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The nice thing is that coal is starting to be less economical than other options. Solar and Wind are getting so cheap, and batteries are making their output variance less of an issue.

Nuclear is still, I feel, the best option for the base load the world needs but it seems that option has lost favor politically.
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Risk free rate = treasury bills (1.43%)

Putting 160% would mean using a leveraged S&P 500 ETF.
Actually, the thesis is quite cynical :) Which doesn't mean it's wrong.

By the way, I found your article interesting too. I do think it has a blind spot, in that you're missing a very big addiction that has stayed with us for a long time: work.
They always do. I think people want to complain about things and still not actually try nicer alternatives.
Are there plant species that might not really thrive in the current environment but will begin to thrive once the CO2 level increases a bit further?
Yes, but at what point the ranker becomes the ruler. It's an implicit shift and we should be aware of it.
that argument started in early 2000 and continues to grow.
it is a dumb argument but you can be sure that is where the rhetoric is heading.
Will do thanks !
Adding to chimeracoder's comment, the Economist has expressed deep regret for its endorsement of the Iraq War. Not just the current writer of Lexington (the column linked in OP), but from 2006 onward every mention of the decision behind the Iraq war was suffixed with "(which this newspaper supported)". I know no other publication as willing to own up to its mistakes, which is why I have continued to subscribe for over a decade.
> Every monopoly should be regulated and, preferably, broke up.

No, they shouldn't be and the law doesn't agree with you. You have to be a bad actor before such laws apply, you shouldn't be broken up merely because no one else can compete.
Show HN: GistUX – Organize your GitHub gists – purely client-side – VueJS
yes, although there are compilers which statically deconstruct as much as they can
Some sort of carbon capture and storage situation seems more likely at this point, though I haven't yet seen any proposals that I think would get the backing they need to be effective.

Is this what you meant by terraforming, or something else entirely?
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The flag worshipping and other symbolism is a way to tie together a country of 300 million people that doesn't share much of anything else.
I fear that an entire generation of older Americans simply will not accept climate change is real. The question is how much political power they will have in the coming years. We might still be having these debates in a decade. Sadly.
just need to drop a few hundred thousand comets and asteroids and mars, and mar's moon, then float a few hundred thousand giant mirrors around it to warm it up a bit, seed it with plants, wait a few thousand years.

no big deal!
I work with prisoners. I have a unique name. My family members and I are the only people with our names in the country, and possibly the world.

If you google my name, you will find my family (parents, sibling), their home address, phone numbers, ages, occupations. It is local.

Upon release or through veiled communication, I or my family members could easily be targeted for harm by inmates or former inmates.

This is a very real concern for me. I have found no way to permanently remove this information from search results.

I encourage people to think more creatively when they cannot think of potential disadvantages of easily searchable personal information.
Compiling Python to Javascript is always going to be incomplete. (For example, it doesn't make much sense to open() a file from the browser!)

However, we run full CPython (2.7 and 3.6) on the server, so any language feature you like is just a function call away :)
What? I'm talking about why they published it when they did and several months after it was actually news, not why SEJeff submitted it here. HN only enters into the issue at all inasmuch as the article happened to appear here.

More specifically, this is a publication whose purpose is to advance a foreign policy narrative that's favored by one specific school of foreign-policy thought - indeed, a publication founded by that school of thought's own founder. Call it "conspiracy theory" if you like to suggest that such a publication might act in ways which tend to advance that narrative, but I'm not sure it's really so unreasonable as all that.

(Since the next step in this progression should be suggesting I have some sort of covert dog in the fight, I'll go ahead and disclaim that in advance: I'm nothing in foreign policy circles and no one of import listens to anything I have to say. But in light of the quality of results which neoconservative foreign policy produced last decade, I feel like it's worth taking a moment to point out that maybe we could come up with something better to do in this decade.)
Or Kotlin: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/js-overview.html
There still appears to be net growth in Asia Pacific region: https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat... and the interactive chart: http://tools.bp.com/energy-charting-tool#/st/coal/dt/consump...

That region is consuming more than 7x North American consumption and accounts for 73% of overall consumption. Unfortunately, it’s also the area seeing the least drop as a percentage.

