skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So totally not a climate skeptic, but part of the reason for this is because models are often wrong, and the more complex the system, the more likely it is to be off I think.

So to be fair to humans, skepticism is often rational, in the sense that science of complex systems can be off.

The part I have not totally understood is that there are good reasons to be more energy efficient and ecologically sensitive even in the absence of climate change per se.
That's exactly what was meant. With Loom Java will hopefully not have the same function split as languages like JavaScript (or C# for that matter) where you have to add lots of async/await everywhere; and instead will have something like Go (where everything is async).

https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...
If you want a deeper dive on this concept read Ray Kurzweil's How to create a mind. Ray pioneered a lot of the concepts speech recognition and his book is a fun read and greatly expands on these concepts as well as Ray's ideas on how to build AGI.
Star marine ecologist committed misconduct, university says
That's a good point. Though, it might be possible to tack the sequestration step onto existing thinning and/or fuel reduction projects.
surveying the actual forests is ongoing, with certain old-fat-bureaucracies trying to control the budgets, with over-caffeinated do-gooders on their backs. However some good news is that an individual researcher got a Nature publication credit for a drone+machine learning method to detect dead trees, a few years ago.

The majority of pine-beetle related deaths are in the southern range of the Sierras, south of Yosemite, but it occurs well into the North, as mentioned. Even conservatives, cant-be-bothered people have noticed the huge stands of dead trees, because you see them when driving to Yosemite for vacation. Meanwhile greens have been flipping out amongst themselves for years.

The forest carbon studies executed on Azure cloud mentioned here, have agenda and suffer from ordinary capitalist-picked experts problems, but generally we should all support more quantitative, fact-based decision making.

The dunce cap here definitely goes to the US Forest Service, and cronies, who have for 100 years, exercised their extensive muscle to prove without a doubt that they are in fact, red-neck badge-wearing troglodytes from a Robin Hood movie, for the most part; dramatic exceptions within the ranks noted.
From what I’m seeing RCS just isn’t a true solution. Apple and Google should come together to create a standard outside of the carriers.
Completely disagree. I have tried 3 fintechs. I still use two as my primary "banks".

They got rid of all the fees and BS the banks had been abusing me with for decades. There have been a few times traditional banking was better so I used a credit union I kept open. All my other traditional bank accounts have been closed for years.
Assembling a Query Engine from Spare Parts
I would 1000% live in a world where Facebook bought Unity. Ignoring how shitty they are otherwise, they could let Unity be Unity and remove the distraction of monetization from a game engine company.

Alas, Unity leadership (CEO) had delusions of world domination and here is where they find themselves. I’m sure Facebook even made a prelim offer behind the scenes and Unity scoffed because they thought they would be a $50b company.
I use the `ln` command a lot. I use the `man ln` command _almost_ as much.
Common Lisp OpenGL programming tutorial #11 – Animation
I get a little offended by people who think stackoverflow is a character flaw. I go there because it will tell me things like if you get the arguments to ‘dd’ wrong you’ll zero out the drive you were trying to back up. That the function breaks if you pass in null for the second parameter. Or that it simply doesn’t work properly.
> iMessage is one of Apple’s most valuable psychological tricks to keep people within the ecosystem, or convert others to join in.

Perhaps a kernel of truth there, but the real success of iMessage is how it gives you all the features of a modern instant messaging platform without any hassle. Built in to the phone, same app as SMS with automatic fallback, available on MacOS, not limited to a phone#, etc.

Yeah, I can go download one of a number of other IM apps. A small fraction of people I interact with will be reachable on any given app, but a majority are reachable with iMessage. The network effect is very real.
If your features don't involve utilizing stuff like S3, SNS, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudWatch Metrics / Alarms, you're probably missing out on a lot of value. Nobody wants to spend time "writing CDK stacks to create databases or what not," but implementing tough features without these services can easily involve exponentially more work / maintenance / expertise.
Less than 1% of Netflix subscribers are playing its games
I have dozens of group chats with iPhone, Android, and even PC users. We never encounter any of the limitations of SMS, for the same reason we can drive across the country and don’t have to constantly scan for new radio channels. It’s just not a technology that we use.

SMS is the old, WhatsApp/Telegram/Messenger/Signal/Discord/etc is the new.
This is what keeps me from using Kicad also. In my opinion creating custom components is the #1 thing pcb editors should focus on, but most freeware or libre pcb editors assume you'll mostly want to pull parts from a standard bank. That's fine, but I like to customize my footprints and also carefully validate them against the manufacturer datasheet.
> android.com

I'm sure they are not biased at all
Putting the car in neutral should be tried first, since it disconnects the engine from the wheels.

Handbrake stops the wheels immediately. At 10mph might not be that bad but still, neutral is the safest bet IMO
Grin [1] requires interactivity between both parties to transact.

