skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your feedback and great news that you are already taking responsibility for your footprint.

A key difference between us and Wren (and other offset based services) is that we focus on carbon removal - actively undoing a carbon footprint, rather than offsetting it. The way we see it this way: if we emit a ton of CO₂, we should remove a ton resulting in 0 emissions in the atmosphere. If we offset (by paying typically developing countries to change their behaviour), there is still a ton in the atmosphere.

As a result, sequestering carbon dioxide is much harder and expensive. For example, removing via Direct Air Capture is currently around $1000/ton. Via bio-oil is close to $700/ton. At the other end of the scale offsets are typically $32/ton.

I don't want to diminish the efforts of offsets - they have a place and help developing nations transition to more sustainable alternatives - but we want to focus on bringing carbon removal down the curve. To try and make this more affordable we also mix in calculated removals via forestation which is cheaper.

Does that make things a little clearer?
Generational distribution of wealth (at-same-age comparison), and how good the health & elder-care industries have become at soaking up one's entire bank account (so, very little inheritance) should mean GenX faces the leading edge of a retirement crisis (that is, a whole lot more elderly poverty and being unable to retire than the Boomers faced) that'll get really bad when Millennials, who are even worse off, approach retirement age.

Then there's healthcare costs continuing to outpace inflation, and GenZ and under having trouble affording housing even in cheaper markets, with that getting worse all the time.

Yeah, I'd say 2030-2050's gonna be a really, really rough span.
Vertical mouse + split keyboard.

Which forearm? The one you mouse with? If so, spend $20 today and get a vertical mouse. It was a game changer for me.
yeah, there someone still needs to sell the art. I'd imagine it's the artist until you're a massive success.
It's easier to pay to keep a brand on top. If you're paying to revive the reputation of a brand, the uphill climb is much more painful.
Not dying from Covid does not imply not being susceptible to the disease - it has a sufficiently large proportion of bad long term effects so that we would want to prevent everyone, including children, from getting sick with Covid even they aren't likely to die from it.

Death rate is not the only measure, and it's not the proper measure in this case.

E.g. a recent Norwegian study (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01433-3) had roughly half of young (16-30) people with mild covid (non-hospitalized) still showing harmful effects six months afterwards; so the covid risks/consequences are much worse than any currently known vaccine side-effects even for mild covid in young people. Heck, we're even seeing long-term problems for some people for whom the initial infection was asymptomatic - this is a nasty, risky disease to get, not comparable to diseases that just put you out of work for some time and you're fine if it doesn't kill you.
>and could drop even further to 0.1% by 2100

That is still exponential.
I don't think that is the "wrong" lesson. It's a lesson in risk. But it's not a viable strategy long term for most. I think if you teach the concept of ruin, the chance of going bust, you can help develop a healthy relationship with the concept of risk and investing. It's also pretty easy to show real examples of what risk can cause... "guh"
Travel startup Hometogo to go public at $1B
The data don't come from "statista.com", that's just where the graph is hosted. Clicking on the "sources" link, to see where the data actually came from, brings up a paywall.

So, no, it is not clear where these data actually come from, it's not straightforward to find out without paying, and my point, about the IEA being very, very wrong in its projections about renewable energy for more than a decade, still stands.
Yes.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/29/e2020104118
What other word can be used to describe that behavior?

If there was one that carried the same "doesn't really care just wants to be seen saying a particular thing" connotation without triggering half the left people would instantly adopt it because there are tons of instances where you see that kind of behavior and want to call it out. Grandstanding is also close but carries the wrong connotations of wanting to influence opinions whereas "virtue singling" is toward your own tribe. Bike shedding is also close but implies actually caring about the outcome or wanting to contribute to the discussion in a non bad faith way.
Your argument works the same regardless of the atrocities committed by your trading partner. At some point the citizens of your country will need to decide wether their economic well-being merits bearing that responsibility.
Linux should have got the lead here, what happened?

Lack of app ecosystem in Linux? i think that's the problem..
> We don't need to verify the identity of the server because that's typically not a problem on the intranet.

Sorry, not a security expert. What is the point of encrypting if you're not also sure you're sending the encrypted data to the right entity?
I guess you've never had someone accusing you of hurting them when you didn't?

The optimal move is to disengage rather than argue, but I assure you that mandating that people "own" whatever spurious accusation is thrown their way just opens up a rich avenue for passive-aggressive abuse.

