skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're very nearly at the 2018 peak anyways [1].

The stock is so big relative to the flow that I can't imagine how anyone has confidence in claims like this. Even if we will completely run out of extractable oil in N years, consumption could continue to grow for the next M << N years.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/global_oil.php
I would've done much better in high school if I was able to start later. Its absolutely insane this isn't nation wide.
And yet people have no issues running natural gas pipes in walls and operating gas cooktops indoors. Bureaucracy gonna bureaucrat.
The largest volume dipensary in the state of Oregon is just a few miles from the Idaho border, where its still illegal, and only 45 min from Boise.
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What's a "zero-tolerance" policy? I've only ever heard this term used in the context of guns on school campuses. Does it have some other meaning?
They are similar in that there are laws reconigized domestically and internationally to block Texas and Taiwan from becoming independent from their home country.
In the mid 1990's someone in my office put pop tarts in the microwave and mis-typed the time by an extra digit or something and walked back to his desk.

The entire 7 story building was evacuated and the fire department called because of the smoke. There was so much smoke everyone thought the building itself was on fire.
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If the kids really have a hard time waking up (the point t of this law), then it's possible they over sleep. Many parents might not be comfortable with their kid cooking breakfast unsupervised too.

If they're in after school activities and/or have a job, then it seem unlikely that they would get into trouble anyways. Pushing the time back will make these after school activities unfeasible for many, and limit opportunities.
It may not be that teenagers need more sleep rather that it’s harder for them to get enough sleep because they don’t have someone else controlling their sleep schedule like children do.
I dont understand this either. Yes teenagers are tired in the morning and hard to get out of bed. My daughter and her friends go to bed at midnight, 1am, often later.
Yea, I had no idea. The other day, I soaked dried chickpeas overnight to use for dinner the next evening and munched on the soaked beans throughout the day. TIL...
Considering how almost every form of social trust has been abused to either spam or scam me, I am old enough to remember that but have also had that politeness completely scrubbed from me.

I wish we still lived in a time when being scammed or spammed wasn't so prevalent, but we don't and I'm not doing anything that might tip off either of those groups that my number is ripe for the picking.
Chicken is meat.

Dietary adjustments would arguably help us more from a health and medical expense perspective. In terms of energy, agriculture apparently only uses around 2% of US energy consumption.

I’m not sure if that includes industrial energy which goes into producing fertilizer. If not, it would only bump up the percentage a fraction of a percent.

Even if we all eat beans, we won’t stop climate change.

I’m not saying the effort wouldn’t be worth it. Research shows unequivocally that eating more beans is a great idea. Well, eating more plants. The energy saving would be icing on top.

But then how are you going to employ the people who grow feed for livestock, and the people who raise livestock? If we all ate beans, we’d need fewer farmers. That’s a radical change we don’t have a plan or strategy for.
Why does the car have to reroute?
The author ignores that the source of inflation is multi-faceted. Eventually the supply chain issues and the war will be resolved, and we’ll be left with moderate inflation.

The world is actually quite fortunate that there’s the beginning of a sort of natural carbon tax right as we desperately need to decarbonize our economies.

This is essentially a trial run for running out of oil. It has already spurred significant European investment is diversifying energy sources.
It would be interesting if the government could figure out a way to hold the price of energy at a higher price when the economy is going well and energy supply is high.

Or perhaps there should be some sort of non-strategic reserve stockpile. I'm almost curious if the US government has made money by buying up oil during the pandemic when the price of oil was spiraling downward and then selling at today's inflated pricing.

This would actually probably not be opposed by the energy lobby as the profits would go to the firms (as opposed to a energy tax).

This would act to set a higher and more stable floor for energy costs to enable the development of alternative energy sources.
I had one of these exchanges recently which I had some fun with, because it was so weird, and they made a point to use a photo of a beautiful woman:

Lady: Doctor Lucy? My puppy is very slow and does not eat dog food, can you make an appointment for me?

Me: Unfortunately I do not treat puppies. Only adult dogs, adolescent foxes, and elderly coyotes.

Lady: Sorry, I added the wrong person, I just checked the number and I saved the wrong number for Dr. Lucy.

I left it at that. I wonder if I should try and bait the scammer. I do love messing with scammers. After the last message I was thinking maybe it was legitimately a wrong number.
> Every power is an adversary of each other on the world stage.

