skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It showed how one should do a systems analysis for a country to understand how one can achieve the change required. I was astonished when I talked to several of the leading people responsible for energy policy in several political parties in my country, to find they really had no clue about what they where doing on a systems level.

Massive +1. And i agree that perhaps "reusing" the book would be useful. E.g. take the key factual approach and update analyses for particular technologies and then plug those together - which to some extent is what the pathway calculator did which is why it is worth trying to get the source for that https://github.com/life-itself/climate/issues/2
greenwald went weird after wikileaks. he went even weirder after Trump. I recall him saying some thing is never expect him to during the Trump years
You seem to be missing this part:

> JIT assumes you have a reasonably stable flow

Covid made nearly every flow unstable.

You can't adapt your production process if there aren't alternative options
I love user scripts. An interesting thing is that Amazon is powered by user scripts - when I was there I used and developed extensions to their atrocious internal ticketing system to make it better for me.

We worked on replacing the authentication layer on a set of APIs at some point, and the project got paused cause an entire group of amazonians was using a (non declared) user script and lost functionality when we started rolling out.
If they were serious about saving the environment and not just doing whatever weird thing it is to demand that people buy fewer phones, they'd be pushing for more clean energy. As countries become richer they pollute less and have the resources to protect themselves from climate change. What is needed is a wealthier world, not a poorer one.
The idea of finally talking to something we’ve been killing for resources for centuries is kinda weird.
Why Many Police Traffic Stops Turn Deadly
There are many (including myself) who worked professionally, and fed ourselves and our families.

I agree with your various comments.

I would consider your teenage experience as experience because you did something, learned from it, and clients paid you (and didn't demand their money back) because you provided them value with your work.

Regardless of whether you consider your teenage time work as "professional experience", you have learned lessons and have built up on that learning.
The locomotive can go either direction. But if burns coal, the tender needs to be next to the firebox. And the fireman needs to be able to attend the fire, which puts him on that side of the engine too.

Why not just put the tender in front? I'm speculating here, but probably due to visibility. To get adequate visibility, you'd have to narrow the tender (reducing capacity).
You can marginalize all stories this way because that’s the core of story writing.

There is always a villain , a protagonist and he goes through challenges to eventually defeat the villain. Finally he is a transformed man and returns home with the riches for society.

Sure there are some that deviate from the traditional plot but only very few of them succeed because to pull that off you have to be a master in story writing.

What makes a story great isn’t its uniqueness regarding the plot but having great character development, dialogue, depth and breadth of the environment, the correct use of things like midpoint, flashbacks, rising action and other devices to keep the audience engaged.

Making sure secondary characters contribute equally and help the protagonist grow is also important.

The truth is that making a great video game is an incredible effort as there needs to be a balance of everything such as great AI, graphics, etc and as I described above good story telling is already a massive undertaking.

Given the above , I’m not surprised many publishers cut corners because they are limited by time and budget
> Continuous launches of huge payloads will increase the material in orbit exponentially.

I don't follow how a linear process would lead to an exponential result, can you please explain?
> One thing that feels a bit strange to me is that he uses timelines of 1000 years when calculating nuclear reserves.

Not really. Uranium and thorium are insanely energy dense and whilst it’s obviously impossible to predict energy use a millenium from now, it could handle more than a couple of centuries of exponential growth of energy consumption. Then there are things like fuels made of natural isotopes (so no enrichment needed) and breeder reactors that can run off fission products (aka “waste”), which are not used much today, but are closer to readiness than things like carbon capture.
Nuclear technology and radiation are not sexy. Formed its image during several long centuries starting its career with mass murder in Japan followed by several high profile accidents and the cold war's arm race, giving birth to the concept of the nuclear apocalypse pictured in popular culture (novels, movies, games). Combined with people being afraid of cancer caused by radiation to their core. It is planted deeply into the human consciousness now. Wind is harmless and clear compared to that.

Try to run a big old truck driver against a cute puppy in a popularity contest, you can be the world champion of PR still you will loose.
Because wealth inequality. Rich people getting richer, putting their money in the bank. GDP grows, but median citizen is losing wealth.
HVDC transmission, pumped storage where the geography allows for it, and grid interconnectors allow for moving power between geographies. Seasonal deltas are solved for with overbuilding renewables and curtailment when there is oversupply.

If nuclear was easy, it’d be done, but it isn’t because it is the more complex, more expensive technology. The sun is free and requires no human management.

I cannot stress enough (as an armchair energy analyst who tracks renewables and energy storage manufacturing and deployment rates) how fast solar PV, wind, and batteries are being deployed.

