skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I believe this comment is well intended, I don't believe it addresses the parent's question. The extra resource they have is electrical power, not land. They are asking if there is a way to turn electrical power into carbon capture.

I also want to say that the planting trees method is a bit more nuanced than everyone makes it out to be. But don't trust me, let's ask someone who knows better: Forrest Fleischman[0][1]. I'm not saying "don't plant trees" (do) but that this is often everyone's go to response to CCS and it is a bit naive (as explained in the threads).

[0] https://twitter.com/ForrestFleisch1/status/13062214459331297...

[1] https://twitter.com/ForrestFleisch1/status/14440088233506037...
I’m suddenly imagining a Dickensian market for orphans in a future of ever more generous child tax credits.
This.

I think the best way to think about this party is that the goal isn't to win elections (get the majority of votes, beat out the republican/democratic party) - it is to wield influence via a platform.

If you think Andrew Yang is establishing a political party to win a government race, I think its a bit too naive.

I think he is trying to use a third party lever to influence a bunch of small things to snowball into larger things, and he doesn't have the space to do that in the existing parties.

Ranked choice vote seems like the best low hanging fruit. If Yang can bring 5-10 more of these issues into the public eye, he will be the most influential person in politics, whether he is in office or not.
> Uh, children? Non-citizens?

The real answer was people who aren't "wealthy property owners."
Not really. Regulations promulgated by the executive branch and EOs both need to have a basis in law and are subject to judicial review.
They just replaced the Rs in the logo with Fs. What a joke.
You're definitely not crazy. The only miss here is that there's no money changing hands between the parties - the contract is 3rd party.

So it's more like, to borrow my car, you have to post 1.5x the value in an escrow account, I have to post 0.5x into the same account. If-and-only-if we both press the 'happily concluded' button, we each get the money back. If it goes south, our only recourse to (a) destroy the value in the escrow account (which either of us can do unilaterally at any time), or (b) use the leverage provided by (a) to negotiate an amicable solution outside the contract.

Which doesn't sound any less wild, or provide any more of a solution for actually dealing with the meatspace problem. In fact it adds a meatspace problem, since you can't actually be made whole by the escrowed amount, you have to go negotiate with someone that is trying to screw you (or who broke your camera, or trashed your house, or whatever) to arrange an out-of-band resolution.
Second worst is still an upgrade.
I considered the widely-used 'hot' algorithm and I don't think that really qualifies as a 'creative work' on the part of the site. The 'top from last hour/day/month/year' and 'hot' algorithms are really elementary sorting methods that are in the same league as FIFO.
Sure, but Tox has to beat Signal and self-hosted Matrix, not Telegram.
"Fact-Based Governance"

Sounds like the slippery slope to eliminating individual rights, none of which have any "factual" grounding.

Purely-rational regimes have been tried - if you follow science/reasoning far enough, you'll end up with a eugenics program
Right, I wish I knew. Trying to get a decent side-by-side comparison of Tox, Jami, etc., etc. is like trying to find hens' teeth.

Surely, there must be someone out there in user-land who's actually done the legwork.

The reason I want more input on this has to do with my past experience of Tox's poor connection reliability and I want to know what to do about it—or find out whether it's actually fixable or not, or whether I should settle on another P2P program such as Jami which works in a similar way, etc.

For me, connection reliability is more important than security and I'd like to settle on the program with the most reliable connection service (I'd prefer the NSA didn't listen to what I've to say but it's the Googles and Facebooks of this world that I'm really trying to avoid).

The last time I used Tox in a serious way was several years ago when I had relatives visiting from overseas and I refused to use Facebook, Google etc. When I really needed it, Tox didn't work or dropped out too often to the point where it was unusable much to others and my annoyance — and only to be told 'why the hell don't you use what everyone else uses, social media, Facebook etc. — then there'd be no problem?'

It's hard to argue with that when one has others breathing down one's neck to organize things locally.

