skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's fix the math.

Amount of energy consumed from global data centers: 205 terawatt-hours. [0]

Amount of water in the oceans: 1,386,000,000 (km3)~= 1.386*10^21kg[1]

water has a specific heat capacity of: 4,200 J/kg°C [2]

Energy/HeatCapacity/AmountOfWater = 1.268×10^-7 degrees Celsius

[0]: https://energyinnovation.org/2020/03/17/how-much-energy-do-d...
[1]: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/scie...
[2]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z2gjtv4/revision/5
But if there's a paper problem, if you take over one company in the chain and sneak through the company above it, suddenly you own the whole company? Especially one of the small ones?
Great advice, thank you for sharing!

I'll comment too that it also applies to things that can't be measured with number of users/readers/dollars in bank/etc. I'm not a naturally outgoing person and making new friends can feel like _work_. But if a relationship is something that you've decided to value, then (to paraphrase the article) the only way to make it happen is to commit, prioritize, and respond to feedback. That applies to friends, spouse, kids, etc.
The worldbuilding stackexchange would probably enjoy discussing this, if you posed it as the basis for a novel.
A lot of it is passion. The subject areas I think I am best at are ones that I care about so much that I can’t help but seek out all the information I can on them. When I talk to others about said subjects, I usually find that they don’t care about them nearly as much as I do. There are some things I wish I were better at but don’t feel motivated in the same way.
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It does not need to be a slippery slope though.

I would expect companies to count plane emissions when their employees go on business trips, but not on holidays.

I would also expect companies to count emissions produced by their employees when they work remotely, which should be a part of the total emissions of their home.

Sure, they may not be able to get an exact number, and it will be lots of estimates, but it does not mean that we should accept some approximate statement such as "We're trying our best"
This was my experience at a high ranking engineering public state school in the US. Stats is delegated to the applied math program usually (in fact, my degree was titled "Applied Mathematics & Statistics"). You can choose to concentrate in subjects like algorithms, operations research, fin stuff, statistics, etc. CS as well as other sciences had one required intro to prob & stats, but that's it outside electives.

Further, despite having a fantastic reputation, my program only discussed frequentist ideas with near 0 mention of Bayesian reasoning/methods (outside the same Bayes rule questions asked in the first weeks of every stats class). Overall the education felt too traditional, I would have liked to seen mention of more modern methods like the bootstrap and certainly mention of Bayesian.
"That makes it less of a sale and more of a glorified hosting deal. It lets Trump say he’s solved the problem but doesn’t do much else."

This is exactly the first thing that popped into my mind when I read about the deal.
I'm not going to say what this article describes is a power move, but sitting in silence when someone should be talking can absolutely be a power move.

A few job changes ago I read (patio11 I think) that after both sides present opposing salary figures that the hiring manager will often sit in silence and the candidate, being nervous and less experienced, will feel the awkward silence and have a strong urge to say something. Usually they give in to a lower figure.

I tried it the other way. When the hiring manager said "I don't think we can do $X" I just sat there and didn't say anything. After a while he said "let me look at some things" and after poking around on his computer he agreed to the salary I asked for. I'm not great at this. Interestingly I found that to me it was actually easier to not say anything than to repeat my desire for a larger salary.
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I thought he meant Barney from The Flintstones for some reason.
> YouTube for kids while Netflix has a children’s offering,

Weird how a supermarket selling sugary cookies would criticize a man giving away speedballs in the park.
>I feel poudriere takes too much time and disk space building literally everything.

No not really just your packages and the dependencies of those.
> but it can make you believe many other things with out you even noticing.

Case and point. This is false. This is fiction. You believe what you want to believe, you choose to believe the lie that there is anything outside of you that can make you or another do this that or another. That there exist some such authority that can be responsible vs everybody standing up and taking their personal responsibility only to realize that their whole identity is based on more lies and that no one on this planet is in control, that control, safety, security, certainty are as illusory as saying farts stink. All narratives, all stories, all fiction, untruth, the truth cannot be spoken nor written. "Please! Write me out of the Story of the Cave of Plato!" Sorry there bud, You're the one that's gonna have to write yourself out of Plato's cave, out of Plato's Mind, then out your own, if you dare.

> There's nothing new here.

Nothing is not new. Nothing has been around for a very long time. Even before Time came around. You know the Time Being, The Implication Being, the Reason Being, the The State of Being, the Very Being, the Difference Being, the Latter Being, The World Being--They all sit around and laugh at you, they know they're knot RA-EL, yet 'ere thy arrrr(prepping for talk like a pirate day soon, excuse me), "making" them as real as social media can make you believe many other things without you even noticing. ;)
I listened to the whole podcast about Martin.

