skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emissions have gone down because of the fracking boom. Coal power plants are being replaced with natural gas which releases half as much carbon dioxide.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-....
> Ending COVID19 is a risk to global emissions, because the pandemic‘s lockdowns has reduced emissions.

Long term it isn't. Reducing emissions is going to cost a lot of money. There is less money available for that after economies shrink and governments print money to support their people. Covid helps emissions temporarily but harms the overall path.
Imposing tariffs based on pollution is already GATT-legal. AFAIK it's something countries avoid for all the other reasons why countries avoid tariffs.
> Obama didn’t start any wars

Obama:

* Started a military campaign in Syria.

* Supported diplomatically and militarily, and armed, Saudi Arabia in its genocidal war on Yemen.

* Supported diplomatically and militarily, and armed, Saudi Arabia in its occupation of Bahrain.

* Supported diplomatically and militarily, and armed, Israel in three military campaigns in Gaza.

* Started military intervention in Somalia.

* Started involvement in hostilities in Uganda.

Now, you could argue that only two or three of these count as "starting a war", but still.

> spent 8 years trying to close Pandora’s box?

More like 8 years keeping them open, or prying them open (e.g. vis-a-vis China).

But there's one notable exception: Iran. Even though he bears responsibility for illegal and unjustified sanctions, the JCPOA agreement was a tolerable compromise all around.
I don’t think that’s the case. As far as I have read, a multi-step action that you create cannot use a community action.

I was wanting to do this so as to be able to break up some lengthy workflows into reusable pieces, so I figured I’d create some actions, but when I tried to use for example the standard checkout action, inside my action, it failed. I emailed support and they said that actions inside actions was not supported.

Perhaps you are referring to something else? A different type of action?
They said it was intentional but did not state why, and said that they could not tell me why.

From what I understand they can close your accounts for any reason.
Something you describe as "very important" seems like a strange thing to do as cheaply as possible.
This doesn't make sense: WalMart doesn't really have a backroom. It comes off the truck and goes onto the shelves. The backroom is too small (compared to the size of the store) to have spares of everything on pallets that are moved to the shelves as needed. This is by design - spares in the backroom are excess inventory which needs to be paid for. I'm sure there exceptions for a few things that sell in large numbers and take up a lot of space (bulk packs of toilet paper for example, keep them on a high shelf and move a few down as needed), but for the most part WalMart is against inventory.

WalMart already knows how much of something they have because they get everything scanned at the register. Sure there is a hour delay between it leaving the shelf and it being subtracted from inventory, but they need more than an hours worth on inventory on the shelf anyway because it takes time to load a truck with whatever they need more of. Shoplifting is a problem that mucks with this (I could actually see this being a useful help to that problem, but I'm not sure if it is useful enough)
Don't involve law enforcement unless you absolutely have to. The first thing they'll do is investigate TF out of you and your friends/family and they absolutely cannot be trusted to "do the right thing" or especially not to protect you in any way. They are not your friend.
I belive you can blacklist that driver if needed.
There are a lot of hidden traps when rendering anything on modern operating systems that add small latencies and those small latencies add up quickly (it was much easier on old 8- and 16-bit computers).

For instance rendering something that "sticks" to the system mouse pointer and doesn't lag a few pixels behind when moving the mouse is surprisingly hard if you're rendering through a 3D API (compared to going through the native window system), at least if you also want to be energy efficient (e.g. not spam 1000 frames per second).

What strikes me as odd is describing the ImGui idea as an "ideology" when it's the most pragmatic way to describe user interfaces in a long time, for me that's the opposite of an ideology.
See https://www.coelux.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ4TJ4-kkDw .
How to harness a collaborative environment in a remote world
Ultimately, both arguments are true.

Developing nations have a claim. It's deeply unfair that wealthy nations who have emitted a lot of carbon get permission to keep emitting more as a result. But also.. if developing nations fully stake this claim by increasing their emissions or even flatlining then the game is lost.

This is the problem with thinking in absolutes. The alternative is making some concessions and moving forward regardless because of belief in the mission. Europe is already in the same per capita ballpark as china. If the US/Australia/etc had gotten themselves near this per capita level, the politics of developed/developing economies would have softened somewhat. The fairness issues aren't as sharp once emissions are similar.

