skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Au contraire, climate change will not pose an existential risk within the next 30 years. The chance of that happening is pretty much nil and no one serious argues otherwise.

That's not true. Arctic methane release has the potential to become devastating within a small number of decades. From [1]: Shakhova et al. ... conclude that "release of up to 50 Gt of predicted amount of hydrate storage [is] highly possible for abrupt release at any time". That would increase the methane content of the planet's atmosphere by a factor of twelve. That would be catastrophic by anyone's measure.

Also: In 2008 the United States Department of Energy National Laboratory system identified potential clathrate destabilization in the Arctic as one of the most serious scenarios for abrupt climate change.

[2] is a video from the Lima UN Climate Change Conference discussing this. The people talking about this are certainly not "no-one serious". See 34:23 for Ira Leifer, an Atmospheric Scientist at the University of California, saying that 4 degrees of warming means the Earth can probably sustain "a few thousand people, clustered at the poles".

I see 4 degrees of warming being bandied about a lot these days, but very little discussion of how catastrophic that would be. It also seems a lot more likely than AGI becoming a problem, to me at least. Sure, we should fund research into both but only one of them has me worried about the world my daughter will inherit - one is basically purely hypothetical right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdc75epOEw
Well, people learn SQL to use databases, Ruby to use Rails, C to do IoT or UNIX kernel development,R and Python for data analysis.....

If they want to ship a product with good UI/UX quality, then they should learn the supported languages.

It is all about placing customers above personal preferences.

I bash C a lot, yet I will use it without thinking twice about it, if is the best solution for solving out our customer's project requirements.

Then again, I never bought into Developer Technology X mentality.
Sounds like a strange loop.
No offense and I am no lawyer. But I think you get something wrong about NDAs. It is useful to handle confidentiality of company information. I.e. during the process of signing contracts with music giants or even the strategy decision to do that, can apply to an NDA. But at some time this information will go public. An NDA could only apply if you later leak confidential details about contracts for example.
There is also a lot of complaint about the management and it's behaviour, NDAs won't stop individuals to reveal someone has bad manners, but there is always a possibility to accuse them of slander.

tl;dr obvious fact > nda > deals behind closed doors
The utility of Facebook outside chat and events is gone. They don't let you see posts anymore, just "your friend tagged their other friend in this meme".

So much for "connecting people".
Ubuntu Rolling LTS Kernel Hardware Enablement Stack
Actually, when it comes to climate change, humans are doing a pretty good job at being adversarial to our own best interest already. We don't need anything much more intelligent than us to avoid fixing the problem.
Clickbait at its worst.

Facebook leveraging its userbase to mimic snapchat stories and Google rolling out their feed on their mobile app to solve the Google Now vs Google Assistant dichotomy aren't really similar. Google trying to take on Social Giant behemoth by making an interactive non-social feed on their mobile app makes for a nice headline though.

Facebook did not invent pushing people towards their native apps by a long shot. Most websites with a native app urge their users to download apps for more engagement. Calling it a Facebook "feature" is laughable.
It takes time to move from a society where smoking was the norm to one where smoking is a private vice enjoyed by few. The general trend is towards smoke-free public spaces, but no matter how you approach the problem, some smokers will feel ostracised and act mulish and defensive, while some people are simply incorrigible. But demographically taken, they are a dying breed, and will (if the current trend in many modern countries continues) simply vanish in a generation or two.

Personally, the amount of cigarette buts littered seems to have decreased in the past decades, simply because fewer people smoke, and those who do smoke often use designated smoking areas.

It takes time, and with drugs it will take time as well.
I use Materialistic android app, it can save articles offline for future reading.
I'm amused at the sick child story. At first reading what came to my mind was how the chickens might for a brief time see a red barrow with food as their whole world.
he/she actually can, if he/she chooses to... some licenses discriminate against people that don't have money for buying them, so there should be nothing unfair about this...
My humanity is a virtue. At least, that's what the Ghost in the Shell remake told me.
Did you have good cocaine? Good cocaine smells noticeably and has a shimmering, "scaly" appearance like below.

https://erowid.org/chemicals/cocaine/images/archive/cocaine_...