Keep track at https://www.electricitymap.org
On my stable system, I leave the kernel to the package manager. On my experimental system, I compiled a recent kernel.
> prevent building things by any measure possible

> yawn when we say we can build new things and to wake you up when we have them

These actions aren’t compatible with progress.
You can't deZuck Facebook unless he dies or finds religion or something.

And Facebook has enough money to easily buy out anyone that tries to compete with them.

This has all the characteristics of a "monopoly".
The bar hasn't really moved:

* be cheaper than other reliable sources (never met)

* no waste that takes >100y to decay (never met)

* don't disturb the neighbours (not met reliably)
home loan?
How this compares with xv6 for first OS course purpose? Is it viable to use this to teach the same things? (Paging, inter process communication, threading...)
i don’t need to read the paywalled article to know this
I do see your point, but I still think a standardised way to at least make sure the vendor is aware of the issue would be needed if we're talking about a formal program. Not necessarily holding off publishing to do so though.

But I don't mean to back the side of vendors unduly here...
If you really like TODO's, here is my personal system. I've been trying to expand it but these are the major ones. I do it in a specific way too so that they stand out and i can organize in ascending order:

TODO: --0-- This is my "talk to my lead" todo. If i can't figure something out, or i need clarification on something, i throw this on here. Sometimes I'm able to figure it out later which is why i mark these. But normally they're reserved for further clarification and I'm just going on assumptions until I need that info.

TODO: --1-- This todo is a task that needs to get done or there is something vital and I haven't implemented it or need to figure it out.

TODO: --2-- This todo is the redundant or bad code todo. It works and is like a priority 1, but only when it prevents you from completing another priority 1.

TODO: --3-- This is a "it's not great and I'd like to redo this, but it gets the job done" level. This one was for when i'd have something petty or minor that i know is maybe bad form or inefficient, but i just don't have the time to deploy and test a complex datastructure to it. So what if I have 4 nested for loops. It works and it's reliable and thats all the client needs.

TODO: --4-- This is my wishlist one. Typically I do this more for personal projects, but on occasion at work, I know theres a feature i could implement at some point that could really help out. This usually falls in the category of "if i have absolutely nothing to do." It's just a way to keep ideas somewhere.

I've started to having global todos but I haven't fleshed it out much. Typically i'd throw them at the top of a class or something stating an issue or bug. Haven't really messed with it much but my tiering system has helped tremendously.
Gotta love anti-nuclear folks. They work to hinder nuclear development and then point to the lack of nuclear progress as “evidence” that nuclear is a pipe dream.
Getting rid of parking lots (and the energy- and ressources-hungry individual cars sitting on them) would certainly be a big step forward to a sustainable future.
Back in 2014 this was posted before, so before the first "release" version and when there were external dependencies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566217 (26 comments).
Like John Lennon said, time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted.
As civilization spreads to space, it will be visible.

I'm glad we built cities over pristine nature. Hope we can do the same in space.
Nope) I mean decompiler. Grab dotpeek from Jetbrains and see what I mean.
I’ll refer you to my sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29057596):

> Gotta love anti-nuclear folks. They work to hinder nuclear development and then point to the lack of nuclear progress as “evidence” that nuclear is a pipe dream.
I have no comment about this particular technology and how well it works, but there are already people wired to naturally feel happy or unhappy. Therapy can't change their base state all that much. A hypothetical implant just gives you a choice.
It's easy to be Google free though with the following alternatives:

1. Gmail: Vivadi Mail (free), Fastmail, Protonmail, Tutanota etc. (Best look for an IMAP provider to make migration easy).

2. Google Docs: LibreOffice (if you don't care about collaboration) or MS Office or Pages.

3. Google Search: Create custom search engines on your browser for IMDB, Wikipedia, StackOverfow, Reddit etc etc. And use Yandex for the rest as it conveniently offers a link to resume search with Bing, Yahoo or Google if you are not satisfied with their search result. (Note though that Yandex is just as intrusive as Google, but its biggest plus is that it is a non-US company. A major annoyance with it though is that it often prioritizes Russian language sites).

4. Android: Saifish OS is currently the best, though apps are lacking for it. Otherwise, "Google Free" Android forks are the next best option.

5. Chrome: Firefox (even though it is becoming just as shitty) or its forks. Vivaldi browser is a distant second.
I have mixed feelings about Halloween. On the one hand, it has a great social aspects to it: people get together for carving, there are parties, and kids have so much fun. But the environmental and health sides of it mindboggling. We are completely fine growing so many pumpkins only for them to be carved and thrown away; we buy a ton of costumes that are worn once and go to the landfill; and we buy so many candies a lot of which probably gets thrown (which is probably better than eating them).
You are right, i was thinking of Gen III+ like EPR.
China's reliance on US tech for nuclear is over. Now they're using French tech domestically manufactured for their current gen reactors, and building next gen reactors with their own tech.
In the roaring days of the railroad, most railroads had dispensed with manually shoveling coal out of the tender. They used mechanical stokers to move the coal from the tender to the firebox.
She has entire chapter called "Extracting Value through the Innovation Economy":

* https://cms.marianamazzucato.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/...

