skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From an energy standpoint we can extract nitrogen from the atmosphere using solar panels to split hydrogen from water rather than natural gas. Which is similar to how historically we used crop rotation, but requires little land. So while that’s an energy input it’s replaceable without sacrificing much in the way of yields.

IMO, a more interesting metric is nutrients like phosphorous which would be more difficult to acquire once current sources have mined out.
Mine is almost exactly the same (though don't always need ES/Celery/Rabbit).

I've been working on building out a productized offering of a starter kit for this stack: https://www.saaspegasus.com
Reminds me of this story of the British paying "blood money" in Iraq which I found quite illuminating at the time: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jul/02/iraq.features1...
Not sure what your source is, but this contradicts Drawdown:

> Shifting to a diet rich in plants is a demand-side solution to global warming that runs counter to the meat-centric Western diet on the rise globally. That diet comes with a steep climate price tag: one-fifth of global emissions. If cattle were their own nation, they would be the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

> Plant-rich diets reduce emissions and also tend to be healthier, leading to lower rates of chronic disease. According to a 2016 study, business-as-usual emissions could be reduced by as much as 70 percent through adopting a vegan diet and 63 percent for a vegetarian diet, which includes cheese, milk, and eggs. $1 trillion in annual health-care costs and lost productivity would be saved.

https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/food/plant-rich-diet
> Run as root. This is controversial, however, it is just a different philosophy. The user runs as administrator (root), apps may optionally run as user 'spot' or in containers as a "crippled root" or user 'zeus'. The practical outcome is that you never have to type "sudo" or "su" to run anything, nor get hung up with file permissions.

Yeah, no thanks.
How about buying land for reforestation, someplace where land is cheap?
Eat less meat

Put your money in a green bank

Plant trees
You miss the point of condoms. They do not work just for you, and a sizable chunk of the world population has limited or no affordable access to contraceptives, or doesn't know how to use them. And there are quite a few charities dedicated to changing this, thus not only helping the climate, but lowering human suffering (starvation, overcrowding, STDs) in general.
Build a solar farm and feed the energy back into the grid.
Good feedback. +1
I heard it as a criticism of deciding work decisions based on popularity, with product choices, technical implementations, etc... based on facebook likes, not real deciding factors. Which is very different from growing a YouTube audience.
Money will be best spent in areas that change the global agenda. We are moving faster and faster in the wrong direction. Money spent on carbon offset etc. will only delay the issue very slightly, but they may well clear your conscience and make you feel good.
Right. It all depends on who believes the fake news.
website.run.now is referentially transparent in Haskell

(or rather, to mention the one I use, Happstack.Lite.serve: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/happstack-lite-7.3.6/doc...)
But even those tend to have much lower population density than European cities. In Europe (and especially Germany where this was developed), large parts of cities consist of multi-family homes with a high population density. Those make up a much smaller part of cities in the US.
1) You're confusing vegetarianism with veganism. Veganism is more than just meat.

2) Your 1% figure is not sourced and allegedly only involves USA & EU. Global climate changes demands global solutions, the EU and USA together can't solve everything.

3) The best estimate if you want to put a number on it is closer to 15% [1]. Of course, you can't eliminate all of that with veganism because animals produce other non-food items that are useful, such as fertilizers.

I'm all for cycling and public transport, agree on that. Don't agree that veganism doesn't make a (huge) difference. The animal rights argument is something that you brought into this discussion. Total straw man.

I'd like to add: fly only if really necessary and try to offset carbon emissions from flying if you must fly.

[1] Start reading here and follow the sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
maybe get a carbon monoxide detector.

and as others said, get good sleep.
> Steam has just nipped Epic in the bud by saying you can't sell on Steam whilst you have an exclusivity contract with Epic.

Huh? I thought saying you can't sell on Steam is kind of what an exclusivity contract with Epic does.
Don't fly. Use the money to get around air travel somehow.
> The "Laboratories of Democracy" idea is unrealistic for firearms, and most issues. States don't control their borders.

The problem with this kind argument is always that, of course, people who want to do something that happens to be illegal, and are fine with doing illegal things, will just do it anyway. Well, yeah. If that weren't the case, all law enforcement officers could immediately retire.

Certainly you can't prevent people from bringing contraband of any kind into your state (especially when it's legal in the state next door), but you can set penalties high enough to deter most people, and aggressively enforce those penalties when someone is caught.

If we're talking about reducing the number of mass shootings, and we truly believe that keeping certain guns out of people's hands will do it (which is of course debatable), then outright bans will likely get us most of the way there. If your random potential mass shooter can't get hold of any useful-for-mass-shootings weapon legally in the state where they live, they probably just won't go that route. Or, they'll use much less effective weapons and cause much less harm.

