skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We live in a (maybe THE) golden age of cheap energy. We're pretty wasteful as a society (especially in America) and it's hard to see causality in your day to day life. People, including me, rely on things like cars for every day things. Grocery store 2 miles away? Well of course I'm taking my car. So that means the car has to be built (emissions), thankfully we are remote so we're sharing one standard range Model 3, we have to use electricity to power the car (fossil fuels), and I'm moving 2000 - 3000 pounds of material 4 miles round trip when if I had the ability to I could ride a bike or just walk those 2 miles and maybe save the car for the day that it rains.

So let's say I want some broccoli.

Broccoli is grown in California which is far away from Ohio
Broccoli has to be shipped by some giant truck to a warehouse
Warehouse ships the broccoli to my local grocery store
I go and ask Tesla to build me an electric car (something something pretending I'm making a difference)
I get the car, and now every time I want broccoli I start it up and drive 4 miles round trip to get broccoli
Eventually I get tired of the car and I'll get a new one and that's more emissions, resources used, etc.

This is an insane use of energy. And not to mention all of the times that people will go through this chain multiple times/day/week. "Oh forgot the butter, let me drive to the grocery store". And then we spend all of this money building and expanding highways and roads.

It's like, what if we just built medium density mixed-use neighborhoods, and I could ride my bike (or walk) down the road to a farmer's market style store? How much money would we save by all American families only needing one car, and not having to build and expand highways until we paved the whole planet?

Electric cars for example are just reaffirmations of the way we live right now. Bandaids. It's like you're doing the wrong thing and trying to find ways to improve doing the wrong thing instead of doing the right thing. It drives me crazy.

But in your day to day life very few people chain these things together (or some variation of them, this isn't meant to be exact). It's just "gas prices are XYZ, I need my car to do things, why are gas prices high?".

and this is just one (albeit, frankly I think the greatest) environmental challenge in America alone (I guess the anglosphere in general to some extent).

Anyway, enough rambling from my soapbox.
My image of socialism is tainted by history. I'm well aware that there are democratic minded socialists, but I'm also well aware that democratic minded socialists have never actually been able to establish a democratic socialist regime anywhere. At what point am I allowed to connect the dots that democracy and socialism are inherently incompatible, as nice as they sound on paper?
My other favorite Sowell: "Intellect is not wisdom." My hope is that Sowell's work will see a groundswell of support and he'll finally be appreciated for what he has contributed. My fear is that we won't be on this earth when it happens.
I'm also cynical because a bunch of "top minds" in my graduating high school class have gone on to work at think-tanks and other climate policy NGO's. As far as I can tell, they haven't made much tangible progress beyond mere punditry. The few kids that went off to become electricians have probably done more to reduce carbon emissions by installing home solar panels than any of the climate advocates.
If it was possible to write an effective slur filter, I would not find it completely objectionable. Not because that would be useful to stop people saying completely shit-headed things if they really wanted to (I strongly suspect you could get the entirety of Mein Kampf past that filter), but as a "people who use these words are not welcome" signal, which definitely has some value.

As it is, it's bashing the problem with regular expressions, and doing so badly. I mean, some of those words actually have completely different, non-offensive meanings in certain communities & contexts. (One of a few I spotted: Last time I used "retard" was in the context of ignition timing...)
Like most major components in cars these days if it fails early, it's likely a common manufacturer defect.

Nissan CVTs for example, are known to die multiple times before 100k. Nissan even bumped up the warranty to avoid a proper recall.

People are offering rebuilt transmissions, but like you said the average individual is at most going to use their transmission as a core for a rebuilt one that very specific places make.

The dealer isn't going to point them to a transmission shop (or take their car to one)
I don't know who's right but I certainly hope that an open letter won't affect the decision.
Further: .information-packed\script/cibuild – Objective – Diagram
Hot take: The most important job is soldiers going to polluting countries and beating the shit out of them until they fall in line. As long as compliance is optional it wont matter how green you personally are.
Do you have a source for Matt "Everything is Securities Fraud" Levine being shocked by this? He seems like the last person I'd expect to be surprised by the SEC's broad mandate.
Yes lets all do that. Graduate with a degree in finance. Work for a big investment firm, make a few million. Then go help poor people with 'saving' more money 'to make a difference'
This is a huge issue in South Africa too. It's become blatant to the point you can often immediately tell if a trending hashtag is being pushed by bot efforts just by looking at the way it's phrased + a few of the top tweets circulating it.

> Everyday new hashtags come up peddling the same misinformation against political rivals.

