skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the gist of carbon credits and taxation, yes. The idea is that the finances work as a disincentive at scale, but in reality if your business has no other way to operate, you're just going to pay the tax and live with it.

The airshed is, of course, indifferent to our financial games...

Now, if it actually works to change your behaviour so that you don't emit as much carbon because you can profit on the difference, well, hey! That's a good thing! But I don't think most industries can just stop on a dime and pivot like that.... it may provide incentives in the long term, or it just might end up with all the costs passed back to the consumer, who may or may not actually have a choice where to spend their money. This is basically the worst case scenario, where it just ends up being a financial game and doesn't improve anything. I hear that the solution in this case is just to ramp it up higher so that it eventually forces people to demand change; but they might just demand a change to the tax if no other options are forthcoming.

There's also the matter of catabolic processes, i.e. where something that emits less carbon is only financially feasible because of subsidies / taxes / etc. and in reality does not make economic sense to do. Any energy-generating technology that is not actually profitable without this is arguably taking in more energy than it produces, in the form of the externalities needed to enable it (i.e. fossil fuels that go into the building and maintenance of green energy projects).
OP here! Would you mind sharing your browser/OS? Can take a look at that
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It's an edge case. For 99% of users, it will be connected to the internet and that connectivity was a reason for purchasing.
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that said, come forward please so we know who did it!
The word on the street that the extremity of the "in secret" part is the Director of Public Prosecutions, Christian Porter, protecting old party mate, Alexander Downer, to keep his name out of the mud for as long as possible, as it's likely he was the top of the chain of authorization for the bugging, being that he was the Minister for Foreign Affairs at the time and was outspoken against East Timor for accusing Australia of spying.

The problem is that in protecting one person's reputation they're ruining the reputation of an entire country.

Shameful Australia.
maybe this is overly cynical, but I suspect there is a business reason for this. a successful "find my soulmate" app would be actively destroying its customer base. a "find a hookup" app can be very effective and still have lots of repeat customers.
Is it remotely possible that they put it themselves as media stunt for Utah tourism promotion?

And as it all over world's media I guess they have succeeded.
Anyone remember the Microsoft manual burning ceremony at CCC ?
What people normally call "CCS" is mostly a short-term hack to keep the coal mines running. If you're going to burn coal, then, yes, please do CCS, but pretty soon you need to stop burning coal. I also don't trust that CO2 will stay underground forever; that also makes it "short term".

That said, we do need direct air capture (DAC) to repair the damage and to provide an alternative source for CO2 and hydrocarbons.

...

To this end, I kind-of like algae as a low-tech solar-powered method:

https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/60/9/722/238034

I feel you could do this in a moderate-sized backyard.

You wouldn't want to bury the biomass directly (say as biochar) because you wouldn't want to lose the NPK nutrients -- but the above article deals with that. It describes a couple methods to extract carbon while recycling the other nutrients. None seem too difficult.

...

In a completely different direction, nuclear-powered Sabatier/Bosch/electrolysis is also interesting:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction#Internationa...

...

Either way, you have to combine your DAC with... not mining fossil fuels out of the ground. You have to do both.

(Note: Carbon-neutral fuels (bio-, synthesized) are fine, e.g. for air travel. You just can't mine them from the earth. That's the one rule. Then the cost of recapturing CO2 has to be baked into everything else.)
I had issues so many times with Scaleway where it took insanely long to reboot a server, seemingly getting stuck on some network provisioning, so I ended up ditching them altogether. Might use these boxes for some testing or throwaway stuff though.

Currently happy with DO and Hetzner, and increasingly so with the latter. But Hetzner's lack of firewall is a bit annoying, esp. when using Docker (which interferes with iptables).
> women

Except for Black women in the US. Together with Asian men (especially from India), they have a really, really tough time. There are a number of peer reviewed studies on the matter, it seems to be a stable pattern.
Opsec is about shrinking your attack surface, not eliminating all risk, because the latter is impossible.
"Cover every rooftop, every parking lot, every desert with solar panels as much as we can"

Some context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec#/media/File:Fullneed....

Theoretically, only a very small area of dessert land would need to be covered with solar panels.
What is teaching if not summing up history in a concise presentation :-)
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Offshoring maybe, but I think pretty much anyone in a corporatized career worries about those others. I know for certain that doctors have no shortage of office politics.
Snapchat launches TikTok-like feed Spotlight, kickstarted by paying creators
That sounds exploitable, in an arbitrage kind of way. If I were single, female, non-asian, and wanting to attract a guy who was above my level socially or financially, my best bet might be to go for asian males.
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I drive a manual for the simple reason I enjoy driving like one enjoys a sport. I am much more in control with the ability to shift into any gear just as I've thought about it, and keep it in that gear for as long as I deem necessary.

