skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if your definition of "oil left" is when EROEI hits 1:1, that still doesn't mean we're out of oil, since there's applications for oil that don't involve extracting energy for it. So it'll continue to be mined even when we're losing energy by doing so.

Now, I probably should have picked a better comparison, since oil really is zero-sum in ways that needing to grow more food isn't.

The point is that in an alternate universe where agriculture was 40% less efficient it doesn't follow that there would be 40% fewer people. Rather, more of the gross world product would be spent on agriculture, since there's a lot you can do to throw more money at the problem to increase yields, and pricing would do a lot to increase the efficiency.
Don't impose your morals on a community you don't belong to. That's called colonialism btw.
I know nothing about astronomy and don't see the significant of what you are saying, please elaborate. "Something at a huge distance from us is moving away quickly from us" does not tingle my pleb senses.

I am getting a sense that the author is implying that there was not enough time for that black hole to form in this "radio galaxy", which seems to imply our "age of the universe" theories might be off. I guess that's exciting on a macro, abstract level.
HTTP Time Protocol User’s Guide (2013) [pdf]
HealthSapiens Is Moving Healthcare to Blockchain
I see this as a good thing because it effectively rate limit the spam bot creations
https://www.ampproject.org/latest/blog/improving-urls-for-am...

This was fixed at the beginning of this year. Now what canonical URL the publisher uses is up to them.

Another comment said that relative links are all messed up o n the Reddit AMP version. That's Reddit doing it wrong.
So gas that doesn't fry would be ok? Like, making a stew for example. Am wondering if the gas burning itself produces a lot of particulates.

I don't think a fume hood is an option in my apartment unfortunately.

(You can get a single gas burner to cook things in a donabe)
Engineering-related books to take on vacation
or Games Workshop

I'm afraid of just typing out their name without permission.
I guess that's acceptable if you trust the NSA not to replace /dev/null with an email forwarder.

My new secure chat app, on the other hand, encrypts your message in memory, then zeros out the bytes.
>I know quite a lot of people in tech of many different countries who would be enthusiastic to work for the military, and would gladly accept lower salaries for the honor.

Their respective militaries, or the American military?
>This new PhD would see students go out into the field and talk to practitioners from day one of their research

I don't think this applies well to all fields of study. I have my Ph.D. in physics and there are loads of people researching problems that don't really have counterparts "in the field." I'm assuming "in the field" means industry or possibly a government service. I would think the same is true for mathematics at least.

>I research how to mitigate the social impact of hydropower dams.

Of course in this case, contact with people in the industry makes lots of sense. In fact, I'm not sure how this research would be conducted without this contact.

I certainly have gripes with academia but I don't think there is a monolithic motivation for students. For me, I think of academia as having the goal of advancing human understanding of the universe. Whether or not that has a social impact is probably up to some debate. I believe that one of the cool things about academia is allowing some people the ability to pursue ideas and work on problems that don't have obvious, short-term impacts.
At Intel I developed a few product modeling tools in Julia, including one that's now used in the introduction of every new product. The only real annoyances that I ran into were related to dependency management in Pkg2, but I think Pkg3 should solve all of that. I'm quite new at Rigetti, but I would suggest keeping an eye on our GitHub page.
How to be a role model
Assuming they just meant revoking the authorization to post, that's less extreme than permanently disabling the API endpoint for all apps.
> Why should a profit-seeking insurance company insure me past some point

Seems like a good argument for single payer insurance.
FreeCodeCamp's new coding curriculum is now live
Clojure for the Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham is a wonderful intro into the entire ecosystem (Leiningen, Clojure/lisps in general, Java interop, emacs, etc.). If you're already experienced with Lisps, you could probably start with The Joy of Clojure.
Apple has root access to every device just like Google has to Android phones running Google Play Services.
And imaginary is right out.
And yet it’s not the case everywhere. Most women have passed through at least one workplace with a misogynistic culture. But there are also workplaces out there where women are treated professionally. I know because I’m a woman and have worked at a few of them. Misogyny isn’t some inevitable way the world has to be. It’s the result of choices and social signaling that treats it as acceptable.
It most certainly is for the vast number of folks who code in C, C++, Java, Python, etc ...

