend as something that has always been there, for those of us old enough to remember when an MP was legally barred from having his voice heard on television. The security state has a heavy hand, and was only really restrained by ECHR in the late 90s.
Out of curiosity I looked it up and Duden actually has a page on it [1].

It can be broken down to 8 different cases according to Duden and there is actually some logic behind it (though not the best and most consistent :D).

[1] https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/ver_
>My friend "applied," knowing full well it was a scam.

Knew it was a scam and did it anyway?

These are the people that need to have conversations with economists.
What are your thoughts on Apple and Google supporting SA control over women?
I just found out about this "Absher" app that Saudi Arabia runs that allows male guardians to control the movements of women via passport control. It's pretty abhorrent to me but I thought it was an internal thing. I found out yesterday that these two companies permit the app to exist in their app stores. I would have expected something like this to be front page news, and I'm surprised Apple and Google and being allowed to get away with this without being crucified in the media, especially for two ostensibly "progressive" companies. What are your thoughts?
Great Firewall fears as Russia plans to cut itself off from internet
A worse standard is unlikely to win people over. Even a better standard is unlikely to win.

Take HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, remove 90% of the cruft. Now, include what people want like a much better table element that by default can handle Adaptive screen sizes etc etc.

Chromium and Firefox are open source so you can probably get support in them by writing the code yourself. But, good luck gaining traction.
I thought that it still _may_ receive security updates. But now it's on Google's mercy. Or is the fix impossible without whole OS update for some reasons.

Either way it is ridiculous indeed. I have a 5X. It certainly pokes me to install LinageOS faster. A side question: does anyone use Plasma Mobile on their 5X? - https://www.plasma-mobile.org/neon-arch-reference-rootfs/
I've been using Firefox continually since the first version. I don't recall any easter egg. Is it still in the browser?
Can vouch. When you see an organization behaving a specific way, you can usually assume it's due to how they structure their employee incentives. Conversely, watch how the organization deploys its lymphocytes if you want to know what it considers harmful.
France and the UK both built nuclear weapons. They didn’t have the resources to build more than they did or they would have. But that wasn’t really my point. I was merely pointing out that the so called civilized west is responsible for far more misery and death than any nation in the developing world could even aspire to at this point.

It’s not that the Europeans are uniquely horrible people, only that the current era of peace and cooperation in the west is a historical aberration.
That's not a language feature though, that's a compiler feature.

The Go compiler should be technically capable of doing that without breaking iota or introducing a new feature. Have you considered raising a request for it if one doesn't already exist?
TensorFlow has mappers/reducers for feature engineering, and it's Python - so you will inevitably do what you want in there. But yes, you have a point there. How do you debug this thing, though?
Here's an example of a quite high profile Rust project discovered to have been (ab)using unsafe:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8s7gei/unsafe_rust_in...
>Who's to say that your idea is proper

I will fight to death anyone who says different.

>Letterboxing causes burn-in on OLEDs, not exactly ideal for a screen saver.

They letterbox the portrait photos correctly. Well, sort of. They have a small gap between the top/bottom of the TV and the top/bottom of the photo. The letterbox area uses part of the photo so there's no additional risk of burn in. Even if they did just use black, I don't think black can be burned in.
Boglehead here...;)

Good answer, and you made me think of something with a bit more risk. There are these micro-loan companies now where you can lend out cash and get at least a higher rate of interest than most savings accounts.
To be fair, Hickel is discussing the different poverty lines because he is refuting an explicit argument from Pinker in his letter:

> "2. The level at which one sets an arbitrary cutoff like “the poverty line” is irrelevant — the entire distribution has shifted, so the trend is the same wherever you set it."

Hickel argues (using data) that this statement is at least not qualitatively true, as the trend is quite different if you set the poverty line at higher level.
Complains about why he, personally, doesn't want Amazon (or Google) "messing around in your home" and how Eero sells a "premium product" (presumably that doesn't "mess around in your home") and subsequently sells his company to Amazon ... who will likely change the Eero product to "mess around in your home"

And you can't spot the irony?
That is how it is done. Mars landers dont do orbital insertions. They crash strait into the atmosphere. 1% is more than enough. The retro rockets for landing only cover a few hundred m/s, all vertical. The atmoshpere is what bleeds off the several thousand m/s of horizonal velocity neede for capture.

Some probes used no rockets. Parachutes and airbags can land a small probe on mars. That isnt an option on the moon.
We need proper Biohazard filters in our trains. Thats way more important and actually relevant than those Gadgetbahns and no one is talking about it :(.

I'm more sick than collegues using there cars and bikes. That is really expensive.

And there might be a moment in time where it is not a cold virus.
> Hickel accuses Gates/Pinker et. al. of promoting 'hard neoliberal' (i.e. strong free market) ideals. I don't believe this characterization is fair.

