skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chemical engineering? Isn't mixing chemicals just chemistry?

Regardless, there is no standard for baking, each little extra bit of yeast, sugar, etc. you add in can make it an entirely different product. This gives it its own personal craft aspect, hence why it can be an art.
I know the Portal wasn't exactly a huge hit in terms of sales (though the reviews of the product functionality alone were fairly positive IIRC), but it's pretty clear evidence that Facebook is not ignoring voice as a piece of its xR portfolio. Oculus is pretty clearly the leader in consumer VR at the moment, and Portal sits within Boz's AR/VR org. I wouldn't count them out based on their ability to ship products quite yet. So unless you think people will avoid anything made by Facebook as a rule (possible, though I don't think there's much evidence of it at the moment), I still think they're in about as good position as they could hope for re: being the xR platform.
Sounds more like alcohol. If you have a couple drinks a week, it's no problem. If you can't stop yourself from binge drinking, you have to stop completely. Sobriety means that you miss out on social activities based around drinking.
> But here's the thing: the reality of current power in western countries is that it has been completely captured by large corporations and capital.

The economies in non-western countries aren't any different, often just less perfect versions of western market economies. (And sometimes, like with Taiwan or Singapore, more perfect versions.) The important point there, though, is that even imperfect market economies have led to enormous increases in prosperity for non-western countries. Market reforms in countries like India meant that GDP per capita more than quadrupled from 1999-2019, while it less than doubled from 1979-1999.

The climate justice folks, by contrast, want people from the developing world to rely on "endogenous and indigenous technologies and innovations in addressing climate change" so they can "develop, access, and transfer environmentally sound, socially acceptable, gender responsive and equitable climate technologies." https://www.peoplesdemands.org. (Luckily, countries like India are going with Thorium reactors instead: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph241/wolak1. And that will be the ironic outcome of climate justice efforts. It will be essential to get India and China on board to address climate change, but those countries are too smart to jump on that bandwagon.)

Ironically, it is precisely the dichotomy you mention that justifies the hard-line opposition of the right-wingers. If tweaking market economies is not the solution, and the alternative to the status quo is "revolution," then it is utterly rational to seek to protect the status quo.
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A lot of it is legal, but there is some change happening. WA recently made it legal to compost* human remains, perhaps the first new option outside of burial and cremation?

*in a very specific way https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/us/washington-human-compostin...
I'd also recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Veins_of_Latin_America
is this trying to be stratechry in format?
Probably to keep the momentum of the ingredients at zero in the x/y axes
Natural pandemics like the Black Death will seldom wipe out more than half the people in an affected area and never everybody. It's possible that someone might genetically engineer a plague to be dormant but transmissible for a year then suddenly kill its host but even with something like that you're probably going to miss pockets of people as large as were left after the Toba supervolcano 70,000 years ago.

Nuclear war probably won't wipe out humanity either. Lots and lots of people would die in the countries involved and a few hundred miles downwind of the fallout but other locations would probably only see increased cancer rates. I say probably because while it looks like fears of nuclear winter were probably oversold there's still a fair chance that they weren't and we'd be looking at 5 years with no plant growth after a nuclear exchange. In which case, hey, there's this charity called ALLFED[1] working on how to feed people in the event of a nuclear winter or meteor impact or supervolcano eruption causes a global years long winter. Things like how to operationalize turning dead trees into edible mushrooms at a huge scale.

[1]https://allfed.info
Northern EU countries have just as much vacation (some even more). It's not unusual for major offices to be closed for the summer.
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Cement (of certain types) relies on direct carbon capture from the atmosphere to complete curing (although conventional cement only carbonizes through a finite depth during its expected lifetime), so it's definitely possible. It just takes a lot of energy.

About 2 MWh (thermal, or ~7GJ) per tonne of CO2 captured (not counting storing that CO2) to regenerate the chemical CO2 capturing agent. Here's a review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261...

(As an aside, a gallon of gasoline emits about 10kg of CO2, so to capture that CO2 from a gallon of gasoline would require about 20kWh worth of electricity.... Typically, a gallon of gasoline gives you about as much range as 10 kWh in an electric car, so you can go 2 times as far in an electric car just using the energy it'd take to capture the CO2 from a gasoline car. And that doesn't count the electricity required to refine/crack the gasoline from crude.)

