skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just not that easy. We also have 14% more green vegetation today than 30 years ago. The climate system is one endless positive negative feedback system and we don't have enough data to say anything truly conclusive other than the climate is changing and things are getting hotter.

Anyone claiming they know how this is going to turn out on either side are simply lying or are trapped in some ideological self-delusion. We have no way of knowing.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything but just that what we should do might not be ignoring the reality of a majority of this world who are not rich enough to install solar panels on their roofs.

With regards to the Pascals wager argument again I am more worried about a meteor hitting us and that brings us back to the discussion again about how to ensure growth which pays for technological advancements and helps more people get out of poverty.

Clean energy isn't cheap, it's subsidized heavily (yes other energy forms are too) and it's just not realistic for most of the world to use solar cells or wind as they don't have the infrastructure at all to support unreliable energy sources.

My personal belief is that we should assume the climate is changing and then use that to build solutions rather than endless and meaningless debates about whether climate change is true or not which brings us nowhere and doesn't change the climate.

If you believe things are going to be bad then make a company that deals with the things you believe are most problematic. If you believe the sea levels are rising the build solutions to deal with that if you believe methane is going to suffocate us then figure out how we can encapsulate it.
>All the people I know at Amazon in Seattle consistently get home after 7pm most nights, and a handful of those people come in on the weekends for 10 to 12hrs to fix mundane bugs that aren't in need of immediate fixing.

I can't speak on everyone at the company, but the campus is basically empty at the times I leave at 7-8 (which isn't often and usually happens when I show up at 11-12). My own building is 95% cleared out by 6pm on a daily basis.

Not saying what you hear isn't true, but it's definitely appears to be the exception rather than the rule from my experience.
How do closures and callbacks work? It's turtles all the way down
Wow. What a terrible and one-sided article. It’s apparent the author has little understanding of how the FDA and drug approval works.

Yes, all drugs have side effects and yes, some drugs will be approved and later pulled from the market when we have more data. It is impossible to fully vet a drug in clinical trials. It’s meant to reduce the risk, not eliminate it.

And yes, drug manufacturers pay most of the FDA budget. That’s by design and there is zero evidence that it has an impact on the FDA’s independence.
wasm-bindgen is forward compatible with the host bindings proposal, so once that lands, the DOM stuff will Just Work.
This happens every time when a post or thread exposes the social justice orthodoxy for the pernicious and self-centered bullies that they are.

The original announcement about Rafael leaving LLVM was flagged off the front page too:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16982837

Remember LambdaConf? Those posts also ended up several hundred items off the front-page, without being visibly flagged. https://archive.is/iI5NA

HN maintains plausible deniability and claims that it wants to keep ideological warfare and flamewars out, but the pattern is too obvious for that to be believable, because only one side of the argument consistently gets flagged away.
The new regime began in earnest in 2011. The FDA is also now making it easier to obtain experimental drugs for terminal illnesses.

There are some negative side effects, but overall, so long as there is full disclosure of known issues (we may need to improve upon this) I think people are better served by having a wider choice of medicines to address their ailments. Pro publica, here, is not being pro public but more anti pharma for unknown reasons.

It’s distateful when public interest orgs transform into political orgs with agendas.
Someone else linked a litmus page: https://litmus.com/blog/5-things-you-must-know-about-email-c...

This seems to indicate an "email to download a whitepaper" scenario is in violation. Now... "downloading" vs "delivered to your inbox" might be a distinction to draw. Whether or not it's actually a violation, info pages like the one above seem to make it appear to be a violation.
Seperate bundles for different parts of the app, but not doing lazy loading or anything like that. Might look at it again if/when ES6 modules ever become popular (I just built a smaller project (https://mikemaccana.com) using ES6 modules and right now the lack of ES6 modules on npm makes any gains from tree shaking not worth the productivity loss).

Perf is always fun to optimise, but we're got features customers want that we need to work on first!
To me, it offered the ability of my fiancee and family (who don't have 24/7 tmux+weechat VMs) coming online. I now have them in my IRC client. It's wonderful, and I have wanted that for so long.
Will Artificial Intelligence ever develop culture?
Manufacturers of electric vehicles already are rolling out noise generators for low speeds, and it's likely those will become mandatory.
Author is just being cute. No automation at all was involved, simply a naturally stable system and a fair amount of good luck. (Before fly-by-wire and computers all aircraft had to be at least neutrally stable, or they would be literally unflyable.)
I'd pay $90/month if the repackaging could be automated and sold at scale ;-P
css is often the slowest part of a webapp. complex css like this is not necessarily better accessibility-wise than javascipt
"It is possible to insist that every changes is merely a small change in degree, rather than a change in kind."

