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>> Solving climate change can be as simple as getting a carbon price adopted. It needs to ramp up over time, allow a secondary market for offsets

The simple solution to this big global catastrophe is my favorite money making scam. Here, just create this market for carbon credits. It makes my guys money while doing Jack shit.

Seriously, if you think CO2 is the problem, the solution is to simply tax those that either take it out of the ground or import it. Any other solution is political.

Not saying I agree with the premise, but if you do, that's the solution.
Biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction
It absolutely is.

We've seen from CNN and Google that their views don't match society at large, and they're happy to use their positions of influence to "correct" society.

That's what caused CNN's ratings to collapse, and Google to face both a lawsuit (PragerU) and investigation (from Congress).

Did either stop them? Of course not -- they know better than you!

(If anyone wonders why my posts are dead -- it's because HN employs the same kind of Overton censorship, under the guise of policing tone.)
Having used O365 + Azure as an administrator, I have found it is much easier to use Azure to trace security events than AWS.

They also have the capability to detect massive file copies/deletions for special locations, etc (i forgot the technical term)

I love AWS, but I have seen some benefits with integrating O365 and Azure.
I was more thinking of how many(?) people will readily use a only slightly customized vim - and be reasonable productive in a standard config, vs emacs where the stronger trend seems to be building an ide on top of emacs - to the point were to users can't readily use each other's setup efficiently - or indeed use the standard distribution without customization.
Is there any reason you're relying on others to do a basic google for you?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-global-co...
I'm not saying the content should be given away for free, I'm just observing the ironic case of what sounds like a call to action to "save" the web ("Time for a reboot") being hidden behind a paywall.

I personally find the subscription model to be broken, I can't economically subscribe to the wsj, the nytimes, washingtonpost, etc. I'll also probably only read one article of each per month on average so it's not even interesting to me as a deal.

It will be interesting to see the evolution of movies and tv shows streaming now with Apple, netflix, amazon, disney all offering a subscription service with exclusive content. My guess is that pirating is coming back.
It's not a surprise that after brute forcing a problem with neural networks and generating a black box model it becomes much faster than on-the-fly computations.

The post made me remember this article about predicting chaotic equations with machine learning with great accuracy:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/machine-learnings-amazing-abi...
Wow, that seems quite high. Panels are around $0.50/Wh. Add in another $2000 in materials and labor cost $24k!
Two Boeing air disasters demand urgent change – but where do we start?
Vim 102: Vim Features That Will Make You More Productive
It's feasible in the same way bounds checking is feasible. Everything could have a capability token attached to it and checked. Compiler could generate all the language level checks, kernel could do OS level checks. Main program could have some built in capabilities and capabilities it gets from the other OS processes, it could then pass them or devise new ones to library functions, they could pass them to other library functions and so on.
Canada was...but they’re starting to blow it.

Six years ago, you could apply for a work permit as you crossed the border. It took fifteen minutes and you just needed a few pages of documentation from your employer. The waiting time has shot up to months (on one-year contracts) and the whole process feels a lot more degrading.
Superdeterminism is the physics equivalent of saying the fossil record was placed there by the devil to deceive us into believing evolution.
Great to see you here! I wonder how many HN people are actively working on Climate change research. Maybe we could have a meetup or something.

Here's our meetup on pulling carbon from the air, mainly in the Bay Area but want to spread out: https://meetup.com/airminers
The analogy is not valid.

The marketplace at Amazon makes it a (large scale) mall, or a food court for your analogy, not the shop that is selling. If the food from a restaurant at a mall comes out bad, would you blame the restaurant, or the mall?
Power-to-Gas
Well, I think my optimum is just a hypothetical high-trust society in which everyone strives to be self-sufficient but gets supported in case of failure by others. Of course, this is not how the world works, which is more what you are describing. I don't think that is best though, from the perspective of humanity.
For humanity sake, please buzz off the Kindle. If you want color, interactions, fresh articles any time, stylus and other bells and whistles - just buy yourself a tablet.

Kindle is a perfect tool for one and just one task: longreading. It's display is optimized for hours of non-eyes-violent usage, including before-sleep time with internal lighting only. It has a great battery life, it's compact and can be fit into almost any inside pocket, it's really lightweight — 33% to 50% less weight compared to similar form-factor tablets.

It doesn't need an internet connection and it is great: no distraction! It is a natural selection for airplane or time far from civilization. I like sailing, and there were tons of great books and articles read during sea passages and anchorage evenings.

Maybe, just maybe, it can be better with file transfers. Something like Bluetooth or direct WiFi. But I have a small USB OTG adapter for my Android phone, always tucked into a Kindle's soft case, so when once a month I want to read something on my Kindle immediately - I just use it as an external drive. My condolences to Apple ecosystem inmates.

