skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, it also seems implausible to me that the problem can be solved if everyone on the world would produce a few tones of carbon emissions each year by flying. So either flights need to become so expensive that they remain a privilege for the rich or they need to be limited in some other way.

I agree that flights are perhaps not the most urgent issue. But encouraging people to fly more is still wrong. When possible, we should avoid flights.
ipython may be recalling the previous S21. S21 got a major update for revision 2016. See revision 2010 for the prior version: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86-non508.pdf

Any mental health issue is covered by that question.

Discussion of the change: https://news.clearancejobs.com/2016/11/29/dni-announces-chan...
Thanks for your condescending, moralizing remarks. I just woke up from a coma and did not know about any of this, or the moral superiority neo-puritan people expel when they push their Orwellian pursuit to ban any form of sexual expression from society under the false flag of being "inclusive" and "considerate". [dead]
They're semi-offical. NY State has given them money in the past:

http://matzav.com/boro-park-shomrim-to-receive-bullet-proof-...
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Are there forums similar to Hacker News on the Internet? Any subreddits or similar?
Have you learned nothing from the movie "Snowpiercer"?
FWIW, I recently interviewed for a manager role and there was a coding element. It required a small amount of cleverness and some knowledge of basic data structures. It felt appropriate to me, at least to establish that I would have some clue about how things work.

That said, it was the only one of my four interviews that actually included any coding.
I think people are too quick to dismiss incremental progress; you dropped by 90%, that sounds pretty excellent to me!
Minnis, Patrick, J. Kirk Ayers, Rabindra Palikonda, and Dung Phan, 2004. "Contrails, Cirrus Trends, and Climate". Journal of Climate Vol. 17, No 8, pp. 1671-1685, April 15, 2004

doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017<1671:cctac>2.0.co;2

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0442%28200...
If you can't stop completely that easily reducing would also be a good start and maybe easier to achieve.

edit: Another parameter you have control over is the amount of luggage you bring. A 30kg luggage allowance is a considerable fraction of most people's weight. Sure, they will fill the plane up with other things, but at least that's not on you.
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In the same way stabbings are not a UK knife community/constituency issue they need to solve. It's a problem bigger than that.
Do you have any more information of any kind on this (like info you have run into since then)? This sounds very interesting and it also sounds like something I should be aware is possible to do (especially on accident).
I think that both consumers have a right to do anything (legally) in their power to get the best price they can on a product and equally business have a right to do anything (legally) in their power to set up and enforce tiered pricing.

That is, I can see many valid reasons for both sides, I don't think the law should take sides.
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They discuss that in their detailed proposals. There's a lot of discussion on siting and various transportation options. The math ends up working out.
In some markets it is absolutely possible to summon a regular taxi via uber
Carbon offsets are completely useless. https://features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-offsets/inconv... there are better ways to protect the environment.
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Hijacking my own comment. There're rumors that the current shortage of cash is because people in Europe are borrowing massive amount of ultra low rate loans (negative yield) in Europe and turn around to buy U.S. treasuries (higher yield) to do currency carry trade to profit on the yield difference. To buy the treasury bonds, they have to use U.S. dollars so they are soaking up all the excessive dollars out there with their borrowed euros.
I remember hearing about this at the time. Some links I just looked up:

https://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2002/cr2004/26/c026p001.p...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/contrail-effect/
Another option is putting a contact page in your bio if you have a personal site. That's helped me reach folks in the past, and should keep most of the nastiness out.
Where do you buy your carbon offsets? What actually happens to the money that you spend on them?
That sounds great, but how do you manage to offset 2 flights? I don't really understand how money can undo putting a bunch of carbon in the atmosphere.
The thing is, very few things is a large share of global carbon dioxide emissions.

"It doesn't matter what Norway does because we're less than 1% of global emission"
"It doesn't matter with air travel because it's only 2.5% of emissions"
"It doesn't matter with coal power in Germany, because overall it's not that much"

If the rest of the world has that attitude, it won't matter if China and the US (often cited as the ones that matter) get to zero, as that's still not enough.

CO2 emissions is death by a 1000 papercuts, we need to tackle them all

So yes, let's bring aviation under carbon tax and/or cap and trade schemes, then people can decide how much they're willing to pay for these emissions compared to other sector emissions. I would guess travel is something people value and would be willing to pay for, until there are better solutions available

Note: I say this as someone that travel quite a bit for work and leisure - I would definitely be penalized if I have to pay for my emissions
Weird. You'd at least think you'd get a phone call about something so serious.