Good quote from Ted.
They're working on the crypto currency part and they're TOR friendly. http://tuta.io
Tubes by Andrew Blum does a great job at introducing how the infrastructure is layed put and operates to a certain degree, https://www.amazon.com/Tubes-Journey-Internet-Andrew-Blum/dp...

That said, I would love some more in-depth books on the topic.
Is this doing assembly in the installer and getting window handles directly, then calling old school offsets into Win32 structs with DLL'd functions I don't see the source to?

Am I reading this right? It sets off my "malicious stuff" alarm but I'm not a security wonk.

https://github.com/rain-1/filezilla-ng/blob/master/data/offe...

We need to cut all that trash out.
About half of pollutants come from brakes and tyres - http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JR...

Bringing in electric buses will not decrease these pollutants. They will also not remove enough of the other half of the pollutants. The change needs to be far wider and harsher.
> As long as plastics are disposed responsibly in ways that don't damage plants and animals, what's the issue?

Please don't discount one of the biggest issues though. I've told folks their plastic bottle is about to blow away (overlooking lands end, right over the ocean). The person picks it up, walks a bit further up the trail and throw it in the bushes. I've had folks throw their cigarette butt on the side of the road on Independence pass. I asked them to pick it up, and they noodled around at the ground with their foot as if to find it, then hop in their car and take off.

We should design for some irresponsibility and more so in places where there isn't much environmental consciousness.
Cucumbers do not spontaneously emerge from the ground in an untouched rural idyll and teleport themselves to your supermarket. Putting a cucumber on the shelf of your local supermarket produces about 1kg of CO2 emissions. Atmospheric CO2 isn't biodegradable.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290110...
If you're interested in analysing CertSimple performance, removing the artificial 8s delay on the CertSimple blog might be another line of inquiry.

animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both
You could be right, I can’t remember if the times that happened were when I originated the call or my friend did. I know it didn’t work all the time, and I think it stopped working at some point too.

This was back in the days when you could tell roughly where someone lived by their phone number - 43x—xxxx was south Edmonton (but not Mill Woods or Riverbend), 2xx-xxxx was Calgary, area codes didn’t matter because the whole province was 403, etc. The phone system is a lot different now - you can port a landline to a cell phone (and vice-versa). The original phone number where that happened has been ported to the cable company and now goes through coax (the equipment that handles it is basically a cable modem with a phone jack).
It’s always cute when people say stuff like that. We’ve tried quite a few and none have delivered any sort of useable quality.
But that PPA is using Google's repo as upstream; what's the point of the OS alerting you to updates, if there are none?
The menu is functionally completely broken. Because panel visibility is determined purely by :hover or :focus, as soon as you try to click on an item in the panel, that focus is lost and the panel disappears, taking your attempted click with it.

There are only three approaches that you can reasonably use here (they can be combined, too):

① Labels, which allow some rather nifty structure-breaking tricks on :hover;

② Change the .bmenu > a things from links (because you can’t nest links), and put the panel contents inside that node, then use :hover;

③ Use radio buttons and :checked.
It calls to JavaScript which manipulates the DOM for it.
My thoughts exactly. How will they sell ground meat, mayonase, salad dressing?
I use Custom Voice Commands to:

- tag photos with a phrase for retrieval by voice later

- manage lists by voice (e.g. shopping, to-do, bucket lists)

- manage other notes to myself by voice (e.g. reminders)

- link specific web pages to voice commands like voice bookmarks

- smarthome automation by voice via Alexa or IFTTT

I also share my voice commands with those in my family who are less technically inclined.
Glass bottles can be made to be sturdy. In Germany there is a glass beverage reuse system, where the empty bottles get returned for credit, washed, refilled and relabeled. The bottles exhibit dull rings where they rub against each other in the process, but otherwise they look new.
The beer discussed in this article is nonalcoholic.
60% tax, how absurd. I cringe at my US based 24% (+ 10% self employment) bracket. By the way, love Sweden (summers) though. Been to Stockholm a few times, the first for nearly 3 months.
You can say the same thing about dropping a ball. Philosophically I have no way of knowing what will happen.

However, science is far from useless when making predictions.

PS: All forms of energy are currently subsidized. Yet, even without subsidies renewable are currently cheaper than coal in many possibly most areas.
> I've interviewed a number of people who think that Java === computing. Not even the "JVM", mind you, but Java, the language, itself.

Could you elaborate on this? What exactly made you realize that was how/what they thought?
Machine learning solves an exoplanet atmosphere
>Facial recognition technologies, used in the identification of suspects, negatively affects people of color. To deny this fact would be a lie.

Since, instead of support for this statement, the CEO of this 'company' decided that shaming his reader would be more effective, I'll give you his support. It's an article that he wrote based on studies that show there are significantly higher error rates in gender and race classification in some algorithms, without ever showing why this even matters within the context of how facial recognition algorithms are or would be used by law enforcement. Nor did he show that the specific algorithms being proposed have these biases, and not just some other ones. Nor did he show that race classification is even a result that law enforcement runs.

