skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Quit Google and joined Tomorrow [1]

- Talked to politicians and a lot of people about Carbon Fee & Dividend (you can do the same by joining Citizens Climate Lobby [2])

- Joined climateaction.tech and techimpactmakers.com

- Read a sh*tloads of books [3][4][5][6][7] among others

- Reduced my flights to a minimum

[1] https://tmrow.com

[2] https://citizensclimatelobby.org

[3] https://theresnoplanetb.net/

[4]https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586541/the-uninhabi...

[5]https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Cash-Cool-Climate-Science-Based/...

[6]https://www.amazon.com/Addicted-Energy-Venture-Capitalists-P...
Seems that it be more likely to produce habitable eyeball planets than habitable Earth-like rotating planets - an Earth that was 50 degrees warmer might only be habitable at the poles, while an Earth that was on average 50 degrees colder might be a frozen wasteland all the way the equator - not to mention that seasonal swings in climate for temperate latitudes further decrease your options.

With an eyeball planet the acceptable distance from the star, heat flux, and other variables could produce a ring of acceptable climate even if the average global temperature was +/- 100C relative to Earth.
I just remember that a parsec is the same as a light year. By astronomical standards of precision, that's about right.
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I did government contracting work straight out of college. I don't know anyone competent who stayed working with the government. It is almost impossible to underestimate the amount of waste, bureaucracy, and BS you have to deal with on a day to day basis. Anyone competent with an ounce of integrity can't stand it. Literally in the private sector I do in a week what would be 3 months work in government.
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Great catch! We're still very early. The landing page is not completely dialed in yet.

Going to get SSL, privacy etc set up in the coming days, and then do a proper launch.
I predict that blacklisting unicode domains will become a "best practice" for security, but that eventually their use will become normal and accepted when the security issues have been worked out (perhaps by something as simple as using a different background color for unicode characters in the browser's location bar).
Interesting. What's your tech stack look like? What do you have in mind as far as further work?
Likewise cos 90° (all runways designated 27 are also designated 9) but those haven't reported these problems, have they?
The author of this essay died in 1934.
you might want to consider Beyerdynamics 990 Pro, insane sound quality, and built like a tank (steel headband!)
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Sorry to disappoint you, but my own opinion is: it can't really be done. There is dozens of variables in such a benchmark (latency, bandwidth, tcp settings on each node such as tcp fast open, selective ack present etc., http & tcp connection caches etc.) and unclear optimization targets.

It's not just a matter of sending data to the client and measuring when it arrived, there is a ton of other stuff to consider regarding how the HTML and its linked resources (CSS, Scripts etc.) are structured. There are even random effects at play here (what if you have a packet loss in important packets that carry ACKs etc.).

Some 6 years ago I did this for a study thesis (ungraded undergraduate essay) at university (back then HTML/2 was still SPDY) and it was an eye-opener for me - that by carefully picking your parameters you can basically conclude and simulate whatever you want the outcome to be. If you are interested, the study thesis is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6vu91yvfzxbzdue/studythesis.pdf?dl...

The theoretical analysis is still valid today, but the resulting benchmarks should be taken with a grain of salt as they are very test-setup and implementation specific.
Interesting idea! This introduces the same problems that an online game suffers though. 90% of the time you can predict successfully what is playing, but as soon as one scrubs, or pauses the video, the signal already sent to the headphones would be out of sync. Not sure how that is fixed without delaying the video also.

If it could recover fast enough to play the right audio in time, then it would seem that bluetooth is already low latency enough to play in real time anyway? Or am I missing something.
Intend to think of ideas as an exponent to execution.

You can take 5 years working your ass off to build a local pizza shop or Uber. And from working with both small and large business people the hours and stress is about the same.

A great idea will reward execution much more than a bad idea.
Not exactly... 'Burma' is a British colonial mispronunciation stemming from the same root source as 'Myanmar', though the latter tends to be associated with the military junta since they formalized it.
> There are not exceptions in criminal law for people who want specific crimes committed against them (ie sexual assault).

Uh, what?
Did Buckskin over two days, camping at the confluence, and it was superb. Stunning and memorable. Highly recommended.
I don't understand the point of this article.

It's to generate clicks, because people will wonder if their favorite hike is on the list.

Just like when you see a magazine wants to increase readership or clicks from a particular region, it may publish a top ten list specific to that region.

It's the hiking equivalent of "See girls looking for love in localhost!"
Hahaha I was wondering if anybody would read that!
> The fact is that nuclear power kills the least amount of people per unit of energy produced, with all accidents taken into account. If that's "unsafe" then you cannot consider any electricity production method safe.

This is such a horrible stat, especially when taken in this context; I'm not for coal, I think its filthy and and obsolete form of energy, but do you realize the affects of Chernobyl, 3 mile island, Fukushima et al will be felt for millions of years AFTER you are gone?

