skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The contention depends on the sphere. Whilst the laypeople battle out A and B, there are other issues...

C. What is the climates degree of sensitivity to CO2? How MUCH impact? Any PhD who tells you they know this is a kook or charlatan. Source - I dated a climate scientist. Take it with what salt you must, go read Curry if it won't offend your orthodoxy.

D. What is the climates degree of sensitivity to anything, for that matter.

I'm sure the red team is at best controlled by a hostile minority, just like the blue team.

We're doubly fucked if climate change is in a anthropogenic positive feedback loop but its caused by something else like water vapor. Good luck getting red or blue to discover something like that. Both sides are children.
Nice how "working together" is an euphemism for having a bunch of rulers enslave everyone else "for the common good" :)
This is due to bitcode, which won't actually affect the binary size seen by end users (i.e. app download size): https://twitter.com/jckarter/status/846796503775567872
"That at least shouldn't affect your users' download size, then."
I thought that had more to do with the fractured taxing powers of the Feds, state and various local taxing authorities. For example Florida sales tax is 6%, but my county charges a 1% tax to provide sand road maintenance and paving. Pretacking is easy enough once in the stores, but somewhat odd when dealing with taxed and no taxes items.
I'm not so sure that's a bad thing? If you understand and work well enough, what's wrong with understanding through your own idioms, etc?

Of course we read a lot of people's code, but I'm not so sure it's something that needs to be actively practiced rather than done naturally over a career (which makes recommending people to read code pointless if it happens naturally).
More specifically, I hear the top top entry level salaries are going to fresh PhDs from just a small handful of labs.
It sounds like the 99% satisfaction rate was "of the people who filed their taxes using ReadyReturn" so it presumably excludes those who observed, or suspected, that the result was not correct and made alternative arrangements.

That said, I will also admit that this article is really about California state taxes, which are substantially simpler for most people than federal taxes. I got off on a bit of a tangent because Prof. Bankman seems to claim that the same approach will work for federal taxes as well, and in general most people perceive these issues as linked: automatically prepared state taxes are seen as a step towards automatically prepared federal taxes.
Transboundary health impacts of transported global air pollution and intern. trade
Perhaps because in the end, you pay for stuff with dollars, not with percentages?

That whole game of playing with abstract fractional numbers is already massively progressive. I think people fail to appreciate how very bizarre this "accepted norm" actually is.
Most people in the U.K. (the only other place I have experience with) never file a tax return. It's just assumed that the government is doing the right thing. Taxes are taken at source for all things, and if you have things outside of the norm you can tell your employer about it and they'll take care of it.

Filing taxes was pretty alien to me. I'm used to it now, but it seems there are simpler ways.
Remember that every dollar spent on intuit, and every hour wasted struggling with bullshit tax forms (deliberately the status quo because of Intuit) means Americans can afford less time and money using your product and buying your services. That is, these billions of dollars and incaculable frustrations wasted by Americans to line Intuits' pockets are a drag on the overall economic activity-- less money circulating in the economy, less ability to buy from each other.

Fuck Intuit. They exist to make everyone's lives worse. But don't forget, the government forces them them to offer their software free for certain lower-income Americans:

https://www.irs.gov/uac/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-...

No idea how much longer this will exist. I'm guessing it will soon quietly go away or be marginalized even more than it was in GWB's adminstration (when the income minimum was reduced significantly).
Only tech that's advancing gets the 3-4 year cycle.

Your water boiler hasn't changed in the past 70 years.
The MTA actually doesn't run a deficit, both their operational and capital budgets are fully funded.

The MTA overall is pretty fiscally responsible (im sure you can always find more waste to cut, but that's true of any organization) but is sadly overly reliant on debt to fund its capital program because the city, state and federal no longer really fund transit. This has lead to to about 15-20% of its operational budget to be dedicated to debt service, ie. money not being used for actual transit operation. Furthermore each year the money from the various emergency and rainy day funds in the operational budge that are not spent, are used to make additional contributions (above what is already budgeted each year) to the various befit and pensions obligations.

Unfortunately this good fiscal responsibility also means that the governor can screw the MTA out 65 million $ and get away with it because they can manage the loss. http://nyc.streetsblog.org/2017/03/14/state-assembly-wants-t...
Housing prices have been rising very rapidly over the last couple of years:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/million-d...
Replace 'edible' with 'usable' ... as the leather apparently is quite tough, and there's been quite some good work on that front.

