skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, the problem is self-limiting. If global warming reduces the carrying capacity of the environment, people will die. Dead people don't use resources; their bodies are returned to the environment by decomposers, where they will provide fertilizer for trees and other plants, which will grow even more abundantly because of the enhanced CO2 levels. Eventually the earth reaches a new equilibrium at a somewhat higher temperature.

Most people don't want to die, and so we have a self-interested argument for not destroying our environment. But we're at the top of the food chain - well before there's a lasting impact on the earth's ability to sustain life, we'll all be dead. It's the height of hubris to believe we have the ability to effect lasting change on the earth's environment that won't disappear once we do.
Oh, And the new blocking features.
Bitcoin: The New Gold or the Currency of the Future?
The US feels more like a third world country in its "response" to climate change compared to countries like Japan
Agreed, they all want your attention, sacrifice eyeballs to the god of SEO.
Somewhat related, does anyone know of a solution to run https://signal.org and nothing else? 5 out of 7 days I don't really need a smart phone, I only need the signal app.

Working to break my smart phone addiction.
no. They simply use digital signatures. Blockchain is as needed here as a bicycle is needed by a fish.
Interview: Pete Schlampp, VP of Product Management at Workday – InsideBIGDATA
Or the older ones for the PLATO system: http://www.platopeople.com/emoticons.html
I thought it was pretty well done considering the target audience.

Brief tagline "Friendship bracelet. That you can code" to pique your interest.

Then a user story showing how someone actually used it.

I'm sure it can be improved significantly, but I feel the idea behind pitching why you would want to buy it (it's a friendship bracelet that does cool things like light up the same color when you're together) as opposed to its capabilities is not necessarily that far off the mark for a product of this nature (e.g. the Apple Watch landing page as of right now doesn't describe anything about what the Watch can do...it's just selling the fact that it's a watch).
Changing economic behavior with public campaigns has a pretty much zero success rate. Anyone remember Pres Ford's "WIP" buttons (Whip Inflation Now)? It had the hubris that inflation could be stopped if only people would just stop raising prices.

Even as a kid, I laughed at the absurdity of that campaign. Of course it had zero effect.

Something that will work is to tax pollution, i.e. a carbon tax. Making it more expensive will do far more to influence behavior away from it than any marketing campaign. And besides, it raises spending money for the government, too.

Using the tax system to "internalize the externalities" (economist jargon) is an efficient and effective way to do it.
> On the bright side, earlier today I went grocery shopping, turned my iPhone in airplane mode, and paid with just the watch.

The author seems to be unaware that you can use Apple Pay on the watch without any cellular on either the watch or the phone - I have done it many times on my Watch 2 while my phone is at home.
Being limited by CPU/GPU depends a lot on what kind of hardware you have for each. For example, I have a 1070 and an i5-4690k and I'm CPU limited in some games (below 80-100fps)
Also I'd imagine the amount of time you spend making sure that units will path efficiently is way less!
If nobody did then you wouldn't get a second generation since the product would fail. Better advice is never buy the first generation of a product until you see enough independent reviews.
There's a fourth as I've learned through this fiasco. Worth freezing: Innovis
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I haven't ever used WhatsApp. Is there a huge benefit to using it over SMS, or something similar?
Which ones are you thinking about in particular?
How software projects got their name
Want to prove them wrong, monochromatic? I'm listening.
You could run a tablet data plan sim (data only) in a mobile phone.
But some have been accused for political gain (see: Julian Assange)
"Apple has revealed" is far different from "The Unicode consortium has decided."
Indeed. 15 years ago I kind of enjoyed it. Win32/winforms is still less horrible than the web these days.
This is really sad. Humble bundle was the first item I bought using bitcoin.
I thought of a travel blog where you can send texts to your a unique # and it will post your msg / pics and location. very minimal but great way to keep track of position that changes often.

