skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I didn't read enough or do enough back-of-the-napkin math. I read more; this seems plausible in life cycle terms, but now I have doubts about the economics. At $30/ton, 30Gtons becomes $900 billion a year. For comparison US discretionary spending is $1.4 trillion. It's not clear to me where this level of spending is going to come from (jewelry sales?), for an activity that has no useful economic output other than sequestering carbon. In addition I'm not sure that $30/ton is an accurate estimate of all of the capital outlays and so on required - entire industries have to be created to facilitate this process at scale. Much of this activity has to be done in decentralized fashion, i.e., it is not a single polity or entity that must partake in olivine mining to make this viable, which adds cost and political overhead.

I'm also not clear on what putting 30 gigatons of rock onto coastal sea shelves each year is going to do in terms of ecosystem impact, and how tolerant local polities will be of this. For example, Costa Rica gets something like 6% of its GDP from tourism, a lot of which is ecotourism; it seems unlikely they will be happy about a significant mining and rock-dumping operation taking over its beaches.

EDIT: Also, on the life cycle question, I'm unclear on how real the "1 ton for 1.25 tons of CO2" claim is - would a real beach weathering actually produce this much absorption per ton? Would it happen on a 1-year time scale so that we could actually offset this much every year? Uncertain; if you have citations demonstrating this please post them, if you're not above arguing on the Internet.
Correction: the terrorists in Back to the Future gave Doc Brown weapons-grade plutonium, not uranium!
I can imagine airliners have their entire maintenance "street" completely tailored to maintain their Boeing aircraft, so unless you already happen to have Airbus, a switch is not likely it seems. Can anyone shed some light on that?
Do what I did.

Step 1, Save up 200 vacation hours at company.

Step 2, From April-August take a vacation request, every Friday off. Willing to work during dumpster fire if needed.

Step 3, enjoy your 4 day work week.

Note Need to work at a legit company who cares about employees well being.

8 x 4 = 32 hours used per month x 5 months = 160 hours of vacation leaving your 40 hours of vacation for sick/emergency days.

You also will earn more vacation during this time for a little bit of wiggle room.

This is assuming you do not want to use your vacation for a legit 1-2 week vacation.
Not a web dev. Can anyone tell me what CORS is ultimately used for? Not the literal technical details, the higher level what does it enable sites to do? And is that for them or their visiters?
I think that when your co-workers have such severe BO that it makes your eyes water, that it might be a bit much.
My main point was about developing countries. Eric himself noted that "the idea is to utilize mines within 300 km (186 mi) of the destination beach" and "or many of the first beaches, we will be looking to use tailings piles (waste rock) from previously dug and developed mines, as well as the infrastructure from those mines, such as rail for transport". The idea is summarized in this image [1], which shows mines and their associates beaches that the project intends to target due the proximity.

Most of those beaches are in developing countries. If nourishing the beaches with olivine has some unforeseen, negative ecological consequence, those countries might not be financially equipped to deal with the cleanup. How are those beaches going to be insured?

In the case of California, I'm not familiar with their beach nourishing process, but I assume they are using sand that is more similar in content to what was naturally present. If the beaches have been replenished for years, then we at least have some idea about the short-term effects.

1. https://projectvesta.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Image-59...
I find this attitude not only wrong, but misleading and in the end doing more harm than good. individuals having the illusion of any kind of control of the incoming global warming, deflects the real issues which can only be resolved with real pressure on decision makers. if the average person thinks it's enough that he recycles and eats only vegetables, he's never going to pressure his government to solve the issue before it's too late.
I was actually hoping to not frame it as an exhaustive listing of options - just the ones I had seen in practice working. I certainly hope there aren’t more working options; I just haven’t seen them tested.
Same for dictionaries ain't it ?
Which takes away even more control from the publisher (no analytics, A/B testing support, monetization options, etc.) and doesn't support prerendering above the fold. I can't imagine the backlash RSS would get if Google came up with that.
I think you're making this sound harder to implement than this really is.

> There is no consensus about which of 5 workdays to drop to get there

As a company (or better yet as a society), just redefine the weekend as Friday – Sunday, or Saturday – Monday. I don't think anyone is proposing a free-for-all approach where people get to pick and choose which day they take off.

> Enforcing shorter days means that the gap between the hard workers and those who are just showing up for the hours

I have a hard time understanding this mentality. The law and your labor contract only requires you to work 40 hours. Some people may choose to work more than that, but to what end? So you get to feel superior to your coworkers? If the law reduced the work week to 30 hours, would you seriously hold it against people to spend more time at home with their families?
The Soviets experimented with five and six-day weeks... I don’t think it worked out for them, but it’s been tried at least.

