skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common myth. Millions of years of tree growth would have taken the earth to ~0 ppm CO2, preventing plant life. There were likely organisms other than white rot fungi that broke down lignin. Most petroleum formation occurred from dead diatom sediments on the sea floor.
They already are. With increased production, the price per unit staying stable means you either have an extremely mature industry, or the existing players don’t have any competition and can maintain insane YoY increases off of volume alone.
Its already holding up different lithum mines in Nevada https://apnews.com/article/business-nevada-plants-climate-an...
I’m sure the supply side is constrained by various things that aren’t uncommon in other places. NIMBY zoning, terribly slow permitting, etc. But the demand side has been lit on fire by cheap money.

It’s as if Canada is a country that pulls resources out of the ground, takes cash from foreigners, lends it out to boomers, and then buys houses. That’s all there is in the country now.
> you won't make any money for places that sit vacant...

You do if capital gains are sufficient (which has been true in many markets up until very recently).
One is being planned outside San Francisco. They have invested nearly a billion-large so far. REF: https://fortune.com/2023/08/26/silicon-valley-elites-want-ne...
It very much depends. There are many different ways of mining lithium.

An Australian hard rock mine will use the same amount of fossil fuel as any other hard rock mine.

Brine operations don't use much but the lithium still has to be transported from a desert.

Future technology such as DLE (Direct Lithium Extraction) have to potential to require basically no fossil fuels at all.
Cybertruck ‘Release Candidate’ spotted supercharging, shows why we need V4
There are many people like me that see city life as almost full dystopian. My health improves if I don't live around many people and if I have room for a large garden for food, both human and pollinators. I am most happy if light pollution is almost non-extant (so are nocturnal and crepuscular critters).

I understand the attractiveness of the walk-able city to some. I hope you (and other of your kind) can come to accept that there are others that have different needs for living space.
Individually, reducing the carbon emissions you are directly responsible for (either by using greener tech or just reducing consumption) and planting some trees is basically the best you can do directly. This kind of tech, if it does become a good solution, will be a large industrial process, not something it makes sense to operate individually. And of course the best thing to do is continue to advocate for action politically, even though it may be hard to count exactly how much of a difference you are making there.
Yes, but those low level crimes are much more disruptive to having a safe and orderly society that’s nice to live in.
I don’t believe that it is.

My sibling comment even argues for needing to invest in technologies for removing carbon from the air because we need a way to remove the CO2 that’s already up there.

I believe that putting this same money into building more renewables is better use for the money. We can worry about removing CO2 from the atmosphere once we stop dumping immense quantities of it.

That being said, this problem is as much economical as technical. Microsoft, want to help reduce CO2 levels? Spend this money on lobbing to introduce carbon prices, e.g. see Canada’s carbon tax or the EU carbon tax WITH a border adjustment.
This sounds like the plot to Saw XI.
Nielsen and A List Apart used to be the go-to sources for guidance on good web design. It's sad to read through that list as see that majority of sites published today make every mistake from that list.
I'm curious, did you try to calculate the mass of ores that would need to be mined?
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-lithium-resource-...

Europe may've gotten the short end of the stick, but there's plenty
I don't believe by modern standard that Elixir is aiming at low latency.
So what's the "natural" solution? Create swamps all over the place? How quickly do they remove CO2 per surface area?
When you aren’t the sole owner of the resources being managed. Once you establish a commons, you need a bureaucracy of some kind to manage it.
Self driving / electric etc is just the same scam.

Remove car dependence and invest more in public infrastructure.
Not sure what you are talking about, it highly depends on the way lithium is extracted.

A lithium hard rock mine is like any other open pid mine. Its a big hole in the ground with trucks going up and down.

A brine operations is basically a bunch of huge fields of water that just sort of sit there. It needs lots of space.

New forms of DLE Deep Brine mines look very much like a petroleum extraction well (even using old holes from that). However not fully commercial yet.

However I would also say that petroleum extraction on a large scale, specially in the ocean has lots of bad effects. And the gas from those mines will escape for decades.
That is my point. For most people just using synchronous code with threads is the best option. Async only shines if you really want to push your I/O relative to your compute (which is becoming more of a challenge on modern hardware as I/O bandwidth is rapidly expanding compared to compute), or if you need to keep track of an extremely large number of tasks with low memory overhead. Starting off with "I'm writing a network application, I should use async" is likely already a mistake, especially in Rust.
China troubles could upset Apple’s cart as it prepares to launch the iPhone 15
"The global ecosystem is a living, complex, adaptive system, and will recover with or without human intervention."

On the trajectory we're currently on, a significant fraction of all species on earth could go extinct. There will be life, yes, but significantly less diverse life.
I had an apparently-unusual problem, whereby my system seemed to react poorly to the large-dose monthly Vitamin D pills. The problem was hard to pin down, other than a repeated sense that everything (mentals, sleep, digestive system, ...) suddenly sucked, starting, on each occasion, with the taking of a Vitamin D pill.

