skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea, but there are a few questions I have for the plausibility of this approach. 1. Does mylar (or weight equivalent have enough reflectivity and flatness) to target a ground station? 2. How much light can be concentrated before becoming a risk (e.g., birds above solar panels, human eyes in vicinity)? 3. How fast will the mirror material degrade from solar wind and micrometeorites?

I assume someone has considered this scenario previously, but I imagine that SpaceX lift capacity and price might change the economics.
There won't be a miracle. The best and most scalable carbon sequestration is still growing trees without them rotting, but that takes generations to have an effect, assuming overproduction of CO2 stops right away.

But at this point we've passed the point of no return; probably years ago, with permafrost, ice caps and glaciers melting and all the effects that has. I don't think any CO2 measures now will help anymore.
Sure; I wasn't saying don't plant trees (street trees provide all kinds of benefits: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/tag/street+trees ), just that transportation and how we build our cities are so critical. I did not realize the huge, orders of magnitude disconnect between exactly how much CO2 driving puts out and trees sequester.

In other unfortunate news:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/gm-bolt-ev-production-to-end...

GM ending production of the Chevy Bolt in favor of bigger, heavier, deadlier, less efficient EV's.
"It's still too loud, man!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9h1pjTP74
I mean there’s a headshot of Martin Fowler on the page and… he looks a lot like the generated pictures. If his headshot was in there I wouldn’t have thought it was out of the ordinary.
You can have multiple mailing addresses and phone numbers. It's not even uncommon. Plenty of people still have a home phone number and a cell phone.

As for fake profiles, see my original post re: the "single consistent problem with social media".
Afforestation pretty much linearly absorbs carbon based on the size of the area you cover with trees, as a percentage of current forest area.

So if we doubled the size and carbon trapping of all the forests on earth, yes, it would make a big dent (solve the problem entirely, maybe). But that's unrealistic, because forests currently cover 30% of the land area of the planet, so we're practically never going to get to 60% forest coverage. It would involve giving up important things like farming.

It's not entirely a red herring, it will undoubtedly be a big part of climate change mitigation, but the first and most important step is to stop pumping oil out of the ground and burning it, like the article.
I wonder if that also affects less than 0.2% of global population...
Just happened to be playing this over the last few days and when https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35702201 came up, I couldn't help but notice the correspondence between the discussion and the game. :)
Cameras designed for this purpose can mitigate the issue, but "solving" it is not easy.

Cameras can digitally sign photos to authenticate provenance. You can add timestamps and GPS coordinates to the signature, though you may be able to subvert those with enough effort. You still need to trust that whoever held the camera when it took the photo was pointing it at an actual event, not at a screen.
Maybe it does mean that.

I'm really looking forward to the great humbling that AI will bring artists who for some reason feel their craft is sacred and thereby should be gatekept and protected.

Don't get me wrong, I love art and think it's important. But so is medicine and plumbing.
This is going to sound kind of cynical, but the primary mechanism of democratic — popular — feedback, in most countries around the world, is embarrassment. In the West, embarrassment means you lose elections; in less democratic countries, it may mean you get forced from power by other means.

So the optimal climate target should maximize the utility of this embarrassment. It should not be too achievable, or countries will slack off, but it should not be obviously impossible, or that will be an excuse to give up. The carrot must always dangle just far enough in front of the horse.

The point of 1.5 C as a target isn't that we meet it, but that we try to. If we could meet the target, we'd do even worse, and say "close enough", but that's no good.
Already answered above:

>For social or political engineering, you can gain definite knowledge (spying, observing, researching, information extraction) and then devise something.
“Make something people want” (hn doesn’t allow emoji but I wanted to put a sarcastic one here)
I've given up debating this with the COVID skeptic folks because it's impossible to definitively prove exactly what would have happened without lockdowns. Instead my general argument is that it was a situation where a great deal was unknown, if with the benefit of hindsight we learn that we overreacted that doesn't mean the original choice was the wrong one. We worked with the evidence we had available at the time and we played it safe. Playing it safe seems sensible to me.
that's not good... still waiting
For stocks that don't pay dividends, the only way you can make money from them is by selling.

You are right that you can leverage them in all sorts of ways, but that isn't really what anyone means by making money. It is how you drown folks in leveraged debt that they can't pay back later, of course.
500 million years and your dog will be the ancestor of Dog Richard Feynman.
I'm a failure. I didn't live up to my potential. I'm lazy. Nothing I do works anymore. My career is in jeopardy because I'm "slow".