His family never gave up on him.

He was non-responsive for more than 11 years.

For most of that time, he could hear and understand.

Because he couldn't communicate, his life was a joyless experience.

Sometimes his carers were careless with him, hurting him. He couldn't respond. One nurse abused him. He couldn't respond.

After many years, his mother told him she wished he would die.

He learned how to disengage from his thoughts. Just go to black. He became good at that. It was joyless. "A very dark place to find yourself because in a sense you are allowing yourself to vanish."

After years in this very dark place, one day he decided he'd had enough.

He began to re-engage with his thoughts. Over months, he learned to tell the time by tracking the angle of the sun's rays in the room over the day.

Still, he couldn't move his body.

They'd sit him in front of the TV to watch Barney. He hated Barney.

One day he heard Whitney Houston on the radio, singing The Greatest Love of All. When she sang "No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dig-ni-ty" he thought to himself, "Wanna bet?"

He embraced darkness and endured his own thoughts, moving through them, gaining self-understanding.

Then, after a while, something changed and he could blink his eyes. I don't know how long that took, or what the moment was like when he first made contact again. The podcast doesn't detail that moment. It just skips to when he could squeeze hands.

His mother bought him a joystick. It took him a year to learn how to use it.

He asked for coffee and forged ahead. Within two years he got a job with the government. A nurse told him she had a problem with her computer. He fixed the computer. Soon, he quit his job and started a web design company. He met a woman over Skype. They hit it off and got married when he was 32 years old.

His face hurts from smiling so much.
While serious, this is still an accusation, and will be ultimately decided by the courts not EEOC.
Fwiw, CBP doesn't give a rat about safety. It's solely a trademark thing for them.

Edit: Regarding below. That never came up. It was all cited as a trademark issue.
Hmm. I wonder if this is more of a perception issue than a skill issue.

At least one person on my work team thinks I'm really smart and amazing, but I don't feel like I'm an expert in anything I do.

I would say that an expert knows how to put together knowledge in a certain area of expertise and can quickly judge whether something is plausible and implausible. An expert can identify problems and potential solutions.

I don't think being frustrated or feeling some level of imposter syndrome makes you not an expert.
How does Airtable compare to Notion? What are the features that they have in common?
This quote was my favorite part of the article, because it applies to the whole Open Source concept. It's amazing to me, but there are still business folks who think "Let's release this as open source so other people will do the maintenance for free."

Here's the full quote from the article:

> “Often people say, ‘Open source, it’s free.’ But it’s not free,” says Dominic Rizzo, project lead at Google and project director for OpenTitan. “This is why we find the most successful open-source projects are ones where people have a long-term vested interest and are working together in a collaborative fashion. This contrasts to the style of open source where people developed something and kicked it over the wall as open source.”
Apologies for not reading the article, but the key feature of Cambridge Analytica seems to have been that their stuff didn’t appear to work.
The probability of developing a probe, it travelling to Venus and analysing the data from it within that timescale is worse than 50/50.
Great pitch! The flagship, IMO, is antibiotics. Any contenders?
That's weird. As a merchant, I get requests for refunds and even if I provide all the details about the transaction (for me that would be a license key and proof the license key was used) they always side with the buyer.

Really, the only way to not get PayPal to approve a refund is to work with the customer and solve the problem so the customer cancels the refund request.
Did glencore short or use derivatives on the retail shares as well?
You didn’t lose 4k- Facebook have the money, it’s in their account.

They sold virtual space at an almost infinite margin to a hacked account. The account was hacked on their system, the ad that facilitated the attack was ran on their platform and they allowed the whole thing to perpetuate.

If this was in meatspace, Facebook would be an accessory to fraud.
I appreciate the info. Apparently NVidia has been doing this for more years than I expected.
Per what measure? Are you counting the United States and Western Europe as the #1 economy collectively?
The author wrote a book "Fire Season" about his period in a tower.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9341909-fire-season
https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Articles/2020/04/10/The...
It's kind of off topic so this'll be my last comment about it but I accept your point that backwards compatibility means running old software on a new OS. I was incorrect.

It has been a very, very long time since I've run into hardware that I had any incentive to install vendor provided drivers for in order to get a computer running with Linux, with the exception of VMWare kernel modules and NVidia drivers, but Nvidia cards still run with noveau so the computer will still work so that you can get the proprietary drivers. And VMWare is proprietary software, so that's no surprise.

I just have not done it for actual hardware other than Nvidia graphics cards in at least a decade. Maybe I've gotten lucky in the hardware I've bought or something, but I haven't had any drivers broken badly enough that I even would file a bug report except for my Nvidia proprietary driver that is buggy as heck.

