skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not clear to me that poor countries are to experience human loss due to climate change since there is a trade off in place here. If developed and developing countries curb emissions to near net zero levels the world economy will suffer. For instance, people in developing countries are still dying from malnutrition. Preventing enhanced economic global prosperity may affect human lives more than the counterfactual scenario of current emission levels. I am not saying this is true, but I think this question is valid. Of course, it would be ideal if we could stop CO2 emissions without foregoing economic growth but such scenario is not possible as of today. That's why I think the solution will come via technological advances instead of global cooperation to reduce CO2 emissions. Even though I do live in a developed country, I came from a developing country and many of you with the same background as me knows that climate change is the least of their worries when some don't even know what they are going to eat for dinner. My point is, in the absence of a global governance structure that makes prohibitively costly to implement a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions worldwide, there is no way that people in the developing world will choose less economic development. I know climate change is dear and near to many people's hearts here but as far as the consequences are not dramatic and sudden, people in the developing world will not really care except for the rich and upper middle class in developing countries which includes some of the biggest emitters such as China.
That was a lot of fascinating information in one comment.

Also fun to note that you mentioned "mean distance" and not just "distance" from the Sun because the Earth's orbit isn't perfectly circular.

Thanks for the explanation.
The flight information on FlightRadar24 shows no sign of deviation or trouble, then abruptly ends during the ascent. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/ukrainian-flight-ps752-cr...
You got it all wrong. Around noon yesterday a floating crane tore down a high voltage line in the harbor of Hamburg.

[1] https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hamburg_journal_1800/...

That is the cause!1!!

:-)
This whole narrative just seems like fear mongering to me. For starters, there’s no evidence that military personnel would follow even a lawful order to launch nuclear weapons, especially if there was no evidence of an existential crisis taking place. The only example I can think of in history is the Soviet submarine that was given orders to launch nukes, if it was engaged by the US, during the Cuban middle crisis. Well it was engaged by the US, and the officers onboard refused to use them. The president doesn’t have a button that launches nukes, and I can’t see anybody following an order to, in absence of the US being overrun or hit with a nuke first.

Secondly, I can’t see it ever being a good tactical decision. The highest yield conventional bombs are on-par with the lowest yield nukes. If you want to launch a single massively destructive device, there’s already better options. If you want to target an underground facility, then weapons designed to target underground facilities are going to do a better job than just scaling up the yield anyhow. If you’re just looking for a massive effect on target, then a barrage of smaller weapons is going to do a better jobs of that anyway, and do so more reliably.

Finally, even if you find the perfect tactical use case, it could never make sense strategically. Using a nuke of any size will provoke the maximum response from any potential adversary, regardless of whether they have any stake in the conflict to begin with, and will deter any hope of support from our allies. This is plainly obvious to anybody.

All of this is nothing more than an implausible and baseless “what if”.
Also a few code examples in the README would go a long way! When I see a new language announced I want to look at it before I read about it.
Out of curiousity, are the emissions numbers you're quoting for solar, geothermal, hydro, etc accounting for the carbon costs associated with their construction? Additionally, don't those all require at least large-capacity battery systems, if not full nuclear/gas/coal plant backups in case the power can't be generated by those low-emissions systems?

I'm not trying to imply anything, just sincerely curious.
Do you mean "for-profit" with competition, or without it? Were people voluntarily paying for those services?

If it's "for-profit", monopolistic, and run by the government, it means:

1. your money is taken away from you through taxes

2. a service you may or may not want is implemented

3. a 'target' for 'profitability' is set, which makes no sense given there's no price system directly attached to the services

4. 'targets' are delivered by cutting edges so that public workers demonstrate enough competency to justify pay raises
I remember when my sports team finally turned things around and instead of losing by double-digit score differentials we were losing by single-digit score differentials. These were celebrated like wins, but yes it was still losing.
I was opps daily subscriber too, but all the ideas were from people that do not know how to Google.
The /a/ in Thai is a central vowel. This is different than English /a/, which is a front vowel. And /o/ is the open back vowel. That is why it falls between English ⟨pad⟩ and ⟨pod⟩. And if you don't speak a language with such a vowel, any particular utterance will probably be mentally mapped to one or the other.
The world is spherical not square, which means that the farther away from the equator you are the smaller a circle parallel to the equator is.

If you tried to use a map of the northern hemisphere for the southern hemisphere without turning it upside down, you would be stretching the point that is the north pole to cover the entire circle that is the equator, and condensing the entire circle that is the equator to the point that is the north pole.
> Runway headings are always magnetic headings...

