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>you send an engineer or a mechanic with the Handbook of Chemistry.

Yeah, you want someone who, armed with some basic knowledge can build things. CRC Chemistry Handbook, B&M mechanical engineering handbook, Henley's formulas, How Things Work, information on finding and refining basic materials, how to invent everything...
If I understood correctly, I don't think it's a good idea to waste energy to cover base load. It can be used for useful things instead.
Where can I get stuff from better?

Most big-box stores have horrible stock and their online systems are pretty lackluster, including shipping times.

I don't use Amazon to find what I want to buy - I know what I want to buy (for the most part) before I even begin to look at Amazon. Too many crap brands to rely on Amazon's search features.
Where are you seeing the ability to do it online? You can't as far as I can tell (I just did it).

> "Currently, the process requires filling out a renewal application called DS-82, providing a passport-sized photo, and calculating fees, plus tossing the current passport and potentially other identification papers in the mail. “It’s scary to mail in your [old] passport, marriage certificate, and other documents and hope you’ll get them back,” Rathner says."

You need to print the forms, staple a proper photo to them, and mail all your crap via USPS. The only thing you can do online is print the form (you can fill in the data first, but that's not the hard part).

When I hear "you can already do everything online" I think click submit and be done. You can't currently do that. It's barely a step above picking up the forms at USPS (where you have to go anyway).
Not really. Converting all the energy to work would be 100% efficiency, converting none of it would be 0%. It's an absolute measure.

Now sure there are subcategories where 100% efficiency is the maximum theoretical efficiency (like the carnot cycle limit of 37% for heat engines), but that's already misleading info if not specified.
D'oh. The whole panel vanishes when I shrink the window down (macOS Safari and Firefox on Linux).
The C++ conference has .. problems. https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo/status/1560539777300037632
Thanks! That's tempting to drop the patch and just stay with the upstream.
> your comment suggests a misunderstanding. Cows convert inert carbon from feed into methane, a much more potent greenhouse gas. Not all carbon is created equal from the perspective of climate.

Your comment also suggests a misunderstanding. Methane has an atmospheric lifetime of only ca. 10 years. A constant source of methane will not lead to increasing atmospheric methane levels, nor to continuous warming. Whereas a constant source of CO2 will.
> has a better return in terms of welfare

maybe. If it becomes normalized, it would alter the cost-benefit dynamic in degrees even more and not place as much pressure on pursuing a more valuable degrees. Hopefully this is a one-and-done and we can be more creative going forward, like providing more grants for deeper, more fundamental degrees like chemistry, math, computer engineering, manufacturing, etc.

> same can be said about financial sector bailouts, agricultural subsides

agree. we need to let companies properly decompose. It unintuitively creates more growth, and new companies are created from the ashes. Injecting old companies with formaldehyde creates sclerotic monoliths.
And AR-15s hurt no one. Yet they are purposed to have massive killing power against humans, and massively amplify the damage a single ill person can do. Hypothetically there could be some type of weapon that once discovered could end all life on this planet. If that weapon was trivial to build, it would take 1 person with that knowledge to end eveything. Human knowledge is a human construct, and shouldn’t be thought about in absolutes.
>We were left with the impression that the USA just doesn’t care about improving these things.

I don't think our politicians actually care. They prefer to fight culture wars and pay lip service to real issues.
Ask HN: How to discover high-volume search phrases about a service?
I am trying to figure what are the most common problems that people Google when they are researching Playwright, test automation software, and then blog about it.

How do I go about finding out what Google search?

A few indirect ideas I've had are:

* Look at Stack Overflow questions with the highest number of views
* Look at GitHub issues with the highest number of engagement
I can't find it now, but my favorite of TIWWW was this chemical that just smelled terrible and did so in exceedingly small quantities. Like, a stray drop of this gets the building evacuated kind of bad, and people are asking what that smell is a mile or more downwind.
I'd rather politicians bribe voters than donors. Less chance of oppressive oligarchy that way.
> How would you board your aircraft without a valid travel document?

You lose your passport after boarding, or bring a certificate of naturalization, birth certificate, etc. that proves your citizenship. Or in the parent's case, try with the "Consular Report of Birth Abroad". I have no idea if the US accepts that, but it seems to me it should, since it proves citizenship which implies that person can't be denied entry.
It's odd that people can't work on something in which they're interested and talk about it publicly without being labeled a "crank".

Sorry, there's nothing holy about the Riemann Hypothesis; anyone can add their input to the problem, especially on ArXiV and/or YouTube. You know, that's how discussions can start, and sometimes people want to discuss things with others.

