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it seems to me that the way scientists address the question of "is this global warming?" is wrong-headed, even though it's not literally wrong.

We deal with this frequently in medicine. There are lots of questions that the non-expert doesn't know how to ask, or asks clumsily. When patients ask "doctor: does this medication have any risks?" The literal answer is "yes; dozens of side effects are possible, ranging from mild to life-threatening".

But that answer is so accurate that it's useless. What almost all patients really want is "help me understand the most common side effects, and tell me what to watch out for regrading rare-but-serious side effects".

With respect to global warming, we don't really care whether this event can be tied back to antropegenic climate change in a linear way. What we really are asking is "should we be taking climate change seriously?". And the answer is an emphatic "hell yes".

This is an opportunity for people to focus on climate issues. I worry that HN will think I'm a paternalist jerk, but scientists shouldn't get bogged down in the literal answer to the literal question in this case.

My best answer would be "climate change is real, accelerating (meaning getting worse every day we continue to consume more fossil fuels), and the biggest threat we have to face as a species".
I didnt know rooting out incorrect statements was against guidelines
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> This doesn't seem like glowing praise to me? If I'm paying 50$ per month for a container, I want it to be faster than a laptop...

Maybe I am doing it wrong but do people create and destroy a container thingy every time they run a test?

I agree with you though. I am no expert by any means I'd expect Circle CI to be faster than a Macbook at building things like Google Chrome from scratch. But if the macbook already has a head start, then coming a close second is acceptable I suppose?

To be honest, I have no idea what I am talking about and hoping to learn more. My experience with CI is mostly with hobby projects with Gitlab CI and Travis CI. I've only ever "used" Atlassian Bamboo at work if you can call me pushing code to trunk/origin "using Bamboo".
LEOs are public servants. Software devs may or may not be. Taxpayers are allowed to critique public servants even without firsthand knowledge.
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> Here in the states IMO we'd do better by making suburban lifestyles more efficient.

That makes me sad, because when I envision suburbia, it involves all the NIMBYism (especially in the form of HOAs) you mentioned above, combined with distances that make using a bicycle for transportation unrealistic. I actually enjoy riding my bicycle to and from work (and the grocery store). I would dread a commute in a vehicle of even 30 minutes.
Listing influential books:

"The Baroque Cycle—a work of rigorously researched historical fiction with only the slightest overlay of science fiction—tells the story of the emergence of the modern world and its systems (democracy, the scientific method, financial markets, etc.) in a way that is wholly fresh. These novels make me think about what a Neal Stephenson of 2300 may write about our times and us."

That last sentence is fascinating to me, and I think telling about what helps a Marc Andreessen stand out as a person.
I'm not sure what you're attempting to state here. If you buy content, you have the right to access it? That's correct but it's not contrary to anything I've said.
Technically, it's still not; it's a dry-summer Mediterranean climate; in the Köppen system, it's a Csb, arid climates are B, Desert is BW with h/k/n in the third position depending on temperature.
There are best practices for handling dynamite, too, but I wouldn't build a safe with it.

Nobody should be writing code that queries databases using tainted strings. Perl has had a taint mode for almost 30 years. Ruby supposedly has a taint mode, but I'm not a Ruby dev so I don't know how it affects the vuln you mention.
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So I currently have a 160-thread machine under my command, and it's exactly as awesome as it sounds! The idea of being able to get huge thread counts in a desktop x86-64 processor gets me very excited
Seems like exactly the type of things I don't want my insurance provider partaking in. Insurance is risk distribution, plain and simple. It doesn't need to be cute or fun, and it definitely doesn't need to be spending money to delight users. Your premiums are subsidizing that delight.
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Let me ask you, how does a fractured and misinformed populace vote themselves pay raises?

Let's set aside the question of how we'd get something like Basic Income in the first place. Let's assume it exists. If something like that exists already, then people could well be united in wanting to increase their income. In that case, the utterly fractured discourse would guarantee that rational voices explaining why this is a bad idea would be completely drowned out, leaving the issue to be decided by people's short sighted self interest.

I think people are entirely too manipulated to be smart enough to vote themselves a pay raise

I think people are entirely too manipulated to think clearly about voting themselves a pay raise.

I too suspect we might crush the economy with a tremendous amount of debt, but I think it will be the special interest groups that will figure out how to bleed us dry before people vote themselves a pay raise.

It could also be a mix of both scenarios.

