skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, describing essential struggles and challenges as wars, promotes the ruthless traumatic destructiveness which actual war necessitates. The idea of making war should be repulsive, sadly it is freely glorified and normalised - and made.
Bloody hell, this processor has more cores than the dual socket Xeon HPCs that my lab bought 2 years ago. Amazing.
Honest question: Isn't the memory throughput an issue when you try to feed 32 hungry processors?
AMD isn’t anywhere near 50% market share in overall sales when it comes to enthusiast hardware.

It looks like you got the only mono from Asus that comes with a PS/2 port other than the Apex: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11860/z370-motherboards-asus-...
The Robot Paradox
"Climate change" is the athiests' version of Armageddon.
Based on a few[0] articles[1], theaters only receive a small portion of box office sales for the first few weeks. Studios would likely still ask for a regular ticket's cut if the theatre sold a ticket for less to moviepass.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/28/movies/where-movie-ticket...
1: https://money.cnn.com/2002/03/08/smbusiness/q_movies/
No worries :) Medicare is divided into Part A and Part B. Part A is free, it covers hospital visits. Part B is like $114 a month and covers doctor visits. You need to meet some minimum requirements for work history, and sign up at medicare.gov.

Medigap is sold by private companies and can cost up to $250 a month roughly for full coverage, all the way down to like $60 for coverage after the first $2000 in expenses.

In our country everything is mostly done self service, social security is too. Oh well! I wish it was automatic, but the insurance lobbyists dont want that I think.
I know, and it saddens me.

I attended Gencon this last weekend. I had a great time. But one story is the following:

We were staying with some friends 2mi away from Lucas Oil station. As much as I don't like Uber (1), I installed it and used it to get a ride in the morning so my wife and I could run games. We called a taxi - they were a noshow. So Uber it was.

We get a gentleman who was in his upper 60's. He retired a few years ago, but medical bills meant he couldn't relax any. He instead had to go to "work". But who would hire someone at that age? Walmart greeter? There are no walmarts nearby in the 'hood. So, he did Uber.

This wasn't some upbeat 20 something doing 'awesome rides in their spare time'. This was someone doing the dregs of employment without any protections thereof. Injured on the job? LOL you're not on a job. Work or die. Unemployment protections are nice.... If you were "unemployed".

In the end, "gig economy" job-non-jobs only serve to make everyone poorer, except for a few in Silicon Valley. And when their stunt is up, the SV con-artists will move on to their next game of arbitrage. Who that next group who's made poorer is, is anyone's guess.

(1) After giving him 5 stars, I uninstalled uber.
It's all about changing the goalposts. We have probably lost the war against 1.5 deg C climate change, as even if we were to freeze emissions now, I believe we would hit that (need fact check on that). We are currently losing the war against 2 deg C climate change. The next war is against 3 or 4 deg C climate change. All of these milestones have severe consequences more significant than the last, so all are worth fighting.
I could've sworn you had some granular level of control as far as what the apps are allowed to do when they access your Gmail account, e.g. Reading emails only versus read/reply/compose, etc. Maybe I'm thinking of OAuth.

For some reason I also thought there was some way of tying the app's identity to the password, such that if an app other than Thunderbird tried to use my Gmail Thunderbird-app password, Gmail would block it. But I'm probably wrong on that point.

Would be a great enhancement, if not.
We almost got there with Pingbacks being the first step. Then they devolved into meaningless spam. Without a system of manual curation, it's impossible to build something where _everyone_ contributes. Spam scales easily, and moderation and curation does not. A thousand good links buried under a million spam links don't add any value.

And we can talk about reputation and proof of stake systems until we're blue in the face, but so far, nothing exists that actually works. If it did, we'd already be using it.
Gee I'm still on version 11. I tried updating once, got a ton of useless crap like calendars and shit and reverted back. Email is one of the few things that I want something very basic and crude.
So we need a quick plan B. The required goals from nations won’t be met and people won’t change lifestyle to do something about it. We need to also do something that ensures warming stops without any sacrifice made by people (other than taxe to fund the massive programs)

Maybe we could turn things around in 10 or 30 years but the damage done may either be irreversible or runaway.

So a short term solution that ensures no temperature increase for the next 30 years would be great. But what is it? Carbon capture? Artificial Whitening of oceans? Is there any solution that is even remotely viable?
I think the point was that the fault may lie in the poster on HN and not the author of the survey, provided they're separate individuals.
We were told that Fukushima will NEVER happen. So yeah, some people are very bad at evaluating risks.
After Google Listen (and a long line of similar shutdowns -- Google Reader, Google Wave, GChat/Voice/Hangouts/Allo), why would you use Google Podcasts anyway?

