skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sitting here, half-way through Nick Lane's "The Vital Question", and I keep wondering - why can't we grow chloroplast in vats, force-flow CO₂ through them, and dump the resulting products into a mine shaft?
Preferably one with a Lambo.
The author of the post cites a UN report. Those are probably pretty fair.
Wood and a sprinkler system will be far better than concrete in this instance for aesthetics, cultural homage and many reasons. Rebuilding it in concrete would see the French in uproar.

But one long standing issue we keep running across is how to fight fires in high buildings is an area that could do with some financial and invitation. Until then - sprinkler systems for such buildings should be a priority.
Then you don't understand risk.

There is no case in which the failure of a wind farm could cause death or injury to millions of people at once.

The whole "safety" argument of solar is buried in flat-out bullshit analysis about how people fall off of roofs while installing panels. There's no safety concern to speak of with solar/wind.
I don't think Starcraft players are great examples. Many of the most successful ones walked the "Royal Road," i.e. they won the OSL on their first try. I can't think of any player who was mediocre for years, and then became an all-time great. If anything, every Starcraft legend except Flash had a front-loaded career where they had the majority of their big wins at the start of their career, and then stuck around due to their brand name without ever recapturing their peak.
> Why? Being smart is good. Why wouldn't you let your kids know?

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/index.html

tl;dr: praising them for being "smart" counterintuitively ends up discouraging them.
You mean the strict processes that strictly demanded mixing imperial and SI units ?
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It continues forever! See here for example:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/215187/is-there-a-referen...

I believe you are just running into the limits of double precision arithmetic; indeed log_2((10^8)^2) > 53.
The fact that these folks are actually striving to get things like plastic surgeries so that they can achieve their goal of overcoming lookism and achieving social success, would seem to argue against it being like a cult - they're putting their ideas to the test, one way or the other. I see pure "blackpill", nihilistic thinking as quite a bit more cult-like.
Presumably there will be a legal requirement that video used as evidence is digitally signed by the camera, using tamper-proof hardware and a certificate chain back to a certified manufacturer. Anything less will just be contested in court, and thrown out.
From recent bundle audits of e-commerce sites built with React, less than 20% of the code was actual custom site code and the remaining 80% was from dependencies.

If the bundle size is 550kb min/gzipped, that's 110kb of app code, and 440kb of dependencies. Some of the largest dependencies in a recent audit were: moment (60kb), swiper (32kb), lodash (24kb), react-select (26kb), raven.js (12kb),
polyfills (25kb), mobile-detect (15kb), and then a bunch of smaller dependencies that made up the remaining 300kb.

Using this performance budget calculator you can quickly see how each 25kb of JS adds ~.3s to your TTI on a mobile phone:

https://perf-budget-calculator.firebaseapp.com/

If developers shop around for smaller alternatives of each dependency, then they can cut their load times pretty drastically.
I'm sure that would have been very practical in 1980s Soviet Russia. After all, they were know for really caring about human lives. You know what would have happened? 50 million people drinking contaminated water and dying from it.
Not as manly as I'm going to be when I throw out all of my games, and all of yours, too!
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A less reckless article would frame the challenges we need to solve rather than blasting that credits for reforestation is bad.

I care a lot about environmental degradation, and I disagree. The point of the article is that the existence of carbon credits encourages people to continue their current unsustainable lifestyles rather than making deeper changes that actually work:

"In case after case, I found that carbon credits hadn’t offset the amount of pollution they were supposed to, or they had brought gains that were quickly reversed or that couldn’t be accurately measured to begin with. Ultimately, the polluters got a guilt-free pass to keep emitting CO₂, but the forest preservation that was supposed to balance the ledger either never came or didn’t last."

Yes, there are secondary benefits to landscape preservation, but if it is true that carbon credits are not offsetting the environmental damage that they claim to, I think it's fair to say that their existence causes harm. It is a problem if people are spending money on an expensive placebo instead of actually working toward a actual solution.

I think your disagreement with the author is that you feel current carbon credit system is already a partial positive, and that the system will naturally evolve toward being more effective. Rather than a placebo, it sounds like you think it's more like an aspirin that will eventually evolve to become an actual cure . Is there evidence that points in that direction?
I used to think like that (being the kid that wrote well in school). But now I'm not so sure anymore...

Been humbled too many times by people much, much smarter than me that wrote in smsesque. Have read too many apparently well-written texts that are nothing but bullshit written by ignorants.
It definitely is undervalued. There is very direct evidence of this: technical writing plays exactly zero role in the hiring process. That process tends to be more than 90% or so focused on coding, and the other 10% is not writing, it is some combination of credentials, knowledge of current trends in the field, ability to seem like you would fit in at the company, and drawing system diagrams. But technical writing - in code documentation, design documents, task definitions, bug reports, emails, and chats - is often the greater portion of my job in a week, and it is pretty much always the more important part.

