skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you achieve the maximum reduction with the minimum cost

Offsets do allow for a certain amount of optimization, which is a good thing. However, cap-and-trade, or a carbon tax, are better ways of reducing emissions while allowing for optimization. And unlike offsets, these other approaches can actually take us to net zero.

It's also worth noting that in practice, regardless of the policy frameworks we apply, we will not get to net zero unless we start climbing the learning curve for every GHG-emitting sector of the economy (except for those where the best long-term solution is hard offsets via sequestration). A flaw in all of the models that allow optimization via trading of credits (offsets, cap-and-trade) is that they allow us to defer those critical early steps. If all the cement plants buy offsets for the next 10 years, then we don't start learning how to decarbonize cement.

> a prohibitive "net zero" goal, which is neither achievable nor a worthwhile target.

Citation needed.

The mainstream consensus – as embodied in, for example, the IPCC reports – is that it is extremely important that we get to net zero greenhouse emissions. In fact, many scenarios envision that we can+should go to net negative emissions for a while, to draw down some of the excess carbon in the atmosphere.

And with the ferocious progress in solar, wind, batteries, and an exploding plethora of other fields, net zero is starting to look very feasible. It's too bad we didn't start sooner, but we will get there.
It might just be by chance: the initial weights of one model could have been lucky in some areas, and unlucky in others. There's no way to tell other than training again, which is a costly proposition.
The chapter where they are driving around in a jeep at night with the headlights off was one of my favorite book moments long before i was mature enough to understand any of that book.
It was as content free as one would expect.
No, that is not actually how it works. You can legally try prisoners of war for torture of civilians.
Here is an old tweet that answers that:

https://twitter.com/sjosephburns/status/1188443530085224448
Reginald Braithwaite had some really great responses to the move away from OOP as well:
[0]http://raganwald.com/2016/07/16/why-are-mixins-considered-ha...
[1]http://raganwald.com/2016/07/20/prefer-composition-to-inheri...
You also need to find a person in an appropriate field. Not every field is easy for startups to break into.

Example, my partner is a nurse, but works in an office capacity. We've co-developed a suite of tools that make her job so much easier/faster. These tools could probably justify a $100k per annual seat and a small client might buy 20 seats. Yet, we can't really productionize it and sell it because healthcare is basically impenetrable.

So if your goal is to sell a product, think through sales and marketing before diving into the code.
The op literally said "(the money I could afford, but it's the time that is more valuable)".
The only carbon offsets that should be permitted are direct air capture of the CO2 you're emitting. This forces all but the most difficult to avoid CO2 emissions to alternatives (at the current price of $600/ton per Climeworks). Emit, but pay the true cost to capture and permanently sequester (on human time scale) what you're emitting.

Anything else is the equivalent of indulgences. Forests can be clear cut or burned after being paid to not be, etc.
As a heavy VIM user, that combo never made sense to me. ESC is a single pinky or other finger (I personally move my entire left hand forward and out from the elbow, and press ESC with my middle finger). Using Ctrl-[ requires using _two_ weak pinkies.
“corporations trying to make absolutely insane profits off everything that you did, where you were billed per minute by the minute”

At least in the case of The Source, it looks like they were leasing time from another company’s minicomputers. We don’t know their expenses so can’t assume they were making insane profits. As I recall, some IBM systems cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to rent per month.
>It's amazing how it is expected now for kids to be able to communicate with their friends 24/7.

>I'm not sure if this is good or bad.

I used to be convinced it was because of my age, but the more I interact with kids, the more I am convinced that I am right. It is bad, with almost no good in return.

The pressure today's children live under is absolutely incredible. They are expected to be available 24/7. EVERY mistake they make could be recorded and shared forever. Literally everything they do is scrutinized, and if it's dorky or funny looking or weird, they absolutely will be bullied for it. . . and can never escape because it's 24/7 now.

The world for children is terrifying.
Seems simple enough when the mantra is Profit before risk.

If companies such as Apple would also consider softer things like
Human Rights, a lot would be different.

But companies will always do what brings in the most profit, such as the creative Latvian blend by Shell:

https://frontierindia.com/shell-to-buy-russian-oil-blend-lat...
It probably took them longer to prepare than just 2 days.
You misunderstand the problem. It's not an issue that the project is decades long, it's that it is going to take, say 50 years of capital- and carbon-intensive development to solve a small part of a larger problem that we only have, say, 50 years to solve. And it offers virtually nothing over EVs except to gratify some anti-car ideologues.

NOTE: if it's not evident, those 50 year figures are made up. The point is that we have limited time and resources to solve the whole climate problem and we should be efficient (rather than ideological) in our approach.
IMO, npm is correct/better.