But I accept that my experience is also an anecdote.
This paper seems credible, and there is a lot of other evidence showing that the CCP/PLA was doing genetic modification on coronaviri.
So if we assume that the paper is correct, we must next consider whether or not the SARS-Cov2 virus was accidentally or deliberately released. If the release was accidental, the PRC has taken extreme measures to create disinformation and hide the truth. They didn't do that the last time they had a similar accident.
If I go any further with this line of reasoning, others will likely call me a conspiracy theorist, so I will stop now.
- You studied only a week for high school exams because you already knew most of the material having studied for JEE.

- The "just not in their lecture halls" seems like extrapolation by the journo (I agree with you otherwise). I cant find the pdf of the paper but I doubt the researcher is making that claim. Perhaps it means that motivated students "learn" despite poor teaching at the non-elite colleges.

edit: Ok someone here has posted a link to the paper. The paper is not very good. They arent comparing IITs vs run of the mill colleges. They are comparing public and private colleges within a university which has a common college exit exam. Afaict the university is not even mentioned.
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Bundling isn't necessarily anti-competitive provided ARM isn't taking a loss selling their chip. I'll admit that things aren't actually free-market here because copyright and patent monopolies apply.

There are three possibilities here: ARM's design is approximately the same as the competitory, ARM's design is inferior to the competitor, and ARM's design is superior to the competitor.

If faced with two equivalent products, staying with the same supplier for both is best (especially in this case where the IP isn't supply-limited). The discount means a reduction in costs to make the device. Instead of ARM making a larger profit, their customers keep more of their money. In turn, the super-competitive smartphone market means those savings will directly go to customers.

In cases where ARM's design is superior, why would they bundle? If they did, getting a superior product at an even lower price once again just means less money going to the big corporation and more money that stays in the consumer's pocket.

The final case is where ARM has an inferior design. I want to sell the most performance/features for the price so I can sell more phones. I have 2 choices: slight discount on the CPU but bundled with an inferior GPU or full price for the CPU and full price for a superior GPU. The first option lowers phone price. The second option offers better features and performance. For the high-end market, I'm definitely not going with the discount because peak performance reigns supreme. In the lesser markets, its a calculation of price for total performance and the risk that consumers might prefer an extra few FPS for the cost of another few dollars.

Finally, there are a couple small players like Vivante or Imagination Technologies, but the remaining competitors in the space (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc) aren't going to be driven under by bundle deals, so bundling seems to be pretty much all upside for consumers who stand to save money as a result.
This reads more like sci-fi fantasy than a typical comment on hackers news.
I like this clarification.

If you work out for half an hour and then get off the treadmill, you feel great and accomplished. This is a manageable amount of stress.

But for comparison, imagine if you have to run on that treadmill day after day after day, only getting off for regimented breaks and the bare minimum amount of rest required, and you are only allowed two weeks of vacation a year and then it's back to the treadmill. And if you ever stop running on the treadmill, you lose your house and ability to feed yourself and provide care for your family... It gradually wears your soul down to a nub.
Sticking with something long enough to learn the difference between how it seems it should work & how it actually works.
From the start of the article:

> Rogan has previously said he would vote for Trump over Biden and has speculated that Biden is suffering from some sort of cognitive decline.
The personal benefits of power may not be great enough for anybody but full dark triads to pursue competitively. You can see this easily in first-line managers. And of course we are programmed to filter for this, so imagine how deep the deception must go for politicians.
Granted, I was just a child in the 90s, but I remember all the messaging on TV from cartoons and movies was "recycle, recycle, recycle". I didn't hear anything about"reduce" and "reuse" until I read about it on the internet a few years ago. There were some mentions about making sure not to waste resources, but it wasn't a named thing like recycle was.
>but it still doesn't change the postgis30/postgresql11-server dependency in the current ports tree

If you tell make.conf that postgres12 is the default it will compile postgis for that version, same with php/ruby/mysql and so on.
The parent commenters argument was based on zero reports so I think my comment was appropriate. But even your link shows for France in €/MWh in 2017:

20 Hydro power

43.24 Solar farms

50 Nuclear (with state-covered insurance costs)

60 Onshore wind

61 Natural gas turbines without CO2 capture

100 Nuclear EPR

So nuclear is never cheaper than solar and only cheaper than wind if the state is covering the insurance cost! And your argument about nuclear ramping up and down at will only works, if you have enough Uranium available. Where do you buy your Uranium? How long will the Uranium reserves last? And where will you deposit the nuclear waste? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY2E0hjGuU
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If your followers are "real" followers, and if you are important to them, they'll get in touch outside the fed and will know where to find you. Maybe that's what we should strive for. I have 200+ followers on Twitter, but if you ask me, I can only name 15 with real, social interaction.