I agree a bit more that "empathy" is sometimes used in a BS-y way, but at its core it just means seeing things from more than only your own perspective. Which is definitely an important thing to do. I would probably agree that it is undervalued, though there seems to be more awareness or at least lip service to it than to the importance of writing.
Very little oil. The French imports are effectively surplus nuclear, as I understand it, while the Netherlands imports are more mixed.

We do have a lot of gas still.
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Don’t you mean java?
you see it in medical literature; i believe it just means what it sounds like, ie that living in the environment they describe makes one statistically less likely to be a hiki
Not just that: we need fast-growing trees that don't let the carbon back into the atmosphere.

For that, the trees may not rot, may not be used as firewood, and may not be processed into paper or other products that eventually get incinerated in a waste-processing plant.

Ideally we should play artificial Carboniferous, and let these trees sink in lifeless bottomless oxygen-depleted bogs where they get preserved for millennia, and turn eventually back into coal deposits, to replace the ones we've depleted for last 300-400 years, putting the carbon from them into the air.

This takes much more than just fast-growing tress, or more land allocated to growing them. We also need these carbon burial grounds, that likely won't look (and likely smell) as pretty as a nice pine forest. Drowning in a carbon burial bog would be a hazard for hikers, too.

We also need economic incentives to bury the carbon from these carbon-fixating trees, and not to use them productively in the economy.

A genetically engineered plant that grows fast, does not require a lot of water, accumulates lots of anti-microbial and anti-fungi substances that prevent rotting, and produces timber which is not nice and desirable timber, to avoid the temptation, which is also heavier than water to make drowning easier, could be helpful.
I used to be pro-nuclear power but I've long since come to the conclusion that there are three fundamental problems that basically make nuclear power a non-starter:

1. While average deaths per kWh might be relatively low (compared to other forms of power generation) the worst case scenario is much, much worse. A coal plant just isn't capable of making a thousand square miles uninhabitable for centuries.

2. Companies just can't be trusted to run nuclear power plants. This requires long-term thinking way beyond quarterly profits. Because catastrophes are so unlikely but profit hits are so short term there is inevitable pressure to cut corners.

3. Governments have generally been pretty terrible at overseeing nuclear power industries. There are the dangers of regulatory capture and the temptation for politicians to kick the can down the street for the next guy to deal with. Political expediency is a powerful motivator. In the US, for example, the entire election/voting process has been politicized. Why is a Supervisor of Elections a political office? This is something fundamental to the function of our democracy and politicians are happy to throw it under the bus to get some short term political goal.

Just look at the politics of climate change. That can't trump (pardon the pun) politics. What makes you think the safety and oversight of nuclear power generation will?

4. Nuclear waste. We still have no large-scale long-term plan for how to dispose of nuclear waste. What's more, governments seem to bear the cost for this rather than the corporations that profit from the power generated. The issues here range from making areas around sites uninhabitable (eg nuclear waste leaking into the water table) to human threats (eg certain isotopes make for great dirty bombs).

Unless you have some solution for these problems, honestly I feel like you're wasting your time advocating for certainly fission power generation (and I'm not yet convinced nuclear fusion power generation is commercially viable).
> if you don't want to hit your users with a 500 KB bundle size.

Still I do think if you are building a web application (and not a static site or a blog) it is expected it can take a second or two to load it for the first time. 500 KB bundle is nothing wrong in that case.
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to negligence.

Construction and maintenance involve electricity, lights, solvents, blow torches / welders, heights/suspension, obstructed paths, and much much more.
Looking at these comments (141 at the time of this post) the answer looks to be: No.

I have small business clients, Google's reCAPTCHA is our best option. They aren't willing to pay for some obscure, and expensive one-off solution that might work. They just want the spam to stop. I fill out reCAPTCHAs every god damned day because I work on the web. Asking "normal" users to fill out a handful each year isn't asking that much.

Maybe for your startup "rolling your own" makes sense, but not for small biz.
A 600-Page Textbook About Modern Monetary Theory Has Sold Out
Oregon, awash in marijuana, takes steps to curb production
urql's great, and the maintainers are super helpful and friendly. I've been using it on a project for a couple months now. Very straightforward and plays well with TypeScript. My one criticism is that it doesn't quite do enough in some cases, but I haven't spent the time to learn much about exchanges. As the ecosystem grows, I see this problem going away.
> That doesn't mean they remain a standup guy when left alone around women.

