skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Email is the paradigmatic example. You can export your mailbox and use `pine` if that's your jam. But in the real world, most users of Gmail will depend on at least one feature of Gmail that isn't easily replicable elsewhere.
Several questions ask to contextualize this measurement.

Here's a highly-cited paper in Nature (including some of the researchers quoted in the OP) that describes how an earlier survey of California methane emissions went:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1720-3

If I remember right, the state of CA asked for this survey. It was carried out by an instrument similar to that of the OP, but airborne, not on ISS as in OP.

California has standards for methane emissions (e.g., https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/fact-sheets/oil-and-gas-met...) that are now covering landfills and oil and gas infrastructure, and dairies -- three of the largest categories of large emitters.

(One effect of these regulations, that lay people may have noticed, is trying to get food waste out of the landfill stream, and into composting, so that it doesn't decay anaerobically and produce methane. In LA, for example, the LADWP is test-driving a program where food scraps - vegetables, but also meats and fats - are diverted into green bins.)

Strengthened regulations on methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure are part of this - I'm not saying the studies motivated these regulations, just that they are all part of policies heading in that direction.

It is believed that large oil companies are aggressively selling off oil pumps/fields to get out from under this responsibility. (https://www.propublica.org/article/california-oil-wells-shel...)

The ISS measurements in OP have covered (and will continue to cover) a much broader area than the California airborne survey - but with less spatial resolution - so presumably a broad survey of mid-latitude super-emitters will be possible in the coming months.
There's already a lot of discussion on the legal/moral arguments here so I'd like to comment on something more concrete.

As I understand it, an illustration for a magazine like the New York Times might net anywhere from $100 to $1000 and require 8 hours of work. An illustrator working for someone like the new york times or magic the gathering would likely consider this the pinnacle of a stable job. Many, including my comic books teacher, spent years moonlighting a service job before making it and publishing (Kikuo Johnson). With the advent of generative AI art, it seems immoral from a fiduciary responsibility point of a view that an art director doesn't train an AI model on their illustrator's art before laying them off.

I have no doubt that generative AI will continue to push forward irrespective of the legal arguments being made. I'm fearful for the frictional unemployment that comes. Having come from art school (and luckily working in tech), my illustration peers are creative but such creativity doesn't necessarily translate into creative use of tooling, business-savyness or marketing. All I can say is that I empathize with a lot of the fear and hope for the best.
I mean, being too online, at home, in sweats, doesn't make me a big spender.
I think the inspection requirement is fairly new, and only kicks in with new systems. That being said, at this house the water table is quite high. The well serving the house is only about 90 ft deep.
> As a side note, the people that run mastadon are a bit... off when it comes to ethics

Could you give more info... sounds like there's some juicy details here
You want everyone to join in unison for a collective effort to change the laws for everyone, right?
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I don't think jobs can really match tests that show your raw/diverse technical talent that can take on 5 niche experts with limited interviewing skills.

Really, any well paying commercial job has to have a lot of filler because there's very little money to be made in not finding the market for repeating the use of an advanced skill, and a lot of challenges around coordination over time because freelancer sites can find a low paid expert at repeating whatever you like in a vacuum.

So I'm generally happier with employers who seem honest about what the job is, what parts of my background I might use and what I might find boring, tedious, etc. I think I would feel pretty let down by a job after one of the pressure interviews if I really believed it was an accurate interview for the job.
Elon's vision seems not very different from the one any private equity firm doing a LBO would have: Maximize revenue and cut costs however you can to pay down debt.
1.2B is a bit harder, yeah.

I guess I should have stated that Twitter could have been profitable awhile back, and it was likely a choice they made to not be. Not sure why they made that choice, and it seems like everyone who does know why no longer works there.

My overall point was that large corporations have a lot of waste in them, entire teams dedicated to making shiny dashboards for execs who only ever look at them once or twice a year, or, something I saw at Microsoft, hiring vendors to write software, and also hiring another vending firm to manage the first vending firm. (Because MS, despite being filled with program managers and software developers, wasn't set up at the time to do short term projects so the easiest solution to that organizational problem was to flush a few million extra down the tubes...)
Yep i believe difficulty to get = more valuable but it's obviously subconscious and HIGHLY variable between people.. this is not hard science.