Is how I've been feeling for the past couple of years at least.
I believe the point he is making, is that any old BS can be published, which is then picked up by the "woke" crowd and used in their citations...therefore highlighting that their citations are generally nonsense.
Cones and cylinders don't have any flat sides?
To add insult to injury, writing a press release like this (even including a screenshot with the very latest stuff) can feel just as good as actually shipping.

At this point, eclipsing the story of "the cool game that never shipped" with an actual game is a very high bar indeed.
Japan for example. Also an island, South Korea is too for all practical purposes. Australia isn't even half an Italy, although the population is admittedly mostly concentrated. Still, you have to compare it to countries which can only be reached by ship or plane.

There is merit for harsh policies if you can prevent any case, what NZ did relatively successfully. But admitting that it failed is hard to convey politically.
FDIC insured if the money is stored at a bank. Those are called brokered accounts. Not all sweep accounts use them and use money market funds or other securities. Also brokered accounts are fungible money can and does get transferred around behind the scenes. Some broker dealers will use the cash for overnight lending for income.
literature, maybe not - but philosophy does provide options that aren't just navel-gazing. The philosophical attitude that modernist society takes towards nature is that of material resources to be extracted for economic benefit; obviously this mindset is a big part of how we got to this point. Instead there are philosophical ideas like deep ecology or complex systems theory that point to a different approach.
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The glimpse into the extent of mental corruption necessary to self-motivate oneself to spend so much time and effort, accumulate and apply expertise, all in the name of killing thousands of innocent people do make it difficult to read; even more so considering that the discovery of the plan did not help prevent its later evolution from causing the 9/11—that said, the article is enlightening and I cannot remember reading about this plot before (I guess it is too unsavoury even for unscrupulous mass media to dig up).

Addendum: as much as it pains me to admit, if I were some official feeling responsible for the lives of air travellers in %country% and having a say in the policy, after studying the details of this plot I can imagine myself going “yup, I guess we are banning all liquid then”.
I nominate this guy then https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
Refreshing to see!
The DC sniper were two people, with a specially built murder car.

So neither lone wolf or low effort.

My guess is that crazy, extremely radicalized people are not competent at carrying out high impact attacks. Also, very few of them actually want to do such things.
> In sum: DP simply has too high a bar to clear. Want to do DP? Well, has there been a few decades of pedagogical development in your field so that you can be coached like with chess or math or tennis? NO? Ok, you're tough out of luck. No DP for you!

I actually read "The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance" and if i recall correctly it's not that simple, , Expert practitioners can develop themselves better methods (it is argued the reason world records keep getting broken is not because our genes become better but because of better training methods ) , the main thing about deliberate practice is detecting points you can improve (e.g. failing to answer a coding question in a job interview), developing a method to improve the sub skill (trying at home with less stress and more time, going over a piece of knowledge you forgot, e.g. how BFS works), going over "socially accepted good enough" to "the best you can be" (e.g. you might fail some interviews and think maybe the interviewers don't like you, or you could double check your answer and find better solutions which might help if you will interview to more demanding companies such as facebook or google).

There is another interesting book called "the psychology of problem solving" (see http://www.al-edu.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Davidson-St...) where Ericsson argues iirc that deliberate practice is a form of problem solving.
This is a lesson in incentives. The reason any of these procedures are not eradicated is that no one wants to be the person who does that and then have the next terrorist attack use a technique that would've been caught.

It's interesting to note that we have had this in software development too. Prior to CI/CD, organizations that had QA departments (responsible for testing) had a lot of incentive to hold up releases because they were blamed if a bug escaped into production. When developers test, they are responsible for both delivery and defects so there is balance.

It's hard to see how something like this could be applied for security. Making the TSA responsible for wait times seems like a good idea but there's always going to be an asymmetry when life hangs in the balance.

After the IRA bombings, train platforms didn't have trash bins for decades. Eventually some showed up with transparent bags so that the contents could be seen. The half-life of fear is long.
So founders can cash out and park their money in a safer place than CCP China.
But what you said happened and is happening.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2687861
Would just be another acqui-hire like Alien Blue
You joke, but code optimization is a career. If you can make something run much more efficiently, there's money to be made. I can't remember the name of the consultancy that did this though.
Totally unrelated, but I still remember what I did on 9/11. I was in my teens. I know the date, I know the weekday, I know everything I did in the 24 hours it happened.

However, despite being the much "fresher" events, I don't know the weekday my grandparents and parents passed away, let alone what I did back then.

My memory is... interesting.
Policy is important though. For instance, designing an HOA policy or local law allowing for solar panels for instance is way more important than the actual installation, drawing from my personal experience.
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Indeed it is, thanks. But there’s still no reason training can’t be part of the regulations.
...air and point source carbon extraction and sequestration. A friend is dating a fellow who has just accepted a job at Shell Oil in carbon storage

https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/carbon-capture-a...

https://www.worldoil.com/news/2021/7/13/shell-sees-a-profita...
nature itself sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere, primarily through soil, plants and the ocean. The ocean is a CO2 buffer (ie, just stores CO2 rather than consuming it) but soil and plants actively consume CO2.