This is incorrect, while most runways are aligned with the magnetic heading, that changes when you have a field with multiple parallel runways. Atlanta Hartsfield comes to mind first, with its five parallels in the East-West directions, 8L/26R, 8R/26L, 9L/27R, 9R/27L, 10/28. One would naively expect these to be not parallel by just reading the name, while in fact they are all in line.
There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by- one errors.
Not sure where you live, but in Europe beef is expensive, certainly "simple food" is not the first thing that springs to mind! I'm sure I've read somewhere it's one of the more expensive meats to produce, per kg, especially compared to chicken and pigs.
You are correct. I looked up the energy sources after I read the article on CO2 and added up the fossil fuel ones for the past 10 years:
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/156695/umfrag...

I remembered the “very steep decline in nuclear energy whilst fossil fuel kind a went down less”

So, yes: we are way down on coal.
> But this is exactly the point. Catastrophes like Fukushima are practically always a combination of individual deficiencies in design, process, and operator errors. Designs can be improved, processes adapted, and people trained better, but that will not prevent accidents from happening.

Agreed. The consequences of Nuclear energy last millions of years, not Human lifetimes, to this day we still have not felt the true impact of Fukushima's contaminated water run off into the Pacific, nor the contamination of the food and soil the epidemiology of Nuclear fallout was abysmal in 2011, and was done by Soviet's. Sudden heart failures as well as birth defects, and other maladies of children are stauncly being hidden from the Media as they were ramping up the efforts for the Olympics, not to mention the People have not been able to return Home to their and remian in a make-shift refugee camp, and seen as 'less than' in Japanese society: look up the Hibakusha from WWII, and the same stigma applies now. I think TEPCO/Nuclear Village and the Abe cabinet are just waiting from them to die to make it all go away so they can get back to how things were.

> Merkel's decision ignored the truly extraordinary circumstances of the Fukushima disaster, which was triggered by an earthquake and tsunami that, each individually, exceeded the design parameters of the reactor, which was 40 years old at the time of the disaster. Updated studies indicated the reactor was vulnerable to tsunami, but were ignored. Repeatedly.

First, if you are going to pull out her education in physics and then discount it, have a basis for doing so. And at least make the obvious correlation to the political decision that France is right next door and produces 379.1 TWh/71.6% of their entire energy production, so they will continue to just buy just buy it from them--I lived in S. Germany near the French Border and it that was common practice. With that said, I have a Biology background and just looking at how it devastated one of the most abundant Ag lands in Japan I'd say Humans are too fallible to have access to this tech to be able to use it on this planet. For Mars, sure, that makes total sense, but not here. We have way more, and better options.

Sidenote: I lived near SONGS in S. OC, which had a leak happen around the same time as 3/11.
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Not to be confused with BeEF, the long-running Browser Exploitation Framework. https://beefproject.com/
First of all, I take issue with this issue of no punishment without redemption. By redemption do you mean "accepted back as member of the community in good standing"? Or "your descendants won't be punished for 10000 generations"?

Secondly, think of the state as the aliens in Philip K Dick's story Faith of our Fathers. Religion in the form of poet-saints and the Bhakti tradition in the Indian subcontinent is an antidote to that and a reminder that virtue has nothing to do with education or literacy (see Akbar who was illiterate as an example)
Very cool. Despite all the sun I get (we live on a corner) it still seems like it would take literal decades to see any savings, and very little at that ($3K after 20 years? No thanks!) The issue seems to be how slanted my roof is.
Haha fair point. I don't know why it helped me, but it seemed to.
Completely agree. On one hand, this seems like little more than plain old common sense, little more than observing the peculiarities of human psychological quirks in action. But then on the other hand, I can't escape this feeling that's there's something actually quite interesting going on here...more specifically, that relatively more intelligent people tend to be aware of these psychological phenomena, and are able to discuss them when the topic is the phenomena themselves, but when a topic is something else, this ability/knowledge "seems" [0] to ~vanish. And it seems it's not only that a strong psychological resistance to the phenomena arises, but that perhaps something occurs in the mind that makes prior knowledge ~literally inaccessible.

It seems fairly unlikely that this is a novel idea, but I've yet to come across any literature that discusses it directly. I imagine part of the problem is that studying such a thing would be incredibly difficult.

[0] I say "seems" because I am running purely on heuristics derived from aggregate patterns of aggregate behavior, comments, and voting - to be more certain, one would require the ability to somehow monitor individuals to see if this theory can actually be observed at the individual level.
> Methane emissions have a much shorter residency time in the atmosphere than carbon. I

Except...methane has a shorter residency time is due to it turning into CO2 at a 7 year half-life, right?
I keep hearing this from people who seemingly know a lot more than me about this stuff, and yet prima facie, it seems entirely wrong. It sounds equivalent to "we cause 7X the amount of short-term greenhouse effect, but eventually it drops down to 1X, and that's better than 1X from the get-go".

