skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lower population growth rate. As the median age increases, mortality rate will naturally increase. Also obesity has been increasing, which is a known killer.
The churches don't have radical views though.

Also please see the HN guidelines regarding insinuating someone hasn't read the article.
I think you're missing my point. I'm saying that nuclear fission is indeed a totally zero carbon process, but the life-cycle emits 12 gCO2-eq/kWh. The term life-cycle is a technical term from the academic concept of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which includes all the energy and emissions from the processes of mining, fabrication, construction, operation, and decommissioning.

The life-cycle numbers I give are sourced directly from an IPCC meta-analysis [2]. With nuclear, the entire life-cycle is extraordinarily low carbon even though it requires lots of concrete to build because you get about a billion Watts 90% of the time for 60 years given that much concrete.

As for what's easier, the common answer seems to be that variable renewables are ok for a while but at deep decarbonization, the situation is much easier and cheaper if you include some kind of low-carbon energy that can run 24/7, aka a "firm low-carbon source" [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_assessment

[2] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

[3] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.08.006
As affected repository or sender of a complain?
All of the usual caveats from information theory apply though. In particular, the noisiness of the channel plays a huge part in Shannons equation for information capacity.

In this case in particular, if you receive no particles you know that the event either did not happen _or_ it did happen and you failed to detect the particle. If you do receive a particle you know that either the event happened at least once _or_ it did not happen and you have a false positive from your detector _or_ there was a particle but it was introduced by quantum noise. To make sure what actually happened you would need more signal, more particles per transmitted bit.

However, it is entirely possible that this reduction in effective bit rate will slow down actual bit rates back down to "normal" subluminal speeds.
When was the last time a David ran over Goliath because they moved faster?
AdoptOpenJDK 8u272, 11.0.9, and 15.0.1 Available
TypeScript is miles ahead of others I'm surprised. Swift can't even tell it's no longer a "nil" after "if some_var != nil" and felt like I'm helping the language instead of the other way and PHP's typing is still very young and Ruby seems to be introducing some weird declaration file instead of simple inline typing.
Libertarians for and Against Copyrights 1995
An interesting article and response http://freenation.org/a/f32h3.html to it on copyrights and intellectual property.
Both timeliner and rclone (which are both great projects) are at the mercy of the Google photos api, which removes GPS metadata and elides the majority of other tags. Even something as critical as the captured-at time can get modified from the original.

(Source: my personal experience with Google Pixel "original quality" backups, and providing customer support to several hundred PhotoStructure beta testers).
> The issue is what you do on a phone, not the phone itself.

Now try that with tobacco. Indeed, in a very technical sense of the word, cigarettes nor mobile phones are not the issue. But telling people "just stop smoking" didn't do the trick.
Your criticisms about the paper are not criticisms of what I cited. I agree that the authors speculations about path dependence are less than convincing. But the paper is clear that they are speculations, so refuting the speculations does not refute the core observation: investing a unit of capital in nuclear results in less emissions reductions than investing that unit of capital in renewables. We can speculate about technology changes which would change this, and make nuclear competitive with renewables for reducing emissions, but let's be clear about those technology changes, and also estimate the probabilities of the technology changes given our current learning curves.

A Western government that they can build new nuclear at $4000/kW is living in a fantasyland. It has been tried again and again across the US and Europe in the past 20 years, with similar claims, and failure at every attempt. There is absolutely no reason to believe that those are plausible numbers at the moment, any more than $5/MWh solar in 2021 is a plausible number. Perhaps it can be done, but when we have recent attempt after recent attempt that's coming in at more than a factor of two difference, it is not a credible claim.

I view climate change as the most important challenge to humanity, and I daily regret that I did not choose a career path that let me direct address it in my workday, leaving my research to only a couple hours a day in the evenings.

And 15 years ago, I viewed nuclear as probably the only route forward, as many others did at the time too. I closely followed construction projects started then. And by following, I have become absolutely disillusioned about the possibility of nuclear. The time to build and perfect designs was 15 years ago, so that we could deploy now. Instead. The opportunity was squandered with incompetence, and we are now further away from building large nuclear reactors than we were in 2005.

And I'm the same time period, we have had an absolute revolution in costs for wind and solar and storage.

Please point out a straw man argument that I have made. I have tried to be respectful here, and apologize if I haven't. But I do not find you to be realistic about nuclear's current prospects, and current costs. If you believe that nuclear could be a climate solution, I urge you to investigate both its recent history and the recent history of our newer, better technologies. We are no longer living in 1970 and we can not apply its reasoning.
The thing that surprises me is how stationary everything in space seems to be, in order for this to have been possible.

