skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If some country decided that the operation of these power plants was a sufficiently offensive attack, they could bomb them. This would probably be a disaster for quite a few reasons, but it would strongly discourage the plants from operating.

A gentler approach would be a well designed cross border emission tax. This could make operation of these plants economically impractical.
I forget where I saw it but there was a documentary or a short that showed a series on Netflix using AI to fill in-between frames, allowing animators to draw less frames. Of course it didn't seem to change the workload of the animators, they just improved the quality of each keyframe - so another case of "robots are taking our jobs, but not exactly".
Glyphosate resistant genetically engineered corn is patented and only available from the inventor (Monsanto, now owned by Bayer) of glyphosate (Round Up) herbicide. Spraying a field of glyphosate resistant GE corn with glyphosate kills the weeds and leaves the corn which improves yield since weeds use nutrients and moisture.

To put it mildly, Monsanto has been very aggressive at enforcing their patents.
I use tutanota, similar to protonmail except way cheaper.

I always go with the fact that I'm not using it to block the government. I'm using it instead of Google or Yahoo, that scan every bit of every email. I guard myself against the ravening grasp of businesses, which is WAY worse than any potential conflict with governmental bodies. Google will rape your email thousands of times a day and sell your info to the highest bidder. Any bidder. But governmental stuff - for most people, this will never, ever be a problem.

For some people with special stuff going on, like journalists in repressive governments, there's probably better ways to do this in a secure manner.

But if someone wants to do drug stuff or threaten murder of anyone, that person is not too intelligent to begin with. Got a screw loose, so all this protonmail stuff is beside the point. The point is that the person has some mental problems. Nothing will cure that except a trip to the nearest psychologist.
Ah, you're right. Both top 5% and top 10 plants are selected based on absolute emission amount.
I think GP is implying a stronger point than you're making it out to, that the situations where performance is critical occur "only in extremely specific scenarios", backed by the claim that they've managed to avoid such scenarios for 7~15 years.
Both will be VC-financed and need to increase viewership. So Popeflix starts a series about the heroic exploits of a Provo brigade bombing British garrisons. Prodflix responds with a series about a crack Specials unit that hunts down the coward bombers mercilessly because the nationalism works.

In another timeline this has already happened. We merely have Governors Abbott and DeSantis and Delta Covid.
As an accelerator physicist - while some earlier machines were built without vacuum beamlines, nearly all modern[0] accelerators are built with ultra-high vacuum beamlines. Beam quality greatly degrades in contact with residual gas due to scattering. This is especially important in light sources, but really any machine where you want low emittance.

[0] edit - I should specify that I mean high energy machines here (my focus). There are also many low energy machines that don't require high vacuum at the end - medical accelerators for example.
Your link is not relevant to the point made.

Just to be clear water vapor capacity increases due to temperature, for example, relative humidity measures how much water vapor is in the air for a given temperature. Any sort of increase in temperature will increase water vapor.

Yes, CO2 raises the temperature, you get a massive increase in water vapor, which again, is a more potent ghg. Reversing that same amount of CO2 does not magically reverse all of that water vapor. This is the crux of the problem, why water vapor is now also a problem that needs to be addressed.
> All I can say is that your scientific knowledge on the subjects are incorrect.

I doubt that, at least to the extent it's been used in this discussion.

> This lacks an understanding of redox reaction chemistry, since it’s not possible. Salt is NaCl, the Cl being an oxidizer and the Na being a reducer. You can’t cause salt to self combust. It’s just not possible.

I agree it doesn't occur with salt, that doesn't mean it can't happen. 2 Sn2+ → Sn4+ + Sn looks to be an example.

I was actually imagining something more along the lines of H3C-CH2-CH2-CF3 managing to have the F3 end oxidize the H3 end (I strongly suspect that specific example doesn't work) - I'll ask the chemists in the house if they know of any such reactions tomorrow since Google isn't being much use... but it's certainly seems like it should be able to.

> Peanuts are legumes in a biological sense. It’s an important distinction because it matters about the types of proteins that peanuts contain (and tree nuts do not). This is due to bacteria in the roots that are able to fix nitrogen.

Agreed

> So again, this is not about academic language

Choosing to try and label "peanuts" as not "nuts" is. Introducing the phrase "tree nuts" is a much better way to be clear and precise, because you aren't trying to declare things that use to be nuts, not nuts anymore, and hoping that everyone will go along with it.
Not all of his assets were tied up in his hedge fund, so when it imploded he still remains quite wealthy especially given his frugal life style.
The article is not about what you think it's about.

1. Turns out that zeroing u8 is a special case so if you allocate 17 GB of your custom structure Rust is gonna init that for you.

2. Okay, so you don't understand how RefCell works? The caller to this function should be holding r, not passing it into the function. Of course that will just correctly Panic, so it's not wonderful. But that is the point of RefCell.