It will for sure hurt adoption.
More content: Emacs Lisp Tutorial

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/
Association Rule Mining via Apriori Algorithm in Python
say you have an array of memory items. [][][][][][]
this will be marked with some marker (your varible names contain this offset into memory.. logical. thats how computer works.)

then in computer, (assembly) you will request an element by saying for example base_offset+(1elem_len). that would make it logical to use 0 as an offset, because then you can use 'nelem_len' as a generic number to incrememnt the offset by to select array elements.

thus for a computer and how it functions, 0-based array would make more sense, and any other thing, would just be some overlay over how a computer works just to make it more human readable....

computers dont care for what is first idex, it will always equate to base+n*elem_len to have to find the actual location in memory...

if people have been discussing that for decades and what is better, it's just another example of people not understanding what is an opinion,and what is objectivley true... none is better, your compiler is taking care of business, really it is, and no longer like it was 1999... they have been patched many times!
0-based feels like offsetting memory to me. In a high level language, you aren't doing that.
And my point is that communities can do better. Small communities such as condo complexes collect and use money (often after a good yellout) for things that residents want (walkways, tennis courts, pools, shuttle buses, etc.) without mega waste.

The key property of this is that the costs are clear and must be paid directly by those who voted for a new functionality. LDS may be the glue that allows something similar at the city/state level in Utah.
You're not alone. I think it was Martin Gardner that observed that discoveries in mathematics predated their use in physics by approximately 100 years.
Does that work properly with multi-dimensional arrays?
Yes, it can - for instance the Matrix servers that the French government runs do this by default already. We haven't exposed this as a config option and pushed it into mainstream Synapse yet because of https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6779, but the tweak for doing it is:

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/3426/files
Professors allow students to pick their own grade
How to Make Your Guests Feel Welcome with Entryway Decor
It allows Google to easily circumvent any end-to-end encryption since it's a rootkit.
http://birdsbeforethestorm.net/2016/10/lower-leftism-expandi...

^-- the most intriguing take on the political compass I've ever seen, albeit one with its own biases and issues (I'd replace feudalism with 'early human or tribal societies'). The main point was that it expanded beyond a strictly US view and I found the additional concept lines useful (Democracy line, inequality line, market line). It still runs into the same trouble trying to compress everything down into two dimensions does. Ideologies can end up next to each other that aren't very similar, which the end of the blog post acknowledged.
I had my blog auto post to facebook when I was using WordPress it was convenient but quickly realized it was annoying for others. Now I manually share on personal profile if I think my friends would enjoy it.

Glad to see it go away. Personally, I was getting tired of others’ auto posts too.
Yeah, same here. Once I hit on that, it was really hard to convince myself to read further.
I think what he's saying is you're currently using Python 2.7 on Standard and using existing built-in services like task queue, memcache, ndb, etc then switching to the new Python 3.7 runtime (to be able to connect to Postgres) runtime really isn't possible since there aren't non-rewrite solutions for those missing pieces.
A corporation should be about improving society, not chasing shareholder value.
If my town does something stupid I can move to the next town with little downside to my life (other than the cost of the move) - I can keep my existing friends. If my county does something stupid I can move, but the costs are higher. Moving states is higher cost, and countries is even higher (might even be impossible)
« those are all really convenient excuses for an argument which allows him to design systems which serve his own interests. »

I wish the author would actually lay out what they think Moxie's interests are.
I assume IFTTT would continue to be a good solution, no?
It's too early to predict outcomes. I will say the Dems putting out more Ocasio-Corteses is a gift to the Reps. The afterberners have very specific constituencies which only exist in special environments. They don't have any broad appeal.
Even Visual Basic (of all things) allowed you to set it with Option Base. Never really understood why its not supported in more languages...
Where’s the Money Coming From, Elon?
Yea, all we need to so is kill off tens of millions of the most able people in the developed worlds to spur economic growth.

It just doesn't work like that. WWII was value destruction at a massive scale. All that industry could have been building industry and we'd have had the 50's and 60's a decade earlier but not just for the US.
Well, sure. Earth's population has grown roughly 100% in the past 50 years, largely due to the advances of Green Revolution agriculture. This isn't just nitrogen fixing. It's advances in mechanization, transportation, finance, preservation techniques, and more. All of those things would have happened (more or less) even without fixed fertilizer.

