skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think theandrewbailey is maybe talking about the relatively low likelihood that the CIA would use a cheap and ineffective drone to assassinate a South American leader. Especially when there are so many more clean ways to do so.

I think a few years back a whole slew of South American leaders came down with cancer for instance. Not that the CIA was behind that, it may have been coincidence and happenstance, but you get the idea. When you decide you need someone dead, then you need them dead. You can't "miss". I don't think it likely at all that the CIA would do something so ham-handed as using a hobbyist drone to attempt an assassination.
Not in the period under consideration, and a generally overstated case regardless.

Robert Gorden in The Rise and Fall of American Growth:

surprisingly, the period of most rapid decline in the real price of air travel occurred before the first flight of a jet plane. As shown in figure 11–10, the price of air travel relative to other goods and services declined rapidly from 1940 to 1960, declined at a slower rate from 1960 to 1980, and has experienced no decline at all in its relative price between 1980 and 2014. The growth rate of passenger miles traveled has mirrored the rate of change of the relative price except with the opposite sign, because lower prices stimulate the demand for any good or service.
Because terrorists target civilians on purpose.
Are there any decent alternatives to Instapaper? Pocket is the obvious one, but doesn't have highlights (which I rely on).
> Conversely, this attitude is why I believe that humanity won’t make it. Selfish faith does not affect actual temperatures. Faith does not decrease measured CO2 levels, or stop the proliferation of extinctions, or stop the conflagrations currently burning out of control in California, Spain, and elsewhere. Selfish faith doesn’t restore migratory patterns, or ocean temperatures, or arctic ice levels. Record and ever worsening heat waves don’t stop advancing simply because we reply with a “oh, I’m sure everything will work out.”

None of that is relevant. What is relevant is that there are known mitigations, which are simply a matter of engineering.

If in fact climate sensitivity to CO2 is at the high end, humanity will have no choice but to geoengineer. There are several approaches that could provide outcomes ranging from less severe warming, to returning the Earth to the temperature regime of 280 PPM CO2. The crux of having this capability is further scientific progress, and development of high-density power sources like advanced fission reactors and fusion.

Humans should also aggressively colonize elsewhere in the solar system, to avoid the "all eggs in one basket" problem - starting with the Moon, not Mars. The Chinese are on the right track there, and the US seems to be coming around.

In the shorter term, the best thing is to work towards win-win outcomes between economics and cleaner energy. Cheaper solar cells will lessen the use of fossil fuels. Same with better wind turbines (I vote for quiet to be one of the main design criteria ;). Support advanced fission reactor designs like those from ThorCon, Terrapower, and NuScale - they are also cost effective, safe, and produce no CO2 or other pollution.

Humanity has a bright future. The only things standing in the way are stupidity, defeatism and negativity.
This is the result of a 2016 amendment. Not the curreent admin. And read what the article says, the headline is clickbait. It will be a case-by-case review of any new application. Old, legacy bans will remain.
Ah, yes, that's where I first heard that thought! Thanks, just a bit of cryptomnesia.

https://youtu.be/BB0aFPXr4n4?t=144

Side note: something I've never seen before on that Youtube video: it links the Wikipedia page for climate change right under the video. An attempt to battle misleading videos perhaps?
This uses D3.js [1], and waud [2] for audio. The Pudding have their own library for scrollytelling (Scrollama.js [3]), but I don't think it's used in this project.

[1]: https://d3js.org/

[2]: http://www.waudjs.com/

[3]: https://pudding.cool/process/introducing-scrollama/
I imagine that whether or not the asbestos is frangible will be strongly considered during evaluation.

Incidentally, I have also seen a good amount of evidence that the fiberglass we currently use to replace asbestos insulation is super bad for your health, but likely not as bad.
A simpler version of this when they're pre-literate is to put them on your shoulders and be the robot, but only listen to certain commands. I played this with my 4 (now 5) year old daughter and only responded to "turn," (I only turned left) "forward," and "stop."

