jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I keep asking, if the science is so sound, why can't we treat it as an engineering problem and create a global thermostat and climate regulating system?

If the models are solid then the matter of getting or keeping Earth dialed-in to the "right" temperature is just a question of agreement (ha!) and of course large energy inputs and some yet to be developed 21st-22nd century tech. Think of the funding this could generate for R&D! And the conferences and travel to debate the finer points of the right temperature. It would swamp the paltry sums currently dedicated to studying climate change. Climate engineering!

If our task is to engineer an ideal climate for all on Earth we need to develop levers of control. Modulating CO2 emissions -- a massive project in global social coordination of dubious prospect -- may not be the best or first method to reach for in such a project.

However, I suspect engineering an ideal climate is not the objective of the people in this field or even considered a possibility. We could evaluate the success of such a project easily -- when we dial up 0.1 degree, does the system do what we expect? When we dial it down, does it do what we expect? Yes? Fine, we're done. Problem solved.

I rather suspect climate change is just another one of these endless war things that keeps a lot of people employed and isn't meant to be "won" in such a way as I have described. We must be careful not to define the criteria for victory lest we accidentally achieve it.

If climate study is more than a jobs program for less brilliant scientists, what then is the point of studying climate change and recommending and implementing public policy suggestions resulting from research?

Is it to prevent any change to the climate? To prevent unintentional change? What about non-anthropogenic climate change (which could potentially be more severe and more disastrous) -- should we not seek to prevent that also? What if by some enormous effort and sacrifice we are able to completely eliminate the anthropogenic component of climate change only to see the climate do its own thing and push life the edge of extinction anyway. A meteor perhaps. A new, severe ice age. A prolonged solar anomaly. Any of these could make a cosmic joke out of our meagre well-intentioned efforts.

I just don't think people are thinking about this clearly or it is as you say, all politics.
This is strikingly similar to a web interface for chess that I just made, even down to the public domain icons. Really slick, but playing against randomized opponents is not very thrilling. There are also limitations to just optimizing for the best turn with one turn lookahead. Although I have to say the drag and drop is better on this version, I think the problem of trying to find the best move in a client-side web application is relatively tricky. The most naive attempt might use a brute-force method, but this could lock up the web browser. And using large data structures would be taxing, too.

link: http://greg.team-duck.com/chess/
It's amazing how if someone said blatantly false things over and over again about Google or Yahoo laying off employees then it would get flagged out of existence, yet somehow Cringely makes the same false "prediction" over and over again about IBM and people vote it right up. Check your source people, you are actively spreading disinformation by a known doomsday prophet, and like most doomsday prophets he has been wrong every time.
It's not just Uber that will kill jobs. This video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU - explains how many others jobs will be eliminated.

Re this article, I think the numbers are a bit drastic, but using less drastic numbers does not weaken the central point of the argument.
Looks like `mmyyyyddhhmmss`? (I've never seen month-year-day before, that's threw me for a second.)
Wow...that's comprehensive. Great find!
I'm excited. This is perfect for 98% of people. And apache and nginx are always available for the 2% of people that need to do something more complicated.

Confs look familiar, and it's lightweight and will be secure. Perfect.
And back-end as well. Their API is so easy to set up and use.
Yeah, me too, I noticed the difference. I follow the https://betterme.world/articles/skinny-legs-big-upper-body/ program at the moment, and I noticed that my cravings are different from those when I was more focused on cardio. When I do cardio-type exercises, I'd eat everything I came across afterwards.
On the posted question, I don't understand why only A is the right answer, when B is also correct. The two quantities are correlated, so having any one of the two lets you predict with some margin of error the other.
But why would their income be down (in real terms) in the first place?
Great points about data provenance and sanity checking at the right level. This is all valid for any kind of data and not just python stuff.

> Doing the task in vanilla Python does have the advantage of not needing to load the whole file in memory - however, pandas does things behind the scenes to optimize I/O and performance.

There's a neat way around this, just set iterator=True or chunksize and pandas'll return you an iterable TextFileReader object: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/io.html#io-chunk...

Another tip is that even before you get into cythonizing stuff, see how much of the computation you can push down into high performance libraries like numpy - use a map() with a vectorized numpy function, and store your stuff in a numpy data structure instead of a manual for loop on a regular array-of-arrays, etc.

Sidenote, is there a decorator version of cythonmagic? Basically I want to annotate my functions with it since sometimes the non-typed basic cython is still much faster than the pure python version, and I don't have to manage the compilation step.
I love the gifs ヽ(⌐□_□)ノ♪♬
But you are committing "theft" if you are wearing this technology and look at your web-browser while it is trying to show you an ad?

