skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible. But even if that part is true, the large investment might spur faster growth in electrification which might then be good enough to outweigh that initial downside.

Unintended consequences are hard.

I'm just getting a little fatigued with the fearful "don't do anything, it might make it worse" coupled with the "stop all the everything" approach to environmentalism that seems to becoming ever more dominant. I just don't think that's going to work. Doing nothing won't help, and convincing people to do without doesn't work, so ?
Literally the definition of survivor bias.
True, though I was thinking about something else still: unless you're a completely amoral alien mind, even your for-profit goals have some hidden value judgements and preferences attached. Those extra constraints are incredibly hard to capture as explicit goals and thus impossible to properly measure in a quantified way. So if you now turn the optimization knob up to 11 and just let it work for a while, you might be appalled by what it comes up with. Or if not you, the people on the receiving end of your optimizations definitely will.
That's why a lot of big power lines between European nations are being upgraded so the grid will become more flexible in the future.
Well you got [invidous](invido.us) as an alternative web frontend as well as [NewPipe](https://f-droid.org/app/org.schabi.newpipe) for Android
Turning web content consumption from synchronous into asynchronous
Why downvote? I am stating the fact. We are discussing the issue, and you should not downvote just because that person is potentially against your interest.
Of course that is work, but not job and definitely not a career. What do you think you are going to do when you get basic income?

In my case when somebody asked me and I haven't have had much going on I did it, but I haven't chased anything.
This is highly dependent on not much changing. For example, even widening integers from 32-64bit but would break a lot of software.

So to a degree this might be true. But my guess is there is very little benefit here. It’s not clear to me if this could even optimize for the presence of a new vector unit, for example.
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Here's the scoping doc:
https://iowacourts.gov/static/media/cms/Rules_of_Engag_E9D80...

Some highlights include authorization to attempt entry by tail gating, lock picking, place devices once access has been gained, etc. It's a total vindication for Coalfire (IMO).
(I'm assuming that you mean that the other person is another subordinate to the same manager, rather than being someone subordinate to you)

It's a bit of a delicate balance. The golden rule is that Snitches get Stitches, but if someone is being unproductive with their time and your manager isn't aware of that fact then letting them know isn't a terrible idea. But it isn't your place to measure how your co-workers are accomplishing their tasks - assuming management isn't out to lunch then performance reviews should fall on their shoulders. Maybe your coworker cleared a rewrite with your manager and your manager was satisfied with the justification and decided that explaining the full reasoning would be a waste of time until the experimental phase was completed.

In theory good management should prevent you from feeling like you need to look over other people's shoulders, because that is their job. So if you are feeling that way you might want to talk to your manager about it, maybe they are bad at managing and are letting things slip through the cracks, maybe they find that allowing someone to experiment with a rewrite is worth the training time - it may be possible that you just need to talk it through with them and find more confidence in their management ability.
Some consumption is good, i.e. replacing and old appliance or a car with a more efficient one, or you can buy a video game on Steam rather than driving to a picnic. It is not always apparent what behaviour is the most energy-wasteful. For example airplanes emit tons of CO2, but if the same 300 people in a plane drove the same distance it could be much worse.

Advanced economies have grown their GDPs, but have also reduced their emissions since about 1990.

The best policies to counter climate change like carbon taxes and schemes like cap and trade, which align people's incentives to emit less, but also don't damage the potential for growth and consumption as much.
That's because you're taking away space (i.e. making driving worse) in a way which is incredibly inefficient. You have an entire lane dedicated to a bus that only travels in it a dozen times a day.

It also has failure built into the mechanism, because it only "works" by making the bus lane better relative to driving, which is only effective when there is heavy congestion in the car lanes. Which means it's impossible for it to relieve that congestion or else it would lose its effectiveness. Methods that require failure and inefficiency in order to operate are inherently ridiculous.

The best way to make mass transit better is to build taller buildings. Then you can run more trains and buses while still having them full, which means they arrive more frequently and you waste less time waiting for them, which means more people willingly choose to use them over driving.

The second best way (which is complementary) is to not charge mass transit fares. Then more people use it because it's cheaper, which again justifies more frequent service and reduces the inconvenience. Yet you're not making driving worse, you're making it better by allowing more people to willingly choose mass transit rather than being pressured into it with penalties, which reduces congestion for cars. You also save a huge pile of money for not needing a fare collection infrastructure, and improve privacy because it's all too common for transit payment systems to be coupled to movement tracking infrastructure (which you also then don't have to pay for either).
What does this secondary and primary mean?
HFCS is common not just because of corn subsidies, but also because of sugar tariffs. The US has very high protective tariffs for our domestic sugar industry, which makes sugar more expensive in the US relative to the rest of the world. HFCS steps into that price differential.
I'll agree with your summary, but I'll also argue that moderation is often a lesson coders need to learn/remember. It is easy to "know" in theory but become dogmatic in practice. There are reasons we are still learning the lessons from 30+ years ago - we keep getting dogmatic about concepts that interfere.
It so far appears the county sheriff is behind this, insisting that the courthouse belongs to the county, and the state had to right to authorize this test.
> So the ideal solution would probably be for the camera to obtain location data from the phone via Bluetooth.

