skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt that increased atmospheric CO2 concentration is going to be a direct threat to human health. Humans have for a fair amount of time at this point, spent most of our time (and decision making time) indoors, where CO2 concentration grows far higher than atmospheric. In fact, reaching the 1000s ppm is already fairly common, and does not seem to have lead to major obvious health problems (although it does, as you identify, lead to short term cognitive decline).

The bigger problem is that in our quest for energy efficiency, we would further reduce ventilation, increasing the indoor CO2 concentration; but this can be countered with better ventilation (using a thermal exchange system so it is more energy efficient than opening a window). The reduction of indoor CO2 possible from this is probably greater in most places than the ~100ppm increase in background concentration.
(disc: googler)

But in many ways this is anti user. There's a huge value in getting search results based on context and knowledge about you. Its nice that when I google "go", the first result is golang, whereas DDG returns Google.com, Go.com, the disambiguation page for Go on wikipedia, and finally golang.

Further, when I type "frequent flyer number" into a google search bar, it returns my personal frequent flyer number (scraped from emails). Some people (rightfully!) find that creepy and invasive. I find it incredibly useful. Making a tool used by billions of people less useful isn't good.
Hey there! Thanks​ for this advice, I'll definitely consider this in the next release. Like I said in other parts of this thread, the project is in very early stages right now and, as I understand from reading a lot of the replies, I seem to have missed a lot.

All of this stuff will be fixed soon.
The many issues involved in being a landlord throw doubts on the theory that too much money is being made by "rentiers", at the expense of "real entrepreneurs".
Why the down votes? Would some people say why they are against talking about how the human population could enforce the idea of limiting itself? Given that it goes against the core biological imperative, I don't think I'm wrong in asking this.
The era of nuclear testing did significantly increase the amount of background radiation in the world. There is not a form of above-ground nuclear explosion that will not have worldwide environmental impacts.
Both of your examples are things that have been common forever. There were germ theory skeptics, still are, that ignored the science showing how many deaths doctor hand washing prevented. And radiation healers were massive in the early twentieth century.
Are you going to use it? Just curious.
Sure, don't treat the symptom, just demand everyone contract the disease.
Pandas is definitely the most popular (and imo best) data wrangling library for Python.
We need to start mitigation research now, not pass it along to our children's generation. The reason for today's urgency in addressing global warming is that previous generations kicked the can down the road to us.
Forking is an extreme action, a last resort. Standards are about establishing ground rules to avoid escalations and disagreements. The whole idea of standards is collaboration and co-operation.

Software is not static and decisions need to be made by everyone the standard impacts. Which is why it is important that control rests in a collective that represents everyone's interests. I think that's the only way we could call it a 'standard' without taking liberties with the word. Wouldn't you agree?
I co-founded a SaaS data startup ten years ago, focused on international development. Most of our work is currently climate mitigation related (water, agriculture, poverty reduction) but also used in sustainable energy, like tracking small scale biogas production. The whole international development field is a USD 130 Bn/year industry, and there may be another USD 100 Bn coming in climate mitigation/renewables. They have mostly really poor key indicator tracking, monitoring of projects etc.

Most of the work in none-industrialised countries have really poor data tracking systems, so that is where we thought we could make the biggest impact. But some of our tools are even starting to see traction in Europe.

There is plenty to do in this field. Unfortunately there is an uphill struggle even educating people that they need to use data to drive decisions, but it is happening. Happy to answer questions.
That's because it's easily explained. About half the O2 lost through burning of hydrocarbons becomes CO2. Other half becomes H2O. The latter doesn't increase its percentage in the atmosphere just because there's more of it.
> being one with the herd

Well, thanks to the internet, now we have a choice of herds.

Baaaah.
What Is HHNS?
Apple superblock, and next superblock (meaning "the next superblock", not nextstep).
Or, in graph form: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2177
Someone else in the thread mentioned releasing sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere to cause global cooling.

To me, the notion of getting the entire planet to reduce their CO2 production is laughable. People are still sold as slaves and dying of starvation in some parts of the world.

If global warming becomes a threat to humanity the only realistic solution is technological. It sounds like we already have the tech needed to cool the Earth as much as we want but we're still making a ton of noise about the impossible mission of controlling global carbon emissions.
I guess separating the meta data from the content in such a way the index can't be targeted for copyright violation.
This reminds me a bit of brazenautomaton's philosophy, but with less depression about popularity.
Finally, someone who prefers Jetbrains to Eclipse!
Not really. Watch the video. A maple seed has less control over how it spins.
This exists in capitalist countries as well. Especially in government run processes.

