skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying that all science is appeal to authority? Do you understand how science works? These climate change deniers can run their own experiments and verify the findings that almost all scientists agree with, but they don't or they choose to misinterpret the data like the last graph in the article. Science isn't appeal to authority and trying to reduce it to that is what is shameful. Truth does exist and if it hurts some people's feelings so be it. Their feelings are not even a consideration when the alternative is having an unlivable world. These people should be ridiculed and their opinions put when because they are stupid, wrong, and they are hurting billions others. We put people in jail and even kill them if they take one life, but if they endanger literally billions of lives, we should be understanding? It's a shame we can't put these people in jail and it's a shame to defend these people that are running our world with their stupidity.
I was watching a British TV Serial ("Scott and Bailey") recently, and was amazed at the level of professionalism expected from UK police officers (assuming it is a somewhat accurate representation of reality).

One of the lead characters lands into serious, serious trouble when a drunk, fleeing suspect dies in a car crash.

Makes me really sad about the 'shoot first' culture around here ..
I used another concept.. imagine people as slaves and state agents (mostly politicians) as slave-owners. Does poor slaves implies slave-owners' failure? Nope.

And this is reality in Brazil. Politicians are wealthy, they are paid well, they create monopolies for corporations (and get benefits from it whereas consumers pay the cost) and they may even be corrupt. Some may get caught, sure, but are replaced by others. But nonetheless, the slaves keep hoping for the "right slave owner".

Thus politicians, politics and the state are extremely successful.

In this perspective, a failing state would be one whose politicians are getting less wealthy, lose intervention power and so on. Strong individuals, weak politics is a failed state. But in this situation people are wealthy (contrary to the concept shown on wikipedia).

Another (somehow related) type of failed state are those whose population emigrates massively, therefore slave-owners have less slaves. Or when a secession occurs, where power get less centralized.
USA Today shills for Sharia
Ideally the index would never have CNN, Amazon, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Walmart, NBC, ABC, Disney, MSNBC, Fox, Reddit, YouTube, Google, Yahoo and hundreds of other popular sites in it.

Stop and ponder that for a moment.
Do programmers just ship code to production without a second person to review code?
Maybe the issue is that intelligence itself is inscrutable?

When you are asked why you did something, and provide an explanation, is your explanation accurate? Do you really have access to this information? Or did you think, "I must have done X because of Y"?

What about a simpler question: "How did you do X"? When I answer this, I often cannot provide an answer, and I have to redo X and observe what I'm doing.
Totally agree. I don’t care how much less verbose terraform may be (this claim is questionable IMHO). The most important part of infrastructure engineering is being able to debug and fix things quickly by isolating issues to the smallest possible domain. The additional layer of highly unstable terraform source code does not decrease the debugging surface area.
nice site, surprised I missed this. When exactly are you adding the security scores?
On small trick that Pythonistas hate:

x = x if None else x

Saves a ton of CPU time and is beautiful.
Three problems with the debate around screen time
Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations?
Climate deniers are either dishonest people spreading lies aimed at sacrificing the future of humanity for short-term personal gain or people following them in the destruction of humanity out of tribal allegiance.

This seems a little extreme. Do you really think everyone labelled a denier is dishonest, in that they actually know the "truth" and instead are choosing for personal gain to spread "lies"? Is there really no room for "misguided", or even simply "wrong"?

Here's the autobiographical note for the originator of the graph that's being skewered: https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/who-is-steven-goddard/.
He describes himself as a bicycle-riding lifelong-environmentalist who worked to get the clean air act passed. He says he never uses heat or air conditioning, and guesses that he has "the smallest electricity bill in Columbia, Maryland because I am very careful not to waste".

This isn't the self-narrative I'd expect for someone "aimed at sacrificing the future of humanity for short-term personal gain". Instead, he sounds like someone who genuinely believes there are flaws in the current version of climate science, and that a better approach is necessary to save (not sacrifice) humanity. What makes you so convinced he's dishonest, rather than a true believer with different beliefs?
It appears that I was trying to correct a misconception you do not actually hold. I've seen apparently well meaning people claim that "global warming" was rebranded "climate change" by Frank Luntz to make it sound less scary, while both terms have been in widespread use among scientists since before the issue became widely known among the public.
85% of the taxes are paid by the top 20% because the bottom 80% are so comparatively poor. Note that almost 40% of taxes are paid by the top 1% - knowing what the top marginal rate is, that should tell you just how much more they make than everyone else.

