skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* Any kind of actual personal interactions. I'm not going to kiss my wife over VC, or hug my dad, or be at my cousins birthday.

* Any kind of deeply nuanced conversation. Telepresence is great for the day-to-day stuff, but not if you actually need to be closely aware of the other person's emotional state.

* Anything intended to foster closer bonds. That's much harder to do over telepresence than in person. That's a basic functions of how social animals work.

Telepresence is great for the vast majority of mundane connections. But it's not at the point where it can completely replace travel. I wish it could, because I'd love to travel less.
Is there some resource I can look up to better understand what you mean by "destroyed"? Will they be absorbing the value back through financial instruments or how does this "destruction" happen?
Back around 2001 I was part of a webdev shop that had its own proprietary application server. It pre-parsed HTML files for <script language="perl"> or <script language="python"> and would run whatever you put there. We linked in slightly patched perl/python libraries so we didn't have to start a new interpreter every request. There were a couple in-house RPN languages too, and other comment-based markup for easy loops/interpolations. One design goal was to let you round-trip between developers' editors and designers' Dreamweaver, so that even after adding code the designers could still see real HTML and usually even change it. I haven't seen any system so successful at that part since. (I love Haml, but design tools don't. :-) Anyway, I got to help out with porting the app server from Solaris to Linux, and one of the tricks they were using was to stuff some extra info into unused areas of the Solaris file struct, basically to smuggle it around without needing to rewrite anything. As long as you could get to the struct, you could retrieve what you put there. It was a brilliant-but-horrifying trick, and of course it was a big challenge for the porting effort.
At least it got the segment right; ~30% of CO2 emissions are from transportation.

It cracks me up when people talk about plastic and throwaway clothing as ways to cut back on carbon emissions.
I use the Medtronic Guardian Plus because it ties into my insulin pump which then regulates how much background insulin to give me. Dexcom, as mentioned in another comment, is a standalone sensor that doesn't tie directly into a pump.

All sensors that I know of are invasive though, so they have to be replaced every 7-10 days, which requires a needle and other things to cover it.

You could also just buy a glucometer (though you'd need a prescription for the test strips, at least in the US) than test once or twice a day and keep a log.
I think that kind of proves the OP's point though. That people come along and "create new angles" an awful lot in history. You don't really need much data, if you need any at all. And at the same time, like journalists, historians want something that "bleeds" so it can "lede".

Wall Street Journal, CNN, FOX, The Economist, etc etc etc, will all write endlessly on what this or that senator meant in the debate on this or that bill. Those outlets have audiences many times larger than C-SPAN, which simply televises the debate and the vote, along with a link to the exact text of the bill on its website.

You know why no one watches C-SPAN? Because facts like that are boring as tar, and no one cares about them anyway. (We generally adhere to our own worldviews on subjects like that in any case.)

Same with the Civil War example, if people really wanted to know the reason the states began fighting, they could just read the various Declarations of Causes. Written by the people who seceded themselves, declaring exactly why they intended to secede and fight.

You know why practically no one has read any of the Declarations of Causes?

Because they're boring as watching paint dry, and no one cares about them anyway. (We generally adhere to our own worldviews on subjects like that in any case.)

In such an environment, you need something new and imaginative to capture peoples' imaginations. That's just the reality of the state of the study of History right now.
Looks as if he was asked to leave. No surprise given the terrible optics they've been under for the past year. NPM is such a vital tool and I really enjoy using it. I hope their next CEO makes better decisions in regards to the humans who work there. Good luck to all the NPM staff! I'm rooting for you!

From the Register...

"According to people familiar with the matter, Bogensberger was asked to leave by the company's board of directors." [0]

For more context...from Jonathan Cowperthwait, NPM's former vice president of marketing...