(I actually understand that it is not in Amazon best interests to have a good file transfer for Kindles — it messes with their business model. $1.5 OTG adapter is just fine)
Is the great Pacific garbage patch a scam?

Is the great Atlantic garbage patch a scam?

Are industrial chemicals in aquifers a scam?

Is methylmercury accumulation in seafaring life a scam?

Is world heating, up to locations being human uninhabitable, a scam?

Are the glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic breaking off and melting, a scam?

How much evidence do you need in convincing? Or is it just political posturing, and they tell people to repeat without thought?

EDIT: never mind, the "user" is a bad actor who posts doctored images and other "proof". This would be a good case study about Russian Interference and the similar . I would love to see the IP logs for this 'user'. I'd bet they were part of a bot posting farm.
The thing is, we can grow until we can't anymore. Preemptively choosing to struggle with what we had yesterday is not a good response to the idea that there is a limit.

A good short term thing would be to more clearly understand the real costs of the things we do today. What is the long term environmental impact and so on.
Invasive Florida Iguanas basis for specialty meat business
From what I can see in my social circle, after they fixed that horrendous interface update, usage has gone up. This is compounded by people becoming more aware of their social media presence on Instagram. Stories is only part alternative.

It's also very popular for group chats, for which Instagram has no alternative and WhatsApp doesn't have the perceived privacy that Snapchat has.

Unfortunately I don't have any numbers to back this, just my perception.
"They’re often not admissible in court, which is why police have to order follow-up testing from a lab." - whoa so you can be arrested based on evidence that is known to be inadmissible in the first place.
This is a very wide ranging piece by the two academics Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern.

Oreskes: '...contrary to popular belief, there is no single scientific method. Rather, the trustworthiness of scientific claims derives from the social process by which they are rigorously vetted against'. It comes down to trust...

http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/event/why-trust-scien...
One simple thing we can all do is never vote for a candidate if they are not for aggressive and immediate measures to combat global warming.

If the roughly 60-75% of Americans who believe human activity is causing climate change were to stop voting for individuals who don't believe this, we'd have meaningful change coming from the federal government within 2 years.
It is a human phenomenon, that has religious and secular expressions.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/psychology...

...some apocalyptic believers find the idea that the end is nigh to be validating. Individuals with a history of traumatic experiences, for example, may be fatalistic. For these people, finding a group of like-minded fatalists is reassuring. There may also be comfort in being able to attribute doom to some larger cosmic order—such as an ancient Mayan prophecy. This kind of mythology removes any sense of individual responsibility.
https://climatecrocks.com/2013/06/07/the-1970s-ice-age-myth-...
In theory I like this idea but it comes with problems. Like others have mentioned, not everybody likes board games. Also trying to gather anything from how a player strategises when they are quite possibly playing the game for the first time makes no sense. In first few games players have no idea whether it is worth forming or breaking alliances, playing to win or playing to make others lose and so on.

As a fun idea what about returning the situation? You ask an interviewee whether they like board games and if they do ask them to choose one, for 2-4 players, preferably less known and bring it over. Then you task them to explain the rules, guide others through the first game and then judge on that? I think you would get better information about a person like this. How do they explain the rules, do they explain just the rules or do they also touch on strategy a bit, do they give tips for winning or do they keep them for themselves. Do they stomp over new players and so on.

I don't know if this kind of interview would be good, but I am quite sure it would be better that what TFA explains.
That’s essentially what he’s arguing for no?
Since you cite JPMC, read this Sept 2019 interview with CEO Jamie Dimon:

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/interview-jpmorgan-chase-ceo-j...

“Jamie Dimon: The cloud and AI are real, huge, powerful and they’re going to change a lot for us. Of course, good companies are going to adapt to it in due course. They can’t just do it overnight, but it changes a lot more than just using the cloud — how you write your code, how you can do agile, it even changes how you organize your company. Managers start to think about using data in a far different way than they ever did before. It changes everything. It’s a huge opportunity.”

...

“When cloud first got started, there was no reason to use someone else’s data center or their networks. You know, I wasn’t completely wrong, if I can run my data center as efficiently as a cloud guy, which fundamentally is true.”

”But here’s what I missed: the bursting part of the cloud. It reduces the peak capacity that we’ve got to keep in our own data centers, and you can burst excess workloads into the cloud. And it directly relates to AI. There’s just so much compute power in one split second that I simply can’t do in one of my data centers. So if you want to apply AI and these tools, and also the services that are built into some of these platforms [the cloud offers an advantage.]”

