skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! Thanks a lot for sharing the study.

I agree with your point. But it's also important to note that options trading can be both lucrative and risk-mitigating. For example, how would everyday investors protect themselves from a potential market crash?? They cannot bet against the market since short-selling is out of reach for the majority of retail investors.. But with options they certainly can. In fact, people can even benefit if stock prices stay essentially the same.

Indeed, it's very likely that most retail investors currently lose money while trading options. I traded options professionally in the fund for more than 8 years. There are numerous technicalities that people should be aware of. Otherwise, they are likely to make some basic mistakes that no professional trader would. For example, when someone owns a deep in-the-money call and the ex-dividend date is approaching, that someone should exercise his/her call and buy an identical out-of-the-money put. To my despair I found out (from Reddit options trading groups) that most people are completely unaware of that and keep on making basic mistakes, that in turn accumulate and cause retail traders to lose big. So essentially most ppl do not lose because the were wrong (let's say about the direction of Intel post-earnings release), but because the basic trading mistakes turn profits into losses.

Sadly, no retail brokerage offers any meaningful support to retail traders, be it Charles Schwab or Robinhood. It's also true to say that mistakes of retail traders amplify the wins of professional traders: in the past retails were called "dumb money" but now industry insiders refer to them as "free money".

At Strikes we aim to level the playing field for the retail options trader, by making sure ppl stay aware of all potential pitfalls and avoid making basic trading mistakes. We are still busy finalizing the app but this is the link to our waiting list: https://www.trystrikes.com/

Would love to hear your feedback!
Based on current climate models and global average temperatures (1.2C above pre-industrial baseline), the recent PNW heat wave was judged to be a 1-in-1000 year event. The same models suggest a further 0.8C increase would make such a heat wave a 1-in-10 year event or greater.

Source: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/prelimin...
No it doesn’t. It’s simply stating the realty of a trade off.
Yeah, brain fart. Thanks for reminding me.
"You could live in 200 square feet."

The house is already a sunk cost, so I am not sure how much point there is
A recent Freakonomics episode about America absolutely blew my mind and cemented this idea I've been trolling friends with that suburbia should be banned.

Americans use 2 trillion gallons of water per year ... for lawns. Nice green lawns. In the desert, in the south, in the north, between highways, friggen' lawns everywhere. No consideration for grasses that naturally enjoy the local environment. Only a perfect British green lawn will do. Nature be damned!

By comparison, America uses only 3 trillion gallons of water for all of agriculture.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-stupid-obsession-lawns/
Thank you very much for the kind words, tucaz! #goBrazil
> We, humans, learn by making mistakes.

I don’t think that’s true, although you address a similar point of mine later. We often make the same mistakes over and over again. There’s a reason why we say history repeats itself.

What humans really do is react to mistakes and other events based on consequences of our actions. This reactiveness has gotten us into this mess. We often view intelligence as being able to predict things, but as a society and species, we’re absolutely awful at prevention and conservation. We’re excellent at consumption.
You do not need to reduce your standard of living, you need to alter your lifestyle to achieve the same standard of living in a more energy-efficient way. Many American cities are set up to encourage car use; we can change that. Many Americans live in detached homes that require more energy to heat or cool; we can change that, and in fact we would likely reduce the need to drive a car everywhere in the process, while also reducing the amount of coal being burned to power all those ACs.

Really though, "alarmists?" You might have been able to accuse scientists of being alarmist 30 years ago, but they predicted increasingly frequent extreme weather events, and for the past decade we have watched the trend do exactly what was predicted. Now instead of talking about how we can avoid this outcome we are sitting here talking about how to not make things worse while we learn to live with floods, hurricanes, heat domes, and polar vortexes.
Whoops. Well, my point remains. 1, 3 and 5 all seem like pretty small numbers. I don't think C to F would change public perception.
I imagine places like Newfoundland not changing much.

Alaska, at least, is allegedly one of the most rapidly warming places on the planet.
Source? Genuinely curious to read more about this.
it's a common acronym and also mentioned in the article
I took the presat and got one of the highest scores in my city. I wasn’t in any college group, I barely had the attention span to go to school. I was told by my counselor that I should take the sat to get into college, so I did. I was a senior at the time of taking it (2005) and there was a lot of controversy around the test that year. My family was so poor that I didn’t even know if college was going to be an option for me. because of this test I was unable to get any scholarships for English programs, but, since my math score was in the 95th percentile, I was able to get a small amount of engineering scholarships. I still ended up accruing a lot of student loan debt and ultimately dropped out because I never wanted to do engineering.
This has always been nonsense, I’ve seen it get trotted out for 20 years now.