"Many of us spent the last year watching our friends and colleagues' struggle through our fingers, but I'm still profoundly confident in the company's ability to turn this around. Sometimes bad executives happen to a good company." [1]

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/20/npm_ceo_bryan_bogen...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/npm-ceo-bryan-bogensberger-r...
Jim Keller: Moore’s Law Is Not Dead
Sounds a bit Orwellian to me, trying to control/disallow what others may or may not think or voice
Respectfully, different things work for different people. Motivation is fleeting and can be easily derailed, but self discipline is a monster that doesn't quit.

Philosophically, self discipline is self love. What is misaligned that causes the person to let themselves down?
HN is not a job board, please read the FAQ w.r.t. this subject
What makes you say "Clearly?" According to TFA this isn't the first, recent incident.
If tomcam is right that these are actually Chinese secret police. If so, and you're some random person with a gun, reaching for it might be a very bad idea. (Even if the Chinese secret policeman doesn't have a gun, it could still be a very bad idea.)
It deserves some titles:
* "Let me calm my hair" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_M3CXoqlxCyo2Pdg8FTCkdCPlcZ...
* "Do you like my beard?" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olx8X3FlXpPdoCT5EmsjCWqWc2b...
* "What are you thinking about?" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i5KnWXm0ewpqZ6toEeYlCW0JLRT...
* "Sticky fingers" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QtTv37P40a2e9w7Qa37XweT-v26...
* "Ear and shoulder" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MlJP4q_BLcyhYjuJudztDzUY0pv...
* "My new glasses" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n2QCS_cjeMCfiEFqs2fYGgNKm0T...
* "f* off asshole" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GaWX-n82P9LU2QMEwxmq2XEJWjR...
...and other treasures.
Hence why I said "You should be using appropriate DOM APIs"...

The appropriate DOM APIs don't take HTML strings in the first place. You shouldn't be passing HTML strings to JS.
Thanks. I'll have to check that out.
Is this different than the myriad other FLOSS that has popups asking for donations?
Yes, so I can see how it can be hard for a small shop owner or a family restaurant to update their menus every time. But telecom vendor has these all implemented in their billing system anyway, and if there's a company that wouldn't have problem with either technical aspects nor budget to make their site show true price, that company is Google. They totally could do it if they wanted, they just prefer to post misleading prices because people allow them to get away with it.
Face-to-face business meetings really should be obsolete by now. It's difficult to imagine a more inefficient business process, especially for sales, where the outcome might be simply nothing.

Nevertheless, the salespeople who show up in person tend to have an advantage in getting the business. It's a nightmare with real consequences.
there's one but it's a single passenger unit
A “Sneaky” Asteroid Nearly Missed Earth. Internal Emails Show How NASA Missed It
They are screwing over some of the fintechs that provide banking services and use overnight lending to make money on the deposits.
Same, I also don't think I'm educated enough... but many people who are educated in this area do conclude that carbon removal is a non-starter, so I feel there is a certain burden of proof to claim that it will work. Solar power is a good example of a technology that did better than I would have thought, but there are many others that have silently fallen by the wayside.
Doesn’t the CHP know a real black Audi police car in China would have no markings at all? This is the car of choice for the higher end CPC police, who are neither in uniform (well, the typical MIB uniform) nor would their car be so easily identified.

Heck, one way to avoid getting pulled over by the police in Beijing is to drive around in a black Audi. They’ll automatically think you are some kind of big wig who they shouldn’t mess with (unless by other black Audi driving police).
What's the basic energy equation of sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere using state of the art today? In say megawatt hours per gigaton?
Seeing your grandmother. Hugging your nephew. Enjoying a trip with close friends. Firing an executive. Laying off people.
Only when dealing with body armor. It's the reason the 45 ACP and the 12 gauge slug are still powerhouses even at relatively slow velocities, when compared to modern high velocity rounds. When body armor is taken out of the equation these rounds do as much of not more than their high velocity counterparts. You can compensate for some loss of mass with velocity but not all of it.

