skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's still good news, since methane is a more potent greenhouse gas - depending upon the timeframe and calculation method it's generally reckoned to have between 30 and 100 times the warming potential of C02 [1]. Moreover a power station then has a CO2-rich exhaust stream, which is probably the best place for industrial carbon capture.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-gree...
It's true that in the failure case, you can get faster reults by short-circuiting. If failure cases are a substantial portion of your runtime, then yes, doing a fast pre-pass can be more efficient.

I'd speculate that in the real world, 99% of cases have time dominated by success-cases. Exceptions would be things like DOS attacks.
Strongly agree. I don't care why they're doing it. That a voyeur is taking creepy photos of me in order to advertise better rather than to get off, or that someone's trying to record my conversations to advertise better rather than to hunt and kill dissidents, does not make those activities OK at all. They are still, per se, abhorrent.

That the collected data is open to any imaginable abuse in the future, just as if the motivations, in addition to the actions themselves, had also been extremely malicious, since they (the big tech companies and the savvier small ones) default to collecting everything they can and never deleting it if they can avoid it, means stopping this is also pressing for very real, very serious safety reasons.
Just spoof it. This is already how many volumetric ddos attacks work because of all the ISPs who still don't filter egress. Like an envelope with a bogus return address.
> In almost every culture and occupation throughout history up to the industrial revolution, working people have never spent 8+ hours a day, year round, in servile labor. It's absurd.

If we're talking about pre-industrial-revolution, but post-agriculture, I would expect that mandatory labor took up more than ~2000 hours a year, and probably much more. Farmer workers famously work very long hours even now: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+hours+do+farmers+wo...

For a review of a (somewhat speculative) look at the transition to agriculture and how it enabled mandatory work:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/14/book-review-against-th...
My takeaway from this is that you can submit a long string of brackets to REST apps built with Haskell and Ruby/Oj and crash the process and/or machine by consuming all available RAM. Whereas the smarter JSON processors near the top of the list will abort processing pathological inputs before serious harm occurs.

Wait, which JSON parsers are supposed to be "bad"?
This situation is all about nitrogen emissions, not carbon emissions. It has been caused by mismanagement, particularly of the dairy industry.

As for the airport: as someone who lives under the flight route I really do hope that it isn't going to be opened. These planes are going to be flying really low and adding to the already bad air pollution. All so someone can fly short haul with a budget airline.
No need to speculate, it's right there in the GitLab issue. The now-resigned director of risk and global compliance Candice Ciresi wrote this six days ago [0]:

"The countries selected were not chosen because of legal requirements, they were not chosen based on risk, they were not chosen based on political climate (as other countries are facing heightened sanctions from the US). I do hope they were not selected because a customer asked for it - or that could violate anti-boycott laws. In fact, having no objective basis for the restrictions is not conservative - it is careless. (Please let me know immediately if a customer has requested that we not do business with any particular country as that may be a reportable event.) I recommend against proceeding until you have developed a sound basis - that gets applied equally - for any exclusion of any country."

To which VP of Engineering Eric Johnson replied:

"I appreciate your position. Please be aware there is an active, time-sensitive contract negotiation linked to this matter. And you need to advocate to the DRI that the company walk away from that contract in order to enact your proposal."

See also her further comments in [1].

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555#not...

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555#not...
Totally. You can’t blame the marketing firm for this... at the end of the day you need to be strong enough to say no. If you’re grasping at straws for growth and really think this is what’s gonna do it for you – you’re living in the land of make believe.

Big wake up call for sure.
I've been working with SQL a lot in my job lately. For what it's worth, I'm a big fan.

It seems the central argument here is NoSQL doesn't force you into good design habits so it's overrated. I'll concede this is partially true from my perspective because much of my work involves trying to sanitize, transform, and otherwise refactor poorly structured or designed NoSQL datasets.

But I've also seen my fair share of SQL databases which are poorly designed, don't use features which are meant to benefit developers (I haven't seen a Foreign Key smartly implemented in a LONG time). It's not really fair to say NoSQL has encouraged poor design practices; from my experience it seems like data model implementation is given little effort in general.

NoSQL takes the 'training wheels' off data model implementation where SQL is like keeping them on, but even with them you can still fall off the bike if you aren't careful though it's much harder.
> “[In] the logo market … at least a billion dollars of logos are sold every year. If you look at just 99 designs and Fiverr, they sell about $150 million of logos per year. So it’s still a very sizable market,” said Whitfield.

That one is pretty mind-blowing. I'm not sure where he got this number from, but assuming it's accurate and that Fiverr accounts for roughly half of it, that would make it a sizeable chunk of their total GMV:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1762301/000104746919...

