skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't talking about temperature rises, I was talking about extreme climate conditions. Since all the who-ha is about the rising level of extreme climate events, it is significant that older historical records record more extreme events.

The problem of confirmation bias and cherry picking is not a problem with "anecdotal evidence". Anecdotal evidence is an opportunity to further look into the events related to the evidence to see what its veracity is. I have been involved in various experimental activities and I have found that in some of those activities that the results obtained were deemed unacceptable because they did not match the expectation of the reviewers. Even when the experiments were repeated (under further supervision) and were similar to the original results, they were not accepted.

With regards to the 19th century data, this information was supplied by the National Bureau of Meteorology. Since these records were not recorded in a time of Political Correctness for climate change, I don't expect them to have been manipulated either way. So at face value and for a first approximation we can regards them as accurate.

You additional mechanisms are all involved in the energy transfers and requirements. What you forget is that to have the phase change from solid to liquid requires a set amount of energy given a set atmospheric pressure. Irrespective of how much calving occurs, we have to consider what is the accumulation rate of ice to the back end and the total amount of calving at the front end. In addition, the required calving on a daily basis still needs to be measured in the cubic kilometres or in the gigatonne range.

The problem with feedback loops in climate is that we do not know, we only think we know. With very simple systems, we can and do get to a position of understanding the various feedback loops. With complex system, we do not. We often see unexpected results. Climate is a global phenomenon and is so complex that we will not understand it for the forseeable future. That does not mean we shouldn't try, but to rely on the current models as if they are "truth" is good way to end up in a blind alley with no way out.

I don't have a problem with cleaning up the environment and finding more efficient ways to run transport and waste handling, mining and manufacturing. But to take the position of climate change being mainly or only anthropogenic is foolishness at best and utter stupidity at worst.

We have no idea (that includes every climate scientists who pushes the anthropogenic climate change agenda) as to the real relationships being natural and anthropogenic causes for climate change.

If you were to put every one of those who believe such in the position of having to bet their life on it, how many would do so? I mean putting gun against the head and testing with that wonderfully reliable device called a polygraph and pulling the trigger if any doubt was shown at all. Since the polygraph is an unreliable piece of equipment, I don't think we would see too many takers, would you?

The above, I know, is a bit ridiculous, but think about it.
Smartphone Use Undermines Enjoyment of Face-To-Face Interaction
Curious if amazon would buy irobot.
Microsoft Autonomous Driving Cookbook
Britain's occult uncle: Dennis Wheatley
Metformin alters the gut microbiome in type 2 diabetes [pdf]
There was no real free market for the Irish though. The Irish weren't allowed to fish or hunt or eat other crops which were slotted for English consumption. Nor were the Catholic Irish allowed to own land. They were essentially only allowed to eat potatoes... The famine was a genocide justified as divine retribution against the Catholics of Ireland.
GWAS identifies 44 genes for depression and refines genetic architecture
" . . . a clock on the surface of the sun will accumulate around 66.4 fewer seconds in one year [than would a distant observer's clock]."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation
and pay them for the work...
It's really baffling. In NYC you have to put your money where your mouth is and buy airspace rights. For large buildings this usually entails building a public park in the empty space.
It's no worse in discouraging your kids from pursuing YouTube stardom than it is to discourage them from trying to become a famous rapper. The odds are against them. In the end, it's probably not worth it.
That's comforting from one angle, but I'm still concerned about the privacy implications. I feel like a giant megacorp like Amazon is in a much better position to both mine the data and also be more resistant to criticism.
Smartphone sales fall for the first time, says Gartner
Those are factors, not hard and fast rules. If you are a Canadian company and you provide services in English and French, that alone wouldn't indicate that you are targeting EU users. There would need to be other factors indicating your intent to target EU users.
You don't call someone on SSRIs codependent. You call it treatment.

Codependent implies enabling bad behavior. My dog doesn't enable my anxiety. My meds don't enable my anxiety, they treat it.
Low-cost EEG can now be used to reconstruct images of what you see
Oregon is interesting in that it's D because of Portland. The state is mostly conservative small cities or rural and yet the population of the Portland metro area leans so far left and has such a large population relative to the other parts of the state that it changes the entire state. Remove Portland voters from the polls and Oregon would be R.[0]

[0]http://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/212726-70134-how-liberal-i...
If I get the idea behind it, we're going to eliminate/reduce parking requirements and give a density bonus. And the primary way this will be feasible is if (more) people take transit.

Then the thing about SB827 that doesn't make sense to me is why the bonus is only for residential development.

Yes, I understand that residential pricing is the problem. But, we're not just taking transit to our friend's house. We're taking transit to work and services.

Sure, I can see this working in San Francisco given the transit coverage and relatively centralized business core. (Scary though given the quality of service that Muni/BART offers presently.)

