skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant parts about CCS:

For more than two decades politicians, academics and industrialists have promised great things from carbon capture and storage, or CCS. But after years of trial and error and multiple project cancellations due to prohibitive costs, this highly expensive technology stores less than one-tenth of one per cent of global emissions a year. Even JP Morgan in its 2021 annual energy report sarcastically notes that the “highest ratio in the history of science appears to be the number of academic papers written about CCS compared to its real life implementation.”

The energy ecologist Vaclav Smil considers CCS a ridiculous endeavour because it will never scale up fast enough to make a dent in global emissions. The global economy now produces about 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. Tackling 10 per cent of that problem (roughly four billion tonnes) would require the same infrastructure that now supports the entire global oil industry, which produces four billion tonnes of oil a year.

Like carbon capture and storage, direct air capture doesn’t scale up very well. Researchers recently calculated that if the world deployed direct air capture using a chemical reaction that relies on caustic soda to break down CO2 emissions to water and sodium carbonate, it would require a new mining industry.

Just to capture 25 per cent of global emissions, it would need a system of extracting caustic soda that is 20 to 40 times greater than current global production. And this system would consume 15 to 24 per cent of the world’s primary energy spending to get the job done.

The technology also has a big footprint. An industrial factory, powered by natural gas and capable of removing just one billion tonnes of carbon out of the 37 billion tonnes emitted per year, would occupy an area five times greater than Los Angeles. If powered by solar energy such a factory would require a landmass 10 times greater than Delaware.

In other words don’t expect a direct air capture unit in your backyard soon. One group of researchers concluded that the technology “is unfortunately an energetically and financially costly distraction in effective mitigation of climate changes at a meaningful scale.” Another recent study concluded that carbon capture and storage and direct air capture projects emit more carbon than they remove or store.
TBF, Ohio is an odd duck. Even if we follow GP's advice and split the midwest into plains and lakes, Ohio has both. Except the east, which is more like West Virginia. Ohio is kind of a West Virmichigiana.

I'd argue for adding Appalachia, rounding us out to three "not just one midwest" categories: plains, lakes, and sandstone/coal seams.

Ohio is, I think, the only state that would fall right smack dab in the middle of all 3 new sub-midwests!

So, to be fair to your autistic interloctuor, Ohio is uniquely difficult to type :)
i moved to the midwest from the san fran bay area. i could not have imagined it. people from the coast think they know but they dont know. coastal people have absolutely no idea about the midwest. like this guy says, if you tell a coastie some midwestern city or state they just stare blankly. two minutes later they will refer to your city/state again but mix it up with some other cliche midwestern city/state.

the experience of living in this place and sharing a house with natives has been mind bending. i have been to a dozen countries and these people are less like me than any other people i have met. it really makes you see how there are so many things that we take for granted that are really totally invaluable triumphs of cultural curation and accumulation. there are sensibilities that simply dont exist here and you didnt even realize that these things were sensibilities at all or that a person could not have them. there are so many gears and cogs that are essential to a good quality of life and a civilized standard of living that are invisible and whos names arent in the lexicon. to see a place like this is to see those pieces finally, through their absence. i really believe that raising a child in the midwest is form of child abuse.

many of these places are in need of nothing besides more intelligent people. they just suffer from poor planning, a lack of intellectual rigor within public institutions... if a bunch of coastal people would just come back then these midwestern cities would be the best cities in the country without a doubt. but its still a great choice if you just want an affordable place to escape to that has a functional economy/society.
Not necessarily - one of the proposed use cases for SVBR-100, soviet/russian SMR design, back in 1995 was to provide small power plant distributed to cities or industrial areas, providing 100MWe power or combined heating and electricity. They would compete directly with still common metropolitan power plants, especially CHP in cities with municipal heating.

One of the main issues of the design was that we simply do not produce enough bismuth for the lead-bismuth coolant, and lead-only variant was iirc more problematic due to higher operating temperature. The lead-bismuth design was tested for mnay years as submarine reactor.
> Instead of a definition of equity that raises the floor (a rising tide floats all boats), we’ve adopted a definition that institutes a ceiling on achievement: if everyone can’t have it, no one can have it. We’ve adopted the philosophy of a petulant grade school bully. This is an unfortunate trend across the country, but it really feels like California and the Bay Area specifically are at the bleeding edge of this philosophy.

The cancelling of gifted programs across the countries sure seems like this. The easy way to achieve equality is to make like shitty for everyone.
Reducing growth will reduce emissions; however Carbon pricing, reducing methane, and carbon removal will have the most impact on reducing future warming according to the En-ROADS model by MIT [1].

Although the political influence and PR of incumbent extractive industries is overwhelming, how we talk about climate change in the face of manipulation vs choosing strategies that will have the most significant impacts are different things. We shouldn't let the presence of PR prevent the promotion of effective solutions, especially when current political realities makes the ability to make changes to society very tenuous.