Agreed, of course. I'm just speaking of my own experience.
Gas is a fine stop gap (less CO2 emitted and cleaner emissions) until you have more renewables, battery storage, and HVDC transmission lines from other countries with renewable and nuclear reserves.
I'm not sure I've ever read anything which has reached me on such a personal level as this. I should really try harder.
"The Truth about Chernobyl" by Grigori Medvedev is good IMO.
Interestingly, 7.853981629 is close to pi*2.5
Why not replace it with a hologram?
They only take that long due to red tape, not due to any intrinsic reason. France did not have this problem. The U.S. could do like them, create the one standardized design for a nuclear plant, build them all the same way, which of course will help with construction, safety and maintenance.
"We’ll always have new data for AI to work with, which is good because there’s no evidence that AI will ever be able to do anything more than efficiently collage together the intelligence of people."
I see this as hacking the overbearing regulation of the built environment.

More about the "stealth triplex": https://granolashotgun.com/2017/07/17/the-stealth-triplex/

Building an outdoor kitchen setup: https://granolashotgun.com/2018/05/08/the-mangiapocalypse/

>A garden hose attached to a spigot and a galvanized bucket work wonders as an outdoor sink. Camp soap made for outdoor use is garden friendly and nontoxic so waste water can be used to irrigate fruit trees. I hasten to mention that an outdoor sink plumbed with a pipe would have set off a cascade of government regulations and prohibitions. But a garden hose and a bucket? No problem. Why ask for trouble with the authorities?

Building a backyard cottage: https://granolashotgun.com/2017/06/14/the-bitter-suite/

>I attempted to build a granny cottage in the back half acre behind the main house. I hired a local architect who walked me through the legal parameters. Then I decided to do the rational thing instead. Nothing. The numbers didn’t add up. It wasn’t even close. So I reverse engineered what was legal as-of-right without permits, fees, or inspections. 120 square feet, no more than 12 feet tall, no electricity or plumbing. Full stop.
Green washing at a national level. Biomass instead of coal is not necessarily better [1] and the source is very questionable [2].

[1] https://www.ecowatch.com/chatham-house-biomass-study-2288764...

[2] https://theecologist.org/2017/apr/10/no-drax-theres-nothing-...
Curious as I will sometimes find myself annoyed at a similar email... If it said "When are you going to do this?" would that be acceptable?
I didn't claim to be any kind of expert. But I don't understand how the scenario you are describing is necessary for solar/wind to have a higher risk per MWh. What does the presence of catastrophic failure modes have to do with past versus future results?
Probably the diæresis:

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...

The "æ" is a whole nother thing.
Maine passes bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
Not a counter argument but just bringing the facts. There's an article[1] containing a video with the actual words from her (in Spanish of course).

"I don't like traffic jams. Nobody does. Maybe I'm weird but I don't like traffic jams. I don't like a jammed world.

But there's something that Madrid has and that few cities in the world have, which is nightlife. I've never met a city like Madrid where you can go out at 3AM and see that much life on the streets. And that life comes with traffic jams. And that's not the kind of jam that depletes your energy as opposed to the one you find yourself in when going to work and you're late to a meeting or your child is going to miss their first school hour.
The one that you find yourself in when going out to dinner on weekends is not the one you hate the most.

Do I like jams? Obviously not, but they're part of Madrid's life. They were part of Madrid's life.

If Podemos [the ones who implemented the LEZ] keeps Madrid's council, there won't be jams at night but at day there will everywhere.

They're not a matter of enjoyment, but they're an identity sign of our city. They mean that the streets are alive, always.

Moreover, for women, at least for me, that I've gone out and enjoyed my city with passion, going out to have dinner and a drink and see that amount of life makes me very proud of my city.

And I believe jams are to be eradicated, of course, but that is not done by preventing neighbours' and commerces' mobility. Moreover this is being managed very sloppily."

My opinion starts here, and it is that she's mixing a lot of stuff (nightlife with shops that open only in the morning and afternoon, jams not happening inside the LEZ with ones happening outside of it, or implying that without nightly jams there's no people going out) in order to criticise the implementation of the LEZ because they defend freedom of using your car as you wish. And that brings her to having to criticise even the good aspects of it (no jams in the LEZ) with an appeal to emotions, which ends up in having to say she misses traffic jams.

Actually, she never says that previous setup was better because of anything outside that she felt the city was more crowded at night.

[1]: https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/madrid/2019-04-24/isab...
I am familiar with case studies. A single case study is often a curiosity that might motivate someone to do a proper study, but not something from which you can conclude that having Americium in your body is not as dangerous as commonly claimed.
Cancer is not caused by longevity. It's statistically more likely the longer you live. So your second sentence is true, but your first sentence is false.
That means that importing Dutch and French power is still cheaper than the cheap coal they could be burning. Sounds like a win to me.
Isn't the article mostly suggesting to replace not commonly visible roof structure with concrete/steel?
> Innocent people don't run.