It will be a mix of both scenarios, and a fractured public unable to discuss anything rationally will enable the pathological government decision making.
IME, Ryzen's very happy with a 1080p60 stream with fast or even medium quality, leaving headroom for CPU spikes because of rough encoding patterns. Really serious streamers are generally more advised to just split the existing stream at that point; 3.5K/medium (Twitch) and 5.5K/medium (YouTube) are pretty similar in motion.
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Maybe something like Go + the system web view. Only question is what is "the system web view" in Linux.
Yeah, let's disarm the police officers while the criminals keep their guns. Sounds like a great plan! /s

Extreme solutions are rarely the answer. I wouldn't walk through South-side Chicago unarmed as a civilian.
To each their own. I've been having fun watching the progress of https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach && https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-beta-passes-j...
This actually isn't true. It is a federal offense to attack a police dog but it doesn't come with nearly the same level of penalty as attacking a human.
Of course it's not the primary use case and the app guarantees it never will be. I can say from my experience that sending a gopher to get everyone coffee was a twice daily occurrence at our family business in NYC. Shave 5 minutes off that time and we would go to Starbucks instead of the deli.
Hell yes, let me set a min and a max!

Although to be honest where I live, we wouldn't need it. We never really need to heat and cool on the same day.
> How does the compiler know the types of the database columns?

There's two variants on a single way: basically, a "schema.rs" file contains your schema. You can write it out, and (with the help of migrations) it will update it when you create a new migration, or, you can have it literally connect to the DB at compile time and introspect the schema.

> Also, type checking is negligible from a performance perspective, so I the "zero overhead" is of minimal interest.

Ah, but it's not "the type checking is fast", it's the "diesel can generate hyper-optimized outputs that don't do runtime checks". Like, as an interesting example, Diesel can (well, will be, this has been designed but not implemented yet) actually be _faster_ than a literal SQL statement. Why? The SQL literal is in a string. That means, at runtime, your DB library has to parse the string, check that it's correct, convert it to the databases' wire format, and then ship it off. Thanks to strong generics, since the statements are checked at compile time, none of those steps need to be done at runtime; the compiler can pre-compile that DSL into postgres' wire format directly.

The reason this hasn't actually been implemented yet is that it's admittedly a tiny part of the overall time, and the Diesel maintainers have more pressing work to do. I use it as an example because it's an easier one to understand than some of the other shenanigans that Diesel does internally. It couldn't remove this kind of run-time overhead without generics.
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Lots of people in all sorts of awful companies/government positions normalize what they contribute to every day. And they go home and sleep fine.

I'm sure there are dozens of people reading and agreeing with your comment right now and many go to work everyday for companies that have a negative effect on society. Yet, they won't see in that way. They have a job and it's all about "looking out for number one."
Same reason they share GPS?
Or an actual photography class app where a user could tell google exactly where they are standing on streetview and have the app tell them the best direction/angle/settings to take their pic and walk them through WHY it is as such
Ahhhhhh! APL and Piet I didn't feel bad about (as I have never seen either) But VHDL vs Ada! Bad miss on my part. 12/15 is not too bad I guess....
This is a cool idea for IoT based policing. As a public entity, they should be confident for all actions to be scrutinised and hold up in a court of law.

I was going to suggest connected guns (for additional data harvesting) but realised a connected gun that could be hacked is a terrible idea.
HTCPCP implementation when?
This is frustrating. Substituting an insult for politely declining (while leaving the door open) is not "low-resolution" or "apt enough", it's almost entirely inaccurate. Politeness matters.
I never said the US had gold reserves to pay off every dollar in circulation. What I said was "Any currency panic can be immediately stemmed by an announcement that the gold window is open".

I also said the US government had "the ability to tax, and collect taxes, the world's largest military and so forth".

Executive Order 6102, the Gold Reserve Act and measures such as this show how the US government has dealt with such things in the past.

Also I don't think gold has a magical quality - silver will do just as well, or platinum, or any commodity. Although obviously some commodities have the qualities that make a good currency, such as durability, uniformity, portability, divisibility and so forth.

I also would add tangential to this, that cryptocoin advocates seem desperate to find things which have a cost but no inherent utility or usability. They cast about, with almost nothing in the world to point to, until they come upon the dollar and euro. They point to it and say they are mystified as to why these things have a cost but no utility, and then say Bitcoins should have a price as well, because they're "just like" the dollar but "better". Of course, this all is a silly argument.

Bitcoins don't even have the value the dot bomb stocks like Pets.com and Webvan had. Bitcoins are completely worthless. Which means the cryptocoin market will inevitably crash, no matter the lofty rhetoric of Silicon Valley VCs. I mean, they spouted the same rhetoric about the dot bomb stocks as well, those VCs which were around way back then. The publication of the book "Dow 36000" back at the height of the dot bomb bubble, October 1999, by two American Enterprise Institute "scholars", saying that the Dow was undervalued, should have been a sign of such things. It's 17 years on and the Dow still has yet to hit that mark.
Yeah, I know that now after reading about it. Explains why I got them mixed up...
Right on--cool that you're doing that. My stuff already turned around, but I'll give it another look next time around if need be.
You (and the other commenter) are right, of course; I do know that. I was using that as a turn of phrase in a context where it was inappropriate. When I visit friends and family in Europe, I'm very aware of the stark difference.
If NASA built their manned space program around the SpaceX Falcon Heavy and Blue Origin New Glenn (and future uprated versions of both), they could start launching crewed vehicles into deep space next year at less than 1/10 the cost of the SLS that won't be launching humans for at least 4 years.