My Olympus E-M10 (bought in 2014, and still going strong) does this with a companion phone app, and it's incredibly useful.
How would increasing the delivery time reduce the amount of gas it takes to get an item to my doorstep? Considering that the items ship from a warehouse about 15 miles from my house.

I suppose that if an occasional item ships from across the country, then it would be less impactful to go by truck for 5 days, so if that is the case then any item that falls under that category could have a selection item on the checkout screen that says "Delay shipment by 3 days, to save 3 lbs of greenhouse gasses". That may influence consumer behavior.

BTW, what is the greenhouse gas emissions difference between one delivery vehicle making the rounds, vs several hundred people each driving to a store to buy something?
I don't think that companies should be held responsible for crimes committed using their products.

Why not directly punish the person who committed the crime?
The statement you quoted is definitely a red flag for me. It sounds like the parent wants the kids to fulfill the parent's dreams, rather than their own dreams. What if one of the kids just wants to work at a surf shop so they can hang out on the beach?
If you work in SEO then this article will be beyond basic. The target audience for the article is non-digital colleauges and senior management.

-- Context --

Part of my job involves explaining SEO to senior management and non-digital colleauges to get buy in for projects. One of the things I've noticed is that the rate at which SEO changes can be quite daunting for beginners. Plus, as we're all aware, everyone has their own theories, ideas and tactics for how to do SEO - which again can be confusing to non-digital colleauges.

So I like to boil a field down to it's core element, to help beginners better judge the information they're being told.

I've found this core principle helps senior management better filter the sales pitches and SEO articles they get sent. So they don't ask lots of confused questions about "conflicting" tactics.

Don't get me wrong, I still get asked lots of questions about SEO. But the discussion and explanation goes smoother than before.

-- How you can help --

I'm posting the article for my fellow SEOs to give it a sense check. Does the article make sense to you? Can you see any weaknesses in the principle and if so do you have a recommendation for how to improve it?
Just read the DRY chapter, you can read it for free to get a feel of the book if you follow the link. Looks good to me, I will be picking this up.
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Solar growth projections vs reality: https://steinbuch.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/photovoltaic-grow...

Electricity can be used to replace all uses of energy we have today more or less economically. AFAIK anything but airplanes has replacements that are as good or better than the fossil fuel variant. Problematic are things like concrete and steel production, where we don't have good replacements yet.
I'm impressed by the bit about 10K electric vans by 2022. 100K by 2040 seems less impressive given the likely steep slope of adoption.

I'm curious if they have any projections about how it will effect their competitiveness with their chief rival Walmart.
I see this missing all the time. I don't know if it matters if the real costs of green power are counted - maybe it doesn't change the bottom line. But it seems like the general approach is that green power has no negative effects. The evil one is fossil fuels and it is all evil and the good one is green energy and it is all good. I think it makes it easier to swallow for the mainstream.
This means "even if your WordPress site is as simple as you can imagine, there's still PHP running to make it happen"
> They're calling the costs associated with anthropogenic climate change and pollution "subsidies", most people would just call those things "costs."

This is totally reasonable.
You're usually expected to fix the things you damage in any activity you do. The fact that fossil fuel users are not expected to do so is clearly a subsidy.
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Not to mention the lack of a unified UI. I don't want to fire up 3-5 different apps, have to figure out which show is on which, manage 3-5 different watchlists, etc. It's all about convenience.
Agreed, which is why California would apply them to all cars sold in CA or brought into the state.

Essentially, they would just be an extension of existing state vehicle registration fees.
What if cameras follow you on every trip you make to/from your home. Are you ok with a blotter on all your movements?
Chrome shows that warning if your extension requests access to the 'tabs' permission. https://developer.chrome.com/apps/permission_warnings#view_w...

In this case, it is needed to get the url and id of the tab. I'll have to go back and check if I can make do without depending on that because I agree it does not make sense for this extension to need 'access to my browsing history'. Also, I do intend to put the code up and link it in the extension description page soon, so you don't have to take my word for it!