The customer service people at , for example, a courthouse, or government vehicle registration service. They know they can't be fired. They also know there is no competitor you can go to. So, the balance of power is inverted.
It's refreshing to see someone push back on bad behavior. You're making your business better by allocating your skills to the customers who deserve it.
> The overwhelming majority have not taken CS classes before.

When I want to university I never took a CS class before and nevertheless could program really well. I believe one is not able to go to a university if one is not able to teach oneself the prerequirements of the subject that one want to study.
Thank you for the well-thought-out and very helpful post, I feel like you've given me a model of thinking that will help me get started faster.

Would you happen to have ideas about pinky-saving layouts/modifications to Emacs? I'm not quite ready to ascend to Dvorak layouts but anything short of that I'll try, I'll need to with the state of my fingers.

It's my first week, so I guess I should read the manual instead of deep-diving without scuba gear and trying to manage with Evil-tutor and wishful thinking :')

I'll start with Org mode, I've been meaning to move away from Google Calendar and into Org mode for months anyway.

Thanks again :)
Here's an idea: ongoing bonuses. Money talks. Give managers a pool of money to reward performers as they accomplish things. You can have secondary or committee review for awards, but cut out the endless string of scoring systems and other bullshit.
Wow that looks fun. Do you need prior experience to use something like that? I would t know where to start.
Haha! So true. And nutrition in particular seems to be something the tech-literate crowd seems to want to "hack". It's always fascinating to read threads in HN about dietary supplements or keto-this-or-that or paleo diets or how it's better if you only sleep 2 hours per day total and only drink special shakes made by some dodgy startup, all of this frequently debated with religious reverence.
People do. A lot. My father was an ophthalmologist,and people really dig being able to see. It was just an endless parade of gifts and people stopping by to say thank you at our household.
Swings and roundabouts. I'm a big fan of dplyr, and R definitely does some thing better than Pandas, but I've never found anything as flexible as pd.pivot_table for cross tabulations. For instnace, the lack of multiindexing in R is a big drawback.
As I was reading this I got the taste of tequila in my mouth.
Monopoly power/market power don't necessarily refer only to domination of an industry, that's just the common case; network effects fall under this category even (and especially) if your company created the lock-in. Given that anti-monopoly law is being ignored these day it's unlikely you'll see enforcement extended so far, but it certainly could be. Back in the day local phone and power monopolies were very common (a close equivalent) and weren't allowed to escape regulation just 'cause their market power was local.
They missed an opportunity there. Should have been "jessie-j".

... but I actually agree with duskwuff. It's hugely confusing and possibly even disingenuous to call it "jessie".
It's because sometimes you don't have the power to stop someone who has no regard for the rules.

Design systems that can self-correct better. Give the rules more bite.
Very, very cool exercise. For anyone who hasn't been following APFS much though, worth knowing that Apple has stated in their AFPS FAQ [1] that they do intend to directly "document and publish the APFS volume format specification" themselves later this year. Presumably (as they do with other stuff they develop) they want to be able to more easily make breaking changes during the shakedown period of initial public deployment (first on iOS right now, later on Macs, though maybe not a default option until 10.13 this Summer/Fall). That'd be the most helpful in getting read/write into FUSE and other platforms should anyone choose to do so.

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1. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Fi...
Which is great, because everybody should downvote anything because of a mild distinction, rather than the wildly off the mark question that prompted a reasonable response. Good job!
Yeah, but my point is that lack of O2 is very easy to explain why it's bad of the health!
> Disclaimer: I have no research or supporting evidence, this is pure conjecture, and there is no reason at all why you should listen to me.

Damn... while I was reading your post I was yelling "I buy it! I buy it!" in my head, and then it turns out you don't have anything more to sell? :(
> If climate is an order of magnitude more complicated than weather, why should the predictions suddenly be much more accurate?

For the same reason a doctor can't predict if an individual patient will have a heart attack, but a public health researcher can accurately predict the overall rate of heart attacks in a population.

Forecasting weather is trying to predict a single event. That is by definition harder than predicting a trend of averages.
Not clear in law, especially re questions of patent misuse - an area of the law which in the U.S. is now a mass of contradictions, admittedly.
The thing is, you have to index the pieces of metadata or otherwise make them discoverable, and then decide which parts you trust.

This would need some kind of signing/trust-distribution scheme, something like namespaces ("YIFY can only approve movie and show releases because they only do movie and show releases").

It would also need way to blacklist malicious metadata (automatic scanners that publish lists of files with viri?).

It's very much non-trivial as far as I can see.