It's similar the the differences between horsepower and torque. To paraphrase a popular meme, Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how much of the wall you take with you.
Grounding of MAX could have an effect as lots of airlines kept old gas guzzlers flying longer than they planned - or they contracted some shady companies with 30 year old 733s and 734s
On a per dollar basis, sucking carbon out is the most expensive option. Economics dictates that there is lower hanging fruit & best to prevent / reduce CO2 emissions at concentrated sources than to suck out it from an extremely dispersed atmosphere. You're fighting against basic entropy (entropy always wins).
It depends on your use case. In my case, most of the ram of my computer is already dedicated to a web browser anyway. I prefer to have everything done in the web browser rather than having another complex graphic framework running in parallel. Plus HTML is highly hackable and there is no reason we cannot reuse the many tools developed for monitoring remote servers on a local machine.

I like the idea of Google Chrome OS, but I would like to be free to chose the web browser I want.
Internal docs from NASA referenced in the article https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6421895-LEOPOLD-NASA...
>It's not gonna happen

Not with that attitude. To elaborate: it's not black & white. You can definitely have a positive impact reducing emissions.
I have no idea what you are trying to say with this...
Sure there is. With an SVM, you can pick different kernels to more carefully engineer specific behaviors, what kinds of errors your model is likely to make, etc. You can get a good, stable model on less training data, which is great when your training data is expensive to produce. (A situation that I'm guessing is not at all uncommon in industrial automation.) You get all that crispy crunchy large margin goodness. Stuff like that.

I'd absolutely focus on ANNs if I were an academic researcher, because that's the hot flavor of the month that's going to get your career the attention it needs to bring in funding, jobs, etc. I'd also pick it for Kaggle-type stuff, where there's effectively no real penalty for generalizing poorly. Bonus points if you consume more energy to train your model than Calgary does to stay warm in the winter.

In a business setting, though, I would only default to ANNs if it were holistically the best option for the problem domain. By "holistically" I mean, "there's more to it than chasing F1 scores at all costs." The business considerations that caused Netflix to never try productionizing the prize-winning recommendation engine, for example, are always worth thinking about. Personally, I'm disinclined to look past linear models - not even as far as kernel methods - without strong reason to believe that I'm dealing with a curve that can't be straightened with a simple feature transformation. Complexity is expensive, and needless complexity is a form of technical debt.
It might be slightly better if there's cargo. Or worse if there's a lot of first class passengers.

Someone I know got denied boarding a flight on employee standby (~free ticket, family member works for the airline) because they needed the weight for cargo.
Huh, very much like the Rohingya in Myanmar.

I wonder if this is climate change driven.
Is this some kind of weird role-playing fantasy? Who in their right mind would expect not to be identified as a fraud, impersonating an officer in the wrong country?
Apparently the EPA can do that. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
I like the idea of getting to net neutral with carbon capture. I even did some napkin math about a month ago. I tried calculating the energy requirements to break the CO2 bond as to determine the number of solar panels you would need. To get net neutral with CO2 emissions you would need to spend something around $8.5 trillion and obtain around 84,584,490,753.28 of 300 watt, $100 panels! Note I did not calculate the cost of the actual carbon capture machines, just energy requirements. I think my number is perhaps still a bit low but I also think this is reasonably doable with global support.
Ask HN: Why PGP isn't built into all modern browsers?
Web browsers are used for communication by billions of people. One would think that with all the privacy and security issues facing individuals and companies on the web today, client-side encryption and signature verification would be the topmost priority for all browser vendors. Yet it's not the case.

Browser developers are in a unique position to solve the chicken-and-egg problem with client-side cryptography. Namely, it is only useful if a large portion of people you communicate with has it too. (This is not something that a standalone app or a plug-in can solve.)

