skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the math doesn’t work out. Here is your carbon footprint in the developed world: http://www.globalstewards.org/images/household-emissions-glo...

Even if we move to 100% electric cars powered by renewables tomorrow, that’s 43% of CO2 output. After decades, we are not even at the point where we can do that much, by the way. Grid-scale battery storage is an essential part of the equation, and we are not there yet.

We are still at the beginning stages of even thinking about the other 57%. Electrifying the national freight rail grid would be massively expensive. (Keeping overheard catenary well maintained is so expensive that Maryland’s commuter rail is moving to diesel locomotives for Baltimore to DC service, even though the corridor was electrified more than a century ago.) There are no commercially available electric trucks yet.

That stuff can’t wait for later. To limit temperature increases to 2C, we need to immediately cut global CO2 by three times as much as the US’s total CO2 output. Meanwhile, in the last couple of decades, China has added more than a US worth of CO2 output. If India develops similarly, we’ll add another US and a half. Europe and the US going to zero output won’t cancel out those increases. Even the communist party’s goal in China only calls for 20% electric cars by 2025.

The reliable models we have show that if we don’t cut emissions dramatically and immediately, we will need to go to negative emissions in the short term. That’s another generational problem. Carbon recapture is in its infancy. Look how long it took to perfect solar.
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If you're looking for a comparable tool that's AWS-focused, CloudSploit [1] is a also open source and has a similar "collect and analyze" architecture (full disclosure: I'm a co-founder of the SaaS product). We've also started adding Azure [2] recently as well, but it's not at the same level as our AWS scans yet.

[1] https://github.com/cloudsploit/scans/tree/master/plugins/aws

[2] https://github.com/cloudsploit/scans/tree/master/plugins/azu...
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This comments talks about officers. I.e., they're all in leadership roles.
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This is why I feel like Stadia is doomed to failure from the start. It took Microsoft failing for an entire generation, even when they brought some new technology to the table, to start seeing real mindshare in the video game industry.

I don't see Google running a service at a loss for half a decade.
I think they were blindsided by how huge of an issue climate change has become. If we had started decades earlier (and the knowledge was there), it might still have been a somewhat comfortable path, even without nuclear.

And nuclear does have its problems. I used to be against it, but right now the risk and problems are just not an issue compared to the consequences of carbon emissions.
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If you disagree with one of my points, please reply here so people can have the benefit of the public debate. I’m certainly no climate change denier (I worked at Northwestern’s environmental law clinic, though my focus there was water pollution).
> USA is one of few countries where there is close to nothing amounting to codified criminal abuse of office laws

There is a lot of law, at the federal and state levels, concerning abuse of power [1]. This takes the form of both statutes, which tend to use the term of art "malfeasance in office," e.g. [2], and court precedent (both of which are the law).

> there was at least a minimal acknowledgement [in the USSR] that completely useless/incompetent people must be kicked out from official positions

Office abusers tend to lose their office through elections and term limits. Where this safety valve doesn't exist, a more pointed approach is needed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_power

[2] https://law.justia.com/codes/louisiana/2011/rs/title14/rs14-...
> not so much huge progress later on aside from evolutionary stuff.

shouldn't the internet be considered the greatest achievement yet?
Agreed, but anticipate a counterargument that the laws are available for you to study at local libraries and county courthouses. (copyedited)
You ... might want to look up the meaning of this word (self-flagellation).

You don't need to suffer to change your lifestyle. I reduced meat consumption by 50-75% and do not miss it. If I feel like eating meat I do - and I attribute the success of it to the fact that it was not a complete change like becoming a vegetarian. You can fail at being a vegetarian. I can't have a I gave in and not I don't even have to try anymore and go back to my old lifestyle-moment. I might not have consumed as little meat as I initially wanted but as much as possible without suffering from it.
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That is a good point, a mention on the Neko website would make sense.
The law in each state of the US is different, but I'm fairly certain in every one sex with someone incapable of consent due to unconsciousness is rape. Rape-by-deception laws are more variable between US states, and the US generally and they are generally new (the last few decades) and still fairly weak, often being driven in each state by desire to address the circumstances of a particular single case where efforts to prosecute rape-by-deception as general lack of consent without a specific law addressing deception failed.

Not sure why the legality in the US is material since the act didn't occur in the US, doesn't involve US persons, and the extradition being conducted isn't from or to the US.
What is the name of the condition?
Part of Article 27

> The packages constituting the diplomatic bag must bear visible external marks of their character and may contain only diplomatic documents or articles intended for official use.

But also part of Article 27

> The diplomatic bag shall not be opened or detained.

