skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Methane (CH4) causes 80-100X the radiative forcing than CO2. So even though CO2 levels are >400 ppm and CH4 is "only" 2 ppm (natural levels are about 1/3 of that) the rise of methane levels is estimated to be responsible for a temperature rise of about 0.5 C -- in other words a third of anthropogenic temperature rise.
I pray that Mexico gets the situation around corruption and cartels under control. It's such a beautiful culture, nation, and Mexicans are lovely people.
Assuming these numbers are correct - given that CH4 traps 80x more heat than CO2 over the first 20 years[1], it would be the equivalent of adding another 21.6 GtC per year for those first 20 years. Over the span of 100 years, that CH4 degrades into CO2 but still ends up trapping 25x more heat than the same amount of CO2 emitted at the outset, resulting in the same impact as releasing another 6.75 GtC/year over the next century.

Nothing to dismiss, especially because that extra boost to heating in those first 20 years could be the difference between us hitting various tipping points, like melting permafrost and releasing yet another 185 GtC[2] into the atmosphere, and not.

[1]https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-do-we-compare-methane-ca...

[2]https://www.carbonbrief.org/imminent-tipping-point-threateni...
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Missed opportunity to hide a secret message in hops 30+ or such :).
Don’t let unscrupulous politicians drive a wedge between you and your allies.

The EU has certainly benefited from US protection but even more so has the US, US companies (but sadly not all US citizens), from the US’s position as absolute top dog in the world.

Also the problems with the health care system are unrelated to the cost of the military.
Yep, all the alarm clock program really needs to do for this to work, is to setup a timerfd with CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM flag set.

Then timer firing will wake the system.

That's pretty much it. Standard Linux feature across all systems that support system suspend and RTC wakeup.

man timerfd_create
I think a lot of people don't appreciate how open mathematicians are, in general, to work "outside the field" - it's especially baked into the DNA through lessons like e.g. Ramanujan.

This guy though, knows what the right way to present the idea would be, but for some reason (ego? knowing it's weak/broken? pique?) chose not to.
> Reducing methane is the fastest strategy available to reduce warming

Reducing and fixing or eliminating are not the same thing. How could they have worded the title better? "Limiting methane emissions will have an outsized impact given the cost"?
I have a whole box of boxes of 1000 business cards. I never use more than a handful.
Only if the climate is cold enough to need it in the summer, or a mechanism to avoid the heat in the summer. And of course, if it's more efficient than other sources, like heat pumps.
What people call "prompt engineering" is just knowing to do that.
Don't forget double-entry bookkeeping on that list. But I think your claim to a direct link is quite strenuous. Both the printing press and the Magna Carta (as well as accounting) had been well established for centuries when the Industrial Revolution happened.
Hence, the Euro is now worth less than the Dollar because there is no Euro without the Dollar.
Methane is like 80x worse than CO2 in terms of greenhouse effect. So that 0.27Gt of CH4 has the GHG effect of 22Gt of CO2. When it decomposes to CO2 it then still has the greenhouse effect of gigs tons of CO2.
> There's a term for this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude_(fiction)

Yes, I'm aware of this term, back from when I read Tim O'Brien masterful Vietnam War novel, "The Things They Carried" (which I recommend if you haven't read it).

A Game of Thrones has plenty of verosimilitude. The thing about it is that's about feelings, the emotions in the reader. If you read it and something takes you out of the moment -- "wait, this makes no sense! this character would never do this!", "dragons!? nobody ever mentioned dragons before!", "what, one man defeated an army of hundreds single-handedly!?" -- that breaks verosimilitude. But within AGoT, very few things do this. It's self-contained and, within the span of your reading it, self-consistent. It won't resist a medieval history scholarly review, but then again, it's not meant to, and neither is it "shallow".
Jazz musician and programmer here.

I wish people held off postulating about improvisation until they understood the first thing about it.

First off, modal jazz wasn't invented by Miles on the Kind of Blue sessions. He'd even used it himself in earlier recordings. Also, modal jazz isn't inherently more simple than what had gone before. Is it _really_ more simple than the blues scale? Nah.

And then this

> Instead of the control coming from the composer (read: the designer), modal jazz promotes a sense of discovery.

is just nonsense. Every other solo section on every other recording was constrained by the composer, by specifying the chord sequence. Whether that's a one-chord vamp or the later Giant Steps-style gymnastics. And what happened on this recording is the composer specified the chord sequence and then on top of that, told the soloists what notes to choose from when soloing. If anything, that's even _more_ control from the composer than what came before. And it being modal doesn't promote any more of a sense of discovery than any other framework for choosing notes from the time.

