skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Create a company that deals with some of the consequences.

Before you do that though, I would urge you to spend some more time looking into what people are saying on both sides. I did and it made me realize that there is a certain kind of "climate alarmist" fraction of the environmental movement that's a far cry from the more balances actual views and that they, unfortunately, are boosted by the media quite a lot probably because media likes catastrophes.

3 things I learned which made it click for me.

1) The so-called "climate deniers" aren't denying there is climate change, they aren't even denying humans affect the climate some degree. What they say is that climate is always changing and that the degree to which humans are affecting the climate isn't as clear as the most alarmist would like you to believe.

2) The 97% consensus is extremely misleading and you will find that the questions asked put the so-called climate deniers into the same bucket of the consensus because of what I mentioned in one. There is however not 97% certainty with regards to how much humans affect. The IPCC numbers are all over the map and they ex have to adjust the heat down over time. http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg2/index.php?idp=29

3) You will not be able to get anyone to give you a straight answer when it comes to how much humans affect the environment and that's because there isn't any clear answers.

So educate yourself then decide what to do after that.
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What a brilliant piece of writing! Very compelling.
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> why did it not try to market itself like KaiOS has managed to do.

Speculating, but it's easy to see how Mozilla going after enterprise customers would have attracted a lot of bad press. FFOS was already carrying enough bad mojo, attaching "enterprise" to it would have been even worse.

For good or ill, Mozilla is supposed to be different from other corporations, at least in theory.
I can smell the Gaia daisies in that opinion. But this is a big perturbation and it'll take a long time to settle back down again. Fine for life overall, but troublesome for hairless monkeys and their agricultural base.
Yes. Mechanical disks are very sensitive to vibrations.
Sounds like the "Sam Vimes 'Boots' theory of economic injustice", from the Discworld novels.

https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Vimes#Boots_theory_of_soci...

I don't knnow how accurate it is, but it does make sense for some things, such as shoes, and thinking about it, train tickets (season tickets are better value for money but very expensive), and essentially anything where bulk/long term is better value, but only being affordable to some people, and I think the space to store things comes into play as well...
I didn't understand a lot of what you said. Any sources?
Fake news!

I heard someone in the lift of my soul destroying corporate gig this morning talking about how great the electrolytes in her drink were... I think it's finally happening https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.quora.com/Why-do-women-have-periods-What-is-the-.... Thanks!
Here’s a link to modern versions of the code from “On Lisp.” The README includes a link to a (legal) PDF of the book and to Graham’s site:

https://github.com/DalekBaldwin/on-lisp/blob/master/README.m...
> memory-mapped (which isn't normal I/O)

Memory mapped I/O is very much normal I/O. Normal, as in "common" or "usual".
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There really aren't 'both sides' to this. There's as much scientific controversy as there is over gravity or evolution.

The deniers used to deny there was change ("it's cycles!"). Then they denied it was humans (it really is, attribution is getting good). They're denying it's bad ("CO2 is plant food!"); and once things get really in train, they'll be denying ever being warned by those mean old scientists.
It's a mobile UI framework for creating Android and iOS applications from the same code base.

Here is a good introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq4N0hgOWzU
GP suggested that a redistribution of resources could allow the poorer section of society to engage in the type of risky behaviour that often results in financial success. You then assumed that this means depriving wealthier people of the ability to engage in that sort of behaviour. That isn't a logical consequence. You seem to be assuming that any redistribution will deprive wealthier people of these opportunities which is obviously not true. For instance, GP might be suggesting that only the wealthiest 1% should be required to make a sacrifice for the benefit of the poor.
I agree. But the comment I was referring to said "in some cases"; it never claimed it was a common case.
Wow, that's awesome! I have a product that also solves a problem for a small niche of users [1], but I think my niche is a bit smaller than yours. I recently increased the AdWords budget and I'm trying a lot of different ads to see what works. Anyway, thanks for sharing your story, that's really encouraging.

[1] https://formapi.io
It's not just that they can't afford to measure their return, but that often you can't afford to spend money on marketing that doesn't have a direct return.

When I started consulting, I spent some money on marketing, but my big constraint was that if a given channel didn't at least break even on direct conversions, there was only so much money and time I could afford to spend on that channel for conversions down the road by increasing my brand: It's not just total lifetime returns from the advertising that matters, but how the timing of those returns affect cash flow.