[1] https://www.kairos.com/blog/face-off-confronting-bias-in-fac...
This is probably bad timing with the Uncle Bob controversy on Twitter recently, but the book is good nonetheless.
Types of Network Security Threats and How to Combat Them
User Experience / Feedback Study of Old Reddit vs. New Reddit Design
I had very similar views when I was student living in dorm. There was a lot of open people who shared my passions of the time and wanted to hang out.

Decade later I found myself in situation opposite to that.
well, the regenerative braking will reduce brake dust a bit. Certainly not completely, but its a start.
Probably have to offset that with the reduction of cost to the NHS of pollution related illnesses.

Outside of TfL and absent a "diesel scrappage scheme" the cost would be born by primarily by private individuals anyway.
Lol I didn’t exactly have a legal reason. But definetly very legal in many states today. Just an entepneur a little ahead of his time I guess.
I’d assume that because he wrote a book about “C”, not about “C targeted for the Keil C51 compiler.”

I read plenty of programming books around that time. They were almost always specific to some platform, but they always said so. I never saw, say, a “Pascal” book that turned out to be completely specific to ORCA/Pascal. It would say what it was for.
How about we cover the cost from the billions of profits made by car companies selling internal combustion engines and lobbying against change?
Based on jdietrich's input, it is then a waste processing problem and not a plastic problem. Tackling the symptom in this case seems net more harmful.
The real scam is the ongoing, monthly, maintenance fees on your 'timeshare'. Worldmark wanted $100 per month, per week of ownership, in a presentation I saw in Vegas. Which means that 52 weeks x $100 x 12 months = $62,400 per year in 'maintenance' on each unit. So even if you paid cash, they still get $62K per year in addition. This was Worldmark Vegas, buying a 'week' in a townhouse complex of $150,000 units.

The movie "Queen of Versailles" was fascinating. Timeshare mogul builds USA largest house https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125666/videoplayer/vi191341081...
> Some differential lines (e.g. RS-485, popular in industrial automation) use current signalling thus requiring two wires per signal.

Virtually all high-speed digital communication uses differential signalling.
All* Perfect Pangrams
Plastic packaging doesn't spontaneously release itself into the ecosystem, it's put there by someone irresponsibly managing waste. Norway and the Netherlands are both trialling waste-to-energy incineration with carbon capture. Failing that, there's nothing particularly wrong with well-managed landfill.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021...

http://www.vivis.de/phocadownload/Download/2017_eaa/2017_EaA...
The Curbed article states that in Shenzen half a percent of the bus fleet is still diesel, but that half percent contributes 20% of the pollution. Can't wait for more electrics.
It also reminds me of loyalty programs at department stores. I get so tired of the disgusted look on the face of the cashier when they ask me if I want to sign up for some clothing store loyalty card today to save 40% or something. They can’t believe that the 40% discount on $50 isn’t enticing to yoke myself to their stream of ads and even more intense data sharing than whatever they are already getting from plain transactions.
Sharklasers.com works on Tor, don't know how it compares to mailinator feature wise though.
Yes, in an inferred way at least. Look at the IBM jobs / careers page and locations. You can see where different types of openings are. Last year I looked at the AI jobs because I was curious where they were doing the work. Mumbai was first in terms of open positions for machine learning, if I recall correctly.
I don't think that's correct. I can see the coarse nature of the screen quite easily and it's highly annoying. In any case, as I said, the size is also too small to be of much use as a smartphone.

Back to the main point, TFA is responsive to screen size, but there's only so much you can expect a website to scale. Just like a current website will look bad on a 8k monitor, it will also look bad on a smart watch screen. I think the SE screen is physically and logically too small.
This reminds me of 'dieselgate'[0], it's not just buses. One does wonder why the government hasen't acted on a diesel ban (or some action) when it's clearly a risk to the public.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
The climate models predict larger increases in temperature than have actually occurred, and the increases in temperature appear to be slowing down. I think most (reasonable) people agree that climate change is caused by humans, but there still isn't much to do about it. Pretty much anything you do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is going to massively increase the cost of everything. Plus it puts your country at a disadvantage relative to countries that don't put in place the same policies.

Hydrocarbons have made the modern world possible by providing a relatively cheap and portable energy source. None of the renewables come close. They're also the main source of greenhouse gases and thus climate change. There is no practical policy proposal to decrease fossil fuel usage in the near-to-moderate future that would maintain living standards at their current levels.
Yeah, that is what I was thinking as well. The autopilot itself won't care, but the disturbance may (or may not) be enough to cause it to turn off. Whether it does or not may even be situation dependent.
> GDPR was a real help for end users, reducing the amount of spam in mailboxes

It just went into effect - has this been measured already?
how will they reduce braking dust? I thought they were primarily only going to use the brake power for energy.
I looked at the source, looks neat except one thing: shouldn't there be double quotes around all href targets?