Realistically, we are not politically structured (as a world) to deal with carbon reduction well. Nationalism is the dominant paradigm both structurally/politically and ideologically. It's a weak paradigm for global action.

I emphasize the politics over the economics, though obviously both intertwine. Long term, there are economic upsides as well as downsides to carbon reduction. As a blind (long) bet, I'd always bet on new energy paradigms being a good thing. The long tail upside is especially interesting. Within a functioning polity, that's something you can work. The world isn't.
Citation needed. All I can find are jailed musicians in Japan for drug possession.
> Mail in votes will almost certainly heavily skew blue.

Is there a good explanation for that assertion? I've seen it being said in many places but never any reason for it. Why would mail in votes skew in a particular direction?
Prices are low because we have lots of machines using cheap fossil energy working for us. If we have less machines working for us, we'll produce less goods, and we'll be less rich.
Role of testing in software development life cycle
I mostly agree with your observations but would like to see more experimentation. Specifically, existing countries have to work with/for the people they've got. Over time it may be that the citizens are no longer really "like minded" to a minimum level where they can cooperate effectively.

We should be able to try experiments with "re-booting" populations without secession, civil war, ethnic cleansing, or genocide.

I would be interested in re-seeding a secular society that although it doesn't ban religion also doesn't privilege religion. I.e. believe and do what you want but any time your religious beliefs run into conflict with secular values, secular values win. The problem is that religious beliefs are (at least pragmatically) protected because they are so deeply and dearly held. It seems unfair and ultimately futile to just ask true believers to turn it off in school / on the job / in the voting booth.

From what I understand of US law, non-profits are not able to discriminate based on religion, but religious organizations are. So e.g. you can't say "You can't join the Secular Space Nation Project because you're religiously devout or your particular religious beliefs will make you hard to integrate," but you can say "You can't join the Church of the New Space Country" because you don't practice the "New Space Country" religion.
https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/util/ChainingOp...
And the extraction is illegal.
Presumably the point of the action is to disrupt the ongoing development of youtube-dl, not delete the code from the internet. I don't know much about the codebase, but I assume that YouTube could put time into breaking compatibility if it was known that the project had lost momentum and couldn't keep up. It takes a lot of effort to keep up with a well funded organisation - see NewPipe, etc.

Of course you don't need GitHub to run an open source software project, you could conceivably do it with IPoAC[1] if you really wanted to. But in the real world, being kicked off the most popular platform of its kind, and losing the community and integrations that come with it, is going to slow the project down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
In the beta release, Atlantis has supported multiple Proxyman apps in the same network: https://github.com/ProxymanApp/atlantis/issues/25
Maybe in Oakland? Not in Santa Cruz.

I've never heard anything about Denver either, but they have been decriminalized in all three
Only until they start being able to drop rocks on things...

Giving a private company potential WMD's is a whole other question though.
Show HN: Weightlifting tracker app where you can code
Fundamentally Mint doesn't have a security team so who knows and who is checking? They are talking here about a expensive build server for making chromium. Compare that with Ubuntu which has a full blown security team with salaries.

The resource difference here is massive.

Anyone looking for anything will be looking at Ubuntu rather than Mint. Mainly because it's the base for everything else and actually has commercial worth.

If you trust them, go ahead but I'm sticking with Ubuntu.
What? That's their bread and butter. You wouldn't expect a pizza place to give away pizza....
> On the other hand, if you remove enough limits from art or computation, nearly everything becomes a feasible possibility and that's boring!

I agree. What I am trying to figure out is why.

About 25 years ago, I was enthusiastic about exploring 3D computer graphics. These days, I could hardly care less. Challenge isn't really an issue here because excellent 3-D graphics are more difficult to create simply because the bar has been raised so much higher. I suspect that doing something that feels innovative may be a big part of the problem. While this doesn't take away from the personal challenge of learning something new, it does diminish the sense of accomplishment. Or maybe something else is going on.
Interview with Leonard Adleman – 2002 ACM Turing Award Recipient
First order of business:

1. Drop the US dollar as a reserve currency.

2. Free the SWIFT system from subservience to US decrees.
Oh I fondly remember my Pentium MMX 200 Mhz with a Voodoo 2 and a whole 64 MB of RAM. It even ran Windows XP after upgrading to 128 MB of RAM! I was pretty sad when I found out it would not run GTA III :D
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I'm guessing because they sell off the mortgages and loans they originate? So they are only acting as a processor and there are no other processors to send you to (or it would be a massive hassle to do it).
I created a new website[DigForYou],dig something interesting
> Science, Capitalism and entrepreneurship will be the unstoppable force that will solve our energy crisis, if western governments let them.

