skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bans such as these are for new construction, which as anyone who's been following house asset bubble inflation, housing crisis, homelessness, and home-affordability news over the past decade or five is aware is at dismally low rates.

Quebec 2020 new housing starts were 619k, 2016 census reports 3,531,660 units. That is, 17% or less of housing is new construction in any given year. (Not all housing starts finish.)

Starts: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a1361030-c554-4bf1-83...)

2106 Census, Households: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/hl...

That is, a new-construction regulation will slowly phase out gas usage over time, and phase in additional all-electric homes (already a large fraction of all homes in Canada as TFA notes).

Issues, reliability, and mitigations (e.g., alternative emergency heating and cooking accomodations) can be assessed and developed as the plan proceeds.

People worldwide will have to transition off fossil fuels, and the only way to accomplish this will be through regulatory action.
I co-founded a company in 2006 which intended to do something very similar to this. We ran out of money when the economy collapsed in 2008. I’m still passionate about the idea, but it’s high-risk for a private corporation in the US to pull off.
Afaik this prescreen questionnaire is there bc it was statistically determined it fairs better than a resume screen at selecting candidates that would pass subsequent interviews
> By "way over the top" I meant that your analogy was excessive and distracting.

Nope, it wasn't. See my sibling response to random314.

Just because others cried wolf before, doesn't mean you shouldn't cry wolf when you see one. Indeed you must, given the parent post (detached now, context lost). I didn't draw that analogy out of nowhere – it's apt, and driven by both hard data and curiosity.

Choosing to ignore your "this should not be hard to understand" and "everyone knows" snarks.
Funny that one of the most successful decentralised technologies (torrents) has no token for incentives.
Yes, this is slow because of how many database roundtrips the author is doing:

@before_test
def clean_session:
for table in all_tables():
db.session.execute("truncate %s;" % table.name)
db.session.commit()
return db.session

But if you instead modify your before_suite (not before_test) flow to dynamically query the table names and subsequently create/update a stored procedure in the database that has your truncate queries in it:

delimiter //
create procedure truncate_tables()
begin
truncate table1;
truncate table2;
truncate table3;
truncate table4;
...etc...
end
delimiter ;

and then calling `db.session.execute("call truncate_tables()")` ONCE in your before_test instead, it will be orders of magnitudes faster.

I improved the test suite speed 15x at my previous job with this approach. We had a lot of tests and a lot of tables. O(n^2) to O(n)... :)
Nuclear can be built anywhere and can provide power at any time. What renewable has these properties?
That is a bridge too far for me. I am going to assume the SEC published numbers have some resemblance to reality.
"Ironic" is often used to mean "coincidental" these days. It seems few know what irony truly is.
> until we’ve averted the upcoming climate disaster

Realistically, not going to happen. We might be able to mitigate it, but not avert it.
The best strategy is to plan it live with it rather than trying to avert it.
Actually there's a reason beyond stupidity and conspiracy for things going the way they did. It is very easy to make simple things simple, but by doing that you will likely turn complex things even more complex.

The first example shows a video-poker-like game implemented in 98 lines. You can get close to that with processing or lazarus-ide. Now try to do that so you can play on-line, using the browser, with multiple people at the same time, storing score, records, with login, a network of friends, authentication... You'll end up seeing that node developers and users are neither stupid nor conspiracists.
Not really true - France was the loudest voice but they were representing a lot of other EU countries. E.g. Slovakia (50% nuclear today, 70% nuclear production next year) was also a big proponent, or Czech republic...
Are we really downplaying being an L8 at Google now?
Is there a claim in my post you're trying to refute? I didn't see any.

Your original post was inaccurate at least in this point:

> We all had to take iodine pills for long time.

Now lets make a claim - living in high background radiation city in Poland is much worse than Chernobyl exposure even if we look at 1 year period.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16575762/

In Poland the mean effective equivalent dose resulting from Chernobyl accident was 932 microSv and is close to the limited dose permitted in Poland, equalling 1 mSv/year.

So according to original article I cited (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526327/) living in Jelenia Góra (4.75mSv/year) with high background radiation is ~3 Chernobyl doses per year every year vs living in Świnoujście (1.06mSv/year).
Yes, completely glossing over the usefulness of digital-native money: instant, verifiable transactions from anywhere in the world, programmable money and low fees.

Oh, and how it disrupts the remittances industry, something extremely useful to vulnerable communities with families abroad.

I agree that Web3 is mostly a grift, but cryptocurrencies are quite useful already.
I've been arguing for a number of years now that one of the biggest impacts of switching off fossil fuels will be the mirror of what switching on to them resulted in: complete transformation of the built landscape, land-use patterns, construction, and transportation behaviours.

Passivhaus and similar locale-aware construction methods would be an excellent adaptation.
For those that are curious, this article is more about the differences in pronunciation, as opposed to the differences in spelling.