With so many other forms of renewable energy, you'd think it were possible to create another model.
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I've been pondering this for a while: once we have artificial gravity in space (from rotation, for instance), would we ever want to shackle ourselves to the gravity of a foreign planet? It would be so much easier just to create the ideal environment in a large, rotating cylinder instead of having adjust a planet's environment to our needs.

Take this new discovery for instance. Imagine that this planet is 400m years younger than earth. Would it have the necessary composition in its atmosphere to make it breathable? Does it share our gravity? Does it deflect enough stellar radiation?

I doubt we'll find earth 2, but we can recreate a comfortable environment in our own solar system. We just have to let go of the notion that we will colonize another planet for more than just curiosity-sake

To give some idea of what I mean by rotating cylinder, check out the O'Neill Cylinder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder
Liquid (the template language) is slow and extremely limited, and the apis are.. evolving. It's been hard at times to avoid nasty code that loops through everything to load a small chunk of data. At this stage we are starting to mirror Shopify content in addition to using it as a headless source.
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Yes, I stand corrected by coal.

I may have been biased living somewhat close to the Hambacher Forst and just seeing these giant holes in disbelief.

I did not know that electricity is state owned and subsidised. Maybe Germans should ask their french neighbor for an extension cable or two...
The point of a parsec is that if you're stuck on earth a very long way from the stars and you're trying to work out where they are relative to each other, you can take advantage of the fact that the earth itself moves around the sun. So if you take a photo of a star in summer and then take another photo of it in winter, your vantage point has conveniently moved 2AU because during that time you've moved to the other side of the sun (and 1AU is by definition your distance from the sun).

So then if the star appears to move against the stars so far away that they didn't appear to move, you can do a spot of geometry and work out how much the subject star has moved in "arcseconds".

A star that is exactly far enough away to "move" 2 arcseconds over this 2AU distance (or, if you prefer, one which has "moved" 1 arcsecond when we move 1AU) is one parsec away. By definition.

When discussing relative distances from earth for stars, it's therefore a useful unit (we can't just compare arcseconds because further stars move less against the background, not more).

As with so many puzzling units the key is to find out why they're used. This one was used by astronomers who didn't have a better way to determine how far away stars were.

The wikipedia article, incidentally, is much better than that old Encyclopaedia Britannica article that I read in high school. I envy kids today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

Oh and the actual distance is kind of irrelevant and I don't even try to remember it :)
Nah, because C++40 will just accumulate more and more unpredictable cruft while D is clean.
I was on the Midori team for just a year, and this is certainly true for me. I think that it's a combination of things, the project itself was very cool from a pure technical perspective, and the team was made up of brilliant engineers, most of whom appeared to have nothing to prove, so technical discussions revolved about technical merit not ego.
Not to take away from your main point, but the capitalized total cost of ownership for a pony is _much_ larger than $1000 (which, by the way, is the price for a not-very-good-natured pony; breeds with nice temperaments cost a lot more according to https://pets.costhelper.com/pony.html ).

Doing some quick checking, food for a pony is ~$1-2k per year. Lodging is $2-3k per year. Basic preventative veterinary care is $1k per year; if the pony gets old this could get a lot more.

That's $4-6k a year for upkeep, and ponies live for 20+ years. So the actual cost of a pony, even with discounting and whatnot for future dollars, is probably at least $50k, not $1k.
Stadia doesn’t target enthusiast gamers, I don’t know why people are trying to judge it on those merits.

Stadia is for the person who has 1hr every few days to play a game casually on the TV or 20 minutes during lunch.

It caters perfectly for the crowd of people who do not want to be locked to a specific device (gaming pc) or update their console/games.

The high static time cost of gaming in 2020 is what stadia mitigates.

And anyway. Stadia is powered by AMD underneath.
> 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 whole point of the military is that you have no idea whether or not the order you are given is a good, or just idea, and it's not your job to make that decision. You carry the order out.

People who get into ethical quagmires while holding their finger on the trigger of an end-of-the-world weapon don't get posted in Minutemen nuclear bunkers.

Also, the beauty of MAD is that even if 90% of your silos refuse to carry out the order, 10% will - and then the other side will retaliate, and because most of your silos did not launch, their retaliatory strike will be far more destructive.

So if you're the guy who didn't launch the missiles, when given the order, you're the bad guy, who let millions of his countrymen die - because your missiles, which you refused to launch could have destroyed enemy launch sites. Since someone on your team will launch (Thus starting a war), upon receiving on order, if you want to minimize casualties on your side, you have to launch as well.

All in all, it's complete lunacy to give two men the power to end the world.
> Have you ever actually learned the syntax of a language by looking at a BNF?