Based on this model, my opinion is that technology is part of the solution to climate change. Degrowth can be part of the solution, but it doesn't necessarily need to be. Perhaps MIT is wrong or has made invalid assumptions, this may be the case, but we can only make decisions based on models, and we have to choose the models we think are valid and use them to focus on what we can promote. I think carbon pricing and carbon removal are possible for society to undertake, I think degrowth will be a hard sell.

[1] https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html
Apple TV+ also lets you stream through a web browser, though that's their least-publicized delivery method.
>There is a large encampment two blocks from our house. Multiple times, homessless folks have slept or showered in our driveway.

I feel the same way about Los Angeles. What once was a funky chill city, has rapidly turned into a massive homeless encampment. When watching recent shows based in LA I've never seen a tent on the sidewalk. So you have a fantasy which gets broadcasted.

You can either complain or leave.

Since I've left LA every aspect of my life has been outrageously great. Had a girlfriend within a month , cut my living expenses by a 1/3rd. I haven't owned a car in years !

I think people get too attached to defending the idea of their hometown. I know the LA I loved is long gone.

But life moves on, I had to estrange myself from much of my family to move, but frankly a life in LA isn't much of a life.

I do enjoy reading these articles, no matter how liberal you are you get sick of homeless people commiting various crimes without consequences. You get sick of paying 10% in state income tax for practically nothing.
An uber driver is not a bullshit job as defined by Graeber (and most certainly NOT a term to define a job that has not yet been automated). It's a shit job, but not a bullshit job. Short of reading the book, this is a good primer: https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/
The one on Newbury St. in Boston is open. Just bought some pens the other day!
> If demand goes down for BTC the price will go down.

Indeed. What may be missing from your model is that demand for BTC comes not just from people buying it, but from people holding it.

> BTC needs a constant infusion of new investment to keep the price up.

No it doesn't. Why do you say this? Where the market clears has essentially nothing to do with "new investment".
> I'd love to see centurylink/lumen go bust, lose everything, and local governments take over their facilities. Every last employee forced to find other employment. Every last facility auctioned to another smaller regional provider.

> Hatred is too weak a word for the feelings I have toward that hellish pit of misery and stupidity.

> They should not exist.

What? They provide good service, their tech staff are union, and they charge less than Comcast, who had a monopoly in my area for a decade. Could you provide any details to support your extreme emotional reactions to this company?
I used to play WOW until I realised what I was doing. I still remember the day I quit because I was supposed to show up for some massive raid and just didn’t. I have not logged in since.

The whole MMO and Freemium space is a bit grim if you ask me since you are essentially manipulating the feelings of players with no worthwhile rewards.

I think this is why I have gravitated heavily to board games. You meet up once a week or so. Play against real humans. No grind. And they can help sharpen your thinking.
> At a FAANG++ company, you get your first code checked in in your first week, but it takes a YEAR to be truly productive where you are fully autonomous, and have paid off the initial ramp-up period.

I work at one of the FAANGs, and have found this to be 100% untrue. I was fully productive within a week, because I was already an SME in what the team was doing. Likewise, everyone hired on the same team have also been immediately productive. Perhaps it's years of consulting experience (where immediate productivity is expected in hours, regardless of environment), but that is not an uncommon path.

You absolutely do not owe companies loyalty. The same will not be displayed to you when "tough times" hit those companies. Trying to divert from this truism with "startup ethos" or similar such woo is not useful to the majority of people.
Soviet news at the time was actually much more accurate than the USA. In the New York Times about half of the things would be true and the other half false. However, if you simply believed the opposite of what Izvestia said on a given issue you would always have the truth.
I wonder what will happen with the game franchise. For a lot of folks his name is synonymous with NFL gaming.
In the exact same position.

Live in Canada making $200k. After taxes and pension that's $123k, because I'm self employed.

After living expenses I have 90k left.

To buy a house without a loan (religiously I don't do loans with interest.)

That's 1.2M for a bungalow (that I don't even want for 400k.)

1.2M / 90k is 13 times my annual savings rate.

Not to mention lack of infrastructure, the mathematical impossibility of the economic system and a Healthcare system that cannot withstand the demographic pressure incoming. There's serious risk and uncertainty for debt ridden Canada. I don't care what anyone says. The future looks unreliable for this country.

Living standards have depreciated sustaintally. My income has tripled, but real estate purchasing power is a third of what it was 10 years ago.

I want to move back to the middle east, but people think I'm crazy. I think they're crazy.