That brief moment in an automatic where the car figures out you wanted a change kills the experience of the machine being an extension of me.
Penn and Teller came to the same conclusion on their show "Bullshit" back in 2008:

https://ptbs.typepad.com/penn_teller_bullshit/ep_606_being_g...

It's basically this millennium's version of the Catholic Church's indulgences.
Yes, it is. But it's still a LOT better than silently ignoring it, which is the standard today.
No I totally get it. Is the implication that the monolith marks a human grave?
> 'rich' -> 'improving things' are the same thing.

I meant "improving things" not just for yourself, but for your community. Most rich people in poor country don't give a shit about their community, to the contrary, they exploit them as much as they can without giving anything back.
Kubernetes’ Etcd data store becomes top-level CNCF project
This is the Way.

He has spoken.

(couldn't resist, just got started with the new Mandalorian season)
I run several large subreddits, and we remove this sort of spam.
A simple direct RT-LAMP SARS-CoV-2 saliva diagnostic
You'd think Hospitals would want to strip the AMA of its power in order to lower worker wages. Health care wages are unusually high in America, though that's true of other fields as well. Compared to technology, however, the regulatory environment is mostly the same: yet SWE's in America are paid a premium (even without a group formalizing 'who' can be a SWE).
Stripe raising at up to 100B valuation
I'm looking into that right now again. It's a pretty tedious process where the Governor has to personally approve the request. Right now there is a Republican governor in that state so they're less likely to approve it. Since background checks can only go back 7 years, 10 in some states, I let it go and decided it wasn't worth it considering that. I thought it was behind me, but this definitely changes things. Thanks for mentioning it.
Ah yes. That makes sense. And the rep hit I got shows what happens if you comment when you just woke up
Just saw a pic of Lindsey Graham go by! Perfect!
That happens, and is so few and far between that most of the other males would not notice.

The woman interested in doing that also has men of other races to choose from and the same preferential hierarchy plays out, let alone the numbers.
I'm not quite sure about the satellite imagery comparisons. The angle of the sunlight is obviously different looking at the shadows of the surrounding geology.
That's great news and will contribute further to Rusts' adoption.

Large codebases will be able to transcode to language X at some point in the future and I am waiting for the day when it can be done for Rust with projects like https://github.com/facebookresearch/TransCoder/
Zoinks, mister
Most of what is stated is simply not true. I am a physician, not a member of the AMA. They have absolutely no role in the selection of medical students, training of physicians, or their licensing. I have no particular love for the AMA. But lets keep the criticisms accurate.
Industry-wide unions like the AMA, UAW, and Longshoremen help to maintain a tacit price-fixing (as everyone is subject to the same price floor on their major expense), which can be very convenient for large, established players.
Well, conspiracy has a bad name, but really I think that's the only domain you can understand the possible reality of what's been planned and undertaken in this world nowadays.

It really should be a bad term - of course very powerful people conspire to ensure that they get the best they can. And that would mean writing legislation, defining what education is, etc, etc. Its all very obvious...
> I might be pedantic here, but wouldn't this then be a machine learning algorithm?

I would argue no. Simply trying a bunch of inputs and choosing the most effective ones based on the output is like running a single round of training on a machine learning model. It's hardly machine learning by any stretch—there's no feedback loop, the machine doesn't "learn" anything.

If I build a compiler and test a thousand constants for default configuration options and choose the ones that perform the best, or would be a very bold claim to call my compiler "powered by machine learning".
Content restrictions/moderation decisions that would be out of our hands.

In this case, we're a paying customer of the provider, not the product.
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Parler, the “free speech” alternative to Twitter, keeps banning people (July)
It wasn’t even a real intelligent agency that drummed up support for war. It was a temporary agency created by Rumsfelds and Cheney with the Orwellian name of “Office of Special Plans.” They deliberately lied and misused raw intelligence signals to force us to war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
This!

>> The problem with predicting absolute levels, is that there is a game theoretic aspect which undermines any mathematical trading strategy as soon as it is public.

I took finance in Business school, coming from doing a lot of statistical analysis in a research lab. I hated my finance professors and there pseudo science. Pricing formulas work great until they don't. The problem is when they don't, they really don't, in a catastrophic way. Read "When Genius Failed." Real traders know this. But some economists and finance professors act like these mathematical models are describing a predictable physical phenomena.
Not just a court case though, an investigation or a "psych eval" are enough to ruin someone. Take a look at Russ Tice.

Also, read Ronan Farrow's piece from the New Yorker last week. They targeted a straight-laced DOJ lawyer with >20 years of experience. These organizations are out of control and pose a very serious threat to our freedom.

