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0.3 mm/yr * 26 yr = 7.8 mm

Antarctica's contribution to sea level rise per year is fairly small. The largest portion comes from loss of land-ice like mountain glaciers and snow pack. Mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet is also substantial, contributing about 2.7 mm/yr to sea level change. Groundwater withdrawal is a measurable component of modern sea level rise. Aside from these mass-transfer mechanisms, there is also ocean warming (water generally expands as it get warmer) and salinity changes that don't affect the amount of water in the oceans, but do affect its volume. Loss of sea ice (which floats on top of water and is not supported from below by solid earth) does not contribute to sea level change, as the sea ice is already displacing an amount of water equal to the amount of ice doing the displacing.

That 2015 Jay Zwally paper should not be taken as truth, as there are substantial reasons to doubt the impact of the findings. In that paper Zwally uses a set of satellite laser altimeters operating over different epochs and neglects to co-register the different platforms in an intelligent way. There was actually major hubbub around that paper and most glaciologists recognize the claim that "Antarctica is gaining mass" is probably incorrect.[0] Zwally has a pretty big ego and was happy to get the publicity anyways.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-to-believe-i...

Has tox matured into a usable system? I last tried it about two years ago and had too many problems with setting it up to suggest it to friends. Looking for a good non-centralized encrypted video chat.

This article discusses the benefits of having a 'pure hobby' that you perform for personal enjoyment (not necessarily to turn a profit). Whether your chosen employment enables you to purchase a home (as a single individual?) seems completely tangential to the point of the article. I rent and have non-hustle hobbies. They give me something to do during my evenings and an outlet for personal expression. Also the results of my hobbies are usually suitable as gifts to friends and family. I am not trying to monetize them for the same reason as what is mentioned in the article: the hobby becomes work; stress increases & enjoyment goes down; you lose the positive influence the hobby had on your life.

There will always be capitalistic and opportunistic people who view every moment of their life in the framework of "how can I profit off this situation?". Those hustlers aren't going away. The flip side is there are also people who recognize the value of internal alignment and seek that instead of capital/wealth growth.

The insecurity of many of the popular package managers (pypi, npm, crates) and the wholesale reliance of so many software systems on these managers seems like a massive security risk. While I appreciate the simplicity of getting an up to date environment through these managers, I always have a tinge of fear in using them. Whether it is backdoors, information theft (like this article), or filesystem destruction, they all are simple to implement and simple to hide. I let so much arbitrary code run on my computer when I import a python module. Maybe the breach isn't in a popular top-level library, but some dumb little dependency. It's even more dangerous because most eyes aren't looking at that dependency, presumably.

I am tremendously naive to infosec and security in general, but I can predict that the big companies have measures in place to mitigate these risks. Containerization seems like it could help limit the scope of the damage, but the popular containers seem like they are more at risk (usually downloading the latest releases) to encounter these attacks.

What is the likelihood that some actors (state-sponsored or otherwise) could bring down some major systems? Not Google/Facebook/Visa/Netflix major, but widespread across many smaller platforms.

Blackhats and Whitehats out there must be collecting information on:

Which dependencies/libraries could be targeted

Which authors/publishers are vulnerable (regarding password safety, lib deployment mechanisms, ...)

Which systems/libs to compromise to affect classes of targets

I feel like this is a likely cyber attack vector over the next 10 years. How haven't there been more of these that are successful? Is someone building the intelligence in preparation for attacking? Are these systems actually secure (if you successfully avoid maliceful users)?

Had a similar thought, but around C++.

auto types and lambda functions are the ones that come to my mind. I am sure there are more features making their way into modern C++ versions.

> Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with a massive new funding round

The runaway effects are exactly the concern. Check out research on methane clathrates in the Mesozoic. Methane is 24x as potent a GHG than CO2.

When you see the gas flares in hydrocarbon production fields it may look like a waste (it is), but it has to be done because the alternative of releasing methane into the atmosphere is worse.

It looks like this isn't FOSS ($50 for a single website per year). The hosting structure is the same (self-hosted/you are on your own). Compared to Matomo this seems to work on SQLite in addition to MySQL.