It's not just that they have been held hostage by congress to build the SLS as a pork delivery service. They've also become risk averse. The Saturn V was built with "all up" testing, rushed to testing a completed rocket instead of focusing on component testing. They only flew two Saturn V unmanned missions before they launched one with men on it. Today, SpaceX has launched the Falcon 9 over 20 times, and has a capsule with the safest abort mode ever, and NASA still hasn't man-rated it.

NASA could take a fraction of the money they are spending on the SLS, and start doing monthly deep space launches by the end of next year. They could use 140,000 lb capacity Falcon Heavies and Dragon Capsules to do lunar missions. They could put astronauts back on the moon, build a constantly manned moon base, develop and test rovers and other equipment they want to use on mars.

Astronauts would be lined up to volunteer, even if the Falcon Heavy only has unmanned two test flights. They are far more rational judges of what the safety levels should be than the PR department at NASA.

Then within a few more years, NASA could shift to doing Mars missions when SpaceX and Blue Origin or anyone else can start giving them 300,000+ lb cargo capacity launches for less than $1,000/lb. At that price again they could average a dozen or two dozen launches a year. All that launch capacity would enable them to launch a group of Aldrin Cyclers to provide regular transport to mars and back with heavy radiation shielding, supply storage and room for big crews. Other robot launches can pre-cache supplies, equipment and return fuel on Mars.

But they can never do it using the SLS path. It's going to start off costing near $20,000 per lb for LEO access, and even the later versions will still cost over $10,000 per lb. That just makes Mars missions almost economically impossible. The SLS could only do an Apollo style program, where a decade from now they launch a handful of all-in-one missions (two orbiters, a couple that land) before congress wilts under the enormous costs.
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A defense.

It's not like a system like a union that represents many people could cater to any particular person's whims.

At the same time, if it didn't represent many people, it wouldn't have any negotiating power.

At the more limited case -- representing only one person and its desires -- a union would just have that individual's own negotiating power. But of course if the individual employee already had the power to make employers respect his desires, then he/she wouldn't need a union.
Pardon my rant, but...
People say "baton" and I always think of the lightweight tube runners carry around a track. In this context, a baton is a nightstick. Have you ever examined one? A friend showed me his grandfather's. It was about 2 feet long, made of cherry, and filled with lead. It would break down a door or ruin a car. It would certainly break bones. With the lead weight and small diameter, it would be more effective (lethal) than a baseball bat.

"Baton" is just a euphemism that papers over extreme violence.
Insurance companies, largely offer the same products and "differentiate" on customer service. My view is that value-added services, and pressure on price will win the day. Highlighted a few in the article, but perhaps, press a button to get free roadside assistance, talk to a mechanic 24/7, sensors in your home to mitigate risk. The premium volumes are certainly there to support greater value being transferred to the customer.
I've seen video of police in Australia who are unarmed run away from armed criminals. It's pretty humiliating.
You'd think Apple would be interested in making the workflow for developers easier though so better apps would be made.

It's slightly better now but I've done iOS+Android mobile projects before where CI for Android has been easy to set up and CI for iOS has been a complete nightmare.
Lots and lots of people walk through south side chicago every day as unarmed civilians.
First comment on the article is extremely relevant:

> It's almost always non-working-librarians who evince such passionate nostalgia for antiquated technology such as card catalogs, just as I'm sure it's usually non-working-engineers and non-working-mathematicians who passionately yearn for the days of slide rules and good old pencil and paper, rather than these dang new-fangled computers. (Oh, and yes, just for the record, I do appreciate card catalogs as beautiful and evocative historical artifacts, but nothing more than that. As a working librarian, I would absolutely not want to have to go back to working exclusively with them. Take my word for it, no one in my profession would.)

That matches my experience. I've worked with librarians, and they are invariably excited about the power of computers and the internet. That's because their driving passion is free and easy information access for all, not nostalgia for the texture of the page and the smell of old paper.
Thomas W. Farley is so far from the same thing, I can only assume your being intentionally disingenuous. It's much closer to talking about the CEO of hedge fund, and they frankly do have massive amounts of control.

However, in this case the Chinese government can take over these data centers on a whim. You can argue it's a different story when it's spread across a million basements, but highly centralized hashing power is easy to either take over or take offline.
That's EiffelStudio's Melting Ice stuff [1]. One of Bertrand Meyer's trademarks is his penchant for coming up with funny names for such features.