But you can see difficult selection processes make clubs more prestigious for centuries already. Jobs, colleges, fraternities. It's obviously a real effect with room to debate how much, how long it lasts after you already have the job not just landing it, many factors etc.. but there is no room to completely deny the existence of such an effect imo. Pretending like it doesn't exist is like a dodo saying "haha marketing doesn't work on me" or "haha air quality has no impact on me"
> It’s fascinating to glimpse these endless mental contortions about the immense significance of tweaks to a social media profile flag. I don’t think anyone cares except those same billionaires/VCs and journalists (...)

Would you say the same about GitHub stars? There's no end of people obsessing about those, completely oblivious to the fact that they're first and foremost bookmarks, and do not confer any particular sentiment for a starred repository. And yet, they're a popularity contest.

Journalists and VCs care about this because enough users care about this that it can be used to print money.
The dynamics on Twitter are quite weird. There’s a small number of users with potentially lots of followers for whom Twitter is an important part of their work or life. If you’re a journalist, being on Twitter is basically part of your job so maybe you should have to pay a bit more just like the customer of some business software ($100 pa seems pretty cheap there). Indeed maybe media publications should be paying for the blue checks for their staff. But on the other hand, these people are going to represent a large part of the draw of Twitter and so maybe Twitter should be paying them instead.

But other people use Twitter in different ways. If you mostly use it as a social network between your friends you might not care because they’ll presumably see your tweets because they follow you rather than because they found them in search or whatever.

If you’re using Twitter as a forum for discussions about some topic of your interest, maybe you’ll end up feeling crowded out in replies by people with the check. But if you’re at risk of being crowded out then maybe Twitter isn’t working so well as a forum. And I think that if eg A follows B and B retweets you, A should see your tweet whether or not you have a check. Maybe that isn’t so true with the non-chronological feed. If people in the community follow you then, depending on the dynamics, your opinions could still be spread via retweet rather than getting lucky in your position in the replies, no?

If you’re some reply guy, maybe your tweets should be downranked but then if you’re serious about it then I guess you’ll pay.
There are some houses even within the city of Bellevue on septic still.
Joining a server is fine. The friction between servers is not (why is this thread not showing every response from the whole fediverse, why is it so hard to browse what people said, jumping through different instances? Why are there two different UIs for viewing a message and only one of them uses your home instance etc)
Light-powered catalyst makes hydrogen energy from pungent gas
Thanks! I'll have to check it out. I've got an RX100 VII that I picked up for this purpose a few years ago, but haven't been particularly impressed with the concert results.
Any free software projects working on a distributed Musk-free Twitter replacement? We could really use one RN.
You can unpack those formats with `bsdtar xf PACKAGE` and that's something that is much harder to do with Docker.
The golden age happening under capitalism is a golden age compared to feudalism. I don't think he mentioned communism in his comment.
They keep solving weird problems in weird ways. My $0.02 ->

They should have:

1. Created a new “VIP status symbol” icon (diamond?) for people who care / need / want the prestige (charge for it or don't) - I'd almost fork the existing checks over to it for simplicity.

2. Kept blue check for actual identity verification (this is a real human).

3. Added features people care about (editing / etc…) to Blue and charge for them.

Tying the verification to features is...just odd. #sigh
Elon Musk's plans to revive Vine face a problem: the reason it closed originally
> Who needs one that cannot afford $8/month? Does anyone really need it?

A lot of freelance writers, in my experience.

> It is not just verification though. Verification is just part of the subscription.

That's a fair point, but why not make verification free (or a one-off payment) and remove it from the subscription feature package?
> Do I have the right to kill all of the fish in a lake? Presumably not because there are other people who fish in that lake who would be harmed. If there happen to be no other people who want to fish in it right now do I then have the right? Why not? What individual right would I be stepping on?

A simple answer about legality might be: "You can kill all of the fish in a lake that you own just as you can kill all of the fish in your fish tank, but not your neighbor's fish tank".

The legal cases in the Industrial Revolution that cropped up were the equivalent of a factory owner dumping poison in a farmer's lake and a judge merely saying to the farmer, "That's progress, sucks to be you". A strict adherence to property rights could have prevented many environmental problems.

PS: I'm obviously not familiar with your life experience and background, but for some reason it doesn't seem like you've encountered much in the way of libertarian style arguments on this before. I'm not here to do the proselytization thing (and I don't even think I'm a libertarian), but for the sake of enhancing your own arguments, I'd highly recommend looking into some libertarian-style environmentalist discussions on Reddit, looking into searches like "free-market environmentalism", or looking into libertarian-esque environmental think tanks like https://www.perc.org/ to gain a better understanding of what you're arguing against.