The former is more nuanced than the latter.

Interesting piece - particularly for those of us British English speakers travelling to the US for the first time.
Sure yeah. The politics of that (i.e. pretty much everyone seeing massive increases in their heating, electricity and fuel costs) would lead to a backlash and actually lead to less action over the longer term.

That's the theory anyway, and if we look at what happened in France with fuel taxes, it seems pretty plausible to me.
That's brilliant, and so funny because it's true.

I've been wondering why we haven't really had any advances in our voice commands for nearly a decade - things like zooming and such are actions I've long wanted to be able to perform.

Even that rotate map.. when your car is shown at the bottom and map is hard locked to current heading, when navigation is about to do a sharp right you end up with zero visibility of the rest of the route as they still haven't bothered doing a projection and modifying rotation dynamically - they're not even trying.

All your examples are exactly the kinds of things that an intelligent system should be able to respond to, in order to be useful.

Getting that haircut ordered is the _last_ thing we need.
But the Chinese government has considerable leverage over Walmart, and can probably pressure them to back down. From the article:

> "China is home to 434 Walmart and Sam’s Club stores, covering more than 69 million square feet, as of the end of January 2021, making the country Walmart’s second-largest international market by retail square footage"
So you say an oil tank burned hmmm... Yeat another argument to ditch fossil fuels completely.
I don't see how this follows what I said in the slightest...
Very good news!

We need to build fast breeder reactors which burns up the nuclear waste that we have created through older reactors. Ie in normal nuclear reactirs only about 1% of nuclear fuel is converted into energy, the rest is waste. Breeder reactors can take the nuclear waste and convert it into useful energy.

BioGas which is methane gas extracted from waste is also very green.

Fast Breeder Reactor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor

Nuclear reaction is naturally occurring in nature:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
Google has two kinds of sres - the one you describe and just swes that are assigned to sre department that mainly write code.
The Crawford Principles
Fossil fuels carry massive externalties in both production and consumption which are not accounted for by the market. Since the market won't naturally incorporate full costs, other mechansims for imposing those costs, or otherwise manipulating behaviour, must be utilised.

The answer to all market failures is not in fact market-it-harder.
Technically it shdnt. Just imagine you send your oil to another country to produce stuff for you, should the carbon emission for that be counted for country A or B? I think clearly country A. Now what if the oil doesn't come from country A but is bought from the money for the goods from country C. Well, technically you shdnt attribute it to country B. Either A or C.
Hobbies need to have the right amount of challenge and surprise, and usually also be intrinsically pleasant, though that is less important. Shopping at a grocery store generally has none of those things. Mushroom hunting has all of them, at least if you don't get poisoned.

(I haven't been in many years, but I remember it as the real-life experience most similar to playing Minetest, only more beautiful.)
BGP is about routing IP packets, not name resolution. In practice IPFS and your blockchain of choice will need IP connectivity.
Say what you want but The Hustle newsletter is great, it is one of the most well known business newsletters in the startup world.
There is barely a week that goes by that I don’t start off with a good idea but halfway through I realize I’ve taken a wrong turn or bitten off the wrong chunk first. If it weren’t for git or more frequently Jetbrain’s local history, my output would be lower quality.

And what the Mikado Method teaches us is that when a refactoring gets out of hand, there’s a much smaller refactor hiding inside it waiting to get out. Erosion history is both a blessing and a curse here, but generally there are bits you can salvage without falling into Sunk Cost.
Perhaps the Antarctic wouldn’t currently be very welcoming:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59848160
I answered that indirectly. The point is that yes, services offered, both in time and manner, will vary by an individual's insurance status, coverage, and provider.
Insurance companies aren't stupid. Why do they put up with it?

They could e.g. force hospitals to publish pricing information so that it becomes common knowledge and a market is created with accurate pricing.

Or offer to replace overpriced medical supplies used by doctors on their own, which they acquire separately from the manufacturer and in bulk.

Or - worst-case - start buying hospital stock at up to 2x market value so the profits accrue to them, and use investor pressure to start replacing hospital administrators with their own efficient bean counters.

These are public companies, if they could get that 3% quarterly growth cutting costs from somebody "milking" them, why isn't that priority #1?
It is a lot of code for just that.
I’m in favor of the eventual phase out of nuclear fission power but we have to be pragmatic about the situation we are in.

Reaching 1.5 degrees of warming is all but impossible by now because we’ve waited too long. We no longer have the luxury of making choices between approaches. By now we have to do everything we can, and doing so we will still fall short. There’s a nuclear industry ready and willing to be a part of the (temporary) solution, and that’s why the IPCC’s evaluation a few years ago of 85 plans to reach 1.5 degrees of warming noted that nearly all involve nuclear energy and on average a doubling of the nuclear energy share to around 5%. Since that report we are even further from where we need to be. So we need to put the nuclear industry to work and I think everyone looking at the climate crisis pragmatically can see that this is necessary.

