skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. Some areas will become uninhabitable or flooded but others will become more habitable (like permafrost/tundra regions). Nature will indeed adapt though there will be reduced biodiversity for a while. Especially because this effect normally happens on a much longer timescale.

I think the problem is more that the regions that will become uninhabitable are currently mostly inhabited by people. And often pretty poor ones. It will cause millions to billions of people having to be relocated, causing many societal issues on its own, with a serious potential of societal collapse or war. Especially because the source and destination of these mass-migrations will often lay in different countries. See how refugees from wars in e.g. Africa or Syria are currently not really welcome anywhere, and multiply their numbers by 1000. That's the kind of disruption we're talking. Migrants will get more desperate while on the other side of the fence anti-migrant feelings will grow more and you have an explosive situation just waiting for a spark.

And war itself is a major destructor not just of humans but of the planet itself. Especially now that we have nuclear weapons.
True, but if it's really good, it probably could be brought into the political/economic system at some point. Just mandate zero emissions for certain classes of carbon fuel burners... like power new stations.

Replacing the first 30% of fossil fuel usage is hard/slow. At some point, it will become much easier/quicker... because the economics will be favourable.

The last 30% of fossil fuel will be hard/slow. Fossil fuel burning use cases that for different reasons are hard to replace. For these, exhaust capture makes sense.
Right. Then Gutenberg’s presses enabled the bible to be published in German, French, English, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and English. Bibles were distributed to individual parishes where priests could conduct their own sermons without reference to a central authority.
Fanboi discussions and reactions are the norm in the Python community. But this what you get when maybe more than half of your community is made of non-devs, who never touched any other language and never will.
Do you have a stake in this article? Because from my point of view an account created 10 hours ago is rambling off technically incoherent straw-man on a tech focused forum.

Its like saying the postman most open, read and understand every piece of mail before delivering it, and the police must search inside every car before it may drive on the road.
ScienceMag summarizes this research in an article named New generation of carbon dioxide traps could make carbon capture practical:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/new-generation-carbo...
In my opinion the mathematical concepts and abstractions are not the issue with Haskell. The issue is that it's a pain to use in practice because of:

1. Really annoying to do any kind of i/o

2. Extremely poor interoperability with non-Haskell code

3. (opinion) Unpleasant, inconsistent, hairy syntax
I can definitely see how that could happen in many places,but very unlikely where I'm at. We don't even have a cat shelter in my area(dogs only - no idea why). Also, and that really pisses me off, people here are generally of the opinion every cat will happily survive on their own in the countryside which leads to people from cities abandoning unwanted cats (and dogs) here(this is how I got my first cat) . I even had a ridiculous situation of someone dropping two dogs in front of my property at 4am. The dogs had nowhere to go so they hanged around my place for two days (it was a weekend so I couldn't ring animal control). On the third day the same person came and picked the dogs back... I have no idea what such people think.
Scotland introduced minimum pricing for alcohol. I imagine it's done some good.

https://www.gov.scot/policies/alcohol-and-drugs/minimum-unit...
How much does data weigh? (2009)
Mmmm, no. Nix is not a SaaS that builds your snapshots that you have to pay for (or that "they need to monotize", what's wrong with people?), it's a whole ecosystem ranging from a full OS (NixOS) down to a package manager (Nix Package Manager) and programming language (just "Nix).

Not sure what needs clarification here, it's pretty up-front about it's mission and features already.

> Your snapshots and abilities to rollback etc are likely to be dependent on their storage servers

Not sure where you get this from. Snapshots are stored locally unless you specify otherwise, and then you'll get to chose whatever storage servers you want to use. Absolutely no "hidden" costs with Nix as it's a MIT licensed project and I don't think they even offer any "value-added" services nor paid customer support.

Edit: reading the issue you just created (https://github.com/nix-community/wiki/issues/34), I'm even more confused. "Given the need to monetise" is coming from where? Nowhere do they say that they have to monotize but don't know how/where, so where do you get this from? Not everything is about money.
Anyone who thinks rss feeds even stand a chance of breaking the stranglehold of centralised, optimised recommendation systems on the general media consuming public is delusionally optimistic.
> It might be more fun and an intetesting learning experience but also it's more complicated

I can't imagine anyone using both and thinking Nix is more complicated that Docker. And it's not close.

> at least it's not that widely used like Docker is

"Which has more users" would not enter the top ten reasons I'd choose between tools like this.
> a combo of a greedy company, a user experience that gets worse and worse, and a new tech coming out

Interestingly Youtube has 2 out of 3 - greedy company running ads every 3 minutes, and constant full screen badgering about cookies and sign-ups. I wonder what the new tech will be that will complete the set?
Also the prevention paradox—the success is invisible. It’s much easier to justify investments when the maladies are already visible.
The same concept still works; they could have installed IntelliJ and copied over all of the plugins and settings?
Butterick’s Practical Typography 2º Edition
This [0] AMA from the research group answers most of the questions I am seeing here in the thread.