Does it turn into significantly less amount of CO2? How much less? If you can clear it up for me, I'd honestly really appreciate it.
Here is a list of people's favorite courses...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566638
> (Yes there were noise-cancelling headphones before, but always bulky or with wires. With AirPods, they're just effortless to bring+wear.)

Not true. Sony WF-1000XM3's were released before airpod pros, and they have ANC tech that is by all accounts better than Apples. Its the same ANC module that is in the WH-1000XM3's which are viewed by many to be the best ANC headphone right now.
That's not how it works. Energy production is a huge market with lots of political corruption and huge amounts of money involved.

Nuclear AND coal is both owned by a few monopolistic companies. In Germany there were four regions for electricity production and these four companies each owned one: basically all production and distribution of electricity.

None of these companies had any interest to invest in renewable energy or to open up their markets for competition. Politicians were given jobs in these companies after their political career.

It took literally decades to break up this system and the Energiewende was the first movement towards open energy markets, competition and renewable energy production. It's a system which takes decades to reform and rebuild. Whether nuclear or coal is first to go out is a minor issue over that time scale.

The money invested into renewable created a lot of effects which will drive down electricity prices in many other countries much faster than nuclear will do. Germany served as a first example how to build up technology, increase efficiency, etc. For example, the real benefit for solar will not be in Germany, but in many other countries which have lots of sunshine and lots of ways to deploy that kind of lower tech - compared to extremely complex nuclear technology.

And this was kickstarted here.
Sigh, you're right, I was thinking of FPS games and the like. Which still have stupid leveling systems, but they're less meaningful.

What I do in fact fundamentally not understand is why games are designed this way†. Good on WoW for apparently letting players skip it nowadays. I admit, I'd have trouble faulting someone who wanted to cheat their way through.

† Outside of games that explicitly want to sell micro-transactions. I understand that all to well.
Given these planes can take off and land on autopilot (I'm not sure that's true, just what I hear) then surely it's easy to run simulations of all those events; so if it was in scope for simulation it could be caught?

There's about 20k commercial airfields, if you ran 20mins of simulation for each one then you're done within the year. Presumably Boeing can run in parallel and above realtime.

Are their watchdog systems for everything, or do they primarily rely on pilots noticing problems?

Wild speculation: Perhaps it's a power issue, something about the conditions causes a power demand that exceeds specs (or makes an LED? voltage drop too low). What else links all the screens?
Even if the planet had a strong magnetosphere, wouldn't atmosphere on the hot side be blown away by heat or solar wind? Thus atmosphere from the whole planet would be depleted.
Give nuclear plants subsidies in the form of zero-emission credits like New York and Illinois did:

https://statepowerproject.org/illinois/

https://statepowerproject.org/new-york/

That way low-cost natural gas generation can still replace coal fired generators but won't drive premature nuclear retirements.
In 2019 I bought an electric cargo bike. I've been able to replace a number of car trips, even while toting kids (record so far: taking a 3-year-old to a birthday party 17 miles away, without using the car).

We've also started bringing more things into our local area, walking more, and using public transit. We've cut our gas usage by 75%, saving roughly $2,500/year.

We consume less, buying secondhand where possible, aiming for quality, or just evaluating whether you really need something.

We're eating less meat and more beans. I was vegan once for a two-year period, I won't go back there - I don't believe a 100% vegan diet is a good idea. However, it is important to reduce meat consumption (majority vegetarian diet is the goal), and we make sure 100% of our meat is purchased from a small local farm using sustainable and humane practices. I'm really interested in entomophagy and will take any chance to eat insects I can find.

I live in Seattle so my electricity is nearly 100% emission free, and I pay for the green option to offset another home's electricity somewhere in Washington.

Lastly, we've stopped flying for vacations. There's plenty to enjoy in the local area.

Things still to be improved: my car, a Jeep Liberty, is an awful gas-guzzler. The next car will be electric (or better yet, no car).

I'm keen to start an urban farm with aquaponics and insect farming.

I will keep advocating for safer streets so that it's a viable option for more people to move around cities without a car.

I'm saving money to buy some degraded agricultural land someday and restore it.

Climate change will bring increased intensity to weather events going forward (hurricanes, fires). It's too late to avoid some of that (e.g. Australia). I think our globalized society is actually very fragile and susceptible to disruption, so focusing on local resiliency will matter more into the future. I'll be looking at food security, water storage for extended droughts, and building in resistance to weather events like high winds and fires.
yes, they are (imho). AirPods Pro are noticeably better than AirPods and wired Apple earbuds, in both comfort and sound quality. I actually prefer them over my over-ear Sennheisers.
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Gingivitis has been eroding the gum line of this great nation long enough and must be stopped. For too long this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay, in spirit and incisors. A countries future depends on its ability to bite back. We can no longer be a nation indentured. Our very salivation is at stake.
Yes, filing the notecards is essential.