I'm not aware of any attempts to tackle this problem by any of the major vendors. Are there any well-known reasons why? Are there any publicly accessible discussion about this among browser developers?
GP wrote the per passenger stat
Really? Where is git storing it? I don't see any information about my rebases in the message, or who pushed it.
Ya, this would never pass for a real police car in China. It’s a black Audi, the official car of choice...it wouldn’t be degraded with any decals at all. Those are the kinds of markings you on a Volkswagen or Hyundai.
Just so you know, I'm downvoting this comment instead for being an inane rant without presenting a rational argument.
Perhaps, but the parent is referring to existing European law, not just espousing an opinion.

https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/selling-in-eu/selling-...
> high rates of borrowing on weekend nights as evidence that loans are marketed and taken in moments of inebriated revelry."

Is it evidence that they're marketed as such?
yeah, betting on technology to solve immediate existential problems given minimal precedent isn't naive or anything. go ahead and post the projections on increased battery capacity, how we're going to find the rare earth material for constructing them all, and how clean tech will magically materialize that will not spike emissions while we build tons of magical unicorn stuff to save the world.

you're the naive one, not whoever you're calling out here.
OP never said "nothing will change" or "it's going to be better overall". To be clear, I'm not trying to be antagonistic, what exactly are you arguing here?
Thanks for such a terrific, well-informed and helpful comment!

It's a strong reminder how unbelievably complex "color" is.
Lying on a resume may get you fired. Or so I've heard.
How would merges work there?

I've had a coworker, "Tom", who was terrible with three way merges (why is it the people awful at merges want to do the most merges by insisting on feature branches for their code?)

I'm still not sure what he was doing but some of his merges ended up with the wrong name next to code. We started figuring this out about him when "George" was getting dressed down for a bug he introduced.

Two things drew me into this. First, I was getting tired of things being blamed on George. Everybody in this group had issues, nobody should have been pointing fingers at anybody else, especially this guy or his partner in crime, Tom. But equally important to me at that moment was that I was the primary on that code review, so now it's on me too.

A lot of code I look at becomes a bit of a blur, but I remembered this block of code particularly well, because it was the sort of tricky code that George sometimes cocks up but bless him if he didn't get it right on the first try. Only the code we were upset about wasn't the code I reviewed. His name was on it. The commit sequence lined up. What the hell.

An excruciatingly long git bisect later (git bisect is not built for some things, this included) and I track it down to a bad three way merge by Tom. He ended up with some bastardized version of left and right that had its own set of bugs, and George's name on the commit. I hadn't known you could do that with Git. It was quite upsetting.
How does anonymous and verified fit together?
There's a cavernous gap between the apocalyptic rhetoric from climate activists and the brittle, ineffective policy they actually promote. If climate activists really believed that climate change were a near-term catastrophic threat, they'd jump on the change to reduce emissions using whatever techniques and technology worked. "Geoengineering? Great! Nuclear power? Great!" --- that's what someone genuinely concerned about the climate would say.

Instead, climate activists promote a very narrow Utopian vision and work against everything that falls outside this vision. These activists don't really care about the environment: they're using climate activism as a pretext for advancing some Utopian project and putting themselves in charge of how we all live. These people are discrediting all climate science in the eyes of regular people.
I find this article more clearly written, and the historical background is also helpful:

> To understand the roots of India’s plan for a massive detention system, we need to go back to the 19th century, when the British set up big tea plantations in Assam. Labor was in high demand and many people from Bengal, Nepal, and elsewhere were brought in to provide it. The local Assamese began to grow anxious about the loss of their culture in the face of shifting demographics.

> Then, in 1947, the subcontinent was partitioned. As India and Pakistan were born amid bloodshed, many families rushed into what was newly becoming India — including many Muslims. The native Assamese increasingly resented the newcomers, who were, in their view, taking too many professional jobs and economic opportunities. And another wave of migration was soon to come.

> In 1971, the territory that was then East Pakistan gained independence and became Bangladesh. Prompted by the bloody independence war, millions of Muslims fled Bangladesh for India, and many of them remained in Assam.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/17/20861427/india-...