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

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-a-cia-cove...
I did say 'apparently'. :) Good research though!
Good point, yes. 1984 just gives us that crystal clear image of everyone hating Goldstein - whereas in this reality half the people hate Goldstein and the other half hate Steingold (or whatever you'd put in as a convenient narrative opposite, not intending to reflect any individuals in reality) and neither of them realizes that their hate should be focused on Big Brother himself.

(A quick google shows me that Steingold is famous for bagels, and nobody hates bagels)
Hehe true, if they know whats Unix is, they ask probably MacOS, Solaris, Hp-UX, AIX, or OpenServer/Unixware...but for sure not Linux or any BSD.
TANSTAAFL

Buying things is a pain in the ass. In companies, purchasing is a full time job, trying to negotiate prices and discounts. and on the other hand you have sellers trying to maximize margin.

Buying things from stores used to contain a large amount of going place to place and comparing prices/features. Online it became easier to compare both but I have been finding it harder to find specs and sometimes pricing recently....

If you have control over both the marketplace and information, you have greater control over the transaction.
I like that the laptop itself is cheap but the fact that you have to keep replacing all 7 monitors is where it gets pricey
As a developer, you can. The APIs exist (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnrecognize...), seem simple to use (https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/vision/how-to-...) and appear to perform decently (https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/comparing-apples-and-google-s-on-... compares with Google’s on-device OCR)

So, finally, they don’t step on the toes of third-party developers, and you still complain? ;-)
I keep asking myself the same questions every time i read about modern (apple) hardware specs: what are they going to do with all this ML-dedicated hardware ??

I don't see anything smart with my iphone, nothing has changed since the introduction of Siri. I still can't use it seriously for anything else other than to set the alarm clock, and not a single app i download or use seem to do anything special needing ML running on the client side.
Absolutely. And I am very happy to see Amazon and others contribute to Rust. I think everyone involved has good intentions, and for that I’m very greatful.
Carbon Offsetting is a practice frequently applied to go Carbon Neutral or Carbon Negative. For some reason, Net Zero is considered "more comprehensive" than Carbon Neutral according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_neutrality. What you are expecting is what many call Zero Carbon (and obviously the right path to aim for).
Some agencies are well aware of the benefits of neurodiversity!

https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/daring-to-think-differen...
I would definitely pay extra to have access to the library as a tenant in the library-apartment. I mean, granted, it's just a generic neighborhood library, so it wouldn't have specialized texts, but still.

Leave the cameras on, lock the librarian's office and password-protect the computers after hours, and require the tenants to return [or check out] any borrowed material by the next morning. Realistically, you'll probably have one or two bad tenants over the next few decades who leave their trash inside the library or try to steal the crappy old library computers and it will mostly be fine.
Ok so 5 pigs at the trough.
For a single person project, Rails is decent.

I actually think RoR is an utter garbage fire the second you have a team of 3+.

Also, to be blunt, RoR most reminds of me of the old Microsoft web frameworks at this point (asp.net, before core). It's all pre-configured. You have very few structural choices to make, and you can focus on the actual project meat right away. The problem, coming in as someone without experience in the platform, is that documentation is becoming incredibly fragmented.

The second you need to touch a config file, suddenly you have to know exactly what version of rails you're running (because they change config names CONSTANTLY), and what the asset pipeline was like in that version, and so and such forth.

Of course, googling what you want links you to docs for Rails from 2 years ago, which no longer works.

It's eerily reminiscent of microsoft products that tried to the same thing - because "The best out of the box experience" changes every year or three, and they all try to meet current expectations.

So long post aside, having used Rails for a while professionally, but also having come in with a LOT of alternative experience (mainly Node/TSNode/C#/Golang) I find it functional, but fairly unimpressive, for small projects.

Also, the older I get, the more I want type systems. I should try giving Sorbet a spin (ruby, but with types), Because RoR on a large team is a nightmare. Types would help a lot.
You can buy such a thing off the shelf. They're called "Workstations on Wheels" or "WoWs" and they're everywhere in medical facilities.
Postwoman/Postgirl :)
I can't tell where you think we disagree?
"I wonder if I could still pry the data out of dBase III"

Is that in .dbf file format? I happened to be working with that format today, there are 2 up to date and complete libraries for Python for it, it's trivial to get such data out.
Man, a lot of emails are queued up. I haven't seen mine yet, but I appreciate that they'll send you a clip of it burning.

For reference, here's what I sent:
╰། ◉ ◯ ◉ །╯
"help they trapped my soul in this piece of paper!"
If you can't see why it would be a bad idea to attach the price of electricity to a speculation-based crypto coin, or how the prospect of mining bitcoin would be a joke in nearly every location on Earth except a few small regions that happen to have just the right conditions, I'm sorry but you're beyond salvation brainwashed in your cult.
It is now Alexia Massalin
Due to the fact that we are selling an exclusive prototype you will have to sign an NDA prohibiting you from discussing your pricing arangemments.

