skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So everybody is challenging pjc50 on this, let's put really numbers in:

- In 2019 the total UK wood removals (harvesting) was 10.8 tonnes [0] of actual wood (for timber, furniture, pulp, etc.)

- In 2019 Drax alone (1x single bio-mass plant) burned through 7,05 tonnes of bio-mass (labeled 'feedstock') of which about 81% was actually imported from the US and Canada. [1]

So basically 1x single plant (arguably the largest) just burned through the equivalent of about 70% of the UK's harvested wood (assuming you would stop all wood construction and paper production etc.).

As I wrote in another comment, we just do not have the land surface area for bio-mass in Europe and the number of bio-mass plants is now completely out of sync with the actual wood production capability partly due to a terrible energy policy and incentives.

[0] https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/documents/7721/Complete_FS...

[1] https://www.drax.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Drax_AR2019_...
> The metaverse stuff is really, really embarrassing.

Tangentially: If I remember Snow Crash correctly, the Metaverse/Internet in that novel belonged to only one person – who was the villain of the piece. He wanted to use the metaverse to distribute a “mind virus” which would enslave the world population to him.

Somehow I do think Facebooks PR flunkies have not read the same novel as I.
While this is an interesting idea, it's pretty comical to think that conservationists could ever come up with enough money to seriously outbid oil and gas companies in lucrative areas. The only reason this person was able to get this lease is that this area is uneconomic to produce from.

Also, the BLM and other leasing organizations use these leases as a way to incentivize develompent in rural areas. Everyone involved has a strong incentive to ensure that leases are actually used for something.

As an aside, here's a paper [1] that summarizes the tax revenue that individual states receive from oil and gas production. Any longterm solution to oil and gas production needs to seriously address how these tax bases (especially in rural areas) stay stable or grow with decreasing oil and gas production. Otherwise you should expect increased resistance to decarbonization as people literally see their schools close, roads deteriorate, etc.

[1] https://media.rff.org/documents/RFF-DP-16-50.pdf
Reminds me of Steve Black's story about using scaffolding for adverts: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-scaffolding-up-in...
Trying to figure out where 1990 came from in the paper, it seem unclear. Something NZ specific? Cohort turning 18?
I had a large amount of savings in Bitcoin in September 2020. However, after reading the salient arguments against Bitcoin made by Stephen Diehl on his Twitter account, I liquidated my entire position.

And I couldn't be happier.

Thanks to his nuanced decomposition of the technology I have avoided the wild price swings over the last year, and protected myself against the inevitable crash.

I would recommend anyone with a position in Bitcoin to read his informed analysis on the technology and cash out while you still have chance.

The best time to get out of Bitcoin was a year ago. The second best time is today.
> Since we do not have default arguments in Rust, in order to initialize such structure we would have to list all fields:

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Default:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/default/trait.Default.html

It can be combined with the rest pattern to yield something very similar to the solution the author is after.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19650265/is-there-a-fast...
> they would have existed as managed by the natives prior to European settlement as the state that is most worthy of reconstruction

This is magical thinking; the First Nations are, and were, human. The Huron, for instance, would move their settlements once they had "used up" all the readily available resources (mostly game animals) in the area. The First Nations were only better "custodians" of the land because they lacked the means to abuse the land as thoroughly as European "settlers".
Stopped reading at "Macbook is ... as trustworthy as the Libreboot ThinkPad". Anyone who trusts closed source, proprietary, for-profit platforms from PRISM partners doesn't know what they're talking about.
You’re presuming the technology and software is fixed. It isn’t - there are continual leaps forward and it isn’t going to stop anytime soon.
well there are places where this is changing. adding a tax for people buying houses as investment instead of living there, etc.

so cities are starting to realize that unused housing is a problem and are making moves to do something about it.
Same thing with bing. It's a fine search engine for lots of things, but for searching documentation it's really weak, showing sites like w3schools and tutorialspoint far above the results I actually want.

It kind of makes sense that w3schools would spend much more time on the SEO game than docs.python.org, but it just drives me back to google
I'm not going to bash anyone interested in shaking up the status quo of the internet, cause a Times Square Wal-Mart is what we have right now and it seems to be getting worse.
> People complain about the "1984"cation of our society and houses, and then they literally PAY to have an always on microphone in their homes.

They are doing it because they are deep in "Brave New World"ification process and are enjoying it.
Maybe we think the rich guy could be leader we could align ourselves with but a whole group is something we wouldn't be likely to join. I wonder what the results would be if you tested whether a participant how deserving a "friend" vs. a "foe" group would be. Maybe it has more to do with group alliance than with individuals.
It’s odd, for the first example the exact article you were looking for is the first result for me whether or not I am searching signed in or from a private session.

