skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're leaning on a lot of hypotheticals and assumptions, right?

We know how much SLS cost in a lot of detail. Also remember, SLS development, the 20 billion is only to first launch to get to 1B they will likely drop another 10 billion or so and it will likely take until 2030.

We don't know about Starship, but it is far, far less. SpaceX could absolutly not spend 5 billion $ a year on the program.

And the complexity of Starship is in a different dimension.

So Starship for a fact is orders of magnitude cheaper then SLS and orders of magnitude more complex.
What's great with this is that you can spy on your political opposition, and jail any dissident trying to raise funds for their cause. China is already doing it in Hong Kong: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2019/06/17/cryptos-connecti...

The FATF and its minions are the harbingers of the authoritarian world of tomorrow.
500 million years is longer than the time it has taken to evolve mammalian life. Assuming that no other intelligent species would ever evolve is pretty crazy, it's only taken us 200 million years. If that's an average, we could be looking at 1 to 3 other intelligent species developing on this planet alone.
I thought the root cause isn't the total number of people, it's the fact that developed-nation lifestyles are a lot more environmentally impactful than developing ones; (6B * current developed-nation avg carbon footprint) > (8B * current global avg carbon footprint)
I mined .10 BTC around 2012. I lost it somehow (never properly transfered to the wallet). I was really trying hard to find it once it got over BTC hit $20k.
> more nutrient dense per calories than vegetables

I'm not sure how this meme started, but it's not actually true. You can plug foods into Cronometer.com and see for yourself. e.g. carrots (vitamin A) or kale (vitamin K1) give you the RDA with few calories. I mean, the cocoa powder I added to my smoothie this morning had 100% RDA copper and 45% RDA iron in 57 calories.

Similarly, plants and plant-based foods have full amino profiles. Once again, plug anything from soy beans or even broccoli into Cronometer.com and look at the amino acid breakdown.

These are some really ancient wives tales about vegetables.

> These beliefs come from epidemiological studies without regards for other life habits such as smoking or dietary choices such as sugar intake.

This isn't true. Tracking and multivariate adjustment are standard fare for epi studies.
It is for these (tooling / library) reasons it is almost impossible to recommend it for any project, almost like Nix in that regard for me.
I don't think you get to count plastic you produce from extracted sources as carbon capture.
I've been fighting this stuff for years. At some point, the best way to fight is just to stop giving them money.

The cost/benefit ratio of having a smartphone is no longer favorable, so I won't have one. That seems like a reasonable stance. I don't know what's unwise about it -- whether or not I own a smartphone will not affect the world in any way.
If you only just fail on a more ambitious goal that’s better than succeeding on a less ambitious one
Mid-30s here and the only cards I carry are my ID and a couple of "catchall" credit cards to serve as a fallback where Apple Pay doesn't work, and unless I know I'm going to a cash-only bar or something I don't carry cash.

Debit cards are practically never in my wallet unless I'm going out to withdraw cash. Way too risky to be carrying around a direct line to my primary bank account.
If we're already going to have to heavily adapt our living arrangements to account for extreme climate change, at what point does 0.1° not matter? 5.0° vs 5.1°? 10.0° vs 10.1°?
> Every new fossil energy project is incompatible with a world that takes climate change seriously. Money talks.

This depends on more information. It’s unlikely we’ll be using zero fossil fuels in 35 years. So the goal is to reduce over time, so a new project today could be replacing an old project going offline.

Or perhaps the project has a transition path to do something else.

I don’t think these are pedantic clarifications as things aren’t fatalistic. Investors are rational and while money talks it doesn’t mean that all the billions put into these projects isn’t a waste in climate terms.
I have a Netflix account and I still torrent the content because unless I use edge I don’t get greater than 720p.

I torrent a lot of games because 2 hours (steam refund) is a very narrow window for a lot of games. The reality is 90% of them I don’t end up meshing with. The ones that I do, I buy.
Given that Lifschitz wrote that before QED, he did not even begin to understand the modern understanding of QM and the electron. Nor did he see any inkling of QMs replacement, (T)QFTs. QM (and his quote, and your understanding) are nearly 100 years out of date.

The entire quote is nonsense - QED (well after Landau wrote his text) shows that the opening sentence is as valid a Asimov book from the period with the wrong number of moons for various planets.

Classical QM was much more classical than modern QM, which has removed a lot of the weasel words used in the above ("large enough mass," "sufficient degree of accuracy," etc. - none of which were defined in Landau's time and all of which have been greatly extended beyond anything he could see).

A trivially simple example is asking why gold is yellow instead of silver like nearby metals. It's a very obvious property, on any mass and sufficient degree of accuracy, but has no classical explanation (since it's due to the interplay of QM and relativity.) There are tons of things like this where your claim (and Landau's handwaving) fail, so no, QM does not approximate classical here, since classical is wrong and QM is right, even at macro scales.