> One way to think of collective rights is that they are simply the rights of at least one individual we can reasonably assume does or will exist but cannot directly point to right now. Yes, the "reasonable assume" part requires judgement.

If you can come up with a better definition, I'd be open to hear it and noodle it over, but it sounds like there's no objective standard.

I'm sure your intentions are good here, but a hypothetical imaginary person's rights could always end up trumping an actual person's rights. Think about what happened in much of history. There was no objective code of laws and if there was some judge like a king or tribe leader or high priest or something, he just based his decisions on whatever he felt might have been reasonable. It was always seen as a great civilizational progress for humanity to try and codify all laws into a legal system that could be objectively understood. Not sure that what you're arguing for, based on how you described it, is anything but a step backwards.
Yev here from Backblaze -> my guess? More :D
No, but facing difficult technical interviews means I'm less likely to go job hunting. The prospect of interviewing is harrowing enough that I only quit a job when I'm really feeling a lot of pressure to find something new.
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Yeah, but CH4 detection was not why the mission was flown, so the PI is being careful to make this distinction.
Exactly. That is the frequentist interpretation of probability.

In this case it is easy to calculate. Probability to win x Money gained + Probability to loose x money lost.
You won't see one. All their past postings appear to be iPhone/pad camera reviews and they make two apps for the same. As a result, I am a little queasy about their objectivity too.
Half of ads is strictly more valuable than all of them. Whether or not it's worth $8 is another question, but people still forget it's all a supplier-driven market: there is, and is not going to be, an option to pay $8 and get no ads. You choose out of what's being made available.
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In my groups (gen z), I do not know a single person that even makes calls, ever.
Phones are on silent/dnd.

If you ever get a "real" phone call (not via discord, whatsapp, etc) it's either something you are explicitly expecting unavoidably (you would try as hard as possible to get them to email you or text you) or it's a scammer.
So I guess everything is "just another X" and nothing matters.

That definition of "successor" would make 99% of all things people usually call successors ineligible to be called as such.
capiche.com has some good pricing data and reviews from knowledgeable users.
You also have the options of pleroma, misskey, and a few other options.

I prefer pleroma.

I hold a great dislike for mastadon, though they are all compatible so feel free to do your research for what you are looking for in a software stack. It's hard to move when you establish yourself.
What your describing is just a different, more local form of centralisation. If your bank manager gets to refuse to give you your money, he has all the power. That's very very centralised, even if it's centralised in him, not in a CEO or a president.

I have 4 accounts at 4 different banks. If one of them refused to hand the cash over, even without any redress, I have 3 other accounts to fall back on. So my life is much less centralised than Wild West Bill.

The same applies to almost all elements of life. Back in the wild west, no one would date you if you didn't go to church. The priest literally had centralised power to refuse you a partner (and God help you if you were gay or the wrong colour or from a "bad" family). Today no one knows or cares. Very very decentralized. Ditto employment or housing or crime and punishment.
May I ask what is too commercial? I was considering researching Vuetify 3 for a future Vue project but I am curious what serious alternatives there are.
I’m a heavy Gaia user, always offline.

I make sure to go on airplane mode and hard-reload the app, and it generally works great. If I have week signal, or don’t reload it, or anything like that, it gets confused and constantly freezes.

The offline route creation is very iffy though.
Centralization is just the impact of digitization. Digitization is inevitable, because efficiencies are tremendous.

Then you will have a battle for control of centralization centered on verifiable identity, kyc and centered ultimately around financial system control, which is the center use case of centralized identity platforms.

All incentives during this phase are centralization, consolidation and scale. Decentralization efforts will be carefully controlled and excluded by very powerful interests. Financial incentives will prevent meaningful adoption.

The carrot will initially be digital money centered on banking directly in the Federal Reserve. Those licenses have been issues for several years and the direction is clear.

There is a lot of carrot left to fuel the consolidation phase, and as economic conditions change and global conditions degrade people will embrace centralized solutions in the short term.

Then you will have an interruption to the central control systems which will lead to decentralized systems.

It will take much longer than people realize for this cycle to play out. We’re still in the consolidation phase. I’m a huge believer in decentralized systems, but like self-driving cars, it’s less of a technology problem and more of an autocratic and powerful interest story.
> If he wants to, he could simply off the debt, or run at a ~1 billion loss for the rest of his life.