The solution is to 'vendor' everything and have package updates as part of normal code review.
> The nuclear Gandhi think makes sense as naturally occuring from people trying to extrapolate hidden mechanics and false pattern detection.

Well, no. It's not something you could believe if you ever played Civilization with Gandhi. (Which is itself relatively uncommon - he can only appear in half of games that are configured with 6 opponents. With fewer than 6 opponents, he can't appear at all.)

I almost never played 7-player games, but I can tell you from long experience that it's not plausible for any civilization to be more aggressive than the Zulus. For Gandhi to be "25 times more aggressive" than the other civilizations in the game, he'd need to start breaking peace treaties several times per turn as soon as he developed Democracy.

And even then, Democracy arrives long, long before nuclear weapons. Gandhi would never have been noted for an affinity for nukes[1] - he'd have been noted for an affinity for stabbing you in the back with horse-mounted knights.

The nuclear Gandhi thing makes sense as an example of someone who is completely unfamiliar with a system making up behavior that he thinks sounds interesting. But not as an example of people detecting false patterns. The true patterns are too obvious.

[1] Nukes aren't likely to come up in a game of Civilization in any event. They appear too late; you'll win or lose before they're relevant.
My belief is the same. But I also believe that geo-engineering projects will become palatable when weighed against the alternatives.
I appreciate this might be bigging it a little, but I think writing like this can be both: gonzo journalism. It feels like a smaller scale take on the idea, a la Hunter S Thompson's reportage on the Kentucky Derby.
That's a pretty generous interpretation of the oversight for the average teenage driver. Most controls are lacking for ALL drivers, human or not.

The first footage that comes out of a felony traffic stop on an AI driver will be amusing!
Just dropped this in another comment but sharing here too. Some people apparently do (and actually have for a long time for national security stuff, but with the increasing dual-use nature of tech I think the idea of what should be considered critical or not is expanding). The bill below is probably the best articulation of some political thoughts on the subject of outsourcing supply chains. https://www.casey.senate.gov/news/releases/casey-and-cornyn-...
a few thousand or more is practical, it depends on what the data is, if the data is inherently non-relational (a master parts list, a user list, a bunch of logged data points) then all is well, it breaks down based on how big the data set is.. and what the dataset is.
Scientific method. The explicitly reasoned about scientific method involving observation, hypothesis, prediction, testing, is new. The hypothesis is the important bit, the thing that’s new. Trying things and seeing what happens was not new in the 1500s or 1600s. The scientific method was. No doubt there were people who had similar ideas before Francis Bacon but they didn’t write them down and explain them in any way that we’d recognize as the scientific method.
It does seem to be blinding a lot of reasonable people to the fact that an append-only distributed database means you just freaking _append_ the correction.

The only thing you lose that way is plausible deniability. It becomes impossible to erase from history the fact that a record was incorrect at some previous point in time.

I don't care about the naivety of the proponents and detractors of crypto; but I do worry about their utter lack of imagination.
Near Future Lab [1] does a great newsletter on things happening in 'design fiction' space — https://buttondown.email/designfiction

[1]https://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com
Seems like doing $100M+ in ARR (as hinted in the article) is a win. Even more because Chef was acquired for $220M. I think Perforce will pay a bit more for Puppet.
It's not just that the criteria they publish is incredibly ambiguous, but they will make decisions based on different, secret criteria.

For example, while not stated anywhere, there seems to be an expiration date of five years for anything you list.

And, yes, there doesn't seem to be a good UK visa for software engineers.
I think you're missing the point. These packages are stupid and too small, but they get millions of downloads a month. That's the problem with the JS community. Instead of rejecting a dependency for being silly, JS devs will happily import them to save two lines of code.
... in theory. In practice, I don't think any major provider actually sends RUF reports.
The answer is so incredibly simple. SSH to the machine. Start vim or emacs. The end.
Perforce is probably more widespread than people realise, and not just games industry although they've focused more on the benefits they bring to that field in recent years. Perforce were offering a good quality version control system for years before the initial release of git, as a result it can still be found in many older companies who have projects that are older than git itself and haven't migrated.