Needless to say, she enjoyed spinning me in circles and running me into things. Eventually she learned how to actually navigate around the house.
Get them to play with Legos, or help with household chores or something, explaining the process of what you are doing step by step. Try to get them thinking logically.

I couldn't even read at five years old, I certainly wouldn't have been able to make heads or tails of computer programming.
I say innovation in careers and personal lives. We need all sectors to decarbonize, it's not just new tech gadgets and gizmos, but new ways of thinking, servicing, and behaving. Innovative thought is necessary from every corner, both politics for carbon tax, personal diets for less food waste, more muscle-powered transportation (helps with diabetes/obesity too), etc. If we have "business as usual" in too many places, it won't matter if we decarbonize our power sector or our transport. We have to change in thousands of ways.
It is not unbelievable, it is the stated stance of the GOP to reduce environmental and health regulations, and they are doing it. It is exactly what we voted for.
What about Robot Turtles by Dan Shapiro? https://www.amazon.com/Think-Fun-Turtles-Coding-Preschoolers...
Probably for the same reasons they recently (re-)allowed the pesticide (thought to be) responsible for honeybee colony collapse.

Why not?

Also, it opens up the possibility for importing: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_fac...
I didn't. I was merely pointing out that "free speech" (as we know it) has nothing to do with what you are able to say, while you seem to be operating off of a different definition.
Because the guiding principle of this administration is to undo everything that is either directly or at least philosophically tied to the last one. Perhaps the most destructive case of butthurt ever.
I'm not sure how requiring a minimum password length of 1 character solves anything. Just tried it out and apparently 'a' is an acceptable password.

The article hammers on accessiblity over security and I think you've taken this too far. A minimum password length of 8 is not a 'strange requirement'.
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I don't think it is a fair comparison. We have the ability to build somewhat working strategy from known parts, and then we still need thousands of hours (or man-years in the case of Go) to improve it and to teach the brain to do some parts without conscious attention. Alpha Zero, OpenAI Five and others build strategy (mostly) from scratch.

I have a feeling that it is not possible to reduce algorithmic complexity of finding optimal solutions in most of the intellectual tasks (those that are in NP complexity class and above).

Most likely it is a trade-off. Quickly cobble up suboptimal strategy / build better strategy from scratch avoiding all time-saving benefits of using known parts, and avoiding all the pitfalls of not reevaluating utility of those parts in the current situation.

AIs surely will need to use all the spectrum to compete with humans.
This assessment is what I'm worried about the most.

The current EPA is perfectly okay with rolling back emissions standards, so why shouldn't they be okay with allowing for more asbestos than it's necessary?
Lego Boost or WeDo is on the shortlist for an upcoming birthday present.

Boost looks more "fun" but fairly single-purpose. e.g. Some of the command are specific to one model. It seems a bit like the more modern Lego sets where pieces are complex. Cooler models but less flexibility.

WeDo is intended for schools and looks better in that there are simpler block and a more free-form goal to it. It reminds me more of the sets we probably had when we were kids - i.e. just bricks and your imagination.
True, this is a huge aspect that is not discussed enough. Even if we reduce carbon intensity of our energy per capita, we may keep emissions too high simply by providing energy to many more people. I believe a huge aspect of reducing future emission would be educating women and families in developing nations, helping them through the epidemiologic transition to lower birth rates/family size much quicker.
One of the biggest hurdles is control, it's pretty easy to jam or just lose connection to these devices navigating to hit their target after that isn't trivial. GPS doesn't really work because that's also readily jammed and the small payload capacity requires more accurate targeting to be effective.
Current leading governments are too corrupt to be able to change anything by peaceful talks
Then couldn't you leave your phone in the car?
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I should have added a [1990] tag, but it won't let me now. If a mod could do that, that would be great thanks!
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> an API for my bank

If you live in Europe, this will come later this year. Google 'psd2'.
You as a concerned citizen can do plenty on your own. Most people could cut down their emissions and other environmental impacts by 50% easily if they really cared.