And I think that's great.
Might have been this: https://github.com/ashtuchkin/vive-diy-position-sensor
Why?

The payment is authorized by the author (i.e. his PP account wasn't stolen), the whole thing being a scam is irrelevant and PayPal shouldn't be the judge here (if you got scammed and send some physical items to the scammer, can you ask the post office to take it back?)

I sold digital goods on eBay a few times (like, less than 10 times) and I've already got 3 (!) people claiming their purchase is "unauthorized" after I sent them the goods (redeem codes, so I can't really let them "return"). I'm more than glad that PayPal took my stance instead of giving them chargeback, since they're likely trying to scam me.
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When you're learning something you don't know what you don't know, which is why teaching the thing is often said to be a great way to learn more about it. You need to understand it well enough to be able to simplify it, and you get asked questions by the person you're teaching that will test your knowledge.

Find Q&A sites that talk about the think you're trying to become expert in and try to answer as many questions as you can. You don't have to actually answer the questions -- those sites are often hellscapes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24466280
Confirmed not working on Firefox.

It's 2020, just for the record.
Experts begin with and stick with a process that builds expertise: reconsidering assumptions, asking questions and examining the answers, keeping notes and reviewing them, explaining what they learn and teaching others, etc.

Though I do not have the citations, I am sure others here could relate many examples.
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Most hydrocarbons are produced via cracking the molecules into the desired length. You can modify your refinery to get the right ratios that the market demands out of a barrel of crude.
I'd say that things would get terrible if Linux were the popular OS, that we'd become a target for malware, & that we are not now.

Except since our community actually knows stuff & we have users interests at hearts & it's open source, places like Debian would be largely immune to most of the horseshit.
Apply your motivated attention to any subject daily for many years and you'll be an expert. It's not enough to go through motions, either, you need to seek improvement and growth and overcome your weaknesses and challenges.
They're also terrified of losing access by really challenging them.

Remember the 2016 debates, Trump's strategy is to basically spew as much shit as possible until something sticks - the press will not challenge that except in a few cases (The recent two disaster interviews).

"No puppet, No puppet, You're the puppet" would've been eviscerated in a British election debate (and ours are awful)
That's only if the dirty industry is strictly for domestic use. If they export to countries that impose carbon taxes on end users, dirtier processes will make their exports less price competitive. That encourages producers to invest in cleaner energy for energy intensive goods. It really doesn't matter whether the tax is collected at the export-producing end or the import-consuming end as long as it provides the same price signal.
iOS has trusted UI via "double-tap-side-hardware-power-button". So it's a trusted trigger, and a presumably native UI.

I've been very impressed by eBay/PayPal providing "very good" almost native-feeling payment integration (swipe-to-pay, UI coming up from the bottom of the screen), so it may not last forever, but interesting to hear of the depth of scamming possible on phone UI's (and probably desktop UI's too).
The gmail address as a red flag yes, but the package name? Nah.

Given that a lot of companies outsource app development to third-party companies that in many cases mostly reskin and extend an existing app that they sell to many clients, a package name that could be from a development shop likely wouldn't cause concern.

Sure Tik-Tok has a significant in-house development staff, but they're focused on the backend and client apps and Sales and Marketing may not have much access to them. It may be much easier for those departments to fully outsource that development to a vertical-market vendor, particularly if it's SaaS and the resulting app(s) aren't integrating with internal systems except via downloaded CSV files.
> possibly in the 2000s

Late 90s. It was Dieter Döpfer's creation of the eurorack standard that really kicked off the modular synth revival (though of course with anything, a lot of stuff was in the air and Döpfer was also in the right place at the right time).
Niels Bohr, widely regarded as an expert, has said that an expert is someone who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. If you want to become an expert, you should presumably pick a suitable narrow field and start making mistakes.
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Which everyone does, if one has more then 2 machines ;)
Many good answers here, but I want to emphasize one particular facet: other experts help you become an expert.

A thousand years ago, anyone could have invented relatively basic math - but they didn't. The reason is that they didn't have other people to inspire and motivate and teach them.

Very little knowledge comes ab initio or from a vacuum. Expertise is not created by working in isolation for decades. To build expertise, you need to be interacting with other experts. This doesn't mean they need to teach you, nor does it mean they need to be be in person. But you have to be at least reading what they write.

It's much easier to reach the clouds if you stand on the shoulders of giants.