My main cause would be naivete. I believed all the stuff you're taught about the world in schools, by parents, etc. I believed the company when they told me stuff like they don't outsource or layoff. I'm wasn't aggressive enough to go after promotions or switch jobs. This resulted in me (dev, masters, 10+ yoe) living in a med-high COL making close to $100k with a family to support.
The study was an online questionnaire, for what it's worth.
When writing about a language which has a well-known feature called 'interfaces', it behooves the writer to not use 'interfaces' to mean 'ad-hoc polymorphism' to avoid confusion. Not doing so led to the predictable confusion.
You can link in intrinsics too. Again, C compatibility is high.
Unfortunately C is here to stay for generations, everywhere there is a POSIX kernel.

Embedded has enough memory buffer manipulations to be a concern as possible CVE root causes, specially in the IoT age where the S stands for security.
One thing that caught me out is that if you are doing an operation on a string like "lower(email)" then the query planner will not use an index on the email column, instead you would need an index on "lower(email)", which is fine if you always access it in the same way but otherwise requires multiple indexes to get coverage in all your scenarios.

There are also plenty of other weird planner choices which I can't work out but which were much easier to understand in SQL Server. Sometimes, the smallest change will stop using an index e.g. using LIMIT on a query can completely bypass an index.
Reminds me of the HN comments on the original dropbox announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
wow, you weren't kidding. I tried the tiny model and it got what I said perfectly. Super impressive.
You’re right that EVs are not enough to solve this. We also need to significantly reduce the amount of traveling in all cars, electric or not.

The good news is that there are fast and cheap solutions that cities can implement nearly overnight. Cities like Paris showed in recent years that “pop-up” bike lanes can be installed very quickly, and significantly increase travel by bicycle.

Many cities also have a bus system, which would also be positively transformed with just painting some bus lanes on existing roads.

The short term fixes support the longer term changes (enabling walkable communities, allowing more efficient compact housing, etc.) that we also need to be adopting as fast as possible.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/10/13/cycling-through-covid...
Bacteria-Powered Biobattery Has 100-Year Shelf Life, Scientists Say
The other 'best way' to reduce piracy would be to sell all electronic works through the same online interface without the need for any other apps or DRM.

Otherwise, the pirated product is actually better than the paid one.
You should probably do your part, which may well involve campaigning for such an outcome.

Plus recycling and ditching your car, obviously.
I live in the burbs, and everything I need is a bicycle ride away. I currently work remotely, although that's about to change because we, like most companies, seem hellbent on making people drive in traffic and be generally less happy. During the pandemic I put maybe 4-5k miles on my vehicle. I would fill up gas once a month.

Long story short stop making this about 'burbs vs cities vs rural. It's not going to work, you aren't going to guilt enough people into doing the right thing. We need to make living sustainable for a variety of different type of living arrangements because nothing in America is ever this clear cut and dry or uniform. You can exercise positive patterns of behavior and living/lifestyle choices where ever you are. Besides, 99.9% of human existence was the village model: clusters of independent and self-sufficient communities. There's nothing wrong with this, and it's what we've evolved with.
FixedBufferAllocator is just a "bump allocator", i.e., just a size and a pointer that moves forward. You allocate the memory it uses from somewhere else (stack, a big alloc from a general purpose allocator (think malloc), some pages from the OS via mmap or VirtualAlloc, etc. -- zig has simple cross platform functions for all of these).

Individual "allocations" just bump the pointer forward, and it succeeds unless the result is past the end of the fixed size given to it initially. You don't free any individual allocations (except maybe the most recent one by just moving the pointer back again), you just reset the pointer to the very start when you're done with all the allocations.
Tangent, but my wife's side of the family is Korean, whereas myself and my side of the family is Korean American.

I was surprised at how liberally antibiotics are given out in the Korean medical system, even for health issues that shouldn't be bacterial. Many members of her family routinely pop antibiotic pills to treat the common cold or flu. They don't take a "full course" either - just a pill a day for a few days until they feel better. When they got Covid, they were again popping antibiotic pills to "treat" it. They swear it works, and this behavior is apparently commonplace there.

I have very positive views on the Korean medical system, and think it generally beats the American one in almost every aspect. But this attitude towards antibiotics was shocking.

My wife doesn't partake in this mainly because antibiotics are extremely rough on her stomach.

I don't think they're having problems with antibiotic resistance there either, so what gives?
Just because a risky behavior works out sometimes doesn't make it any less risky.
I do not think there is any *direct* threat--only airborne pathogens could escape on their own and that would require a lot more than just thawing out.

However, I do think there's some risk--looting. Something dangerous might be unknowingly carried out of there and there's a variety of pretty nasty things they might have samples of.
You're correct, thanks for noting this – I had it backwards.
ON, SK, and other Conservative Party-led provinces are seeing the same thing, or moves in that direction.

