skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, cutting CO2 and CH4 emissions won't have much impact on decade scales. But we should still do that, to mitigate longer term damage.

What could help shorter term is adaptation. Moving cities to higher ground, away from oceans. And building dikes, where it's workable. But not in Florida or New Orleans. Maybe not even for New York City.

Also moving populations to areas that require less air conditioning. And moving farmland from areas that are becoming more arid. So generally, poleward.

And then there's immigration. As others move generally poleward. Targets could block immigration, and build walls where feasible. As the US and UK are doing. Or they could focus on integrating immigrants, as some EU nations are doing. That seems like the best long term strategy. Otherwise, you're going to have huge refugee camps, near borders, and probably end up killing lots of people.

And then we have social and political implications. I have no clue about that. Except to extrapolate current trends. So socially, that would be increased concentration of wealth, with the wealthy increasingly isolating themselves from the poor. And politically, increased authoritarian control, with associated surveillance.

Interesting times, for sure.
Abrupt, unexpected breaking could cause a rear-end collision, which could conceivably kill quite a few more people than if the breaking had not occurred. Imagine a car breaking hard directly in front of 16-wheel semi-trailer. That could lead to a pile-up and quite a few people dead.
But actually, "he was nervous" is much more economical than the alternative, and works for me. Perhaps "he was nervous, and it showed". Showing can make things vivid, but telling lets me use my imagination even more.

I've taken "show, don't tell" to mean "don't have a character explain things for the reader", which is easier to agree with.
> coordinated global action is required. Trump withdrew us from Paris. Harper withdrew Canada from Kyoto.

Neither of those were coordinated global action that will make any difference. "Symbolic" agreements don't fix anything; they're just a way for politicians to punt the problem (if you think it's a problem) further down the road so they can stay in power. Not to mention that none of the countries that signed up for Kyoto came anywhere near meeting their targets (which were already too permissive to make a difference) anyway, and it looks like the same will be true of Paris. The US prefers not to sign agreements that we know we won't keep and that won't make a difference anyway; that's why we didn't ratify Kyoto and why Trump pulled us out of Paris.

The kind of draconian "coordinated global action" that would be necessary to actually stop CO2 emissions is not going to happen; nobody will accept that drastic a hit in standard of living. Not to mention that doing that would condemn all of the currently developing countries that have the most to lose to staying in poverty, which will make it so much harder for them to adapt. The best thing we can do is to create more wealth and bring more people out of poverty, and make our infrastructure more decentralized and robust. That will benefit everyone regardless of what kind of change comes.
Evidently!
I'm aware of that, but images on a website being desaturated or having a dark background doesn't seem like it would help. (I do agree with your appeal to those who are sensitive to bright lights, FWIW. It's just that this one sounds like a bit of a reach.)
Thank you, makes sense. I was wrong that the per-user is simpler. Yet, it’s only fair. I wouldn’t buy a Rihanna album, in the old physical model, why would she get get my money in the new one? And it’s probably very likely they already have the userId -> songId logs for recommendations and such
Certainly not. Methane may have some value, but it is quite plentiful and fracking has made it cheap. Oil drillers already flare it off when it's inconvenient and uneconomical to capture. You're talking a methane release spread across continents, then dispersed into the atmosphere in parts per billion.
>Build nuclear power plants.

And to all the people who say "they take too long there isn't enough time": the best time to start nuclear power plant construction was 10 years ago, the second best time is now.
>why not just ask them?????

Mostly because revealed preferences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference
Touchscreen dash; training people to expect their car will do stuff for them (beep if something is behind, alert if someones in the next lane, break if something is in the way, drive); cellphones (both drivers and pedestrians); pedestrian crosswalks in the middle of busy roads with new signaling most drivers have never been formally trained on; motorcycle lanes between car lanes; bike lanes on the side of the road, sometimes second lane from the side, sometimes on thruways. The list goes on and it's getting worse everyday. Keep it simple stupid.
He was a monstrous personality.

Case in point: She placed her daughter, Allegra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegra_Byron), in a convent when she was four, taking her away from her mother. Her letter from the convent of San Giovanni Battista in Bagnacavallo near Ravenna is heartbreaking (you can see the letter at http://shelleysghost.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/letter-from-allegra-t...).

On the second page you can see her handwriting asking "Pappa" to visit her. He never responded to the letter or visited her. She died when she was five at the convent. Percy and Mary Shelly tried to persuade Byron to let the girl to live with them, he wouldn't consent to that either.

"Che Fá il mio Amato Pappá? io sto cosí bene, e tanto contenta che non posso se non ringraziare il sempre Caro mio Pappa che mi procuró un tanto bene da cui imploro la sua Benedizione, la sua Allegrina lo saluta di cuore."