I disagree with the idea that there'd be proportionally less meat, for a couple of reasons. First, a lot of grazing-animal meat (beef, basically) comes from land that is unviable for plowing or other vegetation farming. Second, in the absence of inexpensive chemical fertilizer, manure would be a much more important fixer, just like it has been for thousands of years.
Does Signal work in foreign countries? Like South America & Middle East for example.
Besides Apple Music I don't see any real competitors right now. Also Spotify's subscriber numbers keep growing rumored to be double of Apple Music's. https://www.statista.com/statistics/244995/number-of-paying-...
I love wire. Never have any issues with the desktop client nor mobile app. Even though it's Electron, it seems to be extremely focused on security. Unfortunately, it suffers from the same metadata issues as Signal. If you really need higher security messaging, p2p is your best bet, but then you may face correlation attacks by ISPs and whatnot... Maybe we all just need to get our HAM radio licenses :)
Efficient Immutable Collections (Steindorfer) [pdf]
@ynniv - because if you can coax a friend who isn't on anything but Facebook to use Signal over, say, Messenger, then it is a net win. Is it perfect? No. Is it a better situation than the current? Yes.
Can you elaborate? I just set it up on a new phone yesterday and all it asked for on mine was;
contacts (makes sense)
files (to send pictures, files, etc)
receive and send texts (if you want it as your default texting app/validating phone number via sms)
Access to camera and microphone (for calls and in app photography)

These all seem like reasonable permissions for the features available.
yes - 0.7 and the rigorous and (at a glance) hard to break system were a big thing for me; I've spent so many hours trying to make code tree A compile with code tree B in so many different languages in the past...
That was not an NSL.
It's offering something completely different because of the compatibility, compile-time controls, and ability to fully interprocedurally optimize.

http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/why-numba-and-cython-are-...
It was actually the Oklahoma airshow where this happened, so odds are we could be talking about the same plane. My dad was at Tinker back then.

Seriously those were phenomenal shows back in the day.
Library devs also need to actively think about memory layout if they are after crazy amounts of speed.
Why would I claim a hand in the creation of any of that? Using things others have built is not 'taking credit'. It's perfectly possible to acknowledge the evils of our ancestors without having to personally feel bad for it because none of us did it and have no reason to feel guilt for it. Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex.
For those looking for an open-source, private and secure messenger take a look at Adamant: https://adamant.im/
Many scientists might have mathematical ideas about how an operation should be done, but dont want to learn C++ to implement them. We create a division between scientists and programmers that hurts productivity.
I'm not a doctor, but I'm almost certain your SO absolutely needs to discuss these things with someone to have any chance of relieving, or reversing the trend you mentioned.

From my past experiences, I must unfortunately say that you might be just about the last person they want to, or can discuss it with (as strange as that sounds), but without them confronting their habits, it is unlikely it is going to get easier. Even with crippling forms of OCD, it is easier to just "comply" than to challenge it, the latter being "guarded" by great anxiety that feels much more intimidating than even the most time-consuming and difficult routines, even if they fully realize some of the irrationality. (That, too, may be hard to understand from another person's view.)
My understanding is that you are conveniently blind to several facts and this allows you to create a naive narative about what open source is supposed to be and what sustemd is leaving to the rest of us to do.
Thus your downvotes.
Interesting topic, but the analogies actually make the article harder to understand.
In the article they say they're planning on doing exactly that.
After every release the package ecosystem usually takes a few weeks to catch up. I'd recommend trying 0.6 until then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)

The impact of the Mongol conquest almost cannot be overstated.
Well if you’re ignoring state actor security and trusting a provider, what does signal offer over irc/tls?
Nothing will change because no one addressing or discussing the underlying causes for a culture that is drenched in gender roles and a corresponding social status ladder. All focus is being spent on either attacking "them" in as much generalized way as possible or defending "us" and the product of that fight is almost always status quo and further polarization.

Imagine if we instead used classical scientific method of measuring and correlating. What is the correlating attributes of an employee and advancement in a major game studio. What is the correlating attributes of social rank within the local culture and do those positive or negative correlate with with advancement and wages. Does fear of loosing social rank correlate to increased negative behavior? Are the multiple competitions over social rank and does there exist inter-sex competition in connection to competition where both men and women compete on the same ladder?

But I digress. The only change this kind of articles has can be seen in comments here and the linked one. More polarization, more generalization, and in a few days replaced with the next article to repeat over.
Yes it does:

https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/base/multi-threading/
https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/parallel-computi...

It's listed as experimental since in a 1.x released it's planned to be changed to work on top of the task interface.
> In an article about "trust", can you explain how exactly you trust F-Droid packages and not Google Play ones?

It's easier for Google to manipulate a package on Google Play than on F-Droid.

> Signal has introduced state-of-the-art encryption to millions of people in an accessible way.

WhatsApp has done that to even more people, so what's the point of Signal?
Your argument is that more civilians should die so that war is less likely.