Your contrasting the textual source with the general connotation is exactly the concept drift referenced by the post you're replying to.
"Economic decline that hurts standard of living is very far from a societal collapse", if it doesn't cause War. Quite impossible that Countries won't fight each other to see who falls slower than the other.
Owning land is the first step in securing control over that land (and establishing other infrastructure) while you still have the option to use capital and global economies of scale to your advantage.
Agreed. Except now, idealization doesn't only apply to "white picket fence" experiences or "going to college." Now it applies to inner identity, and sometimes aggressive or even militant external identities. It's an impossible situation for a parent. Sometimes, the only way for the parent to survive emotionally is to allow the child to fail and hopefully learn from the failure.
From Vision to Language: Semi-Supervised Learning in Action at Scale
Interesting. Numpy within python does give near native speeds for number crunching though does it not? Copying around arrays does feel like an area where python suffers, however.
Microsoft's new Teams Preview app gets a speed boost by ditching Electron
> Any person in their right mind will

Hmm..
If you use your imagination you can still edit tweets and also have them be immutable. Loads of systems have an edit history or alternatively just a means to delete and recreate a tweet in the first 5 minutes after publication. There are probably other even better ways to solve this.
So you’re saying putting 40 minutes to things every day works wonders.
Modern turbofan/turbojet/turboprop (really, any engine) has a ton of SW involved. Engine controllers [1] literally control the engines. Your point is completely wrong, I've worked on this software and they go through many forms of verification for things to work. Look at the failure rate of avionics and compare that to other industries.

Sure you or your friend may have had a bad experience at that company, but the big players generally won't let software bugs through.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADEC
Who cares? Friend groups are an echo chamber too.
I completely agree - many attack vectors are more difficult, and some are impossible. However, saying "you can never get the data out of the cloud except via screenshot" is, first of all, untrue, as other means exist, and second, preventing access to data is not the most important security aspect of such a system.
> creativity comes in bursts and you don't know when it's going to show up so you need to be the one showing up every day to work on it.

This comment right here adds alot of clarity for me. When worded this way, it makes total sense why this is so effective.
Agree with this. It's common for preppers/survivalists to believe that somehow the chaos isn't going to devour them.

I'm really fine with being prepared for disasters, human-made or natural, but in a complete upheaval of global civilization you need more than property and a castle loaded with ammo to thrive. Looking at foreign countries ravaged by civil war, can you really imagine riding that out because you bought a farm?
Did not know. Thanks.
Absolutely, you'll need to own guns and be willing to use them. As some decide to not respect your right to life, you either to learn to reciprocate, or perish.
perhaps they can dry their tears with hundred-dollar bills /s
Can anyone provide a basic description of how this technology works? It certainly sounds amazing.
This is not the reality that most Europeans live in. Europeans who live in major cities might enjoy their good public transport options, but in minor cities, towns and rural areas, public transport is crap to non-existent.

US has 800 cars per 1000 people, but Italy and Spain have 650/1000 and even Poland, which is significantly poorer than US, has over 700 cars per 1000 people. In Europe, car ownership is only slightly less of a necessity than it is in the US, and I think if you look at the data that measure cars not per capita, but per household, the gap in car ownership between US and European countries would be even smaller.
Mate, we have subscriptions to The Economist but the comment pinned at the top is a paywall bypass. Of course we read it.
Fun time waster – Face and body tracking for 3D models for anyone with webcam
Why do you care if I read your stuff that’s public on the Internet, surely we should all be trying to understand each other’s point of view more not less?
I tweet and I really enjoy it. I get a ton of value out of it.

But I think about deleting my account every day, because it's an enormous risk for normal people.
For the people who left the church because they found some of the teachings abhorrent, I would assume they were rejecting the church's authority, not rejecting God. From their perspective it may be the church who split with God, and they are trying to stay on the path by getting away from the church.

This is coming from an areligious atheist, so I must acknowledge my lack of experience with this even though I've read about it and given it some thought.
Maintenance matters. The C++ standard library provides some data structures you shouldn't use. OK, not some, C++ stdlib provides almost exclusively data structures you shouldn't use. But hey, the C++ language itself has some data structures you shouldn't use too (arrays especially).

However, Python's standard library is stuck with urllib, although these days they have the courtesy to tell any poor fool looking at the documentation that Requests exists, if you do use the standard library you get very primitive HTTPS handling, and so many wrong defaults.

Because these standard libraries have so many users, Hyrum's law means that you have to work very hard to fix anything.
> Although we built Fleets to address some of the anxieties that hold people back from Tweeting

Those anxieties are driven by the fact that every week someone destroys their career or even life with a single Tweet. In the worst cases, people have been driven to suicide by the backlash to a Tweet of theirs. Unless you are an aspiring celebrity trying to build a career or get a book deal from your Twitter persona, the rational move on Twitter is to not play.