And also, on board the International Space Station, CO2 is captured from the atmosphere regeneratively. Capturing CO2 in this way takes less energy at the higher concentrations on board ISS, but is still possible.

As an aside:
Much of the ISS's CO2 is converted into a hydrocarbon (methane) using hydrogen (from water and solar electricity) and, amusingly, vented to space as a waste product. The point is to recover the oxygen (again, in the form of water) from the CO2.
Look: Your ideas are misguided and dangerous. Read the article to see the effects of the guinea worm. The parasite ruins lives.

The "not even wrong" was applied appropriately as the statement "there is some good to be had from keeping the guinea worm" is potentially true but practically unverifiable and is part of an argument whose goalposts can be moved easily and indefinitely, and are already so far away as to be unassailable.

There is some value to biodiversity and its study and there are likely parasites that are beneath our radar but that this specific one can be isolated and studied and has recorded negative effects on humanity is enough to destroy it.

>I'm reasonably sure that we will not find a tiny hitler inside the packets of 6 guinea worms, but if is really there, we could choose just not follow it

Maybe studying the DNA of the guinea worm leads researchers to a breakthrough in targeting retroviruses at vulnerable human subpopulations and genocide is committed because we didn't exterminate it!

See? You don't know that won't happen!
Are you trolling? Her agenda is going after essentially "too big" everything. Banking and pharma have been on her list longer than big tech.
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With 12 kids, I like how you think. :-)
Yeah, it's funny how the same people who say they're desperate for more/more reliable labor will also tell you that paying their workers better is laughably impossible.
Do they really believe that something as abstruse as antitrust would resonate with voters? Setting aside the merits of it as policy, I find it hard to believe that a lot of voters are really clamoring for Walmart or Facebook to be broken up.

That said, perhaps a segment of their base would be more energized by attacking large corporations. Appealing to an extreme wing, and using that strength to create broad enthusiasm, worked for their opponents. I used to believe that if you were forced to appeal like that, you couldn't possibly get enough votes from the center, but my intuition appears to be in error.
Airbus manufactures in China. They have a large factory in Tianjin [1].

China is on course to have its own commercial airliner soon [2]

[1] https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/news/en/2018/09/airbus--chin...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_C919
That's not true. This graph is "Thermal expansion only" so it doesn't count melting the glaciers at all! According to the worst case predictions from the article it can take ~50 years for 1m rise.
Just a small correction: as a business, you subtract the VAT on your suppliers’ invoices from the VAT invoiced to your customers. Effectively you remit the taxes only on the added value of your business, hence the name. This makes it also harder to avoid taxes. But in the end, the end user pays the tax on the full price, as you say.
Environmentalism is the ultimate Original Sin for the 21st century. All humans are guilty of the original sin of consuming resources.
We live in an ever-changing planet. The sea level has been rising since 20,000 years ago, during the last deep ice age. We're still technically in an ice age, we're just in a temporary warming period called an interglacial. The state of various species is always in flux.

CO2 is fertilizing plant life on the earth. And satellite data confirms this: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

Since plant life is thriving, so too will overall animal life. Although extinction will continue to occur just as it always has throughout the history of the planet.
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Actually - thats total compensation. Its usually around $150-175K cash + stock. And 150K remote jobs are definitely available...AWS was just hiring TAMs at that range. AWS does require travel to onboard new clients though - so its more like 75% remote
Congratulations on the launch!

I've played around with the beta a bit, and really enjoy the workflow for building simple, interactive apps for showing off ML models.
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neat. good argument. anecdotal evidence is not evidence btw.
You like the music you like and that itself is as punk rock as you can get.

The difference between "Lookout! Green Day" and "Warner Green Day" is one of DIY vs Payola. These days, it's much easier and potentially more profitable to go the DIY route, but back then, you needed a sugar daddy to "make it big" fast. Taking the easy route meant Green Day were shunned by their original fan base (somewhat justifiably so,) but they had more energy, raw talent, and Buzzcocks hooks than anything else on top 40 radio with the exception of Nirvana (which is why Warner was trolling for talent in the first place.)

It's hard to call any "punk" bands sellouts after Nevermind. Were Hüsker Dü sellouts? They signed to Warner in '85 (almost a decade before Green Day.)