"Our GMV for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 was $293.5 million and $213.0 million, respectively."
Shameless plug: https://listmonk.app (FOSS. Written in Go)
Yes. Current reactor designs are a non-starter, especially considering the regulatory mess around them. Years of them being an easy target for new "safety" laws because politicians want to look good have left them too expensive to build. We need a simpler, newer design that works around that by needing less regulation.

Which "new design" provides safe reactors that are cheaper to build?

Radioactive waste from power generation is simple to handle, especially when newer reactor designs can for the most part re-use fuel. It's the waste from nuclear weapons production that's the issue.

No, it is all nuclear waste that is a problem. There are no reactors which can re-use spent fuel. Fast breeders could theoretical do it, there is no one operational in the west.
> and you can’t control those allocations

You're totally right. Rather stupidly I hadn't thought of that.
> Unfortunately, facts do not change our minds.

Ben Shapiro frequently throws out the adage "Facts don't care about your feelings." Unfortunately for a lot of people "their feelings also don't care about the facts".
I used to buy boxes of random cards on Ebay. For 5-20 bucks you get a huge variety. (~1000 cards) , mostly commons but plenty of uncommons too. Hardly ALL cards, but plenty to give good games. My friends and I would randomly deal them out and/or draft them, then build play and trade from that point.
Turns out, it is very hard to get to the sun.
I did change the title, twice, within the first few minutes to make it read more easily. Not in response to your comment, that I had not seen yet, which now appears to be more focused on nitpicking the title than what was actually posted.

Since you know so well what HN is about, you'll know that you should read the content of what is posted and not just drive-by comment based on the title. Then it should have been clear that the post had nothing to do with denying Bangalore as a "real name".

The only agenda was to inform people about something I came across that I thought was interesting. That what a lot of people still refer to as Bangalore has had it's name changed by the Indian government to Bengaluru and that people should probably start using that name.
I agree that it can be reduced, my point was that it is directly tied to consumer demand and human activity. It will still be a none-zero number after reduction. No business is out there emitting methane for shits and giggles.

As I said elsewhere in this post, you can cut emission but population growth offsets all the benefits. You cannot address climate change without drastic long term reduction in human activity/population.
> The power itself is cheap.

You state that as if it's a fact.

> The amount of regulation around 40 year old reactor designs is high, so that's expensive. Implementation of a newer design would be much, much cheaper.

That regulation is the price paid for insurance by the government. It's the only control the public have with potentially disastrous plants.

Go to a private insurance company and try to get an insurance for your new plant design, if you succeed I'm sure a government somewhere will be willing to look at the regulation.
70 years is not enough time to fully flush out the potential of nuclear power. We're already on the cusp of breakthroughs with Thorium (cleaner) and Fusion (more and cleaner) power that are derivatives of the science from nuclear.

There are several countries that rely heavily on nuclear today and have done so successfully and in a way that has helped curb their greenhouse gases: France being one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France)

Additionally, nuclear has unlocked insane potential in the military with nuclear subs and ships. They can go a whole year without refueling and at the micro level they are very effective. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion)

So to your first rhetorical question. What lesson have you learned from Nuclear the last 70 years? What I have learned is that it's an incredibly effective and green source of energy. It's a type of power that we should invest more money into not only for green energy production, but also for the future potential derivative technology. We can solve climate change tomorrow (in the sense that next 30 years is tomorrow) if everyone made a conscious effort to adopt nuclear in all forms of energy consumption.

No one in Nuclear is saying no wind/solar/batteries, everyone in Nuclear is saying we should do everything that doesn't catastrophically harm the environment and we should invest more into a very powerful and ultimately useful technology.

Imagine a world where energy is functionally free and robots have enough AI to do most basic motor tasks, they can grow and deliver crops start to finish, run stores and shops, build houses and provide the materials necessary to do that. We're not that far from that reality and pushing the human cost to have basic living standards met down to near zero. We're also looking into nuclear as a primary fuel source for space travel, traveling to mars right now takes 9 months, that's an incredibly amount of time round trip for a human, just look up humans that went to the space station for 12 months, you need to spend about 3x that time to go to mars, that's incredibly harmful, if we had nuclear, we might be able to dramatically shorten that. (https://www.space.com/nuclear-propulsion-future-spacecraft-n...)

I know you think Nuclear is scary because sometimes things go wrong, we have to figure out a better way to deal with the waste, but in this science based community lets try to be the first to promote more science first and not let the fear of what could happen stymied the progress we all need.
If your internet comments are coming from a noble place, you should be able to make them without taking cheap shots or attacking people personally.
It looks like they got their numbers from 2017. The market really is that volatile there.
"Nothing" is precisely that: a social non-entity. A member of a minor nobility family, regardless of their financial situation, belongs to a distinct social class, with attendant benefits such as social contacts, etc.

How did the nothing son of a poor man end up in Royal Academy? Who were his classmates? What social class did his classmates belong to?

https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objec...

quote:

"Thanks to documents proving his family's nobility, Charles Bonaparte was able to send his son Napoleon Bonaparte to one of the twelve military schools created by Louis XVI, reserved for young nobles."

Do obvious (and universal) social matters such as this really require debate?
Paraphrasing:

> "We had to moderate her resignation because of credible threats against our employees[0].

I'm sorry, how do you know they're credible? Did you call them and ask if they were super serious? Did you contact the FBI and find out they're members of ISIS?

What a load of bullshit. Honestly Gitlab, blow it out your ass.

Of course these "credible" threats were "inflamed" by a single sentence[1] that was critical of the company.

0. https://i.imgur.com/YjWmpGk.png
1. https://i.imgur.com/AE8UtvD.png
Who would've thought version control software would have so much public internal drama...both Github and Gitlab.
We do mostly Line of Business (LoB) apps and depending on the required target platforms and desired quality, we usually use Forms, Avalonia (recently) or Livecode. As CTO, I have a small budget for research, so every 6-12 months I try a project in something else by timeboxing something trivial and hiring an expert in another technology to see how that goes.

In our experience RN loses, for our kind of applications (so I am not saying this is universally true!), from all 3 the above mentioned technologies in cost, time to implement and long term stability. We have apps running for many years while requiring fixes/feature additions in the meanwhile and that cannot cost a lot as they are small features/fixes. Requiring to refactor/fix things after updates of the platform is just not an option as we do not have many resources. We had incredibly bad experiences (in backend tech, so apples/pears but still) in that regard with Ruby/Rails and js/npm; that is great for big dedicated teams with continues development. We had great experience with ASP.NET (old+new) and Django; stuff just works after years and not much knowledge is needed to go from one major version to another (it did not take us much work to go from asp.net to asp.net core for instance).

Flutter definitely seems promising ; the foreign function interfacing is much better than RN (imho) and it just seems less like a mess. We will keep evaluating Flutter while working on/with Xamarin Forms (apps), Avalonia (desktop) and Livecode (everything).

This is for LoB applications like you seem to target as well; for consumer facing apps, we write native on all platforms, but that really does not happen often in my line of work.
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What's wrong is that you asked for any usecase and then critique one because it's not broad enough for you.
Yes it’s definitely on the decline, and nothing like before the rule changes, but it’s still an issue. Crosby has been punished heavily his whole career and suffered several concussions, so the Penguins had to make changes to give him more protection.

The theory is backed by the evidence. It’s correlation, but the link seems obvious. Concussions went way up after the original instigator rule. They went up even more after the “no hits to the head if you can hit somewhere else rule”.

The number of man games lost in the playoffs has also gone up steadily.

So by all metrics, outcomes have gotten worse. Pests and cheap shots have no deterrent, and compared to fighting, those are what cause real damage.

Your arguments sound plausible, but the numbers tell a far different story, and the coaches who have star players vocally disagree with you.

https://thehockeywriters.com/nhl-instigator-penalty-needs-to...

”The instigator rule may be limiting fights, but it isn’t protecting the players. It’s allowing dirty players to thrive. And that has to be worse for hockey than two players facing off in an effort to guard their teammates.”

Don’t get me wrong, I get the moral argument and the issue with glorifying violence. I don’t have an opinion on fights, but I find the change in outcomes to be interesting in the behavioral economics sense.
I think that responsibility falls on Amazon actually
Cost, cost, cost. Point to a cost-effective, new-build nuclear in the USA and SHOW me that it's more cost-effective than renewables or LNG.

Until we have a carbon tax or a massive policy shift in favor of extremely capital-intensive new-build nuclear, we will continue on our current path of renewables, batteries, and LNG dominating the grid.

I'm all for nuclear, by the way, but let's not pretend that cultural attitudes (which haven't dented GOP denialism) and misinformed lefty greens (which haven't ended fracking or coal) are to blame here. Nuclear is just way too expensive and hard to do in the USA, it's as simple as dollars and cents.
The USA has a unique situation with its defense spending though, which skews that ratio in a sort of unfair way. On that same data you linked, if you look at dollars per capita instead of %GDP, the US is actually 11th and ahead of Germany, Iceland, and the UK, etc.

Now really, the stats you linked probably aren't even all that correlated with social spending. It's more likely a measure of the scope of bureaucracy.
People have already given the advice of hosting your blog entirely on a platform like Github.

Spitball idea: Host your data in the script portion of bitcoin transactions. Now the part you host on Github or other platforms is just the JS script that fetches your transactions from online blockchain explorers.

Use localbitcoins.com to trade cash for bitcoin face to face. Just trade $10.

The idea being that it's easier to pass around a JS script than the corpus of a blog. And platforms like Github are probably less likely to remove your pages if the potentially-troublesome plaintext of your blog isn't actually in their database. And the purpose of storing the data on the blockchain is so you don't have to keep rehosting content as it gets taken down.

I'll admit this is more of a fun weekend project (storing stuff on the blockchain with a JS script that can fetch and present it) that I've repurposed as an answer.
> what I have to say

The entire post is about who they are allowed to follow, nothing to do with what they say. It's not about personal bubbles either.

Can download, not must download.
Happy birthday to a wonderfully refreshing language.

> Go has also found adoption well beyond its original cloud target, with uses ranging from controlling tiny embedded systems with GoBot and TinyGo to detecting cancer with massive big data analysis and machine learning at GRAIL, and everything in between.

I've often thought of this, but I'm not qualified enough to answer my own questions.

While a very expressive and extendable language like Python seems well suited to researching the desired abstractions when designing neural nets and ML paradigms, it seems to me that a production phase would benefit from translating it to a 'sleek' language like Go — which forces you to think closer to the machine, and opens boulevards to safe performance.

I wonder what people fluent in Go and other languages, experienced with ML, think of this. (it's a minor concern overall, but the future of Go in ML is of interest to me)

> especially the community working together.

I have to say this is one of the nicest things for a Go programmer, a 'Gopher' as they say. I've been online since the late 1990's (teenager back then), in all sorts of communities, and being quite civil and empathic myself I tend to have strong opinions about the 'mindset' or 'culture' on a very down-to-earth human level.

The Go community is among the very best. Period. One telling sign is how welcoming, respectful and elevating they are with newcomers, to Go or programming in general. It's a trainee's paradise, even if material is still relatively scarce compared to longer-established big names.

> In fact, people often tell us that learning Go helped them get their first jobs in the tech industry.

This should not go unnoticed. Few languages are able to move that needle — remember that for now, we increasingly need more developers than we can produce at a worldwide scale. It's both a matter of a language and its paradigm being in demand by employers, by clients projets; it's also a matter of said paradigm and implementation/spec to be conducive to the making of programmers.

We know the names. C. Java. PHP. Python. COBOL before that (and I hear, today still). It's the big ones that consistently do it forever regardless of 'project / tech buzz flavor of the year or even decade'. I have every belief that Go is destined to join this select club of industry norms. Lots of reasons why but among the most fundamental are ticking all the right boxes at a low level — ease of programming, stellar readability and portability of others' code, really cross-platform target, self-documenting, etc. etc.

Anyhow. Here's to a masterpiece.
Uninteresting... settled... tomayto... tomahto...

If you dismiss anything uninteresting as no longer being climate science, then we end up in a no-true-Scotsman loop. I was responding to the question "what climate change science is settled", not "what are active research topics".
How does UI inform table design?
If you're willing to spend some time getting it working: http://gccg.sourceforge.net/
Architecture Decision Record (ADR)
It's a shame these stories only appeal to the choir :(
But think of the poor, malnourished engineered!
The execs are going to trickle down the money to them only if you pay for merely 10 subscriptions.
Regulation is one way of doing it. It has also been suggested that worker owned and managed businesses would more naturally self regulate to meet the needs of the community. Having a few highly privileged people at the top of the company to make decisions means that they have different interests from most of us (very high profit opportunity and a much wealthier way of life that would insulate them from pollution). So it has been suggested that if you stop making companies with a privileged minority at the top, you’d eliminate a lot of anti social behavior.
Doesn't MS cause the rest of those?
Any updates on that? I haven’t seen any news about it since it was announced
Yep. Was waiting for Toronto to chime in on this one. If only... if only...
Not sure how effective it is, but it's possible to collect methane from landfill and use it to generate heat and electricity. From my understanding the emission from burning it are way better then just letting it leak into the air.

My university had a big methane line run from a landfill 2 towns over and used it in the cogen plant to generate power and steam for heat.
Well getting these types of articles is one way to rebuild their SEO! I'm not suggesting they'd do this on purpose -- that would be crazy -- but it might be a clever way to make some lemonade out of lemons. That is, sell the story of how they screwed up in hopes of generating some new organic backlinks.
>But it also suggests that tech platforms don't just deliver content, but that they shape it too

The medium is the message. Every medium shapes content. This is the whine of incumbents who want their power back.
I really enjoy find-the-issue stories like this. Bug hunting can be such fun.
Even with one of the most common software businesses, software consulting, you could reach this amount with 10 people in a fairly straightforward fashion.

10 software engineers at say a salary of $100,000 a year. Consulting rate at 3x would be $3M a year.