That's just a war-mongering propagandaist talking point.
It's probably a combination of both. After all, the answer to an equation typically has two or more values associated with it.
That's no joke. I did tree removal for a few weeks one Summer while waiting for my Summer camp counselling job to start. I slept a solid 10 hours every night and felt awesome every morning. "Guiltless sleep of the righteous" and all of that. If they could bottle that sleep in a pill without having to drag downed trees all day, it would be crazy addictive.
Looks fun, how can I get a couple without having to wait until December? Seems like that would be an easy way to boost conversion, to have them come in once a month. Guessing you don't have enough volume?
She's a Good White Woman who participated in a kidnapping which ended in a gruesome murder. Don't make excuses for that.
Yes, we can. LGM.
> Its not fair to mess with people's livings...

Given that this is the status quo, employees should adopt the same attitude. When working for an ethical employer, I'll work 48h/day if the situation requires it, but for everyone else, I'll bill them for the "quick question over the phone" outside of my agreed upon working hours; and I'll quit when someone else makes a good offer. Once a (spectacularly unethical) employer tried to pull the "think about the others in your team" stunt only to be amazed when I found them better jobs within a week and everyone else quit, too. I cannot say he learned from that experience, but I equally cannot say I regret my decision.
Clinton never lost the popular vote, but I agree with your points.
Helps working parents with logistics too. High school kids can dress themselves and get themselves to school.
As a frustrated environmentalist myself. I would just like to say, burning or not burning natural gas for heating is dependent on a lot of factors. But the GP is generally right in most of the US because the energy is already coming from coal or natural gas. Both of which are back of the envelope about 50% efficient at converting heat from the burnt coal/gas to electricity. Add in the transmission and distribution loss (aka step up/down transformers, increasing distances to the electric plant as they are moved farther outside of cities/etc) and its another ~5-10% loss, and then the final conversion assuming a heat pump has a 50% gain. So its roughly a wash, and the actual gain/loss is dependent on electric mix (nuke+hydro), how cold it is outside (heat pumps for heating get really inefficient as the temps drop until they are basically restive heating, which many switch to after a certain point to avoid just burning up the compressor).

There are similar problems around wind/solar, which tend to just be green washing natural gas peaker plants, many of which aren't even combined cycle. So the easy back of the envelope here is, that if your not getting ~50% of your power from a nuke its likely that burning the gas in your house is more CO2 friendly (the places with lots of hydro also have nukes, so 1rst order approximation).

And the plastic bag thing, is again feel good because those bags both have a very short time to degrade (despite all the environmentalist misleading people into thinking they last decades, which is true when they are buried in a landfill, but that isn't the case they then talk about which is finding them in the open environment where UV destroys them in a few months to a couple years).

The plastic drink bottles though? Those are much more robust, but just about no one banned them in favor of recreating the commercial bottle washing systems we had before and that exist in mexico/etc. But again, one had to be very careful about total system costs, which is how we get back to nukes. We have to shift the energy curve away from CO2 sources, and the only way to really do that is to find a significantly more energy dense mechanism. And we have one, which is somewhere in the ballpark of 7 million times as dense per Kg and instead of arguing about the CO2 being emitted to move or manufacture things, we could basically zero it out with 40 year old technology and likely gain another order of magnitude of efficiency if we built energy systems with modern technology that actually burnt the entire fuel load rather than calling it "waste".

Most environmentalist are just as uninformed as the climate deniers, which is why we are stuck.

PS: once you start to understand much of the above you can also see how premium electric cars can frequently be worse for the climate than econobox gas. The numerical systemwide advantage isn't so overwhelming to wipe out the disadvantages in places that get a lot of power from coal.
Thanks for this explanation - makes complete sense but never thought about it!
Could we just stop? Please? I know it's cool to talk shit about Americans constantly but it gets old. I want to expect better from HN.

> The American obsession with helicoptering their kids all the way through their first job is super weird and unhealthy.

My kids, along with many others, were getting themselves to & from school without my supervision starting in third grade. Earlier, even, for my son since his sister is two years older and was with him.

This is normal. What is the fascination that so many Europeans (and others) have with making wild unsupported assertions about what Americans do and then build an entire critique from that?
The code matters less than the culture fit here. Nobody on HN can know if the code is really horrible or if the guy is really a guru, but it clearly sounds like you are way out of sync with your workplace.

