skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China, 7.5 metric tons per person in 2014. Switzerland, 4.3. Sweden, 4.5. France, 4.6. Spain, 5.0. Italy, 5.3. UK, 6.5.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
There are some strong accents that could pronounce them similiarly, the islands / getting close to irish could pronounce the "air" in "barn". But in general / central belt those words are pronounced differently
Wow, Medium built such a dysfunctional webservice that people start actively thanking others not to use it - in completely unrelated posts. Nice job.
8 and 10 aren't vulnerable, according to their writeup about it.

As someone commented above, there's a footnote about how Vista users can use the Server 2008 patch, I was more amused that in an apparently-complete enumeration of versions in a table, they just...left it off.
For processing text, using Python doesn't really make sense in a ton of cases.

If I want to search a text file for a specific string, why wouldn't I just use `grep "hello" myfile.text`, or if I wanted to do it on a directory of text it's a minor change of `grep -R "hello" .`.

Why would I go through the trouble of opening a Python interpreter, or writing out a Python script to do the equivalent in Python?

Or if I wanted to grab the third column of a CSV, I would for sure just use the `cut` command or maybe `awk` (depending on what I'm doing).

For more complex parsing you can often pipe together a few commands and maybe convert it into a 5 line Bash script to make it a little easier to create variables, etc.. It becomes something you can whip up in 1 minute.

Then there's also more involved text parsing that doesn't require piping a bunch of commands together or shell script glue, in which case it comes back to using grep with its various flags and potentially a regexp. It's a natural fit for the problem and you can iterate on it so quickly.
Well, it's easy for us to sit here in the developed world and talk about how the world doesn't need growth.

There are billions of people for whom more of the same means more poverty. When everybody in Africa, South America, Asia, heck even the poorer parts of Europe and North America, has access to clean water, food, education, healthcare, safety, justice etc. we can discuss whether we really need growth.

Growth may not be as needed in our parts of the world, but it sure is for a lot of people.
The radio-navigation planes use to land safely is insecure and can be hacked
This will cost a lot, and this is not even the hardest step. We use energy for electricity, but also transportation, heating, fertilizer production/agriculture, cattle produces GHG, A/C recycling, and what not.

The USA will need to reduce meat consumption, improve public transportation (electric cars if produced at scale will introduce lots of other environmental issues), relocalize industries. They are late to the transition in every domain.
Its entirely possible to get a junior ruby on rails job outside of london earning 30k, even 35k is not unheard of for a junior.

Just go on any of the big job sites, search "Junior Ruby on Rails" in your area and take a look at whats available. If you find some good jobs, apply, go for an interview - if you get an offer put that to your current employer, maybe they will match it, if not you now have the option of leaving to a higher paid job if thats what you want. Its pretty simple really!

EDIT: Sorry I read that you are "outside london", but really you said you are "just outside london" - does that mean you can commute into london? If so then at 23k you are being paid far below market rates.
If this were an argument made in good faith, you would have done the absolutely mediocre amount of required thinking about what it is animals eat. Given that you evidently did not, this reads as empty contrarian posturing. Not very useful for anyone, except maybe for your pleasure.
Really nice, because a ramp up in mass production of these things causes a lot of emissions that will take 50+ years to recover from.
The problem there seems two fold, one that you need even more beefy hardware to predict, simulate and render ahead of the player input particularly when it has to catch up to deal with misprediction and secondly that mispredictions are going to make the game feel really imprecise at best and jarring at worst.

I'm also skeptical about the ability for a model to generate predictions without having too many mispredictions to make it viable.
"Designers fundamentally do not understand that software is a tool that people use to get things done. "

They understand.

Also 'UI design' and 'design' are separate disciplines, often conflated into the same thing.

'UI designers' 100% understand the nature of 'usability' it's the core of their job - they provide for the actual experience that users will encounter, and it's very hard.

Having done quite a lot of UI design and software, I think the former might be hard in many cases - there are just so many intangibles, and everything cross-cuts making coherency often difficult, moreover 'there are no perfect answers'.

Consider the Google home page, and how many features actually exist in Google search that the vast majority of people are not aware of. The 'google search bar' is the 'most used UI in the world' and my gosh do they have to worry about how to extend that to the range of 'barely literate' people, to regular users, to power-searchers.

Consider the other 'most popular UI': Windows. The Windows 10 release was a fiasco, consider that the richest company in the world struggled to map to a new UI paradigm for a variety of reasons.

At least with software we tend to derive an objective, and we 'solve the problem'. We can say 'it's done' (to a certain degree) and even test for completeness.
John the Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 password cracker adds FPGA support
It's more complicated than that. Emissions in the US, Canada and some European countries are higher (per capita) while some other countries like the UK, Italy, Spain and France are below China. The EU as a whole ranks a bit below China on a per captia basis.