However, as TFA points out, there's 1.5 billion cane toads in AU, and even if we exported a whole lotta shoes, handbags, etc ... it's not going to make much of a dent in this frustratingly renewable resource.

Aside -- back to 'are they edible' -- there is some interesting adaptive traits being observed[1] with native animals working out how to kill, and selectively consume components of these things, without dying.
Unfortunately lots of animals are still dying after eating these things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Australian_anim...
I think that a threat model that Binary Transparency tries to counter is one where an attacker gets hold of the signing key, or coerces the holder of that key, to sign a malicious update which is then sent to a targeted victim (on a compromised mirror site, for example).

If people are combining Reproducible Builds with Binary Transparency, then the attacker probably has to release the same binary to everyone, and release the source code containing the malicious change.

It remains to be seen whether enough people would audit the source code diffs of each release of Firefox, say, to stop a malicious update from affecting a large number of users. In particular, mechanisms would need to be put in place to stop users updating to a release which was discovered (or reported and then verified) to be compromised.
Would be interesting to see numbers for the compiled, stripped and thinned binary the end user will download from the App Store (they are in the details view for the app build on iTunes Connect). My guess is that at least most of the change should go away there.

With bitcode, app thinning and what not in the mix the Xcode build artifact is so much different from what's actually being downloaded it's hard to tell if this radar has real world implications for anyone but the developer uploading the build to apple. Still interesting, and potentially annoying though.
You don't need a walled garden for that. You would need some client-side listeners.

Walled gardens arise because our legal system incentivizes it. Network effects are unnatural online. There is no barrier to access or information flow here -- put simply, there are no real walls to protect the garden. They're all artificially imposed barriers.

With improved laws, no one would be able to hold the web-accessible data hostage, and competition would be based on consumer-facing concerns like user experience and customer service.

Until we get to that point, which makes up the foundation of all competition in the physical world, the potential of the internet will continue to be squandered. It's very important to wake people up to these issues, since no one really seems to discuss them.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.01253.pdf
Cards Against Humanity creator will buy and publish congress browser history
> the overall tax revenue is roughly equal to government spending.

Not even close - spending FAR outpaces tax revenues. That's what the federal deficit comes from. Last year we got about $1.20 in spending for every $1 in taxes collected.
Rapid application for iOS certificate tool in Windows system
Although, my relationships with AT&T, Exxon, and my landlord do not seem to match this Wilt Chamberlain scenario.
For the use case where your journal/publisher has a desired LaTeX template, it's probably more pain than it's worth.

For works that have to handle multiple scripts, and for works wherein you are in control of your own typography, it's more logical and practical to work with XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX. If you wish to use OpenType or TrueType fonts there's little debate.

If you want to go the whole nine yards regarding Unicode, there's recently been some development regarding Unicode math, with the first impetus being Microsoft and its Cambria Math to support mathematical typesetting in Word. Unicode math refers to fonts implementing mathematical symbols as Unicode glyphs, as well as some font-side logic regarding how the font renders math, afaik.
It seems like your idea on what Dine's concept is warped. If you live in a big city what do first dates mostly consist of? Getting a drink, getting lunch, getting dinner, getting ice cream, getting coffee. It was only natural to make an app that allows people to seamlessly do what they were going to do any way on other apps or in real life. Men don't have to pay on Dine. Paying for a first date is not mandatory and most millennials are pretty on board for that. You stated how you wouldn't go to dinner on a fist date, but on Dine you have the option to meet up at bars or cafes. Literally could be anymore, for example a cocktail bar or just your local pub. Some people complain about paying for dates but a coffee is like what, $4-5 at most?
This artist programmed a computer to tell her what art to make
Nope, Bezos didn't create more value than 100,000,000s of people. How could he? He started it, sure, he owns it and he directs it, but Amazon employs 341,000 people. Those are the people who generate the bulk of the value produced by the Amazon company, yet they share in very little of the value they produced. Would you say a CEO is responsible for all the value the company makes? Would you say it's fair for a feudal lord that "owns" a land to keep for himself 90% of the value his land produces while 100 people toil for 12h a day and barely have enough to eat? It's absurd. You can't defend this.
That's troubling. :(
Same for both swift and objC?
> Also inheritance is ultimately the extension of the will of someone who was economically productive, so I see no problem there.

Like Queen of England's inheritance, for example?

Or anybody inheriting land on American soil?