So I swore off them, and rely upon the natural (sun) source instead.

Vit.D is not a magic cure for chronic/severe conditions, unfortunately - alone, nothing is - but it services critical physiological functions, without which, everything is that much harder.
Anecdata of one: I got Covid recently, multiple other people around me got Covid recently. None of us got a new booster shot. Not even available yet. Now I don't need it either.

So from my point of view, you can keep your conspiracy theory.
Mental hospitals may have been bad, very bad, but what if the alternative is worse? I walked into a Starbucks in downtown San Jose a few weeks ago and there was someone in there asking for water. Their clothes were soiled rags. They had sores on their ankles. Their face was smeared with dirt. Is that kind of an existence better than spending time in a mental hospital? Is it really the most humane option to let people slowly die on the street? I know what my answer is.
> The vast majority chooses a dialect of async Rust which involves arcs, mutices, boxing etc everywhere

And?

> not to mention the giant dep tree of crates to do even menial things.

Again, And?

I don't really care about having to pull in crates. That has always been how Rust does things - it prefers many small crates over fewer large crates. Async is no different.

And I don't care about Arc either. Writing `let x = blah()` is not much better than `let x = Arc::new(blah())`.

If you're talking about something else, like idk, maintaining mutability across multiple threads, yeah that's going to be more painful. It's also painful in most other languages and is generally avoided for that reason.

> The ones who try to use proper lifetimes etc are haunted by the compiler and give up after enough suffering.

You say "proper lifetimes" as if lifetimes are desirable. In async code they are not - your lifetime is often "arbitrary" and that's what an Arc gives you. The solution is, as mentioned, using an Arc or Box or Mutex.

> Async was an extremely impressive demo that got partially accepted before knowing the implications.

I think this is a totally ignorant characterization of async, which was years in the making, took lessons learned from decades of async in other languages, and was frankly led by some of the most knowledgeable people in regards to these sorts of systems.

> (If you disagree, try to explain pin projection in simple terms.)

The vast majority of people will never have to know what a pin projection is, let alone how it works. It rarely comes up, and virtually only if you're writing libraries. I could explain it but I see no reason to do so here (it is not complicated at all, `Pin` is probably the harder one to explain).

> The damage to the ecosystem from fragmentation is massive.

It's not even noticeable lol like, what? What fragmentation? I've never run into an issue of fragmentation and I've written 100s of thousands of lines of Rust.

> It would have been better to

How nice to sit on the sidelines and throw out a paragraph sized proposal. Everything looks great when you hand wave away the complexity of the problem space.

Async Rust isn't perfect (I frankly don't think there is a "perfect" solution, that should not be contentious I hope) and I welcome criticism, but your post is totally unconstructive and unsubstantial.
Trying to definitively prove masks "helped" or "did not help" would require comparison against a control Earth where masks were never used.
Ipx itself worked but in the same era we had bus topology and boy was that a pain.
I guess one thing going for it is that then Rust is a lot more like Node, which could help increase its popularity. I wonder if Rust at some point in its history became self-serving (bigger == better).
Yeah, perhaps. But I am not part of that minuscule subset of people who have deep expertise in both compiler internals and runtime architecture to have well founded opinion on the design. There is FFI and stack issues that’d need some incredibly bright engineers to sort out.

My argument is more along the lines of: modularity is the (only) way to reduce complexity. We already have modular runtimes in other languages (project loom in Java, webassembly etc). Most people should not care about runtimes much. The ecosystem cost of async ended up being high. Thus, runtimes should be an implementation detail for most users.

Doesn’t mean Rome has to be rebuilt. Perhaps the async we have can be saved, but even so it involves biting the apple of actually defining precisely what a runtime is so that crate authors can think of them just like they think of allocators today (ie not at all).
Imagine if we could do more than one thing at a time
The fertility rate in Canada is far below the reproduction level. Any Canadian government has no choice but to double down on immigration. The alternative is financial collapse due to the lack of workforce and diminishing internal consumer demand that would span everything, not just real estate.
purpose.. is so obvious till you answered it. re ""pretty much feel like I can learn anything"", so which uni course would you best take [if your goal isn't optimizing for the $$/resume or anything known]?

