skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For making a dent in global warming we'll need to have billions of people reduce their energy consumption..

I wonder if this won't be a governance hazard in itself. What do we do after we create a global governance structure to reduce global emissions. We can't just tell people to stop using so much carbon.

I wonder if reduction causes more problems than it solves. Even if we magically could reduce everyones consumption, how do we deal with population growth assuming humans still produce some carbon.

I think we should really remove existing CO2 from the environment instead. Every ton of CO2 that can be captured and removed from the environment means some family in a poor country can enjoy the benefit of industrialization.

Of course we're already on a path of significant global warning so I don't think we have a choice either way.
There are more native speakers of Yiddish today than there were 10, 20 or 30 years ago. The trajectory is going in the opposite direction.
I meant adding infinity to both sides
I'm a major user of both and I can definitely say that Dockers basics are easier to learn and teach than Nixs basics. Maybe it has to do with the simple nature of the Dockerfile with just lines of commands, compared to Nix where you first need to learn the Nix language, then the idioms, then the package manager and now you can understand the OS. There is a couple of layers before things start making sense. While a Dockerfile is almost like a line-by-line shellscript.

At least that's my experience. Although I do prefer Nix over Docker any day, I'd definitely say the learning curve is steeper with Nix, but it's so worth it long-term.
Performance per watt is key for all portable devices, ie the laptops and phones that many do almost all of their end-user computing on.
the difference is that computers are manmade, they do not have a consciousness to wonder where they came from. we know how RAM works and that it was designed to forget. the bits that once flowed through them had a predefined source and destination. when they were volatile they were electronic in nature, but once discarded reduced to atoms and heat as exhaust

I agree there is currently no known way to transfer the state of a human brain, like there was no concept of RAM back when religions were started
It makes sense because brute force engineering solutions are frequently the right ones. If you capture carbon from the air, you can mass produce one kind of capture facility and spam as many copies of this facility as you need (at low cost, thanks to mass production) to give humanity closed-loop control over atmospheric composition.

If you rely on source emissions control only, you need finnicky source-specific installation and control technology everywhere, which greatly increases the cost and complexity of the implementation. And there are places where you can't realistically do carbon capture and sequestration, e.g. jet engines.

On top of all that, we live in a world with multiple governments and jurisdictions, and not all of them agree on the right level of investment in source capture. Do you really expect developing countries to give up on coal generation right away? What are you going to do, bomb them into the stone age? A climate management solution must be robust against the problem of uncooperative actors. We can't rely on everyone getting along and singing carbon kumbaya.

Compared to source mitigations, an atmospheric capture approach is simpler, more robust, and better capable of dealing with uncooperative emitters. Yes, you have to move a lot of air, but that's just energy, and energy is cheap if you're not picky about geography or uptime, and it's especially cheap if you're not squeamish about nuclear.
I’m still only circling geometric algebra – could you give me some leads on GA not handling scaling? I’ve understood it such that it did, but I’d love to dig into it however it is :) Thanks!
Sorry for the slow reply! That's interesting. Your public template works fed into a stream of clients. I guess what i'm curious about is who out there is willing to pay for a LaTeX template, or typsetting? Is it one-off academics working in STEM fields? Journals? Have you had much luck getting customers from outside of such areas? Businesses looking for slick invoices or brochures? Non STEM-publishers? I've got quite a lot of questions and ideas up this area - how would you feel about a chat?

Also great call about The Elements of Typographic Style. I'll add it to my todo list. Tufte - hmm yes classic text for sure... should probably get a copy too. So much to read!
Which is weird, because out of all of the platforms, Twitch keeps the biggest cut of ad revenue. They rate all ads at a fixed cost regardless the size of the streamer (which is bonkers). Twitch should have systems in place by now to make the most off an ad run on the biggest streamers, but they're doing a really poor job of it. Amazon does seem to be exerting some influence here to rectify this though (see recent metrics changes to Twitch APIs).

This actually leads me to believe that Twitch users are probably at like a 95%+ AdBlock install rate.
Yiddish always borrows from the local language.
Won’t setting up a k8s cluster require writing resource definitions? I imagine you’d need to write a statefulset. How’s that better than writing a docker-compose?
I’m not sure how vscode does it, but it allows you to publish ports in real time as well.
Is LDD still up to date?
If the Ever Given really was ran aground to due a once-in-a-75-year-sandstorm then it's hardly the fault of either the captain or the port authority to predict such a freak weather occurrence. Yes the captain has ultimate authority, but the port authority also has intimate knowledge of this region, and thus the weather and it's capabilities. We can only know more there after the investigation.

On the other hand, the Suez Canal has had a lot of time to even begin construction of a second canal on the southern stretch and hasn't. I'm sure now they will consider that a higher priority as if this block happened further north where there are two canal lanes this wouldn't have been as big an issue.