"Technologies range from aqueous amines - the water-rich solvents that run through modern, commercially available capture units - to energy-efficient membranes that filter CO2 from flue gas emitted by power plants. Our newest solvent, EEMPA, can accomplish the task for as little as $47.10 per metric ton - bringing post-combustion capture within reach of 45Q tax incentives."

[0] reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/mdouzu/askscience_ama_series_hi_reddit_we_are_scientists/
Artwork by graffiti artist JonOne defaced in Seoul gallery by 'honest mistake'
Sounds a lot like Chaos Monkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
> All of his 'crazy ventures' lead to colonizing Mars

Counterpoint: that flamethrower, which probably won't be of much use in a thin atmosphere lacking oxygen.
I'm looking forward to TrueNAS SCALE[1], which is basically TrueNAS on top of Debian instead of FreeBSD.

Mainly because then my containers can run on the metal rather than being limited by Bhyve.

Currently in Alpha. I fired it up in a VM and it had some rough edges still but did manage to create a pool and fire up some containers.

Been running FreeNAS, now TrueNAS, for several years and been happy with that, but not being able to take full advantage of the hardware due to Bhyve has been a pain point.

[1]: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/
I made a site to explore the best UI/UX design tools out there
Whats the difference between "oneTBB" and regular TBB, do you know? Cheers
It would really benefit from an instant toggle to some common tuning so you could hold a chord and go back and forth between them.
> Not really. Corporate profits are taxed, not revenue. Taxes aren't figured until salaries are already paid.

We're saying the same thing here. My point is that double taxation is avoided by figuring the taxes after salaries are paid out, which ideally would be brought to $0 because nobody wants to be double taxed.

> I'm sure it's a lot more complicated than that. Companies aren't avoiding tax by giving all excess revenue to their CEO as compensation. That wouldn't really make sense at all.

The CEO is just another employee. Obviously they don't just give the CEO all the extra taxable profit... Why do you think end-of-year bonuses are given out at end-of-year? Because there's taxable income on the balance sheet and if it doesn't get bonus'd to employees then it would be sent to the Trump/Biden/whomeever is president's administration as taxes. Nobody's going to give you bonus points for paying extra taxes, but if your employees get a nice bonus they might stick around or work harder at least.
It's Cold on Mars
> Apple had a lot of special projects that would go on at various times. There were people who would have their office doors closed, and whenever you would go and see if they wanted to go to lunch, they would actually have black cloth they would put over whatever they were working on. This was not that uncommon.

Come on now, these are consumer products. And the technology already existed. If you want "special", then work for NASA, DoD, or CERN.
We have already "outlawed" physics, chemistry and biology (various crimes involve these) and even communication (fraud and slander). Might as well "outlaw math" as well.
I wonder how research is doing to concentrate CO2 from the PPM amounts we have "in regular air"

There are at least two low-hanging fruits that make it "easier": CO2 is heavier than other important gases and mildly polar.
Don't do that, you'll have no redundancy in case of disk errors, the performance will be abysmal (Pi4 possibly excluded) and USB drive spindown and SMART support is sketchy at best.

I bought a Fractal Node 304 case (room for 6 drives), put an ITX board in it, a PCIe SATA controller and set it up as btrfs RAID, with CIFS, NFS and FTP. Not a huge outlay and so much better than a hacked-together Pi solution.

It also functions as my DNS and DHCP (Pi-Hole in a Docker container) and since it has hardware video decoding, it works great as an always-on HTPC, which is practical for apartment living.
Now let's start charging $50 a ton to release CO2
>I feel like CO2 sequestration is second only to nuclear in the amount of unfounded concerns

The problem with CO2 capture specifically (specifically from the atmosphere as opposed to at the source) is that CO2 comprises a very small part of air. This means you have to move huge amounts of air through a capture device to capture a very small amount of carbon. How is that ever going to make sense?
I switched from using tmux to using only Vim a year ago and I'm not looking back.
I'm opening an instance of Vim per projet and that's it. I use the :term command for running any CLI tools that I haven't integrated to Vim yet and I can use normal and visual modes on their output.
I'd recommand using tmux over your terminal's splits/tabs but I'd definitely recommand dropping tmux if you are nesting something smarter in it (emacs, vim).
Capitalism Plus
How to make sure to fail your startup (2020)
Even if it's less wasteful, it's still wasteful.
> If that's a problem then the Fed can raise interest rates (or just stand by while they go up), but it can also make the USD it has on its balance sheet disappear

Those are the same thing. The Fed shrinks the money supply by inducing someone to surrender dollars in exchange for debt. This means there is increased supply, and the price of the debt goes down (i.e. the rate goes up).
> My main beef with Lua is the absence of ‘null’

Lua’s equivalent is `nil` - I assume that doesn’t do what you need? How would the behaviour of `null` differ from Lua’s `nil`?
Getting rid of double taxation from corporations would essentially mean getting rid of business deductions. Which means that companies would have no extra incentives to spend their money on business expenses such hiring because they'd get taxed either ways. The corporate taxes are working fine and most companies aren't avoiding taxes so much as being incentivized to spend their profits on hiring or giving out pay raises. Think of it is coerced minimum wage increases in lieu of corporate income taxation.

