skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the climate news we see on reddit/etc is just alarmism. Realistically according to the USGS we have 100-200+ years until warming becomes a serious problem, and I would be shocked if we don't have high quality solutions long before then. Further a lot of those "we're going to be underwater" figures are complete junk. Huge portions of the world have always (relatively speaking) been below sea level, and rising sea levels have nothing to do with it.

What is uniquely promising is that the world as a whole is getting richer, and once you escape poverty, people care more about their surrounding environment. If we focus on growth we're likely to see the environment improve naturally.
Birth rates are falling in most if not all of the countries that consume the most energy, which will reduce energy use in the long term. Yes, it poses another set of economic challenges in places where population is shrinking, but that’s a problem we’d have to solve eventually.
Ah. So if I'd said non-STEM instead of picking a specific example, it would have been fine?
You are an anomaly. Your cost of electricity can’t be replicated most anywhere else.
The idea makes sense if you believe in an objective theory of value, as opposed to a subjective(capitalist) theory of value. Calling jobs worthless is also a rhetorical trick that preys on people's anger and insecurities.
Yeah price of electricity now when so few cars charging on the grid. What will the price of electricity be when everyone with a car is charging on the grid in the future?
Ok true, maybe I don't explain it very well; this guy does better than me: https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/the-crypto-catch-22-why-bit...
SP500 dropped 1%, not 7%.
I can imagine I know what youre saying ... no one wants to join the military anymore and no one can blame them. I think, however, automation will take over in the war industry long before it takes over coffee shops. The money the US pours into killing machines will be steady for a long time. US just needs fewer people to do it now.
OTOH, I know few US workers that arent trying to produce and live a better life. The US will always have solid output despite the wealthy few futzing around with everything trying to create another slump to buy everything up.
They absolutely are. GP missed out.
Oppenheimer: The View from Ground Zero
If you apply for a home loan, you will get about 100 calls per day for the first week and it will trickle away over the next two months. I still get 3~ per day. It's insane.
To make a pencil, you must first create the universe.
Oppenheimer hadn't just come out last year
It’s also a little more than half the price. It’s not bad, but it builds strongly on brand recognition as well. They were really the only major game in town.

It’s a good sign for them but far from convincing
So what? The risk of climate change isn't that individuals will die from acute heat events, but that a few degrees' change of average, global temperatures will destabilize climate systems and ecological niches.

Let's catch you up[0] on some of the impacts:

> between 1971 and 2020, around 380 zettajoules of energy has been trapped by global warming. The oceans have absorbed around 89% of the energy (338.2 zettajoules), land has absorbed 6% (22.8 zettajoules), 4% (15.2 zettajoules) has melted parts of the cryosphere — the part of Earth's climate system that includes snow, sea ice, freshwater ice, icebergs, glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves and permafrost — and just 1% (3.8 zettajoules) has remained in the atmosphere.

> The majority of the heat absorbed by the seas is trapped in the upper 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) of the oceans. This has spared humanity from the brunt of climate change so far, but it has also caused massive increases in sea surface temperatures, which has accelerated polar melting, damaged marine ecosystems, increased the severity of tropical storms and begun to disrupt ocean currents.

All of this is to say nothing of the added effects of CO2 itself, such as ocean acidification disrupting marine ontogeny[1] or even CO2 concentrations causing cognitive impairment[2] in humans!

0. https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/ener...

1. https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Acidification's+im...

2. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200421/Atmospheric-CO2-l...
Nothing could convince me to drop PaperWM.
From https://www.ft.com/content/b9582d62-cc6f-4b76-b0f9-5b37cf15d... :

> Keeran Beeharee, vice-president for ESG outreach and research at Moody’s, agreed that ESG investment does not necessarily help an investor create a low-carbon portfolio, or any other specific goal.