Yes, everybody knows that EVs received precisely zero government subsidy in terms of R&D, business loans, and consumer rebates. That free market did it all by itself. And we've got what... 1% of the cars on the road running on electric?
It's also almost cheaper to build new solar than to operate natural gas.

It doesn't require coordinated action to move away from coal and gas at that point.
This is what the UK did a number of years ago. At the time we got a lot of praise for dramatically cutting emissions.

The problem is, that change didn't effect anyone negatively, and thanks to cheaper gas imports it was essentially free.

Now that we are off coal, future cuts are going to be a lot harder.
Massachusetts opts against ranked choice voting
China is building nuclear power plants like crazy: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/china-build-4.... So, in a few years things should look much better there.
Uber and Lyft are examples of the best way independent contracting works. The problem is the way its eating industries that were not built for it. Drivers get the benefits of being independent. Other contractors, for example estheticians, get almost none of them. They don't get to set their own hours and rates.
I also have an HP Laserjet and it works reliably. it's hooked up to a Raspberry Pi running CUPS so it even works for my phones and Linux desktop.

I'm not educated in printers at all, but anecdotally it seems most problems arise with ink printers.
Bir Tawil is the traditional land of the Ababda tribe. They've used it for centuries and now do gold-mining there.

It annoys me that in 2020 we have people exercising a colonial script where just because there's no piece of paper saying this land is claimed we don't recognize the traditional and de-facto claim of the people who actually are there.

That said ... I'm tempted ...
3 essential brand management tools that will make your life easier
But why, if there's a perfectly good, appropriate enough, and concise term available? Being verbose does not scale.
I gave up on their entire product category. I stopped buying printers 15 years ago and I urge everyone to stop also. When their fucking wallets are empty they'll fix their fucking shitty printers.
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I made a free PWA phone app for tracking weightlifting progress - Liftosaur. Yup, like thousands of other weightlifting tracker apps, but mine has one unique feature - you can write code right in the app!

It has a powerful exercise editor, where you can define the logic for progressions and deloads using built-in scripting language Liftoscript. Like, you can express that after 3 successful Squat sets you want to increase the weight by 5lb, or decrease weight if you didn’t hit 12 reps total, or anything like that.

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I wonder if they took some living specimens to try and propagate them in captivity. I didn't read the paper thoroughly, but it seems they didn't take any alive, though they did kill two chameleons for study.
"What China makes for US they also use a version of that internally."

You are implying that China would be producing the cars, or at least the primary components. But you have provided no support for this. Current production and sourcing partnerships show no evidence to support your implication. Even ICE vehicles in the US overwhelmingly have the engine and transmission built in countries other than China, with a large number being built in the US, Canada, and Mexico.
> Is it lawyers misunderstanding the value of security research?

I would've thought it would be more likely some middle manager who doesn't understand tech and just knows this person was ""abusing"" their system.
Yeah, just last weekend, I was checking out various equipment in my office. I have a large format photo quality inkjet but one cartridge is empty and the other two are dried out. Would cost me over $100 to refill it and I just don't use it enough to keep the cartridges fresh. Not worth buying new cartridges for it. My B&W laser is fine for most things, the few photos I want printed are easily done online on choice of media and size, and if I decided I really have to print in color at home, I'd replace my B&W laser with a color laser printer.
The Underlying Technology of Algorand
> now that the US basically proven to be untrustworthy

Was the US ever trustworthy?
USPS disregards court order after more than 300k ballots can't be traced
I bet on a hack.
Google vs. Apple: Which Pays Its Software Engineers Higher Salaries?
The gotcha is that if in the same function you put in another URL with the same protocol, the compiler will refuse to compile the code due to a duplicate label.

int main() {
https://acceptable/
http://okay/
https://duplicate.error/
}
This actually addresses real racism compared to that what popular culture often fails to convey.