Can he actually off the debt without endangering his other businesses? Do you really think 1 billion yearly loss is something he can be comfortable with? His worth is in propery and businesses mostly, he does not have it sitting in a bank. That is the thing. He needs to maximize profits in order to ... not be in huge loss.

Like, yeah, this is political project of his and it is both celebrated (by political side that gains by him owning it) and yelled about (by political side that is about to be pushed away from there) for political reasons. But, that does not mean he can have it as complete looser - if nothing for ego reasons.

And his initial moves are moves of someone desperate to save some cash and panicking.
Yea sure it will....

https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/11/01/new-york-times-clima...

You climate change terrorists crack me up.
To be honest, this sounds more like a child's revenge of taking his ball and going home.

It really wouldn't even be worth it either, because Musk is worshipped on Twitter and Reddit and nowhere else. He isn't Trump, he can't mobilize half a country to love him unquestioningly. This is the only place where his childish taunts about turning Twitter HQ into a homeless shelter will find an audience.
verified users get priority in replies, mentions and search. Anons will be buried.
This isn't it. On the one hand, people acknowledge that transit resources, clean environment, water, electricity, don't grow on trees (and that trees are also nice). On the other hand, anyone who wants to control development at all is labelled as a NIMBY. Some of that is accurate, some of that is not. But I get it: you want your cake and you want to eat it also.

Tokyo definitely has places without (a) toilets in your apartment (you have access to one in the same building though) and (b) places without showers in building (you'll have to use a bathhouse). The lack of heat might be annoying to some people, and the insulation isn't going to be good enough to let your electric space heater work very well (so get used to using a kotatsu). Now, using a kotatsu isn't bad, but it isn't super convenient.
I'm pretty sure that there's a considerable amount of art hanging in museums, that was done by students of great artists. I think there are several Mona Lisas, done by da Vinci's students, and they are almost identical to the original.
>> Erlang does not use a contiguous chunk of memory to represent a sequence of bytes. Instead, it something called an “I/O list” — a nested list of non-contiguous chunks of memory.

is this cpu cache-friendly ?
In what way is the model chock full of unlicensed material? It was trained on unlicensed material, but I don't think you're ever going to be able to find a forensic auditor who can tease individual works out of the weights in a model.

You can't reasonably assert that a model encodes individual works of copyrighted material in any way meaningful for copyright. Not without a change to the law.
> It will operate a space telescope; telescope can dock with the station for servicing and upgrades, and equipment uploaded by regular space station cargo ship.

The co-orbit strategy is excellent, a short trip for repairs and easy to fit into existing schedules if something goes wrong. It's no James Webb but was never intended to be, about the same size as Hubble but with 400x the field of view. Guessing it will be cranking out the discoveries.
They may not feel good about their creature comforts, but indoor plumbing is an objective luxury to a great extent.

It is objectively better to not have to go out in the cold to take a shit at night, even if you're "poor".
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I already have it. It's due to the account being of a fairly big online thing I built circa 2008. That no longer exists. A blue checkmark was only given to people with impersonation problems, if you proved that any media (newspaper, online blogs,etc) had published about you, making that noteworthy.

I have a blue checkmark, and twitter doesn't know who I am technically.
No? If I took that photo with my 100mm f/2.8 EF macro, everything behind the caterpillar would just be vaguely green. There's be no structure to it at all. I mean it would be way out of focus. The DoF even at f/11 would be ~1cm.

The problem with the photo in the article is the structure of the background is quite apparent and all the details in the background have been multiplied into hexagons which is very distracting.

Directly comparable macro photograph of a moth. https://www.slrphotographyguide.com/images/butterflymacro.jp...
Meat, Wangouts, Allo, Duo(not duolingo)? Talk, or Chat?

I bet they took the team from Microsoft responsible for ramming the Skype/Lync/Communicator/Skype4Business brands into the ground and brought them over. Remember when Groove used to be Sharepoint but now it's a music player from them?
Lambda was a means to an end for us here, and we're not specifically endorsing its use in _this_ way. Our goal was explicitly to test our ability to handle many parallel connections, and to observe what that looked like from different angles.

We're a DBaaS company, and we do need to be prepared for anything users may throw at us. Our Global Routing infrastructure has seen some major upgrades/changes recently to help support new features like PlanetScale Connect and our serverless drivers.

From our point of view, this was a sizing exercise with the interesting side benefit that many people do happen to use Serverless Functions similarly.