skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One source doesn't equate consensus.

I've attached a few more sources to this post, but it does seem to be the general consensus as far as I've seen. Do you have any sources that contradict this?

It's pretty wild, but the emissions from transportation just so happen to be completely dwarfed by the emissions from the actual food production itself, especially when it comes to animal products.

"We find that although food is transported long distances in general (1640 km delivery and 6760 km life-cycle supply chain on average) the GHG emissions associated with food are dominated by the production phase, contributing 83% of the average U.S. household’s 8.1 t CO2e/yr footprint for food consumption. Transportation as a whole represents only 11% of life-cycle GHG emissions, and final delivery from producer to retail contributes only 4%.
[...]
Thus, we suggest that dietary shift can be a more effective means of lowering an average household’s food-related climate footprint than “buying local.” Shifting less than one day per week’s worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more GHG reduction than buying all locally sourced food."[1]

>Even if we don't agree on what is the worst, it's ridiculous to push one but not the other.

I mean, what is the solution? People are supposed to always talk about everything, instead of a specific thing, every single time they talk about mitigating climate change? I don't think that's an effective communication strategy.

As for the validity of talking so much about reducing meat consumption, study[2] after study[4] shows that "Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to date of the damage farming does to the planet."[3] and "“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car.”[5]

It makes sense to talk about it as it's also one of the easiest, highest impact, most tangible changes to make.

>You can't keep compensating for a few unwilling individuals taking advantage of the breathing room opened up. Playing a game prisoner's dilemma should be the first thing to get your head closer on the wanted list. How this is even negotiable in the face of a global threat is beyond me.

Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying here.

Sources -

[1]https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es702969f

[2]https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Acc...

[3]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

[4]https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/

[5]https://unfccc.int/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-meat

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221191241...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181023110627.h...
In 2022, in a HCOL, $150K base for an exceptionally senior/lead developer with 10 to 15+ years of experience, writing hard-core C++ and multiple shipped AAA titles, in the games industry, working on console or PC or mobile, with a BSc, that isn't connected to blockchain/web3/nfts/crypto, is actually on the high side. If the developer is pure Unity (even if they are writing C++/HLSL every day), you can cut another $20K off of the price. Senior developers sit around $100K to $120K. Mid-levels below that. I am specifically talking HCOL US wages. I got a "generous" offer last year where the company struggled to get to $160K base for the Los Angeles area. There's a reason that Roblox, Amazon, Microsoft, Google can slurp up pretty much any software developer in the games industry.

Artists and designers will rarely break $100k. There will also be project management (director & producer), and QA. Though depending on how the studio is set up, QA might be a shared resource and only get line items towards the end of development.

Tool & software budgets in the games industry are miniscule. Training and continuing education are non-existent. Bonuses hardly exist. You might get a $40 "special sale" office chair that at least four other people have had before you. Unless you buy your own or get really lucky, that keyboard and mouse you're given has been there since the company was founded and are now considered religious artifacts.

A fully loaded team of 10 developers is going to be one lead, two or three senior SMEs, 50% mid-levels (if you're lucky), and the rest are juniors or developers who are (non-visual) scripters building visual (UI, effects, game play) in Lua or some other scripting language.

We can argue the numbers back and forth in endless pedantry, but my salary numbers are going to be pretty close to reality, with $5k to $10k here and there based on current industry trends. I keep my finger on the pulse of the industry pretty closely. In 22+ years, high-end salary of $100K in 2001 has slowly crept up to $130K-ish in 2022. Over my 40 year career I've spent a good two decades doing AAA development, have been senior/lead/tech director and CTO, and run my own studio, built multiple teams and managed large projects and have hired a lot of game developers over the years.
hyoka uses a full recursive descent parser to parse expressions into AST, then evaluates to get the final result. it is very secure for math expressions unlike the eval function which can run javascript code.
you can try out a demo here
https://codesandbox.io/s/naughty-chatterjee-kr3bsc
I love these Derek Lowe posts. Somehow he mixes highly technical details with down-home folksiness. Examples:

> Hydrogen sulfide, for example, reacts with four molecules of FOOF to give sulfur hexafluoride, 2 molecules of HF and four oxygens. . .and 433 kcal, which is the kind of every-man-for-himself exotherm that you want to avoid at all cost.

and

> Organometallic reagents come from large tribes, and there are always wild cousins up in the hills. A good place to look for the livelier ones is in the simplest alkyl derivatives, and you should go all the way down to the methyls if you want to know their real character. Ignore the halides. Methylmagnesium bromide you can get in multiliter kegs; they might as well sell it in Pottery Barn.