Instead it's the ol' support over Hacker News I guess.
The issue is no one goes back to the primary sources enough? Because life is short and death is forever, we don't have the time to master all the primary sources on all possible topics. So we have to rely on secondary sources for most of our knowledge. That isn't unique to history, that's true of every damn subject.

I actually worked my way through most of Rocket Propulsion Elements by Sutton a few years ago, actually doing the math on how rocket engine design works (I was thinking about building my own as a hobby- had a kid instead and all that free time vaporized). It took me ~9 months of working in my spare time from my day job that had nothing to do with rockets. I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to only have an opinion/understanding if they've done all the work themselves. So we have to rely on secondary works, done by people who have an understanding of the primary sources/equations/whatever. That's not "the reality of the state of the study of History" that's the nature of humanity.
Don't worry, someone replied with an entire comment of simple ad hominen attacks and you can conveniently lean on those to make you feel more comfortable in your worldviews.
It will show you some suggestions right away. But I think changing something like how you write email takes some effort to be mindful every time you write an email. I’d suggest checking back every month or two to see if you are making progress.
Some people haven’t opened up to anyone, even themselves in decades.
At many points in my life I have tried to do sketching and recognize my problems in your description of symbol drawing. Since you sound knowledgeable about it could you possibly recommend something that expands on that topic, and gives advice for learning to draw that is centered on that concept?
Have someone else – who is on your side – hold you accountable (a friend or family member). It's hard not to fall into the trap of chasing perfection when you're the only stakeholder, especially when you're also the creator.
Can you sync passwords between Firefox and Keychain? I’m essentially looking for that. I use iOS apps which leverage Keychain which can share passwords with both app and website. I’d ideally like to not have multiple password tools.
At least the water issue goes away as soon as you stop.
So before Stripe goes the way of Paypal, there seems to be something that can be done about this. I'm assuming Stripe has enough funds to hire for customer support, and given that businesses are Stripe's main customers, isn't there a thorough human review that happens before banning a business?

Plenty of customers sign agreements without understanding what charges they will incur, and gyms are notorious for this. But Stripe cannot simply shut down a business without hearing both sides of the story.

If there was a human review in this case, then no amount of HN publicity should revert the decision. If it does, that would expose the review process as being heavily flawed.
Agreed, this information is extremely relevant to anyone looking to use this story in a decision. I'd also point out that within minutes, a Stripe employee chimed in here with an offer to help.
If you get caught by the police you have a human to reason with. "Listen officer, I have all the paperwork right here I simply haven't gotten it to the DMV yet because today is a weekend and they are only open weekdays".

I don't live in western Europe (thank god) so the police here don't impound people's means of personal transportation at the drop of a hat so you get the same fine the camera would have handed out with the opportunity to get out of it if you are genuinely being reasonable.
Re your first question, quick googling suggests some 37 billion tons of CO₂ per year. So sure, that's a lot. But then again, not that lot.

Instead of asking questions, why don't you tell us why we couldn't possibly sequester that much carbon annually? How big is the divide between what we could do and what needs to be done?

(I must say the idea of sequestering carbon seems emotionally appealing to me because it turns the problem into something much more tangible. You're not going to get people to cut their CO₂ emissions enough to matter without pushing for a strong emission taxing (which I'm also a fan of). Lowering your living standards doesn't feel like it's accomplishing much vs. the pain involved. Sequestering CO₂ would turn the problem into a numbers game, "how many tons is our country pulling out of the atmosphere, and where do we throw the money to get that number up?".)
Many (most? all?) allocators are guaranteed to give you back aligned pointers.

For instance, jemalloc(3) on amd64 platforms will give back 16-byte aligned pointers:

[...] The allocated space is suitably aligned
(after possible pointer coercion) for storage of any type of object.
I think Logan's Run was intended as a cautionary tale, not a model for how society should be.

Edit: Less flippantly, with age comes some benefits. Yeah, while I had a lot of energy in my younger years and could eat whatever I damned well pleased, as much as I damned well pleased, my attitudes of that time period, which were very much born of my inexperience, had some long term costs I am still paying for. But the tradeoff is that with those lessons, I can make better judgements on what actions contribute or detract from longer-term goals, or even what longer-term goals might be worth having.

If you play your cards right, getting older can be a good thing. So rather than thinking of being old as some terrible thing to be avoided at all costs, look to see how it could be played to your advantage. Come 30, what things would be fulfilling to be doing or having? If your answer is "nothing", then I think I can justly accuse you of not even trying to look.
Being a college dropout, I got just enough education to recognize satire when I see it and effectively express myself most of the time, but not quite enough to hide my working-class roots or be ashamed of them.

