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I don't care how much money you've raised
I see posts on HN all the time saying something like: "Hi, we're X. We've raised Y million dollars to solve problem Z"

I don't care how much money you've raised. In fact, leading with how much money you've raised makes me doubt that you have your priorities straight.

How about "Hi, we're X. We're solving problem Y by doing Z".

Or, even better:

"Hi, we're X. We solved problem Y by doing Z, and are now seeking to monetize."

Money is certainly important, but raising funding shouldn't be the point of your startup. Doing interesting stuff is more important than funding.
>>Isn't it objectively true that the countries producing the most CO2 are more to blame?

No, I would say the countries that have already produced(in total) the most CO2 are the ones most to blame. And those aren't the same countries as the ones emitting the most right now.
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"A bit noisy" ... you have no idea ... I was talking one specific, current issue that is horrendous on the Jubilee Line ... I'm happy to raise many more complaints about our, in my opinion, very average (compared to the the best) underground system if you want ... but I'm sure that'll be exceedingly boring for all and simply dismissed by someone with, apparantly, such low standards as yourself.
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I was just thinking of this yesterday. The ipad could make a great dev machine if I could run a rooted Linux environment on it.

Although a little more RAM would be nice too.
1. There’s extra danger every time nuclear material is launched on a satellite, be it for a thermal generator like on the Curiosity rover, or some failed tests the USA did on Pacific islands in the 60s as part of Operation Fishbowl that resulted in a large amount of waste spread downwind.
2. No satellites can actually reach the sun - to do so, anything launched from Eart would need to cancel the forward velocity to force its orbit to “fall” into the Sun. This is such a high number that it’d be cost prohibitive for the amount of fuel and size of launch vehicle required.
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We need to stop extracting fossil fuels from the ground. Period. Any other solution is just a gimmick. Unfortunately, the rate of extraction hasn't slowed. It's increased, or, at best, stayed relatively flat. The outcome, of course, will be quite predictable.

All of this "green" technology we've produced hasn't made an iota of a difference, yet, in terms of the actual problem. Maybe it will soon? Let's hope.
>Is social audio already dead?

The general rule of thumb, is that any headline that ends in a question mark is answered by "no," but I think that this one is "yes."

Clubhouse, Marco Polo, etc. have not been very compelling; for different reasons. I think Clubhouse couldn't compete with video broadcast media, like TikTok, and Marco Polo also couldn't, but because it is one-to-one, without social "scoring."

Also, the Clubhouse app wasn't very good, and was iOS-only. I think that it’s a good example of one that should probably have been done via a hybrid system.

I think that, if we will release a native platform app, it needs to be absolutely top-Quality. No compromises. That's the case for the app I'm writing now.
Also if you have any kind of groundwater a melted down reactor core might contaminate it.
Which hasn't been implemented on the required scale ever.

At best, those technologies could scale down the waste problem by a certain factor. It's not like you put in radioactive waste and something completely harmless comes out... There's still some radioactive waste left.
I think ground water contamination is not an issue for a properly chosen site. I think the terrorist issue is an overblown boogeyman. More reactors would give bad actors more access to nuclear material though but I don't think that's an issue with the end of life storage part of the chain.
Almost every time I argue with somebody who believes Russia has been forced to act the way they had it always boils down to this: any peaceful cooperation with the west built on trade and mutual respect of the rules is de-facto a humiliation for Russia who would succumb to American imperialism and lose its deserved place of glory as a rightful superpower.

Now, I'm personally coming from a position or disdain for American imperialism and the very same position drives me to despise any other sentiment of grandiosity self-righteousness and feeling that one or another country should have their well deserved spotlight and rule over the others.

Yet, the vast majority of people I interact with on a daily basis seem to reduce the whole thing to one camp against another camp. If you're against American imperialism you must be for Russian imperialism, or Chinese imperialism (whatever kind, past and future or wanna-be).

It aches me to see how utterly impossible it is to have a nuanced conversation about this without reducing everything to a tram match, a tribal identity contest.

I'm in Croatia right now to meet some family, and every left-leaning person is pro-putin (because Ukrainians are nationalist right wing) and every right-lraning person is pro-ukraine (for the same reasons apparently). The same left-leaning people 30 years ago voted to secede from Yugoslavia and were appalled that the resulting war was so brutal and that the west didn't do enough to stop the Serbian invasion. Now those same family members, pontificate that Ukrainians don't exist and they are just Russians, and that the government is a bunch of Nazis, and say other things like that straight from the Russian news outlets. And the reason they prefer that world view is just because the alternative seems to be to accept Americana hegemony.

Nobody seems to be able to say fuck to both. Why is it so hard?
So... unscheduled radio talk show?