// Disclaimer: I work at a global bank.
What jobs will be the most in demand in the tech industry in 2020?
Your first sentence is false (there are natural cycles but the next one is due to cause an ice age in a few thousand years’ time, not warming).

Your second sentence is TBD, except that the actual natural cycle that would have led to an ice age in a few thousand years’ time has been disrupted and that ice age (and perhaps the one after it) will not now occur.

Your third sentence does not follow from either of the first two, and is demonstrably false as a conclusion because we are in fact talking about it.
I don’t get why people are so crazy about climate change. There are multiple avenues to fixing it. It’s a very simple problem to solve. Some aspects might not be like ocean acidification but cooling the planet is well within our reach. And when it starts getting way too warm, everyone will realize what’s happening and everyone will work together on a solution. It’s already starting to happen.

It’s not like a gamma ray burst or an asteroid where there is basically nothing we can do about it. The media makes it look way worse than it is. Stop watching the fear mongers on cnn.
But that means you have to upload raw source code. It's closer to Apple's app store deployment than to what current cloud hosting offers (arbitrary compute power for anything but crypto mining).
Huge props. I haven't even read the link you posted, but wanted to say I admire your post.

Climate discussions often end up fighting even though they're all sort of on the same page. I'm always up for adding more curiosity, and holding everything to a higher standard. I'll check out the link and perhaps find a better reference for the above post.

EDIT: Cleaned out the Forbes links, thanks!
I often use the term “standard” in place of “default” there.
Yes, Al Gore already has a solution. All he and his buddies need is $15 trillion dollars. Just give the man the money so he can save Mother Earth.
I am like you as well except the database might be mongo,elasticsearch,etc... Plus processing of the data might need to be done before the client gets it or the response might be based on db data but the fields might not be db mappable because they're dynamic (e.g.: 'baseItemCost' vs 'itemCostAdjusted' adjusted to item availability,demand,delivery cost,etc...)
I confirm we updated the API to return a 402 error message when the user reached the limit of the her pricing tier.
Thanks again for this suggestion.
Worth noting WhatsApp also provides link previews now. Although it is supposedly e2e communication, the link previews are likely generated by reaching out to a similar facebook unfurl service.

They can then have a single map of phone num -> links rendered between fb and whatsapp.
literally ruin peoples' lives

The remarkable truth is that most regular people in the US don't actually care about wrongly ruining people's lives. Most people are primarily concerned with living their own life, and avoiding winning the shit lottery, and when they find out someone else won, they count their lucky stars it wasn't them and move on.

It would be far better if people invested time, effort, and money into dismantling the shit lottery itself. But most people don't have the resources. And, dismantling the shit lottery is a good way to increase your odds of 'winning' it. (Speaking truth to power most often doesn't end well for the speaker.)
So one hand you're saying GP's opinion that pricing (taxing) carbon is a scam (?) that won't work. On the other hand you're saying we need to tax carbon?

What exactly is it that you're saying?
All shops take all brands. The bag is a big blue IKEA carrier bag, never leaked yet and anyway we don't leave much in the cans and the bottles that have lids (almost all of them) have the lids on.
I doubt people will move away from the term GIF. Whatever optimizations we do to the format (short, silent, looping video) will still be referred to as gif. Too late for a name change.
I'm not an expert but you could consider sharing Swift (or Kotlin) code between platforms. Nim (https://nim-lang.org) could also be explored.
I don't agree with your assumption that OP thinks the author shouldn't be paid for this article.

But having to subscribe to the whole newspaper to read text that is accessible for free if coming from a different referrer - for example Google - is something that sound broken to me.

Aside from OP assumptions - IMHO, if online news companies were happy with ad model, which was barely one cent per view - why not try a model sort of equivalent.[0]

I might be a minority, but I have an Apple News+ subscription[1]. If Apple created a browser extension that allowed me to browse the same content they let me in the News app, I would be pretty happy with that. And I'd bet I wouldn't be the only one.

[0]: Please spare responding with examples of "X Micro-payment" company that failed. This works best with agreements between major players. Not, "here's the Github, add it to your site" (not that I disagree with that model entirely)

[1]: I subscribed to News+ mostly for the tech and art magazines. It's barely usable at best unless - and probably even if - you are using a Magic Trackpad or an iPad. No two page full screen scrolling, and the weirdest, most unintuitive, slowest page navigation UX I have ever eXperienced for any reader. If you aren't using a touch mouse, horizontal navigation is a mini-game.
An old-world extension to a small town in southern Ontario
To me it sounds clearly like a political move. Technically it's nonsense. I hope now Azure invests that money to actually offer a decent cloud service that can compete with Amazon.
The fact that Amazon displays the product—including choosing which description from different sources to use when there are multiple sources of the same product—charges my credit card, handles returns, etc., makes it more like a shop than a mall or food court. It's a consignment shop that has to pay the person who made the product available for sale once it sells, when that person is not Amazon itself, but it's still a shop. It's not like a mall or food court that provides a venue through which I gain access to directly interact with individual vendors.
Remember the trending article yesterday where economists were admitting they totally got the free trade economics wrong? Well, predicting the economic effects of climate change is going to be 10x full of guesswork and mistaken assumptions and bad models. Good luck getting it right.
By simply changing your Environment by moving to a new one or developing new relationships with new people in the old Environment.