I do agree that we also need some kind of technological carbon sequestration. I'm skeptical of the "pump it underground" approach and think that things like CO2-negative building materials and processes would be a way to couple CO2 extraction and economic incentive.
I'm Gen X and I looked for a job in sustainability/env for years (I got one). I'm really happy the newer generations have this offer available.
I don't disagree with government regulation, it certainly has its place. I think employers should be forced to pay a living wage if they want to hire employees in America. That's a regulation I think is fair and helps prevent exploration.

I also think it's useful for consumers to know how many calories are in their food.

And for small restaurants, the overhead of computing calories is actually onerous. They are exempt.

With wages, the bar is that you must pay the minimum. Anything more I think is onerous and not the role of government to get involved in, and should not be applied.
The tinfoil hat interpretation would be that this is Unity's Embrace/Extend/Extinguish. First hire Mike Acton to build an ECS feature for Unity. patent it, and ensure that neither him nor anybody else can use this design pattern to beat their engine.
Maybe that they work together towards a goal of common good. I suppose some people cannot understand why somebody would care for others, or care about the future.
> is Lend a security?

According to Coinbase, the SEC said "they consider Lend to involve a security." Not that it is a security. The second question is (a) more ambiguous and (b) a red herring from Coinbase.

If Coinbase is taking deposits from customers to engage in securities trading, it's acting as a bank or broker-dealer. It is registered and regulated as neither. Note that Kraken and Gemini have state banking charters. Coinbase is drawing a false equivalence. The entire enterprise stinks of bad faith, possibly fraud.
Talking from my experience, despite its undeniable advantages to fight climate change, the general hostility of the public opinion towards fission (or nuclear in general) refrained me from pursuing this path...
Construction is the challenge with nuclear. It's likely that due to the extreme challenge of construction, we will see a huge contraction in the amount of nuclear.

We literally can't build it fast enough anymore to replace reactors that are reaching their end of life.

Choosing a nuclear engineer career path today is likely to be extremely challenging, and will have little impact. Better to try something that scales, like wind/solar/storage, or do something high-risk that is completely out of the known path, in order to try to blaze something novel. (We still need cement and steel decarbonization tech, for example.)
Ugly. Use teddit.net for a clean experience.
The obvious purpose of removing shoes at airports has long been more about security theater than safety. The authorities must be seen to be doing something to protect travelers or the industry might not survive the customer's perception of danger.

But, the less obvious reasons surely include maintaining the function of the huge TSA security apparatus put in place after 9/11. The stated function of the TSA is to protect passengers from attack. The unstated (and unacknowledged function) that has perpetuated the practice despite every traveler hating it (and its obvious futility), is to intimidate travelers and provide a convenient mechanism of crowd-control. Step out of line (literally) and you will be treated as a potential criminal. There needn't be an official policy to do so, the benefits of the system ensure its continuance via other (stated) motives, not least the profit motive of the supporting economic interests. The upshot is that travelling via plane in the past 20 years is one of the many small lessons for living in the security/surveillance state. You must obey. Moreover, we see the logic of the security/surveillance state incorporating this convenient control mechanism by now restricting (or implicitly threatening to restrict, which is even better) the travel of domestic antagonists of power. If we had discontinued taking off our shoes, the symbolic effect of dispiriting and weakening the public (literally making us vulnerable in our unshod feet) would be unavailable now. Why would the administration willingly relinquish such a useful tool for managing the population? Of course it wouldn't. It would we more amazing if it had.

Now, we will likely add further controls on travel in the form of digital health passports with infinitely more possibility for government mischief. When/if the pandemic ends, do you believe the passports will be discontinued?
Maybe this is a bit of a pessimistic view, but they are bound to become disillusioned. Nobody will move as fast as they want them to. Even if they are experts in energy policy, energy market design or engineering (i.e. not "using the lens of literature and philosophy [...]" to use a quote from the article), their contribution to limiting global warming will be insignificant. If they have deeply anti-capitalist stances, they might find a job in a degrowth think tank and make even less of a difference. And most importantly, climate change poses much less of a financial risk to the economy than they think, so companies won't become environmentally conscious unless politics introduces those environmental externalities into their balances.

I'd consider myself a part of this group and I also want to find meaning in my work - but I try to manage my expectations.
I have only used ZoL myself, on Debian and Ubuntu. I really sorta need to buy new disks for this, but they are so expensive right now. I should probably just backup all the stuff I really care about and offload most of this to some sort of cloud storage/rented space somewhere. I don't know that these drives will fail (WD Red 3TB), but the 50k+ power on hours are starting to worry me a bit.