QM also doesn't occupy a very unusual space - all physical theories had to agree with previous knowledge under overlapping domains. Relativity did. Maxwell did. Thermo did. Stat mech did. And ALL of those (there are plenty more) were before QM. And most of those have had more improvements since then, also agreeing with previous theory on overlapping domains, e.g., QFTs have replaced QM for all modern physics and agree on some things, but go vastly beyond what was possible with QM.

QM is not special here.
How about 14 years?
> US Congress got worried that valuable "space knowledge"

That is just an excuse. They cared about investment in their states, nothing else.
However, for whatever reasons, we have decided that OTPs (as in TANs) are insecure. (Hint: 2FA is much easier and less costly to administrate.)
> after completely giving up on the metaverse

They have? What are they up to now? I guess I haven't been keeping up!
If you promote things like this as research tools, ways to extract technical information quickly from complex documents, hey cool. Trying to frame your product as an alternative to "traditional reading" makes me want to barf.
Variance on this is very high. Where your classes landed on the memorize-think axis will swing wildly from district to district, and even possibly from teacher to teacher within the same school.
But terrible at offering selection. If you don't like the color, well, tough because that's the one they stock. Maybe if you're lucky they'll have a second color or style for sale.
I think most of us would be fine with an "achievable goal" but that's not really what you asked for or proposed in your first comment and most of the people who say something like "I’m not sure what’s the point of focusing on 1.5C anymore" aren't offering new goals as much as they are throwing up their hands and essentially saying "oh well, what are you going to do". I'm not saying you think that way but that's the people who suggest giving up say the same things.

Too many people are just "hoping for a miracle" as if that's doing something. Or they think "technology will fix this before it gets too bad". It might, but it will be in spite of those people, not because of. If we want technology to save us we have to make investments today, not "when it gets bad".
How many times are we going to rediscover that free market isn't just companies competing for the customer on price, but companies competing in a race to the bottom on quality/cost to pad their earnings as well?
We live in an interconnected world so I don't think there would be any localized antibiotic resistance - the effect of that will diffuse across the planet quickly.

That said, I wonder what their IBS rates are like. That can't be great for their gut biome.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but isn't the model just representing the world as it is, rather than what we want it to be? I'm all for the diversification of various fields traditionally dominated by a specific cohort. But are data models the right place for that activism? It feels wrong to me to make the data biased and different from reality, even if for a good cause. Where does it end? You won't know which results from the model are based on typical distributions in fact and which are due to intentional tweaks for one agenda or another.
Doesn't that mean it supports the Chinese room argument? I'm not sure I follow your reasoning.

(also, popular conciousness forgets that technically the Chinese Room argument is only arguing against the much narrower, and now philosophically unfashionable, "Hard AI" stance as it was held in the 70s)
Eliot Here, I'd be happy to talk about the rocket and man I really could use one of those engineering internships it's been surprisingly hard to find things to apply to.
"There are 53 nuclear reactors currently under construction around the world. Only two are in the United States" [0x3F800000]

"The annual number of permanent nuclear reactor shutdowns fluctuated between 2005 and 2022. In the latter year, there were 4 shutdowns worldwide, of which three were in the United Kingdom (UK) and one in the United States (U.S.) "[0x40000000]

[0x3F800000] https://spectrum.ieee.org/slow-steady-progress-for-two-us-nu...

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https://www.statista.com/statistics/238656/number-of-nuclear...
The video has a link to the following page where you can listen to the sounds of the vowels on the chart at the bottom: https://www.englishspeechservices.com/blog/the-vowel-space/
(these laptops have all run Linux)
I assume it was locally hosted with some register/licensing thing.

Eg Photoshop and IntelliJ are effectively SaaS but run on your computer.
What are those other solution ? Nuclear, in my opinion, is the only solution that doesn't require the developed world to lower it's standard of living.
It's going to be about suburbs vs rural for as long as the suggested solutions only work in urban environments. If you don't like it being that way, then suggest a solution that works for people who don't live and work in a dense environment.
TL;DR the sun is expected to continue brightening, and that's likely to cause the end the carbonate-silicate cycle in a few hundred million years, which will mean the end of photosynthesis soon (for geological values of "soon") after that starts to grind to a halt. The end of photosynthesis means the end of large, complex life-forms on earth, permanently, forever, never to return.