That's ignoring the copyright issue, which can mostly be ignored if you somehow make it impractical to prosecute the distributors of the metadata. But I think (part of) the metadata will still be subject to copyright lawsuits, in the context of "the right to be forgotten" and fair-use safe harbors.
Or someone working retail or service job in Singapore which has 0% unemployment? The answer, the most expensive worst service people in the world. The don't care about their job because there are 3 more waiting for them. There's also a huge social safety net there. It's not that there's no incentive to do well. It's perverse to say, but people sometimes don't care when you take away the floor.
Because go's garbage collector can and will move and copy memory as it sees fit.

Is there more to this than the fact that the Go language specification doesn't forbid it? Have you seen it happen?
"codec" here is the sound card.
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I don't. Putting kids to bed. Chores. Sleep.

Instead I unwind at lunchtime. Walk through the city or in parks. Go to a coffee shop and read a newspaper alone.
>How soon?

In a couple of lifetimes, which is still too soon, as reversing the trend will likely take far more effort.
For a graphic description of how far we're venturing out of what we're used to as a species, see https://xkcd.com/1732/

> If your model has poor predictive power, it's not a complete model - for example whether a building will be able to withstand shear wind forces.

To continue with the analogy, we know the building can't withstand shear wind forces. We just don't know exactly how and where the pieces will land.
From a reductive material standpoint, everything is just a collection of ingredients. Processors are "just" silicon. That doesn't make them trivial to engineer. What is your point?
To be clear, I'm talking about this specific headline and trying to make a case for using the word "threshold" to capture attention. It's (mostly) a semantic issue. I do not advocate misstating scientific findings.
I'm not trying to pick on you or discourage you, but "just v0.1.0" doesn't excuse that it doesn't work. Whether they should or not, people trust projects like this because they, too, don't have the capability to evaluate whether or not this works. I wouldn't expect potential consumers to understand that Go's garbage collector makes this a nonviable approach any more than this project currently does.

Right now, this is a primed hand grenade of a project. You should disclaim its insecurity at the top of the README. Be very, very specific that it is not currently functional and discourage anyone from using this until it is functional.
> Not an option.

Actually, it is an option. Either we can take CO2 out of the atmosphere and put it back underground where it came from; or we could start doing climate engineering to increase the reflectivity of Earth (less sunlight in), using water vapor clouds at low altitude or aerosols at high altitude; or we could put up a big shade in space between us and the sun.

Are those expensive and difficult things? Definitely. But all of them are possible.
Besides the login, this isn't using the GH API at all for what it's worth.
Timestamps are 64bit nanoseconds

As far as I can tell, this will overflow in just 11 years – 2028-06-15 09:33:27.3709551615 UTC

Why would this go into a new standard? Is there a practical use for such a high level of granularity?

edit: off by a factor of 10 in my calculation...
It's actually

2554-07-21 23:34:33.709551615 UTC
Strategy tip: Don't tell him to know his place and listen to the enlightened; send him the next set of links that will satisfy and maybe further stimulate his curiosity.

Without those links, your last paragraph is really a statement about your own approach to the problem, with a little condescension thrown in for his failure to follow the same pattern. It's counterproductive to your own goal of persuasion.

In any scientific endeavor (not just climate change), when a skeptic takes the time to engage, the response should be data, not appeal to authority.

Put differently, environmental scientists have a credibility gap in some segments of the populace, and it isn't possible to fix any credibility gap through peer pressure. You can only offer evidence, tailored where possible to the listener's level of interest and sophistication.
Oil leaks naturally out of the sea floor also.
> won't plants multiply and grow faster until we eventually hit a new equilibrium CO2 level?

As I understand it, we increase production much faster than plants can increase consumption, since plants need other things to grow that we aren't pumping into the biosphere in ever-increasing amounts.
> apparently I and most of the people I know pronounce nginx incorrectly

How do you pronounce it then?
Vertical integration leveraging perhaps only a single patent can certainly be illegal. Market does not mean "entire product category" in law, (but enforcement has been so weak in recent decades that's been the case de facto.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Co._v._....
Not the original poster but here are two issues I currently have with EXWM (have been using it exclusively for about two months now):

1. If Emacs hangs/pauses, the window manager hangs/pauses. Can't really do anything in X so have to switch to a virtual console.

2. GIMP stopped bringing up working file dialogs. I think it is some EXWM configuration change I made.

You might also have issues with tooltips/popups depending on your EXWM configuration.
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Due to what's happening with Arctic methane I'm becoming more and more convinced that it won't just be the next generation's problem, it will be ours.
Does anyone know or can speculate on the purpose of the 4 "alignment" bytes in the node block header? Are they for alignment (in which case it's strange to have them at the beginning instead of the end)? Or are they describing alignment (in which case it's strange to need 32 bits)?
Ask HN: Why is no one talking about the us electrify getting hacked?
Three cities had power outages concurrently on Friday... probably not conincidence. No?
I go running. And I literally mean "go". I don't drive. I run from/to my doorstep. I don't listen to music/podcasts/etc. I don't think about anything in particular. Mostly I daydream. I don't schedule anything for after the run. No pressure to be done by a certain time. No pressure having to get ready for something else. I don't watch tv. I'm staring at a screen for eight hours every day, I don't want to stare at a screen in my spare time as well.
>But that probably includes you.