Really makes it obvious that the browser-ad-blocking-is-theft argument is bunk.
Can you point out what they did in the EU with this?

GP is referring to the idea that, under deflation, your debt grows in real value while retaining its nominal value, but the nominal value of your income will be decreasing.

If I take out a $100k mortgage and can put 10% of my salary to it each year, say I make $100k as well for easy math. I'll pay it off in 10 years if my nominal salary remains the same. (I'm ignoring the interest on the loan, it changes the timeline but not the fundamentals.)

If we have inflation, my salary will likely go up over time so each year I'll be spending the same nominal ($10k) amount, but its a smaller percentage of my income and a lower real amount.

If we have deflation, my salary will likely go down over time (assuming its consistent it'd likely be negotiated into employment contracts, like cost of living adjustments are now for inflation). So each year I have to pay the same nominal amount ($10k), but its an increasing real amount and a larger percentage of my income each year.
Where did this notion come from that wages equal the value of a person? If this were true, shouldn't every single person make the same amount, regardless of age, experience, knowledge, or ability?

About minimum wage: do you know who really lobbies the hardest for increased minimum wage? Unions. Because they peg their base-line wages to the minimum wage. If they can succeed in getting the minimum wage raised, they can raise the pay for all of their workers who are already making 3 to 5 times the minimum wage.
You don't believe what? You don't believe that pedestrians can step into traffic? Or you don't believe that drivers can get away with no punishment if pedestrians step in front of them without giving them time to stop? I'm not looking up a source because it's so ridiculous that I'm not even sure there's a law on the books about it, but if you walk into the side of my (moving) car and get hurt, that's your fault, not mine.

You know those tire commercials where a kid goes running out into traffic between cars in a residential neighborhood and the driver is happy they had Michelin tires because they were able to stop in time? Imagine the kid ran out half a second later. Should the driver be charged?

Again, I'm not sure what's unbelievable about anything I said.
I just got a checkmate first go, rather quickly actually.
I don't really use OpenOffice apps frequently (LaTeX FTW!), but OO doesn't suck.

Photoshop beats the pants off GIMP, unfortunately.
Thanks.

It supports image hosting. I didn't want to have to upload images to another server somewhere. It even supports multiple versions of your images (e.g. retina and regular).

It's fully responsive so it's good for mobile.

I have RSS on the roadmap, but it won't be there on day 1. Have too many things to do right now. It also won't have support for multiple writers on day 1.
> I politely suggest that a short contract job might be the best option for a company to evaluate a senior developer

Nice idea. Though I hope you don't expect to be given high priority stuff or be paid a full senior dev's wage during this short contract before which I don't know your abilities as I've not had some other chance to assess them.

Of course an active public portfolio helps here, as potential employers can get some idea of your output from that, but we can't truly rely on it as it can be faked (or be misleading for far more equitable reasons).
Why this kind of functionality hasn't been part of the HTML standard from day one boggles the mind. There are many good use cases for this. You don't have to use it for everything, btw, even just having it adjust a header could be useful.
The problem is that interviews are high stress affairs. Stress produces adrenaline. One of adrenaline's known effects is to prepare us for "fight or flight", meaning that higher order logic is shut off, digestion is shut off, our senses sharpen, reactions improve. This is great when you've got to climb a tree to get away from a tiger. This is horrible if you are trying to demonstrate your ability to function mentally.

Different people differ in how strong this effect is for them in an interview. I'm unusual - I actually relax. Whereas the author of this article tenses up. And, of course, once you're tense and you notice that you just flubbed something obvious, then you tense up even more. Leading negative reinforcing cycle. And if you experience this in one interview, you'll experience it in the next.

It does not matter how reasonable your questions are. If this is what someone faces, you do not get an accurate picture of how good anyone with interview anxiety is. And a lot of people suffer from this. The author of this article to an extreme degree.
The fallacy in your argument is that it rests in the assumption that the US doesn't also take your money by force, when in fact they obviously do, so not having your money taken away isn't one of the choices.
Hum, never though of it this way. It also make business sence since Yandex strength is probably the handling of complex language in information retrieval. I always though the angle was to then address middle-east market with better indexing/search of Arabic content. Now, it's not impossible there is a political angle to it.
I think the hardware component is a promotional item just to get people used to and eventually using a software component, such as a short list of essentials quickly accessible through the Amazon app. Getting people excited and changing behavior is hard through, and I think this may be purely for that.
The timing is a bit suspicious to me. Tomorrow is April first...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMacTuHPWFI#t=8s

