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> Global warming should be making record weather events more common

Not necessarily. If there was no long term warming trend, records would become less common over time, since they would be weather-related random values and there are more previous year data points to compare against. A warming trend would act counter to that effect, but not necessarily overcome it.
> But why a nation that claims itself to be the land of freedom, who routinely criticizes other nations including India for human rights violations, allow such a visa system to exist all these years, I don't know.

I think going to Canada is the most rational thing for tech workers and people without papers too. I keep wondering why it hasn't been happening more.

We've lost our collective shit over immigration in the us. Trump is a temporary aberration, either that or our country will have to fall apart eventually, and we'll split up into different countries, and a lot of us would immigrate to Canada or something.

Our years of easy economic growth and high salaried and widespread middle class jobs is ending (even before we lose most trucking jobs) and we are worried collectively about the future. A more rational approach would be improve education, figure out how to get better paying jobs and help industries-its more than cutting taxes on rich people and re-train people that don't have good jobs. We are stuck in a different direction, blaming others, with backwards policies that are supposed to increase employment opportunities in many decaying industries that are mostly or completely pointless.

Our visa policy has been screwed up and we've had this insane split about immigration for years - fears of people coming in from 'outside' and taking our limited number of new jobs, but needing at least lots of farm workers and low skilled workers. Never mind that when my forebears came to the us that was 'good immigration' from today's view, even though we've always had mixed feelings about it.

So as our lack of good jobs becomes more acute, the pressure against immigration planning just increases. And since we failed to do much to help the people who have lost their jobs for whatever reasons the last 40 years, all those people are feeling ever more desperate and subject to huckster political claims.

I think unless there is an amazing massive failure of our current political leadership, and probably even if that happens, we will have a really hard time changing our immigration "strategy". I mean we already had the iraq war 2 debacle, destruction of that country, thousands of americans died, the economy crashed, and we still ended up where we are now politically.
We have plenty of "usable" land - valuable land is another matter, and the land that will be revealed isn't particularly valuable, at least not for decades, if not centuries. Furthermore, the melting itself will cause immense damage both by raising water levels and releasing all the crap (methane, primarily) that's in it.
And we have a word for those people: milquetoast. I'm not sure people would hire me after asking about my politics for 20 minutes. What, you're gonna employ someone after getting an earful about Marx and Bookchin?
If your life was really worth all that much to you, you wouldn't be riding a motorcycle.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Not directly related, but a friend of mine from India got a J1 visa for an internship at a big four rejected last week.
A bond crash can cause capital loss
Since this is Hacker News I am going to take issue with some technical points. This is not a new knot, it is simply a reef knot with the ends slipped. Generations of sailors know it as a way of reefing (reducing the area of) sails . What this is, is an alleged new method for tying a reef knot with the ends slipped more quickly than the boy scouts 'left over right, right over left' method. I think this is an important distinction.

Actually I love this site! Does one thing, and does it well.
If it was me, I'd keep the warning, because it doesn't have to have net access to store a payload for later retrieval, or another app to suck up.
Speaking as a Chinese citizen, I'd say most people already use local apps/services for almost everything, so having Apple moving servers to China won't practically have any impact on "privacy" or "human rights concerns", at least to vast majority of the population. I really appreciate that Apple is finally moving their servers to China as downloading apps and updates from App Store has been painfully slow.

iPhone has lost quite some market shares to local brands like Huawei, Xiaomi in the past few years, and more people are feeling local brands knows what people needs better. Having a faster service might actually help bringing back some market share.
So your misandry is probably perfectly safe for you. It probably let's you virtue signal.

I still want no association with it. All it does is screw me over and my situation is plenty shitastic without such.

And if you are male, maybe go look in the goddamned mirror for living proof that your accusation that men don't want change is blatantly untrue.
Agree ! I was 3 years into my H1B and I called BS on that. Moved out of US sometime back with a Canadian PR. Living happily thereafter. Gets paid more than US, because no more visa or greencard shackles.

My spouse started working too unlike in the US where she was not "authorized" to work on H4. We are well ahead economically than was in the US and planning to buy a home soon and settle.

Seriously, what kind of country says that just because someone is on a work visa that their spouse cannot work !! Why cant ACLU take this up because DACA gives more PR for them ? Take cue from Canada, they too have temporary work visa, but the dependent spouses are free to work. The plight of H4 spouses..sigh.

The right to work is a basic human right. And they say other nations violate human rights because they block social media !! but wont allow my wife to work because she was married to me and on an H4 visa. Hypocrisy at its best.