In other words, the rest of the world can completely get rid of coal and the total global coal emissions will still be higher than they were before 2003.
Ask HN: Hiring a junion/mid-level developer to help with contract work?
I'm a freelance developer that has started to hit the ceiling with regard to the amount of work I can take on. Having gained experience over the years, I'm interested in hiring another freelance developer to help with contract work.

My thinking is that I hire a junior/mid-level developer with a good attitude and delegate specific tasks to them, leaving the higher-level stuff to me.

I was wondering if anyone had direct experience with this?

- How did you find suitable developers?
- How did you bill their time out (do you take a cut)?
- Did it work out?
- Did it improve your overall output?
Which use cases are those?? Are any of them actually real life, practical use cases?
if you ask it say generate a piece following Dmaj9/Amaj/Bmin/Bmin it will understand that

Dmaj9/Amaj/Bmin/Bmin will be the seed sequence to the RNN. Of course, the network might ignore the seed, or if it's overfitting it will produce a chunk of the training sample which has this sequence in it, but you can definitely specify the starting point (and you usually do with RNNs).
As a fellow foreigner I couldn't agree more. It's one of the most bizarre and noticeable aspects of American culture.

But to be honest every culture has it's weird thing. In a few countries where I have traveled pilots are highly respected individuals, upon landing the cabin breaks into applause and praise - in America though that's just something you don't do unless something really bad happened mid flight.
You're wrong. The problem is a technical one.

Do you remember what was it like before the TECHNOLOGY of the internet was created and deployed?
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Ocaml is the worst variant of ML in my opinion. Like usual, programmers always seem intent on making the worst option the biggest one (seriously, SML syntax is better than Ocaml syntax in almost every way).
what would make you dismember someone who died by accident? clearly it's to cover something up.

otherwise you'd just bring the submarine back to shore and call the authorities.
Oddly enough, I'm a liberal; the SJW's society wide are getting out of hand even for me. I'm not convinced HN has been taken over by them however.
>If Apple does not want their devices to be used as intended until an embargo date has passed they should keep them on premises. Once the device is out of the gates the secret is out as well.

Okay, but testing consumer products in the real world is an extremely common occurrence, and you have to walk a fine line between inadequate testing and product disclosure. Its fine to propose idealistic solutions, but without providing means of actually implementing those proposals, it doesn't help anyone. Keeping radio devices confined on premises would have severely impacted their testing.

>As soon as you're talking about devices and/or kids NDA's are ineffective because anybody that spots the device can post a picture without any recourse by the company and kids will do whatever they want to in today's connected world.

That's not the same as giving your kid an unreleased product. The adult is still responsible for _their_ actions.
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ROCA vulnerability – full paper in ACM Digital Library
ACM has just published the full paper in its Digital Library at

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3133969

Some interesting charts of the CPU cycles needed for particular key lengths - mostly academical, with the notable exception of 3k keys.
The cost of the attack of 2k RSA keys seems to be derived from Amazon EC2 x2 instance (2 cores) - my feeling is that the cost is fairly conservative. GPU-optimized versions are bound to make 2k key cracking quite affordable.
I think in much the same way the the Trump administration has satirists scratching their heads how to keep up with reality, this case has crime novelists wondering how reality managed to outdo them.
At the risk of being overly anecdotal, I find it interesting to see the evolution of people in my life who are anti clean energy movement.

First they denied climate change. Then they moved to saying changes were happening but it was normal global fluctuations. Now they are telling me that increased carbon will stimulate growth and help feed the world.

I find it amazing. I dont truly know if global warming is a thing as I'm not a scientist studying this. I do know the vast majority of scientists are screaming we are heading for trouble. Even if they are wrong, why would we take the chance. I find people fighting a change to improve carbon and other global warming causes dumbfounding. Even if the scientist are likely wrong, the downside/cost of pursuing green tech is reasonably limited and why would you take the chance on something so profound.
I concede the point, although I will say I was lumping in people who work for military suppliers in my off-the-cuff statistic. I live in MA, so perhaps that skews my impression - there are a lot of military tech companies here.
For all intents and purposes, they've already converged: the underlying GPU microarchitectures have been fairly general purpose SIMD-ish for a long time now.

And (as one example), CUDA happily runs on any gamer "consumer" GPU.
> I really wished he'd stop playing games

Given that he almost certainly knows that he's fucked, does he have any real incentive to? I would imagine this is a life-in-prison sort of scenario; there isn't much reason to not dissemble as much as possible here.
I wonder if that protruding sensor block can be used for touch ID somehow?
No lawyer would let a murderer on the stand. It's almost always a disaster.