(Assuming you are Forced to take one uni course; after which you are Forced to take no more)

--

re "martial arts"; btw which unis [2023-2035] sell martial art courses?
> We wouldn’t have been able to reach this milestone without collaboration across the industry,

Read: Advertising and data collection industry, not, privacy industry or web browser industry.
after 6 captcha, I gave up.
That’s definitely the best price you’re going to find for a serviceable Garand.
Where is that power coming from, that they use to get the carbon out of the atmosphere?
I think the best way to sequester carbon out of the air is to plant a sapling, let it grow into a big tree, and then keep the tree around (or at least keep the wood in some form). If you know anyone with a chunk of land, try to convince them to plant a lot of trees.
It also requires a minuscule amount of Novichok to kill a person.
Humans are really bad at understanding very large and very small numbers intuitively.
Damaging yourself to establish credibility is probably as old as the concept of war.
if it continues for another decade? It's already unaffordable now
The same way it's legal for restaurants to charge you for food, even though you can die of starvation.
Because lithium extraction such a tiny aspect of everything, and replacing a huge and evil oil industry that has terrible effects on everything is like comparing an apple to an F-150.

One is so clearly worse that its not even really worth debating. And that's why very often the 'but what about lithium effect on the environment' is often broad up by car and oil lobbyist to gaslight people. That is the reason the person got downvoted.

But if want to know, lithium mining is a worse basically like mining any other hard rocket, cooper or whatever. There are some issues with brine mining but they are minor and very localized. As with all mining there is issues with local representation.
"capitalist way"

Uhhh... Maybe consider giving away your laptop, and go live innawoods in a loincloth.

If you use "capitalist" dispargingly, while benefitting from it, I'd describe you as a hypocrite, naive, and immature.

If you're not a capitalist, stop accepting benefits created by capitalism.

Go find a deer, harvest its skin to clothe yourself, and drink from the local creek. ...or, continue being a comfy capitalist.

From what I discern, you've chosen the latter.
Yet Europe, with pay-to-use toilets, does not have urine-soaked streets or the need for an app to map poop…
But isn't this clause how we got NIST? Who, among other things, regulates time itself?
That's a prediction and we don't know the future. One possible scenario is that people install obscure projects by unknown maintainers to "protect their privacy" and get owned. A lot of security products are snake oil.
Tár was subtly layered. I saw several people discussing it as if it was about "the separation of art and artist", when the film spent several minutes explaining how much of a talentless phony she was.

EEAAT was much easier to digest. The message was embedded and one doesn't need to reflect on it, and make decisions about it.
SQLite datatypes are advisory so it pretty much just accepts anything you give it.

PostgreSQL definitely says no to schema violations.

These are both features.
My understanding is that German highways are similarly safer than American highways, so it's not just street design.

I agree that cultural attitudes play a large part; a somewhat easy way to change America's culture of unsafety is to gate the privilege of driving to those who are willing to change it. It's what we did for seatbelts, airbags, and just about everything else that's saved countless drivers' (and passengers') lives over the last few decades.
This reminds me of a story about an old man who had a lot of debt that wanted to collect life insurance. He tried getting himself killed going to rough neighborhoods and hurling insults and racial slurs (he was white) but no luck. Finally he got someone to hold a knife against a steering wheel while the man thrust his chest against it, killing himself in return for his ATM and pin.

The man got caught and sent to jail and the insurance paid out, since it technically wasn't a suicide, as the man went to jail.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/2...
Easyly solvable by booting some very early linux flom floppy disk(s), doing that 192.168.x.x/255.255.255.0 shit, pinging and arping around, making notices. Rebooting into Windoze and resetting shit according to those notices. Done in 30 mins max.
DIY smart thermostat? One button/rotary knob stereo interface?
Imagine a staircase with only two steps. The bottom step is the desk surface, it extends all the way to the back underneath the second step. There is no riser under the second step, this is an open staircase. The second step is the slab on top of which the monitor(s) stand.

_ __________________ __________________
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T | | | |
XXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
HHHHHHH H [laptop] [keyboard] [drive] H
================= ====================================
| |o |[___o___][______o_______][___o___]|
| | || ||--------------|| ||
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| |o || o|| ||o ||
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XXXXXXX = heavy wooden slab
HHHHHHH = feet for slab, made out of same or similar wood
======= = desk surface
o = knob on drawer or door

The desk itself is an older type with loads of drawers behind the right door, shelves behind the left one. I'm using the right monitor as main, the left one is only switched on when needed.

The wooden slab is not attached to the desk, it stays in place due to its own weight - one of the reason for choosing a heavier type of wood. I'm using a slab of oak I cut from a dead tree I felled some years ago. I did not cut the edges straight so the front edge is uneven, this is where the bark used to be. The top of the slab leans over a bit since it did not come from the middle of the trunk, this gives more top surface while looking interesting as well.
That's maybe because you have distorted view of the worth of 'discovering lithium' is.

You hear: "Valueable resource found under Biden's watch'

I hear: "Another lithium resource that want be exploited discovered"
Emerging threat: AI-powered social engineering
Doing privacy-respecting ads is not hard, generate the relevant cohorts on the client, pull either all ads, or k-anonymity if the pool of ads and expected size of cohort are large, and then use that pool of ads.