So I left all those bullshit behind.
That's probably a better description. At first blush it looks like something you might interpret as skepticism - rocking the head side to side as if to say "That's not quite right." It took me a while to figure out it indicates a positive response to a question like "Does this bus go downtown?" rather than a negative one.
"foolish and ignorant" you really cant help it can you? The mental contortions necessary to pretend such a simple to verify statement is not true are shockingly common.

Yes, Mozilla is "fighting for" (aka spending time and resources on) _adding_ regulation to the internet.
Yep. I was a Colourist in my former life (TV ads, promo films, music videos mainly), used Resolve on OSX with a Flanders monitor. Most other people I talked to were either using OSX or Linux. (Granted, this is a few years ago when ProRes was the primary capture and delivery codec).
Solution easy, just get all countries in the world to agree to stop burning fossil fuels now whatever the cost. Then just have to tell all the poor people in [poor country] that they can't live like we do because we got there first and messed it all up.

We're all sure gonna be kicking ourselves after it all goes Mad Max. Completely avoidable, yet all but inevitable with no off-switch in sight in the real world.
I can squeeze myself into that group due to long extents of unemployment in my prime years and I:

- graduated college early

- graduated law school early

- was a judicial law school

- co-developed and sold a patent pending business method for the automated calculation of fees in statutory litigation

In my specific case, especially in law, one thing holds me back (essentially placing me on a do not hire blacklist) I have a blemish on my criminal record for a possession of marijuana charge when I was 21 years old. Law is an old school industry that doesn’t generally overlook that type of thing, I even had 1 interview end immediately right when that was asked/disclosed during the interview itself. But even outside of Law I have applied to hundreds of jobs without ever getting interviews, I have applied to all the tech companies (in legal positions) without an interview. I have probably even applied to a dozen or so YC companies and never a single interview, YC even invested in a start up that is supposed to help people with criminal records get jobs and I reached out for assistance and was told they couldn’t assist me. This brings me to my second point, like there are “blacklists” and policies against candidates with criminal records, there are just plain old blacklists and I bet most of this 3.5 million are on them.

It’s not just People with criminal records either, people with poor credit are on blacklists, people with employment gaps are on blacklists. These blacklists are both internal company policies but also in some cases real shared lists between recruiters and other lists HR checks. I’ll personally be alright because I can make money without a job but most can’t and need traditional emoloyment. And they will never get a job because they are in in this endless cycle of employment gap and poor finances (bad credit) that can never be rehabilitated because of mindless policy. This also explains a class of people ready and willing to be exploited in the gig economy.
> As on object approaches a black hole, an outside observer will see that object's clock slow down and eventually stopping as it hits the event horizon.

So I had the idea that smaller black holes are at the center of the sun, the earth and so on, being the principle source of gravity and the "movement" that we see is just us falling into different black holes at the same time, which are also falling into each other. So micro black holes must be at the center of massive particles too. The world line of a photon on the other hand is just the intersection of two event horizons as they grow, so you get a wave model. And that's why you have entanglement: circles have two intersections, so if your model is two dimensional, you get two entanglements. But you can have vastly more complicated geometries and thus assembles of entangled particles.

I don't know the "standard model" well enough to take the analogy any further, not to mention string theory and all that jazz.
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This article has an up-to-date chart with owner-reported data:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110149_tesla-model-s-b...
I've been using the Ian knot for half a decade or so. It turns out there is little to no setup required, because the initial position is where your hands end after pulling the initial cross tight. If starting from pre-crossed laces, I agree there's no practical speed benefit.
It's all about chaos theory. The degree of deviation is directly relative to the amount of energy in the system. Cool the system off, and the deviation (weather) will cover a smaller range. Add energy to the system, as we are doing, and what you EXPECT to see is a titanic chaotic system behaving as chaotic systems do: becoming more chaotic, and widening its range of possible outcomes (and most likely, shortening their duration, because everything becomes more unstable).

Insane heat waves AND insane cold snaps is very much part of 'global warming', or the consistent moderate increase in energy we're doing.

Thousand and ten-thousand-year storms and extremes become yearly or monthly events as the range of the system's outputs has changed. Expect other cold snaps… and ridiculous, dangerous heat waves… and other sorts of dangerous and destructive weather events.
Not at all, H1B allows employers to hold immigration status over the head of their employers, threatening them with possible deportation or other effects if they do not accept working conditions, pay or other items that would be unacceptable to a person that did not have their immigration status tied to their employment.

I am for individuals, not corporations. Ever wonder why large companies are always pushing for more H1B but never for Full Immigration reform.