Make the system shitty so that there is a justification to privatize. AB is just the most balls-out about it since Danielle Smith is basically a female Bill O'Reilly who got elected to Premier (aka Governor for the USA-ians).

Boomers dying earlier than their parents, and stressing the system in large numbers, are also stretching these systems. Even if a NDP-led-double-down-on-healthcare approach there would be serious issues due to demographics.
After a long period with Polybar, I tried Eww for 3 months.

The features and the visual results are impressive. I wrote 400 lines of configuration and about ten scripts for it but in the end the instability chilled me.

Sometimes tooltips refuse to display, windows open in duplicate or refuse to close, the logs indicate json errors without any apparent reasons or consequences.

I will come back to see the progress in a few months.

Since then I tried i3status-rust, there are less possibilities visually but the same interactive features and its really fast stable.
Futures? That's optimistic, it's affecting everyone already, right now. Droughts, food prices going up, heat records being broken.

I mean personally it hits me in the wallet for groceries and having to make adjustments to my house (built for a cooler climate) to keep it comfortable, but that's probably a luxury position to be in compared to droughts, famines and forced relocation that millions of people are having.
> How many communication methods are they legally mandated to have openly available to constituents?

I'm going off of a hazy memory here, but if some means of communication or some venue hosting a representative is open to the public, it must be open to all, modulo restraining orders and the like.
The Heyser spiral or Heyser corkscrew seems to be a common name for this type of plot. https://www.google.com/search?q=heyser+spiral

And it connects circles, e/euler's formula, and sin/cos is a visually grokkable way.
I'll give a gaming rec that's tied to a book. https://play.half.earth/

The discussion here mirrors many of the themes in the game, and presumably the book.
First Republic Bank to Weigh Up to $100B in Asset Sales
That relies on your definition of "relative" being relative to garbage. Apple runs Google-style App Store search ads[0] that get pushed above everything else, pre-installs (and sometimes forces) their clients on the user, and has access to entitlements that others do not.

There are a lot of areas for scrutiny. This ruling feels like the can is being kicked further down the road, and with the European regulation coming in hot I expect there to be more debate here. Separating Apple's business practices from their personal policies will probably be where this discussion ends.

[0] https://searchads.apple.com/
We have to demand the transparency and fight for it, not just expect it. Also nothing is perfect, which doesn't mean that everything is "never fine".
So were credit default swaps until the history-based assumption they were built on went into freefall. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Even an investment that has a real and solid foundation can fail fast and hard.
Non-technical, non-accurate. "Truthy", buzzfeed/huffpo quality.
I’m not sure it is arrogant. Arrogant would be saying we have some divine right or special capacity that places us at the center of this.

I think we’ve gotten incredibly lucky in the last 600 years or so and have stumbled our way into a viable exit strategy for life on our planet.

We don’t necessarily deserve this role.

I think I’m well aligned that keeping life alive for the next few thousand years is absolutely necessary. We can’t do anything on a 500m year timeline if our species is wiped out in 1000 years.

But, I’d disagree with many of the seemingly “at all costs” approaches I’ve seen advocated for in my social circles (outside of the media). I’ve seen my friends adopt a “humans were a mistake” mindset over the past decade.

If we save all life on earth in the next 1000 years by ridding the planet of human civilization, we doom it to death in 500m years. Unless another species stumbles into another approach for leaving this planet, everything dies. If we are going to step down, we absolutely need to acknowledge that.

If you want to save life on earth, your plan needs to save life on earth. If you aren’t solving for these expected extinction events on these timelines, what are you solving for?

To put that another way: if you save life on earth over the next 1000 years by collapsing human civilization, you haven’t saved life on earth. You’ve doomed it to a slow death unless lightning strikes twice and cephalopods figure out how to build rockets.

I don’t think we deserve this role, we’ve lucked into it. But now that we wield the capacity to get life off of this rock, stepping down from that role on moral grounds seems… immoral. We do this because it’s what our ecosystem demands of us, not because of anything special about us but because there is no other species that can do it. The ball is in our court regardless of whether we like it or deserve it.
> Current studies suggest that mangroves and coastal wetlands annually sequester carbon at a rate ten times greater than mature tropical forests. They also store three to five times more carbon per equivalent area than tropical forests.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/ecosystems/coastal-blue-carbon...
The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M. Krauss

https://www.lawrencemkrauss.com/single-post/the-physics-of-c...