It seems like you might think only certain people should work on these special problems, and only if they do it correctly according to you.

Your comment is just an ad hominem, so why don't you tell us why you're actually mentioning this? Do you think the math is wrong in the relevant material from the article because of his RH-related musings on ArXiV, or do you have an anti-RH-researcher bias that you want to share with the world? Are you just hating on someone?
Does it though? Seems to me that the pace of innovation is mostly dictated by previous innovation. Political systems and organisations shift and change. What passes for the core moves. Meanwhile things march on.

I don’t really see how it’s circular. They didn’t have the technology because developing technology takes time. Innovation used to happen on a time scale which made political structures not very relevant.
there should be a feature on hackernews where anything Derek Lowe writes on any platform is automatically sent to the front page.
Most people when talking about a message queue mean something with a centralized broker. ZeroMQ has no broker (hence the Zero in the name), but maintains local non-durable queues between participating devices. When all is said-and-done it's similar behavior, but implemented very differently.
As a nit: US minor passports last 5 years, so it's around $26/year.
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If you can't have the existing chips, why not use your time to think about better chips?
I'm talking from the PoV of someone asking a question, rather than making a statement - since I did not study the subject. I merely noticed it on the side, without investigating deeper.

What I find missing in all the cow discussions is any mention of the huge number of bovines that roamed suitable areas of the planet, such as the North American plains, before they were mostly killed off and made room for cows.

Was the mass slaughter of buffalo that happened on 19th century USA good for climate? --Photo of a gigantic skull pile, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile-restored...

For how long and how many animals similar to cows were there before we killed them in most places?

Why are the cows such a climate catastrophe now, but the previous gigantic wild herds were not? (An actual question, not a rhetorical one, as I said, I did not study or investigate this, only noticed it)?

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As far as my thinking goes, the main problem is and has been that we dig up ancient buried biomass (coal, gas, oil). We have an above-ground carbon cycle, and it does not really matter that much if there is stuff burned and carbon shifting around various forms, as long as it's in the above-ground cycle.

The problem, to my knowledge, is that we fed gigantic amounts of below-ground carbon into the above-ground cycle.

I did not check the numbers (someone, please?), I think below ground we have far more biomass than we could ever plant as forests above ground? That's why I'm not excited about tree-planting projects as "solution". As far as my understanding goes, only a complete shutdown of all coal, oil and gas extraction can even begin to address our problem. And then we still need to get a lot of carbon back underground.

Cows act solely within the above-ground cycle, so I don't see them as a valid focus, but as a distraction. My focus would be on the processes that add below-ground carbon to the above-ground cycle.

If the above-ground carbon cycle only has prehistoric amounts of carbon to begin with, would cows, burning forests, etc., still be a global climate problem? As far as I know, that's not the case (independent of local deforesting issues, just looking at the "global warming" problem).

I know I'm ignoring always present movement - without humans - between above and below ground - only counting safely long-term stored carbon, not sure what those net movements are (without human activity)?

I also ignore "details"; such as if carbon is in CO2 or CH4 in the atmosphere. I think that evens itself out longer term and would be enough for an above-ground cycle that is not increased artificially. Our problem is the speed with which we add below-ground sources to the above cycle.
Right, but this seems like a "two wrongs make a right" argument.
It takes a ton of farm equipment to grow all the feed for cow, and they burp out a ton a methane. I think you're understating how much fossil fuel gets used in industrial animal agriculture. If everyone switched every calorie of beef/dairy they consumed with one of chicken/eggs, there would absolutely be a marked decrease in greenhouse gases being added to the atmosphere.
I've been checking Ponta Delgada out on Zillow for a while now.
honestly, it was an unexpected delight.
No one can predict with certainty what's going to happen -- but I find that a LOT of these discussions are not very smart, owing to missing basic theoretical considerations.

The only thing that matters is goods and services. People getting stuff they want or need, the rest is accounting. So then:

When the government "prints money" (which happens a LOT) watch who it's going TO. If it's e.g. these larger biz PPP loans, probably not helpful because the rich get richer. Student loans? Will probably go to real people buying real things, so probably a better idea. Still might be long term problems eventually, but historically -- no one (especially economists) has ever actually been remotely accurate in being able to predict this.
Well. They were sold that. They were trapped in unplayable debt because of this promise.
Are we going to blame the victims?
Ask HN: Lost in My Career
I’m 27 years old and started hacking around when I was 13 with vb6.

I’m realizing all I build these days are more advanced CRUD apps with more advanced security, but I’m bored. It’s a sad cycle because cost of living to support my partner and I is high, so I cannot just quit (she’s in academia), however my love for tech is still strong, but I need harder and different problems. What can I do?