But that means they don't get "useful" ad metrics in any form, so its a non-starter for the IAB.
Sure, man. Also the libs are coming to force you to get gay married and to steal your guns.

This appeals court decision barely supported any of the overreach of the trial judge; and as a well-known super-conservative circuit, they're using the opportunity to grind their own political axe by paying homage to the current Fox News-promoted talking points. If you think this decision isn't political, compare it to similar attempts in the past when the give has requested compliance from media in exchange for favors or threats. Or contrast it to the conspicuous silence from the "anti-censorship" crowd when conservative governors gut their state's educational system and destroy programs that teach subjects they find politically objectionable.

And apparently you've bought into that narrative entirely, as soon as you call anyone with a bit more historical perspective "pro-censorship."

I'm not "pro-censorship", whatever that means. What I see is a good-faith if inept attempt to combat massive, coordinated, and dangerous misinformation, an activity that falls well within the gov's purview.
It's also worth noting that Turbo users don't interact with it via JS, it's whole purpose is to create interactive web applications without JS. You apply data attributes to HTML elements and the framework manipulates the DOM based on server responses.

A person using Turbo and upgrading to this version wouldn't notice a difference.
Hah. The good old days. Note that back in the day we didn't always agree with his pretty drastic opinions.

Today though, it reads as true as ever.

It's 2023, half these issues are still there and I still don't have my flying car.
Even the Portland loo needs to be cleaned, and unfortunately the populations that uses them poses a hazard to workers.

https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2023/08/30/city-of-portland-...
It's a shame that rox filer is functionally dead and the rox desktop ecosystem (small as it was) is even dead-er I think author would have enjoyed it.
Mercedes-Benz to use BYD Blade batteries in their EVs, according to report
People can go into shock and die.

"Shock may result from trauma, heatstroke, blood loss or an allergic reaction. It also may result from severe infection, poisoning, severe burns or other causes. When a person is in shock, their organs don't get enough blood or oxygen. If shock is not treated, it can lead to permanent organ damage or even death."

https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-shock/basics/....
I hope they don't gather a lot of information about you during and after the sale, and then sell that information to data brokers.

That would be horrible.
> It was great when LCDs came about.

Once upon a time, I owned a 19" CRT that weighed less than a typical 17" CRT. Such good fortune. Still, I never did have the courage to carry my tower on one hip and my monitor on the other (and everything else in a backpack), so I guess it didn't really benefit me that much after all.

> most lasted upwards of 12 hours.

You're damn right. Imagine carting a CRT around and then only staying for half a day. Ha!
Not only that...but compare the increase to the "median renter's income" and the divide is even wider.
Author should also look into complexity science, and its consequences that even if everything is determined, most information about next state quickly evaporates. If it's impossible to know most things about next state, does it even matter that it is deterministic/simulated?
You forgot the last one because of how improbable it is for a police car to drive at the speed limit..
>ICL is generally much worse than training a model in accuracy, and you generally don't need much training data to surpass ICL in accuracy.

For the same model is a huge asterisk you seem to be missing here. Finetuned GPT-4 is better than ICL Gpt-4 and so on but there's no guarantee that finetuned GPT-3 will be better than ICL GPT-4 like how 4 beats the finetuned Med-Palm on medical domain tests.

You can train bespoke models with worse accuracy.
There was a guy that made his own and open sourced it:

https://youtu.be/iHBgNGnTiK4
I remember this too. IPX just worked for LAN games. Anything else never worked right.
In that case environmentalists should be very much in favor of the mine. Mining in the US is much cleaner than in most other countries so mining it here is not only better for our economy, but for the environment as well.

Your example actually is proof of this. It got cleaned up. It wouldn't in most countries.
Interesting to think at 100M inhabitants, indigenous issues wont' be a major issue anymore... tiny squeak in the dark.
Lithium isn't 'renewable'.

And just 'subsidizing' things isn't a replacement for actually playing your energy grid and energy production.
> But nobody wants to write a library that isn't "web-scale" anymore, so tough luck.

It's more like "I want to be able to put timeouts in my code". 99% of why I want async is so that if something takes too long I can just stop that. That is incredibly hard to do without async.
Surface dial was very cool. I haven't heard much about it, though. Wouldn't surprise me to find that there may be patent clashes with this project. Most hardware is heavily patented with highly enforceable patents. It's a damn minefield.

One of the problems with "Cool UX," is that it is too "in your face."

I know of what I speak. I have designed "cool" UX elements for most of my career.

It's a mistake I keep making. I guess I like the challenge.

One of my latest efforts, is a "prize wheel" spinner for Swift (iOS/iPadOS, via UIKit)[0]. I have considered creating a SwiftUI version of it (and even started work on that), but I can't justify it.

It's really very lightweight, high Quality, and easy to use.

I keep on not using it in my projects, because it's too "attention-grabbing." There's a reason that waitstaff usually wear black.

[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner