skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has a ~10x growth on energy usage until 2080 backed in, you can increase it to ~15x or decrease it to ~8x, but nothing else. The only way to reasonably decrease it is growing energy efficiency, the population and GDP growth settings do not change enough to make a difference.

The ramp-up and total of renewables have an unrealistic low ceiling. No matter what, one can not get a clean exponential growth until they dominate the electricity generation, and the only way to make them actually dominate the generation is to destroy every fossil fuel capacity (that last one is highly not realistic).

Fossil fuels are assumed to be available on unlimited amounts. One can simulate their limits, but it takes a lot of care about the integral of the curves. Honestly, I think that the idea that we can double the production of any one that is not coal highly unrealistic.

Technological carbon capture is hilariously underpowered. For a slide that represents "stuff people may invent", it looks like they do not accept anything that wasn't invented yet.

On the other side, they completely ignored all of the huge natural methane reserves around the Earth. If you imagined you could simulate the ocean methane hydrates volatilizing on some rate, well, tough luck.

Overall, it's a restricted simulator around the "business as usual" analysis people do on climate. It is highly unreasonable to expect business to stay as usual for a century, but analysis is tippicaly done that way because there is no better baseline to use. A simulator does not have this restriction, so imposing it by parameter limits is unsettling.
Amazon getting the flak for a "partner" violation is completely part of them having "partners" at all...
Has anyone outside of Google implemented something similar in spirit to this for K8s or ECS? What was the threat model you were considering when you built it? Was it worth it?
I've been using the 2S for a while and just bought the MX 3 because I needed an extra mouse.

They managed to improve an already near-perfect mouse. I just love the 3. Probably not worth ditching your 2S for, but nonetheless, a superb upgrade. I always felt the thumb buttons were awkward on the 2S and that has been rectified. The magnetic wheel is also really nice to use.
One day, Google itself will appear there and things will have come full circle.
The Dem, Republic split is a tool for getting things done. They can be friends with whoever they want. It's better for Steve Jobs that Bill Gates is his main rival, rather than a German, British or Chinese tech company. A democrat can play off a republican to force through change or achieve goals. We get herded into the middle of a story by real world details being politicized. Republicans and dems will control the internet news stream by killing off fake/Russian news. They'll clean up areas of money flow with 'shocking' exposes. You can see it coming if you remember the patterns over time. It's getting boring to watch..
Your use of their program is consent, they tell you when you get the kit.
Is there a current (preferably free, ideally open-source) replacement that is as easy to use as Hamachi was?
Or, alternately, some automated system linking personal and work identities, a misunderstanding occurring on a personal side project of any of our developers (say, a misconfigured email send that's flagged as spammy, or someone's personal blog that's hacked and has malware uploaded)... and our entire startup going offline as a result.

It's bad enough that we use G Suite and that's vulnerable to this. But a cloud lockout, with tooling built for a specific cloud, database restores required, etc. would be a whole different level of devastating. I almost have an obligation to shareholders to steer clear of them just because of that.
You can do anything, as long as it is not much different from what we do today.
It's super steep. I think that their target market is businesses and people who can afford it. But I jumped on it when they offered the young professionals plan. Really just to support them over the exclusive access side of things.
I find that Best Buy is good for prepackaged stuff: like a full laptop or a full desktop. In fact, Best Buy prices are competitive if you're buying those kinds of items.

Best Buy sometimes has GPUs or SSDs at good prices, but its less common. I still price-compare at Best Buy because of that small chance that they win in the price wars, but my #1 goto is still Microcenter (or Newegg if from online).
it did! an entire generation of MBAs learned from jack welch, who popularized be #1 in anything you compete in (and if not, exit).

for those interested in management fads, https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-succes...
> They also dragged me into three separate interrogations with very little warning each time. I was interrogated about separate other organizing activities, and asked (eight times) if I had an intention to disrupt the workplace. The interrogations were extremely aggressive and illegal. They wouldn’t let me consult with anyone, including a lawyer, and relentlessly pressured me to incriminate myself and any coworkers I had talked to about exercising my rights at work. [1]

Why was this necessary by management? Regardless of what
Kathryn did, this is a bad faith move by management.

[1] https://medium.com/@ksspiers/google-fires-another-worker-for...
Mac Threat Detections on the Rise in 2019 According to Malwarebytes Report
I'm glad that a local electronics store ships faster than Amazon usually does even with Prime. I gladly pay the small price difference for the safety and the basic level of phone support of that company. I haven't had any serious issues yet, but the severe decline in product and review quality is obvious and fake products become more and more common.