I agree that reparations for the actual true cost of the salvage are due -- the cost of the tugboats, the dredger etc, but to pay damages on lost revenue due to a freak weather occurrence (if that was the case) and the lack of the Suez Canal to build out their infrastructure is disagreeable to say the least.
Raid on Bungling Bay was a fantastic game for anyone who never played it back in the 80s. Spent a lot of hours finishing it - had just the right amount of difficulty as you progressed.
many white males still have their nipples despite the ban. I feel the ban is mainly enforced on females. which is a shame.
Plant lots of trees or similar, then burn them for electricity and capture the CO2 from the smoke.

Compared to a lot of the other proposals out there it almost sounds plausible.
To put it in perspective, 100usd/tn would let me (limey brit) maintain my wasteful lifestyle for just 5300 a year. That's very affordable when the alternatives are Water World level flooding or living like a vegan hermit in a cave...
I wrote about my experience creating a SaaS product in 2018:

https://medium.com/@david_39141/after-15-years-im-finally-re...

Like the OP, the first version of my service launched to crickets (though I had spent almost two full years building that beta version). The 3,500 people who had signed up for e-mail updates took a quick look, and then left, never to return, when they realized that the service was very bare-bones.

The solution in my case was actually to add features, because that first version wasn't very useful. I spent another three years adding features before launching paid plans, two years ago. I made sure to have thousands of conversations with users to make sure that I was on the right track.

Today, I derive my income fully from this service (Calcapp, an app builder for people needing formula support mostly on par with Excel). I haven't gotten rich, and I would have made more money as a consultant, but the income is passive, I still enjoy working on the product and interacting with customers, and I'm confident that our best days lie ahead of us, with a major update on the cusp of being released (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389963).

Launching a SaaS business is the hardest thing I have ever done, but getting people to derive real value from something I have built is immensely satisfying. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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How does palliative care distance us from the reality of death? Isn't it in a sense more natural way to go?
IIRC the Oberon-powered drone was running on ARM, so there are ARM codegens for at least some versions of Oberon.

Edit: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Oberon/Oberon.ARM.Compiler....

(not that this is meant to detract from TFA, just to point out the possibility for someone to take another step.)
https://labelerrors.com/ has an overview of the label errors uncovered in this research.
S curve only starts to plot itself once it hits an inflation or deflation point. For hydrogen it is so far from that.
The Egyptian armed forces are in a very good position to keep the ship in the great bitter lake as long as they want, question is, what's the value of the cargo onboard?
You don't think that PeerTube can do it ?
You can take a look at sites like heroX, data for good or MITSolve
A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument
I get depressed from 36 hour weeks. Maybe the therapists arent wrong thinking that 80 hour weeks aint healthy, even if you love your job lessure is super relevant too
Whatever been said on Egyptian TVs is mostly directed to Egyptians, as on going government propaganda, it does not reflect what will really happen for those cases.
Should I use a Cookie consent warning if I don't use cookies?
I gonna use window.localStorage to store user identity information on the client side. Should I use a cookie notice on y webpage then?
The "DB" guy at my workplace is regularly asked about certain stats from the production db, he runs some query, dumps it in a csv-formatted file and mails that to whoever asked for it.
Stuff for Win 3.11. In the Net subdir
you have both Gopher and Netscale as clients.

gopher://i-logout.cz/1/software/PC/Software/]
Having a Dialog with Graphs in Their Native Tongue
Did you not read TFA?

> the Ever Given and its some $3.5 billion worth of cargo would not be allowed to leave Egypt
To add maybe one more point to this - it’s so much easier to run parts of the pipeline for devs who aren’t familiar with the environment. It can also serve as a documentation for what’s required to develop.
Wow

When does it become piracy?
> The number gets reported on the main page once a day, but someone found a page with the hourly data and figured out how to average together the data points to predict the daily number.

Isn't this THE point of prediction market? A user found a better source of information and used it to make money.
Like YouTube, Twitch is pretty good at bypassing adblockers.
what's the value of the cargo onboard?

According to the article, $3.5Bn.
Carbon's interstellar journey to Earth
The estimated cargo value is $3.5 B.
I still hold that opinion (except part about death), but who cares. You need to make a poll regularly if you want some kind of conclusive evidence that public opinion changes. Otherwise you're making conclusions based on few comments here and there.
And Jim Keller is not a Fab / Processing guy. And if you actually listen to what he said, he is predicting plenty of room to improve, not it will improve every 24 months, which arguably has already stopped happening since ~2017
Because far of country still has laws :/ but yeah mushies definitly hold a key that could help many people. Starting with migraines where for some nothing else helps, bit mushies do
It doesn't matter how much the price falls.