Pricing will reflect the costs and development involved and the fact that we are in the very early stages of our prototype's development.
It would have been nice if you got a queue number back after sending over an email with the video displaying the current message number being processed.
It's really not, compared to uh, oil.

And battery recycling technology is always improving. By the time the current Model 3s are retired, the vast majority of Lithium batteries will be recycled into new cars:

> By 2025, it is estimated that about three-quarters of spent electric batteries will be reused and then recycled to harvest raw materials.

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/the-aft...
Yup.

https://www.rentec.com/Careers.action?computerProgrammer=tru...

They look for programmers with knowledge of Tax and Risk Management.
They should pay contributors few millions of dollars each. If they benefited from it they should give meaningful reward. Mouthful words won't suddenly change you from being simply a leech.
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Some of these seem perfectly reasonable to me.

> HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. No roosters

Roosters are assholes and AFAIK they're banned in most non-agricultural zoning.

> JONESBORO, GA. No profanity in front of children under 14

A bit moralistic but I could see it happening in a smaller town where people might be more aligned on such things. And looks like the population of Jonesboro is sub-5k.

> JUPITER, FLA. No roadside billboards

I wish this was true everywhere.

> STATE OF TEXAS No walking in the streets if there is a sidewalk

Only complaint I have on this one is that it's cementing car culture worship.

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I suspect others are probably over-reactions to single adverse events.
Great article!
One of my favorite data-structures lately is the https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest. Would be great to see how it compares and what additional accuracy we get but storing some of the data.
It's possibly bigger on number of patrons/items-lent-per-year. Queens has half a million more people than Manhattan.
There is a firewall right? it is just off by default.
Is it on both sides, or is it just on the "back"? I thought using the duplexer was a clever hack. It heightens the drama, too.
There are actual standards for the credits so that people don’t buy snake oil.
Except that you can use Gmail through any IMAP/POP client (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229?hl=en) while that's not possible with Hey where you always have to use their apps.
Yes, that's a simple way to handle it! As it is, I just make sure it's a 2-pager, and have the first page be blank.

The thought there was to reduce toner usage, but printing the same thing reduces issues due to wind flipping the sheets over. +1
A good part of the reason I'm independent these days is hatred of the annual review.

Of course the pay bump helps :)
Another one is cusips in a similar fashion. Cusips are unique identifiers that identify a security. They are also proprietary with fairly expensive pricing for startups.
Ask HN: Not sure if founder is (lightly) defrauding investors?
Our small b2b startup is seeking seed money from investors at the moment. We also have a potentially big fish client deal in the works, and our founder has been telling investors about this possibility order to drum up excitement and in turn, funds.

We expect the next response from big fish to be a yes/no as to whether we are moving forward.

The founder said they didn't want to follow up with the big fish to speed up their response because if it were a "no," they could no longer tell investors about the possibility of a big fish deal. They said they wanted to close out this round quickly instead.

This feels a little off to me, and I worry it borders on fraud. Is intentionally blinding yourself to information like this illegal in some way? Or is this just par the course and not an issue?

Just wanted to make sure I'm not in an legally precarious situation here.
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It seems natural that the women would be highly selective as they have a huge number of potential matches to sift through before choosing.

Maybe a better question is: why are there so many more men than women on dating services? The ratio seems completely out of whack. It's not like there are 10 boys born per every girl, so somewhere along the way the women are filtering out. Perhaps women prefer face to face interaction?

These studies seem to be focused on a symptom instead of the cause.
Not gonna lie, I've been waiting for that to start to seem like a good idea. :) React seems to have more staying power than previous trends, though. Off the top of my head, the frontend library supremacy* went something like:

- 2008 to 2012: Jquery

- 2012 to 2014: Backbone

- 2014 to 2016: Angular

- 2016 to present: React

And although there are serious contenders, React still seems like it has a solid lead over all others. If it lasts another couple years, it's been the dominant tool for longer than most.

* Based entirely on "what I was hearing the most about at that time," not on any rigorous methodology. There was still plenty of Jquery code being written last year and there are large, mature codebases out there in Backbone and Angular.
Just the back, you are correct!
I suppose I know where the next wave of vulnerability scans is coming from now.
I don't think it's a grave just a memorial. Someone probably fell off the cliff or something.
You can be both a wage earner and a capital owner. 401K or just a standard discount brokerage account are easy paths to that. I don't know why this is always presented as two sides with no overlap.
Awesome read! Enjoyed it!
Recasting quantile estimation as an optimization problem is trivial: the q-quantile minimizes the “pinball” loss (see first eqn in http://statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/courses/305a/lec18.pdf) with parameter q. What they do in the paper is to take subgradient steps with respect to the latest observation (just think about subgradients as gradients, since the loss function is everywhere differentiable except for one point)