If the time it takes to break even is too long, you might be bankrupt first, even if the potential lifetime return is fantastic.

Sometimes it costs a lot to not have the time and budgets to take a longer term view.
I've always taken the roll-your-own approach too using https://github.com/bryanjos/joken, though I hear about https://github.com/ueberauth/ueberauth a lot.

If you're using Absinthe you can create a easy middleware for auth as well.
The true premise of capitalism is that a person can own the rights to the exploration of natural resources, most commonly land. Everything else is compounded abstraction. I used to think it was more 'artificial' than it really is; but in fact it seems "natural" that people who lived for a long while in a piece of land deserve the right to keep it; and it also seems "natural" that through force you can take and keep land regardless of who 'deserves' its. Not good, maybe, but natural.

My point is that if these things are natural, it is likely that we'd reach a similar structure if we started from scratch.

I don't really think that the true premise of capitalism is going away until we reach a Star Trek post-scarcity level of wealth. I do think we can - and should - combat the ill-effects that come from the exercise of a capitalist system for billions of people.

I think we need to make it better, not a do over
Are you saying that we should expect larger/stronger cold periods in Europe ?

The EU is saying that HDD (Heating Degree Days) is decreasing and it expects to further do so. [1]

[1]: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/heating-d...
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The x86-64 one is likely to be using KVM (assuming the host is the same) so it would run at least one order of magnitude faster.
And also this only happens on multi-socked (not just multi-core) systems. So the underlying problem is likely related to cache coherency issues across NUMA nodes.
Kotlin becomes very popular, takes a significant part in backend development.
>> memory-mapped (which isn't normal I/O)

> Memory mapped I/O is very much normal I/O. Normal, as in "common" or "usual".

You know well what I meant.
Flutter is a mobile SDK from Google for building UIs using Dart. Dart is a programming language from Google, initially designed to replace Javascript. It's optionally typed and fixes many JS annoyances.

https://flutter.io
https://www.dartlang.org/
Well ya, was never able to figure out what a netmask did so went into programming instead.
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Reminds me of this AMA answer by @patio11 [1]

> Here's an exercise you can do: do you understand what a life insurance agent does all day every day? Make it your mission for a week to do so, well enough to explain it to a close friend who has no access to your sources. All you have to do to learn this is read and make conversations happen. (People are happy to talk to you!)

I really need to take that seriously, and talk to people in a lot of different industries.

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/im-patio11-patrick-mckenz...
The same happens with BIOS, that is how many of its settings work.
The Arch Linux wiki has a good explanation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB
Not even all UNIXes.

It is implementation defined on the UNIX OS variant and mounted file system.

The beauty of POSIX is how it appears to be portable, while leaving quite a few things being implementation defined.
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What if scientists regularly engage in falsifying and otherwise manipulating their results to fit their agenda? What if the very statistical methodology they follow is open to abuse? If we are to give wholesale acceptance to anyone who is an 'official scientist,' yet they could well be corrupt, how is that epistemically responsible?

Furthermore, why must we blindly accept the status quo when there are legitimate dissenters? The very nature of scientific advance is that it overturns the status quo. Your methodology would seem to undermine scientific progress.

Finally, it is said that the mark of a true expert is the ability to boil a complex subject down to the lay level. If the layman must study fulltime for 5+ years to understand climate science results, is the field perhaps not at the necessary level of expertise?
> my primary source of linus news comes from articles

It's easy to fall into survivorship bias[1] when "news" is your only exposure to a topic. You are only seeing the extreme events that were "newsworthy".

> why should i care to seek out more about one who i find is well known to throw e-mail tantrums

Do you want to have an accurate understanding of reality or the distorted view limited to whatever was sensational/scandalous enough to be "newsworthy"? When knowledge is derived only from the extreme cases that make headlines, people start to believe inaccurate generalization like "black people are criminals", "Muslims are terrorists", or "gamers are antisocial nerds that might shoot up a school" even though all of these examples refer only to the most extreme members of the group[2].

> but those articles have been my portal to his world

If you're going to make accusations about someone, you should probably check if those articles (aka indirect knowledge) are both accurate and representative.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd3erAPI9w
I'm actually from Poland where I've negotiated at least 6 weeks of paid vacation. When combined with some national holidays I usually end up with 2 months a year of paid vacations. Not counting weekends.

