skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are free to buy up land and dedicate it to growing trees. If individuals aren't willing to pay the costs of doing so, then why would organizations representing the interests of those same individuals behave differently? Yes, sometimes small groups can get focused action on these issues, but it doesn't happen consistently enough to be relied upon as the solution.

When you can get citizens to consistently try to solve the problem on the level they can control, then you aren't going to be able to consistently get governments to do it either. The options left are to use educational methods to convince the citizens otherwise or go with options that do not require action level buy in from the majority.
I use OpenBSD for fun on a couple systems and it is a cute OS, there are things to love about it. But the grandstanding is funny.
I ordered one yesterday from the Pi Hut here in the UK. It shipped today...
Breeder reactors are fast reactors. “Fast” refers to neutron energy that “Breeds” new fuel.

Yes, the west has done research and maybe a couple of demo reactors of insignificant power. But only the Soviets, and then the Russians have an industrial sized “fast”, or “breeder” reactor.

As to the waste of “breeders” being manageable, that remains to be seen, doesn’t it?
Yes they will. They already have.
Much of the time the "big picture" isn't local. That's just the nature of the big picture by definition. I find it better to put "big picture" stuff in the RDBMS, including UI issues (see "Table-Oriented" nearby), and keep only local details in code.

For example, the menus and navigation can almost all be tracked and managed in the RDBMS. It's easier to query and study the structure that way because I can sort, search, group, and filter it by any way --I-- please for any given need; I don't want to be stuck with YOUR single grouping; I want to be the Grouping God when studying the app. File-centric code can't do that (at least not without an IDE that reinvents a database). Therefore, don't do it. Use code where code is best, and RDBMS where RDBMS is best.

Code sucks at the big-picture and FP won't change that.
You're right; I remembered it wrong. It was an iBook. 10GB hard drive and a built-in DVD-ROM. I wish I hadn't sold it years later.
The Christmas Tree Carbon Question is more complicated than you might think.

https://www.sightline.org/2015/12/21/your-christmas-trees-ca...

The tl;dr is that usually cut trees are better in terms of carbon footprint, but not always.
Jared Lorenzen inspired so many, including me
Why not?

The only way I see this going wrong is if instead of doing a refund you create a new transfer to send the money back, but you obviously shouldn't do that.
Anecdotal evidence does not make a counterexample. After a quick internet search, you will find several USB-C chargers and docks which have reportedly bricked Nintendo Switch devices.
Oh my, can someone ping Gwern to add Factorio to this list.
https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
Yep anthropomorphization is the caveman talking in me. No its not lost, on less dense regions the interactions go on faster.
I guess you've never heard of the Osborne Effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
Different machine different uses different machines it should accept packets from and send packets to remotely.
This mayu or may not portend the end of Germany's auto industry, but what exactly is the marketshare of electric vehicles globally, and would BMW or Mercedes really notice what Hyundai or Nissan are doing?
If you're in Tokyo (Taito City), go see Kappabashi Dogu-gai or Chef's Street. It has an amazing collection of cookware, dining sets, chairs, signs, place mats, cooking knives, and plastic food.
East Palo Alto has only one, and struggled for years without a grocery store or bank.
While I totally understand the dream of “use the same power supply for everything” I really can’t emphasise just how much impact “use the flippin’ official power supply” has in support burden.

The rash of people digging out their dusty old 500mA microUSB chargers for their early Pi’s made “have you tried a good power supply” almost a meme.

The Switch not truly embracing USB Type-C makes me grumpy. I wonder if the - possibly dockless and portable only - Switch 2 will rectify that. Ah- to just use a regular HDMI alt mode cable!
There’s a bit of silliness with resource limits (that I think should be configured to match the user’s hardware or at least mentioned in the installer), but overall I agree completely. The base system includes a couple of window managers, including CWM which is quite nice. On a laptop you have to enable APM, but after that you’re just about done.

