skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Methane clathrates on the deep sea floor will not be releasing their methane. That is possible only where temperature is changing and pressure is low, neither of which will happen without surface changes catastrophic enough to make methane irrelevent.

Methane ice forms under certain temperature and pressure. See the phase diagram at [1]. When methane ice forms on a sloping ocean floor, there is a boundary where the methane ice formation stops. The boundary depends on the temperature and pressure (depth). When water warms, this boundary moves deeper and all methane ice above it will convert to gas and eventually leave the ocean.

How much deeper does the boundary move per 1C of temperature rise? I examined the phase diagram in Figure 6 of [1]. I found two points: (20 MPa, 275 K) and (40 MPa, 278 K). A change of 10.06 m increases pressure by 1 atm [2] or 101325 Pa [3], about 10 kPa per m or 1 MPa per 100m. So a 3 K increase in temperature results in the boundary pressure increasing 20 MPa or 2 km of ocean depth, a 1.5 K increase moves the boundary down 1000 m.

The world's CO2 pollution is expected to raise surface temps by 1.5K. Given that methane is 70x more warming than CO2, if we were to convert most of the world's CO2 to methane and then release 1/70 or 1.4% of it, we would have the same amount of warming and could expect a similar 1.5 K temp rise.

What percentage of methane ice will form near the boundary? To answer that, we would need to analyze ocean floor topography. I searched for a chart of depth to area and found none.

Do you think the top-most 1km of methane ice forming areas would hold 1.4% of the ocean's recently-formed methane ice? The deepest part of the ocean is 10km deep. If the top-most 1km holds much more than 1.4% then there is the risk of runaway warming.

Another risk is a change in ocean currents. Currents keep large areas of the ocean floor cold. If a current is disrupted, even for a short time, the clathrates in that region could release their methane, triggering runaway warming.

> You are reaching. It is not a good look.

Personal insults are boring and against the site guidelines [4]. Please don't write them any more on this site.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate#Natural_depo...

[1] https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b10581

[2] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/pressure.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(unit)

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When you provide a service to more than a handful of people, there is no winning in any of the decisions you make. There will always be groups of people who will be angry at your actions/inactions.
The last time I tried Dragon it was just a fancier (bloatware) UI built directly on top of Windows Voice Recognition (and IMO not adding much value on top of it): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-voice-recogn...

Windows Voice Recognition has been around forever (out of the box since XP), it's UI is "serviceable" but not great. (It was slightly better when Cortana was briefly "out of the box" in Windows 10, but has reverted some since.) But I don't think you need to pay for Dragon (or its high memory consumption) if you don't mind taking to learn the quirks of Windows Voice Recognition directly. Most of Dragon's quirks are Windows' quirks anyway papered over with a UI that makes it seem like they are adding value.

Also yeah, one of the answers to "how is it that no one has built something better?" is: Well, Microsoft tried with Cortana, got a huge blowback that "no one" wanted Cortana on their PCs, and gave up.
> when you think about why the universe exists in the first place, it seems as good a reason as any.

I think this sums up how I think. If any reason is as good as any then it's equally likely that our universe is not simulated and not an Ouroboros.

It can be a lot of fun to speculate and think about though.
> ...At least with (some) centralized systems there is an authority that can be appealed to (not FB obviously)...

Yes, but...and, mind you, this gets a bit philosophical and scenario-specific...but, if we trace the incentives all the way through, some central authorities will only help if your/your community's goals are aligned, right? FB has a goal of creating just enough of a community to get paid by someone, and sadly not by community members but by ad buyers. In the fediverse - which let me clarify is far from perfect - it really is as close to you/someone setting up their own stuff and yelling into the void just because they want to...and it happens that others might want to join in without a similar agenda to FB, etc.

> ...the community members of this page still exists, the page itself is just gone...

Agreed...but in a scenario where such a meeting place ("This page") is not centrally controlled, access to it or its existence or its members can not so easily be controlled by a single entity - be they benevalent or indifferent or malevalent. The fediverse is not perfect, and may not be perfect for the relevant community or its members or even the OP here...i merely offered it as a possible suggestion...my proposal may not be suited to everyone; and that's ok.
I learned that I'd better get used to having to choose between a douche and a turd sandwich because it's usually the choice I'll have
Another comment argued with sources that this is not entailed, because businesses can choose to decline electronic cash already.

I have heared that Disneyland is crazy like that and EC is virtually ubiquitious, but that's not the norm. Conversely, you don't expect to pay with a 500 everywhere (if you have that, EU phased it out recently)
Yep, it's the most insanely underappreciated public health intervention in history.
I have never seen this referred to anything other than things like tail-call recursion, tail-call optimization, etc.