Actually, yes.
Author suffers from a disease called thinking too much. Symptoms include complaining too much.
I recently used Ada (not the SPARK subset) to develop an assembler/simulator (for a made-up ISA) for a computer architecture course I was taking. I used the GtkAda bindings for the GUI, which worked well: https://github.com/docandrew/YOTROC

I'm using SPARK for another project, and I think it's great. I don't think there is really an easier way of writing formally-verified software right now. Depending on the pre-conditions and post-conditions you put on your code, it can offer much stronger guarantees than other general-purpose programming languages do, but _proving_ those guarantees can be tricky if you don't have much experience with it.

The nice thing about SPARK is that if you get something you can't prove (either because it's not legal SPARK or because the solver can't figure it out), you can turn off SPARK mode on a per-function or per-package basis and either come back to it later, or just prove that callers to the function abide by the specification without the function body itself being legal SPARK.

For IDEs, I prefer VSCode over AdaCore's GPS IDE; AdaCore has a VSCode LSP plugin that I use: https://github.com/AdaCore/ada_language_server. Having said that, I used the GPS IDE for the computer architecture project and it worked well.

Good luck!
These same countries never installed land line telephone networks and yet most people in the developing world have phones now because cell phone technology came down in cost enough to outcompete any attempt at building out landline infrastructure.

As solar and wind and storage prices are are coming down fast there is good reason to expect the developing world to be able to largely be able to leapfrog fossil fuels and electrify without the expensive cost of building centralized power plants with sprawling networks of transmission lines, substations and local power lines stretching for thousands and thousands of miles zigzagging through the country side.

Same with electric cars. We are getting close to a day when electric cars will be on sale with 200+ miles of range for 22,000 that has 1/10th the cost to operate as a equivalent internal combustion engine.

The idea that fossil fuel consumption is neccessary for economic growth and standard of living is outdated. Many nations economies have already decoupled growth from fossil fuel consumption. Reducing co2 emissions while simultaneously growing their economies. Including the US.
Just my opinion, but I think you need some sort of immediate display or realtime feed of the number of stock mentions you're tracking. For me personally, it's the sort of thing that sounds interesting but that I'm probably not going to sign up for an email to explore at some arbitrary point in the future.

I don't get the 'idea' of selling ideas, however. Surely to be willing to pay for an idea, you'd want to know what it is. And to know what it is would mean you wouldn't have to pay for it.

The only solution I can see to that is some sort of sci fi phenomenon, like entering a room with an 'ideas guy,' whose ideas you evaluate and can agree to buy, before having your memory of what happened in the room wiped.
If you're measuring galactic distances (nearest galaxy is 2 million light years away) then that's fair, but for "nearby" objects, a 3x the distance means a lot.
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Well, let's see: wind parks are a tough sell to the public, will new nuclear plants be an easier sell? I doubt it. So they seem to be on the right path.

And yeah, proportion of renewables in total net energy consumption has been 46% in 2019 already.
if he succumbed to 'writing' with a pair of scissors, he still has work to do! Vipassana, or using another technique. Great summary though, esp about the cult aspect.
A show of force for the situation and a show of accuracy to the Pentagon.
I chose that word on purpose.
Are reputation management operatives scrubbing Wikipedia articles?
rødt.no comes to mind, but I know I’ve seen others.
How hard would it be to just copy and modify the packets being sent to the anti-cheat servers? Are they sent directly to the anti-cheat server or do they go back to the game server first and then get forwarded from there?
In the US, there's an informal hierarchy of what kinds of cuisine can be "fancy" and demand an above-average price. French, obviously, and most other Western European cuisines can be fancy. Which isn't to say that there can't be a cheap pizza or pasta restaurant, but if you look at the range it will be above average. Japanese food - sushi especially - can successfully be expensive, more so than other East Asian cuisines like Thai and Vietnamese. There are regional variations here - if there is a regional interest in it, you can have more expensive restaurants of a particular cuisine - I'm talking more average across the US.
Probably best to say "unlikely to contain multicellular life" or maybe even complex life. As we know from here on Earth, microorganisms exist in almost every extreme location on Earth.
Not literally, but Netscape released server-side JavaScript a few months after adding it to Navigator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Server-side_JavaScr...
Methane concentration: 2_000 ppb

CO2 concentration: 400_000 ppb

To elaborate a bit, an atom of carbon in CH4 is around 100x as bad as an atom of carbon in CO2; CH4 is primarily and quickly removed by breaking down into CO2. But the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere as CH4 is much, much less than the number of carbon atoms we release into the atmosphere of CO2. We only care about CH4 because it's 100x as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2. If we released the methane carbon directly as CO2 carbon, it'd be a measurable amount but dwarfed by other sources.
Same. I've never heard of that place either. I grew up in Searcy and Fayetteville and went to Heber many, many summers. It's very pretty and worth the trip. Picking just one place in Arkansas is too hard. I went on a lovely backpack hike and camping trip near Aux Arc. Definitely recommend.
No free 40G MAC/PHY. Unfortunately, the Xilinx CMAC is 100G only, and the Xilinx soft 40G MAC/PHY is $$$$. I have looked in to building a 40G/100G switchable MAC/PHY, but it's going to be a serious pain in the rear.