> “[There is a] perception that ESG assessments do something that they do not. ESG assessments are an aggregate product, their nature is that they are looking at a range of material factors, so drawing a correlation to one factor is always going to be difficult,” Beeharee said.

> “In 2015-16, post the SDGs [UN sustainable development goals] and COP21 [Paris Agreement], when people began to really focus on the issue of climate, they quickly realised that an ESG assessment is not going to be much use there and that they need the right tool for the right task. There are now more targeted tools available that look at just carbon intensity, for example,” he added.

Emission intensity includes CO2 (Carbon Intensity) and also Methane and other emissions.

Emission intensity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_intensity

UN SDG Indicators 2023 revision (Goals, Targets, Indicators)
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/Global%20Indicator%20... ctrl-f "carbon", "emission", "methane"

> Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

> 9.4.1 CO2 emission per unit of value added

> Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

> 13.2.2 Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

SDG9 > "Target 9.4: Upgrade all industries and infrastructures for sustainability": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goal_9...

SDG13 > "Target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into policy and planning": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goal_1...

How should ESG composite scores be updated to reflect Emission intensity (to include CO2, and CH4,) as a weighted factor?
Can the man who rightfully owns the land just sit by and wait until the house is finished before saying anything? I would do that.
I mean no disrespect, but this reads a bit like an over-confident take of a person who never went through a financial calamity. A bit like leveraged house-flippers of 2006. The value of your margin loan collateral can plunge suddenly. The rates and the terms of your credit card debt can change overnight. You can get hit by unexpected and urgent expenses - adverse judgments, emergency home repairs, etc - and that's bad news when you're already maxing out your credit lines.

Debt is a useful tool, but it's also dangerous. It's one thing if you're using it to advance some important cause... you know, making a big bet on a business idea, making your dreams come true. But if you're taking risks for, as the author puts it, "consumption smoothing"... there's a good chance of ending in trouble for no good reason.

Plus, we're not hyper-rational robots. Spending money is habit-forming. It's often about gratification, about social standing, about competing with peers. Especially for younger folks, and especially for people in the Bay Area, where we often look up to people who essentially won the startup lottery or ended up getting lucky in some other way. Instead of "consumption smoothing", it's often better to ask if that consumption is useful to begin with.
Aside from the drought and fires?
The Mac Pro is their lowest volume computer. You’re thinking of MacBook Pro, perhaps. The MacBook Pro is a laptop and the Mac Pro is a full tower desktop.
Some years ago I saw a documentary on TV that claimed that the Japanese had their own bomb program, and in the final days of the war actually detonated a small device. With the defeat they disbanded and destroyed the evidence of it.

I've never seen any hint of this before or since. Has anyone else?
The collective also gains in round 2, and each subsequent round. From the intuition that you have about the first round, treat each group with the same amount of money separately, and you will see that money grows in every round. Example:

Round 1:
100x$100 (total $10000) -> 50x$60 + 50x$150 (total $10500)

Gain of $500 total

Round 2:
50x$60 ($3000) -> 25x$90 + 25x$36 ($3150)

50x$150 ($7500) -> 25x$225 + 25x$90 ($7875)

Gain of $150+$375=$575.

Round 3:
25x$36 ($900) -> half $54 and half $21.60 ($945 total)
And so on.

Each round, the collective wealth goes up 5%, no matter how many rounds you run.
As planned, with our first scheduled weekly deployment, the JSON object is not being displayed anymore.
> Worst case scenario, we got another class of high temp (warmer than liquid nitrogen but cold enough that applications are limited) superconductor but nothing revolutionary since at this point, it is pretty conclusive that there is something interesting with LK-99.

I don't think that's the worst case scenario. The worst case scenario is that there is actually nothing interesting with LK-99, and everything we've seen that suggests otherwise is experimenter bias heaped on top of experimental error. I'm actually surprised by the sheer lack of people commenting in the more-or-less-perma-LK-99 threads who show skepticism of the results.
Exactly. There are too many unknowns to draw any kind of real conclusions, but everything so far still supports a position of cautious optimism.

