skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will look like magic, literally. With mind controlling drones, virtual glasses and realities.
Good point. I stand corrected :)
Agriculture in Europe for vegetables is already concentrated in Spain's greenhouses...
Frankly, I'm disgusted.

I couldn't be part of the electronic, energy, packaging and transport waste that this approach contributes to.

If I run out of trash bags, I buy more next time I'm at the supermarket. If I'm likely to forget to do that, I'll leave the empty box somewhere visible until I do remember, or if it's urgent write a note on a scrap of paper.

"Alexa, next time I'm at the supermarket, remind me I need trash bags" would be far more reasonable.
Just give them a computer running Linux with no GUI & a copy of the Linux pocket guide, remove other distractions, and apply time.
This is nothing new: we have long known that positive feedback loops will accelerate the warming of the planet. First, the polar regions will warm most quickly due to the earliest feedback loops: snow is reflective, heating removes snow, water/ground is much less reflective, more snow melts. Second, we will have more fires (huge GHG emitters), more water vapor (the #1 GHG by far), and more methane emissions from natural sources which are exposed due to snow melt.

I don't see much way around this: we're going to have to alter our atmosphere even further if we want a habitable planet. We're both going to need to stop altering it by emitting far less GHG, then emit other compounds like aerosolized sulfates which reflect sunlight, then we'll need to pull out CO2 from the air to deal with the ocean acidification and restore the proper amount of carbon in the air.
When I was in 3rd grade my teacher noticed that I was terribly stressed about something and asked me what it was. I told her I was terrified of thermo-nuclear annihilation. I was afraid of nuclear war so much as a little kid that my teacher noticed. She talked with my parents and there was intervention to help me with my feelings.

Talk to others about your feelings. Doesn't necessarily need to be a therapist. It could be a friend or a family member. But talk to people because I don't think you're being unreasonable or weird. I think your reaction is perfectly normal and even healthy. If more people felt like you we might be in a better place with the environment.
That looked like it might be an interesting article but implementing it as tiny fragments of boxed text that fly by as you scroll (and obscure the graphs) pretty much destroys the point of publishing an article.

Can anyone point at the original data of which this is presumably a summary?

grump.
>What a lot of people don't realize is that the subway is not all that convenient to where large parts of the population in the city lives

Um, how many people actually live in those islands you found? A lot of those narrow islands could be eliminated by just increasing the walk time to ~12 min. Even more should be covered by the recent 2nd ave extension. The whole strip on Manhattan's East side will be covered once the 2nd Ave line is finished. No one lives in Newton Creek. Many of the other transit dead zones are functionally low rise suburbs. I wouldn't be surprised if the population on those islands you found is dwarfed by NYC population overall.
They won't send you another one until the first one has arrived. Also you get notifications and the option to cancel each one when the order is made.
This indian battery is 4x greater than traditional Tesla's lithium batteries
People know their personal largest impact is cars and meat. But personal convenience has always beaten doing the right thing.
Russia is the biggest exporter of asbestos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/07/11/a...
> it's that people lost faith in the currency

What do you think happens when you devalue your currency to pay your debts?
When I was a kid, my father bribed and coerced me into playing with LOGO (really showing my age here). I ended up spending a fair amount of time playing with it, (I guess) learning a lot of basic programming concepts along the way. I have memories of my grade-school self struggling to grok recursion.

There were a few aspects of LOGO that made it nice to learn on: most notable was immediate visual feedback and the "telling the turtle what to do" approach to imperative thinking.

When my wife was pregnant, I was overcome with nostalgia about LOGO and hacked together an in-browser collaborative playground (http://turtology.herokuapp.com), which seems like a total dead end at this point. LOGO was genius in it's time, but it seems terribly dated now, even to my fanboy eyes.

Apart from Scratch (which has a bunch of mentions already), the nicest thing I've seen is Cubetto: https://www.primotoys.com The combination of rapid feedback, simple interface and a real-world "avatar" for your instructions seem to make it really easy to figure out, as well as engaging. Also, now that I have a toddler, I can also appreciate the genius of the simple, physical interface. My 2-year old is still a long way from reading or writing, but is quite capable of recognising that a symbol can represent an action or concept.

Now I just need to figure out how to get one shipped to me (not trivial if you live in Africa).
It depends, many European countries are ethnically diverse enough that appropriately dressed people of many ethnicities can look like natives; on the other hand many immigrants, including very ethnically aligned ones, look like immigrants even after one or two generations.
People thought they were taking proper precautions in the past. Proving something is safe in the long-run is very difficult and takes many years. Do you think this EPA will force applicants to do years of studies?
Before going independent, Instapaper was owned by Pinterest. To me it always looked like Instapaper was left as founders' sideproject so it makes sense that Pinterest potentially didn't want to invest much into it (build GDPR), or take risks (face GDPR fines). Now that it has been sold/given back to the team, I doubt we'll ever get to hear the full story.