Legitimate, non-cynical, non-opportunistic question. Will this boost Twitter's monthly active users?

Reminds me (and I'm sure others had the thought) of the Awesome GitHub repo[0] which links to many of the other Awesome-* repos.

[0] https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

What does this mean for "opposites attract" and "my better half"? Many substantial, long-term, fulfilling relationships are mutual partnerships where each person grows and as a couple find things that are "theirs" while filling critical roles for each other.

Fine-grained matches might not be that great. What will one have to learn from a relationship? What new interests will be developed? I know that FB's sociologists and ML experts have been considering these aspects more than I, but I fear the continued segregation and viewpoint-reinforcement that FB and algorithmic association sites subtly (or invisibly) are forcing upon society.

The problem is also around people artificially liking and commenting on your own posts (if they are public). I had encountered this last year when I was running a photography project and I would have to deal with fake accounts posting on every image. Each would post one of the following messages: 'Nice! Check out my page!', 'Wow! Cool pic. Want to increase your followers, click the link in my profile.", "Very nice. Follow back".

I don't want that spam in my image comments (considering there would only be 1 or 2 comments from real people and 10+ of these). I had to go through and manually delete them, block the users (achieving nothing because there are so many of these spammers).

This is a serious UX problem that has turned me away from Instagram (which was the "best social media" platform before they destroyed the chronologic timeline). I don't care if people are using an API to post legitimate content (I would have loved the ability to post content to multiple sites at once (twitter, IG, ...)). I care when the API enables annoying spammers.

I agree with your point that there should be some baked in capability for a more comprehensive check on the HTTP response. There are probably some edge cases around this regarding stream=True (load header only, not content) and iter_content() which pulls chunks from a buffer so the entire content isn't loaded into memory at once. Probably surmountable.

FWIW Response.status_code is an int, so it might need to be a member function on Response.

I am confused about the test used here. The `requests` docs very plainly state that `Response.ok` only checks the status code. Looking into the codebase proves that as well. Is there a status code for "I am going to send bad-length content"?

This might be a UX problem and not a technical one. The author seems to think that `Response.ok` should be an all-purpose check.

I think you are missing out on all the discussion that is occurring... Particularly in the energy sector, which is experiencing a dramatic shift towards low carbon energy sources (and a more dramatic shift away from environmentally horrid coal). I am very confused if you think that solar, wind, nuclear, and coal energy are not mainstream discussions.

As far as the "eternal growth society", I have to completely agree. But I would say there continues to be discussion around the (de)merits of capitalism. As a counter point, there are still about a BILLION people without access to electricity (something that rarely in the mainstream discussion). Advancements in electricity access (~70% in 1990; ~87% now) is a place we can probably all agree that growth is warranted.

I had tried to implement similar blocks through uBlock Origin and similar browser addons, but this seems to be the most robust method as I use multiple different browsers on my primary computer.

Also, editing a hosts file does nothing on FB's end (which is what this article/discussion covers).

I understand that bootstrapping the database is probably the hardest part, but I haven't been so confident in MyFitnessPal's database anyways. It seems crowdsourced without much quality control and it is hard to trust. There is also the "too much specificity" problem. I don't always want to choose a certain restaurant's version of a food item when I could probably have a decent first pass at the nutrient levels using a generic version of the food item.

Does anyone have a good offline FOSS for macro-nutrient lookup and tracking? Been thinking about starting one for myself.

US lidar still remains fragmented across many different portals.

USGS's 3DEEP data for the National Map covers lots of federal and private land. Open Topography holds lots of research data funded by various federal organizations (NSF, NOAA, others) amongst other stuff. State-level Departments of Natural Resources very commonly host survey data.

What software are you using? I have found PDAL[0] to be very simple to run with docker, though building from source is a bit consuming, especially as you reach out for more plugins you didn't realize you wanted initially.

PDAL is my current software crush.

[0]http://pdal.io

I am trying to wrap my head around efficient aggregation of these "places" into a more meaningful shape such as a building footprint. This seems better for this use case than what3words in that it is hierarchical and could help with blocking out large spaces.

I am fascinated to learn that Equifax will be reaching out to these affected 2.4 million individuals to inform them their personal information has been compromised. Equifax did no such action for the first 175 million people.

