skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm starting to think that governments and people will be unable to fight CO2 emissions for several reasons:

* Reducing living standards is counter intuitive when consumerism is the norm, in France the Yellow Vests movement showed that it's very difficult to tax carbon if it punish poor people. Inequality and carbon emissions are deeply intertwined.

* People will just consume, feel guilty, maybe take some individual "steps", but there is too much behavior inertia and dependency. Nothing changes because everybody feels responsible and thus feel unable to protest since it would be hypocritical to do so.

* Companies will keep causing emissions unless those companies disappear

A french think tank called "Shift Project" is writing a public plan, hoping to attract attention during the 2022 presidential elections.

It looks like that any real step would result in additional precarity and poverty, which makes it very difficult to act for other political reasons.

Sometimes I think that convincing conservatives of taking action, disregarding inequality, would actually be good enough, considering the situation.

I'm part of the poorest 20% in my country, and honestly I'd rather have more poverty and solve climate change. It's a price I'm willing to pay.
I guess my point was: without that servicing it would’ve been a pretty short life span (literally 0?). The swarm approach helps with this.
subtitles:

Action was week before House panel considered antitrust bills

Antitrust bills target Alphabet’s Google, Apple, Amazon
>removing alcohol is possible (and cheap)

Just like carbon removal, removing alcohol from blood is much more difficult (and/or expensive) than to stop drinking.

It's an addiction so maybe we should stop selling alcohol to drunk people who can't help but put their life at risk. If your drunk friends says "but I'll find a way to get sober", we can agree to help them with that once they stop drinking.

Also, wrt to climate change: people won't want carbon but energy and we have an alternative to fossil fuels so replace them with renewable sources as much as possible and once we've done our best, finally talk about all the CO2 we failed to save. It's all about priorities because of the time carbon remains in the atmosphere and the feedback loops at play.
OpenBSD is also my go to. The only caveat I'll throw out is when I upgraded to gigabit internet I discovered OpenBSD on the protectli FW4B couldn't keep up. In fact in iperf benchmarks it pushed ~300 Mb/s to FreeBSD's 600 Mb/s. Considering all the work done on Linux's network stack I plan to try it next to see if I can squeeze any more out of the hardware.

Just means anyone who wants to try OpenBSD should spec something a little more powerful than that appliance.
Show HN: Digger.dev – Autogenerate infrastructure for your code
I don't the parent is attacking global warming. The headline doesn't lineup with past temp records. Is there something in a dust bowl heatwave that could help explain why it is virtually impossible when it clearly isn't?

When something like global warming become a religion any comment perceived as attacking itself no matter how innocent and truthful will bring out zealots looking to defend their faith. I think we should keep religion out of science.
The nice thing about The Economist is that they wear their preference about Anglo classical liberalism proudle on their sleeve. Their international reporting is wonderful and you quickly learn how to read their information between their bias, because there is no other magazine reporting weekly about African and South American regions.
Look at the temperature records in Canada.

Of the 13 provinces and territories, 9 of the 13 records were set in the 1930's or earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_temperatures_i...
To me carbon removal is just a PR tool by interested parties who don’t want to reduce emissions. I haven’t seen any approach that even remotely can be scaled to a level where it would make a difference. I think it’s a distraction that’s designed to prevent meaningful action. Pretty much the same as the fast food industry sponsoring health education initiatives that tell people junk food is ok.
It seems the only sector that can't be decarbonized radically are transport and agriculture, mostly because airplanes and freight transport. That leaves us about 30% of carbon emissions today[1]. According to those numbers, carbon capture is going to be needed, but nowhere with the same priority than clean energy.

A high-priority item for the environment is simply education, since voters are pushing strongly against clean energy ("wind turbines kill birds", "nuclear plants go Chernobyl", "electric cars are expensive|auto-update like Windows and brick on you|have no turbo", "batteries are worse for the environment than fossil fuels").

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
So Marlboro buys 35% of Juul and now Juul is advertising recklessly and inviting an e-cig ban or heavy regulation. Interesting

Well here are some fun facts about the ingredients in tobacco, for comparison...

The main* reason smoking causes cancer is the high amount of polonium 210, yeah, that same stuff they used to murder Litvenchenko. The reason for the presence of polonium 210 is flavour. Truly. It sounds far fetched, but while the polonium is thought to contaminate the plant from the environment, (Tobacco plants have lots of sticky little hairs which attract particles.) it could be washed out of the product. However, the manufacturers found that the harsh cleaning required, ruined the flavour profile of the end product. This was thought to be a disservice to the consumer. So the highly radioactive polonium 210 remains... For Flavour! [0][1]

*Edit: Comments point out it may not be the "main reason". Well I thought I read it was. Measurements show that smokers receive radiation equivelant to 300 chest xrays a year: https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2008/08/29/radioactive-pol...

