skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some plants have a closed cooling system. And the million figure count fish eggs, which is somewhat cheating. And if you take into account the reduced wildlife area due to solar panel and wind farm needing more space than nuclear plants,
I stand by my statement that nuclear is more environmentally friendly per GWh (but I do concede that solar panels in desert and offshore wind turbines are even better than nuclear for the wildlife).

But in all this we should remember that environmental impact of fossil based electricity is an order of magnitude worse anyway.
This is all good, but the reality is we'll not have enough renewables any time soon:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

We should seriously consider solar geo-engineering. Not as the ultimate policy but to buy time.
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also imagesc with no arguments (used to at least) return an upside down picture of some person. This led to some confusion in our lab at some point.
What's CFS? Cloud Filestore?
From a completely technical perspective, one can understand the cost of this risk with real option valuation techniques. However I’d say this is an inappropriate method when so many lives are at stake.
> A lot of people like the idea of a single-payer system but they never assume they would be forced to give up their current private insurance.

That's kind of the point of public healthcare. So that regular people would not be forced to have private insurance.

> private insurance would go out of business

I don't know. If my 30M country with public healthcare can have players offering many different policies of medical insurance, surely your 300M country could work it out too.
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Not debating on what the US govt should do- I think Mr Gates should seek funding elsewhere if the govt is not going to be a cooperative player. EU is both interested in reducing the effect of man made climate change and of course in new energy technology
I thought about it. But first, you need a lot of information to train a model, so it would only work for very heavy players. Second, creativity is not defined only as doing an action that others didn't do (often or never) before, but also of doing an action that you didn't do (often or never) before.
They would make a killing on Twitch, where a streamer could just buy someone else's training data and use that instead of playing themselves.
Sounds like a horrible feature. Selecting data makes you Google it? What if you copy/paste a password. Vimium does it right for me, but requires physical keyboard.
Here is another short guide on many useful features of Python 3: https://github.com/arogozhnikov/python3_with_pleasure
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Well, tahini is just blended sesame seeds and miso paste is just fermented soybeans and rice. Hardly what I would call processed in a modern sense.
None taken. But your claim is that creativity is not possible anymore, since it was all done in the "millions of hours of game state". However, if creativity is possible, then my argument is correct.

Another issue is that machine learning/AI don't predict rare events, like earth quakes. So even with all the knowledge in the world, it won't predict a rare creative move of a player.
Nextcloud, preferably on a machine you own (but there are companies selling Nextcloud hosting as well). It replaces Google Drive, Contacts, Calendar, Photos (face recognition can be done with a third-party app), has an RSS reader, bookmarking service etc. Just look at its app store, you can install any of this with two clicks: https://apps.nextcloud.com/

It really is a suite that can combat Google's suite — and you can truly own it. Other than that, DDG for search, and your own domain for email (so that you could transfer it between different hostings if necessary).

I do have a Google account, but I use it for precisely two purposes: Google Play (my phone wouldn't work without one) and YouTube subscriptions (I can use an RSS reader for this, but it's a bit inconvenient). You can create a Google account without creating a Gmail account.
By law, I suppose not. Morally, it depends on whom you ask.

If it were open source, other people could pick it up (gratis or for a fee). Right now, nobody can (except for Microsoft), because it is proprietary software. Microsoft brought it upon themselves to release the software as such.
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Fascinating how some articles manage to pop up on the front page. I wonder what prompted this to be submitted and upvoted?

I remember reading Megatokyo back then (fifteen years ago!) and stopped when it got too — excuzes le mot — cringey.

Long standing webcomics can change over time as the author(s) age and change. Some stay fairly constant (e.g., XKCD, The Perry Bible Fellowship), others change so much they alienate many of the readers (e.g., Sinfest).

And some just stay awesome (e.g., Oglaf (NSFW)).
Yeah, probably you'd want to avoid meningitis if you have the protein snipped.

On the other hand you might want to avoid meningitis either way.
I don't buy it.

The correct way to produce a decryption is to produce a full plaintext document, along with steps to reproduce it.

It's also worth noting that this is the latest of a long series of claims of having deciphered it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript#Deciphermen...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death
Interesting, I just typed "green peas" into Google, and what it shows me in the sidebar shows 5g of protein per 100g, which isn't very high at all. But split peas seem to have only 8.3g per 100g which isn't much higher - I guess a lot of the pea is removed in making the protein from them.
> in America and I suspect in many other places, competition pressure centered around places with strong "second place" (Job) opportunities combined with decades of civic mal-planning and treating symptoms (for some) rather than root causes (for all) have combined with a regressive tax/compensation structures to destroy the middle class and upward mobility.