What we know is that LK-99 looks pretty interesting. Is it a room-temperature superconductor? Maybe!
> The trashcan Mac Pro desktop was heavily promoted to tech journalists

They had one meeting where they told journalists they were not going to abandon the pro market space. This was when the trashcan had been out for a long time. Too long in fact.

> The intention was to signal pros to hang in there, and then the trashcan got released

No, the trashcan was released way before that meeting. One of the things discussed in the meeting was limitations of the trash can form factor.
The incentives are what put those systems in place. It's two halves of the same coin. One is cause, the other is effect.

You don't think as long as they have incentive to fine more as it directly influences their budget, that it might affect their actions towards fining and seizing citizens? Are you saying it's unrelated?

edit: To word it differently, do you think solving this one problem will end their association with your money and their budget?
I’d be annoyed if I ended up in a restaurant that didn’t have a card machine.

They’re almost universal at this point to the extent that not to have one would be unusual.
That's an interesting find and some nice sleuthing you did there.
https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686895266329174016 claims a linear representation of the same data. Still no convincing discontinuity visible.
On Linux you don't need a separate key though. Ctrl + Shift is all you need.
That's a fair critique. One might ask "supposed by whom, exactly?"

In English, supposition too frequently implements the unforgivable passive voice.
I love Louis.
Vitrified Brain Cells Found in Vesuvius Victim (2020)
...and gain, at an incredibly fast slew rate!

I mean, we're laundry list fantasizing, right? [shrug emoji]
Ive always thought of them on the top ... cuz of pictures, etc ... but on the side makes so much more sense
Forging a passport seems rather extreme - Follow the money…
I wonder how many hours they have before you start seeing something you've seen already.
I mean the "real thing" is 3D Secure, which isn't exactly 2FA and card issuer dependent, but makes things a hell of a lot more of a PITA to execute for fraudsters.
>You don't even know somebody tried to call

it's not. that's not how the iOS feature works. you still see it as a missed call, there's a notification saying it was rejected. it just doesn't ring.
Lots of people are coming to the US already and it seems like a contentious issue.
I’m all for renewable/sustainable energy, but I disagree with your implication that people working jobs in coal or gas power plants have worthless jobs. In pretty much every part of the world, power grids rely on those plants (for now), so those workers are literally keeping the lights on and civilization going. And it is often hard work.
In Michigan, black market was cheaper for a while as dispensaries seemed to focus on high-end product, but prices have significantly reduced over the last few years (I'm guessing due to larger scale of production and more sophisticated business models and logistics). An ounce can now be legally obtained for ~$100-150 and black market product is only available in jurisdictions that haven't permitted building dispensaries - and most of that is legally obtained and illegally resold rather than smuggled or illicitly grown.
Very thorough finance-bro autofellatio

The part where he complained that his lawyer couldn't game his FAFSA to get him government-subsidized loans was particularly odious
Well, yes. But both Silicon, Selenium and Germanium as well as all metals that are shiny are photoelectric. If this thing can form diodes that open a potential path to very high efficiency solar cells. It wouldn't be the first either:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep11504

"Origin of photovoltaic effect in superconducting YBa2Cu3O6.96 ceramics"
Yeah, the end result of this logic is a 10% pay cut for WFH.
There are a surprisingly large number of unanswered questions for a project that is this popular.
> Which difficulties are involved in selecting a Proton version from a dropdown and clicking install?

That it doesn't exist on macOS?

The point I was making is that the overwhelming number of games on steam are windows only games, the valve semi-supports on linux via proton, which they do not offer on macOS. The net result is anyone jumping through hoops on macOS to use steam+wine is recorded as a windows user, even if there were even remotely meaningful number of such users.

Hence linux steam users matching macOS steam users is an obviously plausible outcome.
> "...If the Japanese had simply been given the option to retain their figurehead Emperor, they'd have certainly surrendered..."