I know my priorities and I've optimized my work/life balance for them.
+1 to make nicer APIs! It is always good to have more high-quality API designs to look at.

That said, it looks more like an API experiment, not a practical solution for a day job, at least in its current state:

* response body encoding detection is wrong, as it doesn't take meta tags or BOM into account;

* base url detection is wrong, as it doesn't take <base> tag in account;

* URL parsing (joining, etc.) is implemented using string operations instead of stdlib, so a careful inspection is required to make sure it works in edge cases. For example, I can see right away that .absolute_links is wrong for protocol-related urls (e.g. "//ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.3.2.min.js")

* html2text used for .markdown is GPL - I know people have different opinion on this, but in my book if you import from
a GPL package, your package becomes GPL as well;

* each .xpath call parses a chnk of HTML again, even if a tree is already present

* shortcuts are opinionated and with no clear behavior, e.g. .links deduplicates URLs by default, it deduplicates them using string matches (so e.g. different order of GET arguments => URLs are considering unique); it checks for '.startswith('#")' which looks arbitrary (what if these links are used in a headless browser? what if someone wants to fetch them using _escaped_fragment which many sites still support? why filter out such URLs if they are relative, but not if they are absolute?)
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> KaiOS is so light that it can run on phones with only 256MB of memory

lol. That is not "light"

And that website has the most embarassing "tech specs" section I have ever seen. What kind of kernel is it? They don't even say that.

If it really is based off of firefox OS, while parts of that are MPL licensed, it uses the linux kernel which is GNU and therefore is definitely meant to have that part of its source available. So where is it?
Many of the issues are just that BIOS is old and stable while EFI and UEFI are new and immature. There should be a testing suite for UEFI like the CSS Acid test so there is a baseline of working functionality. But instead the test is ‘does it run Windows’ and that really is only a small part of it all.
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You don't want to do something against climate change, you just want to mitigate the effects on you.

I've might sounded selfish. Obviously reducing footprint is important, but there are several other factors one can't control. I'm interested in what is the best course of action if push comes to show.
I've no idea. It was short, probably less than 50 pages, covered the period since about 1500. A friend sent me a .pdf but I can't find that email, or the pdf, I've tried searching before.
Hinton's criticism is very valid, but it's not quite about AlphaGo and its branch of ML. his criticism revolves around supervised learning and back prop that cannot be used to achieve the so called AGI. Because ANN is nothing like our brain's real NN. When Hinton gave the speech back in 2014, NN had a huge explosion of hype, and NN was mostly for supervised learning, which is really only good at classification and regression problems, it cannot make decisions outside of its training.

The famous DeepMind DQN paper (the core of AlphaGo) were published after Hinton's talk. the DQN paper practically opened a new chapter in reinforcement learning field. I am not sure if you are familiar reinforcement learning. RL is learning by trial and error, model-less and largely non-bayesian, similar to how humans learn. Up until AlphaGo, RL field was stuck in a limbo because it was having a very hard time learning non-linear problems (which is the majority of problems in nature)

When I say generalization, I meant generalization of knowledge. Generalization is the second piece of the puzzle because, even as humans, we learn from experienc. After enough examples we began to generalize. Up until DQN came out, we couldn't even effectively learn. It's the equivalent of a human baby with severe memory problem. With deepmind's DQN, we can achieve much more stable learning on non-linear systems, and we can begin to add components such as generalization (such as transfer learning), intuitions (such as intuitive physics), symbolic network.

I am not too sure what you meant by weak AI and general AI. For me, an AI which can learn similar to how humans learn, able to use apply generalized knowledge when facing a brand new problem, independently think and make decisions without human assistance, that's general enough.

Yes, much work needs to be done, but I don't believe this is the wrong direction we are going. Though I'd be glad to be proven wrong and I am very fascinated by this debate, if you would like, we could continue discussing it over email/chat?
>> patient preference
> As a patient, I'm always suspicious when I see this.

There are many practices in medicine that exist only because of patient perference and despite their harm.