Generally more stuff runs fast in Rust than in other languages, but you can always find bad counterexamples in any language.
I don't use it professionally or anything like that but most of the real world use as far as I know is in finance stuff.
Proving it no one has any ideas, but generating the sequence given the input is definitely an interview style question.
To follow up my own comment: I suppose these aren't mutually exclusive. For instance, you could have an airship filled with hydrogen or helium at 1/2 atmospheric pressure and kept hot by solar heating.

For helium especially it might be an effective way to keep costs down (since helium is so expensive) and maybe keep it from leaking out quite so much.

Similarly, using hydrogen at partial vacuum would mean having less of it on board, which is sort of good from a flammability point of view. Though on the other hand, it means that if the skin is ever broken you'd have outside air mixing very quickly with the hydrogen inside due to the pressure difference. That's probably a bad thing.
I use (paid) Arq on the desktop for similar purposes, sending encrypted backups to a server I control. I don't know of a similar Android solution for self-hosted incremental backups.
https://archive.is/eQCY3
Zero cost refers to runtime cost, as in the compiled code.

> You still pay, often in something that you didn't bother to measure, which (in C++) is usually compile time or programmer productivity or programmer cognitive cost or compiler complexity.

Obviously everything is about tradeoffs. If an abstraction is making everything worse for you, then don’t use it. I don’t think it’s fair to try to list every possible downside of an abstraction, as there are obviously also downsides to not using abstractions otherwise we wouldn’t have these options.

Zero cost refers to the compiled code and runtime performance.
I've heard this also but it doesn't make much sense to me. If you brush after you eat, wouldn't it remove the plaque, sugar, and any possible acid? Any plaque that remains will have little to nothing to eat.

If you brush before eating, there will still be some plaque left and once you eat there should be copious amounts of sugar and food for it to snack on and quickly multiply + produce acid.
That might be true for something where the phrase "business logic" is applicable.

But in my niche (realtime audio software), there is underlying data in the system that changes over time independently of events. So there is "something else to it".
I am a massive stan for nuclear and alternative, but the most expedient is probably natural gas turbines.

What should have happened 20-60 years ago is modular LFTR reactors, they had them at Oak Ridge. Closet sized reactors could probably scale quickly.
I think there was static discharge involved, and thermite paint. And of course a giant bag filled with hydrogen, surrounded by oxygen.
No mention of the Therac-25?
- no, but the EU might be improving, albeit slowly

- yes, but distributed and with differing communication cultures

- trick question, there are, but they are probably the wrong investors
Can you clarify what you are indicating are the low-hanging fruit? Major cities around the world? Or particularly, Chinese cities?
Not at all. I've likely written no more than 100 lines of JS in my entire life. This is an observation based on C++ development, exclusively, but I believe likely relevant to any language that can implement something semantically equivalent to a closure.
Doing what, though? Because:

> “Another major reason is that many high-carbon production chains were outsourced from developed nations to Chinese cities, thus increasing the export-related emissions of the latter.”

The solution possibly is something more radical than what you're thinking, because the PRC forcing emissions reductions and driving up manufacturing costs could just cause these industries to jump to the next exploitable developing region. I'm thinking more along the lines of strategies to reduce consumerism in general, or match global product prices to their "true" cost considering environmental damage - ideas most pro-infinite-growth capitalists find untenable.
What about autonomous cargo airships filled with hydrogen? That way if they blow up, they don't injure anyone.
I have used tutanota, which is a competitor of protonmail. Not one problem.

I don't use Google mail or Yahoo mail or any of those because they scan your emails all the time and sell the info in a heartbeat. What would you think if the Post office let people scan your physical mail before you received it? Why should Google or Hotmail? Nasty.
That’s a disingenuous misinterpretation of what “zero-cost” means. Zero-cost refers to runtime performance of compiled code.

It’s also disingenuous to pretend there isn’t some downside to not using the abstraction. Obviously you need to evaluate the tradeoffs.

High level code itself is a sort of abstraction. We could write raw assembly all the time to remove that abstraction and associated costs, but clearly that’s not very productive.
I think people know that the pay-fors are mostly smoke and mirrors, they are only there to make the political (not economic) math work.

The real question is if this bill makes sense as a deficit-spending bill.

On a macro level, it's not so obvious that debt is bad and saving is good. On an economy level debt and saving are actually the same thing - two sides of the same coin. If you don't print money they have to balance out equally. If the government is going into dollar debt, that means everyone else is net saving, and vice versa.

The usual concern is that government debt will "crowd out" private investment debt, leading to reduced private investment. The mechanism for this crowding out is higher interest rates.