I'm not affiliated in any way, but Pocket Casts has been running for years and is an excellent option on both iOS and Android. I know there are some other good options on Android as well, if Pockets Casts isn't your thing for some reason.
Thanks a lot for your detailed and motivating answer. Actually I know quite a bit about programming. But generally try to hide that I'm highly interested in computers. Because if anyone notices, I get asked why I chose to study law in the first place. Over the years I learned not to look like a computer nerd and how to look and behave like a lawyer. I also had some problems with interpersonal communication, but through trial and error I've become socially adept and now I can get things done.

It is really nice to hear that my skills and interest in computers won't go wasted in practicing law. I hope my firm also gets offered an ML tool where I can show my skills. For now I can navigate the document management systems with ease, use some word add-ins (contract companion etc.), I guess that'll change in time and I'll have access to more sophisticated tools.
Go AMD Go.

Ryzen is default choice now for me and my brother. This pushes even more people toward DEFAULT RED.
The war on cancer is a total fail in my book. They surrendered when they started calling it "many diseases", meaning there will never be a "cure for cancer" by definition.
I don't think there's any way to change from having a warrant canary to not having the warrant canary, even if your new approach nominally conveys the same information, that isn't rather suspicious.
> As a reminder to everyone: the constitutional guarantee to freedom of speech means that the _government_ cannot censor any views (outside of certain exceptions for threatening language, and the like). It does not mean that a private entity has to enable speech that they find objectionable.

When the First Amendment was written, ~240 years ago, the government was the only conceivable entity with enough power to censor (besides a state church, but the amendment also banned those).

Now there are private entities with comparable censorship power to governments (examples: Google, backbone providers, cell phone carriers). For the sake of the people's natural right of free expression, the interpretation that backs your "reminder" may be obsolete, and anti-censorship law may need to be made to apply to them.
When I was in grade school, my science teacher told the class rivers couldn't flow north because, on a globe, north is up.

Somehow pointing out the Nile wasn't conclusive evidence against it.

Public education in America!
Yep. That could be a bit of a problem. The land mass affected appears to be huge...
From the activism I follow in my country in last decade, I learned that politicians are apathetic, and a good activism is needed to make them move. That's how lazy governments work.
So I think until we fix governments performance we need to engage in efficient activism. What is efficient activism? This question interests me.
This is slightly off topic but I really rile up some of my more passionately Democrat friends when I point out that one senator from CT is responsible for not having a public option in Obamacare. Why? Because the senator was beholden to the donations of the insurance companies.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/prescription...
Hi are you using any specific UK service to plant trees please?
Technical concepts for writing code:

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Clean Code (Robert Cecil Martin)

The Art of Unit Testing (Roy Osherove)

Head First Design Patterns (Elisabeth Freeman, Kathy Sierra)

Martin Fowler's blog: https://martinfowler.com/

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How to gather requirements and write business-readable code:

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Domain-driven design (Eric J. Evans)

Implementing Domain-Driven Design (Vaughn Vernon)

Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design (Scott Millett)

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Remaining agile and managing your work according to your clients' needs:

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The art of doing twice the work in half the time (Jeff Sutherland)

The Mythical Man Month (Fred Brooks)
If Trump was waging a smarter trade war, and EU helped, we could be taxing China and the rest of the "lawless" countries more effectively - e.g. tax all goods (local and imported) based on their carbon footprint - and thus effect global change.
Maybe instead of going to war, we should come to peace with our environment. I think mindset is important in looking into this issue.
I reckon the first step is to price negative
externalities into the things we buy for once. The first reason people and businesses consume so much is because they can afford it.
Interesting article, can definitely see the potential for learning/empathy here. Ethically (in the US), I wonder how VR modules like this will be received. I see a case for and against a VR module that allows next gen students to 'experience' 9/11 or any other historic catastrophe.
It’s not just energy production and consumption that is the problem. Resource extraction, pollution, toxification of the environment are all contributing to the creation of a planet that sucks to live in.
Germany faces its worst security dilemma since the 1950s
How to mock UnityWebRequest in Unity 3d for unit test
I recently had big problems to unit test the UnityWebRequest and started to write my own solution based on NSubstitute and a wrapper class, I uploaded the source code to a repository: https://github.com/goedleIO/unity_http_mocking
I'm happy for feedback. I anyone has an easier way to mock the UnityWebRequest. I also wrote a blog post about it, with a detailed description: https://blog.goedle.io/2018/08/06/mocking-web-requests-in-unity-fake-it-until-you-make-it/
I live somewhere much cheaper than SF, and tickets are regularly £10-£11 (which is about $15 give or take)
“Some exceptions may apply.”
The article fees cheaply alarmist to me. Its incredibly difficult to make good predictions even 2-3 years into the future let alone whats going to happen globally decades from now. We have only started to see the effects of global warming but the really bad stuff has yet to happen - and when it does the reaction wont be linear as whats being projected here.
And it wasn't until 2005 that student loans were made permanently non-dischargeable, rather than the previous first five years. Of course bankruptcies went down, what's the point?
In the US plastic is produced via cracking natural gas into ethane. In Europe and China they still use crude oil and crack it into naptha, but that's starting to decrease as they turn to cheaper natgas.
I'd guess the current-and-previous customer base overlap is approaching 100%. If you want to see 1, 3, 31, or 100+ movies a month, it's still appears to be a great deal.
I admit I wasn't at all surprised to see it getting downvoted so heavily-I was not one of them I as I agree; it's a good question-even if, directed at me-I'm not inclined to go through all of the setup and groundwork necessary to give a response in the affirmative or otherwise.