I’d say it’s about equivalent to a simple Arch install on easy hardware, although OpenBSD comes with quite a bit more security stuff pre-configured.
I was thinking yesterday how different it would be if we hadn’t invented the Internet 40 something years ago and had to tackle climate change with the preexisting forms of communication.... i think it would be much harder to rally people behind the issue
We were on the merchant side.

First, PayPal doesn't like it when your dispute ratio increases. The best way to handle disputes as a merchant is just to give the customer what they want. Most times this is a refund.

Second, when fraud occurs most PayPal users dispute any transactions as soon as they get their account back.

Third, You cannot refund a payment from a held or rolling hold balance. PayPal retroactively applied a rolling hold to our account of ~30% of our monthly gross transactions for a rolling 90 days. The way this works on PayPal, at least at that time, means that until your rolling hold balance is equal to 30% of your last 90 days transactions any funding of and payments into the account IMMEDIATELY get sucked into that rolling hold. We would auto flush the completed transaction account balance nightly. So now we're in a situation where trying to refund a customer wants you to add funds to your account, but as soon as the funds are added they are applied to the rolling hold. So, you click Refund on the dispute and you're unable to refund it. Eventually the dispute is automatically closed in their favor and the account balance goes negative. At that point you can fund the account and it'll apply to the negative balance first.

This was my experience at least, and trust me it was one of the most stressful events I ever encountered. Most of that stress was not knowing what was going on and why, and trying to get anything out of PayPal. Their processes are so opaque for merchants in many cases.
It seemed like when I was in Italy I was the only American who knew not to look for eggs in the refrigerator.

But that didn't help me when a cashier got impatient with me for not having weighed my produce in advance. Who knew?
You cant fill up your tank at home. Imagine if your phone could charge up fully within 3 minutes, but that you couldn't charge it at any outlet or overnight and needed to stop by special phone charging stations every couple days to charge it up. More convenient in some ways if it lasts longer and charges faster, but you have to go to special stations now and cant just wake up with full charge
As a business I can confirm that.

"Oh, yeah, don't worry, 3D secure can't be forced for all payments, but we got you, we'll enable it when we think it might be abuse. Also, our seller protection covers you."

All the time: "Here is a customer that made 12 purchases during the last 13 months. We took the money, but you have to prove that the card wasn't stolen and that the customer got what he paid for. We didn't enable 3D secure for this transaction, so please fix this for us and we'll give you your money back. Also, if you don't we'll take some more money from your account. Seller protection does not cover this as services are in a gray-zone."

240K frozen and taken since 2012 and still counting! At least I've started to win all the cases, but it takes a lot of time. Time to switch to stripe where I can force 3D secure...

PayPal is a joke. A bad joke.
Add automated buyers responding to automated influencers by purchasing goods and services from automated sellers, and we might end up bootstrapping an economy that doesn't need any humans, running in a loop until it eats everything and/or breaks down.

I broke my back lifting Moloch to Heaven, and all I got was this lousy Disneyland with no children.
They're very good, however do watch out if you're a heavy user, there is no "unlimited" for A&A. I think I have 250GB per month, and there's a scheme to carry over a fraction to discourage you burning everything on the last few days (e.g. if you have 100GB of quota left on a 250GB quota, you start the next month with 300GB) but if you're the sort of person who routinely Torrents a whole TV series to "see if I like it" and then throws it away after one episode because you didn't then you are likely to exhaust the smaller quotas before a month end and A&A's prices start to get steep.

I watch a bunch of Netflix, Youtube, play some online games, never came close to my quota, but I know people using 1TB+ per month on other ISPs so YMMV.
Rhodesia's case is worth commenting on in this context. Independence breached the principle of "no independence before there's majority rule in place" that was being applied to all territories moving toward independence in that period, to ensure a minority of former colonialist descendants didn't continue ruling in London's absence. That's why Rhodesia made their unilateral (white) declaration of independence.