1. Https://grin.mw
> I have yet to hear anybody actually describe what they propose to do to cool down the planet and (supposedly) make it sustainable.

Plenty of people did just that. You can start with the IPCC reports. A lot of think tanks also published reports focused on specific countries. Not knowing is not an excuse, particularly when so much noise has been made on the subject and so much information is available.

> I have heard a lot of people insist that we need to raise taxes and redistribute wealth to social justice causes in the name of combatting climate change, though.

We (the rest of the world) by and large do not care about your culture wars. The fact that saving the goddamn climate we rely on is somehow controversial is maddening. You collectively sound like children arguing about who started and who’s the meanest.
Async stuff in JavaScript light years ahead of Java's Future madness. Loom might help but I'm not optimistic about it. For example Spring already kind of deprecated blocking http web client and new reactive WebClient is terrible. Will they create yet another BlockingWebClient? No they'll ask you to call `block` everywhere and write reactive nonsense filters if you need to enhance it.

Spring is worst thing happened with Java.
> In Europe everyone uses WhatsApp.

That's a bit of an overstatement and really depend on who you ask. I'd say that no-one uses WhatsApp. I know exactly two people who uses WhatsApp, but that also not representative of their actual marketshare.
Yeah, so I can wait in the lobby for 17 minutes while some 1.8 star museum app downloads to my phone over a crappy network that my provider lied about the performance of instead of someone just handing me a paper map.
I absolutely use SMS. I use Android and don't have Facebook or Whatsapp so if you want to text me you are gonna use SMS.
In this chapter, we will discuss in detail about MySQL data types, create tables for the travel application and then perform CRUD operations on those tables.
Can someone explain this in English please?
Part of me wonders why someone hasn't tackled creating an Electron runtime service, so that each installed app doesn't load what could be a shared library into memory. There's a host of complicated problems there, but if the major issue is fat runtimes it can be pared down like Chrome workers.
> If you're thinking of an app that has a timeline similar to the one you're describing, I'd like to see it for inspiration!

I should have mentioned this earlier but I was thinking of archive.org's calendar view. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/cnn.com

At the top you can see a timeline view with vertical intensity bars that can be clicked to go into a specific date range. I could see a possibility where instead of the number of snapshots of a site, it would be the number of bookmarks in the date range.

They also do something interesting with their day display just below. Instead of changing opacity the size of the bubbles around the dates expand based on the number of snapshots. In the case of bookmarks, I would think it should be possible to calculate the size of the bubbles once, and only recalculate if a bookmark gets deleted. Hopefully this would keep the GUI responsive.

Thank you again for building this!
Let me make this simpler, since there are a lot of comments like yours:

1) If I want to exchange redlined documents with lawyers, I need Microsoft Word. I cannot run a successful business which deals with law firms without Microsoft Word. Most businesses need to deal with law firms. If Microsoft shuts me out of Word, I cannot have a business.

2) If I want to promote my local business, I need to be on social media platforms which my likely customers use.

3) The same goes for niches. If I'm supporting K-12 writing teachers, I need to support Google Docs.

It's not a question of alternatives, best-in-class, or anything else. It's pure network effects. If a platform is >50% dominant in my market, I need to support it, or I'm out-of-business. No one will switch from Twitter to Mastodon or Parler for the sake of doing business with one small business. They'll go next door.

Once a firm has that level of market power, I think it ought to be regulated, both for the same reasons and in the same ways as railways were in the days of Standard Oil.

These companies can literally just kill a small business if they chose to. That's not healthy.
It's impenetrable to you because you are missing a lot of background. There is a formulation of classical mechanics that is totally different from (and yet mathematically equivalent to) Newton's. It is based on the definition of a new quantity called the action (which is a very misleading term, but we're stuck with it because history) and the principle that particles move in such a way as to minimize this quantity. It turns out that it's easier to turn the crank on the math for complex mechanical systems when you formulate it in this way. If you want the gory details, Wikipedia is a good place to start:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_mechanics

and if you want to do a deep dive, there is this:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262028967/

A free HTML version of this was available a while back, and probably still is, but I can't find it just now.
It's no different than half a dozen web "standards" Google invented like Web Serial, WebUSB, Web MIDI, etc. Google implemented it on their monopoly platform, and then declared it a "standard" and started getting their staff to start trying to shame everyone else for not adopting it as such.
Exactly that. When Mozilla started reimplementing it, it seemed somehow error stack traces started breaking for both firebug and the horrible builtin developer tools

That's when we switched to Chrome for debugging, and only come back to Firefox to debug endless loops and stack overflows (because their Javascript VM is still better at being able to suspend/trace those)
> Other than Android who is using RCS?