I'm not going to try to summarized forty pages of text in an HN comment.
Isn't invalidating the patent one of the defenses you have against a patent troll? If they don't back off you may cost them all future business for that patent. This makes that potentially much more expensive to do.
Sounds like your perspective is that human consumption is fundamentally the problem. Doesn’t this perspective lead to a pretty bleak future?
As far as I can tell, though, it sounds like Yggdrasil is still an overlay network, designed to bridge nodes running Yggdrasil across a network that isn't. I'd want to see that as part of the base network rather than as an overlay.
> Many countries in Europe have 30% or more of their electricity supplied by intermittent but it turns out that the integration problem isn't as difficult as envisaged.

True. It’s very easy when you can tap your neighbour’s power plants when you need. The problem is a bit different when all the neighbours have the same problems at the same time.
I quite enjoyed the story in Cyberpunk 2077. And there was quite a lot of lore to go with the story, so it actually felt like a lived-in world.
Looks like I did misunderstand, I thought they actually meant the silicon technology itself which is now available to the others and they all have designs coming using it.
Exactly. Floating-point numbers cannot represent such numbers without error, yet we still see people asserting that floats represent "the entire real number line." The first format to represent such numbers honestly was the original unum format, where the last bit of the fraction indicates if the number is exact or represents the open interval between exact numbers. Like saying pi is 3.14... means pi is between 3.14 and 3.15, a mathematically honest statement. The presence or absence of "..." as a bit in the number was the main idea behind unum arithmetic.
The anti-nuclear crowd is pretending to be the adult in the room, so let's get some accountability in here. Stopping nuclear energy rollout:

* Did not get rid of nuclear weapons and MAD

* Is directly responsible for putting >100 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere.

This is what "responsibility" looks like, folks!
I've had 2 E3 visas for startups, the process is very simple, and costs about $2500-$3000 total to set up, including hiring an immigration attorney.

I can only speculate that a lot of startups have no idea whats involved since the E3 is a very niche visa type.
How does falcon come into the picture here? Is this structured like a microservice between rest of airbnb and genesys, so that whatever needs to interact with genesys, interacts with this service instead and get a consistent latency?
Star Control II and Alpha Centauri are on par with the best SF books out there. Vernor Vinge quality, I would say.
Owning stock means being responsible for the companies actions, the fact most people want to passively invest is part of the problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

There is a limit to how much we can pollute space.

I personally think we're going to lose space for at least a 1000 years, along with every other disaster this century. It will be for some asinine, short sited reason, i.e., power or money.
The future of cargo cults is now!
In my mind the primary issue is the lack of quality of replication. VR tech is fine, but the quality is just not there. iPhones had a screen quality where you could barely tell there were pixels and eventually got to a high enough quality where no matter how close you looked you couldn’t see the pixels. That is the level of detail needed for VR to be get truly beautiful and our screens and processing power are simply decades away from them, let alone the quality of sound and the other senses.
There are EPR reactors connected to grids:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Other Gen III+ reactors:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novovoronezh_Nuclear_Power_Pla...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_III_reactor#Generat...
Which Version Control System should I choose for a monorepo in 2021?
You could also pre-label any more exotic (type/size) pumpkins.

For that matter, you could pre-label everything outside of a "commodity" which you could segregate. But just weighing seems more straightforward than messing with boxes and seems like it would be a pretty good proxy.
That's fair; I'm mainly looking at this from a western European perspective. If you're from a more southernly country with large unused deserts... that tends to help.
We should probably pick “whoops, our bad” as one of the early translation goals.
My point was that the second version is much easier to read, it’s a lot clearer.
I agree with these points although going back to the grandparent comment, the value of being able to show the source code of a controller with these frameworks by appending a query string is close to zero.
I think in future we have to have a law, every App has to have the option, to show you all what they send in cleartext logfile if you wan't. It can't be, we have just to trust every company in good faith.
>I very much do not want internet service providers or pamphlet printing companies or fast food deliveries to start refusing service to my political opponents vocally advocating for things I consider ethically despicable - that form of exclusion is simply not appropriate, and I would not consider it fair if I was on the receiving end, so what's sauce for goose is sauce for gander.

Why not use this logic to justify buying from a supplier who uses slavery, because what if you were the slaver? Is there anything someone can do to justify another's refusal to buy from them in future? I assume you wouldn't buy from someone who ripped you off somehow; would you consider this to be a moral failing on the part of the seller? Is slavery a moral failing?