But everything is moving, right? So how could a series of pictures over this long of a time work out to be so clear?
Only covers 2015-now : https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country
America's poor health is jeopardizing its future
Tesla Early Beta FSD 2020.40.8.10 Santa Clarita to Pasadena, CA
>And we'll adjust, as we always do

I don't understand this line of thinking. Sure, it may not be the literal end of the world, but that doesn't mean that it won't cause a lot of damage before people 'adapt'. People have always adapted to wars, but that doesn't mean that the world wars weren't absolutely catastrophic.

And while I don't think that smartphones will 'destroy you', I think there's a good chance that it can both be very corrosive in all sorts of manners. I think smartphones are a lot more potent at sedating people and making them detached than novels ever could hope to be, which can have a very harmful impact on society at large.
Here's one from the CDC for excess deaths in the U.S. and its states:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

The excess deaths during the pandemic are not subtle in these graphs. If the data is accurate and the comparison with Sweden is valid, then it does tend to support the importance herd immunity to this virus.
The Dreams presentation is definitely a must-watch for anyone interested in sculpting.
Their splatter tech is so amazingly neat that I can't wait to see it in more games.
Didn't try clayxel and mudbun but they already were in my favorites, still waiting for any of them standing out ;)

Did you explore splatter rendering?
Osiris-Rex: NASA probe risks losing asteroid sample after door jams
I don’t think site security is the main concern for the average person when it comes to this use case. They run the same risk with all of their physical possessions and there are existing solutions for this eg firesafes. Making sure that drive failure doesn’t wipe out your photos or files would be more important. Multiple redundant drives are the solution. If each is a small SSD and plug and play it’s something anyone could handle by just buying a new drive and swapping it out. Physical data appliances need to be as simple as a lamp. Plug it in, turn it on and occasionally replace a light bulb.
Thank you! I hope that it serves you well.
Why is it liberating? I'm old enough that I used to live that way as a youth because I didn't have a cell phone. It was an annoying waste of time with zero benefits.
Let me be clear, basically the "rolling cipher" is DASH/HLS streaming for automatic quality changing. This has been an argument RIAA has been making since 2016, but outside of the judgement in Germany (which is wrong). All they have had on it are default judgements where no-one has even tried to counter it in court.
The biggest misunderstanding for the media and politicians in this pandemic is that individual citizens are making their own response decisions rather than solely relying on government policy. So, Sweden was more lax from government policy perspective, but that doesn't mean Swedes were completely unafraid and behaving recklessly. They're not out recreating their own version of the Sturgis rally daily.
It’s funny you won’t even consider that their strategy actually worked.
Honestly some hash or public key would probably work fine. "withinboredom" means nothing to me (no offense) and it would be easy to add your ID as a contact or git remote and never deal with it again.
Good stuff.

I've been using the AWS CDK with Python and it's made it much easier to automate defining resources.
I agree with your comment. As a sidenote concerning your last point, Gabriel Wyner's book "Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It" explains in detail how to build an SRS system to learn a language and it strongly advises against using translation tasks in your SRS.

Instead of thinking in the target language, your mind will create strong associations with the words in your original language and make it difficult to think in the target language by always having to refer to the original language. A better task design would be receiving images and coming up with the word in the target language.
I hope you are kidding.

When you are getting money the amounts Google pays their employees, you couldn't care less if everyone in the world says "we hate you, you suck"

Plus, once you have Google on your resume, it's hard to imagine a company that will reject you so ... again, no one cares if they are hated.
I would assume that that ‘net worth’ is mostly caught up in housing, and very much not available for investment.
This is forbidden knowledge
It has a couple of really good use cases as it works on non-phones (macs and ipads). Little kids and some older people don’t have phones. I like the bigger screen for non-casual video calls.

Also, I was on a project with a colleague who had a poor internet connection and we found FT worked better than zoom. FT video quality seems to be the best of the services I’ve used but personally I don’t care about this part much.

I wouldn’t call these “killer features” but they are enough, with the integration into address book etc, to make it flourish.
Early in the pandemic I wondered if all of the isolation would have the same effect here - fewer deaths due to driving, flying, flu, etc. But the CDC says we’ve had 300000 excess deaths this year: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6942e2.htm?s_cid=mm...

Really makes one wonder about differences in the US and Swedish population, especially regarding widespread obesity and diabetes.
> Hydrogen cannot be better than hydrocarbons, because the efficiency of the cycle can reach very close values for both, while storage tanks and associated devices are much smaller and cheaper for hydrocarbons.

So, where do you get the carbon from? Atmospheric capture? That blows the "easier" claim right out of the water. Biomass? Not practical on the very large scale needed.

