skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ELC (https://www.ucop.edu/enrollment-services/programs-and-initia...).

It doesn't get you into the top UC though (which Texas' program does), just any. There is wide variance in UC schools.
When is this projected to happen, realistically? 100 years from now?
US women's national soccer team players appeal equal pay lawsuit decision
Fuck off Mark.
The American development pattern is the problem that we can actually solve. If you genuinely care, and this isn't pandering, read the book Strong Towns. Our cities are designed as inefficiently as possible, on purpose, and things like zoning and automobile infrastructure literally ban climate conscious living spaces.

We should also at least have a carbon tax for things like normalizing beef as an alternative rather than a primary food source.
Many coastal people seem to assume that the federal government will bail them out in great abundance, which, let's face it, is probably true.
This is a side project born out of the urge to replace a tool which engineering at a previous job was required to use.

It eradicates long lived AWS credentials (which inevitably leaked out by getting checked into SCM) and allows users to create on-demand ephemeral access keys using an IdP (currently Okta and OneLogin supported).
That's amazing, first think which came to my mind was:

> I can go to any time--in the past. I don't want to go to the future and find out what happens to white people because we're gonna pay hard for this shit, you got to know that. We're not going to just fall from number one to two. They're gonna hold us down and fuck us in the ass forever. And we totally deserve it. But for now, wheeeeeeee!

Source: https://genius.com/Louis-ck-on-being-white-annotated
I made Pinterest list for uBlacklist which does exactly this: https://github.com/rjaus/awesome-ublacklist
Wikipedia says:

> Initial release 0.1.0 / 9 January 2009 (12 years ago)

There's already a change in the phrasing from 'currency' to 'store of value' as people are figuring out it doesn't work.
Did you change your username? I didn't realize that was an option.
Not sure why you're being down voted-- This is the right answer. I see people getting mad at suppliers but they have yet to realize they would still please like their consumption supplied...
IMO individual action is nearly worthless beyond making you feel better. I did all the right things for decades and someone else just consumed the resources I saved by building golf courses and taking international vacations.

The world needs more Elon Musk types to think big and bring a lower carbon footprint to modern living. Thinking people will voluntarily put themselves at a disadvantage for the greater good goes against much of what we know of human nature.
> we can individually decide what is right.

You really feel comfortable that you are infallible and that it's within your rights to dictate what is "right" everywhere across society? Shouldn't others get a say in what is right?

I'm all for legislation that determines our laws, but I'm a lot less ok with social media mobs exerting pressure to force others to fall in line with their beliefs.
Up until now, I think it's been too hard to direct your money away from the companies emitting loads of carbon. But I wonder, now that Europe is talking about a border tax for imported carbon, and the US has introduced legislation for a border tax, could that change, even before other places institute the same? To be eligible for import to Europe, would producers elsewhere need to tally and report the carbon associated with goods, such that non-European consumers could also finally have the information to choose lower-emission options?
> For example, a problem, “what’s the shortest path between two points”

Switching to the decision version: "Is there a path of length at most L between the two points?"

To verify a "yes" answer, you get a path; and you just verify that it's short enough and goes from the first point to the second; that's it.

Obviously this verification doesn't work for a "no" answer.
If (Stratoscope and Hackernews) -> Stratoscope is on Hackernews.

=> (Stratoscope is on Hackernews) is false.

=> (Stratoscope and Hackernews) is false.

=> Stratoscope is true.

______________________________________________________

Hackernews is false.
He could yet get another bump in sales from a 1.0 release, but you're right the stars are just not aligned to make Yerba Mate Tycoon an indie smash. This was not necessarily a story of loss though. Taking a project all the way to release is a feat, and his attitude toward finishing the game, not to mention supporting it after release is commendable. All this seems like it helps position the developer to solicit publishers for future projects, convince others to work with him, and even help sway potential buyers of future projects. Not to mention it's a critical learning experience, feedback like yours is very helpful. All things considered pretty successful for a first game. This dude definitely has the potential to turn a profit in the future.
> Smaller house, solar panels, don't drive, don't eat meat, and don't have kids. And don't vote for politicians who are busy spreading nonsense.

I already live in a trailer. Solar wouldn't make sense since we have 2 big trees over our trailer providing us shade. Cuts down on AC in the hotter months (now veering on March).

Not driving has been easy with WfH since last early March. I'm happy with that. I don't like driving anyways.

My SO and I are a DINK - double income no kids. This is one of the largest climate change decisions that can be made at a human level.

> And don't vote for politicians who are busy spreading nonsense.

Oh, I don't. Nor do I have any preconceived notions that my opinion does matter either. I'll do my civic part, and vote when its due, do jury duty, etc. But my opinions do not matter at any scale other than household.