The obvious competitors are:

- scheduled radio talk show. They may be inane but they're professional and consistent

- recorded podcast: has the major advantages of being listenable on your own schedule and possibly well-edited

- youtube: same as podcast, but with video as well

- youtube live: the chat allows more people to participate simultaneously than folks trying to get airtime

- discord: it's live and you might even know or get to know all the participants

That's a lot of competition and not much in visible advantages
I've never had my code reviewed. The majority of my code was written in the days of MS-DOS, Turbo Pascal, and eventually Windows and Delphi. I was the solo developer at a small firm in the Chicago area with one product, which I had written.

As a retired person, I think it's like skydiving, something I'll never do. Unless of course, something on my github takes off.
What prevented Clubhouse from quickly devolving into an ersatz Discord. I feel like the audio chat capability + community management was already there.
What's wrong with that? There are many things that would go to shit without active maintenance. I'd also prefer to be around in 40-80 years, which is harder if we're burning fossil fuels than clean energy like nuclear.
Would the wiki part of fossil be a good static site generator?
As in, if I wanted to publish a markdown lake with lots of interlinking with [[wikilinks]] would this work?

It might be faster than many SSGs and perhaps less complicated.
The pidove API is closely modeled after similar functionality in Python (the map, filter and similar operators that are built-in functions and itertools package) and also after the seq package in Objective CAML.

One thing that always struck me as awkward about the Streams API was the need to create Streams and Collectors for every operation, say you want to do

var x = someList.stream().map(x->x*x).collect(Collectors.toList());

pidove simplifies that to

var x = asList(map(x->x*x,someList));

Part of the simplification is that pidove operators take any Iterable as an input so there is no need to convert to a stream. This has some add-on effects in that operators like flatMap aren't creating so many heavyweight objects.

Along the way I discovered that I really liked the Collectors in the Stream API in that

* Collectors have some quality engineering to improve numeric accuracy for sums
* Collectors can be used inside grouping and windowing operators
* another approach I tried took required fancy footwork w/ generics

so I decided to use them in pidove rather than write my own. I decided the main thing needed was some syntactic sugar and the Java maintainers agreed because they added this in JDK 16

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/18/docs/api/java.base...()
Yes. Fast breeders are not new. But they are even more difficult than plain nuclear reactors. France built some, but gave up on the technology.
"Go fast" has multiple dimensions.

For one example, I had a command-line tool which needed to compute something related to hypergeometric distribution. (It's been a few years; I forget the details.)

This available in scipy, which need numpy. Most of my program's run-time was spent importing numpy. (The following timings are best-of-3.)

% time python -c pass
0.027u 0.011s 0:00.04 75.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
% time python -c "import numpy"
0.212u 0.059s 0:00.17 152.9% 0+0k 0+0io 14pf+0w
% time python -c "import scipy"
0.252u 0.077s 0:00.32 100.0% 0+0k 0+0io 14pf+0w

While 0.2 seconds doesn't seem like much to people used to spending hours developing a notebook, or running some large matrix computation, I could make my program 8x faster by writing the dozen or so lines I needed to evaluate that function myself.

Numpy is not about making short-lived programs fast.

In any case, this specific choice of importing all submodules is not to cache things up "for obvious [performance] reasons", because there is no machine performance improvements.

Instead, it's to make the API easier/faster to use. When you're in a notebook and you need numpy.foo.bar() you can just use it, and not have to go up and use an import statement first.
In my experience it's uncommon to tell people that "senior engineer" is a 'terminal level' because, again, this is usually not very senior at all and you might have issues attracting and retaining talent if you do that. Again, "senior engineer" is a title and although it has 'senior' in it, it is actually not that senior within the organigram of most companies.
Pervasive discrimination in many workplaces:

https://www.eeoc.gov/initiatives/e-race/significant-eeoc-rac...
> "You'll adapt just like I did" is not very convincing for the
majority of people.

That's not my assertion, nor the point of my comment. The point is
that identification (and misplaced sense of ownership) makes us very
reluctant to be convinced [1]. A point which you agreeing with.

Nonetheless, people adapt when change comes. Another example, only just
in my living memory was "decimalisation" (and for other Europeans when
the currency switched to Euro). My grandmother swore blind the world
would end if they brought in decimal currency. Within weeks she was
the strongest supporter.

In 1752 people in England rioted because the calendars changed from
Julian to Gregorian. People thought they were being robbed of 11
days. When the day arrived everybody awoke, got on with their lives as
usual and in no time completely forgot it ever happened.