So you are stuck in a Catch 22. You suspect the bag doesn’t contain official documents or articles but without searching it you can not be sure.

If you believe the leaked documents they actually planned to smuggle Assange out using this method. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/ecuador-considered-smuggling-j...

How it’s usually handled is diplomatically. It’s reported to the higher ups, who will search the bag themselves but they can always refuse.

There are cases where a host country has opened diplomatic bags but they usually come with diplomatic protests.

There has been attempts to make Assange a diplomat of a country or two in an attempt to allow home to leave the embassy and leave the UK but the host country has to accept the status of a diplomat (usually done before they enter the country) and the UK government refused to recognise Assange's status still leaving him stuck.
"that completely useless/incompetent people must be kicked out from official positions, or after demonstrable public screw up"

Or anyway that somebody had to carry the can for unfortunate events: saboteur engineers, murderous doctors, what have you.
People were asking for it. OCaml is the same age as JavaScript but had all these features from day 1. It's especially frustrating when JavaScript fans talk as though JavaScript had invented a language feature that in fact existed decades earlier, which frequently happens.

It's worth being aware that JavaScript is (and always has been) a long way behind the language design state of the art. That informs people's choice of language (in cases where non-JS is an option - but in these days of transpilers, non-JS is always an option). It's not a reason for people to stop improving JavaScript if they find it useful to do so, but it may be a reason to switch away from JavaScript.
But legal obligations to the people cannot be contracted away. Court decisions are public. Statutes are public. Again, to my knowledge, (which must obviously be limited), you cannot contract away the right of people to access the law. Nor can the right of people to write, or comment on, the law be contracted away. You just can't contract away First Amendment rights. You can't say, "Well, we have a publisher, so no writing or reporting on that." The government is explicitly forbidden from entering into any arrangement that would do that.

What's in this contract that makes that legal? That's what we need to get to, because whatever it is making this behavior legal, it has to be removed. And it has to be made explicitly illegal by the Supremes. (You wouldn't think you'd need to do that, but there's always a few politicians everywhere who can't be trusted to act in good faith.)
Sure. Beeing in a very public position does not mean you are incapable of raping people, see Weinstein.

Maybe Assange is innocent. Maybe the allegations are true. We just dont know right now, but neither of these options is obvious right now
Monday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19898837
The text of the laws themselves are open-source. It's the annotations that are the issue and this is, at least, an area where there is a reasonable ambiguity. Hopefully one that will be resolved in favour of greatest openness, but the state's position is at least not totally unreasonable.

What is unreasonable, and why this is getting attention on HN is because Malamud's actions in publish the annotations has been described as "terrorism". Perhaps this is just one boneheaded lawyer speaking carelessly, but maybe it's a deliberate attempt to conflate political activism, which may often involve breaking the law or defying authority in a harmless way in pursuit of a political goal, with terrorism, which involves breaking the law in a violent or dangerous way for the same ends. It's important that such a distinction is kept, and the state cannot depict any and all political motivated misbehaviour as "terrorism"
>would be used as an excuse to extradite him to the US

That makes no sense.

Sweeden does not extradite people for political crimes and espionage is considered a political crime in Sweeden. His chance of being extradited to the US for espionage from Sweeden was extremely low from the start ... and going to the UK out of fear of being extradited to the US makes no sense considering UK and US relations.
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So you are admittedly shilling for your own company then, are you not? Do you see how it may be hypocritical for you to want to get the people who don't agree with you silenced?
> 0. Awareness. Took way too long for me to reach it.

My 11 year old son was diagnosed with ADHD-PI over a year ago, and we've had great success with with all of the above areas for him. 0, 1, 2, and 4 especially. We've gotten things running pretty well at home by recognizing he needs a break from homework to "run around in circles (as he calls it)" for a bit, setting up physical activities like shooting hoops that are easy to start/stop, having a strong routine in the morning before school, and making sure we don't slip at bed times. Another key to his success is his teacher. She's been simply amazing at letting him sit, stand, take 5 to go run up/down stairs, etc. when he needs it. Most importantly, he recognizes that she genuinely cares and it makes him want to do well, unlike a past teacher or two that simply treated him like a nuisance.

The morning routine is probably the biggest win, though. We went from barely able to get out the door in time for school to our son often getting up early and getting fully ready (dressed, bed made, breakfast eaten, lunch packed, showered, etc) before mom or I even get out of bed. He's always so proud of himself when that happens, too.
It's getting to the limit of my knowledge here, so please don't take this as fact, however:

I believe it is because of a weird distinction between "direct" and "indirect" calls in javascript. The spec says that an indirect call is guaranteed to execute in the global context, but a direct call will execute in whatever context it's in.