TLDR; most in Canada became rich based on debt + assets, not labor, they prefer the status quo. The parasite is killing the host.
I stupidly “rented” a copy of Apollo 13 for $3.99 and being a long movie fell asleep halfway through. I came back to watch it a few days later and found the rental had “expired” in 2-3
days and was required to pay again to continue watching.

Sometimes I think these people
live in an alternate universe. last time I did that.
A huge amount of automation goes into cooking a decent hamburger, stocking store shelves, and snaking a toilet, mind you.

I'm not sure id consider those basic, either. A toddler couldn't do any of them
I was originally a developer from Des Moines, IA. Moving to Boston, and Los Angeles after that I was surprised to learn one of the early real time operating systems, called os9, came from a company from Des Moines in the 80's. That OS was used on the original generations of ATM machines deployed world wide. I worked on early real time streaming during the early 90's in Los Angeles, and Des Moines was one of the better places for locating experienced real time developers. A while ago I heard Iowa in general and Omaha, NE have growing tech hubs.
Chromecast is better, even if it didn't integrate multiple streaming services.

It would be trivial for Netflix to show imdb/rotten tomato scores, but they don't want you to easily see the masses of mediocrity in their selection.
I just looked up a youtube video about Axie and it seems this is already happening lol

https://youtu.be/xKgV4V0aq7M?t=328
The obvious explanation would be that expensive cities are more desirable to live in and thus see both higher property values and more homeless.

Having spoken to a number of homeless folks, a common pattern is that they really aren’t interested in housing. If you have no dependents, would you rather spend your life a slave to the capitalist corporation/mortgage/property-tax/landlord complex, or just camp out in an area with nice weather year-round, in a community of like-minded people, doing whatever suits your fancy?
I wish you to show more respect toward people who are concerned with freedom and importance of freedom to use their own devices. At least they should not be treated with less respect than people from Apple who's decisions are protected by you in every opportunity so far while in my opinion their decision to keep devices hooked to them keep owners as hostages as correctly was noted in the parent post . It is hard to understand why you are ready to attack people advocating for the freedom of the owner (including your freedom) while you are extremely polite toward Apple people and their decisions in the same time even if those decisions are obviously made not in favor of the owner.

>and the people who write them invariably refuse to listen to any explanation ...

Actually I was listening very carefully and I was ready to continue listening even after you've took discussion toward being personal and disrespectful ( let's assume by mistake/misunderstanding)[1].
Due to my forgiving nature I even tried not to take personally what you wrote because all people can make mistakes with the hope that you can also forgive to other people certain mistakes and keep being respectful. I even apologized in details for my possible misuse of English words to make it easier for you to continue[2].

Still you didn't provide your arguments even after apology and it's hard to listen when arguments are not delivered.

I prefer to give people chance to fix their possible mistake before attacking them and I hope you can do the same. I hope that I didn't waste my time second time.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29691816
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29693634
The only reason one needs enriched uranium is because of political pressure from nuclear-armed countries to both force everyone to use reactors that require enrichment and take control of availability of enriched fuel.

NPT with annexes is already plenty enough to prevent hidden repurposing of waste into weapons, it just doesn't fit American immediate econopolitical wants.
There are millions of people who are not in poverty right now because these fuels are being used. What you’re suggesting will immediately put them back into poverty. A lot of them will probably die of starvation and disease. I don’t think they’ll go down without a fight.
Legend. Don't think I'd love football nearly as much as I do if he wasn't around calling games when I was a kid. He had an infectious love for the game. The game lost a lot of its appeal when he stopped broadcasting.
Hi, I'm calling BS on your reply.

One of the authors (Karen Sun) is the CTO of a tech company.

Also I had the chance of working with her (for her, really) and I can tell you that A) she's definitely an engineer and B) she knows her way around code and stuff.
Yeah, I completely agree.
This sounds like what I was originally getting at.

Interesting that you like a 'special' (ie., not vanilla symmetric cheap'n'cheerful thing) mouse. I have not yet figured out (after [mumble] years) whether I want a keyboard/mouse setup that fits like a custom glove (the perfect mouse, the perfect keyboard with the perfect layout (colemak or some such), foot pedals for the shift keys, etc (haven't tried that, yet)) or a setup that I can make work for me at any kiosk... or some middle position between those two. Currently I'm at "make it work".
I'm pretty sure the effect was temporary and he had to do it a second time. It's very important to note that this research is still very new and he was lucky that his genetic code was prime for that test. (I'm not against bio hackers btw. I think they provide a very good service though obviously more risky. No problems when that risk is on yourself but just trying to say "don't try this at home").
There are likely real hardware limits on consumer oriented Internet access gear. Some Googling suggests they may hardware accelerate NAT and I'm sure there are limits on the number of NAT entries that fit in the Broadcom memory.
ONTs have to be very cheap, think $100 or less, and there's a lot of functionality in there. If you need beyond consumer functions you may need to upgrade to business service or similar.
Well, now you're just making things up because everyone knows that San Francisco isn't livable for anyone.
Really? HDCP 2.2? I'm not aware of any of those except for the HDFury products with a custom firmware.