Languages like Python make implementing simple loops like:

def loop():
<whatever>
loop()

impossible.

Python will reach a maximum recursion depth and error.

Why is this important? Like I said, it makes looping very easy. For example, actors can almost be trivially implementing in languages with tail-call recursion.

It’s not in Python because like most things in Python, van Rossum doesn’t like it because <reasons>.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13591970/does-python-opt...

There’s little point in having full traces of the data doing in and out of the tail-call loop is immutable, so you only really care about the current call of the function.
ActivityPub is awesome. I hear a lot of criticisms lobbed towards it (some valid, some pointless), but the idea of federation for a feed-based social network just makes so much sense once you start using it. People who like to hide away and form small circles of friends are given the tools they need to do so. Social butterflies who like to follow thousands of people from hundreds of instances can do as they please.

There's also so much room to expand. I'd personally love to see a Disqus implementation that uses ActivityPub identifiers to post comments.
Please show that Go is being made to appear artificially slow, as you claim.
> Why should I understand Tumblr or any other product? I and others as well were happy with just reading the ramblings of other Internet users.

I mean, no one's forcing you to. That's my point though!

Casual web visitors to the public-facing (no account needed) portion of the product simply aren't exposed to the majority of the product, and have a sub-par experience as a result. This reduces the likelihood of the product being successful. Some products try to solve this with a hard login wall, but that's problematic for both casual viewers as well as a portion of the content creators. There's no good solution.

In the example of Tumblr, even if you just want to consume content without posting anything, the reading experience is much better in the logged-in dashboard (newsfeed / activity stream) vs separately visiting random blogs that all have different themes.

> As for the other side, publishing your texts or photos on the Internet for others to view, isn't enough?

If you want to just publish photos, you can use a product that specializes in this, rather than choosing a combination publishing site / social network where the community interaction is inherently a huge part of the product.
That seems like a good argument in favor of localizing. I do agree that urbanization is increasingly presenting challenges with respect to governance at the state and federal levels, however.

I think there are good reasons to push the responsibility up to the state level though—e.g., places with low density may lack the funds for even critical infrastructure and are too sensitive to small or short-lived fluctuations in population. But all states are collectively large enough to afford their own critical infrastructure.
I think it's pretty clear that polarization comes mainly from modern social media.

It's happening all over the world, and I think Trump like figures are a symptom, not a cause of it.
Of course there are a lot of benefits of using hosted databases. I like hosted databases and use them for both work and personal projects.

What I have a problem with is:

- the premium over bare metal is just silly

- maximum vertical scaling being a rather small fraction of what you could get with bare metal

- when you pay for a hot standby you can't use it as a read only replica (true for AWS and GCP, idk about Azure and others)
This is really cool, but I don’t think it’s an atomistic simulation so I’m not sure where the title is coming from.

It seems to be some kind of a (truly impressive) kinetic model

The paper in Cell is open access https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.12.025
How is it that we can't have an OS that stops such things?

I'm of the opinion that the NSA must have a long running covert program to discourage the adoption of secure operating systems.
I really like solitude but I also have a need for adventure and stories. Meeting random people and talking to them can provide both, like the Mainland Chinese trans woman who I gave a very long ride to San Francisco while she told me all about how hard it was to be trans in China, especially with the family rejection. Lots of stories I would not hear otherwise.

You could drive a bus in Las Vegas if you want to be around people in an environment you control and not have to talk to them. It's my pinned post on Twitter, which I'll copy here so you don't have to go to Twitter.

After the dot com crash in 2000, I did solitary travels around N. America by car. When my software money ran out, I got a job driving The Deuce on the Las Vegas Strip, which I did for a year before eventually returning to software. The Alan Watts quote is accurate.

Zen Philosopher Alan Watts

Imagine if you were a bus driver, a bus driver is ordinarily considered an absolutely harassed person. He’s got to watch out for the laws, the competing traffic, the cops, people coming on board giving him fares and he has to give them change, and if he has it in his head that this is work, it will be hell.

But let’s suppose he has a different thing in his head, suppose he has the idea that moving this enormous conveyance through complicated traffic, it’s a very subtle game, and he has the same feeling about it that you might have if you were playing the guitar or dancing. So he goes through that traffic, avoiding this and avoiding that, and he makes a music of the whole thing. He’s not going to be tired out at the end of the day, he’s going to be full of energy when he gets through his job. So the point is, therefor, that you can do everything you have to do in this spirit, don’t make a distinction between work and play. Regard everything that you’re doing as play and don’t imagine for one minute that you have to be serious enough.
^ This is excellent advise

Edit: Primarily the bit about your team / manager, its the bit that will get you through the worst big corp can fling at you, in most cases.
> You can just look at how Signal has responded to court orders for information,

Signal is very proud that once a long time ago the state came to them asking for user data and signal could only tell them they had no data to provide. That has changed. Signal now collects and stores exactly the data they were being asked to hand over. It's not clear at all that your data with signal is protected. Security concerns were brought up repeatedly and were ignored (see for example https://community.signalusers.org/t/proper-secure-value-secu...)