If you have mobility and feel very confident in your assessment, you should probably just leave.

You’re not going to convert everyone to see it your way any time soon and so you’re just going to be miserable if you stay and don’t buy in.
Give two weeks notice, and get shown the door that day?
The parent statement is not that CO2 is harmless, but that it is not a pollutant.

Not everything that leads to harm is pollution.
I had almost the exact same exchange, with someone with a photo just like that! 747 area code, was it?
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Any tips for how to stay "outside the vision cartel"? (In the US, if that is relevant...)
My public-schooled daughter (now doing PhD in game theory in UCSD) has a best friend (now doing PhD in meteorology in CalTech). The best friend was home schooled - as they do it now in California, i.e. she participated in a rather intense network of online and offline study groups and community college courses. They compared notes. The conclusion: the quality of the education was the same. But in our - rather good - public school my daughter had to participate in a lot of useless and boring tasks and activities - a tremendous waste of time in her opinion.

So I guess the time that kids spend in public schools can be cut tremendously, instead of its start being shifted from early morning to a bit later morning. But I doubt that useless time elimination can be achieved via legislation.
> If I were hiring a trusted contractor I'd want someone better than me!

I hire a contractor because they have the parts needed on the truck, or know where to get them fast. I also hire them for their insurance in case they screw up - I've hired someone saw them screw up and not paid for their mistake.
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1. It's way better for younger kids to start earlier than older kids, gives time for parents to get them out the door before work (older kids can manage themselves). There's also some evidence that older kids have more trouble getting up super early.

2. Highly regionally variable (California summer is the best season by far, east coast summer is much worse than fall) - summer also has the longest daytime light which is nice.
Which price and who determines it?
Certainly a top shelf algorithm, unlike its namesake.
I used everything from pull sharperners over stones to polishing the hand forged, multilayer tanto I made for my dad's birthday using sand paper and a stone-water paste.

The pull sharpener works wonders if the knife has to be sharpened quickly. If you do it long enough, the edge is ruined (I talk actually years of daily use of the knife here, and even then a decent knife will be rather sharp). Stones are good to get nice edges, I prefer to run newly made, or abused, blades over a belt grinder first (I'm a lazy and impatient person sometimes).

And the full blown 160 - 3000 grid followed by stone-water paste polishing is something I'll only ever do for special occassions. Everything after 1000 grid, stone or paper, is for optics only. And even bread crust will cause scratches at that level.

Is all of that necessary? Course not, I do it because it is fun (sometimes), and well cutting knifes are a pleasure to work with.

Do those knifes improve the quality of the meals we cook? No, they just make the preparation easier to an extent. And in tje end the meal counts, not the tools you used to cook it.
it's true!
This reminds me of the following quote from the Preface to "Structure And Interpretation Of Classical Mechanics" by Sussman and Wisdom [1]:

When we started we expected that using this approach to
formulate mechanics would be easy. We quickly learned though that
there were many things we thought we understood that we did not in
fact understand. Our requirement that our mathematical notations be
explicit and precise enough so that they can be interpreted
automatically, as by a computer, is very effective in uncovering puns
and flaws in reasoning. The resulting struggle to make the mathematics
precise, yet clear and computationally effective, lasted far longer
than we anticipated. We learned a great deal about both mechanics and
computation by this process.

[1] https://archive.org/details/StructureAndInterpretationOfClas...
Almost sounds like a cry for help. O_o Probably not though.
Regarding additionality: does this mean that, for purposes of the offset, you’re trusting that the technicians you train wouldn’t have properly recovered the refridgerant anyway? Do you have some rough statistics to suggest this? There’s also the issue of self-selection: the techs that work with you are probably more likely than the general population to be properly reclaiming already, for instance since the marginal gain from your program is greater for them (same money for no additional work). Have you considered this?
This seems more like a jogged memory than anything relevant to link.
Yes, maturity in the US seems delayed compared to many places. I feel it's because the laws and nosy neighbors have basically made it impossible to give kids responsibility. Nobody wants to hire kids because of the labor laws. Kids don't want to work because they get everything handed to them or the cost of stuff like transportation is too high. Let your young kid play alone? You might have the cops called on you.
My wife and I were thinking of homeschooling. Socializing kept us back.