Regarding Madsens 'story' it's not clear that this wasn't the defence attorneys ideas all along. We're blaming Madsen based on 3rd party information but most lawyers will go down any avenue they can to try to find a more lenient sentence.

Judges do consider the murderers willingness to admit guilt and be honest during sentencing. But in the early stages of the case like this it's still pretty wide open... and he's going to be facing a murder charge regardless. There's no way he's getting off easier with a chopped up body.

I don't know about his country, but here in Canada a 2nd degree murder charge (where you didn't premeditate the murder) can still get you the equivalent of 1st degree (life), given the circumstances of the crime. And the circumstances are pretty bad here given he sawed her in half.
I'm not from America or Europe or China, but many countries might prefer the status quo of American hegemony to imperialism by any other country because they prefer a known devil. Starting 2030 you could ask what business the Chinese have acting as an imperial power but the answer then will be as obvious then as it is now - because they can.
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says "Python 2.6(ish)"
UX is killing us

Like guns kill people, right?
According to "The Shift project Data Portal"[0] coal accounts for 39% in 2014 (which is no doubt lower now considering the rise of solar and wind in the last 3 years). Carbon based fuel types are at 66% according to the same source, however take note that coal produces almost two times the carbon emissions of natural gas, and diesel almost 50% more than natural gas. [1]

Also you need to consider that in G-7 nations mains electricity use is actually declining. And in G-20 it has only gone up by 0.1% in the last year. [2]

And lastly consider than non obvious sources of global warming sources are things like cattle which globally account for nearly 18% (2006 UN Food and Ag Report) which is more than global transportation. [3]

So singling out coal is nowhere near a big win as your comment implies.

[0] http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/Breakdown-of-Electricity-Gene...

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11

[2] https://www.enerdata.net/publications/reports-presentations/...

[3] https://gizmodo.com/do-cow-farts-actually-contribute-to-glob...
It's very easy to do the Java/C, C#/C, C#/Rust, Python/C dance, but there is always a massive impedance mismatch at the boundary, and there are always two different build systems and package managers etc involved.

I'd like to see a language that is both systems and high level at the same time, with trivial interop and a common build system + package manager.

This could e.g be a set of low level extensions added to C# (Span<T>, ref returns etc is getting there) or a high level wrapper language/subset for e.g. Rust.

There is always a best tool for the job, and most jobs might require two tools, so it would be great if those two tools were aware of each other and came in the same toolbox.
I don't think js it's a hack. Yes, in the beginning there were some strange things, like objects based on prototype, referring to this, and probably more. Much of this has been worked on, and fixed (unfortunately-but-understandably keeping the old behaviors as well).

But nowdays there are many who want more-- they want types --and not only simple types, but some advanced type system. This is where it's hard to see the intersection of js "likers" and type theory "likers" -- they must have really different reasons for liking these things.

As for where the criticism towards js probably stems from is the lack of freedom -- it's the only language that runs in browser. On the server people are free to choose what to use. And yes, you can now compile other languages to js too, but reaching an agreement to use such a setup can be challenging in many workplaces.
> If people hate amp, maybe it’s time to adjust the web standards to enable amp experience with the html6 web.

AMP is build on top of the web standards. It does nothing technical a normal webpage can't do. It's almost purely a political thing: It helps push these technologies by framing it as this cool and important new thing from Google (which many responsible for websites feel like they have to follow for SEO etc) instead of simply good engineering, which is a boring thing that nobody cares about if marketing wants to add another set of javascript to a site. In turn, it kind of punishes websites that already are efficient when they do not use AMP to achieve that.
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There's a distinct gap between "most powerful supercomputers available" and "compute clusters typically used for this sort of problem."
I've thought the same thing. It would make sense but would be great if someone with real knowledge could respond.
In under the impression that the US acts as an imperial power firstly because it's very integrated into the world economically and diplomatically so it works hard to protect those interests. It's easy to say that the US shouldn't have to do these things but it seems that the US involving themselves pretty heavily in world politics is good for them even if the overall effect on others is more debatable (especially with some large missteps recently)
You can tell because every shadow will show the weird shape of the sun. Here is a photograph of the shadows during an annular eclipse:

https://imgur.com/gallery/8c7rdEU

Whether or not people >1000 years ago would notice this and record it... I refrain from pretending to know.
What is your hourly rate? Is it less than $50/hour?
His stories from the beginning:

