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Yep, already riding.

Perhaps a somewhat naive question... could someone explain how this could be enforced against companies that are not based in Florida?

Who cares? Everyone is fixated on Bitcoin... there are tons of energy inefficient processes out there. The solution has nothing to do with Bitcoin... environmental impact needs to be priced into energy itself, whatever the application. This is a failure of the markets (and therefore ourselves). Bitcoin is a scapegoat.

I'm not sure how many climate scientists there are specifically, but scientists will see impacts even if they're not studying climate change specifically. Biologists are noticing changes, eg. trees flowering earlier than normal [1], coral bleaching [2], record low moisture content [3], etc. Even psychologists are involved [4]. It's pretty hard to escape.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/japans-cherry-blossom...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_bleaching#Pacific_Ocean

[3] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/fuel-moisture-content...

[4] https://www.apa.org/science/about/publications/climate-chang...

Since you can go from diffs to snapshots, and snapshots to diffs, aren't they basically equivalent? I'm struggling to see the important consequences at the user level.

Everyone, let's have this "secure" service where we put _ALL_ of our sensitive data!! Including export controlled materials? To be honest, it seems like PII including SSN leak regularly. Whatever... freeze your credit and get monitoring. On the other hand, export controlled ITAR/EAR... now that's bad!

I used to love DO. It was like 3 clicks to set up a VPS. You paid $5/month. Then they started adding support for object store, managed databases, projects, etc, etc. Now the interface is more complicated. I guess competition with other cloud providers necessitated this? I think it has been hard for DO to shake the image of "the tinkerer's cloud". It always felt like it's for small projects and small teams. However, I love the upfront and transparent pricing, and think it's important to have competion in the cloud space.

In no way detracting from your awesome toy project, intrigued people might also want to check out vitetris. Very similar tetris in the terminal with ncruses, but also supports network play! https://github.com/vicgeralds/vitetris

Pretty cool terminal visualizations, but tbh straight unix tools allow you to do this (might be different than 4th column for you depending on history format):

`history | awk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq -c | sort`

      56 tree
      58 make
      59 youtube-dl
      69 cmake
      71 which
      76 docker
      78 scala
      80 drive
      80 wget
      96 curl
      99 head
     102 echo
     105 pip
     114 scp
     119 ssh
     131 open
     135 conda
     135 kubectl
     141 man
     181 sudo
     298 mkdir
     350 grep
     378 ls
     409 find
     415 mv
     544 cp
     553 python
     568 brew
     601 cat
     674 rm
    1928 vim
    1972 cd
    2845 git

Also, I'm noticing this won't catch anything in pipes otherwise I'd expect to see less and xargs pretty high up.

Pan and Polo!

This reminds me of "The Mundanity of Excellence" [1] which similarly argues that talent is a useless concept:

- Talent just obfuscates the qualitative attributes that contribute to excellence.

- Individuals are identified as talented usually after they have invested effort.

- Talent is a quick and spurious "explanation" or admittance of unexplained variance.

[1] https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-mundanity-of-excellence-an-...

This is also concerning because it contradicts the general sentiment here on HN that You Should Be Blogging. Maybe you shouldn't... or at very least, there's more to consider than first appears.

Yes, echoing the enthusiasm for gnucash! I'm just passing 3 years tracking every credit card purchase over to investment allocations in gnucash.

At the end of the day, double entry accounting is double entry accounting and you should be able to move transaction journals between the tools. I haven't tested any of these, but it looks like there are various techniques / tools that make gnucash <-> ledger possible.

- https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Ledger-CLI

- https://github.com/icyflame/gnucash-xml-to-ledger-dat

- ...

Could you say more about riding your bike up the east coast? What did you get out of it?

This really makes me wish there was a way to include files in /etc/hosts files...

So, it’s more like you observe somewhere in the range of 5-10 cars for the duration of the commute depending on how densely you’re surrounded on average? That’s really interesting, and if you see 1 mistake per commute, then the average driver is actually quite a bit worse than the gp assumed!

This seems like a pretty good idea on the surface. I'm curious how the SAT and ACT standardized testing in the US came into the position of almost de-facto standardized college entrance exam. On the other hand, I've wondered why a similar thing doesn't exist in the real estate industry for home inspections. A good inspection costs a lot of money, and it seems basically every serious buyer needs to pay for it themselves. Why doesn't the seller pay for one up front and share the results with interested buyers? Certainly there's room for corruption / cheating, so maybe that's why? The same concerns would apply for a standardized whiteboarding. Not to mention that some kind of interview would have to happen anyway just as a context for getting to know a candidate. Personally, I think it's actually good that this happens in a technical context and, as others have said, is not completely based on a verbal conversation.

The article mentions that microplastics are found at the bottom of the Mariana trench, but fails to mention that even plastic bags and candy wrappers have been found [1]. No need to look at Carbon-14 to find far reaching impacts of humans.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48230157

I was tempted to say this, but am conflicted because I still think it's important for individuals to be conscientious about their actions. Individual actions accumulate to potentially large impacts. However, in general, I agree with you. A large scale, wide impact change motivated by a 0.00005% emissions reduction that is potentially negated by the oxidizing bath and synthetic polymer is simply a distraction. Essentially, emissions from the manufacturing are a red herring and the article almost completely missed the big picture impact this could have.