Something I try to do is keep my physical notecard files small. Besides the inbox file, urgent and important notecards are the only ones I keep in a physical file.

It's surprising how fast you can go through a thousand notecards. So effective filing is a must. And for me, that means maintaining digital archives. Something that, on its own, is a whole topic for discussion. Once again, I recommend GTD by David Allen if you'd like to dive deeper and avoid reinventing the wheel.
Yes, I was able to save the file using ZZ rather than :w

It's been a long time, but I was probably hung up on not being able to experimentally figure out : commands, where I was able to figure out control-z and ZZ.
How about a picture?

https://socratic.org/questions/how-do-you-convert-parsecs-to...
The coal power situation in China is bizarre. You are correct that many coal plants are currently operating well below capacity. However China continues to build massive amounts of new coal power plants. Appears their planning efforts have gone haywire.

https://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-an-insan...
I love the concept of this language! Even though a lot of attempts have been made, I think no one has really filled the "more ergonomic C" slot yet, and I would be happy if this manages.

I am sorry to see semicolons though. I have never missed semicolons after moving to languages where they're not required, and it's always a bummer going in the opposite direction.
Very cool to see this price point. If Velodyne really can manufacture and sell it in volume and be profitable it's an amazing evolution for Velodyne.

If it's a loss leader to buy attention and stay relevant versus their fast moving competitors it will become obvious eventually.
In college our ACM chapter named its DEC machine (I think it was a Tru64, but it's so long ago I don't remember) "cray-ymp." If you were a member of the ACM you got an account on it, and I used to MUD from it.

One of the MUD admins was astounded when he noticed I was playing from what he thought was a real Cray Y/MP. If I was smarter I would have played along. Alas...
Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet
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You don't have to search. Just hit the apple emoji. If you use it frequently, it'll probably be on the front. If not, it takes two seconds to hit the category it's in and then press it.
I worked at DEC- one thing that I really miss is the high quality of documentation they produced. A lot of it has been archived here:

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_dec
I don't have time for your "they all do it" false equivalency.

I try to consume sources that generally do their best to get it right.
Yes, most airlines offer this option. There are two ways, one is buying the CO2 rights from someone else (that doesn't have a net positive effect on the world, don't do this if you really want to contribute something) the other is donating money to projects specifically to reduce CO2. Mostly that's tree planting projects, in areas that have had deforestation in the past.

There are a few organizations that audit these projects to guarantee they're actually planting trees and planting the right amount etc.
Ah yes, the mythical competent C developer; Who knows all the corner cases, implementation details and never makes mistakes?

This bridge doesn't need guard rails. A competent pedestrian wouldn't walk off the edge.
I have to assume then that these are the runways that lead down into the secret Illuminati bases beneath the airports. Has somebody taken a closer look?
Of course, that definition is confusing, because it's an inverse thing - from the name you'd expect something 31 parsecs away to have a parallax of 31 arcseconds, but instead it's 1/31 of an arcsecond.
You beat me to it, but I was going for $50 ;)
I've been trying to give away ideas via a simple Twitter thread that I hope to keep updating over time:

https://twitter.com/anant90/status/1171867648285540352

Incidentally, "a platform for sharing well-researched ideas" is #11 on this list :)
> The promise of single power plants

Such a promise does not produce any power and does not scale.

> Just because we failed to make the tech cost effective until now doesn't mean it cannot be and never will be.

We are making solar and wind cost effective. It's already happening. In scale.
Matthew J Moynihan's response to a Quora question [1] points out there are general fusion physics and engineering problems regardless of the reactor design that remain open questions starved for data points. If anything going by his response, it isn't the type of reactor that matters now as much as getting more research data. We don't have a spare trillion to throw into fusion research, but we certainly do have enough tens of trillions to prop up all the central banks in the world [2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-merits-and-drawbacks-of-t...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrich/2016/09/12/the-18-tri...
don't land on those runways!
> Certain people, mostly younger, have a drive to show off to potential mates, some more so than others, and superficially, spending lots of time creating cheats like this looks like it's leading to social approval and standing.

I feel like sitting inside at your computer working on cheats isn't the best way to "show off to potential mates".
I spent a few years as a DoD contractor, and both companies I worked for were the bigger company on the contract, but the lead contractor what some small company that fit a specific category. I'll admit that I considered starting my own company,being a compensated disabled veteran, to get in the same action, but it didn't seem right and I wanted to get away from government contracting anyway.