Smoking crack feels essentially the same as cocaine, only the level of stigma is different.
be constructive, and save us all the fluff and drama next time please...
6502 transistor level hardware simulation in JavaScript
that should be static \PHP\String\htmlEntityEncode() and static \PHP\String\urlEncode()

good luck
GitHub repository: https://github.com/trebonian/visual6502
That's exactly why we say oxt:

http://oxtweekend.com/
I too got confused assuming the list to represent all examples of poor visualisation. Reading the text didn't help much. Because the list is presented top-down in sequence, a reader immediately assumes a homogeneous list of items.

A side-by-side would make clear distinction of "Good" vs "Bad".

I agree with jmpeax. This page needs to be presented as an example of poor presentation.
My parents had dial up until about 2 years ago. On a good day, they'd get 28.8, but typically it was more like 14.4 kbps! When it rained and water got in the phone lines, they got nothing at all. And yes, they'd try to get the phone company to fix the lines often to no avail. They are only 20 minutes from town but it's too far to get DSL or cable or anything like that and the terrain is too hilly for fixed wireless which did become available in their county four or five years ago.

They finally broke down and got satellite internet a couple years ago but it's slow and expensive.
> I don't go around making speech that sounds dog-like.

Some people do. Some AIs will.
Ads: doubleclick, bought

Maps: bought

Youtube: bought

Android: bought

What else?
This is an additional abstract dimension we add to it. As long as it helps, I encourage to go this road. But I also fear on the other hand that it gets harder and harder to understand NNs. Especially, if someone just starts with NNs.
Brendan Carr Omitted Critical Facts in His Testimony to Congress
Thoughts on modern PHP
Fixing the one-time pad with quantum cryptography
> What is the distinction you want me to make? That it has a different icon in your OS task bar?

That's one! So, it's already not exactly the same. Figuring out the rest shall be left as an exercise to the reader.

> My argument is that by sharing resources with the browser they're running anyway, that the battery/CPU/RAM drain will be reduced. A browser is a lot of overhead and using less browsers at once is always good.

You are describing one trade-off. Your argument is valid, but if you follow the links you yourself posted, it's not actually the browser engine that does all the draining, it's the content it is running (i.e. you can disable some functionality and the problem is mitigated). The base RAM overhead of running Electron compared to something like Qt isn't that big either.

> Users generally expect that when they download a desktop application, that it's native, has minimal overhead and performs well.

I don't think that's true, but even if it was, so what? Users need to lower their expectations.
Why are sexist tech tweets like this celebrated and not shouted down?
Plenty of my friends share personal stuff to group of friends on FB.
There are many very active specific topic groups, e.g. 40k fans, asian food cooking groups, which are much more active than say reddit groups for the same topic. Facebook is still regular people choice.
The German page you found is for a deal where existing customers can get IP-TV for 10€/month.
The 50MBit/s plans start at 26€/month or so.
> Again you're not understanding what I'm saying.

How many times do you want to repeat this?

> SoundCloud did not start off with DJ mixes or copyrighted material.

The CEO and CTO were themselves very much into EDM. SC positioned itself repetoire-wise as a DJ platform from very early on, most tracks, traffic, the first surge were EDM-based the first years. And 99% was copyrighted material stitched together. I don't know where you have your information from but it's just blatantly wrong.

Anyways, I think that our current discussion does not contribute to the initial points in any way and doesn't make us both feeling better, so I stop here. Have a nice day!
Not the case for all publications. Ars Technica for example often has the author of the post interacting in the comments.
Microsoft Office 2017 1707 Build 8326.2059 with Product Key and Crack
Just in case a preemptive post for all shills and otherwise identity-impaired deniers.
Please watch this presentation from Sheffield University:
https ://youtu.be/7IbyiOoVgnQ
Thank you
You can buy a new, unsubsidised iPhone for $399, and everybody in the target market for Apple Watches already owns one anyway.