For example;

a) Mike Tyson's relationship with his mentor Cus d'Amato was responsible for his rise to fame.

b) Malala's bloom on moving out of Pakistan/Afghanistan's restrictive culture for Women.
Thank you I appreciate that. Yes I think so, too.

I bought an Onyx and so far it does well with tasks like note-taking, viewing PDFs and books without scrambling everything and also annotating.

What it lacks most is the colors and exporting "notes" as vectors (the resolution is not really good so I can't use it for sketching).

The display idea sounds interesting, sad it had to die :-(
Right. If solving global warming is a matter of money (which it obviously is) then the cost of global warming would be capped at that amount of money if we just managed to figure out a way to align incentives. Unfortunately right now the groups that create the problem don't bear the cost of the problem.
PG&E Power Lines Remain Risky to California, Even During Blackouts
I totally agree that if you care about security you should be running in the opposite direction of k8s.

Google Cloud has this option (nested hypervisors) but not for security reasons - it's used to run other software that comes packaged as a vm yet that comes with a serious perf hit and which is why I don't see that ever catching on as a trend. Selling bare metal servers w/pre-installed hosted firecracker would make much more sense (if you want/need hosting).

If you are interested in isolating a particular application to a given interpreter or a given binary the aforementioned unikernels are precisely what you are looking for and those can be provisioned on t2.micros.
Blackstone’s Online-Shopping Play: 800M Square Feet of Warehouses
There's no surprise. Gmail does.

If you search for a text string in Gmail, it will return emails that contain that text only in scanned images or PDFs that are in your mailbox.
Eh. While I’m optimistic that solutions will be found, in principle a shifting climate can radically alter food production. Billions could die. I don’t think they will, but in principle they could, and I lack the necessary background in agricultural science to tell what “likely” is.
You really don't know how Chinese business operate, do you? The government owns stakes in virtually all business. Buying anything built in China directly supports the government.
This is not what the IPCC believes.

The effects how over the course of decades. The world is not going to end in 10 years.
I think it will happen sooner than that.

Once you have a 3 days heatwave, it's bad. If they occur during summer and the next summer, and if they last for 1 week or more, several times per summer, people will not talk about it, but feel it and understand that global warming is settling in and will not go away.

The problem is that the temperature increase can be sudden and difficult to anticipate. A heatwave can also kill a lot of people (the elderly, the young, people will fragile health, and also people who don't prepare or don't listen to warnings).

You're right that in 10 years there are strong chances for a global panic, but if crops yields are bad it can also have fast consequences. It just hope the wakeup calls will make people react swiftly and as soon as possible. I'd rather have a big heatwave that gives enough political capital to act and do things, than a slow and creeping climate change where nothing is done and it becomes too late.
Interview with Alexandra Paredes, Head of Engineering at Code Climate
There are feasible approaches with similar effects:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening
Other guy was right. Think about this easy scenario

If (E2E_ENABLED) {

SkipCrawler();

SkipContentChecks();

}
Quantum Computing’s ”Hello World” Moment
I've always found that it makes the game far more interesting when someone defects. In fact, it takes a lot of skill and tact to play a villain effectively.

But that would lose me the job, so I'd play according to their biases now that I know it's riding on their one observation of me playing an irrelevant game...

Generally, the people who find a nice, easy solution to hard social problems are probably not the kinds of people you'd want as a boss.
Not necessarily raw source code, could be a code compiled into an intermediate representation, but it has to have capability-based security deeply integrated into it, like bounds checking is into programming languages.
What I’ve always failed to
Understand is how FreeBSD jails[0] never got very popular (discounting the fact that FreeBSD isn’t very popular on the whole from what I can tell) but Docker is huge. I personally think jails are superior in implementation in that it requires no other abstractions on top of the OS.

The only thing I can surmise is that Docker might have a better secure default, but improvements to Jails could emulate that, and following best practices as well should. Beyond that I’m still baffled how this didn’t take to the mainstream.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html
Would love to see that! See my post above about IEA solar power predictions, interested to learn more about predictions over the years.