EDIT:

[1] In fact people can be so challenged by identification they'll
downvote the most polite and reasoned of comments to feel better
rather than respond intelligently.
> We don't hear phrases like "I used to read and write English, but since I moved to management I have stopped"

I had to chuckle a bit at this one given how some VP+ folks write emails.
I already explained it to you. Re-read the replies and try to comprehend them like the normal people did. You don't have to a software engineer to do so, as these things are pretty soft to assimilate.
That's a silly argument because the world is not now or foreseeably facing a problem with global massing, global speeding, or global torquing.
This has the same issues as just using an array to store the data. If you remove a node in the list now you have to rewrite all the values in the links array. If you don't do that then you have to implement your own garbage collector and pay the penalty periodically.
Power metal? Check out Unleash the Archers. Excellent band.
He's going pretty hard on the 5% fake accounts that Twitter reported. I would probably do the same if I were in his position.
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This is quite a long write up for something that affected fewer than 10 people.

The most worrisome aspect is that the CEO to some extent lied about not firing people. That's probably the biggest red flag when it comes to a company: a CEO not willing to be honest with their people.
Very excited for this, onward and upward WunderGraph!
> It will also cause disruptions for societies as we too have adapted our current ways of life for a climate that increasingly doesn’t exist.

Okay — can you quantify “disruptions”, because that comes across as a “scare word” that just means “things will change”.

> The political impact is one of civilizational collapse. Some people are not nihilists and want to avert this.

Okay, how exactly?

That last sentence, where you impeach the character of people who disagree with you, makes me think that this is political tribalism and an excuse for totalitarianism rather than a scientific point.

Which has been my experience of people “fighting global warming”: they’re more interested in the excuse to reform society to their totalitarian vision than the science.
Many Rock/Metal bands have used Umlauts in their name such as Blue Öyster Cult, Queensrÿche, Motörhead, the Accüsed, and Mötley Crüe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut
I'm a bit stupid, but I understand if we are dropping 6.4M cubic miles from space, there will be an increase in water level, but if the 6.4M cubic miles of water was already present in the system, just frozen, how does it increase the total sea level? There is no net change in volume right?
Yes.

My experience in many other Asian and European modern cities has been far better.
By far most of the water is in the oceans, which have an average depth of 3688m. 2% of the water is currently frozen, so one can easily estimate how much would the sea level raise, had it all melt.

EDIT: Corrected km to meters, as comment below points out.
Let’s all stop half-remembering this quote and get it straight from the source:

> There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it.

> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Cost and cooling would be my guess.

I've always thought deep underwater would make sense, provided the containment was very good. You would never have to worry about a meltdown really since there's an unlimited heat sink readily available and the reactor could be constructed to passively cool itself through convection in a total failure / walk away scenario.

Problem is that if you break containment water will carry all that nasty radioactive material everywhere. I'd look at ceramic fuel packaging such as pebble beds or sealed fuel rods that are highly water insoluble, then waste vitrification or encasement in highly water insoluble glass or ceramic materials.
Not literally, but 2000 metric tonnes is half the weight of an Olympic pool. That's very insignificant and tiny compared to what gets extracted in coal mines every hour. Finding space for it is not an issue.
> Neoconservatism is a political orientation that can only exist in developed countries. “Fuck the poor [kids]” goes over like a lead balloon in developing countries.

Isn't that Neoliberalism? Isn't Neoconservatism a foreign policy thing?
Mathologer on YouTube uses PowerPoint (or keynote, don’t remember exactly). He has great math animations. I’m sure it takes a ton of time to make. (It would also take a ton of time to make with manim.)
I wouldn't be surprised if there are places where it is, but I can't find any limit in my local ordinances. For consumers, you're just not going to get a 100k burner in general - I can find a few prosumer ranges that get up to 35k or so on a single burner, but nothing remotely close to what you would see in a professional Chinese kitchen.

For stir-frying I have a 270k BTU propane burner I use outside. I wouldn't want to dump that much heat into the inside of my house in general, unless it was winter I guess.
I don't disagree with the idea here, but this sort of decision has to have a public facing, somewhat valid reason for opposing legislation.

An example of this would be marijuana legislation and the idea that marijuana is a "gateway drug." This is a somewhat sensible view that a political party can latch onto and push without losing too much popular support.

I have to wonder if "new firmware on old devices" has a public-facing view that won't crater a politician's popularity. I'm sure there has to be one, but I don't know what it would be.
Trivially fixed by using mm dd yyyy mm dd mm yyyy.
Crypto giant Binance became a hub for hackers, fraudsters, and drug traffickers
The examples page, for the curious: https://3b1b.github.io/manim/getting_started/example_scenes....
That very much varies with country. Most countries I’m familiar with the rules for require ID when buying pre-pay SIM cards these days.
I don't think I understand your actual question. What does the size of oil fields have to do with size of continents?

If you are confused about why you'd need to plant a whole continent of trees to offset our CO2 emissions, rememeber(or discover for the first time) that your average oil field(or coal mine for that matter) is a product of literally millions of years worth of carbon deposits - that's why oil is so incredibly energy dense.