And later, a description of the seemingly ubiquitous ethnic demagogue:

> Prime Minister Narendra Modi champions a hardline brand of Hindu nationalism known as Hindutva, which aims to define Indian culture in terms of Hindu history and values and which promotes an exclusionary attitude toward Muslims. UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet recently expressed concerns over “increasing harassment and targeting of minorities — in particular, Muslims.”
Unfortunately public transit contradicts that "they can own and control" part above.

For many in US just the idea of sharing a space with strangers is revolting. Same applies to dense living.

And that brings another question: how would you have effective public transit system in suburban sprawl?
> Actually, now that I think about it - one key difference is that shitty sugary drinks have killed more Americans then the Russian government did.

The difference is agency. The people that chose to drink those drinks were able to make that decision, not helpless to some corporation.

You don't get to choose not to be assassinated by a Russian agent.
I really hope the 3000-series Threadripper is 8-channel like its server counterpart. 8 16GB DIMMs gets you 128GB, and a significant amount of memory bandwidth. You also have enough PCI-E lanes to either stripe or partition your I/O in such a way to work around any major bottlenecks.
Unfortunartely, becoming sloth is always easier than confronting reality unless you're forced not to.
It's the high growth rate that is the issue, not the existing amount.
the visceral human experience brought about by the complex interaction of each sense combining together. For example when when you're standing on a cliff overlooking the majestic ocean, eyes absorbing the light as it reflects off the water and the sky, listening to the waves as they crash against the rocks, smelling the distinct salty coastal essence, and observing the cool wind flowing about your limbs. This complex interaction is soothing and cathartic, and leaves an imprint on the soul.
What are the typical use cases for this type of board ?
I grew up with something like this. We called them buses, they were pretty cool :)
No, it's a world with cheap energy.
> What's the basic energy equation of sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere using state of the art today?

Current state-of-the-art has the following equation[1]:

6CO2 + 6H20 + (photons) → C6H12O6 + 6O2

(sorry, I couldn't help myself, the setup was too good) But seriously, I doubt we can beat plants in terms of carbon sequestration efficiency.

[1] https://sciencing.com/photosynthesis-equation-6962557.html
because that would require a change in personal behavior while the carbon sucking option means it's some scientist's problem and they have no personal responsibility
Cherry picking creates a new commit.
No, I use it on macOS too.

http://kablock.com
And it's easier to move around, for a fee.

Think of this business opportunity.

Start a company where you imagine wealth into existence then loan it to others. Then you setup partner systems where you charge folks who use that wealth. A charge for each transaction.

Zero overhead with a profit layer...
I always assumed their business model was "Stay afloat till $BIG_CORP acquires us".
The PDF does not explain where the data comes from or how it was counted. And it explicitly says that the data is not peer-reviewed. At least it does give references at the end.

Also, Fig. 1 in the PDF shows "geophysical events"--earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions--rising in frequency as well. By the argument given, that means we humans are causing more earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions by putting more CO2 into the air. Which immediately makes me read this PDF as spin, not substance.
Yeah, the town I live in has probably 3/4 of their fleet as these https://cdn1.tkographix.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/30124...

Most of them in that silver but a handful of black unmarked ones and the rest being marked cars. I actually saw someone pulled over by one of the unmarked ones on the way to work today, they've been having some of them follow behind the school buses to nail people that try to blow by the bus stop signs.
". If HN allowed communication after a certain Karma threshold, that might work. "

That might work, but with direct messaging, not with, "you see all emails after karma x".
They sell “organizations” for $7/month which gives you private packages, and also https://www.npmjs.com/products/enterprise
I use an under desk treadmill (iMovr ThermoTread GT) and average 2.5 mi per day. It's fairly quiet and most of my peers like it.

There are also bike options if that's preferred
if prices accurately reflected costs not flying would start to seem a lot more practical