But in LA/SD/Greater Bay Area/Sacramento? I think there's a ton of jobs that aren't off transit lines. Doesn't seem to work well there.

Yes, I agree that things probably need to change in California. But SB827 seems to be about stirring the pot.
> and it may work too

It may work. It doesn't even now.

And IPX/SPX work just fine. I was actually playing a DOS game over multiplayer the other night.
I had just recently purchased a Ring doorbell. I debated between Ring and Skybell. I should have gone with Skybell. Trying not have 1 company know everything about me (I know...probably impossible).
> I’m really questioning why I’m paying so much for cable and TiVo

A while back I plunked down a few hundred dollars for a lifetime Tivo subscription -- I'm surprised you didn't do the same. I'm paying Verizon $10/month for cable access to local TV stations, ESPN, and the weather channel. Yes, cable is slowly being displaced, but that's what happens to all technologies eventually. Why worry? Enjoy your Tivo and stop complaining.
"The Trump DHS, like under the Obama administration, has declined to share the intelligence assessment of which states were actually compromised, according to state election officials."

"This month, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, Jeanette Manfra, the current head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security, said that 'an exceptionally small number' of those 21 states 'were actually successfully penetrated.' But Manfra declined to answer questions about the classified intelligence assessment, or to say specifically how many states had been penetrated."

"Top election officials from all 50 states met in Washington this month for a National Association of Secretaries of State conference and received temporary security clearances for a classified threat briefing from intelligence officials. According to two officials present, one from the intelligence community and the other a state official, the actual intelligence on state compromises was not shared."

It's WMDs all over again. Going by the track record of "US intel", they need to put up or shut up.
unfortunately it appears to only be for native mobile firebase SDKs, our app is web-based. Though we do use Firebase
You could always invest in IP cameras, and manage where the data goes yourself. No reason a 24/7 video stream of your home needs to be sent to a big tech company's data centers, anyway, or any data center for that matter.
clickbait filler "news/journalism" like this just irritate me so much.

Firstly, who said we want to be silicon valley? Secondly, who are these two journalists that gives them the authority to say what ny is good or not good with? What the hell do they know about anything? Thirdly, they comparing a major city to what amounts to a business district. Maybe if they compared district ( garment, finance ) to silicon valley, there might be a point to this article.

It's such a non-story turned into one just because they need to publish rubbish everyday.
Lots of people haven't heard of the Holodomor but even the most vague and generic perceptions of Stalin's brutality are not based on the second world war.
That's not the whole picture - Ireland exported food throughout the famine - more then enough food then it needed to feed itself.

The problem was that exporting food to England was more profitable then selling food domestically. The reason that the Irish poor ate potatoes was not because they were forbidden from other food, but because that was all they could afford.

The invisible hand of the market, and the very visible hand of Parliament was content to see a million people starve to death.

Note that one of the causes of the Holodomor was the Soviet Union exporting food during the famine. History repeats itself.
How many people does it take, and how much equipment? If they're using contractors and have to, say, hire a crane, things can add up pretty fast.

That doesn't mean that they're not necessarily price gouging or making a profit, but often things like poles and wire are a small part of the actual cost of installing infrastructure.
Ask HN: What payment processors do crypto companies use?
Hello HN

I'm one of the developers building Etherparty, a blockchain agnostic platform to create smart contracts.

I've been looking to integrate with Stripe or Braintree for payments but I realized that our business model is prohibited on both platforms.

This leaves me wondering, are there any payment providers that would work with us?

Also, does anyone know what payment processors Coinbase and the like use?

Thank you
The market doesn't bear this out with current cars, so why should autonomous cars be any different? Cars are marketed as powerful, sexy, vehicles that imbue with strength to traverse the harshest conditions in the worst weather. Macho vehicles. The only car maker that seems to have a sterling reputation for safety is Volvo, and they're a niche manufacturer.
Property owners voted for Prop 13 and knew what they were getting. Few, if any, would change their vote.

I've seen the past and I see Texas' future - they'll either go to an initiative system or income tax. Check back in 10 years.
> The more affluent homes had suspended lights with multiple bulbs.

I think these are called chandeliers. The etymology of chandelier is French.
The plan is to pin the requirements to 'transit routes at a specific date' not float them to 'what is the transit route today', so changing the routes can't be used to manipulate the legislation.
irobot has lots of sensors (spying potential)
When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning (2013)
Proud owner of an apu2c2 here. They make really reliable firewalls and perhaps other utilities like serving SIP for a small number of clients. The AES-NI instructions on those APUs also make them great for VPN. There are slots for mini PCIE and SD cards. However they do not have video output so access and configuration must be made through serial console or network.
Working on standards doesn’t usually create a conflict of interest.