This means that the practical end of the Earth, as far as humans are concerned, is on track not for a few billion years from now when the Sun expands—the commonly imagined end of "Earth gets charred/absorbed by the Sun"—but a few hundred million years from now. Maybe sooner for a variety of reasons, but that's likely to be the final lights-out—the upper bound—for everything but some microbes and a few lobsters around deep-sea vents or whatever. Barring some serious intervention by intelligent, technologically-advanced life, anyway.
Nice. Good call with the oil. I immediately thought "hmm I hate the smell of baby oil-- wonder if you could use vegetable oil instead of baby oil" but then you'd attract cockroaches. Unscented mineral oil it is.
Even 10 years is too generous. I'd rather make it 0 instead. I said 10 years because it's what would make copyright tolerable. The right thing as far as I'm concerned is abolishing it straight up. 10 years is a reasonable compromise.

Remember, copyright exists at all because we allow it. The raw reality these monopolists face is that public domain is the default state of all information. We're all just pretending that we can't easily copy this stuff. The social contract was: we pretend we don't know how to copy their stuff, they get to make their money and then the works enter the public domain. They're clearly not keeping up their end of the social contract. Why should we? We should all just stop pretending we're dumb enough not to download their stuff at zero cost.
Fungi makes meal of hard to recycle plastic
The author is right, there isn't some big mystery, but his conclusion is wrong.

The original reason colleges went test optional is that the SAT is a point of friction for some applicants and therefore reduces the number of applicants a college/university might receive. This reduces the total pool of applicants thereby increasing the acceptance rate and, if a college is really hurting for applicants, potentially reduces total enrollments. Most colleges are incredibly tuition dependent. They are not in the business of rejecting anyone that they think could be successful at their institution.

The SAT saw this trend and decided they needed to respond by eliminating analogies and adding a writing section. This was in 2005. This only increased the trend because now colleges couldn't even compare SAT scores from one year to the next, which was really the only real benefit colleges saw in the SAT, because as it turns out, the SAT was a pretty bad predictor of success beyond freshman year.

So really colleges just stopped seeing the value in the test coupled with it serving as just another barrier for students when most colleges were trying remove barriers to increase the number of applicants.

There's no big mystery--it is about revenue.
Combustion engines are an inferior tech, so they'll get replaced everywhere they can be.

I also think we could have been a decade ahead on this transition, if not more, but I think you'll still also be suprised at how quickly EVs totally replace ICE cars, even if you live in some poorly run area of the globe.

EVs already have lower TCO and leasing companies are keen to loan you the upfront difference and let you pay it back month by month instead of spending it on gas and use the more reliable EV as collateral, reducing financing risk and cost.

They'll continue to do that as the upfront price drops below ICE too.

It would be nice if the US moved to a healthier, more walkable lifestyle, but if they do insist on continuing that form of slow suicide, it'll only make the transition faster. EVs make more monetary sense the longer you drive, due to lower fuel costs.
That... seems obvious. Why do you assume the person you're responding to is proposing we increase sprawl? Increase density, increase public transit, and rewild outlying areas. It all goes together.
I might be wrong; it was merely speculated in the article due to the fact that Qualcomm chips are used also in Apple smartphones. An audit would be needed.
I think it is an issue of language "3 hens lay 3 eggs in 3 days" can be interpreted (as intended that each hen lays an egg only once every three days) or as implying that it is implied that they mean 3 eggs for each hen over the three days, meaning 1 egg per hen per day (incidentally closer to what actual commercial hens lay, not that this matters).
It's not an overpopulation problem.

When you hit "the world can't support everyone living the way we live" the problem is with the way we live, not with everyone living.

We can easily provide healthy nutritious food to everyone and many many more. Just not in the form that we are currently choosing for ourselves.
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> Mars is an unbelievably hostile environment.

So is Southern California. Some of the early missions founded by the Spaniards starved to death. Modern life there is absolutely dependent on technology. Take away the electricity, gasoline, and water and millions would die in short order.

> interstellar travel is impossible.

Not with multi-generation starships, it isn't.
I don't use Notion, but I kind of fell down the similar Obsidian rabbit hole.

Obsidian is interesting because it makes you really feel like you're being productive, creating links and little "mini wikis", but it didn't seem like I was actually accomplishing more.

I still use the app for notes, but now I mostly use it for just a "relatively easy to search" notes app.
Leaving aside the opt-in/opt-out possibility.

You can remove the services that download the extra GPS data, nothing stops you from doing that, aside making GPS unusable :)
There's nothing unachievable about 1.5C

It would require sacrifices and global cooperation, but any real solution to climate change will require that
That could be a really nice feature too
Why focus on a technology of the past when it all just takes continuous investment of a couple percent of GDP into renewables?

Nuclear takes so long to build it doesn't help at all.
Re: Gaben quote - While there are some grains of truth to the quote, I think it’s oversimplifying the problem. After all, Gaben’s primary product is essentially a DRM platform (one of the first online DRM platforms for that matter!), evidently he believes he can’t compete with piracy on service quality alone.