If I fail to maintain decorum, use the downvote button. That's apparently why HN has one.
I don't think so - 2.5% is pretty significant. We only have to divide the total global emission into 40 pieces before each piece fall below 2.5%. Or, considering that total US emission is 14% of the world (2017), you just have to divide the whole nation into six sectors and claim each and every one is not significant enough, so that we have to focus on "something else". There's always some "something else".

Of course we have to be smart about our efforts, but it's time we stopped passing the buck around.
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Looking for some solution to showcase post event , ongoing impact after a Tech conference.
If the context is opaque to you then I would encourage you to read the articles and to read the other comments on this thread.
> I get pulled over by someone pretending to be Chinese police, and I'm going to tell them to get lost.

Personally... I'd call the non-Chinese drops and drive as quickly as possible to the closest police station.
The biggest challenge is short flights. Those under 3 hours. These are terrible for the environment on a per mile basis. The problem is that short flights being cheap is often an excuse for not building trains that could compete and exceed efficiency of air travel. Look at SF to LA project and the amount of flights along that route.
A8 or A6 ? Just curious.
Here is some background on some of the things that happened while he was CEO: https://twitter.com/fharper/status/1111694552262459393
I left before that but was around when they carried out some of their other unusual publicity/performance activities. https://www.mondo2000.com/2017/08/28/klf-at-the-brit-awards-...
Deregulation of the airlines put air travel within reach of regular people to the point where it is now a commodity and nobody cares about anything but getting the cheapest flight. Growing up it was unusual for my parents to take a flight anywhere for vacation. Even by themselves. Nowadays it seems unusual for people not to take the entire family even overseas for a jaunt. Which certainly makes our lives richer. Time will tell if we can find a balance to the costs incurred.
Interested in working at a mental healthcare company that does in-person therapy with licensed clinicians? Two Chairs, mentioned in this article, is hiring!

https://www.twochairs.com/careers/
An eponymous law, probably named after a Robert J. Hanlon, it is a philosophical razor which suggests a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for human behavior.

Inspired by Occam's razor, the aphorism became known in this form and under this name by the Jargon File, a glossary of computer programmer slang. Later that same year, the Jargon File editors noted lack of knowledge about the term's derivation and the existence of a similar epigram by William James. In 1996, the Jargon File entry on Hanlon's Razor noted the existence of a similar quotation in Robert A. Heinlein's novella Logic of Empire (1941), with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of "Heinlein's Razor".

In 2001, Quentin Stafford-Fraser published two blog entries citing e-mails from Joseph E. Bigler explaining that the quotation originally came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a submission (credited in print) for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong! (1980). Subsequently, in 2002, the Jargon File entry noted the same.

Earlier attributions to the idea go back to at least the 18th century. A more concise expression of the idea comes from Jane West, in her novel The Loyalists (1812). A similar quote is also misattributed to Napoleon.
Yes! You are not locked to a platform/provider/OS. Your GKE cluster operates more or less like your EKS cluster operates more or less like your cluster in Azure, DigitalOcean, etc. Kubernetes is a deployment platform you target and complaining that the things two layers under the hood of that are different is a false analogy.

Moving from one Kubernetes Provider to another is not zero time. You need to learn some differences in the way GKE ingresses vs AWS ELBs work, etc. It is a substantially more tractable problem than the differences between Cloud Bigtable and DynamoDB, and that one is still a tractable problem.

The way to fight lock-in is is not, and has never been, "These two providers offer exactly the same service". It has been about avoiding "These two providers offer nothing that is analogous, and their documentation is directly written to encourage using practices that do not port". It has never been an all-or-nothing thing.
Just carbon tax it as an externality, so we can get on with life.
I'm running https://zerosearch.io on a single 16gb standard instance with 6 vcpus on Digital Ocean with the "Ubuntu Docker 5:19.03.1~3 on 18.04" image. The memory is important to keep an index for the top 1000 github repositories. It could probably do just as well with only one or two CPUs. The app is made up of two Docker containers: the indexer and the webserver. I'm using Cloudflare, which makes the site a lot faster and greatly reduces load on the webserver. For now there is no database. The code is a fork of https://github.com/google/zoekt, written in Go.

The stack is simple and easy to work with, locally and in prod.
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I’d probably start with raising the corner with the manager.