Unless patents are involved; then I’d say it’s just as bad.
Google censors. Use duckduckgo or an alternative.
ADL is decidedly not an anti-Semitism group, and certainly does not claim to be one.
I think creativity is closely related to critical thinking or more specifically the courage to think for yourself.

Often this puts you at a disadvantage because it's so much easier to consume and regurgitate estaished knowledge. However only doing this means you have less practice thinking for yourself than those who were stubborn enough to resist and so at the cutting edge cannot contribute much.

It's not just lack of practice though. It's more lack of courage because you are used to being right and smart.
Yes, competition is better than collaboration. Collaboration gets bogged down in committees, with each shareholder trying to protect their turf. Competition leads to improvements as companies try to find an edge/advantage over their competitors.
I think the concept of (optional) subscriptions funding Twitch streamers is an excellent replacement for ads however if you are considering making a living off Twitch you should be aware of the politics. There is a culture of banning streamers (sometimes indefinitely, but rarely upon first ban) for violations in their extremely vauge TOS. Usually no reason is given and there are major inconsistencies between some streamers' moderation and others.
Yeah, that's what I said. It's missing 3D Touch along with all those other things.
So, let's consider sex toys. Sex toys with names that might come up for searches not explicitly aiming at sex toys...
This company is blatantly fucked. Why do engineers work for these shit heads? do you just buy in to the marketing claims that they “fight against human trafficking” and other nonsense?

If you’re afraid of the public finding out about what you’re doing, ask yourself if you’re really helping anyone.
Sentiments like yours are the reason why GDPR is problematic. One of the things that legal experts quickly realize is that there are as many definitions of common sense as there are people in the room. As this thread shows in great detail, there is wide variation in understanding what it's meant to cover. The real problem is that the regulatory agencies, in response to this confusion, are essentially refusing to issue any clarifications in guidelines. The GDPR is at risk of becoming a law that says "You have to follow my rules, but I'm not going to tell you what they are," which is counterproductive to its own ends.
Service workers are essential for good mobile first, offline experiences. Check out https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/ for more details.
I think I was in 4th grade.. nearsighted with a stigmatism. I had fibbed at first, thinking glasses were cool, getting letters wrong purposely, and later wanted to not have glasses, but both my mom and the doctor said you can't really fake the test when there is machines that measure the dimensions of your eyes and determine if you need glasses or not.

I wore them from 4th grade until my third year of college.. when I went to a LASIK center for a free consultation. She was very eager to sign me up. I said, "Well can i go home and think about it first?" She said, "We get busy so I'm just making you an appointment. If you have any doubts before the appointment, just call and cancel. Otherwise, see you then!"

I've not worn glasses since 2009... I love it. I still wear gamma ray glasses because I stare at computer screens all day. While the eye doctor has said my eyes have gotten a bit weaker, and says I may need glasses in another decade, he said that my eyes are still in good shape from the LASIK.
I was mid 30s before I realized for sure I needed glasses. Billboards were difficult for me to read. Eventually, I had to acknowledge that road signs were getting slower for me to read, period.

When I got my first glasses in, I was shocked to see that trees across the street were much more detailed than I realized. :)
I'm actually in support of this. It's very important to separate content providers from entities that make things more discoverable. Google's job is to help me find what I'm looking for, not to decide what I can or cannot buy. I see this analogous to Cloudflare not supporting a site because they don't agree with the content.
Keep in mind that Metal also works on iOS.
Graphics programming is so painful because of these anachronisms :(

the Apple gles implementation
is buggy as hell. produces gpu crashes from compliant code etc... I have low expectations. they have made a new annoyance in our lives ... nothing more
I haven't tried the new UI yet. I saw the preview on their site and I wasn't impressed.

The guide data is bad now because Rovi bought them and switched to using their guide data.

They broke "push to tivo" functionality for their TiVo Desktop software and haven't fixed it for almost 2 years (if you trace the network traffic you'll see it tries to login at mind.tivo.com and gets a memcache error—sigh). This breaks my favorite usage of pyTivo, where I can ship stuff up to the TiVo that I've downloaded elsewhere.

Which leads me to…

This month I spent a solid week researching every option I could find to replace my TiVo+Cable and none of them were very attractive. Pretty much every legit streaming service has unskippable commercials (IE, every iOS network app). And they also tend to get episodes the day after they air (I could live with that but some, like DirecTVNow on-demand, get episodes weeks after they air). And the services that do get it right (Netflix, Amazon, maybe Hulu) only have a small subset of the TV shows that I watch.

I came away very frustrated that the only solution I could find that was a better experience than my TiVo+Cable was piracy. Torrents of practically every TV show exist, come out quickly, have the commercials pre-stripped, and don't have restrictive DRM.