Twitter has the levers to fix this -- they can reduce the exposure of highly viral Tweets, especially by non-celebrities (i.e. people without a lot of existing followers). However that would greatly harm Twitter's business model because people love mobbing on someone and punching them in the face. So the answer to, "why are people hesistant to Tweet?" is that Twitter has decided that it's in its best interests to encourage a highly toxic form of entertainment on its platform.
Regarding carbon, while it is possible we’ve already exceeded our budget on the pessimistic end, on the optimistic end (that we have 15 years), the current growth of PV alone is enough to for me expect it will turn out… well, ‘fine’ isn’t the right word but “not catastrophic” at the least.

Phosphorus, biodiversity, stuff like that? Still a concern.
But mental/emotional abuse and neglect are perfectly fine? Those can be just as irreparably damaging as physical abuse.
FWIW, this looks like a follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27831789 (Svgbob – Create a graphical representation of text diagrams)

Some past threads:

Show HN: Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545252 - May 2015 (53 comments)

Monodraw: Powerful ASCII Art Editor for Developers (Mac) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9145945 - March 2015 (3 comments)

Show HN: Monodraw for Mac, ASCII Art Editor – Beta Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138039 - March 2015 (11 comments)

ASCII art editor designed for the Mac - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8445087 - Oct 2014 (107 comments)
Yeah the thing is I don't know if there is any _good_ small-medium modern C++ code base to read.

Eventually I just gave up and use raw pointers. My theory is that since people don't care about JVM not returning memory to system, they should also not care a bout a few MBs of memory leak in my small game.
I've specifically went and downloaded the latest ISO of Windows 11 preview to see this monstrosity, but no, it seems like a completely normal slider to me, just like in Windows 10.
Leading Teams: Sir Alex Ferguson’s Formula (2013)
The Club of Rome, peak oil, etc. are fantastic intellectual touch points to categorize people based on whether they believe in human ingenuity aided by economic incentives or not.

The simplistic "resources" shown in the graphs does little to explain the methodology of the research, but seems incredibly questionable. For instance, we certainly passed peak oil production in the U.S. in the early 1970s, but thanks to innovations around tar, shale and deep sea extraction the U.S. surpassed this in 2018.

This isn't new; in the 19th century Malthus' ghost was apparent as it was predicted that the earth couldn't feed more than a billion people, but thanks to the Haber–Bosch process we can fix nitrogen for fertilizers and feed nearly 8x that number.

Certain resources will be completely extracted, but economic incentives will strongly encourage people to devise substitutes. Given how little of the Earth's mantle human activity has touched and the increasing likelihood that we will have technology solutions to manage externalities like excess C02, I'm super encouraged for our future prospects.
Greenpeace originally was based on The Foundation from Foundation.
Ask HN: Help (in)validate my side project idea
Hi all,

Back when I was running a one-person SaaS company the one task I often neglected was writing and updating documentation.

I've recently been working on the documentation tool I wish I had back then - something that makes it quick and easy to create docs, as well as helps keep them up to date and improves discoverability.

I've got as far as a very simple proof of concept, so now I'd love to know if there's anyone else who would be interested in a tool like this.

The link below is to a quick survey, which includes a demo video of the app working:

https://forms.gle/aNiw1Wp5gejjqGPy9

Thanks,
Matt
It was more socially normal because an entire generation experienced the horrors of WW2. I'm not saying that makes the behavior ok, but it sure made it a lot easier for families to empathise. My grandpa wasn't an alcoholic but he was a giant asshole until about mid-70s when he started softening up.
I despise this poem.
When you brush this type of argument aside with "oh, this is just Malthusianism," you ignore the fact that, ultimately, Malthus was right!

Let me explain: the sum total of all human economic activity is limited by the available energy we have to put toward it. We only have a finite amount of energy resources available on earth, and we only receive a finite amount more per unit time from the Sun.

Earth's pitiful reserves of energy (fossil fuel and nuclear) essentially don't count in terms of measuring sustainability. In the long run, we either use them up or not, and it's just a blip on the energy meter. Thus, the maximum, long-term sustainable pace of energy consumption is equal to what we can extract from the Sun. And, yet, we consume that much every year by August 1! While the trend has flattened out in recent years, it shows no sign of declining [0].

In short, we can't continue to consume the resources of 1.7 earths per year for very long, and that is what makes Malthus right.

Now, given the time frames of these "dire predictions," this all implies we need to cut our total energy usage as a species in half in much less than 20 years. Considering how the trend so far has been to increase energy consumption by 50% every 20 years, now you see why these predictions are so dire. [1]

It's really simple math. We need to dial back to 1970s levels of consumption even to make things sustainable. But, it took us nearly 50 years to get here from there, and now we have at most 10-20 years to get back. Those don't sound like really good odds to me.

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[0]: https://theconversation.com/yes-humans-are-depleting-earths-...

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
> This used to be nigh unto a human universal: your parents raise you up from a helpless infant to adulthood, and this obliges you to love and care for them for the rest of their lives.