and

> ... compounds with lots of nitrogens in them – more specifically, compounds with a high percentage of nitrogen by weight – are a spirited bunch. They hear the distant call of the wild, and they know that with just one leap of the fence they can fly free as molecules of nitrogen gas. And that’s never an orderly process.

and

> perchloric anhydride (dichlorine heptoxide) [is] a liquid with a boiling point of around 80 C, and I'd like to shake the hand of whoever determined that property, assuming he has one left.
Ok... I think I must have worded the first comment regrettably. I didn't mean to rebut the author's points, quibble or criticise even. He writes well, interesting and I like it.

I am taking this as a discussion piece and going into the other possibility your quote eludes to. 1-v-1 comparison to Rome is interesting, so is widening the field to "antiquity" or even pondering the possibility of non-urban industrial revolution.

I agree with your last points. I'm not even sure we have a sample size of 1. We're not even clear about what happened in 18th century England. Was it science? Engineering? Some set of specific inventions? Politics? "Financial machinery" perhaps, like the proliferation of trading paper like insurance notes, sovereign bonds, and stocks in early companies.

On HN, science and engineering seem like the main ingredients, maybe trade. When I studied economics, you might be surprised to hear, they was taught as economic history. They thought the main ingredient was stock/bond/insurance trading. Politics, resources and trade in the second tier. Technology and science was 2nd tier, at best. They thought of technology as emergent given the right conditions.. derivative basically.

I think a lot of Tories to this day are certain that Georgian politics, culture & tastes are what made England Great.

To me though... I have a bias/preference/opinion is to start downstream as possible. I think the IR's "killer feature" was mass production. The steam engine always seemed like the better symbol for the IR. So do trains and other engines. The humble flying shuttle though? An automated loom is an industrial powerhouse.

If I could go back in time and be some ancient King's investment advisor, I would be betting everything automated textile weaving. A water wheel would do me fine for power. We'd be the richest kingdom of any age, and I would finally be a guildmaster.
Let's rather talk about German adjective declensions, a much more pregnant problem in German than having to memorize a weird number.
A sim run for a few of my customers with very basic chips might take 48-72 hours on a crazy fast machine. The designers are also SUPER concerned with getting everything right--with chip design there's no 'fixing' broken parts. If you don't get the design right when it goes to the fab, that entire run is ruined. Millions of dollars and at the bare minimum months of set back. It could kill the project or even the company.
From the article:

So many orders came in that “[w]ith only two companies building plants, a rapid increase in orders escalated costs for major components and strained the limited supply of qualified labor.”
> search HN for blog posts describing exactly that

Know any offhand? Search is a bit tough for a common number like 24. The concept sounds interesting
Chernobyl happened because the Soviet Union did insane things with an insane reactor design never used anywhere else. Nuclear reactors built and operated by organizations that are not as murderous and psychotic as the USSR literally cannot fail in the same way. We ignore it as an irrelevant outlier because it is one.

And even if we do not ignore Chernobyl, nuclear power is still by far the safest way to produce energy. Fossil fuels release deadly smog, dams can break, solar panels leach nasty chemicals. Every option has some risk, but nuclear has the least by far.
Language models and image generation make fun demos, but do we have transformative use cases that'll actually require large ML compute in the future ?
Voice recognition and translation are the only ones that comes to mind, yet don't require that much power.
Is that not just regional accents? Don't most countries with a reasonably sized population have differences in punctuation? Or are you referring to something different?

As an English person, there are parts of my own country where it will take me a bit of time to get my ear tuned to the local accent and dialect (just this evening my wife's mother, from south yorkshire, used a word I'd never heard). But I was under the impression this is pretty common, at least across Europe. I've heard French people complaining about how people from some other part of France speak, the same for Germany. Is Finnish unusual in having a more homogeneous pronunciation?

I'm not being defensive or anything, this is a genuine question. As someone who struggled to spell at school I'm well aware of what a mess English is.
Hundreds of thousands of people dying per year vs mild inconvenience for wild boar hunters is hardly a difficult choice.
What you mean? Are you saying it's just better to do the back-end part?
i'm not well versed on key management outside of the blockchain space.

one key management wallet i like is https://www.argent.xyz/

maybe this is rudimentary by traditional standards but this an advancement for wallet management.

the key feature is you can recover access to your assets even if you lose your keys through social recovery.
After my spiritual experience 2 years ago, my latent worry / conceptual fear of death was also replaced with curiosity. But I was coincidentally faced with death recently and was disappointed to see my primal terror is still alive and well.
I have one. It's great. It's quite an amazing bit of tech.