The second example, “Ten Elements of the False COVID Narrative”, assuming you’re looking for it at scienceblog, is the fourth result. Above the fold, at least. (Edit: Sort of nevermind, I missed that you didn’t use quotes for that one. Without quotes the scienceblog page appears in slot 11).

I am in the US and get my results in English, if that matters. I checked to see if toggling safe search changed anything, but nope.
all tether in existence is only worth $57b.

BTC market cap is $1.2t. "t" for trillion, you know.
Yeah but it's so much easier to just kill one person. Even if 99% don't want to see it happen.
At least in the Eastern US, this is a problem.

While I love and support open spaces and natural habitat, at some point, the trend to buy up property and put it into permanent conservation results in only the wealthy being able to afford the remaining housing amid the beautiful, quiet greenery.
Exactly! I'm the creator of Piki, the Cornell Tech app mentioned in the article. Give it a try, if you want next level recommendations https://piki.page.link/Rng5
Faceplant?
This might be the best NewsArticle headline on HN I've ever seen.

Why, what does it say? Can you log that in a reproducible Notebook with Docs and Test assertions please?

Or are we talking about maybe a ScholarlyArticle CreativeWork with a https://schema.org/funder property or just name and url.
Hard sci-fi is No Real Scotsman: The Genre. The hardest sci-fi is just called fiction, because there is no room in hard sci-fi for speculation about science. At best you could call it fiction where technology figures heavily, like The Martian, which while great is hardly sci-fi at all in my opinion.

Any testable scientific theory is generally either so esoteric as to be impossible to work into a story in a significant way or so likely to be false that it gets labeled soft sci-fi. Theories that can’t be tested are just metaphysics or magic. So the more Fi, the less Sci.

Criticizing something for not being hard sci-fi is easy, but I would say largely meaningless unless the piece plays so loose with the science that it could have achieved the same effect with harder science, but I certainly don’t think you could say that of TBP.
This is what drove me off the platform. Searching Bing (primary), Yandex (rarely turns up gold), and DDG (generally useless for the news) each seems to mitigate these issues. But you really shouldn't have to check three different search engines to not feel like you're being denied information.

And yes, Yandex is a Russian operation, something to keep in mind.
That is a level of existential flexibility not yet known to mankind.
Not ideal, but in my code, I intentionally provoke syntax error near the beginning of the file, with a comment explaining what's going on, e.g.:

0_0 # Python >= 3.6 is required

I have a collection of such incantations for many Python versions here:

https://github.com/jwilk/python-syntax-errors
Capital gains tax make it hard to pay with Bitcoin, so the network is not used as much as it could be, but Lightning Network is improving continuously (there are still lots of interesting and important developments going on that can scale it up). The first real world usage that is happening in real time is remittance. It’s really hard to remit money between countries (it takes days to send money from EU to US for me, and my bank asks for $20).
They're talking about wavelengths ("per cycle"). But I'm not sure it makes more sense knowing that, since there's a fundamental disconnect between the signal frequency and the carrier frequency. I think QAM can even be used on a signal rate that's higher than the carrier frequency (as long as the carrier frequency is known), but I'm not 100% sure.
> If you exit now, it probably does, but this music got to stop one day.

Right, currently USDT trades for USD 1 to 1. I'm not sure what you mean by volume propping up the peg. They would need to be buying massive amounts of USDT spending real USD which sounds..expensive.
This is good.

All of this stuff is possible to do already with 3rd-party frameworks with varying levels of performance/reliability, and there may be other methods you use to sanitize your output. If you're a responsible developer, if you have experience trying to guard against XSS, or if you're working with a framework like React/Vue/whatever, this may not change much about your life.

However, I think it's understated how many sites struggle with this, and how many of them do sanitization poorly, and it is much better to be able to point them towards a single API and say, "look, just call this function."

One of the bigger vulnerabilities I've ever found in a website (https://danshumway.com/blog/gamasutra-vulnerabilities/) was in part a problem directly caused by bad sanitization. When I reported that vulnerability, I didn't advise them to fix their sanitizer because I didn't feel confident it would really fix the problem or that there wouldn't be other issues in the future. I could have pointed them towards something like DOMPurify, but instead I advised that they start embedding posts in iFrames with reduce permissions so any scripts that did run wouldn't be able to get at user data.

I wonder if there was more of a standard around this stuff if some engineer on their team might not have caught the problem earlier.

Similar to the SameSite changes to cookies, getting a native sanitizer isn't about forcing you to stop doing serverside sanitization or even changing your workflow much at all. It's about making the defaults safer and making it easier for hobby developers (and companies too) to avoid messing up because they don't understand the risks of calling otherwise innocuous functions.

What's even more exciting is some of the work going into trusted types (https://web.dev/trusted-types/). The sanitizer API gives you a function you can call to get reasonably safe output without a lot of configuration or a 3rd-party framework or knowing what to download. The trusted types API is designed to make it harder to accidentally go outside of that sanitizer. It's not a silver bullet, but it's a big deal for companies where you're trying to set org-wide policies and avoid XSS attacks sneaking in through a random feature by a team that you're not watching closely enough.