(Edit: Reading over it again, I realize that this may be read as criticism. To clarify, while I disagree with Meyer on some things, this isn't about disagreement. He is a teacher at heart – in fact, a very good teacher – and you can see some of his habits for keeping students engaged sometimes carry over into his writing.)

You don't see this approach really anymore, because these days it's so cheap to just generated unoptimized native code if compilation speed is an issue.

Obviously, if you have a JIT-compiler, then something similar happens internally in that some methods will be compiled, while others will be left in IR form (and sometimes, methods will even revert to using their IR). This was technology from back when CPU speed was still expressed in MHz.

OCaml had and still has both a bytecode and a native code format (for similar reason), but they cannot be mixed. OCaml's bytecode still sees use for (1) the bootstrap process, which allows you to build OCaml from scratch, (2) to run OCaml code on oddball architectures that the native compiler doesn't support, (3) to run code in the timetraveling debugger, and (4) when you need compact rather than fast executables.

OCaml's bytecode interpreter makes use of the fact that OCaml is statically typed and therefore doesn't incur nearly as much of a performance penalty as bytecode interpreters for dynamically typed languages.

[1] https://www.eiffel.org/doc/eiffelstudio/Melting%20Ice%20Tech...
There is a macro (http://docs.diesel.rs/diesel/macro.infer_schema.html) that connects to the database and builds up structs for the table in the database it's connecting to.
As largely a geeky population, perhaps we do need to accept that our interests are more varied and often actually more intense than those of the average person. Being mildly amused by every fart joke movie available for some people is more rewarding than watching an emotionally challenging drama, a thoughtful comedy, and eight documentaries about four topics.
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"For us, at the seed stage, 90%+ of the decision is based on the pedigree and track record of the core team."

I have that network and pedigree, and I still think this (common) approach is disgusting.

Not because it reduces diversity (it does), but because it needlessly excludes those who could transform our biggest consumer and business populations.

If you went to a non-pedigreed school (say Howard, Morehouse, etc), if your first job & location wasn't in the valley or NYC (perhaps Dallas, Schenectady, anywhere in the rust belt), if you're in a group which makes networking for the sake of networking with tech bros particularly uncomfortable (women), you won't have access to that network. You may, however, have unique access to America's biggest industries and consumer segments.

It's a terrible waste. And all because VCs can't be bothered to open their email.

As a total aside, I'm rather surprised that nobody in the valley has yet thought to create an "anti-valley" fund. Intentionally seek out founders in underserved and isolated groups, and give them all an equal shot. I _don't_ mean a diversity fund; I'd be going after companies like Pigeonly, Darkvision, Veerum, etc.
If the health care system was mostly staffed by unpaid volunteers, I might agree. As it stands health care is 17% of US GDP (10% global) and growing.
‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) Can Be the Airline Industry’s Saving Grace
What do you mean by 'a bit white'?
IMO the first thing that you should have on your website is an e-mail collection mechanism. I want to sign up to know when you have a product because this looks promising.
When do you think you'll have a working demo? Would love to show this to someone on my team.
One of the most wasteful components is the condenser. Salt water air conditioners can accomplish the same thing much more easily (50-75% savings):

http://www.happonomy.org/get-inspired/salt-water-air-conditi...

https://www.cnet.com/news/salt-driven-air-conditioner-looks-...

This is very old technology so people probably chose aesthetics over cost. Although when I think tacky, I think window air conditioning units..
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on the pro side: you could use this to determine the most photogenic scenes in the world.

On the con side: only an AI photo-bot can find and capture the most photogenic scenes in the world.
The issue is that electron is running a new chromium process for each application. This could be fixed easily sharing that process and making chromium more resource friendly.
I guess some books and talks from people who discovered stoicism i.e. maybe by reading Albert Ellis and put around some modern day self-help stuff. William Irvine, Ryan Holiday, Tim Ferris and so on. Stoicism as a label and some nice quotes from ancient authors and their stories make up for a good sell.

I still think stoicism is interesting but you are better off reading the original texts especially Epictetus and some books from historians about that time-frame for some context and criticism.
> I'm sorry this is simply not true

It is true. There definitely is a stereotype that we are loud, obnoxious, etc. Everything people have been saying about the chinese tourist, people have been saying about americans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)

But the chinese seem to be taking it to another level.
Most languages have the option to compiling to JS, all I am suggesting is that electron be the framework that people target. Having language support is possible by extending that framework.
Maybe police shouldn't be allowed to carry side-arms. Worked in London.
I think this is a fair question. We have a lot of pseudo-intellectuals here that think 90% of their job isn't writing business functions. Not having generics in Go has not hindered me at all in performing the objectives of my business. Everyone wants generics, no one knows why. When I had generics in my previous two roles where I used Java and C# respectively, I can count on two fingers the number of times I needed them, and once was because a library forced me to.