I could go on, but I'd just get more cross. Worse, it reminded me of an old talk by Kent Beck on Jazz. IIRC about a tool he'd built on top of Eclipse? Either way, he horrendously massacared the concept of jazz and improvisation, too.
USA has black passports as well ;)

https://py.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/274/2017/0...
I still love traditional business cards. It’s so uncommon now, that Zoomers find it a novelty and I immediately come across as ancient (although I’m a Millennial).

The cost is so minuscule, I use them almost like post-it notes, writing stuff down on the back for people I meet.

I’m sure they mostly end up in the trash, but it does beat handing someone a post-it note with my email on it.
I like silly artisan business cards. It would certainly be cool for them to survive if only for the demo scene aspect:

https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.%20LinuxCard

https://mitxela.com/projects/stylocard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZMiCK1-oM
It does not seem likely to me that Mudge wrote this document personally. The document either doesn't have a byline or the byline is censored, but I'm guessing it was authored by some lawyers and distributed by Whistleblower Aid, or perhaps authored by Whistleblower Aid. I don't think it particularly reflects on Mudge's personal views on the situation, and it probably doesn't reflect on his intentions either.

It's pretty apparent that one of the intentions of this document is to get Musk out of hot water - totally separate from "protecting the internet" and not a particularly populist goal.

I'd speculate this represents a collaboration between Musk and Mudge's legal teams, probably in exchange for Musk funding litigation from Mudge regarding wrongful termination. That's all speculation, it's just what makes the most sense to me.
Yeah, I left it at N because didn't want to debate the replacement interval: The point I'm making holds just so long as you agree that EVs need battery replacements much more often than ICE need major repairs. I think that's not debatable... and also because my personal experience is driven by the leaf which probably has the worst battery endurance of any of the mass market EVs.

EV total cost can be somewhat lower or substantially higher depending on your beliefs about battery lifetimes and your usage levels.

There are many factors that go in to battery lifetime so its easy to debate endlessly-- one of the reasons we really wanted to increase the battery size was so that we could usually charge it to only 80% which should substantially improve the battery life.

This is in contrast to an ICE where, especially in California or other moderate humidity low rainfall environments, an unused ICE will basically last forever. Some property I bought had a old 1940s military truck on it that at some point had been changed to 12v, and had not been driven since ~1990. We got it running fine with two afternoons of tinkering and a visit to the auto parts store, after replacing some cables and rubber parts that had degraded. And even with regular commuter use its totally realistic to get decades of use out of an ICE with nothing but intermittent couple hundred dollar maintenance expenses here and there, O2 sensors, pumps, etc.
First of all, congrats!

I can't answer properly given that I have never worked professionally as a software developer (yet), but I have learned to code while (and partially motivated due to) my second son being born, while holding a full-time job as a construction worker.

Time and sleep you will have available for yourself is quite relative and depends on your child. There are babies that sleep less and babies that sleep more, but in general, a well fed baby who feels comfortable in his environment will sleep most of the time and thus not demand that much attention, specially during the first months. What happens a lot is that they sleep for 30~40 minutes and then demand attention, and go back to sleep again. It is something you can manage, specially if you are used to work for short bursts of time and rest (e.g. Pomodoro technique).

You can also learn tricks on how to make the baby sleep and sleep better, and with time you will learn things that work with your baby. You can also negotiate with your partner if you feel that you studying is important, specially if you are the bread winner.
Right, they should repeal that rule. The expense is in the verification of physical documents. But if they do this online system for everyone then the cost would go way down.

And even if it didn't, it would cost perhaps $3B a year (because they last for 10 years). That's pocket change to the US government. Not to mention the savings from dropping the RealID program, which would be unnecessary.
Does a company need to be beneficial to an organized society, or does a company need to grow at all costs in order to accumulate wealth? I'd argue the first, but America doesn't really have a clear stance. Certainly no consensus. I think this detail confuses the conversation a lot, because when we talk about growth, we could be talking about hard metrics like GDP or stock price, or we could be talking about soft metrics like livability, success, substance and quality, and happiness as a society.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/politics/surprise-medical-bil...

> Stopping unexpected billing nightmares is among the few issues to enjoy broad cross-party support on Capitol Hill and in the White House. President Donald Trump, who called on lawmakers to end the practice in May 2019 and in his State of the Union address in February, issued an executive order in September directing Congress to act before the end of the year.
I had a self-proclaimed "yellow dog democrat" professor in college that regularly bragged about intentionally wracking up student loan debt and then declaring bankruptcy to get out of it. He encouraged his students to do the same. There's a good reason student loans are protected from bankruptcy.