Other pragmatic choices are replacing coal with gas in the short term (because it can be built rapidly and produces far less emissions) and globally outlawing proof of work crypto.
Yes, Dockerfiles usually set up an environment suitable for certain tasks.

So instead of using debian:11-slim as I propose, one could use a Dockerfile made for Django. But that would help very little. Django even abandoned their official Dockerfile because it brings so little to the table.

In my opinion, using a higher level Dockerfile than the bare OS is a net negative. The developer won't know how much magic it hides. Even though it just hides a few lines of code. And being higher up in the stack also means stuff will break more often and the scripts need to be updated more often.
checks map. I live within 10k of a nuke. Never really think about it tbh. Happy to take more nukes over global warming, though more wind/solar plus storage would beat either, so whatever works really.

Calling gas green though? Screw that, unless it's got 100 percent carbon capture or something.
Love these abstractions of HN flamewar threads, it reminds me how me little information gain there is over time. Here is one of my all-time favourites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23003595
I guess it's "expected" because q4 numbers are only a projection
The best strategy is to stop CO2 emissions as fast as possible. We already did enough damage that we'll need mitigation strategies in the future, every ton of CO2 we add to the atmosphere makes mitigation more expensive. Climate change is not some binary thing which you either prevent completely or don't. It just gets worse and worse proportional to how long we keep burning fossil fuels.
> At this moment I'd like to be careful and distinguish between

between a technicality (that I'm not even sure I agree with, hashing is still hashing also if you do it a million times) and what the people you're replying to were talking about. Sure, if you ignore what the topic was above then you can indeed say that nobody was trying to avoid doing hashing.
> It’s not ok to call gas “green”. Period.

And as helpfully explained by the top post you are replying to nobody does that.

It is labeled as a useful transitional tool towards green energy (when obeying lots of additional restrictions) and thus deemed eligible for subsidies/investment.
The headline shortens "eligible for subsidies/investment aimed at promoting green energy, but only if meeting lots of other requirements and ..." to "green".
There are a lot of things that we as a species have gotten wrong and are not worth preserving.

There are a lot of things that we as a species have gotten right and are worth preserving.

In the words of Prof. Brian Cox, it would be a tragedy if Earth is the only place in the galaxy where consciousness exists, and it would be wiped out by an asteroid.
That's a feature to draw in more bag holders. The closer you look the more its value disappears.
I felt the same way… it’s arguing that cryptocurrency is not decentralized because there’s a general consensus on the protocol?

By that measure, parent comment is right, IP isn’t decentralized either because we agreed on it?
I never said I live in the woods.
This is all possible today, no web3 required. Logins with client certificates were solved decades ago and "owning" items digitally is something many services can do for you, see Steam, Amazon Video, Apple iTunes etc. To get those services to give up control and put all their things into web3 is a pipedream.
I'll note that there are many critical reviews of Chan & Ridley to be found from left-leaning, liberal, and environmentally conscientious publications.

The Telegraph does not generally meet these descriptions, and has a conservative political orientation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph#Political_...
Even for the rich, there are benefits to living in a society that treats workers well.
The author doesn't understand the primary goal. It's precisely to have global consensus that proceeds according to its logic - so if you own something it can't be taken away from you. Everyone running their own private blockchains isn't decentralization, it's federalization. In the internet context, we know exactly how it would look like - initially an ecosystem of independent forums, each a fiefdom of the moderating caste, or subreddits on an alternative reddit that doesn't have global administration.

Network effects would inevitably concentrate most activity to few hubs (which is how we ended with facebook, reddit, and twitter consuming the old internet of phpbb forums). Except instead of posts, now the new powers-that-be would have absolute control over people's wealth. What he in effect, unintentionally, proposes, is to give the equivalent of facebook absolute control over people's wealth.

In fact facebook itself tried exactly that with Libra - but fortunately got shut down by governments.

Honestly, I would prefer a state-run blockchain over the inevitable final form of his proposal. At least it would be regulated by actual laws instead of T&C that give the company near absolute power.

There were crypto experiments of this type, most notably EOS. They had their own 'court' that ended up blacklisting dozens of addresses based on weak claims of theft. Eventually all DPoS networks are going to decay to something like that - because with just few publicly known validators escaping legal liability for not enforcing confiscation and freeze orders from real world courts is impossible.

The scalability argument is true in isolation - everyone agrees it's currently a problem, but has nothing to do with centralization or not.
A flip argument.