Thanks for pointing this out.
I've heard NZBGeek.info is pretty good and worth the lifetime fee (currently $30) as far as indexers go. I've also heard that free software like NZBGet which takes in the NZB's and downloads everything for you, verifies the download, and does the unpacking automatically, is great and has its own browser interface. I've also heard services like newshosting.com are worth the $15 unlimited bandwidth access given their speed and retention.

I'm told these are better than torrent primarily for speed and accessibility. Accessibility is key for older content as these massive data centers that belong to the usenet provider will typically hold all data for at least 7-8 years. So if you are within the 7-8 window you won't have any speed or "seed" issues. The issue now for Usenet seems to be DMCA takedowns which applies to new, popular content. Although, if one were to use software like SickBeard or SABnzbd, I've heard they automate the locating and downloading of recurring/episodic television and would replace NZBGet. You set your preferences for a show (quality, language, etc.) and it does the rest because it knows when the show airs so you literally just find new commercial and add free TV downloaded and ready to go.

Combine this with Plex and you're golden. And that's a $30 one time fee and $15 monthly recurring in total, as the rest is all free software. Unless you want the premium Plex which you would only need if you want to stream from your home to your mobile device or something else while in transit. But if you just want to use this to watch at home, then Plex is also free, fantastic software...or so I've been told.

EDIT:

One additional note on legal protection - using Usenet is preferred as you are communicating directly with your service provider (i.e. newshosting.com) for them serving you files. This means there's no one monitoring the swarm and trying to see if you are seeding or serving/distributing the data. So there isn't going to be anyone serving you violation notices or suing you for illegal distribution. Another benefit is those Usenet providers are typically on major internet backbones and typically max your line speed even for extended usage. You can easily pull down several hundred mbps constant for most Usenet providers.
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There's a lot of comparing apples to oranges

3. Shanghai, China – 2,985,984 cameras for 26,317,104 people = 113.46 cameras per 1,000 people

76. Tokyo, Japan - 24,500 cameras for 37,435,191 people = 0.65 cameras per 1,000 people

Well, first off what are we comparing? They list 26.3 million people for Shanghai and 37.4 million for Tokyo. That's comparing the metropolitian area of Tokyo (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba) to just the city of Shangahi. Shanghai's metropolitian area population is closer to 33 million.

If we change Tokyo to the city population (9.3m) which is what they used for Shanghai then Tokyo jumps to position 40 at 2.66 cameras per 1000 people.

On top of that 24,500 seems awefully low for Tokyo. There are cameras everywhere and have been since I first got here 21 years ago. I always found it strange if the Japanese are so honest (perception may be different than reality) then why do they need so many cameras? Of course I haven't counted, just saying for a city so large and seeing the cameras stick out if you're looking it feels low.

All of that is the long way of saying the data is highly suspect.
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This is wrong because subsidies aren't just externalized costs. They are defined as monetary gifts. You're extending the definition by analogy and arguing that a company externalizing its costs is the same thing as a subsidy, but a subsidy implies direct and deliberate support.

This is important for a couple of reasons: The main one is that it's confusing to redefine subsidy when you can just say "cost" and have people understand you. People reading this survey might see the $5.2T number and assume that that cost is in addition to whatever the cost of climate change is and will have to read the paper to understand otherwise. This is unnecessarily confusing even if one were to grant the logic of it.

In addition, when people discuss subsidies, they are often most interested in government policy. The purpose of a subsidy often is to increase a certain kind of business, so we might worry about unnecessarily funding the fossil fuels and thus encouraging climate change in a manner above and beyond simply allowing them to be used the way we've always done, but that's not quite what's going on here.

One thing to keep in mind is that it's a lot easier to measure a genuine government subsidy than an externality. So the distinction matters in that regard as well. Any measure of the cost of climate change is to at least some degree speculation, whereas any attempt to measure the direct amount of money given to fossil fuel companies can probably be much more exact.
WordPress is in a weird place right now as the PHP community has matured into MVC+ for some time now... WordPress core... not so much. Tools like TypeRocket are a must-have to seasoned WP devs.

But, if something like TypeRocket was added into WP core, I believe, the plugin ecosystem of WP would greatly improve moving forward.

These frameworks not only add MVC into WP but they also provide a common interface to create plugins. These common interfaces can be a simple as input fields with model binding but also extends to interactive HTML tables with model binding and OOP and autoloading and dependency injection and IOC and so much more.

I get that WP is trying to move toward JS and Guten-Blocks at the moment but the neglect of MVC and adding a common interface causes me to wonder what WP is really trying to do.