The real question to answer is the efficiency compared to existing energy sources.
It's most probably just for show, as they'd have a tough time of actually finding them guilty considering the state of the canal. They'll bluster about huge damages, then "settle for an undisclosed amount" which is realistically more like just the costs of the fix itself, and maybe a bit extra for compensation.
Well, it is already written in the link....

> $3.5 billion worth of cargo
> it's hardly the fault of either the captain or the port authority to predict such a freak weather occurrence.

Yes. It is. And to be insured against it happening. So at this stage the Egyptian authorities don't necessarily know who they are picking a fight with.
Key is to plant plans and trees. Billions of them. Our energy needs will only become bigger. Transition to renewable economy is in progress. That's good. But there is not enough focus on plants and trees.
Avoiding emissions would certainly be better. It is supremely inefficient to dig up and burn fuel now then capture it and bury it later.

But current global plan is to keep doing the first part, so we’ll have to undo it. We actually already likely have too much CO2 in the atmosphere. Even if we went to zero emissions today the climate would keep warming from the accumulated CO2 and feedback effects. Takes some years for those to work through the system.
I can't remember the last time I've seen an ad on either.

And also the main point was that Twitch does a terrible job at monetizing off their ads. They have the worst advertising platform.

Ads on Twitch run for all streamers. There's very little targeting capability and they strike individual deals for all ads on their system rather than purchase from a DSP.
When does it become piracy?

Never. The Egyptian government could simply issue itself a letter of marque. But a country impounding a ship while it is within its sovereign territory over unpaid fees would never be considered piracy anyway.
> Row id

> We can uniquely identify an object, even if it is deleted later, without worrying a new object could occupy the same rowid

I don’t know anything about mobile and not sure if it applies here but if you call vacuum on sqlite, it rewrites row ids. Is there a way to prevent that? If you have a column “PRIMARY KEY INTEGER”, it is your row id and it won’t change on vacuum, otherwise if you rely on automatic row id, you may have a surprise later.
Can anyone qualified explain how this could be the shipper's fault? I understood the canal requires (extremely expensive) pilots supplied by the canal authority aboard for any passage. It's mentioned in the article:

> Bernhard Schulte has said previously that two Egyptian canal pilots were aboard when the ship got stuck. Such an arrangement is customary to guide vessels through the narrow waterway, but the ship’s captain retains ultimate authority, according to experts.
Agreed. Although as you point out, the singers being unaccompanied is important. Mixing keyed (or fretted, valved etc.) instruments into the ensemble quickly starts to push everyone towards 12-EDO.

I also wonder how much continuous pitch instruments do this, when playing pieces of music and with ensembles that would allow adjusting to just intonation. If I walk up to a good violinist and ask them to play a simple melody on a single string, do they gravitate towards just intonation, or does muscle memory make them place their fingers for 12-EDO? What about a superbly good violinist?
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me too, I'll never understand what posts get the attention :D
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Not sure of the angle for claiming on "costs of stalled traffic" (is that lost revenue?), surely the brunt of that loss is on the commercial concerns of the boat operators themselves?

If $1bn were the 'true costs' then clearly there are a lot of costs in running the canal over a year. It seems like the number is highly inflated, on face value. Not an expert, just an observation.
It is time to fulfill the promise of CI/CD
There is an article in the latest economist about this. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2021/03/30/...

(Probably unfortunately behind a PayWall)

The super short summary is that they say a further expansion is not necessary. Even the previous one wasn't needed an hasn't brought in the benefits they had hoped/promised.
yes, this is due to Medium being a very poor blogging platform for coders.
Too bad it is a SEO valkyrie ride
> 100usd/tn would let me (limey brit) maintain my wasteful lifestyle for just 5300 a year. That's very affordable

In the eyes of the annoying kind of climate activist, the affordability you've mentioned is a bug, not a feature. Too many people who claim to care about the planet want to use the climate as a pretext to reform everyone's lifestyle and to roll back industrial civilization more generally. This sort of activist doesn't see the carbon problem as an engineering challenge, but instead as a political and aesthetic project. It's super annoying, because people like this reject technology that would let us have our modern lifestyle cake and eat it too.

Not all climate activists are like this, but there are enough of these bad faith people around to seriously impair earnest and good faith efforts to solve the actual engineering side of the carbon problem.
True. I wonder where the limit goes. If a male has bigger breasts and show a nipple, would that be bannable? What if a male gets breast implants a shows a nipple, bannable? Or vice-versa, a girl with very small breasts but showing nipple gets banned while a man with same size breasts showing nipple doesn't get banned?