In ancient Rome as far as the legal system was concerned, your children were your property. You could literally sell them into slavery, no questions asked[1]:

> The pater familias had the power to sell his children into slavery; Roman law provided, however, that if a child had been sold as a slave three times, he was no longer subject to patria potestas.

Also, your children's property was your property:

> Legally, any property acquired by individual family members (sons, daughters or slaves) was acquired for the family estate: the pater familias held sole rights to its disposal and sole responsibility for the consequences, including personal forfeiture of rights and property through debt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pater_familias#Children
The parents probably do as well.
What does faith have to do with learning curves making stuff cheaper?
This is America and if you are upper or middle casted, then Amazon will give you better accommodations and compensation. It’s comfy, don’t worry about those people.
Kelp forests are also being worked on and are really interesting. As with all of these methods we have to make sure that creating an extraordinary amount of kelp and sinking it to the bottom of the ocean doesn't have any adverse side effects.
It’s 100 year old technology called a lenticular film that’s bonded to a high resolution display.

Making a lenticular film that small is tough but not rocket science. The software is doing most of the magic interlacing the images properly.
For many reasons, I grew accustomed to fit into many diverse social groups.

It's not only about the way you dress, but also which "side of you" you present to others. I mean, what I've learned is that there are many "I" available in me (and everyone, please generalize at will), and too many people consider wrongly that they're "one and only" and that it's "being true to oneself" to only expose one side of themself.

This is wrong. I, you and everyone, we are all individually a multitude and using this multitude to get yourself what you want (friends, information, jobs, sex, you name it) is not only a skill, which would sound a bit too utilitarian, but also and most importantly, it is a way to acknowledge yourself and let the others know the multitude and complexity and diversity of you.

And I think it's awesome.
Just use TRAMP/VSCode remote.
What is even weirder is that there are "estranged parents' forums". A good read on that rabbit hole is here (see "contents" on the right hand side for more links): http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/index.html
Fleets are not videos. They can include videos, optionally.
Imagine if HN supported downvote reasons and "toxic comment" was one of them. Would I even be able to see your downvoted comment? I have "show dead" turned on in my settings, FWIW.
You mention fixed resources as if we're getting close to the limits of those resources. The premise here is that we are currently capable of fully exploiting the resources of the earth, which is provably false.

A good example of this is the technology cycle of the oil industry. In the 20th century, the primary extraction method for oil was tapping shallow, high pressure oil reservoirs. Oil riggers would drill down less than 1000 feet and oil would come gushing out. As the shallow pockets ran out, the oil industry lamented because they approached a perceived resource constraint. Shortly thereafter, it was found that there was an order of magnitude more proven oil reserves deeper down.

I think society is at a similar nexus today. We're at an inflection point between the end of a lot of steep growth curves (oil and gas production, population growth, [possibly] economic development in the West) and the beginning of a lot of new ones (replacing oil with sustainable energy sources, material science, bioengineering, nanotechnology, space exploration). In all of those realms, it's painfully clear that we're a far ways away from the extent of available resources.

Let's consider artificial energy consumption by humans today. In total, humanity consumed ~500 PWh in 2019 [1]. Power flux of the earth is 173 PW; annualized, earth's energy flux is ~15 million PWh. That means that we consume 0.003% of the energy that is incident the earth. Clearly we're not getting close to the fixed resources of the earth.

In this view, global warming and resource consumption are still
existential concerns, but we are working against perceived limits rather than today's physical limits. Humans are really good at making technology that increases the exploitable resources at our disposal. I'm relatively confident that we'll build technology to save us from extinction, but perhaps not from societal collapse.

[1] I summed the consumption from 2019 in the spreadsheet available here: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/energy?country=USA~GBR~...
Which IMO is why Twitter allowing users to lock their replies is actually damaging to Twitter. Now people just Quote Tweet it instead of replying.
A good overview of CBDCs:

https://www.adamseconomics.com/post/the-potential-orwellian-...
> In particular, our research indicates that users often associate this icon with a site being trustworthy, when in fact it's only the connection that's secure.

Never really thought about that, but I guess it's pretty obvious. I can totally see my folks downloading/buying god-knows-what from a site because they see that lock icon.
Came across this during some research.

Three principles stood out to me:

- Match the message to the moment

- Never Stop Adapting

- Prepare to win
It helps against passive observers. This might not be very important over wired, but on WPA-PSK setups, knowing the network password allows you to eavesdrop on communications by any of the computers.
My son and I were talking the other day how the impact of motion controls for the Wii were overestimated. That is, the Wii was successful because of (1) strong exclusive titles, (2) low price, (3) early introduction to market.

People forgot games like the SimCity port that proved most people didn't have the strength to use the WiiMote as a pointing device to manipulate objects on the screen.

The Wii drove both Sony and Microsoft to make their own motion control peripherals which were critically acclaimed but had little impact.