Any links to examples? Are you sure you're thinking 2.2 and not 1.4?
Or you have the reverse issue, where the child is abusive. I watched my step son berate his mom for almost a decade before she finally was able to end the toxic relationship and cut him off for good.

He was completely spoiled, was never physically or emotionally abused (he did most of the verbal abusing, often calling my wife a terrible mom, an abusive mom, worthless, useless, stupid, etc...). He also often physically tried to abuse his younger brother (my other step son).

If you asked him today why he is estranged with his mom, he would tell you his mom is an awful abusive parent who never loved him and was the cause of all the issues. My wife and I know that he is just a toxic kid who never wanted to grow up (now 20, not in college, no job, his dad pays for everything so he can play video games 24/7).

I think there are gonna be as many situations and nuances as there are people here.
EA will keep his name and they'll continue to make a boatload of money with each yearly release while making the minimum amount of fan-requested changes with the least effort possible.
I'm pretty sure he had a second video on how the effects started to ware off.
Telestrator
If this is really about some pieces of furniture, maybe honest misunderstanding that blew up?

After the passing of a grandparent I took some items home that I thought I was saving from being thrown out with the trash, but it turned out a sibling really wanted them and felt wronged that I had taken them without their approval.

I think GP's situation is more serious than this, but in some cases maybe honest misunderstandings plus digging in heels causes some unnecessary grief.
You forgot dashcam videos. One of Russia's rare non-resource exports where they have a dominant market position world wide /s
CenturyLink is pretty antagonistic too. I had to go directly to the North American COO (who happened to live here in Atlanta where I live) to get them to finally finish a fiber deployment that was scheduled for 9 months, and wound up taking 21 months. $7k/month and a 5 year committment for the build out, they dragged their feet and gave me the runaround for nearly two years.
I find myself happy in asceticism too. I've seen a few discords about different topics and crowds and I found no better organizational improvement, or even communication. It's no study, just a feel (don't hit me) but you'd expect a vague tangible sensation, but I saw the same exact medium level convos you'd find elsewhere.

I've been more enthralled by dusty mailing list threads. Oh and to illustrate my point, good old c2 wiki had infinitely more value than discord ever had, even though it provided near nothing beside text edits.
This device doesn't NAT so it doesn't need to track connections. Removing this "DOS prevention" feature would make the device cheaper.
Maybe it's a better idea to release massive amounts of N2 and O2 rather than chasing a 100ppm of CO2 here and there.

In, like, setting up petawatts of nuclear electrolysing plants that will split seawater into H2 and O2, where the gases will dilute the atmosphere enough that CO2 levels drop.

This harebrained idea is on par with those CCS projects, but has the nice side effect that the nukes can sometime later be repurposed to more useful things.
I think what you call "the answer" is almost definitely going to lead to future large wars. What it really requires is either all nations, at the same time, agreeing to just stop doing things that give them an advantage, or to have people (correctly) view other nations lack of care with regard to the environment as actively hurting them and their future, and be willing to take action over that.

I think people trying to find anything possible to avoid or alleviate that issue perhaps deserve a bit more consideration of their position and reasoning. Because the U.S, Europe, China and India and Pakistan have a lot of people to prioritize over the rest of the world, and how they decide if and when to adopt provisions may be different than other nations, but they have just as big of sticks to try to protect what they see as their own best course of action.
Yeah but it’s way more expensive (in the short term) than doing nothing…
This is a sensitive one that I've been claiming since November when South Africa responded to the UK blocking flights from there:

Omicron could be the best thing that happened, relative to the current situation ( delta at the time and multiple countries were having a lot of cases of delta).

Currently both of the "best possible scenarios" are happening but need further data.

- less severity and less hospital duration

- replaces delta

The big downside is the stress on first line workers ( eg. Doctors)
If the attacker only got a hold of password hashes or something, then it's true that they'll only be crack a limited amount. However, if that were the case you'd expect the people with easy passwords to get hit first, because an attacker would presumably go through the common words in the wordlist before the uncommon words, and finally a brute force search. Doing attacks in this manner would maxitimize the speed at which you gain access to accounts. However, this doesn't seem to be the case? You'd expect all the people with easy passwords "p4ssw0rd" or whatever to fall first, and in great numbers. This doesn't seem to be the case because many people seem to be swearing their passwords were unique/secure.

If the attacker got a hold of the raw passwords, then the speed of compromise could be easily thousands of accounts per hour. Just set up a bunch of TOR clients and bruteforce over that, or pay $10 for a few leaked VPN account credentials.
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