Git has obviously won the VCS battle now in most fields, but version control used to be a much more diverse and interesting space; I'd used Perforce, SVN and Mercurial professionally before git just won out most places.
I've not heard of him but it looks like I use a few libraries that use his stuff.
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And they did, until they didn't. This is not a brand new, unproven technology. It's been developing for over a decade. The car didn't hurt anyone or crash into anything - it simply did not have its lights on. The behavior to drive to a safer place for the traffic stop was intentional, per Cruise. This is something human drivers do as well. When being pulled over, it's common to pull into a parking lot or other nearby place that isn't in the driving path, for the officer's safety and convenience, in addition to allowing traffic to continue to flow without obstruction.
Out of curiosity - what kinds of things do you do for $5 and how long does it take on average? Thanks!
Function Composition in JavaScript
Have a look at where those downloads are coming from and which packages are actually using it: https://www.npmjs.com/browse/depended/is-even

They're jokes or satire or learning repositories, like `install-is`: "Installing this package installs a bunch of useless packages" or Stalinsort or module-practice-january. The most serious looking dependents are by the same author.
Raised on analog film (spent many hours in darkrooms both in high school as well as in elementary school). 35mm was the largest film size I tried.

When I went back to analog a few years back I introduced myself to medium-format as well as the tried-and-true 35mm. I think I was surprised at how inexpensive (eBay) and yet capable the older medium-format cameras were.

I confess to having put down the 35mm cameras though after I saw what the medium-format could do [1-3]. By all means, if you want to dabble in analog, consider an old waist-level, "box camera" and a roll of 120 film (the original Instagram square format, ha ha).

Amateur photos on Instagram:

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CE0f9B-FklF

[2] https://www.instagram.com/p/CGBV536ltLu

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/CHW5joEliRY
Can you cite some evidence? Ten years ago we were in the middle of the Arab Spring and the USA was in two different hot wars?
Depending on goods and services they provide. In case of high tech manufacturing- absolutely.

Furniture is an example where we should care much less.
Superfast Python focuses on Python concurrency. I am amazed by the author's prolific and excellent output.

https://superfastpython.com/
RethinkDB. What a blast from the past. They were such a compelling product, but they just never got the attention they deserved. Mongo by comparison was strictly worse, but they never got out from under Mongos shadow.
A nit:

"The larger the sensor the blurrier the background can be, and this also changes the distance at what you can make a picture of something and still have a blurry background."

Blur is totally determined by optics and has no direct relationship to sensor / film area.
the price of water isn't really subject to market forces though; it's usually provided by a regulated utility or directly by the government. based on the existence of lawns in arid places, I'd argue water is mispriced. in this particular case, it seems better than the alternative where poor people can't afford drinking water.
1. Rosenbaum wasn't on trial. He was Rittenhouse's assailant.

2. The defense needed to present a motive for Rosenbaum's having attacked Rittenhouse, and they felt his prior convictions helped establish that motive.

3. The judge did not allow the defense to bring up Rosenbaum's prior convictions in court.
On linux either SIGUSR1 or 2, I forget which, will do it too, it's mostly just an annoyance with there not being a flag for it. The only signal I can reliably remember is to quit programs...
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>The blockchain says there are 2 ice cubes on your desk, so someone must've written that to the blockchain at some point in the past.

FTFY

Or, in other words: you're confusing the map for the territory, therefore everyone else must also be confusing the map for the territory.
Alas, film's recent popularity comes with (literally) a price. Cameras that were practically being given away are, thanks to "influencers", now insanely priced. Film was expensive enough but pandemic-related supply issues and Fuji's slow withdrawal from the film market have just made things worse.

I was lucky in that I picked up a bunch of film cameras when they were cheap. Processing hasn't risen in price all that much (yet) so that's nice. I even shoot 4x5 B&W that I process and scan myself. I still shoot digital, but it's 50:50 with film these days.
I'm the OP, but I just want to be clear that this isn't my project and I'm not affiliated in any way.

The primary author is Viktor Lidholt. He posted on Reddit about some work his team has been doing to improve desktop widgets for Flutter. Serverpod has a GUI server manager component, which is where the motivation comes from I believe and he included a link to Serverpod as well.

I haven't done much mobile app development since I was in college, but in my free time I've been messing around with Flutter and working on a library written in pure Dart as well and I've really been enjoying the experience. Especially just working with pure Dart.

I took a look at Serverpod and was impressed. I'd describe it as perhaps an opinionated Firebase or Supabase alternative with a more cohesive vision. The comparison to FastAPI is purely my own. At work FastAPI just gets out the way and lets me get stuff done in a way that I never felt like Django or Flask did. The comparison is clearly not perfect, it was just what came to mind for me personally. Here are some of my personal highlights from Serverpods feature set.

1. The DB queries use native dart types and null safety, though you can always fall back to pure SQL.

2. Code generation gives you a gRPC or SOAP API like level of integration with client objects and lets you largely avoid making raw HTTP requests to your own back-end API.

3. Auth is ready out of the box with support for regular email/pw as well as Google/Apple logins.

4. Health checks are built-in.

5. Authenticated web sockets support.

There's a bit of marketing on the home page, but there's also a nice snippet of some server side and corresponding client side code that I think really gets the point across.