Efficiency of conversion in combined cycle plants is around 60%.
I am a runner and when I go for runs I don't take my phone with me. I have a Garmin watch that has music storage (which I also use for podcasts & audiobooks) and some basic navigation/mapping functionality (which I've never used). I run semi-long distances, up to and above a half marathon for training runs, and never really felt like I needed my phone. I guess it would be useful for emergencies, and when I ride my roadbike I do have it with me, but that's primarily because riding is more dangerous. The main thing I miss on my runs w/o a phone is snapping a pic every now and then. I would not use it for anything else as I don't make any stops (I run non-stop), and quite often I don't even wear headphones as I like to enjoy the sounds around me.

I suggest you guys try it. And yes, that includes if you don't run/jog, _try_ that as well, phone or not.
This is being worked on: "ForgeFed" https://github.com/forgefed/forgefed
You have a point to some extent, it could be valuable to offer download buttons on a lot of videos. However, YouTube is only as valuable as the content it serves, and the content creators are the ones putting ads in their videos and who would be unhappy if there were download buttons on everything
You can switch to the PinePhone and do this if you still want a portable computer. Last time I checked there still isn't a turn by turn navigation program (although you can run gnome maps, which will give you a list of directions to memorize.)
^ and the Python script likely has many more bugs.

One of the best things about gluing together battle tested Unix programs is that you'll only have bugs in your glue, not in the tricky logic that's more error prone.
That is essentially what it does: it uses Youtube's own API to formulate the correct URL, using all publicly known data that Google themselves publish so Youtube can function.
Consider this is also a huge, multi-generational propagation of information problem in very long latency (slow) network structures.

A few members of one generation learns to read and write, they provide the teachers for the next generation, somewhat along the way arithmetic and finance start getting thrown in. How many teachers, especially at the higher levels, really understand their subject, and aren't just reciting it?

Then there are other issues. On the finance side, a notoriously high pressure, long hours career, where is the incentive to teach other people?

We should absolutely change the curriculum the way you suggest, and use basic life skills as the foundation for teaching things like math, biology etc. And better, typically private or privileged entry schools do just that. To do that across the board, well, first we have to teach the teachers. (On that front it would probably also help if the US coped Finland and paid them decently, but that would require some kind of across the board federal funding, and we all know how Americans feel about the T word.)
Lockdowns equal suicides, overeating, lack of exercise, collapse of support networks, domestic violence, delayed preventative care, and more.

I’m not surprised at all that domestic deaths went up.
I’ve used Anki prior and always wished there was an easy way to inject a bit of randomness into it.

For instance, you could have the idea of a “template” such as

<Pronoun> <Tense of to go> <Place> and <Same Tense of to see> a <Noun>.

A lot of times things probably would be a bit non sensical such as

“They went to the bank and saw an apple.”

“She will go to the Eiffel Tower to see a motorboat.”

But I always thought it would really help me a lot more than the more rote aspects.

Of course, then the spaced repetition might be less effective due to the variety of the same card, and it may be more like studying something new.
Why your codebase is your biggest fear?
Your link shows it's a trivial amount of energy compared to what the reactor will produce. As a criticism of nuclear it's a non-starter.
Why would you walk out the door before checking that the store is open, if the whole point of the excursion is to visit the store (and in this case, you don't have an idea when it is open)?
I've had this accidentally happen because I run out of charge (not very diligent charging) and it's actually not all that much more fun.

I'm pretty good with not using my phone, though.
Huh, that’s weird. Also went to school in Ireland; never heard of business studies being mandatory. It’s certainly not required by the curriculum.
Haven't corona infections and deaths been relatively higher in Sweden than in other countries? I.e when looking for a confirmation for "Sweden being right" then I'm not sure this is the data that proves it.
Thank you. That is what I was thinking but the different sizes kind of got me.
An implicit belief in life we don’t know about was an uncontentious part of church doctrine for a very long time.

The basic gist is the understanding that Creation is not parsimonious. It is joyfully over-abundant. Then, why wouldn’t there be life everywhere?

Tangentially, i think the more important thing to remark on here is how that fundamental approach which proclaims that the world is not zero-sum has shifted, especially in modern times. I’d suggest that it’s not a positive shift.
Basically yeah, but I would rephrase it as liberation from constant reliance, or from always having the perfect answer, from a lessened use of ones mind, from necessary human interaction to ask anyone a question, or from spending any precious second not maximizing the amount of information and "productivity" you can achieve.

It's about being a human, in an environment, around other humans, with time to spare for original thoughts and just to enjoy being alive. I expect many people on this forum are the "productivity" and "maximizing" type. Not that there's anything wrong with that! We need those people! But I think we might all be able to benefit from truly relying on ourselves in difficult situations, instead of just asking the answer box to help us avoid any annoyance or unnecessary difficulty.