The music business is harsh. If you're in a band and into it for the long haul, own your masters and go the DIY route. Your fans will find you and are more likely to pay directly when they do. If you're in a band and want to make it big fast, consider this often cited article from Steve "Mr. Gold Bracelet" Albini on cashflow:

https://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17

There's a reason you're seeing a lot of live music. Streaming doesn't pay the bills.
The people who fund the political parties control what happens. Elected officials do their bidding. The public front of "democracy" is just there to keep everyone else from realizing that.
No worries mate - totally understand that there's limitations of the platform. Appreciate it, and good luck with your future projects.
> Blowing up a home or two harboring a "terrorist cell" during a meeting I'm sure will be deterrence enough for a lot of those gun owners.

Like cutting the head from a hydra, this would spawn dozens of new "terrorist cells" in response. Military is made from the citizenry, and without moral authority, command would lose power and become opposed by many of their own forces (in addition to the general populace)
It might work if the US Department of Defense, NASA, and Boeing are customers (my assumption) and they keep their company small.
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> 6) Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired.

I would have so much loved this approach in the last corporate job I had. It would have changed so many things in such a short time...
Your options are more limited even if you would be happy with steady-ish returns averaging 12%/year. There simply isn't as many options to choose from.
You can make that same absolutist argument against, say, the use of police. After all, if we let the government hire people with guns to shoot and kill citizens, where will this slippery slope lead us to?

I am quite capable of telling the difference between tyranny, and basic public safety, and I think you are too. Vaccination in 2019 is about as clear-cut a line as I can think of.
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That's an interesting point. Who knows what could actually be going behind closed doors in China? A lot of what we hear from China comes from second hand sources. If the Chinese are doing big things, their government seems pretty tight lipped on revealing breakthroughs and their progress (unlike the USSR.)

> I wouldn't think USSR was that great at creative thinking, either (on a bigger scale).

True, especially in the later years of the USSR. But they did launch a satellite into space before anyone else. At some point they were creative thinkers, at least.
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...and this is justification for the government to break up the company, is that the claim being made here?
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For the moment it's a Pi 4 + Hifiberry Digi+ Pro with Volumio software. Volumio provides a pretty decent web UI, automatic scanning of connected USB storage, Airplay (v1), and a Spotify Connect plugin. There are also other plugins but I haven't looked into them too closely.

I also liked Roon Bridge on the Pi (and felt the audio output was slightly improved, although made no effort to counter the placebo effect) but couldn't quite justify the cost.
If we put a lot of effort on removing carbon from stable minerals, there is probably enough of it on Earth's crust to make it uninhabitable. But that's a large engineering effort that I don't think humanity is currently able to achieve.
Fish don't know they're in water. https://sivers.org/fish

The fact that we have the illusion of choice between candidates who will all do mostly the same things, and won't affect the bureaucracy that much anyways, doesn't make us meaningfully more free.

"But my candidate had a great take on the bathroom bill controversy!", as we continue bombing weddings in afghanistan, imprisoning more people than China (!!!), etc..
That sounds like a low-fi, synchronous, in-person version of reviewing a Google Doc (with comments, suggestions, etc).
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I think that distinction is already sufficiently implied.

China/<Country's name> == The government of China/<The government of Country>

and

The Chinese == The inhabitants of China
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"Hit me up" is slang for "get in touch." One word difference, worlds of difference in meaning.
d) Constantly changing jobs every time some jerk floats into your circle doesn’t speak well of your character or look good on your resume.
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Thanks, I've been looking through it. I was really hoping for good news about your treatment and I was happy to find it. Cannabinoids are an exciting medical frontier and I think you're doing a good thing here.
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Drop by the Nerves channel on the Elixir-Lang Slack. It’s pretty active and people are pretty helpful.

PS: I enjoy writing streaming code in Elixir (vs more procedural or OO methods). This is a snippet I use to decode a SLIP encoded binary UART stream with an CRC check:

Stream.repeatedly(fn -> receive_data_packet(timeout) end)
|> Stream.transform(<<@frame_end, @frame_end>>, &frame_splitter(&1, &2, {separator, max_buffer}))
|> Stream.map(&decode_slip(&1))
|> Stream.map(&frame_header(&1))
|> Stream.reject(&( &1[:code] == -1))
|> Stream.each(fn x -> if !x[:crc_check] do Logger.error("parser crc error: #{inspect x}") end end)
|> Stream.reject(&( &1[:crc_check] == false))
...
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