If, on the other hand, we're talking about organized crime, gang violence, etc., then sure, those people will likely manage to get their hands on banned weapons. But (for better or worse), I don't think the US public is quite as worried about that right now.
You can take a look: https://www.open3a.de
The software is mostly in German, so I'm not sure if it's a fit ;)
Significantly extending AOSP is hard. As soon as you make architectural changes, you've effectively made a fork, and it'll be a massive amount of work to merge future versions of AOSP and your fork.

Unless you want to put as many engineering dollars into it as Google does, you'd be better off to keep near vanilla AOSP, and build stuff on top as APK's.
I was referring to the problems in said benchmark test on Phoronix, where Michael stated:

'The main culprits were Blender and GeekBench 5 causing the Clang-built kernel to cause the system to reset during testing while this behavior wasn't seen when the kernel was built under GCC, so likely some problematic code generation on the Clang side.'
That's just incredible. Thanks so much for sharing.
this looks kind of nice to be honest, and i hardly ever say that about some custom distro. only thing i'd like is to install it from USB instead of some chroot mumbo jumbo. that would require me to instal linux on a box firs before re-rolling into this. kind of annoying. perhaps something on the roadmap, didn't check. but definitely promising as far as i can see.
Having a car and being able to drive it around is a form of wealth. Cars in the US are also much more affordable.

The "I don't need it" argument only goes so far. You can't go shop a lot of groceries. You can't transport bigger items. You can't go on a road trip. You travel according to whatever public transport affords you.

I might just as well say "I don't need it" in regards to healthcare. You don't need it until you do, but then you can't afford it.
There are some grassroots communities where you can volunteer your time and network with other climate-focused professionals:

https://www.techforcampaigns.org/
https://techimpactmakers.com/
https://climateaction.tech/

Ironically it's a bad day to be researching this as many climate-focused websites are on strike...
Because a work environment and YouTube are very different places. Work decisions such as promotions, product choices, technical decisions, etc... shouldn't be largely driven by facebook likes.
agree, even though some features of X are a bit crappy built, it's very well known, documented and used for so long basically any issue you run into someone else will have solved already somehow. perhaps one day wayland will be nice ,but not yet imho.
> Many companies have to RADICALLY change their architectures just to support these laws. And often the costs will be enormous.

This harkens back to the GDPR hysteria. And that was a storm in a teacup: most companies that took compliance seriously were able to get to a good place with a medium amount of engineering work, and didn't suffer financially overmuch. A few companies did go out of business or suffer significantly--and most of those were sketchy, data-abusive entities. In other words, it worked.
Let's Fund (I'm a co-founder) has a campaign aimed at tackling climate change - by increasing publicly funded clean energy R&D [0]. We think it's a hugely neglected way to tackle climate change (and Bill Gates agrees! [1]).

[0] - https://lets-fund.org/clean-energy

[1] - https://twitter.com/billgates/status/1154787966256058368?lan...

We're very much EA-aligned.
I don’t think that’s generally true. To draw a comparison, are there other rights where the same thing plays out? What are other examples of rights where we expect the people exercising their rights to come up with a solution for people who abuse the right? Speech? Religion?

It seems pretty clear that society as a whole is responsible for finding a way to maintain safety and stability in combination with upholding the rights the society has established. We don’t demand that the solution to radical religious extremists be proposed by churches or else we ban churches.
Will it have a locked bootloader?

Previous Huawei phones have all had a fairly robustly locked bootloader. Now it seems there is quite some incentive for them to make the bootloader unlockable to make inserting GMSCore easier...

One could imagine an underground network of US based people reflashing these phones to have Google services.
When it comes to this, taking intent on faith isn't good enough. Vietnam, a possible war of aggression in Iraq, illegal drone strikes in Pakistan, public threats and shows of force - the stick isn't subtle and I think it's fair to question whether it's measured (and what it means if it isn't).

I actually think I'm right of center on this issue in general, I just wish we called it as it is.
You are completely wrong.
I don't know about Germany, but Sweden has one of the highest private debt levels in the 'western' world. That seriously drags down the net wealth numbers. Also the whole point of the "Swedish model" argument is that a high net wealth shouldn't be a requirement for a high quality of life.
Following that logic - don't use cloud computing. Data centres have higher carbon footprint than the airline industry
Yes. This is the single best thing any human can do. It would have an overnight impact on climate change if the world stopped consuming meat from Agribusiness.

Forests would not be cut down for beef, therefore sustaining trees that remove C02. Species extrinction would slow down because of sustaining habitats.
I am building an interactive voice broadcasting solution as a SaaS at http://dandydialer.com . Back-end API is built on Clojure, Datomic and freeswitch. I am using Clojurescript, Reagent, Reframe and Re-com for the front-end. Deployment and system orchestration is built on LXD and Ansible.