If you wish your life to be a perfectly smooth series of directions given by a silicon hivemind, feel free friend. Sometimes the bumps and the dirt are what make life worth living though. Sometimes the empathy of unnecessary difficult situations can create bonds and perspective that shiny chrome smoothness cannot. Persistent smooth perfect answers have their purpose and we wouldn't have invented it if not for its use but I find the rather strong opposition to experiencing and exploring one's humanity, whether this way or that, rather frightening. Almost sounds like it's the chrome talking and not the human.
Using Metadata to find Paul Revere
This story resonates a bit with me. Some years ago, I did some freelance work. I made a good faith effort to do all the tax paperwork. In my naive zeal, I fucked up the forms, and somehow reported the same income twice. What they were asking me to pay was basically the profit I made on the project after expenses. I think I spent 80 hour assembling materials and corresponding with the IRS to try to explain what had happened. Every time it seemed like I was about to get through to a real human who could understand, I was starting all over.

I did go to a professional when I was about halfway through the saga. They did not really know what to do. They just wrote another one of the same kinds of letters that I had been writing. Maybe the extra tax jargon in it helped. I don't know.

Ultimately I only had to pay a small fraction of what they were asking, but it left me with a phobia of taxes. The rules appeared to be arbitrary and unknowable (to me) and yet I was still responsible for complying.
I think Anki’s official app has those features? It was about 20 bucks on iPhone and free on OS X I believe, not sure about other platforms.

The thing that would always get me would be that I would make a card on the phone and forget to manually sync it or something and then make a card on the computer and have to resolve conflicts.

They really just needed an “add all cards from all sources” feature since that was generally all I wanted.
Great extra info and way to look at it, thank you.
It’s a nice CNN talking point but any actual evidence Swedes are less “reckless”?
As a CEO, this sounds like an incredibly broken company model. It’s obviously working in a lot of ways, but why would you make it so hard to get things done once you’re at scale?
This is how I learned as a kid (I'm 23) and I have to say my discovery of GNU/Linux and Free and Libre Open Source Software has may have been the single most impactful event I can trace in my life.
I wonder if productivity per capita has went down?
Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007)
How one Native American tribe in S.D. created its own wireless education network
I had the same thought so I checked the git history and it seems, if I’ve checked the right lines, they were added somewhere between 4-7 years ago.
> providing strict message ordering and deduplicated message delivery to one or more subscribers.

this is hard yo
There are multiple extensions in Google's own Android Chrome stores for downloading videos from YouTube and everyone else. I just used a few to download and HLS stream that was having severe buffering issues.

It would seem hard to argue that Google is completely against it when they could be considered a contributor to the "problem". Providing apps that violate their own TOS. Not just source code, but actual apps/extensions.
>In your opinion me advocating for reducing the age of what is considered a minor should be a reason good enough to cancel me?

That's not what Stallman advocated, or at least, that borders on a bad faith description of what he advocated, which was legalizing and normalizing sexual relationships between adults and children. He literally referred to the distinction as "voluntary pedophilia[0]" as opposed to "involuntary" pedophilia, believing that children were capable of giving informed consent to sexual relationships in some cases.

And bear in mind that he later recanted this view[1].

If you read his other posts[2], it becomes clear that his primary concern was not simply reducing the legal age of consent - context is important.

Add to that the numerous (albeit, granted, anecdotal) claims of unwanted sexual advances and harassment by Stallman over the years, then yes, I believe he should not have been in the position of leadership and advocacy that he was, which is what "cancellation" implies here.

Anyone other than Richard Stallman would have been run off campus and possibly out of town on a rail years ago for much less egregious behavior. But Richard Stallman, being the prophet of free software, could be found in flagrante delicto with a literal infant and half of this forum would praise him for his revolutionary anti-establishment behavior, and half of the rest would insist the infant was planted by Microsoft.

>I don't agree with this idea but it seems dangerous to pressure society to stop advocating for more controversial stuff.

Why? Simply because it's controversial? No, society shouldn't be run under the edgelord principles of a board on 4chan. Controversy is not in and of itself a value worth preserving for its own sake.

But bear in mind that Stallman's behavior and beliefs were tolerated until the point where they caused a social media shitstorm. He really wasn't even cancelled because of his controversial views, he was cancelled because his controversial views suddenly became a PR nightmare for MIT, which, remember, had taken donation money from Jeffrey Epstein.

> Just a few years back you would cancel me(or even worse) if I suggested interracial marriage is OK (what a deviant idea ...)

You're drawing a set of false equivalencies. Ideas can and should be judged, accepted or rejected on their individual merits or lack thereof. Opposition to pedophilia is not equivalent to opposition to interracial marriage along any moral or ethical axis.

[0]https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20Jun...

[1]https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287006