It seems to me we need to sort this out with some decent real-world testing/runoffs. And for this we need the input of many users/many setups to get good comparative data.

As I said elsewhere, I thought the Tox project was dead as updates were so few and far between, so support and the user-base size is also important. If we can't get to the bottom of the P2P problem then it seems that I may have fall back to Jitsi (so far that always seems to work but I'd prefer not to use it for obvious reasons).
Doesn’t Anyone in the U.S. Government Like the U.S.?
Why bother? You can just add an A record for the root, and a CNAME for the subdomain.
The substance is not the harm. Outlawing the harm is not outlawing the substance.
Or you know you could just if (!malloc_tab()) do_unload();. But that assumes firefox wasn't coded with malloc can never fail.
How do you send money via ACH? I've never figured out a way to do it. Unless you're talking about the common "link an account" functionality where you do trial deposits, etc...
At the same time, When it takes 5 minutes minimum to deploy my code changes to my vms to test, I lose all motivation. Momentum is really the right word and a workflow is just soul sucking.
I'm sure marijuana laws like that exist, but are you going to argue that they're actually reasonable? A law with exemptions for small amounts of weed sounds pretty stupid to me and serves better as an example of how politics can twist legislation into duplicitous shapes rather than an example of good scale-sensitive lawmaking.
Is your logic that if someone runs and loses a few times for an election then they should stop trying?
Without the math:

Radius is always proportional to circumference, so a circle twice the size is twice as big around.

Take the case of two identical circles. To move a point on the first circle from 12 o'clock back to 12 o'clock, it only goes halfway around the other circle, which you can prove to yourself by imagining you've wrapped a string around the circle and marked it at 12 and 6 o'clock. If you unwrap half of the string and wrap it around the other circle, then the end of the rope is at 6 o'clock. To roll the string back up by moving the circle, the top of the circle will be pointing upward again when it reaches the bottom. 1 full revolution. Now wrap the other half of the string around the other side, 6 has to go back to the bottom again to roll the string back up. 2 revolutions.
So good to read Marcan’s comments on this thread, so much context. Thank you!
One advantage of Yang's platform (at least during his Presidential run) is that he was able to draw people from both sides of the aisle to his side.

He's not quite a centrist as much as he's trying to break completely out of the left/right dichotomy and compile the best policy ideas that often neither party is supporting, which appeals to a lot of people.
I was really happy to see this go in, along with the reverse engineered corsair psu driver as well.

I poked around once or twice with wireshark and decided I was out of my depth...
I think bubble sort is the simplest one to understand.

I still use it in a pinch, the delay is barely noticeable on today's hardware.
I have quite a bit of surplus power most of the year (on the order of 10-15kWh/day). If I use it, great, if not... it just doesn't get pulled out of the panels. The office is standalone (and way more trouble than it's worth to grid tie)

I know you said grid-tie isn't worth the trouble, but until the USA moves to more renewable energy for power production, that might yield the best carbon reduction, depending on how much you could otherwise sequester per KWh.

The national average CO2 emissions for power production is 947.2 lbs CO2 per megawatt-hour [1] (or 0.947 lbs/KWh).

So unless you can sequester 10-15lbs or more of CO2 a day, then you may be better off sending your excess power to the grid if your goal is carbon reduction.

Though I'm not sure how to account for the actual CO2 reduction - is the national average fair? Should you use the average per state since states vary widely in their renewable energy status? Is there some other way to determine how much CO2 you've offset?

[1] https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gases-equivalencies-ca...
I don't get it.

1. AFAIK colleges can't send transcripts to people without your permission, so it's unclear what she's trying to prevent.

2. If she's trying to get a job and the place she's applying to cares about GPA, then chances are they're not going to accept the "I can't get a transcript because I didn't pay a 5 cent fine" excuse. If anything people would consider it a red flag. What type of a responsible adult can't pay a 5 cent fine?

3. similar applies to applying for graduate school, except that they're probably even more strict about transcripts.
> Trump had 0 experience holding any political office at any level, in contrast to Reagan.