Absolutely, there must be things I think are true which are not. And particularly there must be opinions I would find hard to change. I don't deny that.

For instance the whole religion thing, I'd probably take it with a rather large grain of salt if god appeared and started giving evidence for himself, even though I think of myself as someone who is swayed mainly by evidence.

But I also think, perhaps wrongly, that we can actually learn things about our world, and the way to do that is roughly what we call science. And currently, a lot of people simply cannot think in this way. They don't have the evidence that hordes of scientists have gathered, and they don't possess the thinking skills to process what they're told when they come across new evidence. Irrespective of what my own personal knowledge gaps are.

>All in all, you can't start to change the world unless you recognize your own failures in the other people.

I don't believe in this pseudo-psychological idea we need to understand ourselves before we can learn anything about the world, or start to change it. Plenty of people have changed the world for the better without themselves having a complete understanding of their own biases. How could we know anything, if not in small pieces?
Point taken. I would add that fossil fuel companies and mainstream politicians are doing more to cause people to distrust science than headlines like this, however.
On remote hosts, is there a trick like having an Emacs-slave on the remote hosts? Something like SSH for Emacs, that makes use on remote systems seamless?
>On a species level we'll probably survive it

This is an arrogant assumption. Another assumption, one I find more realistic, is that we're driving full-speed towards the cliff.
> Yes, it did--that seems to be your fundamental confusion.

No, it compiled what it determined it had to, based on the C standard. There is a difference. The code, as written, specified a certain set of actions to be taken. The compiler determined some of those directions need not me translated to machine code, and thus did not, but they were specified nonetheless.

To say that the compiler did not remove any code, or directions to be carried out, when translating to machine code, is to subscribe to a torturous and unuseful definition of the terms we have been using.

Of the actions specified by the programmer in the source file, one of which was optimized out in the translation of that source specification to machine code. This change alters the execution path of the program when it is present, and to such a degree that without the optimization the program would halt almost immediately, but with the optimization it allows an out of bounds memory access.

We are not arguing whether the C standard allows this. We are arguing whether the C compilers should do this. There is a distinct difference. Stating that no code was removed has been extremely unhelpful to this conversation, regardless of whether you think it is a technically correct statement. In the generated machine code, a condition of a branch statement does not exist in the version with optimization, but does without it.

The fact that this particular optimization relied on a case where the programmer specified a statement that depending on values not knowable to the compiler at the time of compilation may have resulted in undefined behavior or not makes this a poor optimization to carry out.

> Just because you know a word from one language, doesn't mean the same word cannot mean something completely different in another language, and it's just confused to use the vocabulary of one language to determine the meaning of a sentence in a different lanugage.

Perhaps you could actually address a point I've made instead of arguing over the words used. You are arguing over a technicality of the instead of the topic at hand.

Feel free to reply, I'll read it, but I'm done with this conversation beyond that.
Now ish
Second that. Goats can be pretty dog-like as far as loving human attention and playing.
Sure, but "taxation causes schools to be worse, and student loans could support high-quality elementary education for all" is just outright wrong.
> It won't cost all that much. Not doing it will cost a whole heck of a lot more.

It's possible that it would change 3% year-over-year productivity growth to 0.5%. That "it" might be the difference between a marginally healthy economy and "lost generations" and political upheaval.

The "give us the flight controls now or regret it for eternity" position is not necessarily wrong, but there's a real lack of credible evidence with useful confidence intervals that any given combination of approaches will have net desirable outcomes. And there's a justified (I think) lack of trust in that approach.

The entire situation is dire, so why don't we see more of a "full court press" on responding to the effects of climate change as well? Investments into dikes and levees, building above sea level more aggressively, more aggressive weatherproofing, relocating populations from increasingly arid to increasingly temperate places, etc.?

People worldwide are clearly more and more cynical about centralized seats of power (Washington, Brussels, Davos, etc.), so why are we saying the solution to all this is more special interests (say, 'yes' to American batteries, 'no' to French nuclear tech), more regulation, and more bureaucracy?

Alternative plan:

If the problem is carbon in the air, just implement and gradually ramp up a (progressive) tax on that, provide a phased-in minimum income to offset general cost-of-living increases, and then just play with those knobs until emissions hit desirable levels.