I know someone who's dad died from a brain aneurysm a bit after she graduated from college. It was a bad situation involving his mental health, and a court-appointed power of attorney stopped making payments to her student loans and didn't say anything. She found out when the loan defaulted. It sucked for her for a while, but she had an engineering degree. Her financial woes acted as a bit of a catalyst for her to actually go out in the world and get a good job, and she dug herself out.
You seem to understand the point exactly... as horrible as it is. (nudging people into certain jobs because they have no choice)
The Li-Ion battery that you have today is much better than the one you had 10 years ago. All battery tech has been improving year over year for a couple of decades now. We just don’t notice because the yearly change is not so large. New chemistries don’t come into play as often as it takes longer to work out the details and to make them ready for wide spread use.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
Regarding visualization of codebases, something I've wanted for a long time is a graph of function calls across an entire project.

I want to know all the callers and callees of every function. This shouldn't be too hard, we already have find references via LSP.

Turning this into a graph would make it significantly easier to manage the entry and exit points of a code base and inform architecture decisions, refactors, type checking, hot paths etc.
I was wondering why docx format would be chosen instead of PDF but they answer it pretty completely here if anyone else is interested: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/docx
We'll merge it hither. Thanks!
Show HN: Wavvy Audio Editor – WebAssembly port of Audacity
Isn't the data set lifted from Artstation for a lot of this stuff?

https://www.artstation.com/Rutkowski
He's a fantasy concept artist, not a like wikipedia page having artist.
I originally developed a WASM port of wxWidgets for https://dj.app/. When it came time to open source wxWidgets-wasm, I decided to port another complex app as a test case, and Audacity seemed like the obvious choice. In the process, I also needed to write a new host API for PortAudio for playback and recording in the browser.

https://github.com/ahilss/wxWidgets-wasm

https://github.com/ahilss/portaudio-wasm

https://github.com/ahilss/wavvy
Open Source or Private Repo?
Maintainers, if you had to do it all over again which would you choose and why?
Yellow pages, also.

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

I don't mind advertising whenever I am actively looking for something.

What I have problems with is seeing ads when I don't want to see them.
I would have invented paper and the printing press.

Gutenberg's printing press was a knee in the curve.
1) I am certainly not arguing over the idea that professionals tend to be more qualified when it comes to their fields then when it comes to politicians, but I would not be asking an orthopedic specialist for advice that I should be asking a gastroenterologist, because their focus is different. A medical professional's recommendation is typically based on both the average response and does not usually consider a larger picture, especially outside their field of practice. For example, you can stop a lot of things with premise lock-downs (drunk driving included) but you create a whole lot more issues like what we are seeing now. This is an area where someone who is not an expert in a specialized field but has enough understanding in many fields, not all of them related, will be the better decision maker. Not saying that all of our representatives are as such, but that's the idea. Take your advice from many experts in different fields and make a balanced decision (also being willing to acknowledge the possibility that you are wrong).

2) There are a lot of questions still around COVID itself and how it affects the human body that we are still learning. Things like long-COVID, certain attack vectors of the spike protein COVID uses, why COVID affects people the way that it does when it comes to severity of symptoms, etc. All of these are questions that effect how a vaccine should be made. Beyond that, for the vaccine itself I tend to look at questions like was there enough initial testing given the shortened time frame of both knowing the disease and the time to develop the vaccine, questioning the methodology and how the initial trials were handled in the development phases, does the body treat these RNA fragments differently after they have broken up, is producing the spike protein (which has it's own dangers beyond COVID on the body) the best option for protecting against the disease or is there another vector that would prove to be more effective, does the body suffer from having an increased protein development response at the injection site, etc. Even now, we are discovering more effective ways to treat the disease and I would image the next 5 years or so will yield treatments that potentially reveal how the vaccine was a stop-gap measure and that there are likely better ways to treat this disease.
>I don't really see the relevance if you're arguing "no, sex-selective abortions will not happen."

OP argued that there will be abortions based on sexual orientation as a justification for hiding research results from the public. As one of my counter-arguments, I argued that this isn't inevitable by providing a counter-example of lack of sex-selective abortions in most of the world (specifically the society I grew up in).
I think the idea of copyright being applicable to training data in the first place is absurd. The point of copyright isn't supposed to be "no one can ever use my things for anything", it's "no one can take my work and claim they made it, or give people access to it without asking me first". When data is given to a neural network for training, that is neither of those cases (training an AI on someone's work doesn't reproduce that work, especially when the training set contains tons of other peoples' work; and if your work is accessible enough to become training data in the first place, then at the very least you have given access to it for the person using it as training data). So trying to claim copyright prevents your work from being used as AI training data is a total perversion of copyright intent.