My buddies and I want to start a company as we are all in the same position, but we have no grand ideas. What have you all done to exit the endless loop of existentialism in the field?
You're right that the pace will vary--starting with geographical determinism--but there's still some sense of a technology tree that has to be traversed to some degree whether more quickly or more slowly.
I bought a PinePhone to use just as an SMS gateway‡. My requirements is about as minimal as they come: it needs to stay connected to the cell network, wakeup when a new SMS comes in, and run my little gateway server that is listening for dbus messages. It often fails to do this simple task.

It seems to not do a great job of staying connected to the cell network. And it also often doesn't wakeup for new SMS messages.

I thought buying dedicated hardware that is designed to send and receive SMS would be better than buying a raspberry pi and an lte dongle, but I now regret that decision.

I've not tried to use the PhinePhone as an actual phone, but from the little time I've been forced to interact with it, the UI is basically unusable. Its incredibly slow and unresponsive. Often times it will just lock up for no apparent reason. SSH'ing into the phone has been the only reliable way of interacting with it.

‡ For the handful of services that refuse to work with Google Voice.
What you're describing does exist in a way. Depending on the TLD, domains do cost money. The cheaper the domain, the more positive signals it requires to exit spam folder.
A reminder that copyright infringement vs fair use is in part dependent on the amount of the copyrighted material that’s being used, the nature of that use and the transformativeness of the infringing work. Just because co-pilot suggests code snippets that can be found in a copyrighted work does not mean that the resulting produced product is in fact an infringement of that copyright.

Also a reminder that outside the copilot debate, the online rights movement has largely been pushing for scraping, deep linking and transforming scrapped data to not be considered copyright infringement, regardless of any TOS on the site being scraped.

To me, co pilot is a exactly that, a scraper that has scraped public websites and is now presenting me the scraped data in an alternative and often transformed form. It’s my responsibility as a developer to ensure that my released product complies with applicable copyright law, but copilot and the use thereof is not in and of itself copyright infringement.

That a tool can be used to create infringing work or infringe on copyright in general is no more a valid argument against co pilot than it is against CD burners, de-drm tools, vcrs, kodi or plex, scanners or any number of day to day items that have the ability to infringe copyright if the user uses it for that purpose.
> We were left with the impression that the USA just doesn’t care about improving these things.

The anti-statism in the US turns readily into "if you interact with the state, it should be a miserable underfunded experience" rather than "since it has to happen, we're going to make it easy and convenient so as not to consume too much time, money and energy from our citizens"

(unless a libertarian wants to argue that the US should simply not issue passports at all and .. leave it up to private enterprise somehow?)
This happens all the time because setting up an entirely new domain yourself is way less work than asking the internal IT team to set up a subdomain for you. If the GitHub IT team is reading this then yes, that means you failed.
There was a beta website that let you do the most straightfoward sorts of renewals online (renewing a "normal" passport and having it shipped to the US).
There is one way around the chicken-and-egg problem. Surface coal is mined. Coal production goes up. Mines are made a little deeper. Coal production goes up more. Land is deforested for more agriculture now that there is an alternative fuel for heating and cooking.

Mines get deeper and start flooding more, pumping is more difficult and you have an "energy crisis" as coal mines struggle to keep up production and land has already been deforested.
Protip: it would probably be a good idea to spin off the spam-sending service (you call this “Creator”) into a new company, separate from the anti-spam service (you call this “Inbox”). I would guess the two userbases (spammers vs spammees) have a fairly small intersection.
> Whereas a constant source of CO2 will.

Which Methane is. It decomposes into CO2 and Water.
It's a legitimate question. What exactly makes a US passport more expensive? The cost of labor, shipping, and manufacture isn't 4.5x here than that of Ireland. Even If the a US passport is less than a cup of coffee a month, that doesn't make the cost justified.
To me what is missing from this debate is the long time effects of letting this increasingly loose wheel of education for profit gain further momentum.

If you let your educational institutions squeeze every last penny of your future well-educated doesn't that also limit your countries ability to innovate?

If my paycheck would go entirely towards rent and debt payments, I for sure would look for a high paying corporate job instead of startup or freelance work.
yup, excellent points about the price delta and beta/gamma testing. I'm really enthusiastic about the technology, but will likely wait until my relatively good condition auto degrades and the EVs keep improving.
TNT is much less sensitive in some important ways. You can heat it up enough to melt and pour it without it exploding, and you can subject it to a great deal of physical shock, too. You need to set it off with another (less stable) high explosive.
This happens to me too.
That depends on which sources you are measuring.