I suspect this is almost exclusively an american issue. There is a big societal focus on "getting ahead", "keeping up with the Joneses" etc. in the US that just doesn't exist in most other countries.
The same way website addresses work, DNS type of thing?
Can women say « hi » to women, or is the issue only when men say « hi » to women?
How do you know plants don't suffer as they die? That seems like a pretty bold assertion.

Sure they don't really have muscles, so they don't thrash around like animals, and they don't make noise or cry out when they are killed.

On the other hand, when they are wounded they do make chemical compounds to resist predation and to signal to nearby plants that predators are present (e.g. salicylate). This seems vaguely parallel.

Is the moral worth of plant suffering lower because it isn't close enough in form to human suffering?

If we were to encounter a truly alien species, how would you know whether or not it experienced suffering?
It seems like almost every time something about Carmack is posted, people point to the book "Masters of Doom", about the development of id games (Wolf3d, doom, commander keen). It's pretty interesting read imo: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222146.Masters_of_Doom
The article mentions traveling wave reactors and molten salt reactors being developed by Terra Power. Any relationship or synergy between these two, or are they orthogonal efforts?
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So what makes the data not count against the usage?
I'm sorry for being dismissive but you threw a barrage of contentious examples at me without really trying to engage with my point.

The way I see it, the circle is an abstract idea which resides within the language that we use to share our understanding about the patterns we observe in the external world. Those patterns may conform to the abstraction to varying degrees but they are fundamentally not the same thing. Mathematics is a very precise and formal way to communicate this type of knowledge, but that doesn't mean the ideas therein exist objectively. This contrasts with the views of someone like Max Tegmark, who has the impression that the universe is inherently mathematical.
I really hope not. We don't even know all consequences of geo-engineering. Well, we know it will lower yield of crops on which we depend to feed ourselves.

Future is green or none at all.
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> I've been using computers since the early 90s. Essentially none of the things I learned early on apply anymore. Fuck, we don't even have menus that explain to us in native language what actions are available to us.

Yes, this screenshot of MacOS 9 from 1999 clearly bears no resemblance to anything we use today:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#/media/File%3...
Author here.

I'm deliberately leaving the explanation blank, because I've learned from experience that such explanations are often just something you make up after the fact.

What I can tell you is that I consistently reach a point where I simply can't find the will power to continue. I can only find the will to do something else, to go somewhere else. The underlying reason for a feeling is always difficult to pinpoint.

My feelings when I'm in the situation are a mix of stress, anger and hopelessness. I want anything but to perform the task that has been assigned to me. I want to get the hell out of there.

Whenever I attempt to address the problem with the people around me, their proposed solutions are always very plain: Take a walk. Take a vacation. Get some rest. Don't worry so much.

To some extent, taking a very long break does resolve it, but I can't take 3-6 months off from work every year. I have considered working half-time, but this leads me to ask why I want to work half-time in the first place? Why do I want to work less?

Possible answers:

1. I am doing something wrong.

2. I'm a fundamentally broken person who can never hold a job.

Option 2 isn't exactly what you call a constructive or positive attitude, so I'm betting on option 1.
Is it xenophobia masquerading as national security, or national security masquerading as xenophobia?

Neither... it's nothing but hegemony with the pretext of both.
It appears that the link is broken
That's just Apple not implementing modern web standards. Just wait a couple months or years and they might implement the IntersectionObserver. Until then you'll have to use polyfills to support Safari which Google obviously didn't do here.
They also allow more nefarious aspects such as advertising, and the power of the content creator to demand how the viewer sees their content. With older protocols such as IRC, Usenet, email it is the viewer who's in control.

If we're talking artwork, I do get it. But most websites are not work of art. They're business, mainly.
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It is designed to help you comply with the hideous EU Cookie Law and not make you want to hurt yourself in the process. So we made it fast, free, and relatively painless.
I am struck by the self-absorbedness and entitlement this person shows as they go extensively over trivial points relating to a free online webcomic. The community represented longitudinally exhibits the same odious qualities.
Something I have been thinking about for years: black attracts heat, right? So why do we not have a worldwide initiative to turn anything that is black to white. Primary uses I am thinking are roofs of houses, and pavement on streets. I remember as a kid painting roofs on my Dad's commercial properties in Florida with reflective paint in order to reduce cooling costs of the properties, which ended up working pretty well.

If climate change really is the threat they say it is, why are we not starting with the simple and obvious solutions first that are super easy to deploy/implement?
I think he is talking about a simplex tree.
Would you consider these more or less processed than butter, yoghurt, cheese, peanut butter, pickles, or chocolate? Why?
Bill Gates gets it. We need to step on the gas and deploy boatloads of wind, solar, nuclear, batteries, pumped hydro, long-distance transmission, energy efficiency measures, CCS, demand response, and whatnot.