Apparently amazon likes their mac and cheese a little dry...
Because Google already has something like 30K-40K people working in Mountain View. It is opening offices outside of MV, like in Sunnyvale, but physical proximity to the rest of campus is very important for almost all teams. Even the SF office feels like a satellite.
Archived here: https://archive.is/b6TYj
It's basically a spam engine. I had to stop using GA because Google, the billion dollar company with a million software engineers, couldn't figure out how to filter out spam from their product.
Me neither, just pointing out that these are basically entrenched systemic issues in NZ at this point - failing at them is nothing new.
With recent content, I prefer to know how many hours/days ago it was posted. I find that exponentially more helpful than guessing timezones and things like that.

However, you're completely right when it comes to timestamps exceeding a certain age. That's why in my own projects I use a mixed approach: display recently changed things in relative time and all others in absolute terms.

I also advocate to display more detailed information when the user mouses over a timestamp, just so the data is there if needed - as it is in this case.
http://turkishnewstuhaf.blogspot.com/2019/07/slick-russian-p...

Be curious no more
Some do. Pedantic, I know. ;)
You can totally crash manager flow.

I wouldn't recommend doing this on purpose, but if you say something that forces the whole room to stop and consider, you can often break the conversational flow and leave a meeting of managers dead in the water.

You can also do something that wipes an individual manager's mental cache and they'll spend days trying to remember what everyone is up to and what's happening.

I think your final sentence is close, but I'd rephrase it: for managers, those disruptions and conversations in your schedule are them dealing with things that require intense concentration. I think most of them understand what disruption feels like, they just don't associate sitting at the computer typing with that focus because it's not the mechanics of their role -- their focus manifests differently.

My managers only rudely interrupt me when they, themselves, are clearly still processing something their boss said to them and they need my input to unblock that process. Or some kind of thing I need to do now, again to unblock whatever they have going on.
this seems incredibly related https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone_code

i’m not surprised that a mechanism like this is involved in memory storage/retrieval.

im left with questions about the heritability of these epigenetic parts of memory.
Why would you not be able to review the diff with a local tree? If anything that's much easier in a local environment.

The GUIs by nature hide detail: the pull request becomes a thing to be "displayed" instead of "explored". It's a problem that requires careful attention to detail. I don't know that I actually disagree with Atlassian's decision, but the fact that it had to be made isn't evidence that it's the "right" solution either.
Regarding the needed technical skills of management, note the tension between these two comments:

1) Watching non-programmers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn't know how to surf trying to surf. ... The standard cry of the MBA who believes that management is a generic function. ... The cult of the MBA likes to believe that you can run organizations that do things that you don't understand.

And the very next sentence:

2) Over the years, Microsoft got big, Bill got overextended, and some shady ethical decisions made it necessary to devote way too much management attention to fighting the US government. Steve took over the CEO role on the theory that this would allow Bill to spend more time doing what he does best, running the software development organization, but that didn't seem to fix endemic problems caused by those 11 layers of management, a culture of perpetual, permanent meetings, a stubborn insistance on creating every possible product no matter what, ... and a couple of decades of sloppy, rapid hiring has ensured that the brainpower of the median Microsoft employee has gone way down ...

Perhaps the latter is a consequence of former, i.e., of having excellent professional programmers and not excellent professional managers running a large company?

Everyone naturally overestimates the value of their skills, the same way everyone in every department in every organization naturally thinks theirs is the most important and the others mostly get in their way. It's a very human thing to do, to be locked into our own narrow perspectives and not grasp there are others: 'Those other guys don't even understand what I'm talking about!'

I'd much rather have my company run by a great non-technical manager than a great programmer but poor manager. Ideally the manager would have great technical skills, but think how many people have those, think how many have great management skills, and consider the odds of finding someone who has both and is interested and availble to run your company (and not, for example, their own).
Chrome's Flash plugin uses the Pepper API (PPAPI), so Flash is appears to be exempt from their new click-to-play policy. All plugins are click-to-play on Firefox, including Flash (even on major Flash websites like YouTube or Zombo.com).
>Blackberry is asking for recognition that they can not compete in their own industry.

If Blackberry merely wanted "recognition that they can not compete," they could put out a press release.