There could be a cost saving in reducing flights as well, so the issue could be framed a way the presents multiple benefits.
I hope this gets addressed. It would really suck if Stripe becomes nothing more than Paypal with a better API.
Chrome desperately needs a trigger whereby an extension can access a site's data only if there has been an interaction such clicking a button on the toolbar or the right click menu.
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Takes less effort than chaining the doors and lighting the place on fire? That is the method du jour among the Mexican crime syndicates right now for mass killing other gangs in bars and safe houses. It's just not Tatic-cool, which is what these US kid mass shooters are going for.
I don't see an obvious connection between those charts and why wind can't get much bigger. It just shows that wind is currently producing ~26% of the power demand. Would you mind spelling it out since it is not self-evident to me?
I would love to see a news article where Fremont's brewery "Beer Patrol" Crown Victoria is mistaken for an actual official cop car.

https://pasteboard.co/IykxzXT.png
and of course tested it only on Chrome...
You need to consider that flying is still somewhat uncommon, if you consider the whole population on earth. From a quick search on google, less than 20 percent of the world's population took a plane in their entire lifetime.
Social media has given us all echo chambers that we can be constantly connected to that shares all the things that scare or concern us every minute of every day. We follow people / channels that share our concerns so are constantly bombarded by them.

We need to learn to just disconnect and focus on the real and whats in front of us. I can't tell you how many times I have sat down to do some work, looked a twitter for a minute and looked up an hour later severely depressed about the state of the world and angry over something I have zero impact on.

Just unplugging from social media may really be the answer.

Also In tech especially so many of us are always after the next job and raise that we are don't take time to establish roots and make friends. Isolation is an epidemic among tech workers.
I once spent 6 months in a hellish loop helping my disabled brother recover his Gmail account after "suspicious activity" (i.e. logging in after not using it for 6 months).

In desperation, I texted a friend who works in Google's marketing dept, and it was resolved in 30 minutes.

All companies, including those selling non-free services like Stripe, should sell expedited customer service (resolution guaranteed within X hours for $Y).
I love the absurd spooky British aesthetic they’re going for... If you tried to register a company with a name that sounded like it was somehow official in the UK itself, Companies House would fuck you up.
This machinery is quite finely tuned to an existence that involves a lot of walking, running, jumping, lifting, etc. Deviations from the active lifestyle are obviously going to have negative impacts of various kinds.
On what timescale? I.e. trees take time to grow and accumulate carbon. As I understand it, the climate clock is ticking - there's a threshold beyond which some runaway effects kick in.
Any ideas how much of a contributor (domestic) air freight is compared to shipping via train/truck? (Is the volume of goods currently shipped through either method even comparable? This is way out of my realm!)
But maybe we could beat the plants in efficiency per square meter. There's nothing saying we couldn't improve on density of matter that photosynthesizes, by e.g. packing the plant matter more tightly in artificial conditions. Nature tries to produce organisms that survive and reproduce. We now have a different set of constraints: we need something that can pull out carbon as efficiently as possible. If it can't self-reproduce, we can reproduce it in labs or factories. I feel (hope) there's plausible biology and engineering work to be done here.
Why did Call9 shut down, burning $34M
Well, if that's your argument again automated systems I think it means that these systems are quick ok...

Also, we don't need to send any paperwork. For road tax they send a reminder a month in advance and you just need to pay online. Same for insurance (there really is no excuse for driving without insurance).
I'm taking the train for my next holiday and it is significantly more expensive. Flying is unreasonably cheap. Aviation fuel needs to be taxed but this has to be done everywhere to avoid refuelling in havens. Or maybe tax stands at airports if that can't be done.
If you need to travel long distances, there's little substitute for an airplane.

If air travel accounts for less emissions than passenger cars, and if the top 15 polluting large container ships produce as much (noxious oxides of nitrogen and sulphur) pollution as all cars, then we need to fix shipping first.

And if you look at a lot of the crap that is being shipped, it's stuff we just don't need. A lot of things are replaced frequently with cheap and short-lived new things, so there's plenty of room to reduce the amount of shipping.

We should also focus on trains and electric buses to reduce the amount of car use. Some parts of the world already do. And after spending many years commuting in heavy Texas road traffic, I much prefer European train/metro/tram (and even bus) travel. Oh, and bikes and feet for the last 1-2km.
y'all are on the customer service! Out of curiosity... is this automated or were you just kicking around on HN?
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is something that needs to be included in climate conversations a lot more.

You don't have to be a vegan hermit to have an impact. Eating a little less meat, foregoing one flight, and biking to work once a week is better than not doing anything and that's great.
I'd expect the time delay in weighing every passenger and dealing with any who are above weight would be enough to sink the idea, quite apart from PR concerns.
Do you not realize that you sound absolutely unhinged? Or is that your schtick?
Flink is shit software. You're right, those things are ridiculous. They're an indication that something is wrong, and you pushed ahead anyway. Your problems are your own.
I'd guess that poured concrete is not cost-competitive with timber crossties, and pre-stressing is the only way to make them cheaply enough to compete.
A dentist made a game in MS Paint and it's terrifying