Being willing to critique ones own body politic is a healthy thing. My lack of surprise comes from this strange phenomenon going about that presumes anything short of full-fledged vociferous condemnation or admonishment must automatically mean harbored complicity and is worth the harshest rebuke or silent dissent in the form of drive by downvotes without much contemplation or substantive discussion in the slightest.
> This is why I am a huge fan of web-based clients and not things like Thunderbird.

A false dichotomy. 2FA login is achieved through "web login", where an authentication token is obtained by presenting the service's 2FA interface in a web frame or a simple web browser. See e.g. the initial setup flow in Android 4.x - the Google login and password are a regular form, but if 2FA is enabled, you're shown a web browser.

Whether clients like Thunderbird implement web login remains a quality of implementation issue...
That probably isn't too far off from how they were picked
Trying to put CNN on the same (low) level as InfoWars is disgusting and a deliberate misrepresentation of fact.
We have almost certainly already lost. The challenge now is to adapt to the change. Paris was not about bringing global temp change to 0C, just limiting it to 2C.

Fortunately planet Earth won't be bothered by us too much. The cycles of ice ages we are in will "correct" most anything we do. The loss of biodiversity will probably be our only legacy.
As a survey design principle, there should be an option for "I don't know"
Typegram – Platform for writers and their subscribers with a minimalistic design
> sleepwalk into oblivion

Tell that to the Egyptians, Romans, Easter-Islanders (debated now, actually), and the countless other human civilisations who didn't really appreciate their impending demise before it was too late. Hell, the Romans hired essentially barbarians (so mercenaries, basically) to defend the northern territories against...you guessed it, barbarians.

Just because the bulk of the harmful effects that humans contribute to begin at 50+ years, conveniently after humans have to live through it. Humans still create children to suffer through the hell they created though, how peculiar.
How many times have we fought wars not against ourselves?
Looking at the design of WireGuard it seems relatively obvious. Is there a reason it took this long to get such a basic solution?
I don't think any amount of innovation can have close to the impact of de-tabooing nuclear energy for the next few decades.
Huh? You consider it a fail because we learned that there are many different kinds of Cancers? Yes a "one magic pill" option will probably never exist, but we can chip away at all forms of Cancer until they all have a cure.

But realistically, this is not a war I think we can win in my lifetime. It's much bigger than people may have originally thought.
Could you point us to any good resources you've come across?
Taking things out of the economy for themselves is the decades-long operating mode of the generation this article discusses. They went to free colleges and gave their kids ludicrously expensive colleges. They bought houses at fair prices, down-zoned their towns, and forced their children to move far away. They ran government deficits instead of paying taxes. They converted regular schools to adult schools, regular libraries to senior centers, etc. The fact that they would cash out their assets and leave nothing to their kids is 100% consistent.
Why London’s Congestion Charge Is Working
Hypothesis is shit
Yes, it is. The chain of industrial processes that converts oil to plastics are energy intensive, and the chemical processes involved often have direct emissions as well. Not to mention the emissions from extracting, refining, and transporting the oil in the first place.
I know this is not the done thing, but a meta-interpreter is the best, easiest, simplest way I've found to explain resolution (for maximum impact, you can trace a program through the meta-interpeter so the other person gets to see what's going on).

And if I can be allowed a shamless plug of my research team's work, it's also possible to turn a meta-interpreter to an inductive learning procedure, so that you can generate a new program from examples of its inputs and outputs, even as you prove it. It's called Meta-Interpetive Learning:

https://github.com/metagol/metagol
If they continue like this cinemas will just die out.

My local cinema however is offering a "Sneak Preview" on Mondays. For 5€ you get to see some (unknown on ticket purchase) new movie that people have actually put some effort into (non "block busters", a.k.a. transformers part 500). There I have seen Shape of Water, Hotel Artemis and Searching. I will see another one this evening.

With adaptions like these maybe they'll survive a bit longer. I certainly enjoy the offering.
Feeling the Heat of High-Frequency Trading: Summer Weather Slows Transactions
James Hogan, Thrice Upon A Time.