The `(0, eval)` makes it an indirect call by evaluating an expression that returns the function.

I'm not quite sure about the details of why indirect calls are treated that way though...
Ethereum's dirty little secret is that the Solidity virtual machine is poorly written and full of security holes. The reason the most popular app on the platform is Cryptokitties is because you'd have to be nuts to trust Solidity with real money.

Even if it were secure, Ethereum already has a scale problem with the core dev team recently advising people to stop submitting new dapps because the system is already overwhelmed.
I only use Wikipedia as a reference guideline for specific subjects I am not knowledgeable in. It does a fairly good job at providing that kind of information.
Clicky is good :) Done, thanks!
Neither the Swedish nor British charges were needed for that purpose, all that was needed was an extradition request from the US.

The other charges are immaterial to extradition to the US except insofar as they might prevent or delay it, though being in jail facing the other charges might make it harder to flee extradition to the US if that request came later.
It is certainly possible, but in this instance there are a couple of issues that reduce that to a pretty weird complaint.

I mean, if two people have sex and then sleep in the same bed overnight, and one of the two attempts to continue having sex in the morning ... if you wanna call that rape, rape might not even be a moral crime. Just a technical one. It is diluting the word to the point where it is meaningless. In this particular case the lack of a condom is the troubling part, but not exactly the end of the world.

The law doesn't force us to be perfect at every moment through our entire lives. It doesn't even require us to be good people. If there was evidence Assange has somehow physically, emotionally, financially, what have you, affected these women then that would be a better fig leaf than what seems to be happening.

My memory of the facts is that the girls involved weren't worried about it until they found out it was potentially a pattern of behavior with Assange and wanted him tested for STDs.

If he wouldn't take an STD test I can see how that would justify fining him, or arresting him and forcing him to take a test or something. It isn't obvious it justifies an extradition and all the theater we've been watching.
>What kind of justice system is this?

The best that money can buy.

I think it is time for people to stop having faith in the legal system. It is dangerous waters to tread, but our current system is filled with abuses that are only allowed to continue because people maintain faith.
stimulants are pretty much the only thing that will help. I notice a lot of users commenting how much caffeine, coffee, redbull, monster they consume. 10mg of adderall is much healthier for you than multiple cans of energy drinks. Take care of your body.
Ignorance of the law is, famously, not a legal defence.
Vyvanse specifically or all the various forms of amphetamine that are used to treat ADHD (e.g., Ritalin, Adderall, Concerta, ...)?
Yelling... repeatedly, both inband and out of band. You never responded last time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19865151

Manually entering homeserver URLs is a non-starter unless you're a technical user.
> TL;DR globalThis is not “the global object”; it’s simply the this from the global scope. Thanks to Domenic for helping me understand this important nuance.

Can someone in the JavaScript community please enlighten me and tell me why you would want to be able to obtain a reference to “globalThis” rather than just the global object itself?

Maybe I’m just being presumptuous, but I suspect that’s what this object is going to be used for anyway, for storing global state. And then it might as well just be called global, right?

Unless of course you want to permeate the chaos that is JS “this” into this new global context, but who would deliberately want to do that?
> A solution to how ridiculous old laws are is automatically expire them

This sort of legal amnesia has major drawbacks. Hand politicians the opportunity to make crisis and they'll take advantage of it. Do we really want debt-limit style brinksmanship around murder statutes?

Moreover, cleanly sunsetting laws within our common law system is hard. Case law builds on statute. Regularly wiping away vast portions of case law will have unanticipated consequences.
The other alternative is also simple. Just do nothing.

Then just wait a decade or two by which time it will be way too late and then the world will quickly realise there are no 'chuckles' to be found down that path.
The document you linked shows that the case is Government Entity vs Private Entity. Anything improper that the government's attorneys do would be an abuse of power.
There's still levels, you know.. just because we maybe can't make 1.5°C does not mean we shouldn't aim for 2°C, or even 3°C, this is lower than what we could do.
In Sweden, prosecutors have duty to prosecute.

"In the case of most crimes, the prosecutor has what is known as an absolute duty to prosecute.

This means that the prosecutor is obliged to initiate a prosecution if he or she considers there to be sufficient evidence to prove that a crime has been committed and that a certain person has committed it.

This in turn means that not even the victim of the offence can decide what is to happen in connection with the investigations. In other words, there is nothing on the lines of “withdrawing the charges”. The prosecutor must make sure that the crime is investigated, irrespective of the feelings or wishes of those involved.