It's promising to see Firefox/Google working together on this stuff, I hope they continue with other APIs. The ideas are good, they just need iteration and more input, and these kinds of API areas are imo where Google/Mozilla tend to work together pretty well. I'm fairly optimistic about them.
General Bots for Good (Yet Another Bot Framework – Brazilian Way)
ohhh that makes a lot more sense actually, cheers
Maybe, maybe not. I'm still waiting on the Segway to revolutionize cities' transportation infrastructure.

>Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder, predicted that in future cities would be designed around the device, while Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, also backed the project publicly and financially.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/04/engineering.hi...

>John Doerr speculated that it would be more important than the Internet[...] Steve Jobs was quoted as saying that it was "as big a deal as the PC"[...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway#History
Ordered a Pixel 6 Pro for both my wife and I to replace a Pixel 4 and Pixel 3. Looks like a nice upgrade, very interested to see how the Tensor CPU performs compared to other flagship SOCs. The price was a pleasant surprise. Trying to order the phone was an act of frustration - that's for sure. I refuse to believe that Google, who handles more traffic than anyone else on the internet, can't create a store that can handle a bunch of people trying to pre-order this device. I ended up having to order from Best Buy after continually erroring-out during checkout on the Google Store and then finally having my items removed from my cart because they were out of stock. I also can't understand why Google limits the storage options of certain colors.

It's hard not to compare Google's event with the iPhone 13 launch event a month ago, and the wildly different strategies the companies are using to try and market their devices. Apple (rightfully so) is very proud of the performance of their SoCs and definitely emphasized that aspect - using tons of numbers and data throughout the presentation. This was also seen in the new Macbook event last week. Meanwhile, google hardly mentioned a single hardware detail and focused more on the software and user experience. I have to admit the google event felt more "hand wave-y." They may have avoided talking about hardware details in the event though since they basically revealed the phones months ago.
I think that's a chicken and egg problem. The community would exist around games that were/are popular (like Red Faction for example). You can't just shoehorn in any old abandonware game and call it a day for community building.
the market is a forward indicator. this is already priced in . The ETF alone probably added 10k to the price
> You don’t need to sell your coins to get cash to use.

OK ... please explain?

Are you talking about taking loans using your coins as collateral? With the kind of volatility BTC exhibits, that's quite a gutsy proposition.

Any other way to get cash without selling your coins?
I also agree that it is strange as I would have thought human triggered electrical events would have been conducted much before Ben Franklin's.
Don't egg them on.
Thanks, this is the first description of TBP to say something specific and interesting that makes me want to read it.

(The excerpts, general praise, and "dark forest theory" did not do it for me.)
not really. if you are sitting on a rich resource that the country wants to use to boost its economy then they will find ways to force you to open up
>Care to present any evidence or rationale that supports your claim and lends it any credibility?

I am describing the text of the article these comments respond to. If you have not read the article, that would be my first recommendation.

I will now expose the flaw in your argument:

>biomass implies recovering carbon from the atmosphere

Cutting down a tree and burning it releases carbon into the atmosphere. Planting a new tree removes carbon from the atmosphere.

However, during the period between clear-cutting old-growth forest and waiting for new biomass to capture carbon out of the atmosphere, the process results in net carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If one were to plant new forests on a hypothetical plot of currently-fallow land, wait for those trees to grow, and then harvest those trees, it would indeed be carbon neutral. But trees take time to grow.

Other forms of biomass operate on much faster time scale and don't have this particular problem.
Many ultra wealthy individuals did not come from a highly privileged background. Larry Ellison, one of their motivating examples, had essentially no advantage compared to say Bill Gates. Sergey Brin and Warren Buffet certainly had some advantages but they should not be treated the same as the Waltons by any means. Of course, if you take the expected value of privilege of the 1%, you’ll find a high level. So, it seems to me the notion that people treat wealthy individuals separately from the broader group means that people are acting fairly and rationally to some degree. The authors ignore this nuance altogether, assuming that any individual nuance is a fallacy, and the article seems to indicate that their only purpose is to make people ignore individual success stories and to jade people into treating every wealthy person as equally privileged.
I think it's an ongoing cycle, but with Bitcoin as time has gone on, the panic phases have been shorter and shorter. I mean just 2 weeks BTC was ~1/2 of what it is today. I do wish it were more clear what drives the price though... I suspect that when the mega rich / institutions take large positions in BTC they don't do it on the open exchange... so is it really retail demand that can move the price like this in such a short period of time?
A quick perusal of American history shows that in fact it’s much easier to politically suppress the wealth of a group than it is to suppress the wealth of an individual. We have a long history of redlining, and basically no history of appropriating the wealth of our richest citizens.