Why are people here so intent on misrepresenting the cost of Apple gear? You don't need to spend a grand on an iPhone to get an Apple Watch to work and you don't need to spend a grand on an Apple Watch either.
This is an interesting market for the upcoming broadband satellite internet by Boeing, SpaceX, etc.
They will provide low latency because they are in low earth orbit.
> "What if by doing that people would become willing to invest in the programs that treat these kinds of problems?"

If that's the case, great, but the impression I'm getting from many people here is that it's 'not my problem'. I don't see much of the sympathy that would drive people to act on the behalf of others.
Without the freedom to try (the same thing as the freedom to fail) society may never move to a better balance point. We can't know what we don't know until we try. Catch people when they fall but certainly don't try and stop them from making an attempt in the first place.
Machine Learning – Based Personality Analysis of a Failed Finance Minister
You describe USSR and German Democratic Respublic (GDR) and I mean it in a very negative way, despite being very sympathetic to USSR and GDR.

The "whistle-blowing" there was a tool to socially lift oneself. And "10x punishment" is exactly what makes such lifting possible.
Google has more users than Facebook
If they're not alive today, I believe their families will get the money. The Baby Boomers came to be immediately after WW2, so that will be quite the collection of families waiting for their money.
Scientists to settle dispute over taste of wine with corks versus screw caps
Sure, but $269 is far less than $1,000 too. If you want to complain that it's more expensive, that's fine. What I'm objecting to is the outright misrepresentation of the facts.
Good grief, what the heck does Spotify do with 3000+ employees?
What are the humans using for money, since they're not getting paid to work?
Sure, but to reach current state we needed the motivation to survive and reproduce. Otherwise we'd go extinct in the meantime.

If we build AI as a fresh, state of the art object, withouth evolutionary history it doesn't need any motivation that evolved entities must have had to evolve.
Agreed, and the other articles there also make excellent reading. The avationist blog does add content, though, notably a photo taken from the ground by a Chinese blogger of the same event.
What you describe is a DDoS scenario for a system you support.

I, with all my good will, can "blow a whistle" on a person I don't like, subconsciously or not. Just because I don't like him. And the defence of whistle blowers is exactly that - a good will.
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+7/30/17:+DraftKings+Top+3+Pitchers
burn money?
I think the answer is the same as with alcohol and cigarettes, which have all these same problems.

(1) Should we allow corporations to market addictive drugs? No, we shouldn't -- not blanket anyways. Same as tobacco. You don't get to advertise. The product sells it self you don't get to help out.

(2) Children: You don't get to advertise to children. You don't get to sell near schools. You don't get to sell to anyone under 18 (or probably 21 for some reason in the US).

(3) If that's not enough, require a license from a physician who gives you a walkthrough on the risks, how to do drugs safely and what to do if you have trouble or think you're getting addicted.

(4) Mandatory addiction counseling, as in Portugal.

Realistically, though, I would be very surprised if selling drugs legally lead to a huge spike in usage. Anyone who wants heroin now can just get it, thing is, most people don't want heroin. Legalizing that won't change that in my opinion.

Legalizing doesn't mean requiring people to take them, or even market them, or even shine a positive light on them. It means not taking people with a medical problem and throwing them into prison where they have access to even more drugs.
I agree, GitHub is a nice comparison, and has been transformative in promoting a hobbyist's ecosystem while also being a viable commercial entity. However, I think you are being a bit unfair and leaning towards characterizing the artists as valuing obscurity and non-mainstreamness per se. The point about SoundCloud is that it provided access to the people making music from their bedrooms, the hobbyists of github. Arty music types were attracted to the platform not (only) out of a pretentious desire to avoid the mainstream but because many, most even, of our culture's musical gems are surely to be found in the long tail of not-(yet) commercial music.
Oil money, North Dakota is the second largest producer of oil in the US. There was no big announced project, just a large number of grants and tax cuts to promote infrastructure investment. And, from the looks of it, a depressing amount of the area without access are the reservations.
> "Are we to overlook all criminal behavior because enforcement might make people less employable, or just selectively ignore some laws that you don't agree with?"