The reason for this is that society has an interest in ensuring that the perpetrators of the crime are also tried for it. Exceptions are made for certain offences where it may be felt that the interests of the general public in instigating legal proceedings are not strong enough. Examples of such offences are defamation, breach of domiciliary peace and crimes of unlawful appropriation, or stealing, within the family (i.e. theft etc.)."

https://www.aklagare.se/en/the-legal-process/the-role-of-the...
I listed those platforms (some of which still work in China) just to illustrate that a lot of developer resources are indeed based in, or at least developed in, the USA.

PRC have proven repeatedly that they can and will arbitrarily block foreign services without notice. Slack works today, but how long until they decide that Slack facilitates too much discussion about Falungong, Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwanese independence, or Tiananmen?
check my link below. it's powering 30% of all our energy, only behind oil (33%).
>That sounds like they are effectively writing the law.

That isn't unprecedented. When Congress passes a law, the executive branch has wide discretion on how to interpret the law into executive action.
In fairness, every nation is a work in progress. At all times.
>Your examples are headline understandings of science, and not how science actually progresses.

I do science every day. I have done science for all of my adult life, at the best research institutions in America. I have a very intimate understanding of how science works.

My guess from your writing is that you are NOT a scientist, you're an engineer with a deep technical education. You have learned a lot of science but you don't spend much time actually doing it. In point of fact science is a culture; its practitioners are subject to all sorts of weaknesses, moral and rational, that end up in its method.

Let me give you an example from my field - my current PI invented CTLA4 blockade, a cancer immunotherapy, in 1996. His PhD advisor, Jim Allison, just won the Nobel Prize for this work. Since about 2014 people have become interested in immunotherapy following several successful new therapies, but it was largely ignored since 1996 - why? Because the cancer establishment wasn't interested. People who wished to study the immune component of cancer were shunned or ridiculed, and what is now an entire field was reduced to a rump study of the "tumor microenvironment" that could never receive funding.

Why is it receiving funding now? Because drug companies are interested now that there are successful therapies on the market. The actual scientific evidence, meanwhile, was produced a generation ago.

What this means is that whatever epistemology is at work in "science" is not merely evidence-driven, it's subject to all sorts of human foibles, being done by humans.
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> This is self-flagellation

No, it's quite the opposite. Flying is a terrible experience anyway, traffic jams are awful, working less is the best thing in the world, less meet is good for you.

It's like saying exercise is self-flagellation. It's not.

But again, you sound just like me a couple of years ago. We might have more in common than you imagine.
Why did they subtract one from (length all-files) in the gif?
So what makes them better than D mixins? or python ast-processing? I'm honestly curious because people seem to be real big fans of lisp and I rather fail to see why.
I started to think of sexsomnia when I read that quote, it's when people engage in sex while sleeping, I looked it up on Wikipedia and they list a few cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_sex#Legal_cases
My network consisted of IRC, my huge list of ICQ contacts and a few web design or humor related local forums.
You're confusing correlation with causation. It doesn't matter who or what stood to gain from Clinton's emails being published; unless you can demonstrate an illegal conspiracy (which you can't), there's nothing to say. WL did their job, nothing more.
> Perhaps I should write about how I run(?) a family with ADD? It would make for a lot of laughs and a some sad stuff.

Given how poignantly you expressed my own experience of living with ADHD Primarily Inattentive (what you called ADD above), and as someone on the cusp of becoming a father, I would appreciate this more than I can express.
Come on people. We don't have a lot of information to judge on. But if we are having a debate about the meaning of rape, then we are all side stepping the incredible high chance this is politically motivated nonsense.

Nobody had ever been extradited for this sort of thing. Sweden is special in that it enabled it based on a testimony, even after the testimony has been revoked and without the victims pressing charges or even agreeing with the interpretation of the police.

This is not an example of the legal system taking too much liberty of the notion of rape. This is much more likely an example of state level conspiracy.

Men are not under threat, sharing potentially incriminating information about the USA just means that nobody is playing by any rules.

Don't embarrass yourself or others to have this debate about rape. As an academic exercise, sure go ahead, but this case does not prove that rape laws in Sweden are used unfairly. It just proves Sweden, like most smaller Western nation's have little choice but do what the big man in Washington whispers in their ears.

This also does not prove Assange is guilt free. But at least if we want to maintain any illusion that we live in a free world: he is a deserved a court case about the actual actions that are fuelling this hunt.

So please just don't use the word rape and Assange in the same sentence. It's a disservice to actual victims, whistle blowers and our cultural identity as such.
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Well, solution would be introducing two new terms to solve this problem.
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Something tells me people will find a way to complain about this. And that those people will be the same people that think Amazon's warehouse policies are oppressive.
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