I guess for me, it's not as much guilt, but foreboding. I know what the science says, and it'll be worse than what they say. I know I've done my share of pollution of many sorts, simply by using a vehicle, or flying.

But this problem isn't solvable by me. Or my politicians.. Or even by the USA. This needs a worldwide drastic response at every level. And do I see that happening? Not in a hundred years - until it's catastrophically too late.
3d selection in VR is better. Just give it a hundredth of the investment we've given desktop UI
> The wings spotted on Mr Bezos and Sir Richard following their flights were custom-made pins by their own companies.

Ouch. The BBC will not be getting 100M from Bezos, with this (not really) ad hominem content :D
I always enjoy the apocalypse articles being paywalled
I'm guessing this comment got down voted because Americans are against immigration in general. But whether its a good idea or not the fact remains that our desirability as a place to live could be used to satisfy any labor shortage.
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Civil disobedience? But even then it’s crazy that people have to glue themselves to objects in the middle of highways to be heard and even then nothing really changes.

We had the technology to solve these problems years ago. This isn’t a technological problem, this is a problem about values. Do we value money or our environment more?

The climate catastrophe unfolding will be the biggest wake up humanity has ever had. That is the only silver lining to this existential predicament
I believe so. It sounds like he doing paleo without keto. I may be wrong, but basically just eat food on the perimeter of the super market. Veggies, meat, dairy. Nothing processed.
I’ve had very poor experiences with gsuite support. Once your issue gets past the front line support it disappears into an opaque void where nobody knows anything or can talk to anyone. Once I was asked to write a business case clarifying why answering my support question benefits Google. (Found a bug in gmail css handling, wanted a workaround).

With AWS support I can get an answer to my toughest “found a bug” issues in hours or a couple days at worst.

I’m pretty sure if I called AWS support on Thanksgiving and asked for help cooking a turkey they would send me a recipe. Their support is really amazing.
What’s described in the article as the “Israel lobby” would be better described as the “Pro-Israel lobby,” as it consists largely of Americans democratically expressing their preferences, rather than a foreign entity buying influence.
I really loved The Dig, and filfre.net has disappointed me again after his review of Full Throttle. No, not because he disagrees with me about games I liked, but because I think he overstates his case and downplays the strengths of those games.

What I loved about The Dig: how cinematic it feels (unsurprisingly, I also liked this about Full Throttle, but The Dig feels like a movie at times). That the plot is "serious" scifi. That unlike most point-and-click adventures of its time, it takes itself (mostly) seriously: The Dig is a serious work of scifi, not an excuse to write gags.

That ending where you can choose to break a vow and do something you promised not to -- powerful!

The Dig is hard, true, but compared to one other "serious"
adventure game I can think of it's a piece of cake: it's way easier than I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream (which I couldn't finish without a walkthrough).
We're about to go into a mini ice age and there is no stopping it.
> I look at what I can do about this. I can turn up the temp in my room, and the house.

> So what do I do? know what we're doing is what we can

Everything you do is inconsequential in the face of living in a detached single family home on a quarter acre lot.

That very simple fact has exponential knock on effects requiring so much more mass to move so much further and hence consuming so much more energy, that everything else you do is meaningless.

The only solution was reducing total consumption, either per capita or capitas itself, but the former is not going to happen if people live in insufficiently dense manners that preclude public transport or walking and bicycling, and necessitate large roads, parking lots, and personal vehicles.

And of course, once you own or benefit from detached single family house lifestyles, you are not going to vote for anything that inconveniences you or causes you to reduce consumption, such as increased taxes on fossil fuels.
I don't think the climate change will be solved by laypeople having shorter showers, sitting in tiny condos without air conditioning and buying groceries with the big word "SUSTAINABLE" all over the packaging.

Much more realistically, just like COVID-19 made mRNA commercially viable, actual decrease in quality of life from the climate change will pave the road to engineered carbon-capturing plants, or some smart sun-reflecting particles, or something else.

So if you want to help solve climate change, go study biotechnology and get serious about it. Making your own life arbitrarily uncomfortable and finding a meaning of life in pressuring peers to follow suit won't move the needle in a statistically significant way.
You can also:

* Switch to using 100% renewable energy from your electric company.

* Live in an apartment where shared walls, floors and ceilings means lower energy usage

* Move to a city where you can walk, bicycle or transit (or at least have a short drive to most things).