They have not seen a huge amount of reads/writes though, if we don't count the weekly scrub and weekly usage by just me.
That security isn’t necessarily to stop terrorism. It’s also to stop people from bringing in weapons and then using them in drunken brawls.
You can name even one law enforcement agency that wants vigilante firearm violence? Because that is literally what it means to desire the general public act as armed first responders.
Not having a car might be strong one. You can get away with it it many places.

A close 2nd may be avoiding/foregoing meat. To be honest, for me, the meat they include at restaurants (esp. takeout given the pandemic) is sub-standard anyway.
AKA missing the wood for the trees.

...by turning off Javascript I was able to reduce page load by ~4MB. It still looks and works fine.
I'd stick with the more conservative measure, taking the tablet out all the time, even if it might not have been required. Also I wouldn't bother verbally responding if they ask me to do something, I'd just do it and keep my lips sealed.
I'd say humans, we're still in the assessment phase, slowly coming right out of denial. Data science would be very useful. A recent economist article shows how polluters skirt EPA rules for instance.
Am I missing something here, or are they paying $190,000 per HP server here? With each one being a two socket 24 core server. I am also not sure how to read the RAM part, I'd assume it is 2 TB in total for all 12 servers, as otherwise it would be a very weird comparison if the 12 servers also get 12 times the RAM. But if they actually put 2TB RAM into each of these servers it would explain the insane prices to some degree.
Another way of putting this is, you choose to let available opportunities shape your future career.

You can do that, or you can choose to exert some control over the process.
In the first six months of lockdown in the UK 6500 prosecutions were undertaken by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). These included non-lockdown flouting crimes which were simply flagged as 'Corona Virus related', such as threatening to cough on somebody whilst 'infected' and stealing items deemed essential for dealing with the pandemic.[1]

Your assertion that a million people were prosecuted seems far fetched.

1. https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/6500-coronavirus-related-pro...
It seems pretty apparent that there are two options for a company that wants to offer this product:

- Offer it as a bank, while complying with the regulations for being a bank, OR

- Offer it as a security, while complying with the regulations for offering securities.

My read on this blog post is that Coinbase is trying to get out of the securities option by kinda pretending to be the banking option, but without actually complying with or falling under the jurisdiction of banking regulations. Is that about right?
There was recently a video of US police attacking a lady in a wheel chair with a stun gun because she was filming them detaining and being rough with her pregnant daughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9piU6_8y61Q

Here's a recent video of a cop throwing a woman to the cement who was in a fight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCKu-0oAaOk

Here's a compilation of nearly 1000 incidents of police brutalizing BLM protestors and reporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/us-police-br...

In these incidents the victim was clearly either unarmed or in no way was threatening the police with a firearm. I think that is just yet another excuse the police use to evade prosecution when brutalizing citizens.

This is nothing new, here's the police brutalizing citizens protesting in Chicago in 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XzdltsTfvE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

>The ADE 651 is a fake bomb detector[1] produced by the British company Advanced Tactical Security & Communications Ltd (ATSC). Its manufacturer claimed it could detect bombs, guns, ammunition, and more from kilometers away. However, it was a scam, and the device was little more than a dowsing rod. The device was sold for up to US$60,000 each, despite costing almost nothing to produce.
You are not sure why he is quitting. After all, it was just a little Title IX boogie.

Well, there would be the swastikas and the bags of feces. These aren't traditional welcoming gifts anywhere I know of. Let's see, pulling fire alarms, pulling speaker wires, being spit on, more investigations ...

It's all right there, in the article. In case you are still not sure why he's quitting.
You think masks are petty symbolism? I think that kind of trolling just raises the temperature here, which I'd like to avoid, so no, please, do not go on.
Mechanical and electrical engineering aren’t going to do you enough good quickly enough.

But can you think of any forms of life on the bottom of the food chain that depend on carbon inputs as part of its own metabolic processes in order to reproduce itself? Because if you want a self-sustaining ocean-based carbon capture solution, that’s where I would look.
The article is talking about non-organic, GMO "foods" which are that in name only.
Regulation rarely leads to more efficient markets. If you believe in markets, then if pay transparency was beneficial, companies would already be doing it. The market clearly does not favor it. And forcing it already has negative consequences -- see the article for companies that are refusing to play ball in Colorado.
Jabber/XMPP. SMTP. IRC.

TBH, I still use SMTP a lot, and IRC as well from time to time.

See also https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Then one of his other famous quotes will apply:

“there are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously.”