Pardon the website, as there isn't much to see there. We are still in alpha stage. Yes, Clojure ecosystem has been a tremendous help in engineering the system. As a former python dev, I think Clojure made a whole lot of mandatory moving parts unnecessary - like celery and redis for designing such a system. Also, ditching Javascript+react ecosystem with better wrappers has been an absolute blast so far.
I've heard this line so many times, but there are vanishingly few examples of companies that really suffered for it ("just don't sell in Europe" implies, to me, that Europe wasn't valuable enough to you as a market to take the time engineering GDPR compliance--and that's just fine). The ones that did crash overwhelmingly seemed to be sketchy data brokers.
Welcome to democracy, where an individual with zero understanding of an issue can vote on it and is legally entitled to have their opinion taken seriously.
Machine Learning from a product development perspective
Airbnb knows exactly what they're doing and will comply with regulation only if it needs to:

You'll see different rates on different pages on EU, Australia (where drip pricing is illegal) and USA versions of the site for the same property.
> How do you model/maintain invariants of a set of data in FP? That's the part that I don't understand yet.

If you tell me how you do it in not-FP then I'll tell you how to do it in FP!
He probably meant to refer to Steam no longer allowing store pages on Steam for games that are Epic exclusives.
While i agree with the first part, about the second part... Windows is hardly a monoculture, it contains a ton of technologies that overlap heavily each other. As an example, people used to make fun of the number of GUI toolkits available for Linux and their messy looks, but nowadays your average Windows installation has way more different toolkits installed than your average Linux installation :-P.
Notice the wording - the drone targeted the workers. The drone didn’t make a decision and target the workers, the drone pilot targeted the workers, and whomever was standing behind them gave the order to launch the missle. The whole “I’m just doing what the computer said” defense only works in movies.
Because a programing job isn't supposed to be similar to posting videos online???
What happens in USA affects all of us
This is my thinking too. Build a new cluster and push it all over to a new cluster. If you feel like understanding the old (and can afford it), keep it around and try to figure it out.

Clusters are cattle, not pets.
I ... kind of see the point. Do you have a more substantial counter argument?
Ideally: Give the money to a local chapter of a political party with a similar environmental stance to you, that may soon be in a position to break ties on a decision-making body.

$250/mo will be a transformative amount for them.
Huh? How do you "overfit" on the test set if you don't have the test set? And also to call a good ML result a "coin toss" shows a profound lack of understanding of what goes into such "coin tosses", and why solving practical problems with ML is an entirely different ballgame than training a classifier on imagenet (which is in itself pretty hard if you want SOTA results).
It was an accident.
As Drugmakers Face Opioid Lawsuits, Some Ask: Why Not Criminal Charges Too?
Dear functional programmer, please do not slam on languages you do not even know how to program in. To be honest, I have no idea what this code is even supposed to do and which idea of "centering" it satisfies. Whether this mess of Java or the mess of Haskell the blog writer created is more readable is up to you. C# has been functional forever and Java caught up a lot.

int maxLength = Stream.of(text).map(String::length).max(Integer::compareTo).get();
IntStream.range(0, text.length).forEach(i -> text[i] = " ".repeat((maxLength - text[i].length()) / 2) + text[i]);

(This becomes significantly more readable if you change the contract from passing an array of Strings to passing a list and returning a list. Since functional programmers are so in love with immutability: Java now provides immutable lists in the standard lib.)
Very disturbing
I trust https://www.goclimateneutral.org/ (but with a higher amount than just offsetting your current lifestyle).

Started by (among others) Henrik Kniberg, author of SCRUM and XP from the Trenches.
A very disturbing story
Let c_{n,m} be the expectation value of the number of remaining half pills starting from n whole pills and m half pills. Then we get the following recursion:

c_{n,m}=n/(n+m) c_{n-1,m+1} + m/(n+m) c_{n,m-1}

Boundary condition: c_{0,m} = m

After some experimenting I got the following closed form solution: c_{n,m}=H_n+m/(n+1) where H_n=sum_{i=1}^n 1/i (nth harmonic number). This can be shown by induction. We want to know what happens if we start from n whole pills and 0 half pills: c_{n,0} = H_n. Indeed, they are the harmonic numbers.
You Americans should have all the weapons you want.
Lab Explosion Raises Question: Should Smallpox Virus Be Kept or Destroyed?
So StreetScooter seems to be selling a van with a 40kWh battery for about $50000. Rivian is talking about building vehicles with batteries between 105-180kWh. That alone will raise the price quite a bit. Maybe it's overkill for a delivery van, but it's also very possible that Amazon has a need for longer trips than the DHL.
We are all linked/affected. First the insects, then the birds... eventually, humans. This is another truly disturbing story.
Indeed, apparently I'm wrong. According to https://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/06/lowcvp-20110608.htm...