The problem is that most people don't really care that much when push comes to shove, and in aggregate this is the reason for why we're moving so slowly on climate change.
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Make me wonder if we could grow seaweed and turn it into oil...
I think the toy that first primed me for programming was a marble run construction kit. The feeling of working out where the marbles will go is very much like the one of following code through in your head.

Of course, rather than teaching me anything, it may have simply appealed to me because of a motive that was already there.

This kind of thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peradix-Marble-Run-Coaster-Set/dp/B...
I think whoever might want to kill a public figure has at least few better ways to do it discreetly. Drone attack is either some amateurs with limited budget or an attempt to attrack attention and stir shit up.
Why have allies, if you're going to be obliged to help them if they get attacked? Because the relationship is beneficial in other ways, of course.
The problem isn't that nobody wants to live there; it's that nobody wants to work there.

It's a bedroom community for people who commute to Manhattan. A very nice, wealthy bedroom community, but still a bedroom community. The NY metro area has yet to embrace edge cities, and if it ever does (I'm not holding my breath) the COL will become much less of an issue.
This makes sense as asbestos only really causes harm when humans come into contact with it. For applications where it is safely enclosed or mixed with another material it may have its uses.

I think analysis on a case-by-case basis is the right way to go.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/global-an...

> According to different observational records of global average annual near-surface (land and ocean) temperature, the last decade (2008–2017) was 0.89 °C to 0.93 °C warmer than the pre-industrial average, which makes it the warmest decade on record. Of the 17 warmest years on record, 16 have occurred since 2000. The year 2017 was one of the world’s three warmest years on record together with the years 2016 and 2015.

> The average annual temperature for the European land area for the last decade (2008–2017) was between 1.6 °C and 1.7 °C above the pre-industrial level, which makes it the warmest decade on record. In Europe, 2017 was colder than the previous 3 years.
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I agree, they are comparable. A stock can buy a flow for a specific period of time.

Or: a flow, accumulated during a period of time, could buy a stock. For example, "if Netherlands would invest all of it GDP generated during one year, it could buy Apple".

Debt (stock) to GDP (flow) ratio is very useful, because it allows to see the percentage of the yearly GDP that would be needed to pay 100% of the debt.
I've noticed the similarity between speech writing/delivery and comedy as well, and find it quite fascinating.

The really compelling bit for me is watching a skilled comedian get a feel for the crowd. It's easier to spot with a comic you've seen more than once, but you can see this with others as well once you know to look - you'll see them go into a routine, and for some reason the jokes just aren't hitting with the expected force (the crowd seems into it from my perspective, but what do I know?). They'll then almost seamlessly pivot into another completely different bit, and NOW it almost audibly clicks, and the audience just swells and starts laughing with their whole being. It's difficult to describe, considering that much of it is a feeling in the air. An off-the-top example...a comic is doing political material, and it's not being totally received, so they'll segue into sex material, and it pops with this crowd, so they'll continue from there. Considering that even within the same town, an 8:00 crowd and an 11:00 crowd may differ wildly in their tastes, to the point where the 8 crowd wants politics, and the 11 crowd wants sex. Geography plays a factor, too. It's an incredibly complex skill to master, and generally takes several years of road work to get down. Some of the hardcore touring comics are on the road for 250 - 300 days a year, which is insane to me.

It's easier to get a feel for these moments if you watch a lot of amateur comedy (not open mic beginners, though, as that's another beast), where the comedians are working on material or honing their chops - they're not as skilled as the headliners, usually, in mastering the pivot, so you see them successfully feel out the crowd dynamic, but not necessarily execute completely, so the struggle is much more obvious.