Continuing the game piracy line, game piracy is often a significantly worse service outside of the “free stuff” aspect. You have to learn how torrents work, download risky executable files from the internet, and/or run sketchy cracking utilities. VS Steam or GoG which are generally fairly polished experiences that offer nice value-adds (updating, social features, etc).

Take Cyberpunk 2077 or The Witcher 3. You can buy a DRM free copy from GoG pretty easily… yet the torrents for it are still quite active from what I can see.
The working of a neural network makes total sense to me since I learnt it. Ideas emerging out of blue, etc. I believe it’s how brain works.
Maybe others can sympathize with my personal experience. I'm a morning person. But mentally, I can't completely focus when there's things that I have to do later. I'm always worried about those upcoming things (responsibilities, meetings, kids, etc). By programming at night, after everything else is done, I can truly focus. Getting in the flow, I'm not tired and I'm completely absorbed by the current task. No future distractions.
The results speak volumes about the current state of AI. And perhaps of our broader society - at least as the internet sees it.

...just not to me, unfortunately.

What is the beef we're having? That there's not enough variety? That it's all guys? That they're all white? That they're all bearded?

What is it?
It makes more sense when you view it as a prisoner's dilemma.

I already have a relatively low carbon footprint compared to many. I don't commute to work, I don't have a boat or a camper or a snowmobile or a quad or drive a big truck. I don't fly more than a couple of times a year. I don't even have a gas lawnmower. I also don't have kids, which is arguably one of the biggest extra carbon consumers a person can introduce into the world.

I'm not going to cut my carbon usage down to pre-industrial levels while other people could cut their carbon usage down to my level with a lot less impact to their quality of life.

At some point people who are extremely cutting their own carbon usage are just subsidizing the lazy usage of others.
> 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

Right, the exact point I was making.

That said, your suburbia apologia is a bit silly - naturalism fallacy aside, the suburban experience isn't even close to that of primordial human tribes.

And it matters little if you bike to your stores, the goods you're buying at your store are not brought there on bikes, just the emissions from the concrete needed to pave over that amount of land is ridiculous, etc. etc.

Unlocking suburban "sustainability" would require next generation sequestration tech or full electrification + renewables.
I was just stating some stuff. I was pretty surprised by just how much CO2 cars put out compared to what trees store.
I'd say because it is a much more specialized skill than programming in python / ruby / JS / or whatever your app language. Ideally, I would say "use the best tool for the job", which may very well be a stored procedure for data locality reasons, but practically speaking, with a larger team, you may be asking for trouble.
It’s just not enough. Fossil fuels represent millions of years of the stored output of fully wild ecosystems. Rewilding the Earth today only gets us to the starting line to repeat that process.
I used to do this in interviews -- give people problems not because I cared whether they got "the" answer, but because it gives you a chance to see their brain work.

The problem with this is that many, many interviewers do this badly. They think they are looking for someone who gets the right answer. Or they are not good at assessing how other people break down and analyze problems.

It is artificial. All interviews are artificial. This is why everyone would prefer to hire candidates they already know a lot about. But a good interviewer isn't looking for a perfect performance.
> ... people might be able to agree on which AI is reasonable and what it thinks the summary should be.

We're going to wind up with ChatDNC and ChatRNC. Nobody in office is going to agree on which one is reasonable, for the same reason that they refuse to agree on anything today.
It seems to be a tough category. As I mentioned in another comment, another 500+ store chain in this category went bankrupt maybe a couple decades ago. Some of it may be demographics. I would assume their typical demographic is probably thirty-something to maybe 40-something couples. Younger people are mostly not outfitting houses with mid-tier nice stuff and older people mostly have all this crap and may need an occasional replacement but not much more than that.

These days I mostly go to a review site like Wirecutter or a sister site, a food blog, or somewhere like Cook's Illustrated and mostly order whatever they recommend and it's fine.
ChatGTP writes about benefits of SSDs in the style of Ernest Hemmingway
Netflix streams in 4k but you have to pay $4 extra for premium or whatever.
My biggest complaint was actually that the portion with the original footage went on too long.

One thing that surprised me was that they did the transition from original to enhanced footage so abruptly; I'd expected a smooth transition over a couple of minutes where you don't even realize it happened until after the fact. The abrupt transition didn't get a crowd reaction when I saw it, but maybe that collective gasp was the goal and it just didn't work out in this showing.
Solar panels drop efficiency the warmer they get; focusing more sunlight on a space will heat that up.

There's solar heat based power stations, using mirrors that focus light on a point or a pipe to heat up oil; the question there is, would they become more effective if they get more light?

1 square meter of ground currently receives 1370 watts of energy (if my quick google is accurate); if this can be captured, you can do a back of the napkin calculation of how much you need. It's already been posited that filling a relatively small patch of e.g. a desert can fulfil all of europe's energy needs - no space things needed.
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What a strange point. The ability to break into a car is rather different than having a constant data connection to the car.
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