Great job!
Nobel prize in economics awarded to Richard Thaler (2017)
Sixth mass extinction of species: What is really happening?
The layout seems to be broken on Firefox for Android.
The pane with the demo fully covers the text
Is this what powers Greyball?
Between natural disasters and weaponized weather modification (yes it still sounds crazy but it's becoming increasingly clear that it's a real thing), this is definitely a priority for a country like Japan.
I disagree.

"When Nyla got Jewelbots for her birthday she gave the second one to Wenhao, a girl in her class."

"Nyla and Wenhao's Jewelbots light up blue when they are together (Blue is Wenhao's favorite color)"

"They make a secret language just for their Jewelbots. Sending one buzz means "look behind you!"."

"Using the power of STEM, Nyla and her friends make games and custom friend animations by writing code and uploading it to their Jewelbots!"

That pretty unambigiously describes a piece of programmable jewellery to me. It's doing it in a more story-driven way than presenting a bulleted list of specs, but given the target audience that makes sense. Having read that page I'm really not even slightly confused about what it is.
> The Democrats used to serve the middle class, but they stopped after Carter got demolished by Reagan.

No, the Democrats now serve the middle and upper class, they used to serve the working class.

And the pro-labor faction of the a party was dominant until Bill Clinton (and arguably until 1994; there's a reason why Clinton had to rely on mainly Republican votes to pass NAFTA.)

> Like it or not the default vote for most of middle America is GOP

If your default vote is for your own destruction, you will be destroyed, and then to your vote, default or otherwise, will be irrelevant. The GOP has nothing to offer Middle America but a series of people (blacks, Mexicans, Muslims, ...) to vent their anger at as a distraction while the GOP’s financiers destroy Middle America.

> The Dems have to actually come up with something that works to get these smaller cities and towns vibrant again if they want the votes.

The people can be saved; their small towns and cities, in many cases, cannot. Some might survive as shadows of themselves and living museums (see Columbia, CA, as an example from the Gold Rush), but once the economic basis for a town is gone, finding a new one is unlikely, and doing it for more than a small share of a large number is just not going to happen.

> I don't think the establishment Dems understand America outside the coastal areas.

The neoliberal establishment has been losing ground in the Democratic party for decades; and what they don't connect with has more to do with class than geography.
(Disclaimer: I work at Databricks.)

RDBMS techniques are absolutely relevant in modern distributed environments. It has become increasingly clear that MapReduce is too low-level a programming model for query processing, so modern distributed dataflow systems are increasingly hybridizing with RDBMS-like interfaces and optimizations (e.g. Spark dataframes).
Climate change is in dire need of a Themistocles type character that can sway the public. The current talking heads I feel are just not up to the task. Someone who the right can relate to who but doesn't alienate the left in the process and who can rise above the media noise and can encapsulate their arguments into easily digestible sound bites so as to not get lost. There's no doubt humanity is in for a hep of trouble in the immediate future, however the powers at be are too disjointed with conflicting interests to be expected to reach a rationale consensus. It Doesn't help that the right has developed some pretty powerful newspeak rife with thought terminating cliches that makes argument all but impossible. If history is any consolation, things are going to get a whole lot worse before they get better. Unfortunately things getting worse in this case means it'll probably be too late to make things better.
I think that the part of the problem is thermopaste between crystal and cover. It limits amount of heat that cooler can dissipate, therefore limiting possible overclocking options. Delidding should be easy enough with good tools, so I would consider it as an option if you want to overclock. It would void warranty, but overclocking voids warranty anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem.
>It's honestly very difficult to imagine how a small group, no matter how talented and driven, can possibly succeed where open source giants Canonical and Mozilla couldn't.

How many people worked on Xerox Alto? They had to do everything from scratch, including bootstrapping their own tools and they had far worse computing capabilities/hardware available to them at the time.
I have checked, and you're spreading misinformation.

If you have checking accounts on there it's because you specifically added / linked them into their system, having bank accounts on there isn't a default.