Double taxation on income and then on your food is just extra tax revenue, and nobody's going to stop eating because of it, though you might eat less expensive. Some places do indeed do not have taxes on basic food.
Agreed but the website or Miniflux itself is what I was referring to.
Depends what you want to achieve of course; there are many copies of most services around which, in certain regions of the world, do well. There are a lot of SaaS products, notably all kinds of project or task management applications, of which there are 100s of 1000s around, where the owner(s) makes enough profit to have a nice, comfortable life even though there should be crippling competition. I had two of those (in the task management/PM space; I had many more in other spaces) which I both sold, but they made me a very comfortable year income for the years I had them, without any work besides the initial investment of building them (which was not very hard as they are crud apps).

If you are not interested in becoming a (global) market leader, there are a lot of opportunities up for grabs. In the EU (and I guess that goes for other regions in the same way), a lot of companies buy local; the company I currently work for is Dutch and, although we have many competitors globally which might be cheaper or better, there is simply enough income to be made for a company with an office, employees, better than market pay and steady growth only from Dutch clients who rather do business with other Dutch people and inside the EU. GDPR and other EU guidelines and rules rather worked in favour of many companies here; Govs and many other institutions for instance demand all data to be inside the EU and signed contracts that they will never share data outside the EU; many US/Asia SaaS products simply do not offer that with guarantees acceptable (or to be trusted) to companies here.
Type-Level Programming in TypeScript: Implementing a Fibonacci Type
lot of wishful thinking here. There's clearly not enough time for this
US and allies got rid of nuclear power for Iran.
thanks but no thanks
Show HN: Pre-Launch Success Case Studies [Business Strategies]
The reason we shouldn't say these things is because they are wrong in general. There is no magic silver bullet against depression. Especially not a one-size-fits-all one. And telling depressed people to go out and exercise can be actively harmful because it puts even more pressure on people who find it hard to cope with everyday pressures.
There's also a bit of an annoyance w/ EV conversions, at least here in the US: automatic transmissions being pretty much ubiquitous. They're basically dead weight for an EV (which doesn't need to switch gears), and they further tend to have a lot of mechanical and electrical complexity.

I suspect that if I ever convert my Highlander to an EV (which is something I'd like to investigate should its current drivetrain eventually give up the ghost), it'll likely entail needing to remove the transmission entirely (and maybe replace it with a fixed gearbox of some sort?). And given that it's AWD, that complicates things further, since there are very few AWD/4WD EV conversions.

That said, if there are solutions to this problem, and said solutions prove viable, then this makes EV conversion a lucrative business, and opens it up to most cars on American roads.
Aubrey de Grey, heh? IDK... now I like it more.

What he is qualified for is running this sort of effort. I just don't know what to call this sort of effort.

Viento is a ‘moonshot’ nonprofit pioneering targeted weather security... by combining big data, forecasting breakthroughs and AI directed weather interventions... framed as "break glass in case of climate emergency."

So... I don't like the idea. I do however, like the way he puts together moonshot projects, generally. Maybe this will evolve into something better. It's useful to have 0.X% of people working on tech, to be doing it in an environment that isn't standard academia or big tech.
Exactly that's what I think too. We have to do the removal much faster than we did the actual burning. And the removal will only cost us money, not fuel our economy. I just don't see this happening at significant enough scale. And the capture will have lots of environmental impact too if we do it at that massive scale.

And I agree about the carbon tax. It could even pay for some of the removal.

The strange thing here now in Europe is that greener alternatives like trains are taxed much higher than dirtier ones like airplanes. Because trains have VAT taxes on them, but the planes fly on kerosene that's exempt from tax and the price kept down due to international agreements.

As a result trains aren't a reasonable alternative and won't be for at least the next 20 years or so (as the train network would have to be scaled up significantly which would have been happening already if it was more a better alternative to flying). It's a shame because Europe is a great place for this with lots of short-distance trips.
> Thiiis really hasn't been my experience with the Python community. Every place I've worked on a Python codebase has done it a different way, and none of them have agreed on what is "pythonic".