Then we joined a church with an active homeschooling group. The kids meet up multiple times a week, with and without parents. They even take classes together (parents hire tutors for a group of kids, or one parent takes a group of kids for a class).

This has alleviated our fears. I think our daughter will get more socializing here and not just in the classroom. The group regularly (>1 / month) takes field trips, goes on outings, and we're even going camping with them this summer.

So anything you can do to replicate that... would be great
we use a custom rendering engine that sits on top of leaflet
I guess everyone's strategy in the crypto space is put everything you have on bitcoin and hope it goes up.

It's a really good strategy, when it works.
Compilation command is:

nim c -d:release --passC:"-flto" --gc:markAndSweep --out:ap ap.nim

I will add that once it's been run a few times, it does go a bit quicker (down to ~0.7s) but the Go also gets quicker (down to 0.28s for two outputs when files are cached.)
Yes completely agree regarding blaming the husband. Without the - likely unobtainable - certainty that that was the cause, why even suggest that…
I think we can probably rule out OpenAI and equivalent cloud services allowing people to use their APIs to run phone scams. It's even worse PR than bots saying racist things.

And if they need to train their own model, you can get a lot of slaves and poor wannabes for the price of one competent NLP engineer, and the slaves and poor wannabes are less likely to decide they're the brains of the outfit and cut you out of the loop.
> (At this point the researchers became somewhat concerned that the noise from the toaster would wake the neighbors and attract undue attention. However, we decided that we were already committed to the experiment and that the neighbors would be able to sacrifice some sleep in the name of science.)

Problematic to conduct human research without any noted IRB approval.
Too many murders?
Same. My parents both worked, but they were so shocked by how little we learned in schools that they'd spend the evenings tutoring my brother and I, such that, by the time we learned anything in school, we had already learned it. Ultimately, we were homeschooled, and school was daycare.
I assume you commit seppuku at that point to restore your honor.
To minimize risk? Why would they go into perhaps an area with heavy construction/blockage when they can just reroute? Humans reroute all the time in those instances.
It hasn’t collapsed yet because the people who predict a collapse keep cherry picking data to justify their doomsday predictions.

There are just as many or more indicators that things are going great.

Yes, we’ve had some road bumps here in the past couple years, but that’s on the tail of the strongest expansion of the world economy in human history.

At the end of the day, the strength of the economy is just a matter of the exchange of goods and services. As long as people are working and spending, the rest is just microeconomic noise.
Have you read the relevant research on the subject?
What's so bad about Boss pedals. I _love_ how they look. Their retro-futuristic vibe (it's genuine vibe, they haven't changed since 80s).
In principle you could say each array element has its own transceiver. But the computational load goes up with the number of distinct beams, and tight enough beams to address each subscriber individually would anyway need an array orders of magnitude bigger than the actual satellite. So instead we have binning by solid angle and frequency, and also TDM and software-level addressing. Some of that must be what makes uplink data rate so much lower than downlink.

Point is just that practical limits make things rather worse than what a subscriber might naïvely hope for.
1990s Corvette engine is just marketing wank on top of "boring 90s smallblock V8"

It was probably just what he had sitting around.
I think the only conclusion that I'm jumping to is that it was malicious. At best, it's a bad and very likely unconstitutional policy.

Framing it as "asking" is dishonest- a cease and desist is a demand that you stop with an implied legal action if you don't. It didn't say "hey if this progresses, you might be criminally liable"- it calls out this specific tweet as potentially criminal and threatens federal charges.

As a side note, I tried to read the tweet again and it's been deleted, so who knows. Maybe all this was made up and maybe there was more to it or maybe DHS disappeared her. Either way, without more context I'm 100% unwilling to budge on this being an abuse of power.
That's not what the research says. They aren't just implementing this policy for no reason. It's a complicated topic, but there's really good reason to believe that this will be beneficial.

A few sources, there are tons more:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15402002.2014.96...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1111/sbr.12003

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07420528.2012.65...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1540200070126380...
Should have hosted it with Njalla and watched Nissan fumble around trying to figure out who to sue
Were they gambling with customer funds? I don't understand how they lost crypto they were simply holding as a custodian...
To be fair, my wife says the same thing about the photos I take with my phone.