[What is my Dear Papa doing? I am so well, and so happy that I cannot but thank my ever dear Papa who brings me so much happiness and whose blessing I ask for. Your little Allegra sends her loving greetings.]

Breaks my heart every single time I read it! "Amato Pappá" indeed!
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TPP was awful just on it's copyright content alone, nevermind the other purported garbage in there. Here's [0] the EFF on TPP copyright.

[0] https://www.eff.org/issues/tpps-copyright-trap
No. No it really doesn't.
Don't be dissuaded by the noise around the topic; the article is worth reading in full.
You can try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Volker_E._(WMF)/dark-mode for now. It's a black/night mode at the moment. And (not yet) an official option with some technical acceptance issues like lazy-loading, therefore flicker on load. – I work for the Wikimedia Foundation.
This wish has been stated as part of the Community Wishlist survey 2019. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_20...
Hydropower can work for base load, but it has its own issues.
That's a very long article without even a single sentence about what Artifact is.
"tornado alley moving east", fyi.
Personally I could never get into dota until it freed itself from the UX restrictions of being a custom map for another game. With matchmaking you get even games even at low skill levels, I certainly didn't find that I had to sink 100s of hours into it before it got fun (I don't think I've played more than 100 yet).
Those environments are not at all complex. They are highly simplified and constrained with simple rules that bear little relationship to the real world.
That’s actually a confirming anecdote FYI, the occurrence of more extreme weather events in both directions
> no party wants that.

Trump would benefit enormously from a shooting war.
All of that is pointless, it will not work, and anything that requires human behavior to change en mass without direct incentives is wildly unrealistic. Imagine doing all that, only to die, all the same. We cannot accept simple answers, we need complicated engineered answers.

Increasingly, I find the best thing to do is get your affairs in order, do not birth a child, and try to enjoy what is left of this life before it’s all over and the world cooks to death.

If life must have no purpose, then you might as well choose to be happy. And I mean it. BE happy, before it’s too late.
Nothing. We're fucked. The world will die in the pursuit of expanding growth and profit.
I agree. Vim with ctags and gdb is a pretty performant workflow. I just turned 40. So maybe it is context. I do like vscode though. Its pretty snappy and has good keyboard shortcuts so I don't have to touch the rodent.
If that's unusual for you, it actually helps prove his point...
> Looking at the methodology here I don't think this test is likely to be representative There are two important differences between a test dummy and a pedestrian. First: pedestrians glow in infrared; and second, pedestrians move, even if it's only shifting in place.

The dummies were articulated, moved, and designed to mimic the infrared response of a real human. See section 4.2.
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8 people work on the tweeting part, 4000 on ad sales.
no, you're both oversimplifying. the brain needs some glucose to sustain itself, a little bit, according to present day research. yes, it can principally function on ketones but not /exclusively/.

it is not controversial that the brain can survive long periods of time on principally ketones, but what has not yet been proven (for obvious ethical reasons) is whether or not the brain can sustain itself with absolutely no glucose whatsoever.

again, the ratios are key. i'm not contesting that ketones can be used as the principal fuel source, just that "the important thing is ATP" because the brain needs some glucose.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK28048/
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Sorry. I genuinely thought I was stating a scientific fact.

https://grist.org/article/humans-cause-climate-change-do-we-...
Some things that weren't covered in this article.

The beta players said that Valve largely ignored their feedback, and only made trivial changes. Richard Garfield said in an interview that people consistently didn't like some aspects of Artifact, but that him and his team knew what was best for the game, so they mostly disregarded complaints about RNG and some cards being frustrating to play against.

There were unrealistic expectations about Artifact. Some of the people in the beta couldn't stop singing its praises, calling it the best game ever made. After launch, one of the other beta testers said that a lot of the people publicly praising the game had privately said that they were trying to use the hype around a new Valve game to launch a twitch/youtube career, and they didn't actually like the game. There were also features present in the beta that had been silently cut before release, and some game breaking bugs that were present in the beta, and never got fixed.
A card game made by Valve: https://store.steampowered.com/app/583950/Artifact/

Very low player numbers (126 peak within the last day): https://steamcharts.com/app/583950
Google used to obey China's censorship requests, and was allowed in China. Then Google decided to stop obeying the requests, and China blocked Google.

You're saying that China was happy about that because China wanted Google out anyway and needed an excuse? If China didn't need an excuse, China could have blocked Google from the start. China has blocked things it considers offensive without an explicit action from that party (such as Winnie the Pooh).

If Google was obeying China's censorship, what would China find offensive about Google?