I have major respect for Brian & co for continuing on the project and trying to make it a long term indie play.
> Add some sugar to taste before popping

I tried that once and ruined a pan - the sugar just burnt and stuck to it. Salt's OK beforehand, but now I always add sugar after popping.
Pre-industrial levels when we were still coming out of significant cooling period. In every other period of human history, increased average temperatures have coincided with golden ages. Depending on where you peg your baseline for what "normal" temperatures are, the projections can look more or less scary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period

I'm suspicious of anyone attempting to boil down the operations of such a dynamic, chaotic system as climate into simple cause and effect. There's so damn many things that feed back on each other, and that's just the tip of the iceberg that we think we understand. Much more research needs to be done.
Like what kinds of used?
Asbestos, stone wool, fiberglass, etc. all tend to have the same physical properties, thus making them dangerous to inhale or ingest.

Unfortunately, these physical properties tend to be why these materials are so effective as insulators.
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I think current EPA would allow asbestos infused coal plants.
> simply a matter of engineering.

Remember that these are hypothetical, untried mitigations.

> Humans should also aggressively colonize elsewhere in the solar system

Another idea that requires decades or centuries of continued technological progress - which in turn depends heavily on stable societies and supporting ecosystems.

I'm a bright green environmentalist, too - I think that the convergence of technological change and social innovation provides the most successful path to sustainable development - but you're being a bit overly optimistic here, I think.
It'd be nice not have the installer be an Electron app which then downloads something I can't cache/save, but just have the actual app be the download from the main page!
Kremlin Orchestrated 'Pile On' Targeting Bellingcat
I'm worried that this could be just 'the tip of the iceberg' [1]. I have a suspicion that even J. Hansen is still underestimating the issue. Just looking at [2] the variability of current estimates of stored methane is enormous - going from 10E2 to 5x10E4 Gigatonnes! Methane does greenhouse forcing 20-25x as strong as CO2 over 100 years, or as much as ~160x if you only count 10 years. Depending on how fast methane gets released this really matters - if the released methane triggers more methane to come out through warming we may be in big trouble, even without burning all coal, oil and gas reserves currently known.

Further reading concerning methane: [3], [4].

Reason why dismissing this using PETM boundary is probably invalid: There was with high certainty less methane around since PETM didn't immediately follow a cold high-storage period, solar energy was also weaker, and most importantly, PETM was caused by methane alone, not a combination of fossil fuel burning in addition to methane [5].

Just to clarify: If we get the effects of PETM alone, this means around +8C global average on top of what we're doing. But from what I'm reading, PETM effects are not the whole story as pointed out above. Not that it really matters, +10-12C global average is almost certainly a global killer alone (except bacteria), it's just that I don't think it would stabilise there, it would go on to pressure cook earth's surface until absolutely nothing is left.

This stuff has me worried by far the most, especially for my now 2yo son.

[1] https://www.kairoscanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/PBP2...

[2] http://oceanrep.geomar.de/30683/1/GasHydrates_Vol1_screen.pd...

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187661021...

[4] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/327/5970/1246

[5] http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2013/20130415_Exagger...
The max fines are based on the top-level parent company's global revenue. Instapaper was owned by Pinterest until being spun off very recently.

Most likely, Pinterest's lawyers and executives were not OK with risking the fines, and also did not want to devote enough development resources to GDPR compliance for such a small subsidiary like Instapaper. Also explains why they'd spin it out -- GDPR changed the calculus.

This is speculation, but I've seen this GDPR fear play out elsewhere. Large parent companies are very worried about those worst-case fines and want to ensure there's no risk whatsoever.

The "Instapaper must be up to something sketchy if GDPR compliance took so long" narrative here seems pretty unfair. If their former owners are to blame for the long EU outage, it's understandable that Instapaper isn't going to publicly call them out -- they may even have agreements preventing this. And the whole spin-out probably took some time and logistical effort, so they couldn't reasonably focus on GDPR immediately after that either.

(Edit: not trying to knock Pinterest either; their actions would be completely understandable given the max potential fines.)
Is there no swimming pool (with a shallow part and not too many people) around where you can learn on your own?
I haven't read the article, but I saw your question - I believe March 2009 was the low point for the market index.