It's only a communications device, not a transportation device but it does consider the movement. The signal is sent to the same point in space where the machine currently is, the range limit is how far away from that point you can be and receive it.
Your argument hinges on the opinions of children? Children don't have fully developed brains.
We've lost the war when everyone is dead.
Well, I don't think they just started calling it that for no reason. The fact that they they now know more means they are marking progress, even if it makes it harder to declare victory.

The way I read it is that they were so far from a cure that they didn't even know what they were trying to achieve.
Obviously plastics emit GHG as they degrade.

If you burn the plastic now, you get all the CO2 now.

Some plastic last for hundreds of years, so the same amount of CO2 will be released more slowly. An optimistic view is that half of the "CO2" will be trapped for a few additional hundred of years.

A slightly more interesting part is that a part of the emission is methane (that is like 100x worse than CO2), but the article says that the level of methane emission is insignificant anyway.
The politicians largely reflect the people they govern. I don't think we can expect much better from them as compared to the general population...not to mention of course the vested interests and lobbying capability of corporations. And again corporations have shareholders, employees, etc...
SpiderOak removes warrant canary
Roughly linear pricing per core? What is this wizardry?
Classifying tasks into priorities.
1.Urgent and required. Sorted by urgency.
2.Required. Waits until all #1 completes.
3.Optional. Waits until all #2 completes.
4.Leisure/Misc. Waits until all #3 completes.

Reducing wasted space by putting items with lower usage into storage space category that is in proportion to usage:
0.Items with daily use priority 0.
1.Items which aren't used daily get priority -1.
2.Items which aren't used weekly get priority -2.
3.Items which aren't used monthly get priority -3.
etc, the less used items occupy their own category(e.g. yearly use "yearly storage space") .

Reducing decision space iteratively:
1.Enumerating all possible choices/options.
2.Discarding all low-quality choices.
3.Discarding all mediocre choices.
4.Selecting a set of top choices.
5.Writing down a comparison table for #4.
6.Filling the table in #5
7.Eliminating choices that sound worse than average.
8.Repeat #7 until you're left with one choice.

Solving complex problems by breaking them into sub-problems.
1.Formulating on paper the scope of the problem
as separate sub-problems.
2.Sorting the sub-problems in order of difficulty.
3.Connecting the sub-problems to their potential solutions.
Like a graph from sub-problems -> solutions
4.Selecting the most connected solution.
5.Improving the solution to include more connections(so a single solution solves all or most sub-problems in #2)
6.If a solution can't be improved, try next most connected solution. Focus on the solutions that can be improved.
7.The best-performing solution is implemented.
8.Repeat with next best solution.
Ubiquitous healthcare access does benefit all of society. As does everyone being able to afford food.
Yes, hopefully the motherboard manufactures take that seriously.
Plastics reactors themselves don't really do much (if tuned properly, most aren't because it's cheaper), the emissions are mostly from the refinery processes before it. You can't make plastics from raw oil.

Obviously running these still requires a lot of power for heating, cooling and so on. Large-scale extruders for producing the plastic pellets everyone uses for e.g. injection moulding require a fair bit of electricity as well (think dozens of MW per screw pair / channel).
Why does there have to be a point beyond what I've already made? Your post I responded to satirised the idea that there is anything but a legal component to the decision, then went on to assert that the decision was purely legal. If I have that wrong please correct me. Otherwise, I stick to my point - to portray the decision making behind these fines as purely legal is similarly one-dimensional as portraying them as being purely driven by European envy of the US.

Apart from that I am quite happy to be free of supposed tech giants' 'innovation' when that involves them selling my personal information to whoever they choose and so support the EU from that aspect, but at the same time I have a sneaking suspicion that the rules would be less zealously applied if the tech giants were European. VAG seem to have got off pretty easily for the emissions scandal. Do you seriously believe that if a European company is threatened with EU fines that that country's leaders will not be on the phone to Brussels, and that these calls will not have an impact, moreso than a similar call from outside the EU?
Well, it's got four fairly fast memory channels but yes, you'll probably tend to be more memory limited with this guy - though the 64 MB of L3 should help in many cases.
I am a little out of the loop and so I have a few questions:

1. At what point in time can we arrest ocean temperature rise purely by reducing emissions?

2. Even if we stopped further rise in temperature, is the current temperature (land and ocean) sustainable, or is a chain reaction already underway that will increasingly lead to more and more turbulent weather?

3. Are there viable ways to extract greenhouses gasses from the atmosphere? Will extraction necessarily lead to lowering of temperature?

4. Are there risk factors in extracting greenhouse gasses? Could we trigger excessive cooling?

5. Alternatively, is the Futurama approach of dropping a massive icecube in the ocean a viable approach?

6. Are there long term benefits of warming?
The idea has always been acquiring lots of customers (essentially by gifts) and then being able to negotiate hard with cinemas on that basis.