Yeah well he certainly does now, however brief it was.
Perhaps a better example is the UKIP party swaying the Tories to become more isolationist, and eventually triggering the Brexit referendum? A little bit different, knowing the political system of the UK enables smaller parties to be successful in a way the American system doesn't. But the principle is still the same. UKIP acting as a spoiler is factored into the strategy of the Tories policy makers, and thus they pivot their policies more in line with UKIP ideals to prevent bleeding voters to UKIP. A similar dynamic is at play on Canada's left-wing between the Liberals and the NDP
Right, not only will they go nowhere but they will actively hurt the political party nearest to them ideologically unless those two parties agree to vote together on important issues.
The problem is roundabout externalities. If you're a genocide victim in Myanmar, whether or not you stayed off FB is irrelevant.

The other problem is informed consent. Kids don't have the mental defences to avoid the dopamine trap. Whether parents allow the kids is beside the point. A parent can allow a kid to have sex but it's still illegal because the kid isn't capable of consenting.
Exactly that! What you cannot have in a trustworthy election is:

- I vote
- Something happens in a black box
- A result emerges that I do not comprehend
Oh boy, you can buy a checksum of a url. And lock up your money so that people can try to scam you if your contract has a bug. Sure seems important compared to healthcare, climate change and the housing crisis.
No, you're getting downvoted because you're making combative statements and picking fights over something that doesn't matter. Why do you care so much about this? Even if marcan and the rest of the Asahi folks are wasting their time, it's their time to waste, and in the meantime they're clearly deriving some amount of happiness from doing this work.

Even if you're right that Apple deliberately locks things down so the 4th or 5th or whatever generation of this hardware can't run anything but macOS, this project still has value. Maybe not to you, but it will to lots of people. And that's really all that matters. Your negativity here is a waste of time and is frankly boring and off topic.
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/14582/what-argu...

Sums up most of the points about it.
I want to highlight the "leads to two party dominance in countries that use it" (australia for example) point. This is exactly what we want to avoid.

I prefer approval or score voting for single member elections as it does away with all these bad voting incentives.

But regardless, I think single member elections are stupid and proportional systems are far better and more democratic. The idea that the thing most representative of you is the piece of land you live on is very outdated. Zweitmandat is the most advanced implementation of proportional representation imo.
I use one because I have two controllable fan headers on the mb and 6 fans to control. This lets me do a better job of managing the noise in the server while also letting me react to different temps in different areas (particularly hard drive temps)
Fundamentals of Computing with .NET
Grow trees, chop them down, and build houses. We still have a housing shortage.
I've seen people argue for Schulze or Ranked pairs over it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_pairs

The main distinction is that Ranked Choice can elect someone which is not the best compromise of everyone's choices, while Schulze and Ranked pairs will always elect the best compromise of everyone's choices. If there is a candidate who is preferred over the other candidates, when compared in turn with each of the others, they guarantee that candidate will win, while Ranked Choice does not.

The downside to Schulze or Ranked Pairs is that saying that someone is your second choice could hurt the chances of your first choice to be elected, because by putting forward a compromising candidate, and since Schulze or Ranked Pairs optimize for that, you lean the tally towards your potential compromises (which are your second, third, etc. choices) in the case where the election are a "close call".

If I understand correctly.

I personally would prefer a system that optimizes for the compromise, as I think it's more important to get the candidate that the least people dislike, than it is to get the candidate that the most people adore.

So if I understand correctly, it means something like:

If you have A, B and C.

100% think B is second best.
40% think A is best.
19% think B is best.
41% think C is best.

With Schulze or Ranked Pairs B will win, but with Ranked Choice C will win.