We have technology, we can work on reducing carbon output without sending ourselves back to the Stone Age. We just need the political will to actually drive it.
I know what Yerba Mate is, I’m even drinking some now! I even managed to start a Yerba Mate scene at my old work. And considering how many dev stations have gourds among their vinyl toy collection makes me think there were a bunch of Canadian video game developers googling Yerba Mate at some point. I imagine this game can do well with a little bit of niche online community spelunking. We’re out there!
> "Cloud" vendors provide easy API services that have no analog to on-prem, so that migrations are painful.

This is true. But just as true as "cloud vendors provide easy API services which provide value over on-prem options that companies pay for". Whether you see it as positive or negative depends on how much value you get from the service.
AWS and GCP are both suppliers, one of them is carbon neutral, the other is still polluting. The end consumer hets the same product.

This idea of consumer fault is deplorable, its not lile i gey accurate information about carbon footprint when i shop
The lawsuit appears to be limited to pandemic conditions. The judge said it's not fair to some students who don't have good enough access during the pandemic. He doesn't say anything about using the SAT after the pandemic. So this policy is much broader than what was required.
If it has an arm sort of thing doing it, we very well may. If your drying machine had an arm putting clothing up on pins in your backyard vs being a box you dump clothing into, we’d likely call it a robot.

Some people do refer to automatic vacuums and other things that move automatically robots too.
... but also shipping goods, right? The 3000 mile caesar salad, spread-out global supply chains, etc?

Yes, green transportation (or just less) is good. But if I sit at home and order goods to be delivered to me, it's actually quite difficult to pick which have the smallest footprints.
The thing about the article is it's not really offering any air tight explanations. It looks at a significant amount of data and asks what's correlated and what isn't - many common explanations simply don't fit the data at all. So it comes down to contaminants and psychological effects. But it is not making any definitive pronouncements about which contaminants or how.
What kind of proof would it take for people to agree that the obesity epidemic is due to food being dramatically cheaper and more palatable than in our environment of evolutionary adaptedness?
https://www.ecowatch.com/military-largest-polluter-240876060...

https://weaversway.coop/shuttle-online/2020/04/us-military-w...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/06/13/report...
My understanding, from whatever nature TV show when I was younger, is that the beetles don't actually die. They literally freeze in ice. I also remember reading that certain countries are releasing tens of thousands of birds (possibly hummingbirds?) to deal with them as well. I don't have links so possibly grain of salt here.
If you look at California as an example, you can see hundreds of acres of trees that are dying year over year. I remember going camping in lush green forests that are all gone now. I'm in the PNW now and from what I've seen and heard from others the summers are getting longer and hotter so it's only a matter of time before what's happening to California comes here.

EDIT: From what I remember as well, every tree comes with defenses to keep beetles away. This is why trees are sappy. In order to produce sap the trees need water, and they produce their own sugars through photosynthesis (sap being a mix of water and sugar). Trees in certain areas are adapted to the length of their winters. A longer winter means more time without dealing with beetles but might also mean less time spent in dry soil.
I read somewhere says "Asian American/Pacific Islander" is a totally made up term by the federal government and basically has no root in reality.
> Apart from CloudFront and Lambda@Edge, Cloudflare has offerings that compete with Lambda (Workers Unlimited)

Oh yeah, and it comes with a KV store capable of storing data across requests. It's awesome.
When the policies enacted to attempt to be less racist, have people scared to be honest about their race, I think you’ve blown it.
We agree! The Framework Laptop DIY Edition comes without an OS or OS license: https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition
I mean, did WSJ even consider the sound? its a key part of the experience. Hashtags are very gamed on tiktok
Yes. Taxing our way to a better climate is one consideration.

But what happens when you need something more than they need to sell it? As in the case of China… steel, aluminum, titanium, food, machinery, computers, plastics, vehicles, or clothing… you know… those “couple of things” that we have collectively allowed China to make for us while pretending we’re all so green and the slave labor isn’t a problem.

India, maybe you can tax into compliance. Third world, maybe, but someone will scream it isn’t “fair”. But China? I’m skeptical we tax ourselves greatly and them effectively without them becoming the number one superpower and then doing as they please anyhow.
This line of thinking allows consumers to pass off their responsibility for their own choices.

Who is really to blame for the emissions for my flight to Turkey to sit on a beach even though I live 4 blocks from another (worse) beach. Under your view it would be Lufthansa or whoever sold them the fuel.
> I have no idea why anyone asks brainteasers in an interview.

I'll go one further - interviewers doing Myers Briggs Personality Tests.
This is not my opinion, but critiques against AP classes point to the correlation between the resources a high school has and the amount of AP classes and resultant tests available. More focus on AP classes would likely exacerbate economic inequality in admissions (so the [not my] argument says).
What makes you suspect this was typeset in Word?
The Boston Tea Party happened because the British got rid of a tax, I wouldn't call that tax hate. Some locals were ticked off because the British screwed up their smuggling operation.
Cool, the low hanging fruit is a joke. Let's do nothing then, how about that.
Good. They were “passengers” much like someone sitting on a jet is not a “pilot”.