According to some quick googling one tree absorbs about 25kg worth of CO2 per year. My car emits that much by just driving ~100 miles (using about 10L of petrol in the process). If I do 10k miles per year, that is a lot of trees just to offset emissions of a single vehicle, and there are millions of personal cars out there - and they aren't even the largest source of emissions.
Why does delivery use sms instead of proper app notifications?
Good point about blame not being a point in time measurement.

As far as going forward though, the countries currently producing the most CO2 are the ones most able to have an impact by reducing their CO2 emissions.
His definition of "disclosed" is whatever fits his own narrative.
Well you have the burden of proof for these extraordinary claims, in what way is this different from the pitch of a cult?
Weird, I thought it was because gas cars (EDIT: This should say electric cars) only just recently approached 4% of total sales and are still under 1% of the cars on the road.

Normal growth is enough to explain why that hasn't (yet) resulted in a net decrease. If the growth rate continues at 50+%, that will change in about 5 years, though.
People no longer message me with "Hey", or "Do you have a minute?". They send a full statement that I can act on. The "Hey" is left unacknowledged.
Ever heard of a gravitational slingshot?

We aren't exploding the nuclear waste in the form of a bomb when we launch it via satellite. It could also just fall into the ocean in case of a failed launch, where it probably won't be a problem.
Yeah, they're an incredibly blunt tool.

I'm not in PH but in the region, and know a few recent Russian émigrés here. They've eventually been able to open an account after trying a few banks. The banks are concerned about unknowingly dealing with a sanctioned person or business, and consequently having trouble with their access to EU and US banking systems. Banks in PH in particular often do a lot of US business, you may consider looking for a bank that does not (e.g., banks dealing more with China).
Same here. I have all notifications turned off on my phone. Friends know that I only check Whatsup twice a week. Text or call and I'll usually see it within two hours. I don't really understand people who complain about these things. I guess we are wired differently. Whenever I check Whatsup I realise I didn't miss anything at all.

At work we have Slack and I made it clear that I might not be able to answer for hours. Use email and I'll decide if it's important and if so will answer within an hour or leave it for another day. I also insist that everything client/work related is in an email. If it's on Slack only then it doesn't exist.
What’s wrong with not having a long term plan for a relatively dangerous and expensive-to-handle hot potato? I’m only arguing that while there are plenty of good plans out there that the public are not yet willing to accept, if we don’t begin to implement better long-term strategies, local governments will be the ones left dealing with radioactive materials abandoned by their operators Long after the revenue generator has been decommissioned.
Antarctic glacier mostly rests on the continent, rather than float in the ocean.
But we have done nothing. This is easy to demonstrate.

You're claiming that we've made some progress regarding climate action, and that counterfactually it could have been worse.

There is, essentially, one source of human CO2 emissions: fossil fuels.

If what you claim is true then we should have a set of fossil fuels that we know about, can easily exploit, but refuse to because we won't be using them. This is the only way we can make progress on reducing emissions.

So far the only limiting factor I know of for limiting fossil fuel extraction is the economic difficulty in extraction.

A war is happening right now in order to control more oil and natural gas production, if we already have more oil in gas known about than we need, why are we fighting this war?
So, about LinkedIn not allowing fake profiles
What I love in these posts is that everyone is providing their solution, the solutions have demos, and the demos list super interesting services I did not know and now absolutely need :)

Thanks a lot!
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Well since it will be the poor who suffer the most one could argue it is a personal attack. If the law was that each individual gets X amount of carbon credits then you are stuck walking it would actually mean something. Instead it will be you get X amount of carbon credit then you buy more. So the rich will continue to pollute without worry and the poor will suffer. We need a system that everyone follows the same. But that will never happen.
just turn off autocorrect - it's a bug not a feature
recently installed (and can't stop modding). read 'Dance in fire' in-game book series - genuinely one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had in my life
Wasn’t clubhouse taken over by political activists? I recall something like that contributing to its downfall.
Do you feel challenged as a mathematician in industry? Are there jobs that are challenging? As interesting as just learning a new topic? Just curious.
> People simply refuse to sacrifice anything.

This is because of two things: (1) fetishization of size, weight, speed. This is modernism, a monomaniacal obsession with measurements, a very infantile mindset. (2) self-preservation; People are more inclined to buy bigger vehicles when they are surrounded by oversized death machines anyway.

It's a textbook tragedy of the commons. This can never resolve positively in a bottom-up manner. It's a local maximum that will require top down intervention, or some serious soul searching.
It took only a moment to realize that Social Audio is about as healthy as Instagram: it's groups of people promoting themselves. If you want to have a call with your friends, that already exists. If you want legitimate information, you have podcasts. There are conferences, panels, etc. Clubhouse got the hype right, but the "market fit" wrong.