Signal still brags about "that one time we had nothing to hand over" though. They still have a page on their website talking about it. They've never updated their privacy policy to reflect that are collecting and storing sensitive user data either. Not a good look for a company you're supposed to trust with secure communications.
Your modern day analogy fails.

Corporations prefer contractors because they can use the power asymmetry to extract more value for lower pay.

Formal employment is favoured by a democratically elected state, as it works to restore the power balance to the voters through appropriate regulation (assuming of course you live in a modern well functioning democratic society - which I understand is not the case in many places).
Right.

The whole purpose of such legislation is to discourage companies from maintaining egregiously dysfunctional salary allotment systems (for example, based on candidate's negotiation skill, or salary history) which are exactly what expose the company to such "risk" in the first place.
A demonstration of fake accounts on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=coinbase%20support&src=typed_qu...
https://jami.net/ open source and doesn't require a phone number.
I would go so far as to say it is a best practice. It aligns incentives. If you know you're going to have to wake up at 2am when your code blows up, you are more likely to make it resilient.
From a technical perspective you are correct.

However, in the midst of a mania, unfortunately nobody is going to listen to a group of engineers telling them about the dangers of blockchain.

The only thing that will, and can, stop the madness is politicians getting off their backsides and implementing related laws and regulations.

If you want to talk to anyone, and have any potential effect, talk to the people in government.
Yeah, When I was given the interview prep talk and the associated material - I felt like I was being onboarded to a cult. I get the idea of having guiding principles, but a focused company would have like 3 or 4 key principles to live by - not 14. When you have 14 "principles", that hints to me that things are done by committee and consensus rather than dedicated vision and drive - too many cooks in the kitchen so to speak. The exact thing I wanted to avoid.
Think of presidents as figure heads. They represent an idea but they don’t have as much power as many think. There’s plenty of other influencing bodies of power in our society and most of them are hidden or at least not democratically elected. As a society we put a lot of emphasis on our politicians because it’s the one body of power that we feel we have any agency over. When you realize that our politicians are relatively insignificant, it’s easier to stop worrying about them.

Most people’s influence only extends to their local community anyway, and that’s a good thing to realize. Focus your energy there—on your family, your friends, and your neighbors—and you’re much more likely to feel satisfied.
fully agree with this, in my free time I would fully go for the baremetal, but if I have to save money to a company, by placing all the headaches that are solved by AWS then I just say goodbye
>You only have to mention NFTs, even in a negative light,

Play stupid games win stupid prizes?
Race to salvage US F-35C fighter jet that crashed in hostile South China Sea
I had to have a sit-down with the school admins because I used the "netsend" command to send the letter q, one time, to every PC in the school. I thought it was just going to go to the computers in the computer lab.
Then the entire clause would be meaningless. I should have said pegged to the US$, but I thought that was obviously implied.
Centurylink gigabit business fiber is about $140/mo, and a block of 8 static IPv4s is $25/mo
Would Twitter be better if they charged a small fee per tweet?
I don't think heating up a screwdriver ever occurred to me!

My first soldering iron was huge! I don't remember who gave it to me, but it was clearly not for electronics. It had a small wooden handle and a tip that looked like a large, bent flathead screwdriver. It could remove parts, but not much else.
Ha! gotta love google. It looked something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Soldering-Handle-Chisel-Point-Copper/...

Thinking back, my grandfather was a carpenter and left a shop full of tools when he died, so it's possible that it used to be his.

I remember asking for a real soldering iron as a Christmas or birthday present and getting a low-wattage one since they didn't cost that much. Until then, everything was held together by wrapping wire onto leads.

The strange thing is that I remember having a small soldering iron, but I don't remember ever having actual solder.
I think the basic problem here is that you attach strong negative connotations to the word "fear". But fear is useful to us, as in the seatbelt example:

> Why would we be afraid of a moot scenario? If you have and use a seat belt, then this isn't a scenario to fear.

My point was that we wear the seat belt because we fear having an accident without it. Just as we take mitigating actions against disease because we fear facing the disease without them.

> It's not rational to fear something that doesn't affect you.

Sure, if it truly does not and could not affect you. But global warming can affect every person on the planet. There is virtually nowhere that is immune to all of the direct and indirect effects. And even if there were such a place, human beings are interconnected economically and socially, so that if something negatively impacts people in one place, it can indirectly and negatively affect people elsewhere.