Does China find a similar level of offensiveness in the NBA and Blizzard, such that China is disappointed that they censored themselves and thus China doesn't have an excuse to block them?
The parent was referring to the OP’s doomsday scenarios (“kids are in for it”).
> Everything I’ve heard indicates a fairly dramatic change in the weather patterns as our global temperatures rise by even 1-2 degrees.

These are not predictions based on data. They are predictions based on models--the same models that have been overpredicting warming for several decades now.

The actual data says that extreme events have not been getting more frequent. Their consequences have been getting more severe because so many more people live in areas that are primarily affected by them. That's not a climate change problem: that's a problem of mismanagement and politics. The southwest US has been a desert for centuries if not millennia--now all of a sudden lack of water is a problem? Anyone with half a brain could have seen that coming. Coastal cities are finding problems with drainage? Sea levels have been rising since the last Ice Age ended, and if your coastal city in a hurricane zone suddenly has a problem with a storm surge, that just means you've been ignoring the problem for too long.

Yes, the climate is changing; it's always been changing, and it will keep changing. People need to be given accurate information about risks and the tools to adapt to change.
There's no practical reason employers can't pay a match into IRAs. It's just how the laws are written at the moment.
We can do better than that. Show up at every Brooklyn Nets game, sitting behind the basket with signs which... aren’t China friendly.
That's good. Maybe matchmaking has improved because when I was starting out I had a ton of games where I was against a duo-queue and the high skill player just dominated the game.
A card game designed by Richard Garfield (creator of Magic: The Gathering) and Valve. It was super hyped up pre-release, then became a massive failure due to Valve ignoring tons of negative feedback and thinking that they know better than the people playing. They say they are still working on it, but the last time it got an update was January 28th, 2 months after release.
I think perhaps you ought to realize how childish the "it's cold outside so global warming is a myth" argument sounds. It makes you sound willfully ignorant, which I'm sure isn't what you intended.
Slightly off topic,

I find it kind of ironic that there's so much debate surrounding the intricacies of dark mode support on a forum with no dark mode support (even though it avoids 90% of the gotchas).
That's somewhat like the Aristotelean vs Galilean conceptions of gravity. That is, constant velocity vs constant acceleration.

So arguably, change during the next ten years will look more like change during the last 50-100 years.
> (for consistent choice of base for log)

It's not clear the choice of log should be consistent. For radix sort the number of iterations is the log of the max element in the base of the number of buckets. For a merge sort the number of comparisons is pretty close to log-base-two of the number of elements to sort. (Not exactly -- to merge n items you need n-1 comparisons, not n.)

Of course, asymptotically they're the same -- lg(n) == log(n) etc -- and we're counting comparisons on one two-fingered hand and divs+mods on the other, so non-asymptotic comparisons don't make much sense without also talking about benchmarks.
Goodbye 'globalization'! Whatever that meant.
Could this be mitigated by floating a whole bunch of logs / other flammable carbon based material and burning them, burning off the methane in the process?

It would certainly lead to increased local temperatures in the short term, but it would remove the methane problem, and if we got enough carbon into the air we would eventually see a "nuclear winter" type cooling effect. This is obviously Bad and we'd need to burn a fantastic amount of wood to accomplish it, but as far as I know it's the only readily accessible global cooling mechanism we have that is practical to implement.
How is this different from a human slamming on the breaks to avoid the accident? Or a human crashing into the truck. These situations can also lead to a rear end collision the same was as AEB would.
You’re confusing “weather” with “climate”, that’s a rookie mistake
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You're smarter than this, Mike.
I like that you're using CSS variables to achieve this. I had to look up support for this , and it seems fairly decent. https://caniuse.com/#feat=css-variables
Urbanization, high-rises and city bubbles might be the answer to survival. Probably also the floating and underwater cities.
Everything that protects from the hostile climate outside. It's better to prepare the technology and economy today, while there are still enough resources and manufacturing power.
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I'd call them an underperformer. At some point it no longer is your job to reframe a discussion, it's your job to write code.

One tends not to make money off a reframed discussion, and besides, programmers often have a very poor view into the rest of the business, so a programmer taking it upon themselves to decide how the business should be run is a programmer who will find themselves without a job after a short while.
I didn't say nothing is happening, I said it's not the end of the world.

The effects so far are small compared to the direct damage caused by the air pollution itself, which kills over a million people a year.

I don't expect that will change in my lifetime. The predictions are not so dire that it is likely to take a million lives a year.

Over a period of several hundred years, it's a lot harder to say.

At no point is it likely to be the end of civilization. But we could get there if we're stupid enough to keep this up for a few centuries more.
So one good thing about the (perhaps unfair? perhaps disproportionate?) media attention that failures of semi-autonomous systems get, over the long term I'm pretty sure it helps focus the teams to make the tech better.