In any case there are other methods to distribute workers over four days while keeping 24x7 or just 9x5 or any other business hours arrangement.
We are so massively far away from being able to do that, it's not worth worrying about. Especially since active carbon capture methods can easily be switched off long before we approached any "dangerous" level.
Anyone remember the 3d printed gun stuff from a few years back? I think this isn't very different from it. You can take these raw pieces and explain how they are simple and good and draw these simple ethical conclusions from them, but then you add it up and the bigger picture doesn't feel quite the same way. 3D printers are good, sharing 3D printing plans is good, it's good to help your neighbor, no regulations and we're experiencing tremendous growth in the 3D space, people are inventing new stuff, starting new businesses, etc.. all good stuff. but letting any jackass off the street print a working gun when we have how many mass shootings a year? People don't feel the same way. All the pieces are totally okay until you've got a more questionable global intention, and how can you regulate intention?

Google using the data to train models is just a tool, it's a baby step, they aren't doing that to sell the models or in and of itself, they're doing it so that they can generate data that they might consider theirs and not yours from your voice data and then feed that in to other systems which generate tremendous profits for them in ways you don't even know. They have intended uses already. Is it a remotely fair question to talk about ethical training in this context without some idea as to the intended use and distribution of the meta data?
I think a lot of the lower-tier influencers look at influencing as a source of freebies rather than an actual job. They don't make much of an income, but they're perfectly happy just with the free things they're given to promote.
Good point, at least for the main service app communication. I would still want to maybe be able to reach my computers apps from a remote system.
This is cool. I’ve thought about carbon sequestration a lot using big nuke plants/solar plants+air liquidification+some plant to distill off and turn the CO2 into like methane or some hydrocarbon. My thought here was put half back in the ground and sell the other half to fund the installation/make sure we don’t run out of hydrocarbons. The olivine process, though, is probably easier because it takes much less infrastructure and is more fire and forget. We need some method for sequestration running at scale now (probably multiple). With the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere already, the amount continuing to go in, and the amount of inaction we’re pretty fucked. The current solution (getting the whole damn world to reduce emissions) is unrealistic. Even if we stop putting more in, it’s already there and we’re already fucked. It’s a day late and a dollar short. The countries willing to face this need some way to save us without the cooperation of the countries with their heads in the sand. Sequestration is a good answer for that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight_(2005_film)
Breaking Bad is not a great example, because the show was created with a defined length that fit the narrative. It had a certain beginning and and end in mind before it became a show. The studio wanted it to run longer, but the owners of the show said no.

The only major departure from Breaking Bad on paper and Breaking Bad in reality was Jesse Pinkman. He was originally only to be a bit character in one episode, but the showrunners liked Aaron Paul so much that he became a part of, and changed the tenor of the whole show.
At my company I enforce a no-meetings-Friday rule. Combined with being fully remote and biasing towards asynchronous communication whenever possible, it effectively means a four day work week if you want it. If you disappear on Friday, no one will really notice.
Thank you - and we definitely have a web app on the roadmap (ChowNow does this well).

We were able to solve the varying menus relatively quickly, because after building hundreds of them we realized how similar they were - just random variations of names, sizes, prices, etc. We built out a core menu with built-in descriptions for common items, and we just modify those based on what shops want.

In terms of incumbents, to be honest we haven't spent much time worrying about this. If they build something to compete, so be it. The only thing in our control is how we build the product and network at this point, so we're staying focused on that!

Sorry about the mixup, I had mistakenly changed the link the app was redirecting to, but it should be fixed now. Regardless, you can submit referrals here (https://www.cloosiv.com/invite-a-brand)
We already have fairly functional knobs for increasing carbon emissions.
Now I'm curious where I can buy a ton of olivine. I've got $30 in my pocket and would love to build me a giant carbon-scrubbing sandbox.
I'm typically a "when in doubt, free markets" type, but the three tier system (production, distribution, and retailing) has numerous advantages. The craft beer boom, for example, would never have happened in the absence of a legally-mandated 3 tier system. Not only did this result in greater consumer choice, but it also allowed small businesses to thrive in a sector where there are significant economies of scale. I think similar benefits would be realized in the art world, with similar exceptions for very small studios that usually don't have access to the same distribution channels.
Yeah, but that was their only set of clothes. They look nice because it's what they go to church in as well.

Look through old wills and it's shocking to see what people list. Each shirt individually gifted, because they only had 3. Each pair of socks. Their toaster. This wasn't even 100 years ago. We don't realize just how much more buying power we have today. It's a completely different world.
I hope you would still run tests to determine how much left over Nickel is getting into the ocean.