It's incredibly difficult work. Weeks of writing and 20 pages of notes might lead to 3 minutes of actual, usable material (likely less), if you're lucky. All respect to these professionals.
We could already do this if we wanted. The technology exists. And it's cheap too, if you factor in the costs and subsidies oil gets.
Relaxing fossil-fuel emissions standards and every other EPA protection is also homicide. This is par for the course for Trump's EPA.
It didn’t work very well and just tended to get in the way when using playlists. The only third party watch app I use happily is OmniFocus, and it’s so nice in some ways that I’ve learned to live with it’s also-very-obvious bugs.
I was 7 when my teacher introduced the Logo programming language.

We used an educational adventure game called "Crystal Rain Forest", which had a series of puzzles introducing gradually more complicated programming concepts.

Here[1] is a mid-way-through puzzle, using Logo-like[2] commands, at first interactively, then by making a simple script. The next puzzle [3] adds a "Repeat" loop.

After the game was completed, we could use the floor turtle to trace out our completed crystals [4].

I guess this [5] is the updated version.

[1] https://youtu.be/p_DV1DGX150?t=1815

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

[3] https://youtu.be/p_DV1DGX150?t=2399

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy4jgTo7rfs (contains noisy children!)

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHCkQC9orG0
I believe methane is around 25 times more potent at trapping heat than CO2 (have seen different figures around 25ish). There is a much shorter half-life on that methane, it degrades in the atmosphere much more quickly (<100 vs ~1000 years) than the very stable CO2 molecule. However we have to think of positive feedback loops. The methane will heat us much sooner, which will allow more ice melt, more methane emissions from the permafrost in northern climates, and accelerating the heating we've already seen in polar regions.
I think you weren't really programming in that case, but I agree if the kids shows an interest it's worth steering them toward more advanced activities.

On the other hand I think at this age it's much more important to be playing physically and socially, than to be buried in a screen.
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Detroit Techno isn't obscure at all. It's a very well-established genre including probably most famously the work by Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson. There have been at least 2 waves of it and it continues to influence electronic music from the fringes to the mainstream. If you're curious about it, I'd recommend Drexciya's The Quest as a starting point.

French House most likely refers the heavily filtered and compressed disco beats of e.g. Daft Punk, which had its heyday in the mid-to-late 1990s.
I am in the same boat as you, though my kids are a slightly older. Other replies here are more informative than mine, but here are a few more pointers.

NOTE: My kids have been doing hour of code, scratch on and off and they love it: http://partners.disney.com/hour-of-code. Sometimes kids do want to know "how does it actually work".

I have noticed that we digress quite a bit.

Here are some observations:

1. Children learn a lot better when they are in a group (of say 4), especially with slightly older kids.

2. Make them write down what they understood after the class.

3. I started with the simplest computer in the whole world
(in my opinion, not a turing machine) i.e
cpu <---> memory model. Again, I am not an expert but thought this level of abstraction was easily digestible for them.

4. Then explained that everything that they can do on the computer is all done by this basic computer, just faster.

5. Then introduced them to the notion of basic programming.
A. Computers understand only very very simple instructions, called machine instructions.
B. We can slightly better using higher level languages.
C. If a computer does not understand what you say, it cries like a baby. You need to get used to the different cries (error messages) and sometimes it can be very difficult.
D. Simple instructions.
E. I had to introduce print as a function. Actually this part was not difficult at all.
F. I am tiered of typing things again and again: loops
G. Hey we did that before, can we use it again? functions
H: Sometimes we need to make decisions? if / else

6. Familiarity with the jargon takes time and is perhaps half the battle.

7. Our next step is to identify simple problems that are programmable.

Here is the progress so far https://saanviperi.com/
I am actively using PiHole in my home network with over 8 devices doing around ~30k requests per day. Some highlights:

* By a huge margin the nosiest device is my Android Phone. >40% traffic is coming from just my phone (which is crazy!)