Perhaps not exactly what you're looking for in terms of potential solutions, but it's an honest and sobering account of where we're at without any undue sensationalization.
Looks like they lost telemetry approaching the landing and didn't recover it. I guess it probably crashed, like the other ones (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19638357 (2019)).
As I said, money talks. I'd like to share a chart I saw a couple months ago that stopped me dead in my tracks. It was in the Bloomberg NEF Energy Transition Investment Trends 2023 report, which you can get emailed to you by filling out a form here: https://about.bnef.com/energy-transition-investment/

Since that's a bit of trouble, I've clipped this incredible chart for you here: https://i.imgur.com/OlMAKVd.png

This single chart completely inverted how I think about this problem and the leadership of western countries in world affairs generally.
Yes. It is a bit lacking. If I had to guess it would be something to do with the Qualcomm iZat

https://www.qualcomm.com/site/privacy/services
In my mind, gravity must self interact due to moving at exactly the same speed as light (and light is affected by gravity). To put this in quantitative terms, the paper "Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05834) constrains the "difference between the speed of gravity and the speed of light to be between −3×10^−15 and +7×10^−16 times the speed of light."
What school did you go to??? History classes were all about learning dates and being able to recite or write the True History of the Righteous British Empire.
that may have been a solution a long time ago, but it wouldn't have fixed the meat problem or the transportation problem.
Perhaps the solution is to let go of the idea that Mastodon should be free of charge? Communities that have created organizations with budgets could use those to provide Mastodon as a service to their users. Other instances could charge a few bucks a year and solve all of their financial issues. Perhaps sponsorship could also cover costs.
The "sbeech" video that Geoff Lindsey did is really interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U37hX8NPgjQ
"Chrome" is the term for the OS provided border around the window. It offers anchoring points to resize the window; a place to click for dragging; as well as the buttons for closing, maximizing, minimizing. Without chrome, you can't do any of those things, so the window would be fixed in size and place. To get that functionality back, you have to manually code it into the app.
The capital question is more complex then returns. Co-ops can pay return on Capital Lending and be competitive. The challenge is finding people willing to take on a loan.

Housing is a really good example. If you have a down payment, most people would not want to use it and take on a mortgage to create a housing Co-op. They would prefer to simply buy a house.

A housing Co-op is attractive for people that can't buy a house by themselves. You can band together with other people to make a down payment, but again, this is unattractive for most people because there is no good exit strategy to cash out. This is the downside of co-ops. They still take investment and risk to create.

Regarding your first point, I assume you were talking about worker co-ops. I don't see why society would want to incentivize people to join them beyond the benefits that those people would naturally see from working at one. on the flip side, why punish workers are aren't part of co-ops?

If it is a good deal for the workers, they should do it. If it is a bad deal for the workers they shouldn't.
Well I don't think all Americans love the suburbs for sure. Home prices in the city where I live for example seem to be skyrocketing compared to the suburbs and that's despite bad schools.

I think you are right in that many Americans won't "vote" for a lot of these benefits. Again the "300 new manufacturing jobs" headline sounds better than "16 small businesses and a 2% drop in obesity-related premature deaths over a 5 year period" [1] and that's what we optimize for.

To your point though, as many Americans won't "vote to get rid of the suburbs" they'll eventually just go bankrupt trying to maintain all of the highways and cars [2], or we'll have to go to war to secure oil flows. There's certainly a social choice to be made and I think we'll choose suburbs, cars, war, heat, and all of those things.

[1] There's nothing wrong with 300 new (or any amount) manufacturing jobs, and the numbers I'm using are made up, though my point is largely that better urban planning and design, zoning, etc. will produce greater economic benefits it's just that they aren't concentrated into a single headline that some dumb idiot can point to and say "Mission Accomplished".

[2] Please note that there's nothing wrong with cars existing, the main problem is cars being a hard requirement (government mandate really) for every single thing you do in your life.
Do people not able to think without language normally? Does everyone have an internal sound for everything they think all the time? I don’t, I am bilingual but I don’t think this is true. I’m surprised to hear that.
we did aim for an achievable goal, and steamed straight past it with our fingers in our ears.
Yes, it's a fair bit easier than that mess.
In case you don't click the links above: dang recognizes the tsunami of AI content and it's being downweighted. Some people complain about all the AI content, and those complaints are tiresome too.

Thanks dang. It's good to know that 1) things are being done about it (even if it's not enough for some people), and 2) we'd be better off resisting our urge to complain.
Probably meant as something like this: https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/message-queuing-using-nativ...

But I find that listen/notify seem to be drastically underused.
IIRC projected sea level rise over the next three decades is the same as observed sea level rise over the last century, i.e., it's accelerating. But keep in mind that it is partially driven by thermal expansion of water, not just ice melting.
I specifically said I'm not really trying to solution this, lol. More toying with the LD_PRELOAD aspect than anything

Nix is neat, and I don't think I've used it enough to be too critical - but in some ways it feels like 'extra steps'

I wanted to make a 'reproducible' installation (ala kickstart, not strictly binary)... but it felt very much like distribution work; declaring dependencies and the like