There was a barely averted coup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident) to overturn Hirohito's decision surrender so that is clearly incorrect. The military, who was in control of the Japanese government, wanted to continue the war even after the use of both atomic weapons.
Could you share your sites?
Agreed. Even the 100K zero-resistance claim isn't holding up to scrutiny https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686895266329174016 https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686901855358427136 https://nitter.net/condensed_the/status/1686832552252784641
Gastropod looks at food through the lens of science and history
Well that's about 20 years late, but okay :)
Also I wonder if these folks are in cahoots with "Everything is Terrible".
You're right that this is the worst case scenario, but each interesting replication or semi-replication, even sloppy replication, or theoretical model erodes at that.

Being perma-skeptic is as bad as being a perma-fanboy

Anyways your memory is really short. Don't you remember how when it first came out (not even a week ago) everyone was hollering that it was fake?

Inb4 "extraordinary claims...": there is no fundamental reason for superconductivity in general to be impossible at RT.
Link says 90 MA per cm^2, or 30,000X more than copper.

Gulp!
Indeed, I feel it is great to state the obvious like 'expedia isnt required to show the lowest rate' but caveat emptor was a phrase long before expedia etc
>Honestly, I think anyone who thought the DFT-based papers mattered at all doesn't really get how science works.

It's a very spicy take to say DFT-based papers don't matter at all. Anyone who thinks they conclusively prove or even provide particularly strong evidence that LK99 IS a RTAPS or a superconductor at all is misunderstanding, of course, but there's a lot of room between "doesn't matter at all" and "doesn't provide strong or conclusive evidence"

They propose some theoretical ways in which LK99 COULD be an RTAPS. If we couldn't even come up with theoretical ways it could do so, then that is obviously a bad thing for the idea that LK99 could be a superconductor.

I agree with your general sentiment, just not the level of it.
Proton Pass: Protecting your passwords and online identity
>However, from the social perspective of feeding the people in his area, it's immensely helpful.

Ya know, dollar for dollar, I bet pizza is responsible for more productivity than any computer.
Your take is so on the money. I'm a staunch CF advocate, but so much rests on the trust they engender. Their power is a consequence in their presence as a trustable company working across the infrastructure of the Internet. There's so many pathways where the enforcers of good behavior eventually end up as the Pharaohs. I genuinely love Cloudflare while being simultaneously extremely wary of Cloudflare.
MAE-East[1] was there, which means all the networks are there, which means it's a great place to put a datacenter. If you only have one datacenter on the planet, it should probably be in the US; the US has good connectivity to the rest of the world, and local customers with lots of disposable income. If you have one datacenter in the US, DC/Northern VA is a good place, near to the bulk of the population. If you have two datacenters, one on the west coast is a good idea. If you have three, Chicago or Dallas.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East
I disagree, and furthermore I think the entire article is basically wrong - in a way. Specifically, the expected average wealth of both the collective and an individual will increase every round. However the median wealth will fall.

The reason for this is that the very rare outliers will accumulate truly enormous wealth, while the rest of the players will never lose more than they start off with. You can see this in the first graph after say 250 rounds - the richest player has around 10,000x his initial wealth, even as the other 1000(or so) have very little - so on average they have 10x what they started with. And the reason no one is rich after 1000 rounds is simply that there were not enough samples. If there were say a billion samples, you might expect one to come in with say a trillion times its starting wealth, overcompensating for the other 999,999,999 losers - on average.
Yes, and rightly so.

It's hard to even describe how historically bad they've been; they normalized and encouraged unsigned binaries, essentially viruses and worms, and were NEVER punished.
Sadly for a lot of these companies it's more of a "business" decision than a technical one. Having said that I will not work for a company in the future that has their primary infrastructure in Azure.
That is its core feature. The only reason Asahi exists is to run linux natively on Apple Silicon Macs. There are plenty of linux variants for other systems.