Funny you mention that switch, we bought one of those off of eBay for our testbed as it supports PTP.

Also, for optical switching applications, one of the most important factors is how long it takes to bring up the link after switching. Because of this, we have no interest in spending time on 40G and 100G interfaces because interlace deskew takes hundreds of microseconds, and 100G also requires FEC which takes hundreds of microseconds to lock. So we're focused on 10G and 25G and running multiple links in parallel, which also provides more architectural flexibility. I added 100G support for three main reasons: the CMAC license is free, so why not?; supporting 100G makes the project a whole lot more interesting than only 10G or 25G, and it provides a simple way of testing the core NIC datapath.
The lesson of Fukushima and Chernobyl is that an unexpected failure with nuclear power can become a massively damaging, insanely expensive, generational cleanup effort.

Sure, you can say newer designs are safer, but you can't say that the underlying technology behind nuclear power is inherently safe. Even a well-run, accident-free nuclear plant uses dangerously radioactive material and generates dangerously radioactive waste that must be dealt with. But if anything goes wrong with any of the processes surrounding all of that, the consequences can be dire. Why lean on dangerous, expensive, and risky tech when we have better solutions?
One of the great Spanish thinkers, criminally underrated in Anglo countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Ram%C3%B3n_y_Cajal
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>TeenVogue

> surprised remotely reputable journalistic outlets get into

Not seeing it.

Edit: blind defense of a very biased site in an article showing they are literally shilling for Facebook... Ok.
They're already at 200B and the rate is currently at 10B/year and rising rapidly.

So I strongly suspect they will.
Very clever, but I wish they would put the real way, which, for the record, is

:q

at the top so that this doesn't annoy people who legitimately google it and have to wade through this.
Interesting, I never heard of straddling, what is it supposed to achieve?
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I would say that paragraph 2 is completely wrong. Why would you want to filter out people who are culturally sensitive from your community? Because you don't want to have to consider alternate viewpoints?
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An excerpt from Advice for a Young Investigator. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/437689.Advice_for_a_Youn...
I've also done multiple Vipassana retreats in the tradition of Goenka. There were "office hours" (around lunch and after the evening meditation) where you could ask questions.

I found that the quality of the answers given depended on the quality of the specific teacher. While I was impressed by one teacher's answers, I got a similar "just keep meditating" answer from another.

That being said, Goenka's centers are free, and have a structured routine with no distractions, so I continue to recommend it to others as a first course.
I've built willpayfor.com not long ago. You're all welcome to share ideas and mention how valuable in terms of money a product or service might be.
Christ. I'm from the U.S. and I can pick Iran on a map without thinking. If you asked me to pick Missouri and Missisippi on a map ... I'd probably get it but I'd sweat a little bit until I heard I was right.

Missisippi is a bit further south but it's not Louisiana.

Missouri is a bit further north but it's not Kansas.
I'm a keyboard junkie, and I didn't know that. Thanks!
Scientific "unified" models hide this complexity by abstracting it away so we can keep chipping away at the next level. We can navigate this hierarchy, up or down, to understand respectively large- and small-scale behavior, and the hierarchical model makes it so humans can still comprehend at a given level of abstraction.
> do you realize the affects of Chernobyl, 3 mile island, Fukushima et al will be felt for millions of years AFTER you are gone?

No, because that's simply not true. At least not in terms of radiation. Perhaps politically, or in the general feeling of fear among people who do not understand nuclear energy, the effects might be long-lasting but the no-go area around Chernobyl is very small, Fukushima is basically liveable today and I don't think 3 mile island affected any area to such extent that radiation levels would be above the safety limits.
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Indeed that’s why I started with Hungary, though the French Revolution lit a fire (e.g. in early 19th century Germany)
Some people have inherited wealth, and choose not to work. Why do the circumstances of their birth make them entitled to a more comfortable life than anyone else? Luck isn't justice.

Some people are physically incapable of working. Would it be just for them to die?

Advances in automation continue to magnify the productivity of our workers. Many jobs have already been consigned to history forever with simple machines. One day, we may hardly need anyone to work at all to satisfy our consumption.

Our society already generates a surplus of all the necessities of life; there is no innate physical reason why it must be structured as a zero-sum game.
Now that I've looked at a map I can safely say, yeah, I woulda got that wrong.