At least, I remember saying to myself, "Self, you should totally find a way to come up with cash and dump it in the market right now!" Of course, I did not. But I was right. Of course, ideas are worthless without execution...
Case-by-case analysis is really expensive for a government agency to do. And you know full well that developers will cut corners at any chance they can if the rules are loosened up.
I believe it is actually a cancer of the lining of your thoracic cavity rather than your lungs.
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> If you need to be ssh'd in anyway to run commands then being able to edit a file remotely is of limited value.

You can access the remote shell from TRAMP and run commands, just like you can access the local shell from Emacs on your local machine.
> close to the baseline

More like don't do one of these on accident... :-)

"One of the major questions is whether the Siberian Traps eruptions were directly responsible for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago.

A recent hypothesis put forward is that the volcanism triggered the growth of Methanosarcina, a microbe that spewed enormous amounts of methane... altering the Earth's carbon cycle.

This extinction event, also called the Great Dying, affected all life on Earth, and is estimated to have killed about 95% of all species living at the time"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps
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You make it sound like the Snopes article contradicts the OP articled. They both say the same thing: "On June 1, the EPA authorized a “SNUR” (Significant New Use Rule) which allows new products containing asbestos to be created on a case-by-case basis." (2nd sentence of the OP article). Also, Snopes rates the claim as "mostly true".
Kids shape their parents' parenting style:parents and kids influence each other
So, what exactly happened? The EPA was founded by a republican (Nixon). Yet environmental efforts are now attributed to democrats. And combined with that, is that republicans was to destroy the very org they made?

What am I missing out of this? Why did the parties completely change their face?
> Much more research needs to be done.

Yet the current US stance is to defund such research. :(
I really like this but 2 things:
1) I really wish there was a pause button.
2) Please notify the user that it is using their YouTube account to play music. My YT history has now blown up with songs, and it felt kind of invasive.
Also from snopes:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_fac...

>Did a Russian Asbestos Company Put Trump’s Face on Their Product?

>A Russian asbestos producer shared a photograph of their product to social media with a seal of Donald Trump’s face and the text "Approved by Donald Trump”.
Why was the train less reliable than the trucks? I'd have thought it would be the other way around. Trucks get caught in traffic, there are more vehicles to break down etc.
What do you think you're imagining exactly?
Kindles don't come with a charger?

The Kindle [1] comes with a USB cable - but not a mains charger. The product page says "Fully charges in approximately 4 hours from a computer via USB cable" and offers an add-on item, "Kindle USB Charger (not included) 2017 edition £11.99" or "Kindle Power Adapter (not included) $19.99"

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017JG41PC/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0186FET66/
I have been hearing this since the mid 1980s.

I wouldn't have heard of it before, because before then scientists were telling us that the climate was going to get a lot cooler...
Google Maps API alternatives
The cloud options almost certainly have better accuracy and use less memory but it's at the cost of latency, network dependency and usually price.
In what cases would you use it where humans wouldn't be in contact with it eventually?
Plenty if you care to look. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record for more recent temperature evidence on the scale of a few thousand years, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record for geologic evidence of temperature patterns over the past half-billion years.

This graph shows just how far off the norm we are for the past two millenia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...
I thought this was a joke and also fact-checked before you added your own citation. It's true.

https://www.asbestos.com/mesothelioma/worldwide/

And here we are still wondering what Trump's secret meeting with Putin was about. I'm not suggesting it was about asbestos, but the timing is certainly suspicious.
I hope you agree that sending that person to jail is only a short term solution. As far as I know prison is quite expensive. Wouldn't it be more effective to send her to rehab instead?

It seems the US is using prison as the catch all for people who have trouble living in society. Be it for mental health reasons or drug addiction.
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The Startup I'm working for hasn't moved from Google Maps & Places APIs yet. This is why I'm currently in the middle of a thorough research and I figure that the end result might be beneficial to others as well.

Feel free to edit, comment, request, fill and such.

Be nice.
Cheers
It seems like it’s just sensationalism repackaged under disguise for educated masses.
Bandwith allowances seem far too low for use as a VPN or proxy server though?
My grandfather died due to asbestos in his lungs from when he was younger. Let's hope this is not going to be affirmed.
After all these comments stating that they changed to Pocket I find it important to point out we also have an self-hosted and open source alternative to these 2:

Wallabag (https://wallabag.org/en)

Unfortunately it's very hard to set Wallabag up without having access to VirtualHosts.
Thanks for your thoughts. The tutorial could definitely be improved and restructured.