But the most important is to become involved in climate politics, especially state and local politics. Even in California (the largest state in the union) all you need is a dozen or so people to get a meeting with a state representative.
Tenth game, according to the post
New bill strips Facebook, Twitter of Section 230 immunity for vaccine falsehoods
India is a big and diverse place. I don't see any realistic scenario where 1 billion Indians become climate refugees.
Love the app, thanks for your work. But can you comment on why the Facebook SDK is part of it? (I've seen a request in a proxy on the sign-in screen to graph.facebook.com.)
It makes me wonder what Operations are possibly currently in place. Many people seem to have the sentiment that "OK, yeah, the government did bad things in the past, but surely not anymore!"
Gradual? On earth timescales? There have been tons of articles showing that's not happening, read one today about the great heat wave 'die off' from the last weeks. plants/animals can't adapt on near the timescale of decades from what I've read.

But maybe we can assist finding survivors, I remember reading an article a while ago about assisted coral evolution found a bunch of google scholar on it.

https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?q=climate+change+coral+evo...
Intel Reports Q2 2021 Earnings: Client Computing Leads the Way
Crazy Laravel Stack (Fantastically Powerful)
There is cool tech to find faults near exactly. You just send a pulse down the line and wait for the echo then make some calculations based on the speed of light.

One of the most amazing things upon arriving in SF was how many ugly and dangerous power lines were strung all over the bay area. I grew up in a much poorer area but we still had underground lines. Everyone knew to call the electric company before digging, it wasn't an issue at all.
> In a democratic country, how will a leader convince the population to care about this if the country is rich and currently is unaffected

Depends on the definition of "unaffected". I'm not sure that the Pacific Northwest, nor the Southwest nor the West would necessarily accept the "unaffected" label. Can they afford to smooth over the impact by using more energy & money? To some extent, certainly, but not entirely.
Why keep them then?
Other than world war, what mechanisms do you propose to get China, India, and the entire 3rd world on to an effective carbon tax plan?

I mean, if the answer is world war, I’ll at least give you credit for an honest answer. I just rarely see that come up. The truth is yes we can and should do better, but also realize that other nations will take any advantage they can, including ignoring climate concerns.

So if it’s a global problem, it needs a global solution, so what is that mechanism to apply one?
> The white bitcoin core community

The what now?
Fun fact: the US military is the largest polluter in the world and has held the record for decades. 750,000 tons of toxic waste every year in the form of depleted uranium, oil, jet fuels, pesticides, defoliants, lead and other chemicals.

And hey we got the PRC military adding the equivalent of the German Navy, every year, in ships to their roster. No they don't run on solar panels in case you were wondering.

So take your three showers a day. Keep your car idling at stop lights. Burn your garbage. I'm not trolling. Your 'foot print' is a drop in the ocean compared to the real behemoths out there.

And I haven't even started on the companies that PRODUCE equipment for these large forces.
Only instrumental there
> Canada and northern part of the US will be fine (north of the mason dixon line).

I highly doubt that, given the heat we saw in the PNW and Canada this past month, but even if true, the 3C is average over the planet. So other places in the world will have to be even more than 3C for that to be the average. They aren't gonna like that one bit.
In this context, it's a common acronym. Maybe you are just not as well read in this area as in others?

Googling CICO on an incognito window are 100% hits for calories-in-calories-out.
Most of the companies on the various “top polluters” lists are energy companies. We can direct our money away from them by walking, biking, transiting or buying an EV.
> already

Are you sure the lobbying didn't come first? From the linked report:

Second, the Lobby strives to ensure that public discourse about Israel portrays it in a positive light, by repeating myths about Israel and its founding and by publicizing Israel’s side in the policy debates of the day. The goal is to prevent critical commentary about Israel from getting a fair hearing in the political arena. Controlling the debate is essential to guaranteeing U.S. support, because a candid discussion of U.S.‐Israeli relations might lead Americans to favor a different policy.
The most interesting case of a time format for storage was the time they were shot for uploaded photos. The best answer was effectively save it as a local string. Together with the location it fully 'captures the moment'. This was apparent when showing new year's celebration photos with a date-time in the viewers timezone.
Bezos and his phallic rocket is just a distraction: considering how much money he can burn, it's to him what a trip to Maui is to plebs like me. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter.

I think we just have to keep pushing the society (and each other) in the right direction. Hang on, I believe it will eventually get better, though it will get a lot worse before it starts to get better.
Yes I did, and it probably wasn't really an option, but the moderators were kind enough to reclaim a very old, unused username (which I think was mine but forgot all the credentials to).
That is one-handed in precisely the same way that ctrl-[ is one-handed.
The hydra too. Me and a friend used to pass time doing debates, and when one of us was too tired to research or argue we'd debate about dumb stuff, and I was a stalwart "the original hydra reproduced into two offspring" much like how single celled organisms "die" when they reproduce
This is the perfect answer. Paste this into every feature request thread.
He also thought we would soon be able to completely control the weather.