Electric cars have an expected lifetime emission of 19 tonnes C02, 5 tonnes less than a normal car.
archive.is seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of Australia.
If there's a problem with an aws service then aws will fix it. Of course there's always this weird bug that you will run into even in their services, but at the least, if there's an API that's documented, it works as documented for the documented scenario.

An autoscaling group in AWS might have issues if you complicate it a bit and run into edge case bugs, but otherwise it's most definitely going to scale your instances up and down (because they bill you to do so)
Check out `git reflog` to go back to before the mistake
People routinely make those demands of mosques, though.
Top Software Testing Companies in 2019 – Andy Dassan – Medium
Most of this also applies to Redmine, which seems too eager to copy Jira.

It seems there's lack of the middle-ground apps, where you start like Basecamp or Trello, but can turn on various controls, categorizations, required fields etc. as needed.
Can't be worse than Egypt or Siria. In any case is just an idea. If there is humidity terraform Atlanta would be much easier.
ok, downloading now. Can i still benefit the offer pretty please :)
That's my point. They measure different things. If you want to know how rich average person is you must look median not mean.

* Americans are not rich, there are rich Americans. America is high inequality country.

* Swiss are rich.

btw. Credit Suisse uses total wealth, sum of assets minus liabilities.
I don't think this is a great situation/course of action.

- Depending on your jurisdiction, you may break the law anyway and risk trouble.
- By buying something that you don't actually use, you effectively donate to a for-profit entity. To me at least, that feels very wrong. Donating directly to the creator would be different but since DRM is involved, you probably pay a middleman.
- Even worse: by paying for DRM-infested media, you encourage the use of DRM.
One plus one equals two
Sure, but I don't think that extent is useful for the purposes of this discussion.

FWIW, you and I are likely from the same country.
We could have a better life for ourselves without following the status quo and participating in the exponential economic growth that destroys ecosystems. We could just take back the majority of the world's wealth which has been concentrated in the hands of a few that are pitching us against each other in this economic rat race.
Thanks for the feedback. We're working on caching now, which will help you with your built artifacts between runs. We're also working to tune the list of pre-installed software so that the more common packages (like .NET Core 2.2) are already on the runners and you don't need to download (or cache) them.
That's still no excuse to indiscriminately kill civilians - unless you deliberately want to increase the support for the terrorists...
The Fire tablet line seems to be doing just fine anyway.
> - Windows desktop is nice but is not for me. I would like to remove the task bar and install something like i3wm.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895031
If money is getting more efficient why have interest rates been heading into the toilet for 35 years?
I mean, the US are not even 250 years old and built by immigrants. The rest of the world didn't wait for them for science, medicine, art and philosophy. From a social standpoint they're still 20-30 years behind most EU countries for example.

I think most americans fail to recognise how much propaganda they're constantly fed about how great the US are. From the outside it almost looks like a parody, especially since Trump is in the office.
Example: https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year...
That's such a great story. Love you, Mike! lol.xxx
That's the commonsensical position, but that assumes some kind of social responsibility that as far as I can tell doesn't exist in that part of America. A dozen children murdered in a school prompts a response of "what does that have to do with me?" The gun lobby does not see themselves as having any kind of real responsibility for addressing the problem. They may not even see it as a problem. Even the really wacky solutions (armed guards in every school! bunker architecture!) they don't want to actually pay for.

Then there's the part of the gun industry that sees gun crime as a means to sell more guns to people concerned about gun crime. Rather like the international arms trade, there's lots of money in provoking conflict so you can sell to both sides.
You would already get a conflict as the history of the repo changed and signing all commits as some drawbacks as Torvalds explained here: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GPG-signing-for-git-commit-t...

I'm not sure it's better.
That's a fine and dandy distinction until it's not.

If you keep punching me in the face while claiming it was your intention to punch someone else I'm going to come to the conclusion sooner rather than later that you're lying or stupid or incompetent – either way I'm going to do something about it rather than continue to let you punch me in the face.

Is it too much to ask that a lot more effort be expended in not mowing down innocent civilians while prosecuting the so-called global-war-on-terror?
Many comments here make the false dichotomy of paying for a service with money vs paying with your data. That ship has sailed. In the current market selling user data will win every time. Only laws can make sure that a company you pay for “premium service” or “no ads” won't turn around and sell your data anyway.
But the dirty episode was required to reach this stage when we can move onto next thing. And some time later today's "clean" likely will be seen as dangerous in some way. Just like today's "dirty" didn't seem that dirty when it came out. E.g. cars helped to relieve cities from horse shit.
Improving JRuby's Startup Time
Sorry, I never have been good at titles. I think the addiction-struggling post, if it existed, would just be sad and boring.

But if you hang around you'll probably start to hear about the gradual disintegration of my body as I begin my slide into old age and eventually death. So you have that to look forward to at least!
Hacker News isn't free of the popularity contest and groupthink that its commenters try to use as issues at these organizations.