However the other important factor here is the trend line. Most western countries above China in this ranking has a trend line pointing downwards, while China still has a trend line pointing upwards. So if both China and the US continue on their current paths then China will indeed soon surpass the US.
In the accessibility section[1] they discuss the problem of using true black: OLED Smudge. If you turn off OLED pixels and the display suddenly needs to turn them back on, they usually are too slow to do so, and cause a visual artefact that appears to the user as smudging up the screen—which can feel like the display itself is broken. This occurs on most OLED displays, including high end ones in devices like iPhone XS and Pixel 3, and is largely why true black interfaces should not be used.

> "On OLED screens, turning pixels on and off can cause a delay when the screen is scrolled, making the pixels blur."

[1] https://material.io/design/color/dark-theme.html#properties
If there is population growth, there must be economic growth, or every new born mouth makes the rest of the world poorer. That tends to turn people on one another.

Zero population growth is now possible; zero growth in resource usage may be compatible with economic growth.
Realizing that your and other's self-control has limits does not erode it any more than realizing you are not Usain Bolt keeps you from walking.
But pretending it has no limits means we rely too much on it when instead we should reduce the need for it. It also means we expect people to resist manipulation when they simply can't.
Smartwatch Games Encouraging Privacy-ProtectiveBehaviour in a Longitudinal Study
Think short-term. No American airlines ordered the 777X, which is due to fly next year. How much foreign scrutiny will the 777X get? What safety critical systems did Boeing lie about?
I think it helps to understand that only 0.37% of the world's land mass is artificial covering [0]. It makes sense that counteracting the loss of albedo from the melting icecap would be difficult as that would imply drastically increasing the artificial covering while making up for the loss of albedo from what is removed during the process.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_cover
I believe also WizzAir is flying only on A320 series
looks too similar to an old and defunct project https://github.com/urlist
Damn. Well, that _does_ sound like something a 18-year old would do!
Like most adult male animals, they taste terrible and stringy. Even pre-industrial societies didn't bother rearing male animals for meat.
Economic growth is what allows _very good things_ like education and healthcare continue to improve, and reach a larger number of people, regardless of what you think of material consumerist goods.

These things have made life way better for average people, in many obvious and non-obvious ways, that aren’t the mere collection of material goods. Infant mortality dropping is one obvious effect, but violent crime also decreases for example, the murder rate a few hundred years ago was orders of magnitude higher than now.
> apparant racism.

By people who apparently don't even know the meaning of the word.

> The western world, of about 500 million people, pollute 4x more than China which has 1.2B people.

The western world has a much larger population, but I'd like to see you back that claim up with reproducible numbers.

It's a fact that CO2 emissions in China are growing rapidly (per capita and absolutely) while the "western world" is mostly reducing them and has been doing that for many years. Also, we have to rely on China's "official data", which may or may not be correct.
Just accept that very little things in life are set in stone. Take a decision and then adapt, when the need arises.
When the climate change has actually happened.
Download counters, view statistics, advertising statistics all contain the 'fake it till you make it' as they're inflated. Heck, even investment data does till some amount. You know what they say about statistics...
I imagine the vast majority of that net worth is tied up in investments and not immediately available to spend. It's not just sitting in his bank account.
Cherry-picking data much?

That same article lists the EU overall at 8.6 and US at 17.
"When branding hits hammers"

Hammers were probably some of the very first things 'branded'.

You want a quality, reliable, robust tool, and surely blacksmiths and makers developed their own reputations for quality among other things.

Branding can be some flakey mumbo jumbo, but it doesn't have to be, in fact in shouldn't be. The three rules of branding are 'authenticity, simplicity and consistency' - and the better brands are good at '1' i.e. 'authenticity', meaning the brand truly reflects the nature of the product or organization.
We tend to think of economic growth as a fairly tangible thing with meaning. But, GDP is an industrial era measure. Add up all the shoes, cars & kettles that come out of factories and see if that's growing YoY.

Even then they had to deal with serivices and the other more ethereal parts of the economy (financial services, then and now, are a contraversial element in measuring economies). But, the tagible parts of the economy were big enough that GDP had meaning. If GDP doubled, it meant more food, cars, clothes, steel...

These days, GDP growth, economic growth is a lot more poorly defined. Economists have measures for it, but they can't describe what "GDP doubled" looks like beyond the abstraction used to measure it. It could mean more lawyers/lawsuits/contracts or it could mean more childcare/education. Asking "do we want the economy to grow" is a far less meaningful question than it once was.