As Rhodesia's UDI was under white minority rule, close to apartheid South Africa's, neither the UK nor UN recognised them. From what little I remember, which is mainly the 70s aftermath and rise of China backed Mugabe, just about only South Africa had supported them afterwards.
The salesman isn't there to be an expert on the car, he's there to be an expert on how to screw you on the contract.

It's one of the better things about Tesla, their sales people actually know the ins and outs of the cars because that is the only reason they are there.
Back in the day, I heard horror stories of people trying to cram 15-pin VGA cables on 9-pin CGA ports, just because they looked the same. Never underestimate idiots.
Isn't the Canadian CANDU design already safe? Or at least safer than many reactor types which usie plutonium and highly pressurized vessels.

CANDU use natural uranium, can be refueled at full power plus many other advantages most being passive safety features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
no papers, no patents, pure bullshit.

my guess is that the plan is to hang on and hope that technology will appear that they can use, and that money will appear to allow them to dominate.

they better have very deep pockets, and a lot of patience.
Your use the term "NIMBY'd" shows you as an apologist or some other bad faith actor.
I think a lot of people under 20 view climate change as an immediate and existential threat. Students have been skipping education to protest this for most of 2019 all over Europe. I don’t think we’ve seen a movement like this since the hippies in the 60iea, and it’s only just picking up.

I also think our political climate will react way too late to this because the majority of voters are older than 40.
No, there is broad scientific consensus that the climate is changing at an unprecedented rate, and that human CO2 emissions are a key cause. See e.g. https://www.ipcc.ch/

Unfortunately, your optimism regarding energy efficient tech does not seem warranted either. Look up Climate Lag - apparently, if we stopped emitting CO2 tomorrow, it would still take decades for the effects to show.
* it s timely, because a lot of things are censored lately

* it’s something that a lot of people agree on, but it is NOT happening, so it s not obvious
Don't worry. I've read the whole post before writing my previous comment.
We are saying the same thing. There are way more entry-level opportunites in web development, and the barrier to entry is lower.
I'm not sure I understand your distinction. From a gene-based perspective, the gene, whether in the child or in the parent, is the same. The selection pressure is on a gene level, not on a species or individual level.
I just cant understand how a sane person would use syntax like this:

{ home = "/home/bill"
, privateKey = "/home/bill/id_ed25519"
, publicKey = "/home/blil/id_ed25519.pub"
}

and call it "human friendly" with a straight face. just use the normal syntax:

{
home = "/home/bill",
privateKey = "/home/bill/id_ed25519",
publicKey = "/home/blil/id_ed25519.pub"
}

advocates will say, "well you can delete the last line without it breaking". ok. but what about the first line? youve just moved the problem. its frustrating because this is a solved problem. either remove comma altogether (YAML) or allow trailing comma (Python). Dont do this weird leading comma stuff. Its just living in denial.
Users flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20358781 because it was unsubstantive and broke the site guidelines. Speaking of which, would you mind reading them and following them when posting here? You've been breaking them a lot, unfortunately, that we eventually ban accounts that do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was talking about a mismatched field name. What case are you talking about?

EDIT: Actually, responding to

> Strong typing generally doesn't speak to "how many values this expression should produce"

Have you heard of affine/linear types?
My brother works at bmw, the problem is not that they dont see electric as the future, the problem is, that they see batterys as a dead end for cars.
They are a ecological disaster to manufacture, have a limited life-time and are very slowly improving and have overall just taken off, because other industries basically carried that market.

If they could make the economics of scale happen, they would rather prefer something like lohc as energy carrier.

http://www.framatome.com/customer/liblocal/docs/KUNDENPORTAL...