They like the power in balance H1B creates
California is undergoing a demographic transition.
Let's hope that his insights won't be put to the test.
Bigtime. And the range of 'abnormal' event, and its frequency. And these events can include unseasonal coldness.
This accurately describes how I gain weight as well.
> Rather, smartphones changed the game in such a way that Microsoft's core strengths didn't seem so strong anymore.

That was a dependency game.

Windows had created an incredibly strong lock-in effect, leading it to become like an invincible bastion. But at the same time, the bastion's walls make it difficult to connect any device from the outside to it. The same stones the walls were build with are what is dragging the Microsoft ship down.

What we need to realize is that FB is creating and exploiting dependencies, too. I could imagine that a new wave of communication tools would be just much more economical with our time and attention, and would match both to the real importance the people we communicate with have for us.
>You can't have a shortage of workers and falling wages. You can have uncompetitive US companies, but they are very profitable so the only thing left is irrational behavior.

Or insufficient capital investment and bad management holding down productivity. You can't pay a worker more than their productivity, but if the best you can get out of them is too little, it may not be worth their while. You could then plausibly see a shortage of workers, wage suppression, and stagnant productivity statistics at the same time.
The fact that it is easy to imagine someone misusing a piece of data is hardly worth mentioning. There is no conceivable piece of data which couldn’t easily be misused by someone.
They're committing document and identity fraud and dodging taxes. They're breaking housing laws by living multiple unrelated people (beyond legal capacity) per dwelling. We just had 9 illegal aliens evicted from a 2BR house not too far away.

Good for them (probably a step up from 3rd world conditions), but bad if you want to maintain some quality of life.
Oops: I notice my mistake now, acceleration is the problem, not speed.
List of orders of magnitude, for speed
The last section tells that you need to transmit classical information to make sense of entangled particle measurement. Entanglement serves as a secure channel.

If you have two entangled coins, you know that the second coin came up heads, if your coin came up tails. You can't transmit information that way, because if you'll force your coin to land heads, you'll break entanglement. But you can use the results of coin flips as a cipher.
But we now we need a framework for defining what good and evil are. Some people defer this to their religion, while others take other philosophical avenues. Nietzsche’s perspectivism comes to mind here.
Also worth noting that retirement after 21 years in industry isn't a financially sensible consideration for most federal civilians: assuming 27 years old in 1997, minimum retirement age would be 57 (9 years shy after 21 years), and even 2 years short of satisfying early retirement age requirement of 50[1].

[1] https://www.opm.gov/retirement-services/fers-information/eli...
100% agree. I'm an avid Buffett, Munger and Berkshire follower. I've been to >= 8 of the last sequential annual meetings in Omaha (I highly, highly recommend it).

This letter left me feeling a bit empty, which I've never felt before after reading Berkshire letters. No in depth discussion of anything interesting. I actually see it as a bit of a worrying sign.

I'm speculating here, but maybe Buffett is conflicted about discussing the changes in corporate tax code in more depth given that it helps Berkshire and shareholders (himself the most, as the largest shareholder by far) at the expense of the country?
To be fair, the pro market doesn't care about ColorSync.

If you need color accuracy then you're calibrating your monitor hardware.
A long time ago they started using geothermal energy but some poisonous gas was released. So they shut it down permanently.
Beyond the horizon of the universe (2013)
My starting point with that question is to say humans are best suited to the global climate under which they evolved. Muck about with that at your peril. Try it out on the hot-spare planet first please.

Attempting to adapt the environment will have unforeseen, probably serious, consequences. I for one hope we do not try, or have no choice but to try, geoengineering attempting to avoid catastrophe.
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Vahana self-flying machine takes off, hovers, lands
Explain PING documentation
>ping -i 12 google.com
Pinging google.com [872.217.26.238] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 172.217.26.238: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=54
Reply from 172.217.26.238: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=54
Reply from 172.217.26.238: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=54
Reply from 172.217.26.238: bytes=32 time=116ms TTL=54

Here I set ttl time 12 but really the output says me ttl=54. Then tell me what is the necessity of the above command? And why is it included in PING documentation?

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Putting Glasses on Praying Mantis Reveals New Form of 3D Vision
OPL2LPT: an AdLib sound card for the parallel port
Depends how you do it and tax treatment an dif your working or not in the UK you can use ISA's to avoid all tax on dividends.

Also in the UK you have a separate tax allowance for dividend income.

What I also do is stop reinvesting dividends when funds are at a premium to NAV. I have also stopped reinvesting dividends as I think the market will fall this year - I can then buy after the market has fallen.

You could also be cute and reinvest your dividend income into a pension and get tax relief back.
> A language extension means the syntax wouldn't ever be
> valid in the base language.

Well, this works:

#lang base-without-for
(require the-for-library)
...use for here...