To the point in the article though, I do think that we need more energy, not less. In fact, for the future to be futuristic, we need a lot more energy. A side effect of clean energy tech is that we're eploring new paradigms, some with tremendous potential to scale beyond what carbon provided.
Out here we have cows grazing on grass. Both on private dairy farms and on government land (ostensibly to keep the invasive grasses in check).
Sadly we live in a world today where some local code editors could really benefit from CSP because they add 100-200ms of latency to every character you press.

I'm not sure if it's funny or sad that there's more key press latency typing into most local Electron apps than connecting to a Quake 3 server 200 miles away back when I had 56k dial-up in 2000.

If you want to fast forward to today's internet, with an average internet connection it takes around 150ms to ping a server in the Netherlands from California. That's over 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers). Somehow a local key press has the same latency with certain code editors. What have we gotten ourselves into.
> electricity generation is the single biggest contributor to climate change—responsible for 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions and growing every day

To put it in perspective: livestock clocks in at 18% and transportation at 13%. [1]

But greenhouse gas emissions is not all that counts, there's also acidification, eutrophicatoin (phosphor pollution) and land use. Livestock clock in very high on all these points. [2]

We need land for forest: reduce footprint while re-creating habitats.

Good to know Bill also invests on that side of the picture. [3]

[1] http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts
[2] https://phys.org/news/2018-05-reveals-foods-markedly-environ...
[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/21/how-bill-gates-backed-vegan-...
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I think changing students in classes is fine, provided there is ample opportunity to socialise outside of that. In the UK, schools are largely given free reign on how they organise their day but I was lucky enough to go to a school that provisioned for two 30 minute breaks, morning and afternoon, and one 90 minute one for lunch. This definitely isn't the case everywhere mind. Our school also confiscated smart-phones at the beginning of the school day, so all we could do was play sports and card games.

Most of my friends now are still those I went to school with, which wasn't strange for me until I went to university and found out that most of my friends there don't talk to any of their friends from school anymore. Out of the 150 people in my year, I still regularly see maybe 40 of them. Within that group everyone has been wildly successful and I put that almost entirely down to the time we got every day to build our social skills. Time spent playing football or rugby on the fields, running around the woods behind our school playing catch and bulldog, trying to find places to wrestle and fight in secret, sitting in classrooms playing card games, or messing around in the music rooms with instruments we couldn't play. They're probably my fondest memories and it baffles me that not only is more time not given to it, but time is spent trying to take that away! It did nothing to stunt our learning, and I'd argue it enhanced it. Most of my friends are in postgraduate education, went to Oxbridge or another Russel group university, and were straight-A children at school. A kid shouldn't be expected to effectively work a 9-5 job (let's not even get started on the ridiculous start times some have to go through, fighting their biological circadian rhythm), with an hour off to rush through lunch before getting thrown back in to classroom. It's no wonder teachers often describe teaching as riot control.

A school shouldn't just be a place to learn academics. That puts way too much onus on parents to provide socialisation themselves; meaning children with bad parents, or those that can't afford to send their kids to extra-curricular clubs and sports teams, get left behind and form cracks in a working society.
Playing a backgammon game on iTavli web version is easy as 1 2 3
Stadia controller connects directly to WiFi to the remote server though, so it sounds like the Chromecast or whatever isn't even getting the local inputs to do such tricks.
Mostly the water is removed. Fresh green peas are 80% water by weight, similar to most fresh produce. And of course there's a lot of carbs.
Coal's End Foreshadowed in IEA's Plant Investment Report
As somebody who worked with Woese (the discoverer of the archaea), what is frustrating about these debates is the shifting nature what "two domains" mean. In the 1980s and 1990s, supporters of "two domains" denied that archaea were in any way special and just were just unusual bacteria not particularly connected to eukaryotes in any way despite the fact that it was clear that the basic systems of transcription and translation in archaea weren't at all like bacteria but far closer to eukaryotes.

Now the supporters of the "two domains" accept that archaea were the ancestors of eukaryotes and so there are two domains for the opposite reason!
could make it build opml files by crawling the links for titles and feeds.
Well there's actually one senator and one lizard, assuming of course that you consider dinosaurs lizards and not birds.
No nutritionist here (& it's way too early to think in any depth) but the fruit juice +/- fiber issue comes to mind...

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=orange%20juice%20sugar%20pulp%...
Alan Edelman has done a lot of talks, so if I had to guess, he mentions it somewhere in one of those. But I have no actual clue.
Yandex disk is an alternative to Google photos.
The threat of climate change isn't significant enough for him to liquidate his investments?
In Portugese, both a linguagem and a língua are feminine.
European Union: 6.4 tCO2 per capita per year

China: 7.5

And EU is about 500 million people.

Source: 2014 numbers from
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/en.atm.co2e.pc
> It's a fact that CO2 emissions in China are growing rapidly (per capita and absolutely) while the "western world" is mostly reducing them and has been doing that for many years.