Not to diminish what their companies are doing - I believe there’s real value from getting people excited about going up and a better way of life for the people of the future.

But they are not astronauts and that’s ok. I would like to go to space too but I will never be an astronaut.
I'd love to read some more. Can you share a source so that we can learn?
In a resource scarce world there are several valid "control loops" for hunger that result in survivable subjects. Always being hungry for instance.

I'm surprised there isn't more studies on what exactly are the biochemical processes and neural input that leads to hunger. Having the body react to nutrient intuitively makes sense, since it can't really count calories but can easily detect a higher concentration of chemicals.
No human civilisation has lasted very long. I guess that ours has been going on since the Renaissance, but eventually it will fall. And then maybe another will come along, or maybe not - if we make the world too hard to exist in.
I can't speak for the original commenter, but I'm thoroughly on board with every concrete action item proposed in the article. By all means, let's cut emissions, let's invest in prevention and mitigation for natural disasters, and let's understand how we could geoengineer temperatures back down if needed.

I don't like the crisis framing because I think it leads people to hyperfocus on stopping climate change - on cutting emissions - to the exclusion of the rest. If I proposed a huge subsidy to put HVAC systems in more homes, that would be a huge help in fighting the actual human impact of climate change, but quite a lot of people would see it as irrelevant to climate change because it doesn't reduce emissions.
I don't think those figures are right - 5.3T/7.5T would mean 70% of CO2 in the US is caused by coal-fired power plants. According to the EPA data for 2019 [1], power generation accounted for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions, and 62% of that was fossil fuels ("mostly coal and natural gas") - so that means fossil fuels for electricity accounted for 16% of the greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA report shows transportation as the largest source, at 29%

Their figures also suggest CO2 emissions were 20T pp in the US in 2019! (6558MT of CO2, 328.2M population)

1: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
Oh I used to live in London, by St. Saviours, so you know that stuff is old as all heck. I still enjoy new stuff too.
From the press coverage, you'd think the only reason Bezos and Branson did this was to impress reporters.

Reporters tend to think awfully highly of themselves, even more so than your average billionaire does.
Nonsense. Utter rubbish. People are fat because they eat more calories than they burn.

The only reason that studies do not reflect this is that they rely largely upon self-reporting and people lie.
Does that coincide with the switch from animal fats to vegetable oils?
It's just not a problem I find myself running into. Probably part of that is because I don't need to share actual files with others very often these days, especially from my phone, aside from pictures which you can of course send over any messaging or media platform (including SMS). And for small non-image files there's always email.

I would add that when I had an Android phone I used the exact same strategies for transferring files.

It honestly sounds like you're getting upset about this relative to how you think it should work, and not relative to an actual practical barrier, so I'm going to withdraw from the conversation here
I don't have statistics on that, but I find it implausible that there would be hundreds or thousands of lawsuits against a typical corporation if say, only a couple % won or got a settlement.
No. It was clearly aliens. Anything suggesting otherwise is clear obfuscation.
He sets out a dispassionate approach to evaluating interactive gameplay as an art and craft over the first year or two of his blog while he's still dealing with the early Infocom games and such. He's drawing on the wisdom of Ron Gilbert, the Infocom inquisitors, and all the other interactive game designers who tried to get it right.

If you follow through the whole series it becomes clear that this system is actually objective. It's not about opinions.

When he says a game has puzzles that can't be solved using information in the game he's not expressing an opinion.

He plays the game, finds the answer, checks if any part of the game supports that solution, reaches out to any living members of the design staff to talk about how the game was developed, and eventually he says "Quest for Glory IV was released in a broken state, and later patches fixed it only because the patch notes told you which part of the game had broken and what to do to work around it now that it was patched."

He's objectively right. It doesn't matter that QFGIV is one of my favorite games of all time. The art, the music, the humor, the world-building, all are top notch and he gives those a nod. But the game is totally screwed up.

That's objective.

When he says Full Throttle has action sequences that have no clues as to correct behavior, where you have to figure out the correct actions and timing by extended trial-and-error, that's not an opinion. Full Throttle has those sequences, just like Dragon's Lair.

That's objective.

Just because you love something doesn't mean it's objectively well-made.
I knew this was going nowhere and still read through it with excitement
To be fair, Seattle's electric grid has been on all sustainable energy for a while now. Seattle is one of the greenest city in the U.S. On top of that, any person living in King County is able to pay a little bit extra to opt into 100% sustainable energy.

The reaction from Seattle isn't terribly illogical.

EDIT: Should mention the city is NOT carbon neutral by any means. We still have buses running on gas.
Yes and there are definitely CS schools which IMO are better than many UC (cal poly SLO e.g.)