I wish they would split out the market, though, one for the educational market for tests and the like, and one for the professionals with wireless and more open capabilities.

I would like for instance to ship images of graphs to use in a web page. Or to use it as a keyboard to type equations and calculations into documents. Or to have it connect to PyPI say to grab programs that can calculate complex equations.... etc.
> Very little of what I used on a day-to-day basis came from rote learning

The question is not how much non-rote learning is required to adequately perform any task, but whether rote learning is a necessary component of it.

By engaging with research papers (often requiring multiple readings), you "accidentally" also memorize a lot of the material (even if not for ever and ever), which makes it possible for you to "try to improve it" etc.

So all I am saying is that rote learning is a necessary component of applying any suitably advanced material. Whether that happens organically by engaging with the material deeply enough or on purpose by simply rote-learning is orthogonal to the need for that knowledge to be there.

At issue here in this thread is whether testing for such knowledge is signalling anything of value. I still believe it is because you'll have that knowledge with either approach, even if only one of those approaches will gain you more functional knowledge: basically, such a test is a proxy for you having engaged in the material.

Which is why I suggest a mixed approach in a sibling comment: test for knowledge of "factoids" to simplify test development and application of such knowledge where you are required to manipulate "learned" concepts (so only part of the test is hard to create and keep consistently hard/easy).
As an alternative, wouldn't it be better to invest into games that teach you something or sharpen your thinking? Playing fun games that elicited curiosity and boosted logical thinking had a lot to do with how I ended up doing what I do for a living (software engineering).
Self driving train seems like a no brainer. I suspect that even with the tech 10 years ago it could have been solved. Where are they and why isn't someone working on it?

I suspect when something is this obvious, yet we don't see a product, it has to do with someone in the industry fighting change and making sure it does not happen.
I think the simple grammar makes it harder, it is like assembler has simple syntax comparing to java but it doesn't make it easier to read or write.
By equally, do you mean at least one order of magnitude less?

And even your counter is a response to the reformation. I'm not a Catholic, you can't goad me into taking a side. I'm observing from outside.
"Knew a thing or two about negotiations"

Is this like, "Nice boxes you're packing there. Be a shame if something happened to them..."
Ask HN: Which SMTP SaaS Supports DANE?
There are plenty of SMTP providers out there ... AWS SES, Postmark, Sendgrid...

But is there any provider out there which supports DANE on outgoing email, ie. enforcing STARTTLS if the recipient domain requests so ?

(It seems governments and domain name registries love talking about DANE, but few actual email providers care to implement it)
Funny enough, "electricity" and "hydro" were synonymous in Toronto when I lived there in the early 90's because of Ontario Hydro. It was named for the electricity coming from Niagara Falls, but then yeah... like you said.
Individual molecules of air travel at speeds in the hundreds of meters per second (https://pages.mtu.edu/~suits/SpeedofSound.html). So it seems quite possible that individual molecules may be found quite far away from their origin quite quickly, even if the bulk is much slower in mixing (I'm not an expert here and would love to hear more if someone knows more about this).

It sounds like this substance is bad enough that a couple of molecules per Litre would make the air smell awful, which together with the previous point may explain how the bad smell could be detected at such a distance so quickly.
Conversely: " Blowing off steam: How clean energy could stabilize faults" https://temblor.net/earthquake-insights/blowing-off-steam-ho...

A summary of this publication:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03601-4

Seems like the perfect candidate for $165 million in DOE research funding.

>The Geothermal Energy from Oil and Gas Demonstrated Engineering (GEODE) initiative will provide $10 million to form a consortium of experts to develop a roadmap for addressing technology and knowledge gaps in geothermal energy, based on best practices used within the oil and gas industry. DOE will then use that roadmap to fund up to an additional $155 million in research to address those gaps. This funding opportunity supports President Biden’s priorities to deploy clean energy sources to combat climate change, strengthen our energy independence, and create good-paying jobs.
You can’t disclaim responsibility for shipping a broken device no matter how many labels you stick on the site.
Hell, the MOP authors had a lot of foresight. (And experience, I guess.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Prot... is such a good read if you are seeking to stretch your mind :-)
Bias? Let's just help human communicate.