What dependency are you speaking of? It uses the external OS hooks built into the firmware. Is that the issue you are referring to? After boot, MacOS is not running in any way.
Building the Future of X
I think that those credits are called "flowers".

I'm only halfway joking. A lot of people do try to address their guilt over bad behavior by doing nice things. And a lot of people who receive those nice things don't want to think about why they are being treated well. The easiest person to scam is the one who wants to believe the scam. And any kind of credit program will attract people who want to believe.
Ajit Pai's punchable face stopped appearing in the news.
Oculus is not capped at the gamer market size. It's capped by hardware constraints. Until very recently, the hardware wasn't there for high resolution microdisplays and lenses. Most VR equipment has been built using off the shelf parts and modified smart phone hardware. This stuff is still great for gaming but not so great for dealing with text or anything requiring anything super high resolution.

Now that the chip shortage and supply chain issues have calmed down a bit, we're seeing big improvements. But these constraints also apply to Apple which is why their first run of Vision Pro headsets is set to be around 100,000 units. Hardware is the constraint.

That said, the focus for Oculus has always been much larger than gaming. The whole "Metaverse" pitch isn't a pitch for a product. The "Metaverse" is just another jangly marketing term just like "Information Superhighway" was for the Internet back in 90s. It just means using VR/AR for everyday situations like work, entertainment, etc.
> But I do hope that some of the people who literally built up their own profiles by demonizing Backpage and Section 230 at least take a moment to reflect on whether or not they got so caught up in the narrative they wanted that they missed what was actually happening.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-kama...
What about sitting still (like you would in a cinema) but with a VR headset? Framing would be mostly solved as you wouldn't move around outside of slightly turning your head.
You're misunderstanding a few things about those leaflets (which isn't entirely your fault, that page is very poorly written).

My understanding is that the "LeMay leaflets" were dropped on Hiroshima - and many other cities - but they didn't say anything specific about the bomb; just that America was bombing cities and encouraging civilians to flee. But, as we know (and they knew), America was already bombing Japanese cities - there wasn't any indication anything "special" was coming. The pamphlets actually excluded Hiroshima from the list of cities that might be bombed (with the caveat that the list was incomplete). Civilians were on edge, but often couldn't leave for various reasons, trusted things like air raid sirens, believed that their distance from military targets kept them relatively free from danger, and so on. This is documented in the essential "Hiroshima" article by John Hersey.

And these warnings weren't entirely ignored - Hiroshima's population before the bombing was substantially smaller than it was before the war, in large part because many Japanese civilians who could had fled cities.

The "Hiroshima pamphlet" - the one depicted - was not dropped on Hiroshima. This is apparent if you read the text, which describes Hiroshima as already destroyed; or the fact that it shows an image of the explosion over Hiroshima, not the Trinity test.

This [0] Reddit link - which I found by googling about the LeMay pamphlets - goes further to claim (and support, in the links) that even those weren't dropped over Hiroshima or Nagasaki. IIRC this contradicts Hersey's reporting, FWIW.

(Incidentally, based on the username, that Reddit comment was probably written by someone cited in your link. Either that or it's an eerie coincidence.)

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8rgyky/comme...
That philosophy is a problem. The main job of any business to to fulfill their contractual obligations.
If the management is so incompetent that they sign up for money losing contracts, the owners should fire them.
read the code before you use it? what are you even typing man
> a person who never experienced an unexpected financial calamity.

That's what his parents are for
It’s easy to say “I was a three year old and did not deserve this” but this is what happens in a total war, 3 year olds are rarely the primary targets of bombing but when the scale of conflict is so great their moral weigh becomes a rounding error compared to those who would use them as a shield.

At the start of the war civilian bombing campaigns were unthinkable. By the end they were standard operating procedure.

There hasn’t been a daring war since. Now everyone knows the costs. No one is safe.