That's not only morally repugnant on its face, it's flatly untrue. Greater collateral damage has rarely if ever prevented war. Past wars with high collateral damage have been longer, costlier, and more frequent than they are today.

Even if your utilitarian analysis were stomachably close to moral (it's not), it would still fail any sort of empirical test.
How safe this is, I guess one can store with some extra redundancy in case bits flip (e.g. assuming no ECC too the card)
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It would be great if it asked for those permissions when it needed to do something - for example ask for mic permission at the point you want to make your first voice call. I see some apps going that direction and it's refreshing.

edit: Apparently, Signal does this for some things? See comment-replies.
The receipt shows you voted, not how you voted. It’s a strip of paper along your ballot; marks go elsewhere.
« These microscopic ghosts contain a reservoir of carbon estimated at a staggering 662 gigatons—200 times greater than the amount stored in all living plants and animals—that could come back to haunt us if unleashed from its watery grave as planet-warming carbon dioxide. »

...yes, Scientific American, yes it could. That's exactly what we're doing. -.-
Asked the same question about two years ago.

Not many responses though. One of them being Clerky :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427613
Doesn't it seem unrealistic to you to rely on your extended family members not to disclose that information? Whatever you personally believe is "common sense", your family might not have it - or they might simply disagree with you.
The woman was not the mother of all the children is one possible explanation
Many people talked about reading the book "Clojure for the Brave and True", which I did. It's nice to begin with it for the first chapters and read the rest later, after some coding, in my opinion.
For me, the best resource was the MOOC on Clojure available at https://moocfi.github.io/courses/2014/clojure/
You can do the exercises, have the system check your results, but don't get grades or any certificate of completion.

I didn't finish the course as I moved to Elixir, although I liked Clojure very much.
Elixir is also functional, much better for newcomers, lots of support, people, documentation, examples, books, courses, growing very fast... And one doesn't need to wait several seconds to start the virtual machine.
What's really going to bake your noodle is, when I worked as an advisor for a major Silicon Valley venture capital group, I learned: most SV VCs don't want to invest in biotech because it takes 10-15 years before you get any feedback on your investment's quality (and most of the time, it's just "they went out of business."), while in tech, you just give $1M to 20 companies, one of them hits the billion dollar jackpot in a year.
I think it's an argument for very large non discriminating risk pools.
Oh yeah I've had this one big time in the past. It sort of comes and goes, hasn't been bothering me much lately. But a few times at my old job I drove all the way back into work to verify I'd locked the door when leaving for the night even though I was _very_ conscious about locking it - I just wasn't was totally certain as I felt I needed to be.

If this starts bugging me again I'm going to start taking pictures of the locked doors for myself. :)
Not yet, soon.

It's multi threading model is mostly multi process. Mostly because people write code to run on clusters on machines, not just single ones.

co-routines, channels, etc will be nice, and I expect not too far away.
From Virgin to Tesla: why companies go cool on public ownership
Exactly. There is no way to make that work without ending up with a pile of absurd results, or results that are "right" but for legally contorted reasons.

The answer (to this narrow question[1]) is to not do business with shops like 23andme, who are horrible gossips. Find a service that actually respects you and your wishes if you want a test.

Admittedly this will become harder as testing becomes part of medical care. But telling your doctor not to tell the insurance company what's going on would never fly anyway.

[1] To the broader questions of medical privacy, well, burning the private insurance industry to the ground and chumming the PBMs would be a good start.
I've watched thousands upon thousands of hours of drone video. Not sure what point you're trying to make.
ASL student here. I just wanted to highlight how many challenges there are to translating, even for humans. Here's two examples.

First is dialect. One would think the Internet/youtube/videochat would vaporize geography differences, and it's starting to happen, but that's not (yet) the case. Lots of signs have "synonyms" based on signer's preference, etymology, who they learned from and who they hang out with, etc.

Another is grammar. What OP is doing in his video, for example is English grammar, where signs are directly substitited for words. But ASL has its own sign order, modifiers like facial expressions, and idioms for brevity. For example "have you ever been to San Francisco before?" might be "SF TOUCH YOU FINISH" with raised eyebrows at the end, as a modifier. Note also there are no conjugations or articles like some languages, but there are pronouns. In fact, there are local bindings where you make up a sign name for someone on the fly and then use it during a conversation.

I think with large enough training sets, this will all be mitigated, like Google needed years of speech samples to get Translate working okay.