I don't think this is a fair or universal generalization.

Snowden ran. Leary ran. Rushdie ran. The Dalai Lama ran. Sometimes innocent people run.
One-way backup in the cloud with snapshots
we have a linux server, and we need to make a daily incremental backup somewhere in the cloud, which keeps snapshots (last 7 days, last 12 months, every year). Unlike dropbox.com, we require a one-way synchronization (from our server to the cloud).
We need 3TB of space. What are good online services?
A lot of that depends on what the energy medium is. Is the other 40% gas for cars and natural gas for heating? It's very easy to do 100% of electricity from solar in the Bay Area in a home that still drives gas cars, has gas heat and no AC.

I coughed up the money to go as solar as I can, (heat pumps, electric vehicles, ect,) but my state's financing had its limits; and then Mother Nature sent me an unusually cloudy April. I'm probably going to be somewhere between 70-85% solar after I have a few years of data.

Anyway, when it comes to reducing CO2, celebrate the partial victories. Rooftop solar can take a huge dent in emissions, but it's not a complete solution. There is no silver bullet for this problem.
This is a heinous notion. Innocent people flee prosecution when it’s biased or political as well. You law-and-order types can xxxxx my yyyyy.
I don't know how you can classify that as "worst case exposure".
Sure, and I agree the government shouldn't have that power. Duh.

I'm just saying that free citizens should not be obligated to serve Nazis or publish their content. And also that citizens should be able to criticize those who do. My position here is consistently pro-freedom. Specifically, I'm for free speech and free association.

Note also that actual Chinese people think your position, that criticism is equivalent to what the PRC does, is hyperbolic pants-wetting: https://twitter.com/jackiehluo/status/1134038887893016577
And I'm suggesting that your proposed solution isn't reasonable, or even discoverable for the majority of people. Clearly this person was concerned about their safety. And clearly they took steps to insure it.

Arguing that the real problem is robo-calls is besides the point. It's like saying if people just drove safer we wouldn't have to have seatbelts. Or if I had bajillions of dollars we wouldn't have to have this discussion, because I'd be off on a beach somewhere. It's marginally related at best.

But if that's the line you really want to take, TrueCaller could have a "That was spam" button, and if enough people click it then it could block the calls. The faux caller ID part doesn't need to be part of the service.

Google Voice offers a somewhat similar service, but it flips the onus around. When enabled the caller has to identify themselves before the call can get through, and then the recipient can screen based on that. This approach is wildly more discoverable for the caller (who the information is attached to), and similarly filters out robo-calls.
Oh, most of my coworkers are smarter than me, so I'm certainly not trying to make an assessment on their IQ or any nonsense like that.

That said, I do think that writing smsesque (which I am going to steal for the future because I had never heard that term before) is a really good way to make yourself look dumber, especially to non-engineers. Even if my long and rambling writings lack substance, they still typically give the optics of someone who is smart. Is that the way it should be? Probably not, but I don't make the rules.
freeCodeCamp is the biggest publication on Medium. Our open source community sends Medium about 5% of their total traffic.

But over the past year, Medium has become more aggressive toward us. They have pressured us to put our articles behind their paywalls. We refused. So they tried to buy us. (Which makes no sense. We’re a public charity.) We refused. Then they started threatening us with a lawyer. It's not just us. They are doing this to a lot of publications. And a lot of high profile people from the developer community are leaving Medium as a result.

Medium is a corporation founded by a billionaire who also accepted $132 million in venture capital.

Another reason to leave Medium
On a side note, the actual saying is "rite of passage". "rite" as in ritual.
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You would also need to dry up the product, and preferably burn out most of the hydrogen out of it, to form coke (the black, not the white powder), and then dump it. Else you'll quickly run out of empty mines' space, and likely contaminate the water table around them.
That's not what I'm saying at all.
Absolutely agree. We as a society have put so much emphasis on earning a college degree that people are attaining worthless ones at too high of a rate and finding themselves buried in debt with no way to pay it off.

It doesn't help that basic financial literacy isn't taught in grade school anymore, either. Too many times, a graduate's first lesson in managing finances and debt comes in the form of a default notice from a lender.

The other problem I see here is that the whole mentality of being able to run away from your problems is, well, problematic. These things will only get worse if you don't address them. What they don't apparently realize is, one day, they're going to want to come back to the U.S. for one reason or another just to find out that their mound of student debt has grown into a mountain of defaults which prevents them from even holding certain jobs, getting credit, finding housing, and basically functioning comfortably in society.
+1. It's a very little-known fact that coal energy produces radiation for all practical purposes. It does so by digging up naturally radioactive particles that would otherwise remain locked deep into the Earth, and putting them in the atmosphere.