If it's a fact you should be able to cite a source?

> Also, we have to rely on China's "official data", which may or may not be correct.

The rest of the world is more than capable of monitoring China's emissions using satellite data.
Just 'spy' used to return one of the "spy vs spy" guys, but now seems to result in a dog.
I don't think that's all that strong. It's reasonably well-known that processes such as heating, drying, canning, and so on tend to reduce the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables - such as vitamin B and C, sulfurophane in broccoli, antioxidants in blueberries, etc. A quick google should reveal a ton of studies. So it might not be surprising that extracts have these kinds of issues as well.

I think OP is probably right that these meat substitutes are less healthy than eating veg in its raw form, but perhaps the question should be how they stack up nutritionally against the red meat they're replacing.
> How could be people convinced about importance of this if it doesn't or won't impact them enough?

As engineers, I feel it's our responsibility to make environmentally friendly solutions that are simply more economically viable than the unclean/unsustainable alternative. I'm working on the oceanic shipping industry myself.
There is one facet to this which I find interesting -- and that's how disconnected we become from the emotional impact of our decisions.

In a small closed community, we cannot help but be part of a system of social and emotional feedback. The decisions that we make have consequences, and this is very much the social environment that we have evolved for (confined to prehistory for obvious reasons).

Those feedback loops have been largely severed in "modern" (i.e. last few thousand years) large-scale, urbanized, literate societies -- a fundamental change in the control systems that govern human behavior.

With so many of us running partially open-loop ... is it any wonder that we see a proliferation of pathological behaviors?

Can our latest (early 21st century) technology help to restore some of those connections? To help us get feedback on the impact of our speech, our writing, our choices? Could this help us re-establish an earlier, more natural way of relating and connecting to our fellow human beings?
The interactive guide on that page is an effective way to visualise the components in relation to the attacks.

Does anyone know what this would have been built with?
This is a favorite lunch topic at work. AFAIK we stumbled on the idea ourselves, but I'm not surprised to hear it's unoriginal. Rather than a list, our design is a tree structure where leaf nodes contain data and branch nodes contain lists of tinyurls...
Dams are protecting from floods. Sometimes they fail to protect, but net effect is positive.

https://www.fema.gov/benefits-dams
One thing that might help is that longevity research is going on well. Hopefully in 10-20 years it will produce enough results for the general public to start believing that saving the Earth is not just about their children.
> How do you know? To validate this sort of model surely you need to know an awful lot about statistical modelling and about forest fires.

First-order approximation and all. You validate according to your needs, but yes, you'd also need to know a lot about statistical modelling and the domain. I'm guessing the author just read that SIR can be used for some diseases and forest fires, and that what they read was written by people who do know that. FWIW, our CA models were validated by our supervisor (who had access to firefighters) to roughly the level of "reproduces what happens on recordings of real fire" - which was good enough to show that the model has a potential to give real-time insights, but not something I'd like an actual firefighter to use on the scene.

> If you took the model literally, you might end up ignoring the fact that sparks can be carried by the wind to areas that are far away from the trees that are currently burning.

That's a very good point. However, like with all models, you need to be aware of the limitations. Maybe the author should have guarded the text for this, but I doubt the government epidemiologists and firefighters were the target audience here. I expect these professionals to understand the models in greater depth before using them (though maybe I'm hoping for too much - given how our industry is full of "professionals" mindlessly copy-pasting code from SO).

> that page is big on theory and light on evidence

Fair. I was actually going to link to a Wikipedia page in my previous comment, but I noticed a surprising lack of citations for the claims made. So instead I went and looked around Google Scholar before saying that "it does seem that SIR model with modifications is widely used to study disease spread".

> Those models are full of parameters like transmission rate that are not typically known until after the fact.

Sure. Again, I hope that no epidemiologist uses the article to develop disease spread models. But it works as giving general overview and intuition about network models, with focus on the phenomenon of criticality.

> What I would find more convincing is a writeup of how a big practitioner health organisation like the CDC or the WHO used one of these models to gain a new insight that they couldn't have found any other way.

I would absolutely love to see that.

BTW. I hope we're not just arguing about whether the word "perfect" was used in the article correctly.
That's one of the most important jobs of a politician. Make the hard decisions and convince people that they are needed, even if they don't see it right now. Politicians who don't do that don't do their job. And yes, that means we are in the West (and probably elsewhere) in a veritable political crisis. Not because we have some nutjobs run around "it's all a myth! we don't need to do anything!" but because politicians don't work anymore against it and instead take the lazy path to votes and just agree with it, even if the long-term consequences will be disastrous for humanity.
Not sure if you were trying to make a point about China having a greater output than European contries but you missed the USA: 16.5 (metric tons per capita).