Not just coral will be effected by Nickel, but other important invertebrates as well such as amphipods which play an enormous role in the food chain and health of reef environments.

And we’re talking parts per billion (ppb) when heavy metals can start to become toxic.

And correct me if I’m wrong, but Manganese is another element often found in olivine, which is another metal that can be toxic to marine life.
A lot of the atmospheric affects are on longer timescales than the sampling times, which means they can be calibrated out.

Most observations of this nature (interferometric observations) will point at a nearby calibrator source (usually a well characterized quasar or other "point source" star/object), and an atmospheric noise model will then be constructed based on this calibrator to apply to each dish to minimize/account for the atmospheric influence.

This is often repeated periodically to account for changing weather over time. And on top of that, a benefit of the location chosen for ASKAP was relatively dry air (being in the western desert climate of Australia).
I would work extra hours for 4 days if it meant not working on the 5th. The commute alone means a net gain in free hours.
From a random cursory sampling of art pieces, I could not find one which allowed reproduction. I'd love to be able to print a poster-size reproduction and hang it in my home.
Different humans have skulls of different thicknesses and if there was a situation where hammer skullings became major cause of death I'm sure that over time those with thicker skulls or other features that made them less susceptible to skullings would survive and flourish.
Soulver can do that too.
> If the law reduced the work week to 30 hours, would you seriously hold it against people to spend more time at home with their families?

Some people would unfortunately, but it should still be done.
I think it's tricky because it's both ways. If you are a current smoker, switching to vaping at an equal interval is a healthy move. I know many people with the same story about switching to vaping and it being great.

If you're a non-smoker, picking up vaping at any meaningful interval is a negative move.

How many positives outweigh the negatives? I don't know how to quantify that thing.

And all of that assumes that smokers vape at the same interval. It gets even more complicated if they vape more than smoking.

I went through a strange thing with this recently. Long anecdote:

I'll have the occasional cigarette when drinking. I find them too gross when sober, so that situation enforced itself in a way I found acceptable. All my smoker friends switched to Juul, so I eventually did the same, for all the health reasons expected. But the thing about the Juul is that it's minty and delightful and suddenly I'm ripping that thing at the end of the night, or between chores, and within days I noticed that both my breathing was impacted, and that I had a budding nicotine addiction. I gave the Juul away and went back to cigarettes. I think a few marlbros once in awhile are better than vaping constantly, and I need to be realistic with myself: I don't have the discipline to enforce boundaries on the vape.

So it's not apples and oranges. Plus, if kids could get cigarettes illegally, they can get vape stuff the same way. It's easier to conceal. And I think a lot of teens are like me – finding Juul enjoyable, but cigarettes gross, so if you take the vape off the table, they don't actually switch to cigarettes. This would save a lot of harm, I think.
Square really tried to make this work with Square Order - for a while the explicit focus was on coffee. Unfortunately that wasn't successful in getting the usage numbers hoped for, and was eventually shut down. I hope you're able to make it work but this gives me a bit of deja vu.
We can just burn down some forests.
I don't believe the intent of the AMP team is to strongarm
developers into using their framework, or to funnel all
traffic through Google

TBH it doesn't matter what their intent was, it matters what the results of their actions were.

The packaging thing doesn't seem like a "fix" to the URL issue so much as a "let's add a feature to Chrome that lies to users and then make it a web standard".
> It is true but not on individual level, on country level.

It's true all over the place.

Suppose you live in a country which gets 80% of its energy from fossil fuels. Well, that sucks, so now your average energy costs go up by $1000 a year. You can't afford that! Only you get it all back. You get a $1000 dividend, use it to pay for the same energy you did before, and nothing changes.

Except for one thing. When your country continues its path to industrialization, nobody is ever going to build a new coal fired power plant again. All the new capacity will be non-fossil fuels, because now they're much cheaper relative to coal -- no carbon tax.

The only cost you're really paying is the relative price difference between fossil fuels and alternatives. But that's already close to zero and has non-cost benefits for your country like air quality and energy independence.