My worst experience with customer service over the phone was in the UK. Poor guy on the other end had an accent (Scottish maybe?) so thick I could barely make out one word in five.
Netflix and friends won’t work over them. But with some clever routing, you can get it to work… I just got native ipv6 last winter and had to use tunnels like this for years.
ICE vehicles also lose range in the winter. Older EVs have resistive heaters but newer ones have heat pumps which use 1/3 the energy to produce the same heat.
twitter summary: https://twitter.com/natanielruizg/status/1563166568195821569 of the paper
Therapy is really key to sustainable improvement from ketamine, and I worry that it's just being given to patients without the therapy aspects, and what are they doing to do when it stops working for them?
Yep, Swedish and German is as closely related as English and German. It's possible that English and German are even closer as they share the same Germanic branch (west Germanic), which Swedish does not share.
I bring this up since it can be easier for the English speaking community of HN to relate to the closeness of German, and for a while consider being "easy as a dialect of English" to understand, in contrast to Finnish which is really difficult.
Excuse me, where is the rest of the book?
Short attention span is in large part because of computers, phones, etc. So putting ed games on them doesn't seem to address the core problem.

Our solution has been a no screen time policy. Education is strictly non-digital and a lot of real world, hands on learning and dialogue with real people. And our kid has loved books since infancy.

Does it have to be so strict? I'm not sure, but I do know that our society is inundated with screens designed to addict us and if I give in a little, they just beg for more. We'll introduce screens eventually because it's inevitable, but delaying that as long as possible especially during the formative years has worked well for us so far.
Vim's codebase is a shitshow. Neovim might be better in terms of that.
Inferno got more influence from Oberon system, because in Inferno userspace programs were working in the same address space.

But in Oberon everything worked in the same address space.
"Humans do not have biological race" is correct if and only if you change the definition of "race" to whatever definition these academics have made up expressly to make the statement true.

If you use any definition that wasn't specifically concocted to make the statement true (i.e. any definition used by normal people or by actual scientists doing real work, say prior to 1990), it remains false.
Search it for what? How is this a useful comment? Yes, the US has 3-phase 220/240 volt plugs. We call them "dryer plugs" out of habit and there aren't enough of them. Because they are "infrequent use"/"single use" plugs in the US most buildings don't have a lot of three phase circuits and expanding the number of three phase "dryer plugs" is relatively expensive. Expanding 120v plugs is much simpler in every class of US building today. That's exactly what I'm complaining about that we aren't doing more of, because it is much cheaper/easier and still a good start for the US. Level 1 charging is better than no charging.
It's coming at it from the wrong end, but I do a lot of this with kcachegrind, particularly for tracking down hot paths in Ruby, which is so dynamic that static analysis of nigh impossible. At least for the purposes of checking hot paths, it's quite useful.
Depends on perspective. I hadn't heard about this but looking it up quick and the reason it's considered too hot [1] is:

> After the 2003 heatwave, France’s nuclear safety authority (ASN) set temperature and river flow limits beyond which power stations must reduce their production, to ensure the water used to cool the plants will not harm wildlife when it is released back into the rivers.

And also...

> Since 2000, production losses due to high river temperatures and low river flows have represented an average of 0.3% of annual production. However, half of EDF’s 56 nuclear reactors are offline due to planned maintenance and work to repair corrosion which was delayed by the pandemic, just as Europe faces an energy crunch following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

So, in essence the inability to use the water appears to be a regulatory/timing issue, not a technical one, as far as I can gather.

While I wouldn't advocate for harming wildlife, I'd say the answer to your question is "locate nuclear plant developments in areas that will have the least impact on wildlife (or, where wildlife can easily be relocated and protected from potential harm)."

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/03/edf-to-redu...
That is an opinion piece from a conservative talking head. Maybe try linking to primary sources next time.
If you're working on any of these, it would be great to chat
This comment reminds me of Status as a Service by Eugene Wei.

"Some people find status games distasteful. Despite this, everyone I know is engaged in multiple status games. Some people sneer at people hashtag spamming on Instagram, but then retweet praise on Twitter. Others roll their eyes at photo albums of expensive meals on Facebook but then submit research papers to prestigious journals in the hopes of being published. Parents show off photos of their children performances at recitals, people preen in the mirror while assessing their outfits, employees flex on their peers in meetings, entrepreneurs complain about 30 under 30 lists while wishing to be on them, reporters check the Techmeme leaderboards; life is nothing if not a nested series of status contests."