By that token -- if you advocate of, for example, EVs then I trust you'll be more than happy to move to an area where the freshwater has been diverted to support lithium extraction. Or if you're a fan of solar power, you'd be delighted to send your kids off to the DRC to work in a cobalt mine.
A market with federal intervention in the form of implicitly guaranteed 30 year mortgages and toll free highways.
The pilots haven't been identified so we don't know about their cultural background
Not directly related but I find it hard to understand this chip shortage issue. Is there an excessive demand in certain newer 5nm chip making Fabs or across the board?

Was the shortage actually caused by AMD and ARM chips becoming more popular and as a result the Intel load shifted to TSMC? And does this mean that the Intel plants are idle right now?
A lot of that pollution is due to cars.
Vitalik Buterin on different axes of centralization:

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentrali...

>>Ethereum is only decentralized in the way that doesn't matter — you're free to join the decentralized system, under the condition that you act in the exact same way as every other actor in that system.

This is centralization of logic, that establishes uniformity of the protocol, but it is a decentralized configuration of power, where every party is subject to the same rules for accessing the blockchain.

Fees are a limiting factor, but all data is treated the same with respect to fee calculation, irrespective of who submits it for inclusion in the blockchain.
That is not exclusiv to web3 and is not new.

If I buy a house, I can take a credit on that house.

If I bought some stock, banks will let me take a loan on them afaik.

I can also borrow some money and choose something expensive that I own for a collateral.

Maybe crypto makes the last one easier, but then it will lead to a lot of fraud, because veryifing that the item I set as collateral is the difficult and expensive part.
> You started with an ad-hominem attack.

Where?

> And you just made a new claim with 0 backing in numbers.

which claim?
Decide for yourself: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dcs+developer+arrested
These type of articles always lack a definition of what is decentralization!
You can't evaluate a system if you don't define your metrics well
Nintendo is still, at its core, a playing card company.

Having family friends as a kid who went to Japan on occasion, I ended up with many Nintendo-made trump card decks that featured, among other things, Mario, Pokemon, and at one point, a JAL-branded one while growing up.

I don't know if the current Club Nintendo trump decks are made by them, but I can tell you that if you run into a Nintendo-branded Hanafuda set, it's probably legit.
> smallpox

Could have be been classified as an endemic disease in many areas and not a pandemic.
> Types like struct <'a,'b,'c,'d> are not for storing data, but are temporary views into data stored elsewhere.

Thanks. As someone that still has a hard time with appreciating the complexity of Rust and its lifetimes, this explanation of yours is illuminating and should be prominently featured in the documentation. It makes a lot of sense and answers a lot of doubts I had.
I'm also concerned about asteroids that are not big enough to wipe out the dinosaurs, but big enough to kill a few million people. Those are a lot harder to detect.
This time last year my wife, a nurse here in the UK, had already had her first shot of the Pfizer vaccine.
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This is not unusual. Perhaps the difficulties of you and the other ancestor commenters in discriminating colors (and other visual phenomena), have made you compensate by becoming better at these tasks than average (and better than the test expects you to be), maybe by recognizing and amplifying other visual cues.

There's plenty of examples of people respond to adversity/different-ability level in a domain by deliberately developing super competence. Childhood asthma sufferers who became competition swimmers, is one.
Oh nice ! Thank you :)

For subways, it looks like it’s limited to Paris but trains seems to be shown all across the country.
This is 100% true but even worse I think; a lot of people talk about blockchain being censorship-resistant... But what if Intel/AMD/Apple/NVIDIA are forced to have hardware blocks for specific wallet addresses for instance?
Show HN: Distributed – How remote teams stay in sync
Would a Chinese one do?
I would suspect that post-edits are stored as deltas instead of overwriting originals anyway, so not much point randomizing them if you don't trust the company to delete accounts. On a system I worked on every comment (or comment update) was a unique event. Only the latest was kept for immediate retrieval but I could pull up all events from cold storage if needed for special purposes.
I don't know how you got to this being used for an app, but in most cases users will just be using a normal web browser and they will be requesting those resources (perhaps with etag/if-modified-since) on each request.
Wild to think that someone who reads C++ all day would wince at written profanity
Walmart doesn't have a choice -- they're only doing this because of recently passed legislation. Did you think they made this drastic move out of the goodness of their hearts?

You can bet their lobbyists are already working overtime to have the legislation repealed or watered-down, though.
This isn't about saying a director is a 1 of 1 position, it's not.

But there are orders of magnitude fewer people are hired yearly into director positions than something like an L5.

So the expectation is past a point you're not going to reach out to someone and waste their time like this.

-

Also a manager of managers is plenty high, some places are just so bloated it doesn't seem that way.

You'd think someone you're trusting to have that level of influence is worth the extra effort
More carbon will be released in 2022 than any past year in human history, according to the IEA.

So all the talk of green tech is still just that - talk. Any reductions in emissions have been eclipsed by other people's emissions expansions.