Moreover, the idea that this is some cost for developing countries that developed countries didn't have to pay is also a lie. The cost of renewables is driving the cost of fossil fuels down through competition. The carbon tax is only needed to prevent that -- to keep their price back up around their traditional cost, which makes them uncompetitive with the falling price of renewables, so that they die out instead of the lower demand causing their price to fall to the point that they still end up as 20-50% of generation capacity.
China urged to end mass Xinjiang detentions by countries at UN
Fork maintainer here. Hoping to continue supporting schema delegation and stitching despite Apollo deprecation, as well as addition of cross-service delegation caching. Looking for help, and trying to assess interest. :)
I was forced into a similar situation. I had accrued the maximum vacation accrual, and was going to start losing vacation days. I told my boss I was just going to take off every Friday for the next three months to get low enough to not hit the max.
Could you give a realistic example where it wouldn't lead you to have a bigger problem on your hands? I think that'd be extremely helpful.
Thank you - the startup community in N.C. is small, but that also means it's supportive!
It would draw a big crowd, but it's also hellishly expensive, and would be even more so today with people insisting that you do it safely (somehow) and clean up afterwards.
I think you have to look deeper at the draws people have to work certain places.

I suspect people didn't moralize about working for the monopolistic phone company when working at Bell Labs. They probably thought about the amazing environment of pure research and the top-notch people they would be working with.
How can a website detect a disabled cache vs. the cache being full, for example?
this is the first instance of an airline publicly switching an aircraft order away from Boeing ... Airbus doesn’t have the production capacity to take much market share away from Boeing ... If this plane doesn’t start flying again before Christmas ...

It's not likely Boeing is going out of business. Is the purpose of articles like this to effect a wall street trader? Not into that personally, just wondering. Why is NBC putting pressure on Boeing? For the clicks?
I've written a SaaS system for SOX compliance tracking that ended up being a multiuser, role-based task manager that had to track dependencies between assignees and tasks. Did the application require JavaScript? Yes. But the JS had nothing to do with it being a "complex business application with business rules." If I'd implemented business rules in JavaScript, running on the client, I'd have been exposing the company to lawsuits.

JavaScript doesn't deserve all the hate it gets, but the flip side of that is that it gets most of that hate because of the way developers keep using it.
Obviously it’s a bit of a Rorschach but I see it differently:

Industrialists took control of the production apparatus and stopped funding anything that didn’t fit into “proven” parameters. This produces a lot of money for owners, in a very efficient way. Very little money is wasted, there are clearly lost opportunities on risks not taken, but as long as there is enough work to keep the top management busy at full capacity, there’s no incentive to chase those risks.

This model displaced a lot of content creators who didn’t fit the formula. Some small number of passionate people made work anyway, fumbling through with PayPal and DVDs and Amazon sales and whatever else.

That small pool of dedicated creators was enough of a market to build an alternate production apparatus. CDBaby, YouTube, digital cameras, cheap video editing rigs, Twitter, even email... all of these tools emerged to help independents survive.

Then, it was a classic “Innovators Dilemma” tipping point: suddenly a TV show could be produced for an order of magnitude less money and there was a generation of established creators that the establishment had written off.

It was just waiting for someone to start writing small-for-networks but big-for-indie-filmmakers checks. Netflix did it.

Now there are a new set of proven formulas. The networks are on the ropes, but they could come back easily. At the end of the day this business has nothing to do with technology. Viewing experiences will change but it’s still just people in dimly lit rooms watching screens and advertising.
A follow-up to the FaCT paper can be found here: https://github.com/PLSysSec/FaCT/blob/master/FaCT_extended.p.... The source for the compiler is in the same repo. (Full disclosure: I’m a co-author.)

There were a few interesting issues we ran into when implementing the compiler that we did not anticipate when writing the paper you linked (e.g., there are cases where making code constant-time can inadvertently introduce memory errors). You can try out the language here (based on Compiler Explorer): https://fact.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
He was registered at some vocational school is Los Alamos at the time he said he attended MIT, besides the fact that MIT says they've never heard of him.

He says shit like "the gravity orb was activated by a an electric pressure", which is just nonsense.
Well in that case the combustion engine will earn a second golden age. :-)
The trouble is that trusting individual developers at Google is fine, but I don’t trust the overall flow of how things are moving. AMP is one possible response to “websites are slow”, but it also happens to be one that actively consolidates Google’s power in the marketplace and makes things worse for people that try to opt out of the ecosystem. Which is a shame, because it needn’t have been like that.
Nope, I had federal loans. No counseling. Not sure what to tell you. A quick search of my student email account reveals a "required" exit counseling session, which I was not aware of until searching for it in my email at this very moment. No other attempt to contact me to get the counseling, and I very much successfully graduated without going. So seems the school at least doesn't really care too much.

As for your last point, I'm not sure how that matters? By my count, 14 of the top 25 universities globally are American private institutions. Not all of us were lucky enough to be raised in states with the caliber of public universities of California, and for us, the chance at a better life was one of those top private universities. That was a dream sold to me by the educational system my entire primary and secondary school life, and while it did work out for me, it's not working for thousands of young people and needs to be changed.