I think this is because of ongoing poor health education amongst the general public, physicians who are worn out and choose their battles and that private health care systems (at least in Aus) reward practitioners who get good feedback from patients better than those who have the best health outcomes.
"Apple will release a new MacBook with no screen, keyboard, trackpad or ports"

A Mac mini?
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The solution is essentially an implementation of SQL query parameters in a different context, for anyone who hasn't noticed that.
What you are talking about is that people decided his answer is the best one. Which is the part where society encourages mansplaining. Note that this is Quora, supposedly a place where people have higher education and understand the importance of references and fact-checking.

There is an important distinction between structural sexism and individual sexism. And doing something that is sexist, racist, homophobic, you name it, is not necessarily tied to intent nor to consciously believing women/ethnic minorities/LGBTQ people are worth less than straight cis-male white guys.

Mansplaining is when a man does not realise that they don't know what they are talking about and just posit their own narrative as fact. It is a result of society's gender norms training them to do so. For men to be considered "real men", telling a compelling story with confidence is more important than bing correct - the scientifically appropriate level of self-doubt and "well this is what we know, here are my sources" is not "manly".

This is Toxic Masculinity in a nutshell: societal norms for what it means to be a "real man" that are detrimental to society and all genders - there are plenty of things that guys should do to prove they are "real men" that are detrimental to them too.

His answer and the societal norms that lead him to that thought process to post that answer, are an example of a toxic norm that most people aren't even consciously aware of. The sooner we acknowledge that and fix this, the sooner we are all liberated from structural sexism and toxic masculinity (and I do mean all - I feel very inhibited by toxic masculinity as a guy, and I think all men are).

Arush's answer is an example of mansplaining. The fact that it is about menstruation makes it even more ironic. That does not make him an asshole, nor someone who believes women are inferior to men - he acknowledges Saredin's answer as excellent. It just makes him unaware of all the structurally sexist norms that he subconsciously is bound to. And the same applies to the people who voted for his answers unaware.
If I'm not mistaken CRLF is part of the HTTP spec as a field separator.

Edit: I've read the article after this comment, now I see what the parent comment meant. I guess in this case sth like "\r\n".join(["line1", "line2", "line3"]) is best.
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If true, an incredibly bad sales process. If you have a product that can be sold for $50K via Adwords and you don't also use high touch sales you are an idiot.
I had a time in my life where I constantly used the calculator app on my phone.

salary - rent - transport - food * 30 < 0 is stressful.
And this doesn't account for any incidental expenses.

I was blessed enough to have education, a social support circle, a safety net from parents, and some growth to look forward to. Despite that, the stress caused almost daily headaches.

Its a vicious cycle.
Many doctors I know opt to work for a practice association and draw a salary, typically in the very low six figures. Why? Their association handles all the huge pain in the neck CYA stuff like electronic medical records, triage, insurance and Medicare billing, malpractice risk management, scheduling.

From the practioners' point of view, especially for those who care for people over 65, socialized medicine has already arrived in the US. The rules around care and reimbursement are rigid.

You'll get an occasional congresscritter who used to be an obstetrician or dentist claiming it isn't so. But those specialties don't have to try to get paid by Medicare.
Here on Hacker News four years ago we figured out the redacted name of a country in a similar way. The Intercept[1] reported that the National Security Agency was secretly recording the audio of every phone call in the Bahamas and in one other unnamed country. Looking at the length of country name in the source document, we figured out that it was Afghanistan[2] based on the length of the blacked-out area and that it couldn't word wrap to a second line.

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-p...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7768839
do many people still use KDE?

I never really got on with it myself. No distro seems to ship it as their default desktop any more, only as respins. Gnome seems to have pretty much won the desktop environment wars.
Yes, this is the story everywhere. It all works this way, until you get old, and your kids think they have a right to the throne and being a old parent you usually have to yield. Also decades of rules would have weakened most institutions who could likely stop this from happening. Then you use military etc to suppress any dissent. And then you have a dynasty in making.
Thank you, I was not aware. Corrected.
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And not a single link either. Might as well have been in a book.
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Not entirely, PoS disqualifies poor accounts from receiving newly minted block rewards.
I think it's useful to know what your abstractions (i.e. the web framework and the web server here) abstract away, so this is really nice material. But for anything you're actually going to publish, using a well-founded framework or library is the way to go, because so many things you can get wrong is fixed by many smart people in such projects (i.e. Django, Rails, Nginx, Apache, &c).