* I dropped her off at the dock

* She died, I buried her at sea

* She died after a hatch fell on her head that I was holding up, but was too heavy; I dumped her body in the sea, but I did not dismember her

* She died from CO poisoning, I dismembered her and I dumped her body in the sea

At this point, he's a single step away in his story from admitting to the murder. After that there's one more step from admitting sexual assault (which the 14 stabs to the pubic area seem to suggest).
I am torn:

1. Great idea, just what "we" need in the language we need. (Python cloud RAD).

2. But I don't want to do all this work and be locked into your system forever. I want to be able to run this on Digital Ocean or AWS etc. if I want.

I think am open source version where you give people an option of hosting on your site at first would be the best compromise. Please consider it.
Before anyone points it out: Fable isn't a lanugage, it's an F#->JS compiler. It's "programming JS without programming in JS" though, so it's another language used in that sense.
> Part of me thinks the daughter should’ve known better, it’s not like she’s a 12-year-old.

Sure, but the primary cause of the leak was the dad allowing her to film it at all. Based on common sense alone (aside from internal training/warnings/etc that Apple employees must go through to ge their hands on pre-release hardware), in the presence of any camera he either should not have pulled out the phone, or told his daughter to put her phone/camera away before pulling it out.
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Adapting to and/or fixing Earth's climate is easier than terraforming Mars by an enormous amount. Mars is more inhospitable to life than the center of Antarctica during the winter. Also, it's months away in a spaceship.

There's no scenario in which Mars is a viable alternative for the human race this century.
Code quotations is similar in F#, but if you add F#'s type providers you can reach an entirely new level of crazy.
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What is it missing that something like SML has? Why couldn't I just switch from another language to this today, assuming I don't care about IDE support for it?
And not just _that_, but TLA+ is really good at expressing liveness conditions, like "the database is EVENTUALLY consistent" or "the algorithm will eventually terminate." Most other formal methods don't cover that.
If you need a minimalist open-source font rendering library, look at stb_truetype:
https://github.com/nothings/stb
A single header file.
Unfortunately it cannot do what harfbuzz or pango do, that is lay out complex scripts or do any layout
I agree, but we're not in a situation where Facebook and google accounts are necessary elements of life nor is that likely. Everything you've mentioned has viable alternatives because none of these companies are a monopoly on those things. You have to first make a case that alternatives don't exist for necessary services and no such case exists.

It's a huge stretch to go from we the public have a right to regulate private companies-which I agree with-to those companies require regulation.
One is the social leftovers of a political left that literally spit on veterans forty years ago. There may no longer be spitting, but many times the disdain for military is still palpable.

Another is that the military is a large group of people who have seen the manifest benefits of the Second Amendment, in that they have witnessed what happens in countries where only a small portion of the population are allowed to arm themselves. Since much, if not most of the the American left is adamantly anti-2A, backed by fear-mongering, left-leaning journalists who are comically uninformed about firearms, it makes for a huge political rift.
I see a lot of athletes using chest mounts. For surfing it's common to mount on the tip of the board pointing back at the surfer. I really can't imagine surfers wearing any kind of spectacles; they'd fall off in the first big wipeout.
At this point the only way the truth will be established is by the expertise of the investigators and the technical experts.

Madsens mental status will be tested by professionals before the trial. If it "his nature" then it will be found. Random killing scares people and get a lot of media attention but the legal system is treating this professionally has so far been quite good at answering the question of how the death of kim wall happened. Media will publish answers to the question of why as soon the legal system comes to that point in the investigation and the trial begins.
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Don't forget solving the gravity disparity problem.
>I would imagine this is a life-in-prison sort of scenario;

You'd be surprised. He could be out in 10 years or so, even if convicted.
"People start making bizarre analogies using 'parallels' from tech (in this case, SMTP), for the sake of it, hoping that the blatant inaccuracies of their comparison will fly over the heads of the audience, in favour of their esoteric appeal."

I thought the analogy to SMTP was a very good one and, considering the audience, was not esoteric at all.