I'm suggesting we have to look at the problems holistically. Let's say someone breaks the law. The main aim of throwing someone in jail is to stop them committing more crime, correct? If jail time is going to be effective in doing so, that's fine, but if incarceration only leads to an increase in crime after the person has been released, was it worth it? Perhaps there are other ways of reducing the problem that we should consider instead.

> "The city of SF actually did adopt a policy of forcing addicts into treatment by giving them an ultimatum of jail time for accumulated minor offenses. It worked"

Do you have a link to an article showing the effectiveness of this approach in SF?

As for your other points, if someone is shitting in the sink, is the main problem that they're mentally deranged, or is the main problem that you have to witness it?
2mbit is useable. It's slow but usable. Have you tried browsing with 56kbit after your data plan ran out? You'll have to wait minutes for sites to load and some don't load at all. For comparison 2 mbit is enough to live stream basically anything in LD if you pipe it through rabb.it first.
I think the most important issue in the UK is whether your parents can afford to send you to a 'public school'. Public in this sense means 'not at home with a tutor', and actually means an obscenely expensive school with hundreds of years of history. Think 'Hogwarts' and you will be very close. A boy attending one of these (yes a boy, the situation is not quite the same for girls) has a very high chance of getting into the best universities and of getting a well paid job afterwards. The 'old boys network' ensures this continues. Pick 10 random Members of Parliament and see where they went to school. Pick 10 random VC partners.

The barrister clerk one is at least honest and open. They live in a world of wigs and gowns and oak panelled rooms where the clerks call them 'sir'. 'Pupils' (trainee barristers who have finished their academic training of law school plus specific training ) traditionally work for free in their early years, which keeps the poor people out pretty effectively. Alas I was born to the wrong family...
Ember and the State of Web Frameworks – Yehuda Katz
This meta-incentives i sort of lost track on them by now.
I'd imagine a legal Fentanyl wouldn't get great reviews on Yelp. Or more likely, TRIPadvisor, get it? Serious point, jokingly said.
I made my own wearable computer with a Raspberry Pi, and it was almost too easy
Translation for metric system users:

40 acres ≈ 16 ha

25K acres ≈ 100 km²

10 foot ≈ 3 m

mile ≈ 1.6 km

−40 °F = −40 °C

70 °F difference ≈ 39 °C difference
It already happenef and it's not about robots. It's about abundance.

If the market is not saturated pretty much everybody is working on building stuff faster and cheaper. It sells itself.

When market gets saturated suddenly your survival is dependant on conning people into buying your staff instead of those of your competition.

The more the production part is mastered, the more resources you need to pour into marketing to just stay afloat.

Since the production got more efficient humans got shifted to marketing. But the same way people in stock trading are getting replaced with algorithms, people will get replaced in marketing as well.
> Google announced last week, for instance, that it had built an artificially intelligent tool that can read through comments and identify whether or not they are "toxic".

Censorship at its finest.
I think they are if you multiply through by the number of people who'd want to try them (legal or illegal) in the first place.
I'm using an IoT button as an Amazon Now Dash Button. With the Dash button, I've realized there's more times I need my Tide detergent or a pack of condoms sooner than later and luckily I'm a programmer so the IoT button made this possible it's been quite handy.
Who gets to decide what is and isn't useful? Number theory was the most useless of mathematics for a long time; interesting for sure, but not applicable in any sense. Then we discovered applications to crypto, and now the security and privacy of the entire digital world depends on number theory. You mention the questionable applicability of algebraic geometry, yet elliptic curves are incredibly important for efficient crypto.