Don't forget Android has over 80% world-wide market share.
Whoever invented the car analogy should pay for what they did.
Compared with the Phoronix Suite, on Linux, just today: https://www.phoronix.com/review/apple-m2-linux/15.

Surprising results. Definitely not in the "very far" range.
Every car back into at least the 1980s has had an fluid level indicator switch and a light on the dash.
Why this will cause chaos is that Chainalysis and similar tools for sanctions screening are all / nothing - if the rule was that "anyone who has touched Tornado assets should be banned", then sending small amounts to everyone means that the industry has to ban everyone.

The point is to show the difficulty of using such a blunt tool. By the letter of the law, everyone based in the US is a criminal if they receive Tornado funds, and legally must contact the OFAC office.
I agree that a living tree is not much of an offset. Trees are short term (and small) carbon stores when compared to fossil fuels. However I do not think that burying a tree solves the problem. Unless we find a way to prevent fungus from breaking down lignin, I am not sure that burying a tree is a viable long solution for carbon sequestration. It is outside of my area of expertise, but I can find at least one paper that suggests that coal deposits formed before the evolution of fungal species that could break down lignin (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1221748). It is extremely difficult to turn CO2 back into coal. I am in favor of reducing forest loss (and ideally increasing forest area), but I am unconvinced that it will have any meaningful effect on atmospheric carbon in the near, mid, or long term.
> And his reason for starting with machine language? “Well, you can’t expect anyone to understand what’s really going on in higher-level languages if you don’t know what’s happening underneath, right?” Worked for me.

I teach a middle school class called "Computer Organization and Design". It's basically from gates and truth tables, up to implementing ALU functions, to understanding bits of sequential logic... then some handwavy computer architecture stuff to save time, and finally on to handing out a simplified, reduced-instruction ARMv7 THUMB machine language reference, and students writing their own programs on paper and assembling them.

There's a couple digital logic labs in there, and finally they get their own little computers with a simple monitor program that lets them enter programs, single step, and view registers.

I wasn't sure how reaction would be. Many of the students love it. Middle school students seem to do pretty good at this stuff, too-- their memory of learning arithmetic is recent enough that learning a bunch of new similar rules (combinatorial operations, multiplexing, hexadecimal, instruction encodings, etc) seems simple. And, well, no one told them this stuff is often considered "hard."
He's not. Zero emissions today, while impossible, would not remove gases from the atmosphere in a meaningful way, also something we cannot presently accomplish.

Past emissions will stay for centuries and increase heating globally for centuries to come.

All the reports stop at 2050 to 2100, but none of them have any sort of peak temperature in sight.

The extremes of today are only the very beginning.
Be careful what you cheer for.
Can somebody more knowledgeable confirm if all your coins will become forever tainted if you are "dusted" like this? As there is no way how to break ever break the paper trail using just bitcoin is only way how to make your coins clean going to monero and back again or something like that?
Are techniques determining if your coins are tainted or not on exchanges where they could be refused or confiscated sophisticated enough to not flag you in cases like these? Even if its possible I imagine its computationally expensive.
I think it's because climate change is used as a formal issue disguising the actual desire of acquiring power. It's being used to legitimize power acquisition and force and is often full of things that won't actually make a difference.
I love driving stick, except in congested traffic. If I have to be constantly on and off the brakes (and hence the clutch), it's not enjoyable. Best case scenario is cruising on empty roads late at night.
A Classic for Solo Devs (2004)
Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water
After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water
yup! here's how we think about the data integration problem. https://airbyte.com/blog/data-integration
Facebook's AI Chatbot: ‘Since Deleting Facebook My Life Has Been Much Better’
Yeah... and you know... a natural weather phenomenon. I thought this was about storm chasers or something.
When climate change was far away enough that we could have solved it with incremental changes, skeptics in the media mocked and denied it.

Now things have got bad enough that we would need more radical changes to keep to 1.5-2 degrees. But radical changes are just the kind of thing that swing voters don’t like, so we probably won’t do them.

I doubt we will come together and implement radical economic changes or geo-engineering solutions. More likely in my opinion is every country for itself, the rise of new, authoritarian governments and 3+ degrees of heating. I would take some kind of corporate tech bro dystopia.
Sorry Dang. This is a bad habit of mine when I've done the digging to find particularly salient points on a topic, I tend to re-use them in this way. I'll keep it more conversational and less copy-pasta.

I do think the importance of what Eben said stands on its own though. It cuts to the very heart of the crypto-wars.

One new tool that didn't exist in the original crypto-war: national security letters.
I’ve never understood that one. I realize it’s just a joke, but xvf/cfv (extract/compress, view, uh,. Ok I did have to look up f, which I think is file) and the z for gzip is one of the few commands I have no trouble remembering.
> I definitely agree with your second paragraph, however, and people who value current lives more than future lives will often come to different philosophical conclusions.