> Most shortcuts involve C-x something or C-x C-something (which is not very ergonomical). It does not share the conventions or even the vocabulary of other systems.

Hey, Vim is the ergonomic one, Emacs is the extensible one (ergonomy improves somewhat with evil-mode, aka. vim emulation in Emacs) :).

> Programs should cut the crap about using direction keys/PgUp/Down/Home/End. My 80s computer had them. Every modern computer has something similar to those operations and that works on all programs. "Oh but then you have to take your hands off of home" I do use a mouse and I do use other programs, as much as I like shortcuts, I have to move my hands and there are a lot of shortcuts outside of that area.

The reasoning here is this: those conventions used in modern programs are hurting your productivity. Vim in particular is strongly optimized towards making your keypresses maximally efficient. Emacs much less so, but still, its defaults beat arrow keys, for which you need to move the entire hand.

FWIW, Emacs has cua-mode (named after that IBM CUA thing I mentioned), which gives you behaviour similar to every other program you know. Maybe it could be introduced to people earlier, but there's a good argument against it - CUA keybindings are really inferior to what vim/Emacs gives you.
As a fan of both visual programming and Haskell, I definitely think this is the future of programming, and I can see it going two ways - A general purpose tool like https://nodered.org with a huge library of plugins or included in a host program as a VM/embedded DSL. Or perhaps both ;) What are the developers plans/thoughts on this?
What would you folks use for a much narrower use case more like an IVR system? Like if I could give a very restricted set of inputs to recognize and don't need much if any learning to happen.
About a decade ago I had cause to hire a long-haul truck [across the continental US]. At the time, I had come across information about how couples [married, whatever] were a segment of the trucker population; they would truck back and forth together.

Is this portion of the trucker population relatively small, and//or have little impact on issues being discussed here?
> will be Flutter bindings implemented for other languages sometime

I hope so
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The page is very self-contradicting...

It says in verbatim "However, I do have a problem with: Pop-up and pop-under ads that hi-jack my internet browsing experience".

However, the site itself has a "subscribe" overlay that has to be removed with developer tools or manually blocked if uBlock Origin is enabled with annoyances filters.
Can it be mined or mixed with other material without people coming into contact with it?
Ask HN: How to prepare for a follow up interview to a technical assignement?
Any advice or links to old discussion about how i can prepare for a follow up technical interview where i will be discussing my solution to a technical assignment ? the job is for a backend engineer.

what i have noted so far are:

read the documentation of the used stack.
take notes about what can be improved.
try to improve the solution.
try to anticipate solutions to some problems they may ask, for example what if we need to scale this to double or triple the users...
prepare some questions about their stack.
> the report states that the agency will no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.
The Reagan administration sold the GOP that all government agencies are incompetent.
I would advise being careful about treating this as just a north/south thing. For example, the exact mechanisms by which it happens might not be quite the same, but the disenfranchisement rate among black voters in Wisconsin is about the same as what GP reports for Florida.
Not OP, but the current is slower in eddies and at the very bottom. If you actually need to get upstream rather than just have fun playing, you can just walk on the bank. ISTM the only absolutely necessary technique for fast streams is the ferry. Speed is definitely helpful for that, although it isn't entirely "swimming against".
>Thinkpieces lately have had a trend of reaching harder and harder to link the news de jour to a higher, abstract concepts

Is that not what a 'think piece' is?

However I agree with your observation of the general trend, with news in general, and would attribute it to the commodification of raw, unfiltered info. For many types of news, we don't have to watch the news at 10 anymore - the primary sources are available to everyone. Every political speech, every citizen recording of police brutality, every draft legislation - it's all on the internet. Intelligent analysis is the scarce resource that's in demand.
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And? Some people would say it's 'known' that CNN is fake news. That statement and yours are equal in nature - neither of them tell us anything useful about the content in question.
I started my daughter when she was 4. I would recommend something the child can touch over abstractions. The Learning Resources Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set is what I started with. You setup a different maze and place the cheese on the maze. The child will program the mouse to navigate the maze using simple arrows on the top of the mouse.

I have used other toys like the game Thinkfun Rush Hour Jr get them to start thinking about how to solve problems.

If you must start with a screen, I would recommend Scratch Jr. There is a small book that has lessons building up to a project that you can use. My daughter picked up Scratch Jr after using it for about 10 minutes.

The Microsoft store in the mall had a free course for 6-8 year olds, but it is not as interesting. I think Scratch Jr is better.

I recently tried a pair exercise building a game with her using Scratch 2.0, but I think it is still too early.
Didn't Freeman Dyson talk about this idea?

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/the-dan...