Anytime you write a letter to Congress that includes the phrase "must be mandated" -- as Blackberry's CEO did -- it's abundantly clear you're asking a new law.
You should also look at Dart. It has a very fast iteration cycle and is a much nicer language that Java (in my very biased opinion - I worked on Dart).
>Sars-Cov-2 looks like pretty much what it is: a zoonotic virus that "doesn't know what's going on"

It was actually remarkably stable in the early days suggesting it was used to reproducing in human cells. Or so Professor Petrovsky says https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8356751/How-COVID-1...

As how that could have happened lab wise here's Daszak saying they routinely infect human cells with coronavirus in the lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1701&v=IdYDL_RK--w&feature=y...

Or maybe it was in humans a bit before it took off. I see Daszak's kind of changed his tune a bit these days to not mention anything like that lab stuff.
What? I'm not sure why you invoke CS(by which I assume you mean Computer Science,) I wasn't refering to artificial general intelligence, which could be said to fall under the domain of CS.[1]

I was refering to the 'general intelligence' that is an attribute of human beings, what iq tests measure basically.[2][3]

It is a matter that has undergone much study since the early 20th century, and there is indeed agreement on what it is among those who study it.[4]

certainly not one that could be tested with any confidence.

Why so certain? It can indeed be tested and has been. Taking intelligence to mean 'ability to deal with complexity,' and taking something complex like say, life on earth, people with higher IQs on average make more money, and live longer. Not to say the amount of money one makes is wholly indicative of successful living of course, but it can be used as a rough proxy since it is something many people seek to do in the complex environment that is Earth and the Universe.

Also, I think the ability to 'live sucessfully' and to find out what doing so entails is an ability spread evenly throughout the population.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient

[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellige...
I have seen some technical people discussing technology such as ML, that may be interesting? But i can do the same with youtube, podcasts, etc. Is that only in iphone?
> I personally don't know how it helps

I really don't think it does personally. You can argue one way or the other with respect to safety (and I would very much agree that terminating on drop is insane), but that's really your backstop, and it's not really relevant to the person who is given a thread: they should know what they want to do with it, and if they want to join it they ought do so.
You really also need to include the entire military budget (and eco damage) as that's what props up the state, which backs the fiat.
Cant edit. Also, would it be effective to build new cooling towers? Our doors it work only where there's a source of co2?
Hey! Do you think this can somehow be integrated with my rss-based social network? www.kalaksi.com
:)
I hadn't seen QuickJS before and it looks amazing. It's a small, fast implementation of JS plus wrappers for the C standard library. That standard library includes output, reading and writing files, and a lot more. It's both an interpreter and a compiler. So you can build small console apps in JS.
Every "new" technology is always ushered in with the language of inevitability, which tautologically justifies its existence -- it's been "pulled into existence," a side-effect of progress, "make some thing people want," etc. etc.

I quote at length from Raymond Williams's study Television published in 1974 (!)

> The physical fact of instant transmission, as a technical possibility, has been uncritically raised to a social fact, without any pause to notice that virtually all such transmission is at once selected and controlled by existing social authorities [...]

> If the effect of the medium is the same, whoever controls or uses it, and whatever apparent content he may try to insert, then we can forget ordinary political and cultural argument and let the technology run itself. It is hardly surprising that this conclusion has been welcomed by the 'media-men' of the existing institutions [...]

> The model can be related to history only by endless retrospect, in which by selection such a process can be generalised or demonstrated. Characteristically, in such a model, there will be no more history: a culminating age has arrived.

MS Paint diagrams give the gloss of spontaneity; the big goofy arrows tell a version of history reduced to simple cause and effect; the easy steps "Democratization, Aggregation, Transformation" flatten it into a linear treadmill.

Clubhouse becomes an overdetermined effect rather than something deliberately built -- it's another stop on the three-step treadmill that's coming whether you like it or not (so get your investment dollars in now). Under this ideology, technology is something that happens to us. But as Nowaldo says, it is "trying to market itself into existence" [1] and appeals to inevitability are exactly how they do it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26144055
Great question - the oil and gas industry is definitely responsible for a huge chunk of CO2 emissions, but they are not the ones that produce CO2 used commercially. Most CO2 that is used at breweries, restaurants, etc comes from ethanol plants: https://www.attisbiofuels.com/by-products/carbon-dioxide

From conversations we've had with CO2 buyers, the price for CO2 ranges from between $150-5,000 / ton depending on things like how much is being bought, length of time committed in a contract, etc.

We have tested this mixture out with the industrial prototype in our office, yes! We've shown our cooling tower is able to capture CO2 from the air, and we are able to regenerate and pressurize that CO2 into cylinders.