Yes, it will cost a lot. But leaving our children with an increasingly hostile planet isn't a tenable option either (and one which will be even more expensive as well).
It would be great if he would publish an amended second edition - unless he already has.
Are they? Email, calendar, online office, cloud storage etc. are all available from various other companies(even beside the big few corporations). The only two areas where you'd really have to sacrifice features would be Android apps, and YouTube if you're running a channel.
Yiddish is a germanic language with Hebrew elements. If you know German or a Scandinavian language, you can understand a fair bit of written Yiddish just by squinting and guessing along.
In Swedish:

Lax = Salmon

Grava = preparing raw salmon (or other fish/meat) by keeping it in a mixture of salt, sugar and spices.

Salt and sugar keeps the fish from spoling, lactic acid bacteria preserves the fish. Back in the days this was done by digging a hole in the ground, cover the fish with spruce/fresh leaves and salt. Then lleaving it lying there for a couple of days. This also gives the origin of the word "grava" which in this context would bean "bury".
Link contains a bunch of unnecessary parameters but works for me. Maybe try the "clean" link? https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/A-critical-step-to-reduce-...
We already did geoengineering in form of burning fossils. Reversing this is also geoengineering.
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We actually tried switching to asyncio in production, but got worse cpu utilisation and worse latency (vs greenlet). After some benchmarking and tuning, we got a bit better latency, but CPU utilisation was still worse, so we actually ended up swithcing back to just using greenlet :(
> We need to step on the gas

Nice metaphor...
TL;DR: Some kind of tension, stress or resistance builds up over time, I procrastinate more and more until nothing gets done, and then I have to shake things up somehow.
Disables updates? How?
> Traditional graphic design has largely been “solved” by the 1960’s - aka, the International style or the Swiss style for majority of needs.

This makes about as much sense as saying music was ‘solved’ by Radiohead or Nirvana. Trends change as culture and tastes change. People deride ‘hipsterism’ but without them we would all be drinking lousy beer, eating crappy burgers and drinking low quality coffee. Trends change, challenge what’s gone before and make things nicer.
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I haven't seen "son x" for anything in English. But there are daughter languages, daughter companies. Perhaps more.
Yes, but it doesn't matter if you do it, it matters if most people do it. His argument (which I believe) is that notably fewer people will do it if they have to return the item and get a new one.
You are being misled by the graph. Here is why:

https://physicsworld.com/a/a-gross-miscalculation/
Good times. If I remember correctly, it was possible to drop everyone from a quake server (especially team fortress, when your team was about to lose) by spamming chat messages in the console
The constant pressure to produce makes me feel like I'm a horse who has accidentally been hooked up to a milking machine, and they were actually looking for something with udders.
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I suppose there would be some synergy in general nuclear knowhow, fuel supply (that is, making available a supply of HALEU or RgPu which is not something the current global nuclear supply chain is providing) and maybe in terms of reprocessing. But the reactors themselves are quite different.
If you really care about the suffering of plants, which I strongly doubt, you should still eat them because the alternative is feeding ten times as many of them to an animal and then also eating the animal.
In Germany there is regulation about "Scheinselbständigkeit" meaning you are not really a contractor because you only have one customer for example. This is mostly a good thing but problematic with e.g. consulting where you have perhaps only one customer for some time. It was created to prevent exploitation but on the other scale limits high income people and consultancies, which was not the goal.
Have you considered keybinds? Vim-like keybinds, for example?
It's an interesting find, probably confirms what I think would be a default theory: the ritual use of psychoactives in modern south america is a continuation from ancient times.

What they found is:
(1) Cocaine & benzoylecgonine (also from coca) (2) harmine & dimethyltryptamine (DMT), which are combined to make ayahuasca, still commonly used ritually in SA even by some catholic communities. (3) bufotenin (frog smoking stuff), which still exists ritually to an extent and (4) possibly psilocin (magic mushrooms).

So basically, if you were to find a bag of ritual psychodelics in SA today, it would have all these same things in it. The only thing missing is tobacco. Maybe the snuff kit is for tobacco, or maybe the article omitted it. Also, I don't think these are all found in the same regions, so it's also probably evidence of trade. Drugs can be major trade goods.

Most of how we see the ancient world is dictated by monuments, tools and other stuff that survives well. Bits of perishable culture like this give us a whole different layer.
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I've seen enterprise contracts worth $100k+ per year but am curious what additional value gets added for contracts that reach $1M+.
Increasing the albedo is one geoengineering strategy that is being discussed regularly. But it doesn't help with other negative aspects of increased CO2 concentrations like ocean acidification.
A system I worked on used the RDBMS’ default of 50 characters in a varchar column and the validation regex allowed uppercase alphanumeric input (for “1-800-CONTACTS”-style numbers) and also allowed spaces in addition to dashes. But the system didn’t allow users to label numbers in a separate field - so the users put the labels at the end of each number, e.g. “425-123-7890 JOHN SMITH, HOME”.