The argument for increased government spending is that the private sector isn't seeing a lot of opportunities for private investment at the moment (as evidenced by the low interest rates - if there were lots of low-hanging investment opportunities usually companies would jump at the chance to borrow so cheaply). And if no-one is borrowing and investing that's a problem for economic growth (and remember debt/savings are tied together, if debt doesn't increase savings can't either).
Apple has not been ordered by the government to scan user's images.

Because the scanning is happening without a warrant, if the government compelled apple to perform the search the search would be illegal. It is only legal for Apple to perform this search because it is in no way compelled by the government.

The government cannot obtain a blanket warrant against everyone. This kind of dragnet scanning has to be voluntarily performed by a private party for it to be lawful.

By all means! please prove to us that the government secretly has ordered Apple and other companies to scan users private data: If you do so it will result in overturning tons of convictions due to the unlawful searches which were concealed due perjury by the government and tech companies who have consistently claimed that the scanning by the tech companies is completely voluntary in in their own self interest.
Glyphosphate has a pretty short persistence in the environment. It breaks down relatively quickly. It has a half-life in the environment from as little as 15 days to a couple of months.

One of the significant problems with earlier pesticides and herbicides where the chemical in question would stay in the environment for decades (DDT, an insecticide, had a half life of 10-15 years and tended to accumulate in biological tissues). Glyphosphate is also not very acutely toxic.

I would have to eat an entire pound of pure glyphosphate to have a 50% chance of survival. (I consume many things every day much more toxic)

There are some questions about long term carcinogens but the signal there is not particularly strong.

As opposed to some other, especially older agricultural chemicals, many of which got their start as actual chemical weapons used in war.
The point is reversing the CO2 does not reverse all that proportionally much larger increase in water vapor... eg. we have no choice but to address water vapor as well as CO2 if we want to have any chance in fixing global warming.
Opening the Topological Gap
A propeller in air is fundamentally just like a roller on the ground, but with some efficiency loss.
Re your edit

> but I don’t think using clear and precise language is to blame

It's not the use of clear and precise language which is to blame, it's the attempt to redefine existing imprecise language in an incompatible way to make it precise that is to blame.

I'm all for adding a discussion of logic to math, and fallacies/biases to some sort of civics/philosophy style course. I don't think that's going to solve the problem that trying to redefine words out under people doesn't go very well though. It's not a logic problem, because logic relies on the definitions being agreed upon, and what you have here is one group trying to change the definitions in a way that makes everyone else wrong.
The problem with this viewpoint is that the baseline is pretty arbitrary. Using a newtype carries a conceptual cost of wrapping and unwrapping... but using u8 directly carries the conceptual cost of remembering what any given u8 means! What makes that the baseline and newtype wrapping a cost over that as opposed to using domain concepts in types as the baseline and using native types the cost?
It’s misleading. One version is reserving the memory and will zero it upon use. The other version allocates the memory and zeros every byte of the memory up front by actually writing zeroes to it.

It’s basically competing abstractions. Letting the kernel reserve pages and only zeroing them when used will hide the cost and amortize it across access.

It’s worth knowing about but it’s also an artificial problem revealed by benchmarks.
You can just ask for yourself, this is HN not Reddit. You get used to the cold after a few uses, but there are luxury models that allow temperature control.
Yeah making CBD isolate in one's backyard is pretty unfeasible. It requires a distillation column on top of the vaccuum chamber, oven and solvent recirculation equipment required for typical cannabis extracts made in large quantities.

The process essentially involves blasting the material with solvents, evaporating the material inside a pressure controlled vacuum chamber oven then, collecting the various components in a distillation column as they're evaporated away at different temperatures.

It's a dangerous process that requires high quality equipment and a proper environment to do safely and produce a product you'd actually want to use.

Not the, 'average person can make Willy nilly in their kitchen after growing a few plants' kinda thing. It's more of a requires a trained team of technicians and a certified lab kinda thing.
His book Green Wizardry contains by far the best description of matter, information, and energy I've found in any work. Ignore outsider perspectives at your own peril.
It's the same in Australia and the indigenous here are nomadic and still use wildfire to their advantage and to the betterment of the land.

The western settlers here also use fire regularly to cut down on fuel load in the forests, we call them controlled burns and they're mostly done by volunteer firefighters. They essentially have a slow burning firefront walk through the forest floor to burn up the brush which emulates a natural wildfire.

Big wildfires like we are seeing take out huge swaths of land in Aus and California are the consequence of excessive fuel load build up thanks to human intervention. Of course climate change will contribute by making the conditions required for wildfire more common but the root of the severity lies elsewhere for now.
This is great advice. I have a past life as a recording musician, and encountered this exact problem with band members. Sometimes they love the music, and totally want to be in on the gig, but don't have time or motivation or whatever to practice or write songs.

The end result is exactly as you advise. You're still friends. You still might jam. But you're not doing this particular project together.