And what is the "top" UC anyways. This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I personally think more favorably of UCSD over cal, and, for some disciplines Davis or SC over cal. UCLA is highly regarded across the board and probably exceeds cal, for, say pre-nursing program.
So what is the correct understanding of affirmative action, you thinking people?
Did he not say exactly what he was going to do, then do it?

Yes. The point being, he wrote a manifesto, not a vaguely-ominous sounding tweet.
It's not an urban legend in the United States:

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Based on this reasoning, the United States Copyright Office Compendium, the Office’s manual for examiners, states that a mere listing of ingredients or contents is not copyrightable, as lists are not protected by copyright law (chapter 314.4(F)). The Office has also stated that a “simple set of directions” is uncopyrightable.

In addition, courts have found that recipes are wholly factual and functional, and therefore uncopyrightable. As the Sixth Circuit described in Tomaydo-Tomahdo, LLC v. Vozary, “the list of ingredients is merely a factual statement, and as previously discussed, facts are not copyrightable. Furthermore, a recipe’s instructions, as functional directions, are statutorily excluded from copyright protection.”

https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte...
> The color blind thinking modal has a long history of helping the majority stay the majority.

Come on guys, to be less racist we must be MORE racist!
> You are simply taking on the role of an adolescent shirking responsibility.

Perhaps ironically, the actual adolescents are (among) the ones who aren't.
An excellent example of overzealous prosecution over internet blog/article comments is the Reason magazine 'woodchipper' debacle. This WSJ article is a good place to begin reading, although Popehat did a lot of great work, and Reason covered the story a little bit after the gag orders and subpoenas had died down.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/reason-magazine-subpoenaed-...
The kids thing is curious. Maybe I'm just selfish, but I have no kids and my thinking is, well, I'm not that worried about how the earth will be after I die. Meanwhile the folks with kids are the ones who produced giant resource consumers and ironically -- because they want to ensure their kids' wellbeing -- are the ones most worried about the planet's survival.

Obviously the answer is for me to care about society (on a global level), but it's hard to do so without skin in the game. And considering it feels like others don't care or are still very wasteful... why should I be pious?
Definitely. We ship the Framework Laptop DIY Edition without an OS under the expectation that folks will bring their preferred distro. We're testing with Ubuntu 21.04 and Fedora 34, and the recent respins of the latter have full Framework Laptop support out of the box.
Not just poor and lack access, also different culture.
It's somewhat complicated - timing of cold weather is important to kill off the beetles:

https://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/fo...

> For example,
an under-bark temperature of –37°C will
kill 50 per cent of a mountain pine beetle
population, even in mid-winter; however, a
low temperature of –20°C in the fall, be-
fore the beetles are prepared for winter,
or in the spring, when beetles are start-
ing to become more active, will also kill
beetles if it is preceded by temperatures
above 0°C. The relatively warmer temper-
ature causes the larvae to start to lose its
natural antifreeze.
Ok, several hundred million?
If you go for horizontal scaling like that, indeed everything needs to be adjusted. If you're asking "is your DB setup to handle 100x increase in load" then likely the answer is no. "How do you shard your writes" is likely a better question then... Aggressive autoscaling requires different thinking.
I'm afraid of doing this since so many games never leave early access, or even improve significantly after first appearing
I would argue we have the technology to sustainably live as we do, for the most part. What we don't have is the manpower and resources to go through and replace all the old tech with the new tech that would allow us to mostly maintain our standard of living.
Is Rust preferable for the embedded systems engineer who is primarily concerned with being modern?
Indeed, because of diminishing marginal returns on studying, even being in the 50th percentile of SAT test prep hours can improve your score by 10 percentiles. It’s hard to know how many students spend 0 hours studying but it is definitely the plurality if not more than 50%. However, implementing such a study program in schools has two obstacles: (1) is forcing a student to do more than zero hours of studying the same as doing more than zero hours of studying? Will such a student just zone out and get 0 gains, but your study will book positive time spent studying? (2) 80% of the exam score will still be explained by G factor.

I don’t know how many hours of studying 50th percentile is or whatever, by the way. This just comes from the math and the fact that the test scores are “ex Gaussian” - skewed normal, where the small skew is explained by everything that isn’t G, like studying.
Is there a consequence of your thinking?

I don’t think it’s arbitrary. There’s a clear distinction between say a rock and a cell, even if you view the rock on geological timescales and the cell on biological timescales. I don’t think it’s arbitrary or even surprising that humans view things from our own vantage point in reality.
All human “races” are social constructs with no basis in reality other than the social perceptions of the group delineating them.

So, yeah, that's true of API, but its just as true of, say, White.
If any company is interested, it's certainly a conversation we'd like to have.