The system used this value for generating tel: links in webpages - which meant the links wouldn’t work anymore - but users preferred keeping these custom labels to having Skype-integrated or iOS tappable links anyway.

/csb
But....why. What is it about it that makes it wrong. These are really powerful devices, sometimes with dual or quad core CPUs and gigabytes of ram, so what's wrong with using them as a NAS? Especially since all I want to do is share a single USB drive on the network so I can watch some films on my TV or just run a backup from my main PC to it. Using my router as a NAS allows me to do that with very little space taken, and most importantly it's completely quiet. Dedicated NAS devices not only use considerably more power(and it does actually add up) but they are almost inevitably louder, with at least one fan and 3.5" disks.
This is already the case for mechanical engineers, or any other Professional Engineer.
The update fails and gets automatically reverted. I dont think you can get the monthly security updates without it, at least that was the case with the April rollout. Since its not immediately clear why the update fails, you can even now find quite a few people looking for help to diagnose the error online.

edit:

Here some context

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/kb4474...

its an easy fix for for dualboot if you can just replace grub with mbr again, but people with disc encryption are rather screwed it seems.
I would not recommend using asyncio for cpu-intensive tasks. Processing pools are much better for that.
Do you have any idea how much surface there would be to cover outside of your own backyard for this to be effective ?
Are you aware that 1/3rd of the Earth's surface is covered with snow at some point of the year but that snow cover has been declining for decades ?

It truly boggles my mind that you think painting stuff white is the first step to take to take on climate change.
But every event, creative or otherwise, is made up of hundreds of smaller events. That complicated wall jump - 360 kill you just did used several input signals. Even if the server side AI can't predict the exact final outcome, it can definitely help with the intermediate, well known states for at least some of the input systems.

I say some but I do believe a large enough volume of data can improve the performance of this class of input/states.
IMO you are vastly underestimating the long term damage this is doing to Boeing. In the short term, 737 user will have to keep using it and will have to buy more of those planes from Boeing, because switching to another single-aisle plane would cost too much and there simply isn't enough production capacity in the world to make this switch happen in the near future.

However the 737Max is the last version of the 737. 737 users will have to transition away from this type in the medium term future. The current troubles force them to think hard about whether they will trust Boeing at that point or decide to go with a competing product. Of which there will be roughly half a dozen by that time.

It gets even worse, if we look at the big picture. The 787, 747-8i and 737Max have all been expensive disappointments for the airlines that ordered them. Boeing has been losing market share to Airbus for decades now, this really isn't a good trend for them. That doesn't mean that Boeing will not find a certain level of success with their next airplanes, but the damage their brand has suffered does hurt their bottom line quite severely.
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I have lived in Washington in the mid 2000s and now for 5 years, in Olympia and in Seattle. I have experienced none of these issues and much prefer the attitudes of drivers here toward pedestrians than drivers in my home country, FWIE. I do not know how to drive.
Let's be reasonable here. The requests are definitely logged, hence it is tracking.
>If climate change really is the threat they say it is...

When can we stop couching our discussion of climate change with clauses like this?

Also, the UN has some numbers on what happens if we increase the albedo of the planet. IIRC, the issue is that almost nothing we do can counteract the loss of albedo from the melting icecap.
That doesn't seem a bad idea - it is like polar sea ice reflecting heat. However, you'd need to calculate what the benefit would actually be and compare that with the impact of suddenly manufacturing and applying a lot more paint. It might be worth it, it might not.
> Base85 would probably be a better choice

Base64 has the advantage of relative ubiquity (though Base85 is hardly rare, being used in PDF and Git binary patches). It also doesn't contain characters (quotes, angled brackets, ...) that might cause problems if naively sent via some text protocols and/or embedded in XML/HTML mark-up.

> YouTube ... you'd need to find a resilient way of encoding the data [due to lossy re-encoding]

That should be easy enough: encode as blocks or lines of pixels (blocks of 4x4 should be more than sufficient) in a low enough number of colour values (I expect you'd get away with at least 4bits/channel/block with large enough blocks so 4096 values per block) and you should easily be able to survive anything the re-encoding does by averaging each block and taking the closest value to that result.

Add some form of error detection+correction code just for paranoia's sake. You are going to want to include some redundancy in the uploads anyway so you can combine these needs in a manner similar to RAID5/6 or the Parchive format that was (is?) popular on binary carrying Usenet groups.