You have to go under "Track Spending" and manually add the accounts, including entering in the Username and Passwords for them.

https://www.creditkarma.com/question/is-there-a-way-to-add-m...
Nodes are hard to compare, and pretty much everybody agrees that what Intel called 14nm is roughly equivalent to other foundries' 10nm. (Maybe some of the 10nm processes are 10 or 15% more dense than Intel's 14, but nothing like the 2x we should have with more straightforward comparisons)

And that's not even the end of the story. Intel 14nm++ is expected to be slightly LESS dense than their previous 14nm and 14nm+, to alleviate some of the problems that start to appear with such small nodes.

Let's not even talk about EUV processes, that will be needed to go under 7nm (IIRC). We are not even sure they can be used for mass production. Probably they can, but there are still a lot of things to fix in this area. 10 years ago it was expected to be in mass prod today or even 1 or 2 year ago - and it is still very far from ready. Fur sure they will be crazy expensive too, so tons of chip will continue to be produced on processes with bigger nodes.

So talking about 3nm now is bound to not be extremely precise, given all the unknown. Its dubious it will come as soon as 2022. It will be crazy expensive, but we already knew that.
The weird thing is that Win Phone 8 (ish) was pretty nice with great animations, and nice fit and finish, then they seemed to throw all that away in later versions.
This guy seems to be the master mind behind GM's explosive growth in this area:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ostojic/
If they had just fixed the stupid bugs (like ctrl+backspace inserting a square instead of deleting a word, or not supporting LF to terminate lines), Notepad would be a pretty great editor when you just want a very simple plain text file.

About that first issue: both Explorer and Notepad, and probably a bunch more, insert a square instead of deleting a word when pressing ctrl+backspace. I just don't understand why Microsoft doesn't fix that kind of bullshit, and instead leave it in for decades. It's the same thing with cmd.exe; instead of improving it, they've left it in the exact same broken state since (probably before, but at least including) Windows XP, and instead of fixing the issues with it, created a whole new shell.
The Big Dig may have been closer to the budget, except it kept getting changed. An example would be that they initially planned on shutting down certain routes until a politician decided to announce that traffic flow would not be disrupted.

That's great if you're paid to model the traffic but probably not so great if you now have to pay the added expenses.
It's not true that a stable equilibrium is always reached. It's also possible that irreversible changes are set into motion which shift the equilibrium so far away from livability that humans cannot survive.
I agree with you that Rick and Morty isn't a nihilist show, and neither are any of the characters nihilists. Rick is deeply cynical and maybe a philosophical pessimist, and he's definitely a moral relativist, but I wouldn't call him nihilist, no.

Your first paragraph is a really good set of examples, so I can see now how the characters can be perceived as nihilists. But my personal conception of how nihilism would operate in real life is that it would be intrinsically erratic and dysfunctional, with the nihilist continually struggling against an inherent lack of motivation and a biological drive for self-preservation. In that sense I consider nihilism to the functional equivalent of absurdism and pessimism. Absurdism has essentially the same core tenets as nihilism, but its literature reacts to a lack of intrinsic meaning with flippancy and a declaration that people should ignore that and continually strive for meaning anyway (which is inherent dissonant, but basically don't think about it and live on). From there, nihilism appears to be, in my opinion, what happens when someone encounters the dissonance of 1) no intrinsic motivation anymore, brought about by intellectually grappling with existential despair, and 2) instead of leaving that state, whether through traditional existentialism/religion (Kierkegaard) or through tucking it away and forgetting about it, lives on with it and doesn't commit suicide out of biological necessity.