To me, his thoughts on the weather are some of his most interesting things to read just from the fact even someone with the brain power of Von Neuman could be utterly and completely wrong.

It is the ultimate lesson in the fallibility of what you believe to be true.
I've given up hope that this will be solved.

The buried lede is that, if the prophets of climate doom are correct, you need to substantially reduce your standard of living. And all those third-worlders that are trying to improve their standard of living? They need to stop doing so, yesterday, and learn to accept their impoverished standard of living. But do it cleaner!

But they won't want to do that, predictably. And to get them to do so will require enforcement. And enforcement will require coercive power - so violence. And that will result in war that has the potential to be more destructive than the doom being predicted.

If the problem is as significant as alarmists predict, the only palatable solution is technological. So if you feel so motivated, concentrate your effort there. Because the data says everything else you can do is inconsequential and is mostly virtue signaling.

I'm not making any claim about the legitimacy or seriousness of global climate change. Just pointing out that the medicine we choose can destroy as much or more than the disease.
Wouldn't it take a short amount of time to kill the beetles? Certainly it doesn't take a whole winter?
I notice a lot of pessimism -- presumably at some point someone is going to build much better robots than the ones we have today. (Surely we are not anywhere close to the end game of robotics). I'm inclined to believe Google, with all of its resources, has as good a shot as any.
I've always been under the impression it's pronounced "thou" but written "mil" - like how "pound" is "lb."
You're asking people to suffering annoyances and spend lots of money when the average income has been going down for 40 years. I'm surprised you're surprised.
The ballistics industry should be rubbing their hands.
People live in extremely hot weather. And air conditioning is a thing. A few degrees in temperature change is quite manageable.

(And btw, not everyone lives in 36°C. Try to get those who live in a 20°C weather to care about a 2°C change even without air conditioning.)
> I'm pretty sure we are eating more calories than our grandparents did, too

It varies from country to country. In the UK for instance, calories per household decreased 15-30% from 1980 to 2009 (https://ifs.org.uk/bns/bn142.pdf). The trend has continued since.
We might as well have to accept that there is no solution to this problem.
That's how I figured it out, but I consider 'this context' to be Hacker News, where 'API' is common, but 'CICO' is not.
"Gradual" ... Ob. xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1732/
What's special about tiktoks algo is timing IMO. The general segmentation/profiling probably isn't as special as people suggest.

Like all social apps, the engagement is key. TikTok already has a simple UX, and there is zero burden for users to watch videos, vs figure out what tweet you want to write, or click through a bunch of pages on any other social app.

One swipe every however many seconds to 3min (used to be one min) is all you need for instant reward ... video plays.

TikTok needs to schedule some series of videos in advance,which includes video timing. Im sure videos themselves are a key part as well... videos where users lost interest within 3 seconds are probably ghosted.

TikTok has to keep all of this in mind along with the user profile. From there the user is being navigated by the algo which is trying to keep only one thing true -- keep the user engaged and measure the risk of a user leaving, when a user seems to be on the path of exiting the app, thats when you notice the algo throwing more random content out.

TBH ... Im not sure if TikTok cares about the information propagated. Its such a mix of culture, politics, whatever, and its all generally crowdsourced. A lot less innocent that Twitter.
Adaptation by extinction, the best one.

Except people can adapt to living in very warm areas and will adapt even more by using science. e.g. better (GMO) crop, bioreactors, solar powered desalinators, huge water pipes (why not? when we can have huge oil pipes) and so on
I heard somebody say that last night and nobody in their group objected, so I'm afraid we've not moved as far forward as we often think
Wildfires on the west coast are far less common than they were 80 years ago. Humans are going to be a-ok
I'm in my 30s, and my TikTok feed is amazing. It's mostly STEM folks spreading their expertise, with the occasional funny/viral video. If you hold down on a video you don't like, you can select "not interested" to get less videos like that.
US uses 118B gallons of water/day in agricultural usage.
Desal costs about 2k/acre-foot (325,851 gallons).

That's ~724MM/day in water costs or 264B/year for water.
US GDP is 21 Trillion.

As cost of water increases, conservation becomes more economical. Say all agriculture switches to hydroponics as a result. Hydroponics uses 1/10th the water of traditional methods...so we're talking now just 26B/year of water costs.

In 2017 US farms spent 359B on operations.

Food will become more expensive, but overall we'll be fine.
Idiot, (noun): A foolish or stupid person.

In the case of 2 experts arguing over an issue, the answer is neither, that is, assuming actual experts and not armchair experts.