Its storageable hydrogen, so its the natural product of decentralized renewable energy production. It has not recharge time, no battery decay. Only problem is- there is nothing but the car-industry who wants this.
They certainly helped. The 2nd Gen Prius (which was completely redesigned and features the "shuttlepod" shape we're all familiar with today was launched at a time when oil prices were climbing rapidly, peaking in '08. No one remembers the 1st gen model, which coincidentally launched when oil was around an all-time low. But my parents and many others got the 2nd gen, and I recall even more conservative-minded people being quoted as driving the Prius for "national security' reasons. It was a ground breaking car, yes. But it had the benefit of taking advantage of a global price spike in oil.
What, Elon came to his senses and added a vented seats option back to Model S? Not that this were even a particularly high-end luxury feature now.
One reason would be that the ALMR uses liquid metal, and the onus is on the nuclear industry to convince us that liquid sodium isn’t a terrible idea.

‘S/sodium/whatever other metal you prefer/‘
If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
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Stepping aside is the finest display of lack of skin in the game. Something fails, you can just leave, while not returning any of the bonuses you "earned" for your "finest" work.
Independence is akin to HK retrocession to China.

Britain could no longer hold onto its colonies, could no longer control them.
Tesla will keep your car at 105F or less while parked unless your battery is too low.
You were dealing with a very toxic person, who said a lot more about you behind your back then you were aware of.

I’ve lived a lot of the same stories. Although yours may be the worst I’ve ever heard, simply because I’ve never been fired. But bits and pieces of your story are in just about every job I’ve had.

I’m no longer confused as to why a lot of people simply don’t want to work anymore. Getting enough money and quitting, starting a menial business, or getting on government assistance makes a lot more sense than your story.
How to stay secure when using security questions
Welcome to the dystopian future where no human anywhere on Earth can look up and see an authentic sky, as their ancestors did.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/science/starlink-spacex-a...

And thanks to SpaceX (and now Amazon), astronomers will now have to do their observations from space. If only there was a way to get telescopes up there. Oh, wait... SpaceX just happens to have a way to solve the problem it created!
Kudos to the school strikers! Check out Greta Thunberg's book for some clear and concise summaries of the crisis: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45450258-no-one-is-too-s...
MagneticSpy: Exploiting Magnetometer for Website and Application Fingerprinting
Uncovering Information Flow Policy Violations in C Programs
A dedicated i7 server (with ssd) is $25/month in some hosts like hetzner
Soviet economy boomed between 1924 and 1970, bar the war losses.
Both the USA and UK provide legal aid for poor people even if the procedures are different. If you cannot afford a solicitor, the government will help you pay for one, but they probably won't be the best. In both countries rich people get better legal representation than poor people.

Don't make the UK out to be some paradise (legal or otherwise), it struggles with plenty of its own problems.
Any specific tooling generating these or just a good designer?
Does the World Cup affect innovation trends in athletic materials?
Most of them look down on actively killing their customers.

How did that full-self-driving trip across the US in 2016 go?
I'm sure that's comforting to believe, but it just isn't true. America's criminal justice system is uniquely dysfunctional in a multitude of ways, best exemplified by your extraordinarily high incarceration rate. There is no law of nature that dictates that all criminal justice systems inexorably deteriorate into tyranny, it's just a specific and fixable set of policy failures.

The iniquities of pre-trial detention and cash bail are fixable. Racially biased arrest, conviction and sentencing rates are fixable. Needlessly punitive sentences and an over-reliance on incarceration are fixable. Miscarriages of justice due to pseudoscientific forensic evidence and under-funded public defenders are fixable.
FreeBSD is a mature and rock-solid OS whose maintainers care a lot about professional users.

I feel very at home with FreeBSD and it has been a consistently good experience over many years.
> Now the game is changing and the wind is turning but it’s not Tesla driving the change, it’s good old regulation.

As it should be, and that was actually Tesla's goal. Elon Musk did say that what he wants is for the world to electrify transportation, and whether or not Tesla will remain a market leader is irrelevant.
It's because RStudio are pushing R/tidyverse as an interactive datascience environment, so most of the tutorials you see will be aimed at users sending a few lines a time to the REPL. Programming with the tidyverse and its non-standard evaluation really is a pain.
OP separates reprocessing from breeding. His statement is clear that no one, except Russia, breeds.