Nearly skipped this article because I thought I already know the content. Glad I did not.
Of course. The point is that it is ridiculous to use Tesla as evidence that the free market will solve our problems when

1. Tesla's impact on global emissions is minimal.

2. Government intervention in EVs has been there from the start.

The charitable conclusion is that governments and markets can work together. The pessimistic conclusion is that markets are only capable of putting lipstick on pigs.
I don't think you're joking, but I think you're making pretty terrible assumptions.

A party large enough is effectively a broadcast/performance.

It's not as cut and dried and greed-filled as all that.

For large acts and musical pieces that have moved into the larger cultural milieu, sure—there's a discussion to be had about the place of the work in that society. (And then maybe the society as a whole should compensate the artist they've so benefited from more directly)

Those licensing and copyright laws were designed to protect journeyman musicians from having their life's work robbed by large publishers and broadcasters and it still serves that purpose.

Imagine proprietary software from your work was lifted and incorporated by a potential client. I'm certain in most cases that would be grounds for litigation in most peoples' minds. (Or, for example Robert Kearns' case)
The US has majorly been transitioning to both natural gas AND renewables.

In fact, practically the only facilities being built for the last decade have been wind and solar and in massive quantities. If you look in the generation queues of the various RTO/ISOs (organizations that manage which units run and at what level for large parts of the grid) the only thing expected to be built is even more wind and solar along with storage. Multiple GW of wind capacity is being added each year, so it isn't slowing.

Why is this happening? It's complicated, but it's basically economics at this point.

What problems do we face? Well, sometimes wind and solar aren't available. You can solve this in three ways. The first is to have thermal generation respond when the wind/solar dips. This can be tricky as thermal generators (outside of natural gas) weren't designed to move that fast. They were designed to run near max for most of their life. Natural gas peakers are more effective here. Another option is storage, which can hold you over until you get more wind/solar again. However, we would need a massive amount of storage built for this to be effective. A third option would be to increase demand response at the industrial and customer level. Meaning, power isn't generally expected to be 100% available in that scenario. If there isn't enough generation capacity, those that aren't willing to pay the high prices are shut off (or something along those lines). That is generally how supply/demand is supposed to work anyway, but practically speaking, the demand doesn't participate today. In actuality, I expect a combination of all of that to become common place and it is what the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been pushing for.
I love Tailwind CSS: pros and cons of Tailwind
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The ticketmaster value proposition
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We have enough fossil-fuel-dependent capacity to strip-mine soil to feed the entire world. I'm not sure if we have enough capacity for sustainable food production, and even if, the methods, technologies and supply chains aren't there (and won't be, as long as they have to compete against modern agriculture).
I have the same one. Haven’t had any issues with it. I don’t know when I originally bought it, but according to my records, I purchased toner cartridges in 2012, 2015, and 2020. The usage report says I’ve printed 6,111 pages. It has been a fantastic product.
Why the SEC?

The CFPB or the FDIC are far more likely to have jurisdiction here.
It's in the article I shared in the GP

>Starting early this year, the coronavirus pandemic prompted millions of voters across the country to request mail-in ballots in order to avoid exposure to the virus at the polls. And while the party breakdown for mail-in ballots started off fairly even, it split off after Trump launched a monthslong crusade to discredit mail-in voting.

>As Election Day neared, some states, like Florida and North Carolina, tallied up the mail-in ballots they received ahead of time, and then released that total soon after the polls closed on Election Day, and before they finished counting up the in-person votes... they tended to show early leads for Biden which disappeared once all the in-person votes (which tended to favor Trump) were counted. This was dubbed the blue mirage.

Also

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/10/09/voter-engage...

>Trump supporters are more than twice as likely as Biden supporters to say they plan to vote in person on Election Day (50% vs. 20%). By contrast, 51% of Biden supporters say they plan to vote by mail or absentee (or have already voted this way). A quarter of Trump supporters (25%) say they plan to vote by mail or absentee.
Does anyone feel like cloud functions are much more expensive than aws lambda + api gateway? I think so..
I have the similar concerns as you. I still use actions, but I am very careful about reading through the code of any actions I use.

Your idea to use forked versions of actions is interesting.

Another security concern I have with GitHub is that when you give permission for a 3rd party app on your repo, you have to give access across all repos in your account.

I’m really surprised it’s not possible to give access to a specific repo. It’s bizarre to me that it’s setup like this.