Big numbers don't "guarantee life", rather they make it "very unlikely there isn't life". It is the same way that "an absence of evidence is not evidence of an absence".

Secondly, it remains a challenge to categorize and define the envelope for what is and isn't "life". We have a decent hold on "earth-like life" but it will not be sufficient for all that might be encountered in due time (or already exists unbeknownst to us). If you have ever defined an ontology you know that it becomes more and more challenging to put definitions to the universals as you climb up the ontology. At the top, the universal from which all other universals inherit is very commonly left descriptionless.

Last, there are many alternative to the Christian One-God view that you express (I am sure you are aware and chose to limit your points for brevity). There are spiritual books that explain/propose/posit the universal disconnect between the living conscious beings of Earth in this material plane and the myriad of "beings" that exist in other higher dimensions/levels/shells.

Bill Ruddiman has been the most public face pushing for a ~7000 year Anthropocene.

Sadly this paper[0] remains behind a paywall and I can't find my local version. It is really the best work on the early Anthropocene hypothesis.

[0] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-...

You are entirely right that almost any change you make on an individual level will not stack up enough to transform the world to carbon neutral or carbon negative. Actions must be collective.

Help your neighborhood, city, state, build and implement a climate resiliency plan. Support and foster societal practices that are less carbon intensive (more bike stands and less parking spots; support public transporation;). Act within your network to promote more sustainable behavior. Does your work have a carpool system? Does your work __or the business you own__ provide incentives to their employees to ride bikes? Does your work recycle? Do you work in an energy efficient building? Is your house/apartment energy efficient? The "Green" trend should never stop. Optimization and efficiency are key.

Monetarily, divest your wealth from high carbon enterprises. Spread this suggestion and work with your employer to provide investment funds that are low carbon. Don't work in an carbon-heavy field. Work to actively solve the problem. Don't buy that Tesla. Don't own a car if it isn't a necessity. Tell other people about your wonderful car free life. Save money on insurance, gas, oil, tires, brakes....

You don't have to go to a completely plant-based diet. Host a party once a month and only serve vegetarian. That converts N hypothetical meat-containing meals into plant-based meals. Maybe someone likes your tofu dish and starts making it every other week for themselves.

A top-down carbon tax is a very logical economic mover, but it is only one tool in the tool belt. Recarbonization of the biosphere (plants, forest) is a necessity to have any chance of going carbon neutral or negative. Also climate change will not be stopping. We __are__ going to be in a different world and people will be in different places than today. The actions taken now will still mean everything to 10+ billion people.

Nice enough design work. But as someone who works in the climate data space I think there isn't much value add here. CO2 data is already free and open and not challenging to use. It seems like a half-wasted use of electricity and contributors time to just show data and not have any call to action or resources for how to do something about the problem. From the branding and social media integration I am guessing there isn't any deep interest in actually _doing something_ about carbon emissions. It feels like the villager who is screaming about a house on fire instead of joining in the bucket line.

Something like ClimateWatch[0] is actually building a strong platform for aggregating disparate data sources around climate change, GHG emissions, climate resilience practices, and multinational legislation. Granted ClimateWatch isn't built by an online community of volunteers, but maybe it is something to look at for further inspiration.

[0]https://www.climatewatchdata.org/

Have you had any success or failures with the single-threadedness of sqlite and multiple simultaneous users? Does buffering interactions using gunicorn help solve this? I ask because I love using sqlite for some localhost programs but always transfer away to postgres once I push the app to a server/VM. Thankfully sqlalchemy makes the transition possible with just a config change and no real retooling of the codebase.

Recognizing it is a little tangential to this article, it seems to me there would be a great benefit to the USA's domestic environmental policy if the Iowa caucus wasn't so early. Food to fuel is a tragic waste of resources.

I know Descartes Labs is hiring.

Android has surpassed Windows as the largest share of web traffic[0], though maybe that means those social apps like Instagram, Facebook, etc. Stat counter also states that >35% of web browser traffic is mobile not desktop[1].

[0] http://gs.statcounter.com/press/android-overtakes-windows-fo...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...