I still use Amazon for the various products that simply aren't available in stores, but nowadays I first look somewhere else.
> KrebsOnSecurity was able to verify that at least one of the companies listed on the site indeed recently suffered from a Maze ransomware infestation that has not yet been reported in the news media.
I'd bet 90% of companies never publicly acknowledge they paid.

Another checkmark in the category of not making paying ransoms illegal. This whole new data-dump threat vector just doubles down the threat to keep it quiet and pay it out.

Law enforcement will rarely catch enough of these companies who do pay to make it meaningful. Most of these are small time private businesses who are more than capable of keeping it quiet, without information release obligations to investors.

We need public education campaigns for backing up company data offsite and encouraging more companies investing in security firms to up the bar for these attacks. It's the only way they'll slow down.
I recently started going to BestBuy again. I'd stopped for a few years. I found that I enjoyed the experience of shopping there again.

The realization that the experience that changed was Amazon, not BestBuy was startling to me.
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And how does that still not show that she over reached her responsibility?
Listing “fake” in that reasons-for-return form would be an admission on amazon’s part :)
I would start protesting Google if they did not fire a security engineer for abusing systems like this. A security engineer subverting internal security systems is what is messed up. Turning it all in a horrible PR story about a retaliatory union-busting firing should disqualify your career for many years to come. Maybe she can exchange this loss of career prospect for some activism credit against the Big Bad Google.

Performance does not matter: fire both the genius and the slacker for abuse. The factual content of the message does not matter: fire both those who lie, spam, or those who distribute relevant activist messages. Legally required company does not matter: if it is not your role, it is not your role (distributing these "facts" was never part of her job description, it has nothing to do with security. It is also naive to assume Googlers visiting that very website would be interested or unaware of this policy notice).

The controversy is because people have different opinions: those who feel activism trumps profession, and those who feel it don't. Like said, any company that employs security engineers who hold their activism as more important than their profession is a dangerous company worth avoiding. I am glad this firing happened.
I'd also benefit from this, but I'm for the idea so may be biased.

>And finally, capitalism: If it's really most economically efficient for tech to hyper-concentrate in silicon valley, then fighting that will probably produce a whole lot of deadweight loss. If it isn't, then market forces will guide the situation toward a natural resolution.

Capitalism trends toward more efficient usage of resources. But it doesn't care about humans and their quality of life. It works with that (people spend resources on their healthcare for themselves and their families), but it's perfectly "efficient" for some people to stay impoverished.

The government is a great entity to cover this gap. And Brookings' proposal isn't so bad: fixed 10-year duration, cities chosen by RFP instead of by politicians, and funds focusing on R&D instead of "make money now" projects. Most R&D moves as slowly as the government, so it's not a bad target.
In these conversations it is important to remember that the median US income is somewhere around $40k per year. Conversations like this should serve to remind us that the US system is deeply broken. There is no reason we couldn't have a system where everyone could live comfortably. People making an easy six figures talking about how poor people should scrimp and save is ridiculous.
I've actually gone back to eBay for many types of products, including computer components. The platform itself is only the transaction layer, and you're able to select the specific company/individual on there to purchase from. Because the reputation is tied to the account, they're more incentivized to match the product description to the actual product delivered.
If i was going to get a degree. Id get a major in something else and a minor in CS. most of the engineers i know that are making very good pay, are an expert in something else as well.

BUT only get a degree in things that interest you, a CS degree for someone not interested in computers, would make one horrible career.
The interest is based on average OMXSGI adjusted for inflation.
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I think there's a reasonable distinction to be drawn between "friends with Republicans" and "friends with Peter Thiel", who is a very particular kind of Republican. I have a bunch of Republican friends. I don't think I have any Thielian friends?
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> Is there any significant advantage in Mandarin having a billion native speakers over German having 83 million or Czech having 10 million

Yes, definitely.
Is she part of the company’s legal team?
It’s a psychological thing where they don’t want somebody returning an item for a different reason to think “Are there so many counterfeits here that it warrants its own category?” even though yeah, there are. Same idea as anti-piracy adverts on DVDs being the thing that teaches somebody its possible and even easy to pirate a movie.
Not a significant issue in practice as far as I can tell. I deliver text over the internet, and sometimes binaries over the internet, and it happens very fast because there is no useless cruft in the process to satisfy some security twonk's paranoid delusions.
You're confusing Google customer support for their free consumer products (nonexistent) with support for paid services.

Cloud has extensive support, on par with AWS and Azure.

Google isn't a monolithic entity. It doesn't have a single "culture" of being anti-support. Rather, support policies are tied to individual product areas.

I agree, support may be lacking for the Pixel, certainly nothing anywhere near Apple's excellent support. But again, zero to do with Cloud.

It's literally as silly as saying you won't use AWS because Amazon won't give you a refund on a shirt you ordered.
they share with GSK even if you opted out, because GSK is part owner.
Their enforcement is so bad that they are banning legitimate sellers with little explanation or chance to appeal. The process is opaque, Kafkaesque, and irreversible.

My listing was removed because of a single review that read:
"...round, difference from the regular models. i think they are not original from same factory./..."

"They" are pencils. Different models come in different shapes and colors.

I am accuainted with the brand and factory owners, and persoanlly buy directly from them.

I presented invoices and contact info of company officers but Amazon rejected my appeal because "We received your submission but do not have sufficient information to reactivate your listings. ".

From that point on they stopped responding to my emails.
How does one get to update a Google extension (internal tool) at 21 without any other oversight?
Even the newest mainframes are still compatible with code and binaries from the 1960s. You might pay out the ass for the privilege, but it's a legitimately impressive technical accomplishment.
Silicon Valley is risk adverse and unwilling to invest in firms outside of its own geographical and cultural bubble. So perhaps that's what the article should have mentioned, one angle that could involve government funding.
> On the one hand, if true, all Bloomberg had to do was produce evidence; a single compromised server. They didn't.

If the story were true, under what circumstances could Bloomberg reports have come into possession of a compromised sever to satisfy this requirement?

> On the other hand, if the journalists fabricated the entire story

Journalists evaluate and report what they're told by sources. For instance: they don't do scientific experiments themselves, but rather interview scientists about their results and report their statements. Their quality control is to get multiple sources to corroborate each other.

Saying Bloomberg journalists "fabricated" the story is going too far. If it's false, what's likely is that either their sources were either mistaken or dishonest.
What would this mean for the NYC office?
>“You’re allowed to put posters up on the wall to help organize your workers, and this can be seen as kind of a digital extension of that,” said Veena Dubal, a professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

This professor completely ignores the sign-off, and I wonder if actually it's really important... Can we really call it a digital-extension of a wall, if it's impossible to put something without 2 approvals?
Each time I think there’s no way trump gets re-elected I have Bay Area/West Coast interactions like these and snap back to reality.
Taro Aso would be the overwhelming choice for ASCII
Well this is one way to kill your cloud business. Even a hint that execs were considering or debating this move is enough to kill any serious company's interest in GCP.

Why would you ever consider GCP over AWS/Azure knowing that the Google scythe could kill it at any time, with your suspicions confirmed by a leak this? Bonkers.
it's certainly not going to be equal 100 100, but from my personal experiences it's something that jumps out as a similar type of tool / misuse / ban possible / restrict.

I have been seriously injured due to a large truck being misused, and calling for a ban of all cars would be one thing, saying that restrictions to that only 4 cylinder vehicle are available to citizens with other requirements could be a thing. I think lots in America would laugh at not being able to own an 8 cyl for example, only military or civil servants.

I'd like to go more into that, but I think to be more honest and equal about the rest of you comment, need to move to that more.

"guns have no other purpose but to put holes in things" - it's easy to point to this, and it's kind of true, but it's not really true.

many guns are made and sold and used just for skeet shooting or hunting (yes technically that's putting holes in things) and similar.

However most guns in America are used as a deterrant. Guards at courthouses, armored car guards, citizens with guns, etc. Every day hundreds of thousands of times a day, guns are used as a deterrent. The deter rapes and robberies and complete tyranny, and invasion every day.

Without them we would certainly have more rapes, robberies and murders.

In a fictional world of tradeoffs, I might take trains vs cars to bring some people back from the grave as well. I am sorry you have lost friends that way.

With that in mind, I also consider that without guns more people that we know and care for might have also met early ends. I have witnessed many semi-violent situations that only de-escalated because there was immediate threat of people with guns changing the situation, sometimes it was cops arriving to a scene, other times it was not.
It’s hell. I spend 3 hours per day in a shuttle.
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Nothing in the filtered output that could cause a redirect.

If HTTP 3xx redirect, maybe try using a cache URL instead, e.g.,

curl http://web.archive.org/web/20191214075242/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-accidental-book-review-that-made-jack-kerouac-famous/2019/12/13/23e94230-04b3-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html?outputType=amp |tr -cd '\11\12\15\40-\176' |sed 's/</\n</g' | sed -n '/./{/<p class=.font--body/,/<\/p>/p;}' > 1.htm

firefox 1.htm
If you have money, you COULD set up your own fund and dole out loans, but that would be unwise. Banks are set up to do loans and have insurance, risk mitigation, underwriters, etc.

Just contact Cross River Bank and set up a meeting, the worst that could happen is they say no.
This would save me literally thousands of lines of code at my day job:

(defmacro ?= (symbol-or-symbols expr)
(let* ((symbols (etypecase symbol-or-symbols
(cons symbol-or-symbols)
(symbol (list symbol-or-symbols))))
(tmps (loop :for s :in symbols :collect (gensym (symbol-name s))))
(err (gensym "ERROR")))
`(multiple-value-bind (,@tmps ,err) ,expr
(if (not (null ,err))
(return ,err)
(setf (values ,@symbols) (values ,@tmps))))))
Every European cities proved you wrong.
One of the other reasons helium is used besides being inert and lightweight is its use in cryocooling. That it is why it is used in MRI machines to cool the superconducting magnets. The melting point of helium is 0.95 Kelvin (-458 Farenheit), and is used to cool the superconducting magnets to below 10 K [1].

The other most commonly used liquid for crycooling is liquid nitrogen. But Nitrogen freezes at 63 K (-320 F) so you can not get it cold enough for all applications.

Liquid helium is also used in the Aerospace industry for testing or running spacecraft hardware that will be at those extremely cold temperatures. For example the optics of the James Webb Space Telescope need to be that cold in order to measure the weak infrared signals, else the thermal noise from the instrument itself would overwhelm the signal [2]

[1] https://www.lindeus.com/en/industries/medical/_mri/liquid_he...
[2] https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#temps
Agreed, this is a disaster. A lot of leaks simply don't matter all that much-- Apple might get annoyed at iPhone leaks, but they probably don't affect sales one bit-- but this is dead serious.

I hope Google's C-suite is treating this article as the PR equivalent of a Sev-1 servers-on-fire emergency, because it is. If they don't come out swinging today and announcing that they're all-in on GCP for the long haul, it's toast. It may be toast even if they do.
> So basically, the Google employee added arbitrary javascript to an internal chrome extension used by Google employees that triggered a popup when employees visited a specific website.

This is actually false (it's not listed in the article, so I wouldn't expect you to know). It was a config file containing URL patterns and plain text messages. Most messages were things like: "please don't upload random company files to dropbox.com/upload".

So my take is that this employee's job responsibilities probably involved notifying sending these types of notifications. However I'd actually agree that there was some "abuse" because letting someone know they are about to upload a file to dropbox is pretty different than using it as a forum to remind people that organizing is a protected activity. I wouldn't fire someone over that because despite them being in the wrong, it doesn't seem malicious.
I seem to remember some one on here recall hearing a couple of transplant surgeons comparing notes where the comp was measured in millions.
Thank you for this pertinent clarification.
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> Do you think you are at more risk betting your enterprise on Microsoft or Google?

Microsoft? No.

Google? Absolutely.

I don't trust Google for anything that isn't related to selling ads. And I trust they will maintain their relationship for God-fucking-awful customer support. And I assume they will continue their tradition of sunsetting projects haphazardly.

I don't know why anyone would trust Google today.
We use almost every cloud.

Currently I see

GCP TPU options beat the pants off of everyone. I love bigquery.

Azure has by far the best storage options. The bucket storage is much cheaper. The azure file storage is best of class. I don't like it's bigquery/athena alternatives

AWS is the incumbent, I love the spot market, but more and more we have just been running low end workloads there. Athena is the best of class of analytics tools if your data is already in a bucket.

We are firing up our IBM cloud presence now.
I've worked remotely, and while I loved that job and would go back again in a heartbeat had the company not closed, I have to respect the immense latency and bandwidth benefits that proximity brings to communications.

The downside is that, absent serious discipline, that proximity also lends itself to a preference for tribal knowledge vs proper documentation.