Let's take an example from TCS: Quantum computers. Initially, they were only a theoretical exploration of the the additional power (if any) that Quantum mechanics can give in computing things. Then Shor came around and shook up our understanding of the world.

Many such examples abound in the world of mathematics. And lastly, even if a subfield provides no use to "common" humans, how should that matter? People should be free to study what they want.
My opinion on this would be simple. If Google want it to do, then it should do the way exactly Facebook did to snap, a pixel by pixel copy/paste. Also, besides facebook there is importance of having another social networking site, clearly google plus failed, now Google should do it on a new frame.
If by 'keeping libraries alive' you mean 'still using them' then millenials may be just like any other person who doesn't want to spend their own money for temporary access to varied information sources.

US Libraries in the 1970s, 80s and 90s were still logical places to do research and work. I don't believe they are anymore. They are mainly archives and public resources for those that can't afford information access privately.

I remember very fondly visiting the library in the 70's and reading for hours there as a child but much prefer private access now.
Giphy Bot allows you to search and post GIF Images directly into your stream
COCKROACH PRANK ON MATE HILARIOUS MATE VS MATE OUTRAGEOUS (MUST SEE)
It wasn't sold as a solid rock, it was in powder form, so it didn't look like the picture you showed, and it's hard to judge the purity of a powder, and I don't know how to describe the smell, but let's just say I got it from a dealer that was recommended by someone who had been addicted to cocaine and was still a customer.
University isn't free in England. And if you're on benefits, you might scrimp and save to get internet access or the occasional computer game, and maybe even a holiday, but you'll be making sacrifices elsewhere (such as eating or keeping warm) for that. The amount of money you get on benefits, even with the maximum amount of disability and child benefit, is really not very much compared to a single full-time minimum wage salary.

On top of that, you have to deal with being demonized as a worthless scrounger by the press, and having the government do everything in its power to find ways to take your benefits away.

It's not a good situation. To be fair, in the end, it is free money and it's definitely better than being in a Victorian poorhouse, but it's still miles away from the UBI world view where it would be possible to not work and live a meagre but comfortable life, and one which society didn't vilify.
The next orkut or waves?
Its normal for human society- once the hardship sets in, the mammoth has been eaten, mean spiritness sets in. The truth is, we never managed to create a stable society in economical unstable conditions, so everytime people start to starve - the world falls apart.

Ironically even the counter-measures we come up with (Law & Order in a thousand variants/ various dreams of a big Swage elsewhere/Migration & New Beginnings elsewhere) only enhance and propel the problem of a tribe switching to a war-economy.

We are obviously in the process of finding various solutions. David Brins Panopticum of everyone. Permanent social records, that will not forget and will not be silent on your crimes, making you a social outcast for genocidre.

Cheap entertainment, that reduces the effect of social self-devaluation of unemployed citizens.

May we out-live this interesting times.
A JDeps Primer – Analyzing Your Project’s Dependencies
Isn't Al Gore rich though? I'm bothered when the elite speak of others as if they're not part of that 1%.
"Jeff Toig's preferred PowerPoint style is size 10 Arial font with a black background. An earlier version of this story misstated the color."

This is the funniest correction I've ever read :)
Could work around it with stunnel until it's resolved
I would do anything for your so called worst speeds. Your worst is better than my best speeds.
I think it is because the only examples in the article are the outliers.

There is a short mention about how you can wing a jerk off instruction, which indicates that other parts of their work is pornographic in nature.

The big problem with this piece is that it doesn't discuss how much fit the bill of sexual porn and how much is hardly recognisable as pornography.
In this context, I don't believe "city slickers" implies wealth. In a rural community, having large amounts of land is wealth, because it can be used to support more livestock.
Winners of the 2017 Pwnie Awards
The Geek Keep: To enable nanolaser operation at room temperature