In contrast I think the examples you posed about Seinfeld's characters are more like deep self-absorption or narcissism, and maybe outright sociopathy. In a certain sense it seems like a much more implicit form of the unsettling indifference portrayed in a Brett Easton Ellis novel.
Anyone who is active in the NYC JS scene knows Sara Chipps, the CEO of Jewelbots.
She has given a couple talks about what it takes to run a hardware startup, and has been
a wonderful member of the community. I only wish her and co. the best of success with everything they have put together, the new version looks great!
Respectfully, success isn't about technical ability alone in the mobile, timing is a big factor.

Palm's webOS is an html/js based mobile phone OS that predated the JS based excitement.

For example, if there was a device that focused on running progressive web apps well, there would be a market today than compared to the past when horsepower wasn't at the level it is at now.

The flip side is also being able to run these sorts of operating systems on more devices.

I use my phone more and more for computer replacement tasks on Android. Would be neat to be able to run the odd android app in a container, etc.
Building such infrastructure does properly address specific risks of natural disasters and climate change.

One should not assume that climate changes have been, are, nor will be, exclusively caused by human action; one should not think that there is a single, global path of action that will somehow set all future climates to some ideal version. More concretely, consider that we happen to live in an interglacial period. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial
Apple's head of design says some people 'misuse' iPhones
When did they start making money, again?
fair enough, i was, thanks for the link.
I understand that every time I've applied for credit, I gave permission for those organizations to share my information with third parties.

But why can Equifax just go ahead and store and share my information in perpetuity, with no explicit grant of permission from me, or EU-style GDPR to guarantee my right to evict my information from their database?

Why doesn't Equifax have to ask for my permission before _they_ can forward my information that was shared with them to additional third parties? The bank had to ask for permission, so why doesn't Equifax?

Is it because I am really the product and not the customer? I just can't accept that!
I've cut it out of my life, with some reluctance. I never loved drip coffee much, though it's not bad with milk. But I'm hypersensitive to caffeine and simultaneously hate being caffeine-dependent.

What was really tough to cut out was espresso. Nothing in the world like an iced latte. Decaf after cutting out caffeine. But I developed a mild lactose intolerance, and none of the milk substitutes give nearly the same experience.

Oh well.
Buy a lot of great books about Blockchain for almost nothing with Humble bundle
> Anyone that has grown their own carrots know that the results you get are far from the "ideal carrot" :')

To get good carrots, make sure you are digging/disturbing at least 8 inches of soil so that the carrots can easily grow downwards. Otherwise, when they face resistance, they will fatten and sprout other carrot limbs, etc.
Yes the vast majority of the non-urban population is going to become urban for economic reasons. That’s been going on since the dawn of civilization (it's literally where the name “civilization” comes from), and it's not going to reversed any time soon.
I really wish this class (or the Harvard class referenced below) were offered as a MOOC w/ some certification. I rarely find classes around OS/databases offered as MOOCs, which is a pity because those are the things I'd love to spend time on.
There are cities that aren't on the coasts.
My interpretation is between some concrete evidence of actually being able to build this (https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-roadmap-to-imx8 and https://matrix.org/blog/2017/09/28/experiments-with-matrix-o...) and then hitting the $1M mark (https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-campaign-surges-past-one-mill...), the campaign finally got critical mass. These stories seemed to get pretty major press (e.g. top of HN).
Y'all could build a robust mass-transit system and get those cars off of the road for a start.
Having the ability to create the first 2 or 3 waves of prototypes is nothing small. iPhone 1-3 needed improvement, similar to the galaxy note.

Maybe there's a Oneplus angle here where they can start small and lean with a partner.
There are currently possible ways for the public to access and invest in high potential private start-up companies like Flexport.

For example, EquityZen is a platform that lets people to invest in private pre-IPO companies.

https://equityzen.com/?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=comm...
Feature size was always a measure of precision. It's just that one used to be able to draw artifacts 1 feature wide, while doing that nowadays seems to be useless.