Dragging it out means nothing gets done. Waiting until you find someone else just means you remain complacent. Nip at the bud and move on productively.
Theoretically, if we had a perfect understanding of human mechanisms of language, we could reproduce it in code. Of course we don't.
You can say likewise about any other pesticide on that basis.. but I do wonder where the "hundreds of thousands of tonnes" comes from. My farm applies 540 grams of glyphosate per acre on our soybean crop each season.. if that is applied to every acre of farmland in the USA that would be 500mt of glyphosate. So you believe that a majority of the acres in the USA have at least 540g/ac applied and that a majority of that glyphosate is not metabolized by plants but is mobile in runoff?

I would be extremely interested in the research that validates that because it is not consistent with my experience.
remember when we had those toilet paper shortages and other essential shortages due to minor supply chain disruptions during the early stages of the COVID pandemic?

now imagine that it was actual food shortages because we outsourced farming for short term profit, food subsidies are a national security issue. Outsourcing food production to maximize(short-term) economic efficiency is exactly the type of short sighted decision that has resulted in China taking over global manufacturing
That’s pretty much the criteria I use. At my most recent job I left behind a Telegraf fork after running in to the Influx CLA.

But the more important criteria is deciding what changes are feasible to support with a fork. The projects that I find to be most suspect typically come with an enterprise support license, and if you’re struggling to get your issues fixed with one of them, then the best long term solution is usually to abandon the product. Forking for a bug fix would typically be a temporary solution, and hopefully the first merge conflict you run into is the vendor actually fixing the issue, otherwise you can take your time to find a product that offers better value for money.

There’s lots of things I don’t especially like about the large enterprise workplace, but I really detest vendors that fleece them with high price, low quality products/services.
This is dated. The patents on the original roundup-ready corn expired six years ago: https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/07/30/166919/as-patent...

Farmers can plant roundup-ready corn without paying any royalties to Monsanto, and keep + redistribute the seeds as they wish.
3D Fitness wearable to visualize exercises
Zeniform Nodes are 3D fitness wearables to track and visualize your performance in 3D with real time visual and audio feedback
This will probably cause the country to shutdown external internet.

So that the citizens will have no access to these revelations.

Basically the recordings are revealing , among many things, the tactics and fed's personnel the state uses to 'bite' anti-government protesters and then arrest them.

Certainly, similar tactics were used by USA Feds to lure in Jan 6 protesters inside the Capitol building, in USA.

Names of fed agents, NSA-like IT personnel, are also appear to be revealed.

As western countries loose the moral authority to judge other dictatorships, the suppressed populous will have to rely on themselves to bring on the changes they want.

Perhaps their closest neighbors (Poland, former Baltic republics, Ukraine), and ... Russia, of course, will play the deciding role in this struggle.

It will not be countries like USA -- these have lost all the moral authority to judge others. Engaged in bloody coops through out the world, throwing their reserve-currency status to dictate policies for other nations, suppressing/spying/imprisoning opposition at home, politicians taking bribes all over (via book deals, insider stock tips, real estate), etc), protecting sexual predators -- these fake 'leaders' of freedom lost all the credibility.

I hope Belorussian people (who never won a revolt, who were murdered by millions in WW2 (20% of the population), who suffered the most from Chernobyl disaster), will finally find help and direction from their neighbors...

If Belorussians reading this -- do not trust USA, Germany, UK, France..
Look for support, carefully, in your neighbors.

I hope countries like Poland, Lithuania will offer automatic citizenship to Belorussians who held Bel. passport for 4 years or longer, or who is under 16, and who does not have connections to the revealed names.

This way the saboteurs, that the regime will likely to implant into the emigration waves -- will have harder time doing that.
She’s found a bit of traction. Ads convert to customers but the CAC is high and not “uniquely defensible”. It’s low/code no/code website but the idea is there and she’s proven the marketability of it
At the very least, you other watches will hold a value more than your smartwatch, long term
Why did a Rust defect become such a diatribe on C++ ? As far as I am aware, using a typedef/using type does not slow down zero-based initialisation of primitive types in C++. (last time I checked a few years ago - will apologise if this has changed).
Can you get pure glyphosate? Is that what gets spread on crops?

I'm glad we are using it and not older chemicals, but unless you are actually in the habit of eating it recreationally, maybe don't use that example.
A rather unfortunate name, given how Posh is also occasionally used as a shortening of PowerShell. Especially when PowerShell has a very similar shtick going for it.
> I think it's pretty horrific to engineer a crop to make the farmer subservient

Last time I looked, Monsanto was not using terminator genes and promising they would never use terminator genes while the green press was running stories that were precision-engineered to give you the impression that Monsanto was using terminator genes.

Has that changed? Did Monsanto start actually using terminator genes? Or is the story still, uhh... "speculative"?
Yeah, this was exactly the mental model I used to simplify it. Nice to see it in action.