It seems like an easy win to add something like TypeRocket to WP core. And, the benefits: a proper layer of security built into forms, unified design athstetic in the WP admin, plugin interoperability, huge reduction in code bloat and plugin hell, and the list continues.
Might be brutally simply and obvious but still too many people manage to not achieve it. Appreciate a practical framework for how to measure too simply vs too complicated might be helpful, but often I suspect teams aren't remotely interested in a "let's not overcomplicate this" influence.

My own thoughts on this btw: https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/struggle-design-balance/
As I understand it beet only makes economic sense if you can process it where it's growing or nearby. The transport costs are so much higher (less sugar dense plant? not sure why) that cane producers will out-compete you unless you get rid of that problem.
@giancarlostoro and @turc1656 covered this a great deal better than I could. I just want to add that using a combination of NZBGet, Sonarr (TV Series), and Radarr (Movies), makes the task of downloading and managing media incredibly simple on a day-to-day basis. There's a bit of a learning curve to get them all set up and working, but not much more than a single dedicated evening.

I can't say I know a ton about the subject, as it's very intentionally not a hobby for me. One might find it important to simply get everything set up and then go on with their lives. About an hour or so googling around and checking the usenet subreddit(s) and the favorite tools and services tend to bubble to the top. Then it's a matter of signing up for a couple indexers and usenet services and blocks, installing the tools, and let it run. The ones I mentioned above are quite stable and self-updating.

Torrents seem to be easier to get started and along with a VPN are probably the way to go if you download something once a month, but annoying in the long term. On the other hand, usenet can be annoying to learn about and get set up at first and then simply stable and easy otherwise.

One could easily get used to the client interfaces and Plex (or Kodi if preferred) and simply forget that they have a system in place to automatically download these series and movies as they're released and as better quality versions are made available.
Sooo you mean Michelangelo right?

At least on Wikipedia there it is stated that there is no proper source.

Also I try to. If it is very significant part of history I would try to be aware of it and still have a look.

I'm also very unsure about Alice in wonderland for the same reason.

But at least it's not someone still alive which would benefit from his/her art and being pedo right?
I guess it's not altogether surprising, but London being the sole break in list of eight Chinese cities is a staggering reminder to London earning it's reputation for surveillance cameras.
The worse soy on our Android phones is Google Play Services. For some magical reason when I firewall the Google Play Services I stop receiving ANY notifications (Signal, emails etc.). For some reason all these are routed through Google. I wonder how much of a coincidence/mishap is that in the architecture.

Does anyone know why, if I can bypass it?
I wonder how much of US corn subsidies exist because Iowa is so important to getting elected President?
There is hydrogen too. There was talk of Germany using the excess electrickery from their coal stations to create hydrogen, which can then be used to power fuel cells to create more electrickery.. Maybe hydrogen should become a higher priority?
I never really had issues with the immediate changes in WordPress, but that was also before I had a professional job and was dealing with WordPress as more than just a hobby or pet website. It's fairly nerve wracking sometimes just to update plugins or test out minor appearance tweaks. I should probably look into building an actual staging environment like the article suggests.
It's also the old "nothing would exist without scarcity and profit motive" argument.

If Star Trek style replicators were invented today, there'd be people trying to ban them.
WooCommerce significantly slows down Wordpress such that I have a hard time describing it as mature or stable. Take, for instance, the latest Kinsta benchmarks which show a plain Wordpress installation running PHP 7.3 going from ~250 RPS [1] to under 70 [2] after installing the latest WooCommerce.

[1]: https://kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/wordpress-5.0-...
[2]: https://kinsta.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/wordpress-5.0-...
The funnel at my company in my division for software is 700:3.
Just chiming in to say this article isn't saying "WordPress is terrible because ..." but "watch out for these traps that are all-too-easy to fall into."
There are plenty of surveillance (and other) videos of the London Bridge attack.

The question is rather why would they publicise videos of people being stabbed to death or run over in HD gory details?
That seems unlikely. How would prosecuting this case rebound to a prosecutor's advantage in anyone's eyes? "Ha ha, we contracted with these people to do security work for us, but we sure showed them when we hit them with criminal charges for the things we're paying them to do! Nothing says I'll pursue justice like paying to entrap people and prosecuting people with the opposite of mens rea. Elect me or promote me as appropriate, I'm openly a treacherous lunatic!"

Incarceration is a tool for over-zealous prosecutors, not a terminal goal. That tool won't help them advance their actual goals in this case.

(Of course, tools that get used a lot can accidentally become terminal goals if a non-self-reflective agent gets too cognitively lazy. Still, the intelligence bar for "prosecutor" is probably high enough we should credit them with generally knowing what they're doing. And even if they were being this lazy, their full attention would be brought to this case when it first hit the media.)
Do you have a proper relevant example?
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