Just as a comparison, the Bohr radius of an doping election in a silicon crystal is around 10nm. I don't think you will see 3nm wide transistors unless they are fin-fets.
It's probably a truth, but I'm playing almost exclusively WoW and it's known that even 7700K wasn't able to sustain 60 FPS in hard conditions, limited by CPU single-thread. So for some games single-thread performance is all that matters, unfortunately and it pushed into Intel direction if you want the best configuration.
It's free (unlike SMS or MMS) and back in the day it was the only service that worked reliably on all mobile platforms and didn't use PINs or usernames--just the phone numbers in your contact list so it was plug&play: just install it and you can talk to everybody.
Consider that the issue here may not what you're trying to measure (intelligence), but the metric you're using to measure it (IQ).

Frirst, IQ does not measure gross intelligence the way most people think it does. It measures the ability to succeed on an IQ test, which seems to correspond to several abilities possessed by generally intelligent people. Being high or low-IQ does not guarantee intellectual performance on a given task or in a given setting.

Second, intellect is an amplifier of but not a replacement for skills and hard work. You can't understand the physics of or rocket science required to perform a moon landing unless you've got the knowledge and skill to apply those principals. General knowledge doesn't imply specific knowledge almost ever. Even learning to reason logically is a skill you have to pick up before you can apply it. If Mozart had never seen a piano or any other instrument, he would never have become a musical prodigy on those instruments.

"Complex-dumb," in my opinion, is just a result of people with some degree of general intellect (or who believe they have that intellect and can convince others of it) assuming that their smarts give them the ability to understand things without putting in the work required to actually understand them. (If we accept this concept, there are also some interesting implications when we start asking 'what leads a person to make that assumption?', but that's another discussion.)
Shell and basically every other language that makes that distinction (PHP, Ruby, Perl...).
It is mostly automated to an extent. A previous company i worked at, one of our main focuses was making a component out of everything so when it came time to build a new page, we just pass a config + dataset to our component and that's it voila page built.
It means that person wants to wear a dress.

It doesn't mean that person is a women, nor does it mean that person is a man.
See, for instance, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
The commenter you quoted made the assumption such was done only for women; the actual post did not state so. The post was focused on their female employees, hence, all points referenced female workers. I wouldn't automatically assume all outlined measures were made only for them unless otherwise stated.
Yeah, with a different 'face', I think boys would think this was cool too. I know 9 year old me though 'secret codes' were very cool, so I'd have probably been into it.
Jvns/pandas-cookbook: Recipes for using Python's pandas library
That's what I thought as well, $2 billion doesn't seem like that much for that kind of project?
So you don't want a handout and you don't want re-training, then what do you want? For someone to wave a magic wand and make coal economically viable again?
This is a major reason I so love Never Let Me Go. So much of our dystopian fiction chronicles characters that heroically resist the terrors thrust upon them.

But Never Let Me Go tells a much more human story: these characters, like so many of us, are swept up helplessly in the torrents and terrors of their world. And it's not that they're _unable_ to change the tide -- they don't even know that it's an option.

It is, for certain, quite frustrating -- just as it is in the world outside the book's covers.
It seems that we could be headed for a mass extinction, whether or not humans manage to survive thousands of years longer.

We aren’t going to entirely destroy life on the planet, which will eventually recover great diversity (speciation to fill new ecological niches in some new stable equilibrium) within a few million years after we’re gone, but it will look significantly different than what we are familiar with.

That’s not much consolation to people who feel attached to what human societies and cultures we have all spent a lot of effort developing.
Shawna: A Life on the Sex Offender Registry
Facebook was first in getting real identity on the internet right. The other social media sites before them never understood this well -- many had visions of people taking on avatars of other creatures, or defining their life around one myopic interest (in the case of MySpace: music).
Suggest a tweaked version that sends rejections from major publishing houses to aspiring novelists.
> If you're worried about them going back and verifying what you said you made, well, you shouldn't be lying about that anyway.

I get why it's important to tell the truth to e.g. a lender during a mortgage application.

Why should a prospective employer deserve this information?