I don't understand how people cut the cord. They must either not care about unskippable commercials, or they don't watch as much TV as I do, or they pirate (I was trying to avoid it, but man it's enticing).
A Mac isn’t general purpose ... or generic. It’s bespoke as hell.
Not just content to see them die, eager I think. Maybe not as explicitly eager as Stalin or Hitler, but more than Mao in his incompetence and arrogance.
Well, you still have to pay for the cable subscription. If I didn't watch so many cable shows, I'd love to go TiVo lifetime+terrestrial.
Not to mention if ones parents discourage them it may also be because they very well know what it’s like to grow up in poverty and just want their kids not to experience it.
You still need a quite sizeable fanbase - small is not the right word for a couple thousand loyal fans who regularly spend money on you; even in the pre-globalized world where the distribution was more fair (less global stars sucking up attention), the vast majority of artists, bands, sports clubs, performers, etc didn't have as many serious fans. No matter what happens, there's only so much attention available, and it's a zero-sum game, most content creators won't be able to make it especially if the number of creators grows and dilutes that attention / eagerness of being a fan.
I'm sure the real reason is a combination of these factors. Why support OpenGL on Mac OS X if a new API will be in development soon?
Farm land.
As an aside. I recently found https://www.caniuse.com/ and find it super helpful as I get back into frontend development.

It gives you a clear picture of how well the different browsers support a given piece of web technology.
Is this where coastal elites in one of the most privileged professions of the 21st century declare that there is no problem with American inequality and lack of opportunity?
The article's clear, but the headline is misleading, since it's not actually true that "California is losing residents" as an broad statement - it's more narrowly true that CA is seeing more people move to other US states than from other states, but I guess that's less compelling as a headline.

California's population has grown every year since at least 1960, but the headline and article would make you think otherwise.
Google's Clips camera is latest effort to bring AI into home gadgets
Spent 30 minutes chasing down a bug that was a mistyping of "m" instead of "n" in a variable name. Yep, that convinced me it was time. I only use them for work, though, or other long periods reading in front of a screen.
Have you considered REITs?
Carta is "software to help companies, investors, law firms, and employees modernize the way they manage ownership"

The homepage is https://carta.com/

Or it's "Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority". ;-) I find it's amazing how many of these type of announcements fail to provide even the slightest into to their little bubble.
Depends on how you define 'lifetime'. Sadly I've seen many SaaS businesses dia and with htem the 'lifetime' access. Otoh my Plex Pass value is still holding strong.
Finally if we're talking true lifetime, it can be averaged out to the median lifespan of subscribers, in my case $10k 'lifetime' it would work out to <$25/month
If you know of anything that even remotely compares to a TiVo, I'm all ears.
> using the term “constant time” to refer to time complexity is far more common than using the term to refer to timing attacks susceptibility

This doesn’t make it “confusing”.
I'm ready, where do I sign up so Google gets out of my life completely?
This is cool :)

Reminds me of the fact that Python doesn't have a char type and it's strings all the way down:

"a"[0][0][0][0] == "a"
Some music to listen to while you work
> Plenty of people have been writing programs against ...

Maybe in absolute terms, but relatively speaking these things could not exist and nothing would change. They are /exceptionally niche/ libraries at best .. non-existent if honest
This is incorrect. FlushFiewOfFile and FlushFileBuffers only guarantees that contents are written to the physical media. It is not necessary (well, it is not supposed to be necessary) to call either of these functions for other processes to be able to see the changes.

The whole point of a cache is that if A writes something, and then B reads it after A finishes writing it, B should see the results of A's modification. Whether it has been flushed to the physical media is irrelevant, because if it hasn't the cache manager can still serve the contents directly from the cache. And a call to Flush is not necessary for that.

So, the OP's change is not missing anything. As the article explains, it is in fact the Windows kernel that is behaving incorrectly (which was also confirmed by people who work on the windows kernel).
Second year of university. I always thought the university was cheap, buying poor quality projectors.
After I got glasses, my grades suddenly shot up to HD average (but didn't help the first 1.5 years of poorer grades)

After that I loved walking around and just looking at things. I could read street names on signs, read billboards 100+ meters away, see individual power lines, etc.
True but as Ring progressed and the metrics guys come in, they would have been selling that data anyways. At least now you know what it will be used for, Amazon home delivery systems and to sell you products on Amazon.

Amazon is in that stage of power where they are still beneficial and innovating, kinda like Microsoft with the desktop/internet in the 90s and AT&T with their labs that made C++ and the modern application/software in the 80s, even Apple in the 00s with the smart phone and their power. I think when Amazon stops innovating or get to the state where they aren't fully research and development focused, that is where you have to worry when revenues get tight and they have to start selling your private data. Right now ONLY Amazon wants that from this acquisition, they don't want anyone else to have it, Ring probably would have had to let others have it earlier.
something similar could also work when Amazon announces HQ2