>Asking for a proper exclusion of an unliked group or opinion reminds me of all kinds of centuries-old historical issues of boycotting shops because they were ran by [people from the political party hated in this neighbourhood] or [someone who doesn't go to the same church as us] or [this ethnic group with whom we had/have war], which (at least in retrospective)

I don't think "C-suite execs who use slave labour to save a buck" is the sort of protected group that you're invoking here, and IMO comparing them is hideous. You're suggesting that "someone doing something unethical" is the same as "someone doing something I don't like", and therefore boycotting either is essentially the same thing.

>IMHO it's much safer to draw the line at excess inclusion rather than excess exclusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Ah yes, the famous Warren Buffett who forged his own path by shirking his education and investing in meme stocks.
That doesn't makes sense. This is just a piece of hardware and the only way for it to do that is through the driver. But you can easily check it:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/hid/wacom.h
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/hid/wacom_sys.c
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h

If you're using a different driver it is your choice. Wacom does not advertise their support but I bought one and I just had to plug it to make it work. AFAIK, they pay developers to maintain the drivers.

At the least, the title should say it is a specific driver that has such problem.
You're right regarding panniers and bike lock, since I bought them back then... So throw in another 200 $ into the calculation above, but in the grand scheme it's still not that much less cost efficient.

No rail pass needed though, since I can bike across the city comfortably (can reach everything within my social circle in 20-45 mins). In the rare occasion that I really need to take public transport I just buy a single ticket / day pass.
I used to have a small Peugeot 106 back then, but sold it since it was rarely used and the cost was immense compared to what I have to pay for maintaining a bicycle.
The rain coat is huge and protects most of my pants, shoes will get wet, however on rainy days I commute with my red wings boots (which I didn't specifically buy for riding my bike) and even in heavy rain the inside of my shoe stays warm and dry, so a wipe at work is enough to have them dirt free again on the outside.

Obviously cars are more comfortable and have their purpose, especially in rural areas, but claiming that commuting by bike is close in costs is just not true.
And I consider myself the average bike commuter in terms of commute-related spendings, I know some extreme examples of coworkers / friends that ride used 20+ year old bikes with just the basic maintenance (breaks/chain/gear) that spend way less.

I agree that more incentives are always good to bring people out of their cars onto their bikes, but the incentives are already there...the amount of money I spend in the past 8 years commuting by bike is what I had to pay on a single repair of my Peugeot 106. If we add up fuel, insurance, other repairs, tax, parking costs than we're easily talking about a different dimension of costs.
And this is the exact mentality that is antithetical to team based work that is ever so growing nowadays! This is why people who know how to talk and engage are getting jobs and the anti socials are still having trouble getting meaningful employment.
That's true, if the editor supports importing your own color (like syntax highlighting often does) it's not a problem.
Well, that's definitely true of John Carmack's games...
Most americans aren't fit because nutritious food is expensive and more time consuming than sugar food.
macOS does this any time an application "quits unexpectedly". You can Ignore, View Report, Send Report from the dialog.
Chess should be super-easy to use knowledge quickly after acquisition. If it's openings you can play online/against a computer and use them.

If it's mid game it's going to be strategy, you're not going to ever repeat it, so you can apply the strategy in general terms.

If it's endgame then surely you can setup scenarios and play against engines.

Maybe, if it doesn't exist, there's a need for a game engine that will try to do a particular opening to give you practice, will try, say, to fianchetto or castle early (I imagine such settings exist) to allow practicing against those moves?

But, unless you're seriously good can't you get the repetitive practice easily with engines?
No one needs to calm down. The intent was the same. To indicate that any news feed can potentially influence people’s behavior.

You equally took my comment out of context. Maybe you should calm down? :-)
The question is: given that we MUST be reducing our CO2 output extremely quickly (5% a year, equivalent to an additional COVID19 crisis every year), what are the chances for your magical cheap hydrolyzers to 1° be developed 2° be deployed at scale before large parts of the world dive into climatic chaos?

BTW there is a very efficient way to run hydrolyzers at 95%: run them on nuclear power. Problem solved?
are you saying that in reality, as opposed to leftist fantasy world, that the US strikes an appropriate legislative balance between the general benefit of the populace and the desires of the business which operate there?

that...doesn't seem right.
Just to flag that MacKay already estimated (in 2008) a Tesla at 15kwh per 100km (actually better than you have here). See Fig 20.22 on https://climate.lifeitself.us/without-hot-air/chap20/
Oh no I'm not upset at all, in a way I find the idea very cool, adding a dimension to code with a visual indicator is a great idea. But as someone that would be badly affected by it, I'm glad it's not done.