> You can work to mitigate things without being afraid of them.

Why would you work to mitigate something that was completely benign? You do it because you fear the possible consequences of not mitigating, the same reason you wear a seat belt. It is exactly this entirely rational fear that public officials use to justify mitigating global warming, the well-founded fear that if we don't, it will potentially cost millions of lives and trillions of dollars.
Ah, ok; thanks for that clarification.

Well, my direction is for the zoho paid plans. I've used GSuite for many years and can't complain for having used it for free for so long.
For those that are whiling to learn vim, I recommend to not install a lot of plugins when you are still learning, you will probably just forget them and it will probably have side effects on your configuration!

But as basic plugins that will provide a great quality of life, I shall recommend those:

Global Search: fzf

Syntax Highlight: nvim-treesitter

LSP: nvim-lspconfig or coc

Dir Nav: nerdtree

Git: vim-fugitive
> https://drivetribe.com/p/tesla-is-jerry-rigging-its-cooling-...

That was a temporary thing that happened for like a few weeks a long time ago.
You should learn the basics of the git object model. It's really very simple and can help you understand better what some of the commands are actually doing. Lots of git stuff is just stored as plain text file inside the .git folder - the magic 'HEAD' ref is just a textfile that contains the hash of the HEAD commit.

http://shafiul.github.io/gitbook/1_the_git_object_model.html
p3m, well pme, is exactly what we used for our calculations ;)

i never did any qm work beyond basic parameterization

i'm guessing you are/were also computational physics guy :)
The problem is, even if you do build amazing speech to text, it will br slower and less expressive than a keyboard + pointing device (mouse, touch, pen).

For keyboards, you lose positional logic (wasd in games). You lose shortcuts. You lose control over capitalization and formatring. You lose punctuation. You lose non-text input (code, dictating code sounds like like a horrible pain). You lose function keys. And, of course, you lose speed (think of instant things you do with shortcut keys, like alt tab). Not to mention, that you lose the ability to work in silence.

Make the recognition quality gorgeous, and it will still be a less flexible product than what we use today. It has value for accessibility, but people will likely choose keyboards over dictation based on UX alone.
It’s funny, I see that too but they’re never actually the highest ranked comment in the feed order. Rather, they’re always like 40 comments deep in the comment feed surrounded by 1-2 like comments. So IG must strongly suspect they’re spam, but don’t block outright due to the risk of fallout from false positives.
Unless you actually look at real Linux deployments, which are:

#!/bin/mksh

Android doesn't allow GPL code in userland, and the installed base is massive.
As someone who does a fair bit of physical labor, my jeans wear out in the crotch from walking, generally in less than a year.
> AFAIK, it isn't even designed to consume metrics other than from apps linked to its client library.

Could you elaborate? I use Prometheus to scrape from an HTTP endpoint in various Pods in Kubernetes, so the service discovery is pretty useful to me.

I could see the Kubernetes & the other SDs split out of the core binary if default size is really an issue. Or are you talking about something else?
Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin isn't it, so maybe we need more than just swallowing a pill. We have very bad data from most Vitamin D studies suggesting it does almost nothing. The people with high natural Vitamin D who spend 1-2h per day (exercising?) outside might just imply a proxy for a healthy lifestyle.

Alternatively Vitamin D might need to be a) taken in higher quantities than the studies have done b) taken with fat c) taken with other supplements K2, NAC, Magnesium (which people are also deficient in) etc.

We could probably come up with other theories why the trials and results don't add up. Nice to see an actually positive result from supplimentation.
>For the vast majority of people, installing apps from third-party app stores like F-Droid requires them to enable “unknown sources”. Signal’s developers feel that normalizing this kind of behavior would be “a reversion back to the desktop security model” and that endorsing it through participation would be harmful. The only reason they distribute an APK outside of the Play Store is to reduce the harm of non-technical people installing fake apps instead.

I guess it somewhat makes sense that they're against the desktop model of app distribution, but IMO the phone model is not worth the added security. Signal may not have any problems as a messaging app, but both google and apple have some ridiculous rules that categories of apps have to comply with. In particular if you're an app for any sort of art community, prepare to tell your users to censor even mildly suggestive artwork, violent content, content dealing with drug use (even if not glorified), etc. That's not to speak of countless other limitations.

The desktop mode of distribution ain't so bad. at least you're still in charge of your own device
We invested a fair amount of time into a Dgraph-based solution but had so many issues with it that we had to migrate away. We couldn't get basic things (like database dumping and/or reimport, or some large queries) to work at all reliably which scared us away from going with their enterprise product.

It seemed neat from the outset but I can definitely see why they might have problems finding paying customers after getting hands-on with it.