The ones that have a single quote (e.g. <a href=#/what'sinsidealltheiphones.html>What's Inside All the iPhones</a>) get marked in red in firefox's view source due to this
Monsoons show plastic blocking sewer systems.
We just had tried brotli and decided not to implement it yet.

One of our devs just returned from a conference super excited about brotli. I'm the ops guy and want to try to support excitement, so I spent the better part of 2 days setting up an experiment, but I was skeptical. I'd been keeping my eye on brotli for years.

I first went out and looked for some existing evaluations of brotli, and found years old write-ups, one from Cloudflare from 2015, and another but I can't remember the details there. They both concluded that brotli wasn't ready yet, but they were also old...

Our stack uses Apache on Ubuntu 16.04, and the first stumbling block was that the Apache version on 16.04 is just a bit before the mod_brotli was added. So I used Ansible to spin up an 18.04 web server which did have the right version of Apache. But, apache is built without brotli support. So I ended up having to build my own custom packages, which went fairly smoothly.

We have one particular asset that right now we would like to speed up. It is a big JSON data structure. The dev did some testing and found that his 350K data-set (with gzip) ended up as 320K with brotli.

Maintaining our own custom Apache packages, and possibly having to upgrade our entire stack from 16.04 to 18.04, plus resolve known problems with OS packages that we've seen in 18.04, for a <10% compression gain, for our cherry-picked "best example for brotli wins"?

Our decision was that if we could have just turned it on via changes to the Apache configs, we would have done it. But as it is, it's not worth it for us to do.

YMMV.
I recommend you continue reading. It is an insightful comment and might just broden your horizon on this topic.
> Modern websites in particular often have large JavaScript bundles - the front page of CertSimple is 242 K gzipped, and would be 1.1MB uncompressed!

What puzzles me though... How much of this 1.1MB is really needed? You can do form validation with HTML5. I don't see any other candidate on their front page. So instead of getting a 14% advantage, what about pushing it to 100% or so?
Google Lens Comes to Pixel and Nexus Android Camera Apps
You're referring to anecdotes. Maybe the sort of behaviour is widespread, but even if it is, you then need to prove it's having much of an impact on the environment, and even then it's a drop in the ocean compared with the damage done via climate change and water consumption.

We need to get out of our parochial ideas about waste. Plastics are aesthetically bad, but other forces are quantitatively way worse.
The Fight Between Switch Hackers and Nintendo Is Ramping Up
They wouldn't argue we should stop improving technology. It's my claim that the consequence of their politics would be to stop growth. Environmentalist are against humans making an impact on nature and consider nature sacred.

That excess you see in Vegas is also paying the bills it's part of the growth. That's the point. You can't isolate them and have non-impact on nature and then at the same time growing the economy.

Should we also regulate the internet? How much of our use is excess? Is this discussion excess? Are 99% of discussion on the internet excess is posting images excess?

Once you start digging into it you realize that these things can't be isolated.

This is why it's better to let the market play it out as it will optimize local needs. It's far from perfect to the extent that it's useless but it beats all the other ways we have at least to my understanding and I haven't heard of any other and better solution than let growth play out and produce surplus and then use some of that to be better and better.
For legit contests, there is usually a small cash prize in addition that covers the cost of sales/gift tax. This was the case back in the 90s through at least Oprah's car giveaway in the early 2000s. Maybe they dont do it anymore?

It never covered income tax though; thats on you.
> America (and a few other places) actually did have a War On Booze, they just gave up because it's too socially normalised

They might've given up because alcohol prohibition increased the crime and alcohol poisoning rates; because it was killing more people than it was saving.

They might've given up because the state prohibition laws had exceptions for religious and medical purposes and so were explicitly unequal ("de jure discriminatory")
Jeff Minter calls doing that a trip into "happy fun memoryland."
Have to pay the bills. If you value a service, pay for it.
For the problem sizes the author looks into, MILP would do fine. Plus you would get optimality guarantees (or at least a meaningful optimality gap) that a trillion agents will never give you.
A similar book, used in a few grad-level courses on software defined radio. It includes a good amount of MATLAB snippets and exercises to highlight the math.

Software Receiver Design: Build your Own Digital Communication System in Five Easy Steps

[0] https://books.google.com/books/about/Software_Receiver_Desig...
Ah. Hello.com

If only I had kept that.
Mirrors our experience: https://blog.cloudflare.com/results-experimenting-brotli/ but we chose to use Brotli level 5.
PoC||GTFO 18 [pdf]
Ask him how much he pays for health/car/home insurance as well :D
You could make secondary money by first selling all the ASICs that is needed to do the 51% attack, but before delivery you execute the attack, making the ASICs you will deliver next week worthless.