Server:

// Creates an endpoint called ‘example’
class ExampleEndpoint extends Endpoint {

// Endpoint method to be called from client.
Future<String> hello(
Session session, String name) async {
return ‘Hello $name’;
}
}

Client:

// Client that can connect to the pod.
var client = Client (‘https://myapi.com/’);

// Calling generated client code.
var result =
await client.example.hello(‘World’);

// ‘result’ will be ‘Hello World’.

Here's the GitHub URL: https://github.com/serverpod/serverpod
Relevant Chappelle Show skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOVbeh2yr0
thanks for the response!
I understand I can query such a model, one query at a time. But are there way to query these models with several queries in a row such that the N+1-th query benefit from the knowledge that was used to answer the N first questions ?
Basically, following a conversation. For example, youtube subtitles can badly translate some terms but if "it" had in mind the overall subject of the video, then it'd probably pick the correct word...
syncosync – secure peer to peer backup synchronization
That teenage driver goes through a training and certification process, and we have ways of stopping them from driving if they fuck up too badly.

This is a complete aside, but not having a license doesn't really prevent you from getting in a car and driving it. I was just reminded of this when a buddy's parked car was struck by a drunk driver who was not legally licensed to drive because their license was revoked from having many prior DUI's. Luckily they didn't kill anyone.

Hopefully it will be easier to enforce shutting down unsafe driverless cars.

I've also known teens without licenses who had to drive their irresponsible buddies' cars home after the licensed driver drove somewhere and got drunk. It's not like there's a biometric scanner in each car that verifies the person behind the wheel is a licensed driver...
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Clarification question: when you say you're with the majority of economists who say "tax carbon", are you implying that the majority of economists conclude you should tax carbon in some form? Or are you saying that you agree with most of the economists who do, whether or not they are a majority?
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I get that, but the line between moderation and censorship is very culture and topic dependent.

That's obviously true for authoritarian countries like China but even in "the West" there are competing definitions of what constitutes free speech.

If you want to operate in those countries (at scale) you need to localize your moderation policies and therefore "take a stance". Cost of doing business globally.
Bingo. As parents we are the biggest influencers (hah) on our kids' lives.
Carbon credits for non-offset activity (basically GHG removal) are a good way to fund development and operation of such systems.
It may be more about the quality rather than the quantity, though. Rust's standard library isn't very big. People sometimes complain that we have to fetch dependencies that are so ubiquitous that they are effectively part of standard Rust: crates like rand, futures, bytes, etc.

But even JS's built in string stuff isn't so bad that it somehow justifies leftpad existing, so I don't know...
These seem like features that could work a bit better in the context of WASM modules and/or components. AIUI, WASM was designed with the expectation that support for capabilities would be required.
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I wish there were modern record oriented databases and processing tools - I've used some of the tools on zOS and that whole mindset of "even the system tools are record aware" so you can use the equivalent of basic UNIX tools to do reporting and data analysis, is pretty powerful.

We could build something that is both as powerful as excel, and easier to use, yet designed for average users to manipulate very large data sets - we just have to chose to do that.

Python has footguns in it, PHP has a confusing standard library, perl is complex, and bash is missing some of the data processing primitives needed.
I've looked into this area.
I agree with the author that current sources of carbon offsets are poor and sketchy. However, that's not to say that people aren't working on more promising methods. Direct air capture and growing and sinking seaweed are two things that I think definitely pass the additionality aspect.

A big problem, I think, is that the market doesn't really differentiate between these, and that there are no strong regulatory pressures to buy "good" credits. We don't have a carbon tax in the US, and we don't have anything that pressures companies to say, if we want to buy offsets, that we only buy "good" offsets.

To people who say we need to move off fossil fuels - yes, but how do we do it? We can't just move our physical processes from A to B process.

It seems to me that imposing economic costs for every extra unit of carbon emitted, and only allowing high-quality offsets to subtract that, is the best incentive to move forward.
Welcome to the party! I joined ML because I realized I could help. You can too. I bet you’re both already thinking of clever ways to deal with massive models from an infrastructure standpoint. That’s just one of hundreds of interesting problems.
Bikeshed effect writ large, I'm afraid.

It's not our fault, our brains are wired to find quick & dirty; simple not small is beautiful. But people also contemptuous of what they understand, and accept at face value what they don't. Michael Crichton, much disparaged in his later years for contentious political stances, had much of value to say in his Gell-Mann Amnesia Effects' "wet sidewalks cause rain" critique of how we parse information.

Still, I'm glad it's transparent in this case and thus exposable. How much more is hidden, guarded jealously even, as though methodology was trade secret instead of, you know, the underpinnings of proposed outcome?
Have it in git and be part of code review.