Copyright was always meant to be a protection against credit theft and others profiting by reproducing your work without your permission. It has largely become a capitalistic troll playground where "you've used my work anywhere" and "this seems kind of like my work" are treated as grounds for legal action. And that's messed up.
When SF bought Heroku, it was something like, hey! We need to get on board with this cloud stuff. Our infrastructure using these pods of oracle + big iron no longer make good sense. So, as a multi billion dollar company what do they do. They don't pay for services, they don't build it from the ground up, they buy the hottest business on the market at the time.

For the first few years it was somewhat hands off. Let things gel and start installing SF leaders into the upper ranks on the Heroku org. Then the endless strategic plans to integrate and transition both advancing SF existing stacks and extending Heroku stacks with SF specialty hooks. Heroku Connect, etc.

The young elite engineers at Heroku had very little interest in build CRM product. So it wasn't necessarily full blown revolt, but rather total lack of enthusiasm and effort. Which led to some key firings in management, and more crony installation until the real heads of Heroku took the reigns and secretly put all future energies into SF integration to the extent that Heroku should ultimately become a product wing of SF much Einstein, <fill in the blank> Cloud..etc.

At this point, upper management told Heroku staff not to worry. Nothing is getting cancelled and every manner of 'remain calm' language. Narrowly curbing a full blow revolt. The key facilitators of which being coaxed into supplying company wide admissions that they were wrong, and everything is fine, and hurray, I love Heroku and I love SF. All of them were then discreetly fired weeks later, some of which continued the ruse, probably under duress, that everything is great and this is just a move based on growing a career and not dissatisfaction.

Over the next couple years, the typical corporate agenda played out of endless cost cutting, employee benefit slashing, and general freedom neutering. The talent by this point had drastically evaporated.

And here we are today. No talent to extend and create new services. No ability to keep pace with other cloud offerings. Continued denial about the true reality of what is going on with the business. With multi million dollar customers more or less in the dark about the fact they are running on what is tantamount to abandonware. Enter the first waves of service sun setting seasoned with a nice dose of kool aid.

You need to realize something else. Heroku was never unprofitable while SF owned them (possibly ever). It's just that the millions Heroku was generating was literally peanuts compared to the SF earnings. They needed to scratch an itch and thought they could do it by just buying the tool factor rather than the tool. The fact that they drove the tool company into the ground is of little consequence when you look at the numbers in play.

There are specific people who are directly culpable for the downward spiral of Heroku. Yes-men/women without a single stitch of the vision and drive that created Heroku and it's earlier success.

Heroku died in my arms years ago. It's all very sad.
It could also be that one party WANTS to provide good services while the other party is bought by the private industry and thus never wants government services to be good.

EXAMPLE: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/biden-cannot-fir...
Yes, and parental kidnapping is a real issue that happens fairly frequently. This is a reasonable policy - it might not be in a smaller country but if you're in Missouri and getting a passport for a kid, you are going a long distance no matter what.
Aren't there? You should have a candid conversation with a plumber sometime. I think you'll be surprised.
I really don't like the two trends Github is pushing for:

1. Code editor is full of telemetry and costs money, only accessible over the internet.

2. Code regressing into lots of boilerplate and automatically copied stack overflow answers by copilot, programmers using less critical thinking skills.

I don't trust Microsoft either.
Except every attorney that has taken a look disagrees with you. So it is complex and unless you have any standing or new data I think it's safe to dismiss your entire argument.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/06/github-copilot-initial-th...

https://fossa.com/blog/analyzing-legal-implications-github-c...

https://felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringin...
I guess those people only have one job their whole lives, too, and never lived before Gmail became popular.
Comments moved thither (mostly). Thanks!
I think Tesla invented an electromechanical way to convert AC to DC.

Also, vacuum tubes work as rectifiers, and are much lower tech than semiconductors.
In America, in most states, Driver's Ed is optional, which I think is beyond ridiculous. People expect your parents to teach you to drive, which leads to gaps in knowledge (A significant percentage of people in the USA don't think you should keep right except when passing), and in some cases, flat-out wrong teachings.

Even when there IS a Driver's Ed class, there's not enough behind-the-wheel time. They need to include hands-on lessons on emergency maneuvers, especially in the rain, so people can get an understanding for how the car will handle, rather than a trial-by-fire the first time they have to slam their brakes in the rain.
The problem is rarely lack of funding but rather a complete lack of work ethic.

I’ve known people that have worked at the DMV on a temporary basis and they would get in trouble every time they got work done because they made regular people look bad.

The idea is is that if you can not fire a person, department, agency or whatever but you’re forced to use them than the end result will often be bad.

Basically the exact same reasons that most people hate HOAs.
I still prefer taking and giving traditional paper cards when meeting new business acqaintances. Need to order a new batch soon, actually.

Any recomendations for high quality printing services? Preferably one that can do all the stuff they talk about in American Psyco!