Of course if the author of `for` has made a `base-with-for` language, then I can just use:

#lang base-with-for
...use for here...
You're right -I cleared up the language. I don't mean your God, I mean, believing in any specific God.
Bielefeld Conspiracy
Actually I read the whole thing - it was written really well. But it's far from extremely clever what he did. Anyone who's studied tenancy law for more than a few days could do the same. The only difference he had was being sociopathic enough to do so - a point which the article makes in the end when he turns out to be a murderer.
Furthermore, none of the above are in any way related to engineering or hackernews, and it's completely off topic for this site.
Physicist here. Just wanted to add a little context. Anyone in string theory will tell you that Witten is possibly the greatest physicist that has ever lived. Interestingly he's completely unknown to the general public.
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That's terrible! I can't seem to find a source of the vice president being connected to legislation allowing police to ignore LGBT people being beaten. Can you give me the link to one?

Also, what do you mean by camps? Forced orientation changing?
Can you provide examples of those vulnerabilities? All vulnerabilities I'm aware of are from Java applet technology and not applicable to server applications. The only vulnerability that I can remember is something about parsing float, but even that was very low risk.
Climate evolves over scales of hundreds of thousands to millions of years. It is frustrating to see fellow geoscientists use some 100 years of anomalous temperature data as absolute proof of permanent catastrophic change.

Having read parts of the official IPCC report, there are still significant holes all the way down to the treatment of the woefully incomplete data used to draw admittedly uncertain conclusions. The picture is nowhere near as certain as many have been lead to believe, and it is difficult for me to take climate change reporting seriously, because as soon as one moves past published literature, the concept of uncertainty is abandoned for politicized groupthink.

Now, it is not unreasonable to assume that something is happening. And, given the chance that it is not transient, it makes sense to hedge our bets and reduce emissions. However, even here I hesitate because of an almost total void of literature discussing the potential benefits of a warmer earth.

Such is the curse of taboo.
Really cool! Would love if the blog had RSS though!
Uh huh. And what is your data?

(1) IDK what the parent precisely meant by "killing sprees", but there are statistics for acts of terrorism. And the US is hardly exceeds the norm. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_terrorist_incident...

For example, even sticking to first world Western nations, in 2015 the UK had 3x the terrorism incidents and France had 4x the terrorism deaths as the US. (Note the US has over twice the population of these other two counties combined).

(2) FWIW the American Psychology Association says "The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and heightened aggressive behavior, aggressive cognitions, and aggressive affect and reduced prosocial behavior, empathy and sensitivity to aggression."

Abscribing this idea to lazy Republicans is wrong.
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We were discussing with the AMP project tech lead over on GitHub trying to suss out details about governance and the like, and it's even scarier than we thought when it came to AMP4Email: Gmail is implementing AMP in email "the way they want to", and AMP Project is just deciding whether or not they want to support it/publish a 'standard'.

I strongly recommend this for reading: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13597 (locked, sadly) and the original AMP4Email issue has a fair bit as well: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/13457 (only for discussion of email).

Unfortunately, there are lots of people talking about how bad AMP is, and why, but nobody yet has suggested how we do anything to stop it.
Who ever said this was a new knot?

The reef knot (square knot) with both ends slipped is called a bow knot (shoelace knot).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_knot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_knot
I honestly don't get the point of this company. If I feel competent to judge that some decision they make like investing in American Express is good, why not do that directly, myself?
The TOR Project is down
Loud pipes save lives is something I f-ing hate as I live at the bottom of a steep hill up which motor bikes love to show off their obnoxiously load farting sounds.

Bring on the understated. The quiet and classy. The silent but deadly farting sounds.
Seems quite logical to me: completely open borders make H1B obsolete.
Not sure if you are talking about dirt bikes or just road bikes in a more rural setting. I can however imagine there are things more depressing than engine noise so your claim is hyperbolic.

I do not ride a quiet motorcycle on the street. My pipes are louder than stock (no baffles) but I still have mufflers. This bike is louder than stock because I like how it sounds. I admit that makes me a bit of a jerk. I don't hide behind dubious claims of safety.
Depends governments like to fiddle unemployment figures under reporting that actual unemployment rate.
I've made a very similar thing: https://www.remotepassword.com

Works on both Windows and Linux but the passwords are stored online (GPG encrypted). The main idea was to be able to revoke a password if a machine has been compromised.
Did you even read the article? It says so in the first sentence.
I’ve found that taking some time away from the argument can help all parties involved come to terms with what you’re describing. Its can be difficult to do, and some time away from the scrum gives you a chance to replay the argument in your mind without having to defend your position.