Gates/Pinker are selling exactly the antidote to potential guilt for "kicking away the ladder". History makes clear that "free market" ideals never apply to ourselves, only to those colonies and developing nations the IMF and World Bank can coerce into line. Argentina had 2~3x Korea's GDP per capita in 1970, and now the relation has almost exactly flipped. You should know which country had stronger protectionist policies and which was sold out to the World Bank.

Pinker is marketing these harmful policies as "enlightenment", and lying with statistics to ease affluent intellectual guilt.
You may not be an Android user as I am, but if you are --- im excited for the V2 scheduler in Ankidroid, which will allow you to pull in cards from multiple subdecks when reviewing a parent deck. The desktop client already has it.

If that is added, or you're already just using the desktop client, then IIUC the feature you seek (1 new concept, per category, per day) could be acheived by setting the "new card" number on each deck to "1", provided you've separated each of the concepts into subdecks of a main deck.
V100 server on-prem vs. AWS p3 instance cost comparison (for machine learning)
A hedge fund’s ‘mercenary’ strategy: Buy newspapers, slash jobs, sell buildings
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This isn't an argument, you are wrong on the facts. The definition of the word, in English, isn't what you say it is. It is dumb to pretend otherwise, because you are not able to communicate with others who speak English if you do.

I left Reddit to avoid this kind of drivel, go back there if you want to continue to perpetrate it.
You are right, no western agent is being obliged here..

The argument is a neutrality one, essentially that Google and Apple should not be enforcing morality here or abroad.

Should we also just drop sanctions and ban exports to these nations while we're at it?
Ask HN: What are bootcamps or videoes on penetration testing?
For StarCraft 2, I think they're also doing a good job keeping it alive and relevant with the WCS brand. The collective prize pool for all tournaments is several million dollars. You're right that this is likely a drop in the bucket for Blizzard. I appreciate it anyways, since it's not likely to be a huge money maker for them.
> Apple claims total dominion over what apps you can run on your iOS device

This stopped being true some years ago. You can build any app you wish from source and Xcode will sign it and you can run it on your iOS device—no approval or payment required.
Python IDEs and code editors
Add a WebBrowser control (which is just a wrapper around IE), navigate to the page of your choice, then you can access the DOM with methods like

webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("someid")

you can trigger javascript events or fill a form like:

webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("someid").SetAttribute("value", "login")
webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("someid").InvokeMember("click")

There are ways to embed Edge or Chrome in a .net application but you can't access or manipulate the DOM (or you have to inject some javascript, which is not as neat as being to manipulate it directly in .net).
> A Climeworks app could be installed on my smartphone, he explained. It could then be activated by my handset’s location services. “You fly over here to Europe,” he explained, “and the app tells you that you have just burned 1.7 tons of CO₂. Do you want to remove that? Well, Climeworks can remove it for you. Click here. We’ll charge your credit card. And then you’ll get a stone made from CO₂ for every ton you sequester.” He sat back and sighed. “That would be my dream,” he said.

That's what I'm working on! Get people who care to take personal responsibility for their own travel. It is just $2-4 dollars a week - a tiny sum for people who fly frequently. In beta for iOS now if you are interested in giving it a shot: https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/pledge-balance

An independent app has the benefit of not being stuck with just this Climeworks best case $100/ton direct air capture. Soils and grasslands seem to be a low hanging fruit closer to $10/ton.
There is value in understanding our biases. Yes, I think it is fair to call them biases but not necessarily irrational--in the longterm.

People are complex psychological creatures and this whole issues of irrational or rational behavior is compounded by the fact that people can /learn/ system 2 patterns of thinking so well that they become system 1 patterns. Those are essentially habits.

So with your rational mind, it is worth identifying any biases you want to codify in your system 1 brain to minimize cognitive costs. But that's an option. And I think we have that option because there is a giant tradeoff between spending time and energy thinking versus getting a good enough result (out of the many decisions and processes we have to carry out each day).

(With respect to the planning fallacy, I suppose there are benefits to underestimating the time it will take. If projects are really much harder than expected, it may never be emotionally worth starting them because they are too monumental. So we have a bias that makes us more optimistic so we actually start doing stuff which helps us in the long run. What I mean is that you can spin it as a good thing. It may be a wrong intellectual assessment, and sometimes that matters immensely, but it is also quite possibly rational for humans to have this bias because it helps them get more stuff done. I'm not a behavior economists or a psychologist, to be fair.)
Or add 100 dollars to the average cost of a NY-London flight, from my quick calculations. Flights would go up 50-200 dollars each way. That's not the end of the world.
PoC here:

https://github.com/feexd/pocs/blob/master/CVE-2019-5736/expl...