That's because C is most people's first choice, so they win. But if you asked people to pick between C or B, B would technically win, because 19% would pick B (as it is their best), and 40% that think A is best but B is second best would also pick B, thus B vs C would get 59% votes for B and only 41% votes for C, that means that in a vote for B against C, B would win, but with Ranked Choice B loses, and C is elected.
Every time I see a "minimal image" announcement, I hope to see something in the <100MB range initial install, read-only root, and ssh-only (no GUI) -- something like OpenWRT, but with full power of debian repo behind it.

Instead, I see yet another graphical distro with graphical interfaces which most people won't ever need.
Ranked choice voting in theory patches up the spoiler effect, which will paradoxically make voting third party more appealing.
> having these books distributed among low-income households is priceless

That might have been true twenty years ago. With hook-or-by-crook internet
access, the only reading poor kids are doing are their group chats.
After watching people freak out when NYC implemented Ranked Choice, I feel like most Americans won’t tolerate anything even slightly more complicated. It’s our only shot.
One benefit would be that the library could clamp down on the damage. Library books are really treated like shit in my area of the world. Books and other materials. You can hardly borrow a disc that is not scratched to the point of being unusable. People would think twice before damaging borrowed items, if there is a deposit at stake.

> there are a vast number of people who have housing but do not have $200 of liquid capital to drop as a library deposit.

Be that as it may, they aren't prevented from using library under this proposal. Those who care to will somehow scrape the deposit together, and their money is entirely safe provided they don't damage borrowed materials or don't return them for half a year.
Wikipedia says,

Porpoises range in size from the vaquita, at 1.4 metres
(4 feet 7 inches) in length and 54 kilograms (119 pounds)
in weight, to the Dall's porpoise, at 2.3 m (7 ft 7 in)
and 220 kg (490 lb).

Doesn't say what is most common, though, so if 30-70 kg is more common, I'll take your word for it.
No, being overthrown by the populace was a mistake from the perspective of the French monarchy. You might want to stop looking at the world as black and white at some point.
archive link? paywall
A similar and very well known example like 'show' and 'clear' is 'ls -rf /' and 'rm -rf /'.
I thought the grab cursor hand over the image was intentional (like the raise hands emoji, grab the future or something), but it's a single img in a .slideshow-list
> ...The diffuse mode shuts down when we're stressed. There's no time for dreamy big picture thinking during crunch time...

I'd add also that the focused mode often gets you stuck even more under stress. Both approaches are complimentary. This kind of problem solving needs thinking pace, just as if mind were a CPU with a program being weaved in real time, morphing constantly, seeking patterns, eliminating choices.

- Hey, Jim, are you sleeping at your desk? - No, Mr. Stone, my mind is thinking! Just be patient and please don't interrupt...

On a serious note, under the stress or not, it's important to recognize when one's own mind got stuck. Getting other people involved (as listeners or active participants) is often the only way to get through without exhausting oneself. I wish this was more encouraged in teams, instead of my task must do kind of approach.
I’m still shaken over the fact that Mavis Beacon was a made up character.

As a kid I had felt really encouraged that this nice woman was able to take her typing skills and turn it into this awesome software company.

No joke, hit me a lot harder than finding out Santa wasn’t real.
Doesn't work for what?
The Legacy of Firefox OS (2019)
I like Andrew Yang, but if we are being petty…

I also am just not a fan of “the forward party”. When I hear it the first thing that comes to mind is this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HqjhHVUzl8o
Honestly I don't know if I buy this argument. The act of voting is just as easy, does anyone really care how the tally is calculated?

With condorcet I think you can also visualize it nicely by playing a Head to Head thing and show ok A vs B, B wins. Ok B vs C, B wins, etc.
I was excited about Yang’s candidacy in the NYC mayoral election, but it didn’t take very long to see that he was out of his depth. In the end, he didn’t even rank in my top 5 (NYC has ranked choice now). Why does he keep running for top positions? He clearly doesn’t have a record of success as an executive, either in private or public sectors. He seems like a nice guy. If he wants to get into politics, why not start as a city councilor or something?
Actually, unless they learn something from the failures, yes. Did NYC put him on an upward trajectory, do you think?
The author definitely missed the Zeppelin NT. One flew over Silicon Valley for several years, from 2008 to 2012. They had the misfortune of launching a luxury experience during a recession. The ship worked great.