Nitpicking the 25000 metric tons of CO2 quoted in glass manufacturing is essentially inconsequential. Whereas according to [1] aviation produced 915 million metric tonnes of CO2 in 2019 and estimates globally 43 billion tonnes of CO2 produced. Basically, the carbon offset from glass manufacturing by using transparent wood is a rounding error in the grand scheme of things and doesn't even mention the carbon cost of the procedure to create transparent wood, which likely negates the aforementioned offset. Smells like a classic academic attempt to hype the importance of their research. The far more compelling case for this transparent wood seems like the improved insulation. What kind of carbon savings would we see in terms of heating / cooling if we weatherized homes using it? Now you're talking about year after year carbon savings! That's the kind of numbers I would have liked to see in this article, not some paltry appeal to 0.00005% emission savings in glass manufacturing.

[1] https://www.atag.org/facts-figures.html

I'm sure the reasons for this trend are incredibly complex, but I suspect that undergraduate degrees are increasingly failing to accurately signal competence, pushing those wishing to distinguish themselves to pursue graduate studies.

So many factors are leading to increased number of undergraduate degrees... not limited to degree mills, grade inflation, standardized testing, and availability of virtually everything in undergrad curriculum available for "reference" online. This simultaneously increases the number of undergraduate degrees while decreasing the average quality. Institutions that rely on the formerly strong "has a degree" signal are finding that the signal is weakening. Undergraduates now failing to signal are somewhat forced to pursue more education.

I see the same thing happening with masters degrees. Universities seem to increasingly offer combined BS and MS programs. I don't believe strong MS students are formed by tacking on just an extra year to a BS program.

Finally, another observation on STEM fields: due to the funding situation and glut of PhD's it appears to be incredibly difficult to build a solid STEM career without a PhD. Undergrads in certain STEM areas try to leave university only to find out that they actually need more credentials to meaningfully work in the field they just spent 4 years studying for.

This extension has been working well for me (on Firefox). https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

There's also https://github.com/google/latexify_py out there. Handcalcs seems to have a more extensive readme at least. Does anyone have a comparison?

Why are these ships allowed to go anywhere near reefs?

Your sibling comments are seem to be mostly trying to poke holes in the statement about COVID. Independent of our performance modeling COVID, we need to admit that we get things wrong and this is applicable to climate modeling. AND there's uncertainty. The chance of models getting it correct is exactly 0% (all models are wrong, some models are useful). How far off is a big question (uncertainty quantification). I think the scary part with climate modeling is that things are looking scary even if we're over-estimating warming. I think models are probably under-estimating. Bifurcations are an important, but tricky piece of chaotic dynamics. I'm really worried that we don't know all the bifurcations, "tipping points", and feedback loops. But, I'm also not a domain expert.

Edit: Sorry, also meant to ask for a reference on _all_ life disappearing due to climate change. Perhaps all human life, but life in general seems pretty resilient. Eg. recent headline [1]: Scientists revive 100 million-year-old microbes from deep under seafloor.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-microbes-idUSKCN2...

Could you give more details on other causes of research fraud you've seen?

Very well. The Pomodoro technique is essentially this.

Neat! Any plans to join the Fediverse with ActivityPub? Recently showcased open source reddit clone https://dev.lemmy.ml/ seems to be heading in this direction. Reddit for research could be achieved by hosting a Lemmy instance. With reddit clones popping up left and right, I think the competitive advantage will shift to community and moderation quality rather than technical quality. It could be good to cooperate around a common federated solution allowing individual instances to specialize and focus on community and moderation while everyone benefits from new features and bug fixes. I'm not sure how many reddit clones I can check each day!

I absolutely despise make and think it's ridiculous that a tool that can't handle spaces vs tabs is so "mainstream".

Basically every piece of advice on negotiating a promotion says something like "I just bought a car, and I need more money" is not a good argument in support of a promotion. But now the employer is using the same reasoning against you!! Your cost of living went down, so you're going to get paid less? How about you go move to a super cheap place, and instead of paying rent, take out a loan and buy some crazy cars. Now my cost of living is back up again... can I have that money back?

Just pay people for the value they provide. I think there's some room to argue that a remote only employee provides less value. Everyone in the same timezone, lack of face to face time, hallway encounters, going out to lunch, etc. have tangible value to the employer that is lost in the transition to remote work. But the arguments I see from Facebook and in this article are about cost of living. That's wrong. Price it based on value created by the employee.

If the permanence of remote work indeed turns into a long term trend, I think we're going to see some bumpy road ahead while individuals grapple with first moving and then local supply and demand in their new location. Fix your location, and then consider that if given the same pay, and same work, would you rather work remotely or in person? I would rather work in person for a couple of reasons including socialization, removal of distractions in a workplace environment, etc.