Another ingredient you may be surprised at is urea。 Pig Urine. But this one is intentional, and in fact is probably the main flavour you pick up from a smoke.

This history of this particular flavour enhancer is very interesting. They no longer use real pig urine in stuff any more, but a synthesized version. This synthesis was invented in the late 19th century by Friedrich Wöhler. But the paper that introduced urea synthesis to world is regarded as the beginning of the field of organic chemistry, and an important moment in history. That paper is now part of the western literary canon, and is often required reading for numerous academic fields.

[0]:https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/smoking.htm [1]:https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2008/08/29/radioactive-pol...
>they have had flavours forever and not been in the spotlight to marketing to children?

I think my mum would disagree
Ask HN: Is this the most quoted quote on HN?
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I was informally taught that a plug goes into a socket. Cables and adapters commonly have the same connector on each end, making the plug/socket terminology even less descriptive of the connecting formats.
Whether easing off is more or less effective than cold turkey, and for whom, is a technical matter. GP is talking about something orthogonal: some people believe that breaking addiction requires suffering, so if you found a way to avoid it, you've somehow cheated, or hadn't really quit.
No. I have intentionally violated the one definition rule and nothing broke at all. In my case I wrote a second timer, which had hooks my unit test system could use to advance time without having to inject timers.

It will fail at link time if you link everything into the same library. Even here there is an escape: there are ways to mark something as a weak symbol and than the linker won't complain about more than one definition.

See your OS documentation for how this works on your implementation. (though don't be surprised if the documentation is wrong...)
Oh yeah I get that part.. what I mean is that it's lame that I have to sit at my desktop computer in a browser and do this manual work just so my Apple TV experience - which is where I primarily consume YouTube - doesn't give me garbage recommendations.
Exactly, not peer reviewed.
We're always seeing "sociological experiments" across the globe... and in all parts of it. Stuff changes, society reacts. It's not like family life, economic life and such have been static in China for the last several generations.
Yes, an ENT told my wife that those of Asian decent more commonly have “sticky” ear wax.
> What exactly is the question that you think I dodged?

It was the top of my comment but I'll help you out also with the background, although it leaves me with the strong impression that you neither read it, nor are willing to actually have a worthwhile conversation.

OP>>> this is exactly how the rest of the world feels about US-based companies harvesting dna data for years

YOU>> The US isn't actively committing genocide against a specific ethnic group right now

ME> Is this the bar to pass in order to be allowed to collect any kind of data from any person around the world?

You're justifying why everyone else should be OK with the US to collect DNA but not for China because "genocide". So tell me, is that the bar you have to pass to collect DNA data from around the world or any similar effort? So you tell me how either of these countries is entitled to do it. Is everyone else bound to lower the standards and necessarily use the lowest bar to judge a matter?

The problem is some people would justify eating a baby because China ate two. That's an easy way to make all the wrong choices and justify all the wrong things: China does even worse. Will you accept any abuse from US leadership as long as it's not outright genocide?
The US urges its people to struggle too doesn't it? Isn't this site a good example?
Technically, iPhones use HEIF, which uses HEVC, which uses DCT and DST and variable block sizes.

JPEG uses DCT with fixed block sizes. The results of the two file formats are similar.
At least in California wildfires, houses often burn down from random hot embers landing on the roof, not necessarily a giant whoosh of flames engulfing everything. Could be the same here.
Forest Admin launches program for sharing internal tool with external partners
Question if anyone knows: ~9.5 years any reason to not push it out of orbit into space and continue to get signals back for years longer as it floats off? Like the voyagers?
Adding an avenue for confusion when you can tell anyone in any language that you need a wire with a female end for a male outlet seems like a less than ideal use of resources.
We're not going to solve climate change because no amount of evidence will convince people to act less selfishly. The human race isn't going to save this planet and we're not going to leave the planet either. The best outcome I can think of for the future is a managed decline where hopefully too many people don't die in the coming climate-caused geopolitical instability and resource wars.
Reduction in storm damage or wild fires for example. Once people have to flee coastal regions there will be a lot of money spent on dealing with refugees and most likely wars.
I also think people forget that Robinhood was made with Python, Reddit used Python, Github/Gitlab use Ruby. Stripe AKA payments that need to be processed fast within SLA's use Ruby.

Ruby and Python can only ever have one thread running at a time due to global interpreter lock. Though to keep in mind when I/O happens on a thread it can be parked and another thread can be picked up to continue processing. But in essence one thread is running at a time and these languages built billion dollar businesses.

Just scale horizontally computers are cheap is the message I get and remember to keep it simple.
Let's be honest. Sex is plenty ewww for US Americans that mostly are heading these language changes. It also feels like catholicism 2.0.
That is good reason to minimize amount of dependencies and only use the ones you know and can reason about. It is also part of what I do to help me reason about code before I execute it.

As I mentioned, if I don't understand a dependency or external system I make separate toy project where I can rapidly experiment and learn.

Think of it as having fun in a aircraft simulator. You play with it so that you are prepared to fly the actual plane.

Also checking your assumptions by trying to see if the code works is a problem in itself. A lot of these broken assumptions will not break your code immediately but maybe sometime later. Maybe when your application is under load or maybe when clock on the server is moved back by an hour or maybe when the connection breaks in a certain way.

Base your work on knowing how something works and not assuming.

Best way to limit the risk of your application failing due to broken assumption is to limit your reliance on assumptions in the first place.
Yes, it seems like the elder generations are benefiting greatly from vaping but the "kids these days" are having huge issues with it. I agree that majority of a high school will just suddenly be all in on vaping, the social pressure is just waayyy too high in a place like that and a bunch of people get pulled in that wouldn't just cause a couple of the more influential ones picked up something they view as a toy, but that they can portray as a status symbol, at least within the high school.

I will say that when those juul kids come to college, very specifically my college, they hit the reality that everyone there still looks down on it and that they're basically just broadcasting their "highschoolness", and then they realize how hard it is to quit. We had smoking at my non-smoking campus, just behind one of the buildings, but it was by definition not popular. Vaping existed but if you were walking around blowing huge clouds of cotton candy shit, people would both actively avoid you and look down on you. It was the culture at the time.

Disclaimer: I left a couple years ago, that was my experience, things could've greatly changed by now
Imagine a place where no lower bound on quality is established on anything.

You'd have to spend all your time advocating, evaluating, fighting for everything important in your life: the quality of your housing, the quality of your children's education, the quality of your car and your consumer goods, and so on.
Probably high when vaping is banned.
Indeed; but I don't think it is "class struggle" that China is promoting to its people. It would seem to me that the Economist made an conscious attempt to conflate Xi's advocation of continued "class struggle" within CCP with what is being "urging" as seen in the current affairs; to quote:

> Such ideas ("Tangping") are at odds with the Communist Party’s rhetoric. Its leader, Xi Jinping, likes the word “struggle”. In 2019 an official summary of a speech he gave to young officials included more than 50 mentions of it. Struggle is an art, he told them. “We must be good at struggle.”
Juul has sabatoshed their product. I quit smoking using the Mango flavor (now banned in the USA). I moved onto Virgina Tabbaco flavor which did the trick. About 6 months ago, all the pods started tasting like laundry detergent (Batch codes JJ25SA20A and forward). I had a few of the old to compare with. Waited 6 months now and bought another pack and it's still horrible. Now I buy mango pods from Russia. I hope that option lasts.
Using modern prevalence of the dry-wax gene as the basis for probability simulations, the authors estimated that the dry form of the gene diverged from the default wet version 2,006 generations back, or about 50,000 years ago (which lines up well timingwise with the out-of-Africa theory); (2) the speed with which the new gene spread through Asia suggests it conferred some evolutionary advantage; and (3) among modern Asian, Native American, and European populations alike, the dry-wax gene is more common the further north you go — supporting the earlier idea that maybe it helped humans thrive in the cold.

https://www.straightdope.com/21344485/why-is-asian-earwax-di...
TL;DW: He's very supportive, and talks about how things used to be fixable and have plans included on paper, "open source".

He says Apple II shipped with complete schematics and source code listings.
Not the OP, but I guess he is talking about the hypertelescope concept: https://hypertelescope.org/hypertelescope-en/

For additional background, there are already optical interferometry telescopes in use, see VLTI by the European Southern Observatory (Chile, shared facility with the four VLT telescopes and some smaller telescopes).
It is interesting tone of this article, even now scientist are struggling to convince wide public and policy makers, that global warming is real. Outcry of desperation. I see in that parallel with Covid pandemic:

- "not it is not real"

- "it is just a flu like any other"

- "all things will be ok"

- "oh sh* it is real"

- "f** it is real"

- "we are screwed run for your lives"

- "..."

- "no we have not said it is not real, we ..."

Point being, just shut the fork up and listen scientist in the first place not wasting time.
By the way when down vote could you at least comment :D

Edit: Sorry for misunderstanding now I see multiple ways how what I said may come out wrong. Dialog was meant to be voice of non-believers. Global warming science is settled and it is real and may be a threat for all life on planet. What I find strange is struggle smart people need go through to convince people without knowledge that what they say is truth. Like frustration person with vision (scientist) would experience trying to convince blind person about the look of the reality. It is not about knowledge it is about trust.
And in this case it seems oil money was blinding factor for many for very long time.
> If one was raised in a patriarchal setup, maybe. But some societies have already a third or even fifth generation that never knew this.

Yes, exactly! We can already observe the effects through such metrics as marriage rate and birth rate in e.g. Germany or South Korea.

> The extinction of a world view in which gender equality is considered a "sociological experiment"?

I sense some negativity, could I have formulated it in a more neutral way? Any historically new social reform e.g. tax-payer-funded health care or tuition is in a way an experiment.
Also I am not sure we will ever achieve true gender equality. For example in prison population to name one metric.
China does something evil.

The U.S. does it too (without giving any evidence).

It's OK China doing it now.
You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)
For me the problem is that if you focus only on one part of the entire problem, you will never fix it. You can do carbon capturing at a NG plant, but what about all the leaks [1]? Lowering CO2 emissions, will lower all kinds of emissions, so that should be the focus.

[1]: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.0c00437
The NHS actually recommends vaping to help stop smoking.

"In recent years, e-cigarettes have become a very popular stop smoking aid in the UK. Also known as vapes or e-cigs, they're far less harmful than cigarettes and can help you quit smoking for good."

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/quit-smoking/using-e-cigarettes...
Could you add that to the repo's readme?
It's a stats thing, plus a factual thing. I personally don't care much about the wellbeing of others, but I do understand based on what I read, that for the majority of people, they don't like dying, lockdowns, or masks etc.

So from that I can extrapolate that people want a 'return to a normal life quickly', as opposed to living with Covid over an extended time period.

> Or is "population" à proxy for "me"?

Absolutely not. I am totally fine with my splendid isolation. Most of the world could burn for all I care. The human race hasn't done me much favours in my life, so why should I care about people I don't even know?

I also upvoted you, not because I like you, but because you took the time to engage in dialogue.
i wonder how much information is gained about me if a close relative decides this is a good idea to do...
So if we go off of Woz's example, you would have preferred it if bell was allowed to say what kind of phone you were allowed to have and that the "few bureaucrats" should not have stepped in to allow other manufacturers to build phones.

People could not have voted with their wallet because there was no alternative. We're approaching the same type of problem with tech giants. People just want to ensure that components can be replaced and that the tech giants aren't going out of their way to prevent that.
I much prefer "funny smells" to regular cigarette smoke, be it for the smell of the cloud, the one it leaves on your clothes, or the aggressiveness of the smoke on your lungs.
That's nonsense.

People are not the same. Groups of people are not the same.
population differences in genetics and culture will mean that using immigration to replace a declining birth rate makes a different country and a different people, with a different biology, different culture, etc.

If the only thing wrong with the holocaust is that it was non consential, rather then being that AND the extermination of a people, then your view makes sense, but otherwise NO.

Your blatant propaganda shilling for the bourgeoise capitalists isn't unnoticed. Replacing workers and exterminating their people and culture so that you can enjoy a nice retirement is EVIL.
Yes, it is a smoking cessation product. It helps you cease smoking. Vaping is not smoking.
From you description it seems like we're just computing the standard insert-delete tree-edit-distance. These tend to be slow.

This implies that the patch language only supports insertion, deletion and modification of nodes, which is a shame since refactorings, moves and duplications are also common operations in the source-code domain. Additionally, if the patch language only supports insertion, deletion and modification, the merging algorithm will perform poorly.
There's better pictures and video here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wildfires...

Sounds like a fire started in town and spread to everything flammable, as opposed to the town being engulfed in a forest fire. Trees may not have been dry enough to catch fire.
Really? We were amazed by the amount and quality of kids content. It's a completely separate section, so it's not part of the main Kanopy app, but it has tons of movies and dramatized readings of children's books. But yeah, the first thing I thought when I read this was "Kanopy".
For the reasons you state and more, I feel that developing a carbon capture technology that people have an incentive to install (e:g, end product from reacting something with CO2 is commercially useful in some way), is the best hope. People are just determined to maintain their lifestyles. Covid taught us how little quite a number of people are willing to moderate their daily life to save others' lives. So it seems to me if we can side-step this problem by making people want to extract existing CO2, then there's hope. But as for how realistically achievable that is... answers on a postcard please. I'm not a chemist. I do wonder is there a place for software experts to assist with this endeavour in some way, but how to do it is not yet obvious to me
> I'm definitely against marketing vaping to non-smokers. But I'm fine with converting existing smokers to vaping

How can a society allow marketing vaping as a healthier way to smoke without allowing marketing that makes non-smokers think vaping is a healthy way to smoke?

(Especially considering that the marketers are eager to market to non-smokers.)
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