Trying to sidestep common arguments about the personalities, but I guess an example would be an ideal-version-of-Bill-Gates, and an ideal-version-of-Elon-Musk. Gates Foundation mission statement seems more weighted to current lives, while Musk is more oriented toward multi-planetary existence of future generations. Still some overlap though, Musk's can also be argued to be relevant for current generations.
lol, the goalposts have shifted from “nobody uses it for this” to “we can’t know if people use it for this.”

Imagine applying this logic to E2EE chat: we can’t know if anybody is using it for legitimate reasons, because we can’t see their messages.

Besides, you can check the chain yourself - if Vitalik is truthful, you should see at least that some tornado linked funds have been donated to Ukraine after the point he placed them in the protocol.
Several crypto projects were in their own right political statements about taking back control and decentralizing institutions. I'm sure there are government-approved enterprise crypto projects out there that are happy for you to use their services, but a lot of developers especially those that work on things for free are more interested in the mindset of who cares if someone sends me free money. You don't see the GNU or similar licenses putting in restrictions for sanctions for a reason.
I recently started a side new project in Java targetting GraalVM with language version 17.

Aside from Java's innate finickyness, it has been an unexpected pleasure. I think a lot of it has to do with its static typing (I typically work in dynamic languages, and it's nice knowing that if the program compiles it likely works), and how simple the language keeps its primitives.

But you need really good tooling to use it, like a powerful IDE with good autocompletion and refactor support. It is way too verbose to type everything out yourself, and the verbosity means manually refactoring takes lots of changes around the program to manifest.

The sheer amount of code out there to import is immense, there seem to be libraries for anything and everything!

So far, it seems like the time I lose to its pickiness, I gain back with IDE features, static typing, and the ease of understanding it (because it is so verbose).

I'm also not hot on how it seems to steer everything into a factory pattern, but so far I've been able to avoid that for most things.
Excellent podcast on the topic:

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/the-police-4-starlight-to...

Also a part of a larger investigative series on policing in Canada
> steeper EV subsidies

It will be at least a decade before used EVs with >200mi range trickle down to the $10-15k used market. Saying we should tax gas when poor people can't even afford it as is is a gross misunderstanding of the financial situation of poor people today. You can't even buy a >200mi EV for less than 40k today.

> establish nonprofit solar/wind farms

Who's going to pay for them? And who's paying for the storage?

> also boost the economy

Boosting the price of fuel would have hugely inflationary effects while everyone is still stuck on ICEs. We saw this in the 70s, we're seeing it now.
Ok this is the définition of gradualism, but it is a great claim, a nice story never scientifically proven. Which mecanism ? which statistics, odd of creation of functional protéins ? Since biochemistry darwinists have to work and to prove now !
It looks like only three accounts were affected, all three were org owners.
> they could let Unity be Unity

Some Oculus users would disagree with you.
Neat! I'm curious if you remember anything about this or the materials. I have developed something very similar that I teach to middle schoolers:

https://github.com/mlyle/armtrainer
Basically, the dielectric constant of air is not infinite. If the electrical potential is high enough between two points, air can conduct electricity.

If you put a small bit of conductor near two legs of a high voltage system, and that conductor has a path to ground, you can get now get an arc between a voltage source and the conductor (e.g., someone with a screwdriver loosening a screw is too close to a high voltage leg). This initial arc ionizes the air, which makes a pretty great conductor, so the amount of current flowing through the air increases really quickly as if it's flowing through an open circuit. The arc is superheated, can burn through steel (or flesh) quickly, and expands.

One of the hazards of working on high voltage is gasping in shock after an electrical arc - you inhale superheated plasma and it cooks your lungs instantly, so you suffocate.

Anyway, to prevent this, you don't cut corners as an electrician - you have proper insulation on all your tools and body parts to prevent this sort thing. You isolate legs of high voltage circuits, or de-energize the circuit you're working on with proper lock-out tag-out procedures.
Cats are people too, therefore they need to tolerate others, just like the rest of us.
To show how long this has been known and ignored I offer this somewhat manic sci-fi short story [0] written by my grandfather 101 years ago, in which a megalomaniacal ecologist has shut down the Gulf Stream by choking it off between Miami and the Bahamas.

[0] http://www.angel.net/~nic/jegers-mentoen-annihilator.html
Absolutely agree. Carriers have no rightful place in the discussion, they’re dumb data pipes and shouldn’t be able to nickel and dime customers on messaging quotas and features, as RCS is designed to allow.
The majority of benefits you mention are absolutely not applicable to the majority of travelers, specifically those only visiting countries for a short time in areas designed for tourists. Also doesn't take into account repeat tourists (e.g. masses in North/West Europe going south by plane every summer).

There's a humongous difference between your average Ibiza tourist and someone visiting Asia to study the culture. From experience, the majority is far closer to the former than the latter.