* I have 650,000+ in my domain blacklist and folks complaining about "it doesnt work on pihole" just have taken that tiny bit of error to unblock some domains like "ssl.googleanalytics.com" which break a lot apps. It took me about 1 day to see what isnt working (ex Facebook app break if graph.facebook.com is blocked)

* On avg 28% of my requests are blocked and 42% are cached. I am quite sure generally my surfing experience is snappier

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Things like learn running PiHole :

How prevalent tracking really is across the web. A lot of apps dont go "online" if google analytics is blocked (example Toggl)

Manufacturers like Xiaomi are spamming the network with requests - mostly for notification spam

How amazingly scalable, stable RPi+PiHole is - we ran a workshop with 150+ DHCP leases and nearly a few 100k DNS requests without a glitch. Pi didnt even heat up a bit

SmartTV are freaking noisy. Samsung TV makes ~300 DNS requests in <5 min of startup. Literally every button press in the "smart home" is tracked
I disagree that it's just spite. It seems to me to be a pro-business agenda. It's literally the definition of crony capitalism.
He sort of ends the article touching on that point, noting that "total football" like Cruyff (and Rijkaard or Guardiola) practiced at Barcelona is "defensive" in its attack:

> “But in any case, it’ll be fine, don’t worry,” he said. “Just remember that when a team attacks with a lot of players, at the end of the day, it’s only to keep its opponent away from the goal.”

Total football (Cruyff) and its spiritual offspring Tiki Taka (Rijkaard, Guardiola), is wrongly confused to be simply "attacking football". The emphasis should be in "total". The philosophy is still highly defensive, but rather than zone marking and sporadic (and effective!) counter attacks, it focuses on defending by starving your opponent out of possession. They'll happily pass it around without creating much danger, but carefully getting close enough to you so that you have to move to defend. This (allegedly) wears you out mentally and physically, at which point -if the is effective enough- they take advantages of either a loss of concentration, or an opening that you have created.

When a team like Rijkaard's or Guardiola's Barcelona lost the ball, they had created calculated openings through which they want to direct your counter attack. They're also usually prepared to apply high pressure in the first few seconds / touches of the ball, so as to regain possession quickly. It's beautiful to watch when it works, it's facepalm worthy when it fails (see Spain vs Russia in this recent World Cup).

Interestingly, critics of Total Football and Catenaccio styles share the same criticism: that it's boring.

Once you pay more attention to off-the-ball movements and tactics in teams playing Catenaccio or Total Football styles, you begin to appreciate the art form for what it is: highly tactical and strategic. It also doesn't hurt if you've got kick ass attacking players that can execute a counter attack to perfection.

In my (humble) opinion, total football and tiki taka is not as effective nowadays because today's top teams are on an entire different level in terms of physical fitness, endurance, and mentality. Just compare today's average footballer's physique to those 20 years ago...
Lol, looks like the Google result of "convert 4C to Fahrenheit". In the authors defence, it isn't their fault the Americans still use Fahrenheit.
Mailbox types for unordered interactions require manual management of mailboxes (new/free) but the type system guarantees that you can't free a mailbox with messages still in it. Garbage collection is probably possible but it seems difficult.
> how to efficiently swim against a fast stream

How does that differ from just swimming fast?
But 100-200 years is very little time for comparison isn't it?
Is there any presumed data on what it was before that?
Well, they also are explicitly excluding any effects of it getting into the ground, water or air. Given ground, water and air is a major part of the environed the EPA is supposed to protect, what are they even doing?
If you have a serious interest in stand-up, I would highly recommend Stuart Goldsmith's podcast The Comedian's Comedian. He interviews a broad range of (mainly British) comedians, taking a deep dive into their writing process and stagecraft. The interviews with Jimmy Carr and Gary Delaney stand out as highlights for me, providing some absolutely revelatory insights into the art of making something funny. It can be a bit inside baseball at times, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

http://www.comedianscomedian.com/podcasts/

http://www.comedianscomedian.com/164-jimmy-carr-part-one-of-...

http://www.comedianscomedian.com/67-gary-delaney-live/