skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the headline carefully, it's the global warming that needs to be reversed before 2000; the disappearance of nations can (and will) happen after.

The reason this is true is that CO2 emissions can't really be reversed; accounting for all forms of "capture" (biomass, sea exchange, calcification) CO2 disappears in a reverse power law way, such that after 10 000 years 10% of it is still there (https://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/pics/1210_ZHfig5.jpg)
I guess any 74xx chip can contain an SoC running a complete OS, and in the case of RAM be able to read and write anything it wants and phone home about it. But it would be very conspicuous when a chip that should only contain a handful of transistors or a simple grid pattern of memory cells is decapped. They are far more auditable than anything VLSI.

It's true that the battle can't be won, but that means it's a war of attrition. Backdooring 74xx chips would be very inconvenient and expensive compared to just pushing some code into the Intel ME or AMD PSP. The flip side of that is that building and using a 74xx computer is going to be just as inconvenient and expensive for the user. So this is more of a fun thought experiment than a serious solution.
This is just "bread and circus". Those who look deeper down will see more going on underneath the layers of policymaking. Though, the real workers will need support for new ideas and improvements later.
So we're well and truly doomed then, and there's really no point?
Precisely. As Morrison said elsewhere, “Making a little life for oneself by scavenging other people’s lives is a big question, and it does have moral and ethical implications.”

Despite her advice, Morrison primarily wrote about black women. She often wrote about the past, but was able to build characters from knowing the circumstances extensively. She didn't appropriate cultures she didn't know. She wrote about cultures the reader didn't know, with a depth and humanity that readers felt they could know them, and that's what got her books such wide acclaim.

I haven't been able to find the full context of her quote, and I'd be curious to know if she drilled down into it to explain the difference. It really isn't a good idea to write about being a Mexican dishwasher who doesn't speak English when there is a world full of non-English-speaking dishwashers who will know when your book feels false.

What you need to be successful is to write the truth. That doesn't have to mean only writing about yourself, but it does mean not writing about real people in false ways. If you really do want to write about Mexican dishwashers you'd better learn a hell of a lot about Mexico and dishwashing.
I don't want to appear ungrateful - let me take this opportunity to thank you sincerely for all that you do. Your set up appears to work, and I'm probably in a minority with my demands.

We wouldn't have to ask if you had a public mod log (and banned sites list etc) and a public explanation of the algos that power HN.

Your comment reminds me of hotels - "X is available, just ask". A scheme clearly designed to reduce usage of X. I'm guessing the current audience is quite diverse, as most engineers would see through that kind of BS in about 0.2ms.
While encouraging to think that some people will have the power to reverse climate change, it will be too late.
We can't wait for the negative effects to reach rich people.
Could you just ban the two accounts? That way you don't have to monitor them. I'm sure you could come up with a plausible terms of service reason.
Can you share more information about the properties? such as,

- address

- year built

- annual taxes, insurance, HOA costs
I edited the parent since you started writing this post, maybe re-read the parent as I preempted some of the questions upthread.

For browser stuff, I'm actually really disappointed with how the "actions implemented in talon files" feature turned out in practice (which is the code-like action(...): syntax you saw), and I'm planning to deprecate it, which should clear that up a bit. Browser commands come from places like generic_browser.talon and tabs.talon. Looks like reload is "reload it"

Besides the tips I gave and the chaosparrot practice, knausj_talon does also have a getting started section in the readme https://github.com/knausj85/knausj_talon#getting-started-wit...

You can get significantly more insight into what's happening by both saying "command history", and opening the repl and running `events.tail()` in it.

There's also a much more accurate speech engine in beta right now, which will be released soon, but I suspect most of the confusion wasn't accuracy related.
The Economics of Public Transportation
Dr. Peter Carter, an IPCC expert reviewer, makes the point that not only is breaking the 2C threshold by 2100 likely, but also that the equilibrium temperature increase is much higher than 2C: https://twitter.com/PCarterClimate/status/139707600859175731...
We greatly slowed down CO2 emissions growth from worst case predictions. Both from alternative energy and vastly increased efficiency.

Net emissions just keep stacking, but if you compare total emissions today with past predictions they simply don’t line up with 2021.
But how accurate is it? Is it diverse and raunchy just for the sake of it? I’ll wait for an actual academic review from somebody who has been in the field for at least 40 years.
Yeah except for exponential increases in EV adoption, solar/wind power, and energy storage. Change is coming, and it's coming fast. Not saying it's enough, but it will make a significant difference.
Creating a UK corporation takes ten minutes online and costs you USD $20 (and anyone can do it).

But the compliance / Know Your Customer rules are very strict in the UK: it's almost impossible to get a bank account there unless you are legally resident there.
Just to be sure, I'd tried it with my laptop's built-in microphone, a good, Plantronics Bluetooth headset, and a good USB headset. Same result.
Perhaps, you may enjoy this collection - "The Overedge Catalog: New Types of Research Organizations" [1].