It's how aviation got insanely safe. Every passenger airplane crash is scrutinized. The very distortion in thinking that makes people think flying in airplanes is more dangerous than cars is what motivates every crash to be scrutinized.
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Let's save these kind of interactions for reddit, please.
> Just because they aren't perfect doesn't mean they don't make your car safer.

There is no evidence that they make your car safer, but there is evidence that AEB fails in common situations or in ways a human driver wouldn't.
Geoengineering is really the only realistic option if this is the case.

Sulfate aerosol injection is by far the most promising. And cheap - maybe 5-8b per year [1]. I'm not claiming this is a good idea in any way. As they say: desperate times call for desperate measures. We could buy ourselves several decades to sort our (as humans) shit out. We don't understand the unintended consequences very well, but at least this technique mimics natural processes (volcanic eruptions).

[1]https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034...
Document our failures as a species for the next one that attempts to ‘civilize’?
SCOTUS to Consider If State Legal Texts May Be Copyrighted
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Ask HN: Ever had to abandon large parts of a project 6 months in? How'd it go?
I lead a team that's put a large amount of resources into a greenfield project that's considered urgent for the business.

6 months in and we're having endless trouble with technology choices we made early on. Have you ever faced a similar decision to either stick with or throw large parts of a project? If so what did you choose and how did it turn out?
Oh it's definitely not perfect, you still get plenty of games where you're poorly matched. But it's good enough to be fun if you're willing to take a beating sometimes, and make judicious use of the ignore function.
This seems like a potentially good idea. Get it straight to CO2 as soon as possible. Otherwise I believe the half-life in the atmosphere is on the order of 10 years.

The problem I could see though is that it would likely speed up the melting of the Arctic. I'm sure there are really complex tradeoffs and someone would have to study them very carefully.

Intuitively I expect the gas to dilute very quickly, making it hard to burn efficiently over large surface areas... how much energy do you put into the fires vs. the amount of gas that is actually converted to CO2. It doesn't help that the methane will rise. All that energy will just go into quickening the melting of the Arctic. Which will also hasten climate change.

Like yeah if you could visualise methane pockets and target them with lasers to the point of combustion as they erupted, sure that could maybe work and much more efficient at converting the gas. Still seems far fetched though.
Can you give me an order of magnitude estimate of how many milliseconds you believe solving the 2d bin packing problem with added constraints would take on a commodity PC when n=the max number of clients in any wework building?

The problem is interesting, but it isn't one you need to set up an entire engineering team to solve.
I don't know if you started typing your comment before I got my edit up or not, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

Yes, unexpected braking events can cause rear-end collisions, but that was not the point of this study. If a pedestrian walks in front of a car unexpectedly you can either try not to hit them by braking (or possibly swerving if the situation permits), or you can just take the action you're implying and plow right on through them because your unexpected braking might cause some other people to get hurt.

My 2016 Subaru Forester with Eyesight has gotten confused and applied the brakes while weaving through the gates at military bases (these are low speed and lined with barriers), but other than that I have had no unexpected braking events in my car that weren't justified. In 40k miles the Eyesight system in my car has helped with about six close calls (I can't know if they would have become collisions), and haven't been rear ended. Right now I'm going to say that AEB systems add plenty of safety value to offset the increased risk of a rear end collision.
It's comments like this that make me question if people really understand climate science.

If all we have to do to cool the earth is as simple as explained above, then global warming is solved.
Europeans have already noticed a "big difference" in the influx of Syrian and Afghani refugees. That invigorated anti-immigration parties, but those parties also advocated for various policies that went beyond immigration. A few million people had a huge impact on politics overall.

Now imagine the turmoil and political ramifications that could spring, even in the short term, from the flooding of Bangladesh and the migratiom of its people towards the global north.
I like DarkReader, but it's been a huge exercise in patience seeing Firefox and Chrome getting all the updates, while the paid Safari version languishes.

By the extension author's own admission [1], the majority of the revenue comes from the Safari extension, but he still prioritizes the (I imagine) larger user base of the firfox and chrome extensions. It's frustrating, to say the least.

[1] https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/issues/1205#issueco...
You’re right, I had assumed it was showing that dca is the best strategy.

> It seems that DCA is better than buying the dip (BtD)

Dca was better than BtD

The problem with some if this is that it frequently happens that strategies work the best right before they stop working without warning. It’s difficult to rule out that possibility.
"Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, 'Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics.' Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, 'I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it.' But he came back a few days later to say, 'I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don't really understand it.'"

-- David L. Goodstein, Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun, ISBN:978-0393039184.