100 years for reprocessed waste? Do cite!
> I never understand blanket statements like these about the iPhone being a game changer; the iPhone wasn't half as capable as a windows mobile phone for quite awhile

The second part of your sentence answers the first part of your sentence.

It's shockingly obvious why the iPhone was a game changer if you're doing anything other than looking at capabilities and checking off lists of features.

> To me, Apple used their inertia from their innovative iPods to have a great marketing success.

But on the other hand you think the iPod was innovative. When the iPod was released everyone said the same thing as you're saying about the iPhone ("Less space than a nomad. Lame."). In a comparison test with other MP3 players it didn't come out on top, either.

Slick hardware and good UX is way more important than people in tech give it credit for. I used Windows Mobile before the iPhone came out and it was complete trash, regardless of how many features it technically had.
My PayPal password is along the lines of thirty-two characters, so this comment confuses me a lot.
I wonder if it would ever make sense to set up some "IXP satellites" so that Amazon and SpaceX's (and whoever else enters this space) various LEO networks could switch in space.
Slick capacitive multi-touch coupled with iOS: that was the game-changer.

I'd had a couple of Windows Phones, complete with their plastic cases, resistive touchscreens, and stylii. Some of the apps might have been more capable than the iPhone's at launch, but the hardware was primitive in comparison.
Should anybody be putting satellites up without some credible plan for decommissioning them from the atmosphere?
It would be nice if you provided sources when making such harsh accusations.
Leaping out a boat into shallow water and landing on muscles or oysters is not misplaced vitriol.
I'd be happy to have both.
Happy as I am about the result (the essay wanders a bit after getting to the "punch line") it reminds me how bizarre I find that people regularly eat mussels, oysters, vertebrate livers, kidneys and the like. The idea of eating a used filter really revolts me.
Except the internet isn't the club... an individual site is the club. The internet is the city, and anyone can set up whatever club they like with whatever rules they want, but they all still live together.
Well, that is one unusual source for an HN submission!

Quite interesting read - about the author, from that website:

> John Michael Greer is a widely read author and blogger whose work focuses on the overlaps between ecology, spirituality, and the future of industrial society.

> He served twelve years as Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and currently heads the Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn. He currently lives in East Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife Sara.

"Ancient Order of Druids in America" and "Druidical Order of the Golden Dawn" - who has heard of those before?

I looked them up and found

- https://aoda.org/

- http://www.druidical-gd.org/

I'm not one to dismiss something just because it is... unusual. I must admit I would not ask if this was some professor of biology at XYZ University. I have no idea what to think about an American Grand Archdruid. Does anybody have any well-founded opinions about those organizations? I like their page title "Frequently Thrown Tantrums" though -- http://www.druidical-gd.org/ftt.html
It started with the (vaguely somewhat plausible) notion of the acid ash hypothesis. Foods when fully oxidized can have a more acidic or basic ash, depending on the constituent elements. Phosphor and sulfur oxidize to the phosphate and sulfate anions, which are acidic, while calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium cations form hydroxides/carbonates. The theory goes that to maintain buffered pH, the body has to cations from somewhere, leaching it from bones.

Nowadays we know that most pH regulation is done with carbonate/bicarbonate via respiration, with ion transport managing electrolytes.

The alkaline diet has devolved to just throwing "bad" foods in the acidic bucket and "good" foods in basic, irrespective of chemistry:

https://waterforlifeusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/alkal...
The way Apple hired Jobs by buying NeXT?

I don't think BMW (privately held) can raise the cash to buy Tesla, unless the stock really tanks. It was more expensive than Ford a while ago.

P.S. And then the "culture fit" would be more fun than a barrel of monkeys - probably break the internet a few times ...
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