It had three steerable propellors, two steerable. This made it far more manuverable than classic airships. No more needing an army on the ground to tie the thing down.

DARPA and Lockheed's Skunk Works built a airship in 2017 or so with even more steerable fans. That thing could fly itself out of a hanger, take off, return to base, land on a short runway, and taxi to the hangar.

High winds on the ground remain a problem. Just too much sail area.
I'm skeptical about a lot of asylum claims coming out of Afghanistan simply because of how fast the ANA capitulated.

This reeks of double allegiance. In some regions, the village elders accompanied by ANA soldiers were welcoming the Taliban and cheering for their return.

Families frequently sent their sons to fight on both sides of the conflict. Now those who were affiliated with the ANA will suddenly claim they are "threatened" and try hustling western passports...
That has happen. UKIP forced the Conservative Party in the UK to offer a referendum because their members were voting for UKIP (UKIPs voter share in 2015 hit about approximately 13% of the total vote). Whatever you may think of UKIP

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results

However there is several negatives to this:

1) That political party won't get any credit for it.
2) The policy will be implemented hardheartedly.
3) It may destroy your party if one or more of the major issues that the alternative party is implemented. As voters won't see any more need to vote as they have got what they wanted.
4) Thee political momentum will be lost for other reform / change.
5) The existing party duopoly will still exist.

To expand on the final point. I dislike all political parties (I am somewhat of a anarchist) and I don't believe in political solutions. However the Labour party in the UK immolating itself will hopefully end up with its destruction. Which will make space in the UK political landscape for new ideas, new people.
Some speculate that it may also lead to the destruction of the Conservative party. Peter Hitchens described both Labour and Conservative parties as two corpses that are propping the other up and if one collapses the other may as well. However I personally think that is a fantasy.
Looking at the screenshot, I was briefly hopeful that they used actual Chess commentary and gpt3 or something. But it looks like a simple rule engine is translating "user did X but I (the AI) would have done Y" into a slightly nicer phrasing. Meh. Still cool.
My favorite way when I'm not up to doing something is to merely prepare an environment for the thing I'm not going to do right now in the simplest ways. Create a new empty directory not even thinking about its name. CD into it, leave a terminal tab in that directory. Maybe I'll copy/paste a config/makefile or something and search/replace the copied name with the arbitrary directory name. And so on.

Some point along the way, I'll care. Whether it's the dumb name I picked, or some specific thing in the config/makefile I want a certain way--I've been tricked.
I know Yang claims this, but is there any data actually confirming that this is the case?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/24/andrew-yan... appears to be a fact check of this claim, and it was rated false.
https://archive.is/msFIu
How are you determining who is irresponsible? Why do you think you have the right to say who can and who cannot vote?
Because the reason he's doing poorly is inability to draw votes away from establishment candidates of the two entrenched parties.

Highlighting that is key to his platform succeeding.
Understanding is one thing, counting is another. Plurality voting is great because it’s easy to count by hand and audit with volunteer observers. I’ve personally observed the counting of ballots as a volunteer and it gave me a lot of confidence that the election had been conducted fairly according to the law.

While I would really love to see what outcomes could be produced by a Condorcet method I can’t imagine actually implementing one without relying on computerized counting and software. This makes it impossible for volunteers to audit due to the need to audit the hardware and software of the computers doing the counting. If only security experts are capable of auditing such a system then our whole democracy is at their mercy. That’s essentially a technocracy.
I probably shouldn’t be admitting this, but I didn’t realize until just now that Mavis Beacon wasn’t real.

I never used the software, but I remember seeing it a lot from when I was a kid. I was never fully clear on who exactly Mavis Beacon was—I just assumed she’d written a popular book or something that helped people learn typing, and the software was part of that.