Heck, to this very day, having pictures of black people up in your home will suppress its assessed value. If anything turning off the mechanism by which minorities’ wealth is held down is really hard.
>> If you create a world where users can create their own content and have a lot of freedom.

Wasn't this the promise of the internet? A place where any and all information could be free? Now we have ongoing war over who controls the information and who can see what information when. We have companies that skirt users privacy, manipulate user data and manipulate users so they can monetize them to the fullest.

I don't see how the "metaverse" will be any different than what the internet has become.
Hey Walter,
What were your "salesman" lessons from Empire? What would you do differently today?
My claim is current provable cosmology. What's yours based on?
Looking for a Test Automation Engineer with Python in Ottawa/Toronto Canada
Corebooted Thinkpads are the gold standard. Don't listen to this article - it's utter nonsense - the author even recommend Libreboot which is effectively abandonware barely maintained by one unstable individual.
Five seconds really is unusably slow, in my opinion. Even a tenth of that is grating. If I want to run a one-off command, I open a new terminal to do so, and close it when I’m done.
I sincerely hope this ages better than the comments rejecting the initial announcement of Dropbox saying no one will need it. I'm afraid that Facebooks best bet to grow even bigger is to try and force themselves in the aspects of our life that are now still mostly "offline". Facebook doesn't have to get everything right from the start it just has to be able to use its resources to outpace the competition.
This. I’ll be the first to signup for the ad free Sony or Microsoft metaverse. I pay for cable and Netflix. I will have no problem paying the equivalent to pop into VR and experience whatever this becomes. My hunch is a hybrid of MUDs, Fortnite, Subreddits, Tinder and Peloton.
A different view: they've lost the narrative and this is a way to reset it. Facebook used to be seen positively by users as it connected the world and brought people together. That's no longer the case. There's been scandal after scandal and users now associate Facebook with all of the negative things Facebook has become.

At this point, they can't win the war on changing people's minds on these issues. So, instead, they need a new narrative to build around. They're ditching the Facebook name and branding, and focusing on a new vision around the Metaverse.

It doesn't matter if this is real or not, or if VR/AR doesn't become the next computing paradigm. The narrative itself is a new, interesting thread to build their brand around.
but the book is like 70% nerdpop references too.
When you have hearing loss you also have decreased loudness threshold levels, which will be freq specific. It is important that you do not exceed these levels, both for comfort and for speech understanding.

hearing loss is far more than just "make it louder".
I wrote this in a previous HN post that talked about Facebook. I sit on the opposite side of the scale: My Facebook account is quite nice; I've got friends from all over the world (I've lived in 7 different cities throughout Europe and the Americas in my 40 years of life) and my Facebook feed/network makes it possible for me to see where are they now, what are they up to, and when one of them has a kid in Serbia, or another has some milestone in Chicago I get to cheer them. The last post was about a cousin that just had his first solo airplane flight! I haven't seen him in like 5 years, but still it is nice to tell him "wow, that's great!".

When people say that their Facebook stream is "very angry", it seems to me that it is mainly a reflection of the network that they happen to be part of.
Exactly. Saddam ruled Iraq with an iron fist and that took a ~20% minority on his side.

Now imagine how small that minority needs to be with modern tech.
biomedical research, but the person I was helping "had written a kernel disk driver for VAX BSD back in the 80s"
and I think they wanted things to more or less stay the same as BSD in the 80s. Which, as far as wishes go, isn't terrible.
Or sign up for mine, How to appear authentic and sincere in your interview.

Because it's easier to learn sincerity and fake it than it is to have an idea that you actually believe in and can support.

Does that sound bitter? It's not meant to.
Mariusclassen/Spiral_dynamics
You are right I missed that. Even worse its like 90% rich people just tooling around in their hobby plane while literally crop dusting the area with poison. Strange how nobody talks about that yet as simple as the solution is.
Hm. I was mostly thinking about Tangherlini relativity. I know him personally and he once talked to me about it, I only got the very basics and then lost him when the math got complicated. It doesn't seem to be in the review.
Sure it would help. Adblockers have had custom filter lists for years. If all you need to do is upload a text file every once in a while, that would go a long way to improving search results in general.
> If and when there’s stagnation there will be no reason to hold crypto over fiat

I would disagree.

Holding Bitcoin and not telling a soul will shield your wealth against quite a few "events" (divorce, bankruptcy, seizure, etc...)

Doing the same with cash involves a shovel, a GPS and very long walks in the wilderness.
Previously on HN: Things Unexpectedly Named After People

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23888725
It won't be that straightforward.

Tether is one head of the snake. As scrutiny increases on USDT, volume will simply shift to USDC and other similarly unaudited stablecoins. These can be issued and adopted faster than regulators can file cases against them.