How in the holy hell did the US get that way? It's in no way Twitch's fault, I just wonder how an entire country went that way...
> The captain has ultimate authority

This is a slightly complicated issue: the ship was being piloted so the person with the authority is basically the pilot (someone who’s job is to take ships through the canal but not anywhere else). The captain can order the pilot off the ship (and then take control) but not much else. And doing that in the middle of a sandstorm would probably not be so clever.
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> I remember the early days of debt clocks, the huge tallying numbers in Union Square in NYC, and rhetoric, always from Republicans, claiming debt doom when Democrats proposed spending and ignoring much larger deficits initiated by their own party.

The clock in Union Square wasn't a debt clock. You're thinking of the much smaller display on 44th and 6th. [0]

That Union Square clock originally told the time just styled as a single number. Ironically it has recently been reprogrammed to illustrate a critic window for action to prevent the effects of global warming from becoming irreversible [1]. About 7.5 years left. Do with that what you will

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Debt_Clock

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/20/arts/design/climate-clock...
> but why was it given in his first year

European countries feel collective shame that:

1) the Holocaust happened in their midst

2) after Obama's election, they cannot elect a black person as a leader.

You can see their attempt at atonement in their initial acceptance of African migrants over the past decade without normal immigration processes, and their refusal to arrest or even investigate migrant crimes. It took several years before they realized that 1/3 of Africans were headed north.
Strange, I can select and copy any text I want there. Same on the gray background. Could be that JS is involved and your browser blocks that somehow.
> $3.5 billion cargo.

Wow. Is that a lot for a ship that size or just standard? Anyone know what it was carrying?
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Yes, but when somebody has an unpopular opinion that is "wrong", silencing them isn't the way to change their minds. The best thing in the whole world is hearing a debate between two people, and having your mind change as a result of the arguments given.
> I’m not an expert on cars, but isn’t there only one brand known for having all the controls on a giant touchscreen?

They seem to be ubiquitous among all but the most budget of models. There might have some buttons, sure, but the vast majority of interaction is through a touchscreen. And this predates the brand you're likely thinking off, too. When I rent a car, regardless of make or model, there's a touchscreen (with a handful of exceptions, and those exceptions are pretty far on the low end of rentals).

And usually it ain't even a good touchscreen; the overwhelmingly vast majority of them over the last decade have been clumsy imprecise resistive ones - which is probably "reasonable" for those wearing gloves, but that problem would be avoided entirely by, you know, not pushing for touchscreens as the primary means of input.

> Maybe some have smaller screens, for a navigation system that you can pay extra for?

The screens themselves are becoming increasingly standard, even without the navigation system. None of the cars I've rented in the last 5 years have had a navigation system, yet the vast majority of them had touchscreens, and those touchscreens were mandatory for anything beyond the most trivial of operations.

> I don’t own a television myself, but surely there must be _some_ dumb tvs still available.

If you want 4K, Sceptre is literally the only option of which I'm aware. That is, accordingly, the only brand of TV I've bought in the last 5 years.

> If not, then just buy a computer monitor instead.

Monitors of sizes suitable for watching something in a living room from a couch are vastly more expensive than even the highest-end "smart" TVs. And that's assuming you can even buy them; such monitors are intended for things like digital signage, meaning that businesses - not consumers - are the intended customer.
Thank you, that is helpful background. Running Oberon code this way is akin to running Python code on Micropython on bare metal. But probably faster.

Even running in an emulator on bare metal is more fun than anything coddled in a massive OS. The threshold of fun is where you get to schedule and vector your own interrupts.

At some point you will hunger for the actual native code experience, but the difference turns out to be pretty abstract unless you are counting clock cycles. The software that landed the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module on the moon was mostly coded to an emulator.
This exactly....

The whole statement was target towards the Egyptian audiance. Standard Arabic propaganda show.

Knowing how things work in Egypt. I bet the whole thing will be settled for a couple of million usd and an undisclosed amount of Marlboro packets...
IDK if academic is the right term, but market manipulation is definitely the nerdiest way of hiring a hitman.

We could take this up a notch by making the bet (person A dies by date X, $100) tradeable. Maybe also create a derivatives market. Now we have a hitman market and a bodyguard market.

Derivatives have several beneficial effects. One is uncertainty, which should stimulate a diversity of contracts: dead by X, $100; dead by Y, $105. People love arbitrage. The second benefit of a two sided market is naked short sellers.

Best case scenario, naked short selling creates an infinite supply of tradeable hitman contracts. In theory, demand is always finite but as Keynes famously said... "no one f#&k-ng knows how demand works!"

So eventually... Robin Hood adds every person on earth to their murder exchange and the market singles out a random person for $gme status. Her name in Ana and next friday, $6 billion of her murder contracts expire. Half the mercenaries on earth are trying to kill her. The other half are her personal army.
It's their car until you sign the contract that they wrote.