I think it has quite the variety, and may help you distill a broader sense of where things are headed (and find people to reach out to).

[1]: https://arbesman.net/overedge/
> Can you think of anybody who makes real money selling deep dives on the web?

It can be done on a small scale. The name escapes me but somebody big in the React world recently put out a course and made well over 5-6 figures in the first day of preorders alone.

Now whether that scales to fund an entire organization or corporation remains to be seen.
CentOS was huge in the cloud. Run by admins that want to config and forget. That 10 years support is nice. Boring and bullet proof is a feature (look at Debian). RedHat were a large contributor and also provided funding. When they pulled the plug the project didn’t survive and admins around the world cried.

Hopefully Rocky wont suffer the same fate being supported by the community from the outset.

But I might wait a bit before trying it :)
What does this offer over say LT-Spice?
The point of spending is to avert climate change and avoid 1.5C rise. Your premise is faulty.
No, the point of delayed choice quantum eraser is that it's the first really simple experimental setup that non-physicists can understand, and see how it violates the simple assumption of classical physics. It's sort of the Hershey Chase experiment, but for QM. If DCQE hadn't been done, Bell would have been fine, as the last of the no-loophole experiments are being run now.
> Back in grad school a colleague of mine spent nine months on an experiment in a new field and submitted it as a paper to a quality journal. Six months later, the paper was rejected for lack of novelty: One of the reviewers had found a paper with a figure-by-figure duplication of the same experiment -- published on arXiv a week before the rejection decision. Both the managing editor and the author on the arXiv paper were from Chinese universities.

Could you clarify whether the duplicate paper was also submitted to the same journal or elsewhere, and if submitted whether it was accepted?

I'm trying to figure out whether the point was to steal credit, or to spike your colleague's submission.

> We wrote a rebuttal and submitted a complaint to the journal editor, but no justice was forthcoming.

Yeah this is the sort of thing that seems to only ever get resolved if a public stink is made, often on social media these days, because the integrity of both the editor and the journal is being implicated, which ends up with the can of worms[0] being swept under the rug if at all possible.

Of course people are going to keep tripping over the bump in the rug, and your colleague might not even have been the first victim.

[0] Having to check everything else the editor has ever done for similar misconduct, potentially retractions galore, making victims whole, process improvements, etc.
Maybe both are true? ;)
Yeah, it’s such a well-known trope that I have to assume the ad is intentionally referencing it. But then it makes no sense!
Sea level rise at the Dutch coast has been stable for about the last 100 years. No significant acceleration.
Steven Sloman at Brown University argues there is good evidence showing when people are asked to explain something in depth, their mind can be changed. Basically, it hinges on the idea of "the illusion of explanatory depth". People don't actually understand concepts as well as they think they do. If they come to that realization on their own (with your help, of course) they may wobble on their convictions, at which point you can point them toward better, more empirically driven conclusions.

So, in the case of your neighbor, ask them to explain their anti-climate change beliefs in depth, in a non-confrontational way. "Oh that's interesting, how does that work?". Kind of a 5-why approach. Hopefully as they dig in they realize, "Hey, I don't actually understand this very well." At which point, you point them to strong counterfactuals to their beliefs.
Yes. So the argument is that this will probably happen then.

Because we didn't get it better under control by 2000.

The argument is that these island nations might actually already be lost.

Scientists estimate an around 40 year "climate lag" between cause and effect so if you think this is bad, we're only living out the happy times from the seventies with Pink Floyd and ABBA. And then, once you have it there, CO2 has an atmospheric "half life" counted in centuries. It's why climate change is so damn nasty. :-(

It also really doesn't jive well with our short election periods where after a few years, some new guy with a radically different policy will get in charge if the earlier one wasn't popular because <insert too radical climate policy here>.
Anyone who's still reading something that devoid of any reference to the mass of precise accumulated studies and evidence is beyond discourse, climate denial has become part of their core identity. So send them the latest ipcc report and don't bother with discussions.
Also flip low lying Florida housing to them if you can: easy money.
Worth reading: https://science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Christy%20Testimony_...
I found Morrison's quote a little odd, since she herself wrote almost exclusively about black women. Not about herself, but about her ancestors, or people who could have been her ancestors, in a culture that she knew a lot about. Following her advice just from that one sentence would almost certainly lead to cultural appropriation and unpleasant stereotypes.

Taking the advice to be imaginative is good. Writing stereotypes isn't imagination; it's lazy.
"In the US most research is targeted as selling things to the military."

This strikes me as a very narrow perspective. Defense and Non-Defense R&D spending are about the same (https://www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/DefNon.png) and the second largest funder of R&D is the NIH.
MoviePass had a large number of subscribers. It's very easy to be successful if you're giving something away for free and ignore sustainability.
Central banks use PID controllers to control stability [1]. Stable coin systems can use PID controller systems too [2]. Stable coins are as volatile as their fiat counterparts.

Crypto currencies are run by people as much as central banks are. People can have opinions and values. People forked of Ethereum into Ethereum Classic because they had an issue with the main chain's policy. ETC community is alive.

Building crypto currencies is all about optimizing for legitimacy [3]. We can build what we want, we just need to want it in the first place. No need to discount a whole field of computer science with a comment.

- 1: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11403-014-0127-3

- 2: https://github.com/reflexer-labs/whitepapers/blob/master/Eng...

- 3: https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/03/23/legitimacy.html
>> From that perspective, it’s absurd to have to dance around mentioning a trademark in a context where you’re explicitly stating that your product is different from it.

I don't think being a downstream release of RedHat very different from it. In fact, that's kind of the point.
What is the definition of ‘watershed’ in this report?
The could just do their own RHEL fork, which would make Amazon Linux a peer to rocky instead of a downstream.
> Updated: 2013-01-04

I'll pass...
tragically underrated post

i view the last decade (perhaps two) as a complete shattering of nearly all epistemology and social trust

we are all now wandering in a forest of mirrors

or perhaps, rather, this is not a new condition, and we merely understand it
1.5ºC is the lower bound for the estimated target.

In any case, the 2ºC nominal target was mostly arbitrary.

For those unaware, the problem with measuring global temperatures is that we can measure variation (relative values) with great accuracy (e.g. 0.5ºC increase), but the error bars on the absolute measurement are way to big to make useful statements on what will happen at XºC.
Gotta play by the same rules as the other asset classes. Shouldn't ruffle any feathers
Is that a really surprise to you guys? Just look for the old klarna news, this is not the first time and won’t be the last time. There is no security on internet, just get used to it, if you use klarna.
>The communist leader of Georgia at the time wanted to make an example of them and gave death sentences, even despite their ages. The parents didn't find out they were executed by the state for five years (nor did the media obviously).

These two sentences appear to contradict each other. Why would their executions be low-key if they were to be made examples of?
Your comment reads as if "crypto" is synonymous with "Proof of Work cryptos". Are you suggesting a blanket ban on all cryptocurrencies regardless of their electrical efficiencies, or specifically PoW-style mining?
I keep hearing about the rapidness being unprecedented, but then also that there are methane seems in the arctic that will be released, which should result in an even more rapid change. If this natural process exists, then really the rapidness of change in global temperatures can't be unprecedented, since any major climate swing would result in methane releases.
Worldwide? What I found googling now indicates the US has been stable and worldwide we went up by a factor of 7 since 1950.

Also, efficiency doesn't matter if it gets outweighed by consumption/usage.
For Sparkplug, bytecode is the input representation. But you’re right that bytecode is an intermediate representation of V8. So to me, whether bytecode is an IR or not depends on whether you’re talking about V8 as a whole or Sparkplug in particular.

To me, an intermediate representation is what the compiler translates the input to other than machine code. Sparkplug goes straight from its input (bytecode) to machine code.

So you’re not being too pedantic. It’s just that V8 has two compilers now, one that has an IR of its own (turbofan), and one that doesn’t (sparkplug). Lack of IR is one of the things (maybe the most important thing) that makes Sparkplug special. If you define IR in a way that means that bytecode is an IR then I don’t know how to easily articulate what it is that makes Sparkplug special.
Russia might be the largest benefactor, as they have only very short (inhabited) coastlines but incredible amounts of currently barely inhabited land. That land might become arable, but in the meantime they too have their problems with increased fires, floods and immigration from Southern neighbors. The most important benefit would be the Northeast Passage for ships traveling between Asia and Europe. It runs through the Bering Strait and along Siberia, is 24% shorter for the popular Shanghai-Rotterdam trip, and is becoming increasingly viable thanks to global warming (and Russian nuclear icebreakers).

Canada has a similar story, but the Northwest Passage along Canada is much less exciting, and they have much more population on the coast.
We're definitely going to go beyond 2ºC in the coming decades.

Even if a miracle happened and we stopped all human emissions today, current GHGs in the atmosphere will keep trapping more heat for some decades. This is known as climate inertia or climate lag.

Another aspect I don't see frequently mentioned are feedbacks. Again, even if we stopped all emissions today, self sustaining climatic systems will keep adding more heat to the atmosphere (methane, etc) or the sea (Arctic ice melting).

We're currently at aprox 36 billion tonnes of carbon emissions per year [1] only counting fuel burning. It would be a miracle if we could even reach 50% of that in our lifetime, which was aprox the emissions from the 70s.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
You could look at coastal change maps and buy property that will be coastal in 20 years.
From the article:

> The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the advert was misleading and left out important risk warnings.

> Luno said the ads would not appear again and that future ads would feature an appropriate risk warning.

> Advertising must be clear that the value of investments, unless guaranteed, could go down as well as up, ASA rules stipulate.

It sounds like if the AAPL or gold had advertising that flagrantly violated the rules, they would also be banned.
These are kinda different.

For Bitcoin this is about it gaining mainstream recognition, in a way it still is not recognized, since some countries want to ban it, in others it is unregulated and so on.

But for 1929 is about when even people that normally wouldn't be investing, think they are good investors because they are investing and getting impressive returns, it means the stock market is overheated, and more sensible investments are not giving enough returns.

That said we are in a 1929 situation right now, in my opinion, not only stocks keep rising, but seeing even meme cryptos skyrocketing, a rise in employment in cassinos bigger than employment in production (according to jobs data in US), and seeing people that can't pay their own expenses properly "investing", makes me think something is seriously wrong with the economy, not just in US mind you, I am seeing in other countries a rapid proliferation of investment advice online courses and coaches, rapid gains in questionable investments, a rise in popularity of scams and pyramid schemes, basically people want to save, can't figure out how to save, and are burning money in the cheapest options (meanwhile a good choice would be buy land for example, but despite me being in the top 5% richest in my country, I can't afford any, at all! I live in a "projects" style rented apartment and despite me wanting to actually farm, all my income is going in paying the ever increasing food, medicine and rent costs! I can't afford buying property, much less electronics, toys, etc... that would move the economy beyond the bare mininum).
I mean, how many companies are building out DCs left and right these days? Not many. This will fit in nicely for brand new projects that require nothing more than a rack. Once a company puts something through the paces for 2-3 years, and the engineers managing it love it, then the slow migration from UCS (or Nutanix) to Oxide begins. This is usually how I've seen new hardware architectures introduced at mid and large size companies.
> Russia benefits, I think.

Not clear, most of Siberia would be turned into mud (which currently only happens for a month or so), many roads there are just frozen rivers.
(June 29, 1989)
It'd be nice if your predictions for south of the equator correctly flipped summer and winter. Right now they show winter as the warmer months and summer as the colder ones.
That's simply because of two facts:

First of all, weather is a chaotic system. And "good weather" is an extremely narrow band (at any given year try to find two farmers of different crops that both agree that the weather was good). As such, it is much more likely that any climate change (not chaotic on the scales discussed here) will have a negative effect on weather anywhere than the opposite.

Secondly, and more importantly, we are talking about a system that contains huge quantities of thermal energy. This energy will for instance create stronger storms. In general, we don't want to put energy into our climate because of the potential violence that follows from that.
A democracy, while not an ideal system of governance, is based on negotiations and compromises between various stakeholders. A written or unwritten constitution tries its best to spell out the compromises that was negotiated between all the party and leaves the grey area to a neutral court.

For a democratic system to function efficiently trust is essential. Citizens need to trust that a democratic government will not over reach beyond their stated power, and governments in power need to respect that citizen voters are not manipulable fools. And both needs to believe that the other can be held accountable, if necessary.

Without going into much detail, I believe that a decent compromise that can be reached on this issue is for the citizens to demand extremely strong privacy regulations and stringent wiretapping laws if the government wants us to forego encryption.
> ... the only reason why someone was willing enough to pay $760k for this NFT is because they genuinely believe it's equivalent in value compared to buying on the analogue art market.

I'm not sure that's the case. They may just be speculating that someone will be willing to pay more for the NFT in the future. It may be it's even beneficial to them that they don't have to exhibit or secure the art themselves.
Had no idea. Any links? (I want to feel hopeful)
On the opposite end of the morality spectrum, some people think it's absolutely unforgivable to continue supporting corrupt governments that irresponsibly inflate their fiat to unusable levels, which is a much more immediate concern for some people than the ice is melting ad nauseum for like 50+ years, and use crypto as an alternative store of wealth when their governments fail them. So, whatever, let China use their energy to solve some stupidly complex algorithms to process transactions. In the end, it won't even matter.
>> We run an HPC cluster on CentOS 8 and looking at moving to Rocky but I wonder if we shouldn’t just jump to Ubuntu or OpenSUSE.

Sounds like an installation that might be able to afford RedHat. In fact, had that been the case already there would be no need to change anything now.
Well, I think there already some geoengineering solutions that —- if worst comes to worst —- look like they might be effective in combating climate change albeit at the cost of unknown and potentially serious side effects.

I definitely think the US will pull the trigger on stratosphere aerosol injection and other geoengineering technologies before letting Miami go underwater.

But... this debate has been going on a long time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6450358
It seems like Sparkplug per se isn't generating the IR. Instead it's the interpreter doing that.
I believe you can--maybe she had it on this time for the sake of demonstration?