Totally no violence involved in initially obtaining those assets?
This is great news! Congrats on the launch. How is the performance compared to the other Level 3/4 load balancers, like HAProxy, NginX, AWS ELB, and GCE's Cloud Load Balancer?

disclosure: rust core team member
But this is what many people defend. And what do you say to the billions earning less than 5$ a day?
Norquist's tax pledge is very literally the creation of a child. He came up with it as a kid and hasn't felt any need since to revisit the matter. It is the immature and radical thinking of a teenager not tempered by age or experience. That he is still trumpeting it speaks to his character too.
I'm not well versed in the details of iOS development. Why is this inconvenient during development? Is the bitcode portion copied to your device and is a slow process?
I have no problem with Disney tracking me on their property while I am there. Do we know what happens to the fingerprints and photos after we leave? In isolation, the Disney tracking is innocuous even cool, but it comes with risk that the data will be stored / forwarded to entities of which we are unaware. Sorry if I am unnecessarily alarmist. I visited Disney back a few years ago (pre Snowden) and mortified my wife by declining the fingerprint tracking (had to talk with a 'supervisor'). I am not sure you can decline these days.
For accruing wealth for themselves? Why should we?
Likely no published source. OP seems to be involved with U of Toronto's business school "incubator" for A.I. start-ups, which has close ties to Vector Institute.
No, Thorium is competition for them in an already difficult (economically) business. It might, maybe, indirectly shake something loose, but probably not.
Which labs?
>3. The participants in the diet study have poorer than average health outcomes and indicators (otherwise, why would they try changing their diet?)

Because they're asked to, as part of the experiment?

>4. Regression to the mean happens, and all sorts of dietary changes appear to be good for your health

Why would the mean be better, since in (3) you mentioned that those people had "poorer than average health outcomes and indicators" to begin with? For regression to the mean, they should have started the diet after some extreme readings. But who said those are what prompted them to the diet? People don't start on a diet when they get extremely heavy, they start and stop diets all the time, while being continuously obese.

>Basically, if you're fatter than average, and it's caused by the foods you eat, you can fix that by making a list of everything you eat and not eating those foods. "Whatever you don't eat" is a more average diet than what you're currently eating, so you'll get more average results.

Well, if you eat the same calories from your new "Whatever you don't eat", then you'll get as fat.
This is great...

I did wonder why Qt 5.3 was used along with QWebView (QWebEngine[View] and friends are the way forward apparently)

Hope to see it on windows soon.
The answer to this question will fall sharply upon two lines depending on how you interpret the definition of "better" developer.

I see one interpretation of better as "can copy, repeat, fix, comprehend, maintain." And the other as "comprehends and exceeds - often without explicitly 'reading' that which is comprehended in the first place"

The first group will argue that you have to read.
The second will argue that it's optional.

I am in the second group but would argue in favor of the first. It never hurts to stand upon the shoulders of the giants who came before you.

That being said, I never read other's code unless its to fix it.
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> One thing I find quite annoying about f.lux is that it doesn't just have a simple custom schedule setting. Night Shift has that, and it's great.

redshift has that, and seems to be the popular alternative nowadays (on the desktop).
> Also inheritance is ultimately the extension of the will of someone who was economically productive, so I see no problem there.

I see a problem with the dead ruling over the living. Your will ends when you do with no extension.

That's not to say there might not be legitimate reasons to allow some inheritance, but extending the will of the dead, economically productive in life or not, is not among them.
You quoted "USA/UK have lost as much as 14 IQ points since Victorian times" and cited a tabloid article.

Presumably the reason that the parent commenter thought it appropriate to to mention that it was a tabloid article was because it used the standard tabloid technique of putting a sensational notion in a headline that is almost entirely unsubstantiated in the text.

You offer as support several links, mostly just proving that people exist. But your first link, with actual information, completely refutes your statement. [1] It refers to the effect that IQ has risen by 3-10 points per decade for several decades, and in the past few years it "may" have leveled off, or dropped by 1.5 points.

The actual author of the study has said that leveling off is to be expected, and any "decline" is quite likely noise due to chance.

But regardless of whether the 1.5 point decline in the past couple years is true, the entire article the opposite of the claim that we have lost "14 IQ points since Victorian times," since you cannot reconcile that with the Flynn effect actually being discussed in the article.

Combing down through the tabloid article, almost every other study refers to a decline of "about 1 point." Your headline claim is one single interesting (though bizarre) study that uses reaction time to try to estimate IQ, and tries to compare it to reaction times in studies from the Victorian era. [2] As you can imagine, published responses to this article from other scientists has been that of skepticism, to put it mildly. [3]

1. http://postbiota.org/pipermail/tt/2014-September/015965.html

2. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613...

3. http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/nettlebeck201...
I really enjoyed having the band on my wrist the entire afternoon at the pool and not having to worry about losing my room key in the towel bin or carrying wet cash to the snack bar.

I actually was more impressed with the RFID drink cups and mugs that are rolling out at some of the resorts:

http://www.disneyfoodblog.com/disney-refillable-mugs/

http://www.validfill.com/product/
And sales taxes. And all sorts of fees to various governments. And parking tickets. And a host of fees associated with the criminal justice system. And lotteries/gambling. And and and. Nobody pays zero tax, except perhaps the most very wealthy "persons" (ie corporations) able to carry over bad years and write down previous losses/taxes against future income.
Some people like to check in precompiled versions of their dependencies. Others like to distribute precompiled versions of their frameworks or libraries. Larger binaries aren't great for either of those cases.
More likely your ad blocker. No alerts, seems fine over here and here: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/carbonads.net.
I guess I skipped one or two steps in my mea culpa, so I'll cover them here.

You posted this link https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-residence-time.htm

In this link, after a short introduction, we learn that there are about 750 GT of CO2 in the atmosphere, and about 200GT enter and leave the atmosphere each year, which is about 27%. CO2 molecules are indistinguishable from one another (leaving aside the trace amounts of molecules that contains isotopes different from C12 and O16). A molecule produced by human emissions does not look in any way different from another CO2 molecule. Moreover, in no time all the anthropogenic CO2 is equally mixed in the rest of the CO2 (by diffusion). Because of that the proportion of CO2 that stays in the atmosphere for a given time follows an exponential law with a decay coefficient of -log(1-0.27)=0.19 (see note). So out of all the CO2 in the atmosphere at a given time, only 83% stays there for 1 year, only 15% for 10 (uninterrupted) years, and only 5.6*10^(-9) after 100 years. And this is true both for all the original CO2 as for the anthropogenic CO2.

Now, if you change the definition of what it means for CO2 to remain in the atmosphere, then you get the long life you mentioned, but you do need to change that definition.

And this has nothing to do with averages vs medians or percentiles or other statistical concepts (which by the way, I am very familiar with).

(note) I'm skipping another step there, how to go from indistinguishability of CO2 to the exponential law, but if you want me, I can fill that in too.
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To use your example, portrait painting was essentially killed by photography. If you were a painter, or are trying to be a painter today, things don't look great.

However what you haven't addressed is the impact of reducing the human labor cost/skill to producing portraits. Historically painting portraits were prohibitively expensive, likely most people never had a painting/portrait of themselves or their family. The introduction of photography enabled everyone to have photos of themselves, their families, their children growing up, their wedding. In terms of labour, we started doing things with photos that only the richest people could have afforded to do with paint. Just think of how many mall photography shops there used to be in the early 90s. In the long term we wound up with a higher quality of life by making something that used to be expensive accessible, while still maintaining a large number of jobs. Just not if you're a painter.

tl;dr, automation is bad for the individual, but good for society.
Larger files to store and upload to iTunes Connect mostly. I don't think bitcode is ever transferred to development devices.

I guess there is also a risk that the compilation process generating 3x larger files could also be slower as more work are being done - but that's just speculation.
Yeah, it's a crazy decision resulting from "green groups'" radiophobia after Fukushima.

The government official estimated cost of shutting down all German nuclear plants is 55 billion Euros over the next decade. Although the (frankly more credible) 'unofficial' estimate puts the cost at 250 billion euros over the next decade.

Not to mention the fact it's resulted in their co2 emissions increasing in both 2015 and 2016 (https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-greenhou...). This also means increased deaths from air pollution. The German environment ministry now predicts they will probably not make their 2020 co2 reductions targets.

So other than the enormous cost, increased co2 emissions, and needless human deaths, good policy.

EDIT: And as for the whole "let's just replace everything with wind and solar", I'm not sure people fully appreciate what will be involved. In Germany's case, on a monthly basis, their wind plants manage an average capacity factor of ~20% (std. dev. 7.65 percentage points) and their solar plants manage an average capacity factor of ~10% (std. dev. of 6.41 percentage points). They have had months where solar only managed a measly 2% cap factor and wind 11%.

So let's say demand is 1TW/hr per month. This means they need to build about 11 times that in nameplate solar capacity, or around 5-6 times that in nameplate wind. So you also need to build 11/6 times the transmission infrastructure. And even then you will still have random blackouts due to the high variance in generation, so you also have to spend a bunch of money on grid-level storage.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f1a6d064890d67fbfc98d66dbd...