Exactly my experience from day one. It's a laughable statement that the Python community keeps repeated with almost no basis in reality.
Well, that one is pretty egregious but there are other blatantly misleading statements. I don't know what polygon is meant to be, but the author seems to be far more ideologically biased than SimCity ever was.

One example: "Scientific simulations, like those used to model climate change, don’t keep their formulas hidden in a black box because replicability is a big part of the scientific method."

But the black box nature of climate models was the core issue in one of the biggest disputes between sceptics and researchers of all time. It went to court and the researcher preferred to lose the suit than reveal his model (Michael Mann). The COVID model from Imperial College that justified lockdowns had to be extracted from the university via
FOIA requests which were stonewalled for months. The scientist who wrote it openly claimed in interviews nobody except him understood the model equations, which were all entirely undocumented. Probably the author doesn't know these things, but it shows a rather naive misunderstanding of the true nature of science. Black box models that encode ideological beliefs are common throughout serious research.

The comment about how SimCity doesn't simulate race or gender is also rather ideological. The belief that race and gender are central to everything is both quite new, very much a view of the left and totally USA centric, but SimCity was designed to sell to international markets too. "Cities are built on history, politics, and racial bias" is the sort of comment that gives away the article for what it is: a complaint that a a popular video game wasn't woke. We learn more about Polygon's ideology than that of Will Wright.
That is a very good point. But usually changes in revenue trail changes in adoption and/or engagement. Both when growing, and when slowing down.
Either i dont agree or we have a different understanding of major issue. Not being able to use a second screen withput active power, or being able to cook an egg in idle are in my eyes major issues. Both of which have long threads with no real response.

I still get “me too“ emails from issues ive “me too“ 5+ years ago.
Why images instead of text??? Images can't easily be copy-pasted as text (though in this case I really recommend re-typing).

The internet is turning into a sea of wrongly chosen media. Youtube videos are used when a small list of command lines would be enough and images are used when text would be much better.
I think we agree then:

- for a fixed sample size we can find a time large enough that the probability of the sample mean being above $1 is as low as we want

- for a fixed time we can find a sample size large enough that the probability of the sample mean being below $1 is as low as we want

- when both the sample size and the horizon grow without limit which effect dominates will depend on how we make it happen

Adding "almost surely" to "everyone goes bankrupt and will never recover" or "there is a finite time after which no-one ever passes above $0.0000000000000001" is a subtle change but it's enough to allow for someone to go to infinity with infinitesimal probability.

This is why the distribution mean can grow exponentially, it wouldn't be possible if the everyone and no-one in those quotes were strictly true.
What would he have accomplished by not accepting it? Created a public statement on behalf of America of “nope, we don’t like peace, we’ll keep waging war!”

There is absolutely nothing to gain by not accepting it. It seems like the desire by many Americans to have him decline is just because of personal opinions about him. Would you really respect the man more for tarnishing the name and brand of the entire United nation simply to not accept a symbolic price that you and he both think he did not deserve to receive? He did the right think by making clear his own understanding that he was perhaps not most deserving but accepting none the less.
I can agree with your examples of truly extreme and hostile behaviour (even though the level of which hasn't changed much in the last 15 years where I noticed the change? In fact, the post-9/11 dschihadism scare was, in retrospect, overblown and of course exploited politically)

OP however just seem to hint vaguely to unwanted opinions that should lead to loss of work, implicitly handing the power to a social media mob (or possibly organized groups posing as such) that enforces unwritten rules and targets people with precarious employment or small influencers who depend on their sponsors.

I'd prefer if we'd spell it out in a law and keep the enforcement to the courts, thanks!
As a rule of thumb, any attempt to control things on a global scale when there are millions of unknown variables will always have unexpected drawbacks and more likely than not, the drawbacks will not be worth the benefits.
You can't predict a breakthrough but they tend to change everything.
Quote: "...as well as 8800 - I’m not sure what this port is."

800 / 880 / 8080 & 8800 are variations of classic 80. Try an http request there, see what you get. Or telnet to it at least.
> I also happen to think a $100 per tonne carbon price is not such a bad idea.

Government here in Norway recently released their climate plan, and part of it was the gradual increase to 2000 NOK (~234 USD) per tonne of CO2 in 2030[1].

Not sure if it survives the years of politics between then and now though...

[1]: https://www.dn.no/politikk/erna-solberg/sveinung-rotevatn/kl...
The solution to this is unlimited true email aliases as e.g. StartMail [1] and Fastmail [2] provide. I wish this was more common place for email provider. Besides the front up cost of developing / setting up the solution, email aliases have the marginal cost of one small database row per alias. And it would be such a boon for privacy.

[1] https://support.startmail.com/hc/en-us/articles/360007297457...

[2] https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591073