Many swamps produce an obnoxiously huge amount of methane, so much so you can smell it everywhere "Swamp gas".

Across the planet we have turned profligate methane producing swampland into land for cities and farmland.
Likely for a security-driven reason: it’s primarily a marketing site that shouldn’t have access to the .github.com cookie space.
> The same can be said about financial sector bailouts, agricultural subsides and the outrageous 800 billions for “defense”. Cancelling student debt is a lot cheaper than the F-35 program, more democratic and has a better return in terms of welfare.

The two have nothing to do with each other.

I am against the financial sector bailouts as well, but it's important to note that the 2008 $700 billion bailouts were paid back

>> Early estimates for the bailout's risk cost were as much as $700 billion; however, TARP recovered $441.7 billion from $426.4 billion invested, earning a $15.3 billion profit or an annualized rate of return of 0.6%, and perhaps a loss when adjusted for inflation.[3]

> I am all in for a more streamlined and lean State, but until that time, I think that Raytheon stock holders and Wall Street can share a bit of the current pie with the People

The people that will pay is taxpayers and consumers through higher prices. I'm fairly sure Wall Street will be fine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...
Unfortunately anything addressing the underlying problems is going to take congressional action and our politics are completely broken at the moment so only executive action is possible. This dramatically limits the levers that can be pulled.
Because scraping a public website is different from breaking into adobes private source control servers?
In case anyone is looking for the size of the surcharge, I found it in the last row of this table: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2020-16559/p-555
If the organization is receiving public funds of any kind, then they should be required to (electronically) publish all submissions unless the authors withdraw.

There has been quite enough censorship and paywalling of research that my taxes fund.
There are two other companies working on satellite based cellular service. One of them is publicly traded. Starlink costs $500 for the hardware and $99 a month. I think the pricing you are referring to is for a higher tier professional service (I.e. a school vs a single house)
Some bitcoin mining startups are looking to start providing a strong economic incentive to collect and efficiently burn waste methane that you can't otherwise do anything with. Since vented methane eventually degrades into C02 anyway, after decades of 25x more potent warming, this a strong net positive for tackling climate change.

https://www.mswmanagement.com/home/blog/21277137/editors-blo...

In some cases, we can use the stick of regulation to require organizations to efficiently burn their methane at a pure cost to themselves, but that may not work on a global scale in a places with weak governance. But the carrot of profit may be extremely effective at proliferating waste methane burning worldwide.
No, it is a demonstration that the "printing money" argument is completely empty and that we show argue about the impact of the decision.
I've never had a leather chair in the summer before and there are times I regret the decision.
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Also added by Go: Type parameters (generics)
> Cancelling student debt is essentially printing money

And printing money is essentially an invisible (boiling the frog) tax which hurts the lower rungs of society the most.

Historically, it has never ended well, in spite of what all the Krugman sycophant types keep trumpeting to please and enable the power that be.
Actually, Russia has a track record of being a reliable provider of gas in worse situations than we are in today, reaching back to times when the Cold War was at its hottest. Outside of big media and some very ideologically-kosher circles, public opinion seems to be 'leave us our peace about that whole war business, make sure energy prices are sinking to an acceptable level again', with the mood becoming more explosive with every news article that tries to get us into the NATO party line.
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Many countries have passport blanks in every embassy. They're some of the most tightly controlled documents in the world given they could be used to print new, seemingly valid passports for anyone (if that country doesn't info share with the other, that is). No clue if they're being printed within the US in UK's situation, however.
Yes, I suppose it would.
Can you expand a little more on how having young students owe money to old people's pension funds instead of just forgiving those debts helps combat "the wealth of elders"?
Yeah, it's just interesting research. We can make chairs pretty well at this stage too via lots of different methods. For example, steam bending is pretty common as a technique and isn't that revolutionary.
As many of the comment here point out, you can view ALL government spending as money creation and All taxation as money destruction. The total money supply is the balance between the two. Except that banks and other credit issuers also generate new money. So there's that.

The whole worried hand-wringing over student debt as being terribly bad, but tax cuts, industry subsidies, and rich people loan forgiveness being intrinsically good is all very classist if you ask me.
Are we certain that they aren't empowered? I suspect the police department refuses to do their job to put pressure on the public and gain leverage for things they want, whether or not those things are necessary to address specific cases they're ignoring.
Methane traps about 80 times more heat than CO2 over the first 20 years, before it degrades into CO2 and then overall ends up trapping about 25 times more over the first 100 years.

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