The article even mentions very explicitly that capitalism hinges on the state's ability to protect private property, regulate markets (tort, antitrust), and create infrastructure. Why should the people who most benefit from this system not have to contribute proportionally more?
Usually copy pasting links/messages/images between desktop and mobile.
The question is who should be the ruling class
Not the rich because they already have power.
Not the uneducated because that won't turn out well.
There are two groups;
1)The students that got a C in a technical course
2)Middle class people with more knowledge in culture than money

One problem wit the United States is that the technical professions have let themselves be so marginalized. The Deep Water Horizon disaster would not have happened if the engineers had as much power as the managers.

This is my point, the technical class in the United States doesn't realize it should have more political power. Scientists get kicked around too much.

Any new country should see what happened in the United States and give more power to its technical class. This would be more of a meritocracy.
Hey, I've been there!

If you're up in the Keweenaw anyway, it's worth the side-trip to visit the rocket range. You'll spend a few miles past the end of the paved road, and there's a small stream to ford, so take a vehicle with good ground clearance, and self-recovery gear in case you find more mud than you bargained for.

And some industrial-strength mosquito repellent.

Once you're there, it's a quiet little site, and the rocket pad makes a perfect place to set a campfire without having to clear a bunch of brush first. The water is just a few feet away, and there's lots of cool geology within a short walk along the shore.
Luck of the draw mine does 5.3ghz easily on an AIO and doesn’t go above 80c even with Prime/Intel stress test.

Also make sure you are not using offset voltages instead of fully manual ones, the OC/Boost voltages motherboards set are way too high.
I think I firstly heard of it in 2003 or something, so I guess it's an ongoing thing.
Wait wait... appeal to the scentific community is a logical fallacy?

You can say this same thing about almost any scientific finding.

A less controversial example:

General Relativity is extremely odd and widely accepted.

If someone refuses to believe General Relativity, would you really say the problem is "failure of communication"?

Any kind of meaningful communication on the subject would take years, and also (if you insist in not trusting others) require a lot of expensive experiments to be carried out.

Any "communication" short of that is in a sense propaganda; in that how believable you make it seem to the layperson is not correlated with how true it is.

No, rather than a problem with communication, the problem is arrogance in believing that General Relativity (or Climate..) is something you can have an opinion about without years of physics training.

(There are physics professors that may dispute GR. That is fine; it did not seem that your topic was communication with sceptical academics in the climate sciences)
Do “sin taxes” work?
> If you can't make 50 years worthwhile, you can't make 50000 years worthwhile, and if you can't cope with being limited to 80 years or so, you will not be able to cope with the heat death of the universe.

If we reverse this logic, if 50 years are enough, then so are 5 years or 5 months or 5 days. Or is "50 years" a magical number where the rules of the game change, so that the fourty-nineth year can make a difference but the fifty-first can't?
Certainly. Heat is an expression of energy. The first gas law explains the relationship between volume, mass, and energy. In this case we are talking about the interchange between a plasma and a gas. While the gas law works well for gasses it is still less uniformly applicable to other states of matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_laws

The Sun has enormous gravity. It comprises 99.86% of the solar system's total mass. It would seem heat can be greater expressed where it is more free upon the vacuum of space upon escaping the gravity that confines the high density mass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

As for solar wind momentum it would make sense that a particle is accelerating away from the Sun at a near constant energy that is less confined by gravity over distance... at least until it hits termination shock at the edge of the solar system.

Of course these are all speculations and hopefully the probe will provide the data to qualify more valid conclusions.
Show HN: Flip gender in Python
Oh, good point about batching - my files were really small (audio samples for speech recognition), so a conversion of a single file took a lot less than a second.

I looked at the par-map.py example, however I can't quite understand where do I enter a server IP or something like that. The whole process is fuzzy to be honest. What do I need to do if I want to run my conversion task on two local workstations? E.g. I install CharmPy on both, then what?
It makes you laugh, it makes you think, and then the thing...with the function?

Frinky's not loading so good right now, HN.
The growth boom in the Scandinavian countries was the industrialization between WW2 and 1980's. Living standards soared as the countries transformed from farming societies to industrial nations. As that happens, it's rather easy for any government to remain unchallenged, and in the case of Scandinavia the governments that took credit and remained in power were social democratic. Whether the boom was caused or merely correlated with the rise of social democracy is harder to say. History could have been different, we could have had a more liberal form of capitalism and we likely could have had even faster growth in these decades. Who knows. But to say that e.g. Sweden was more free market in the 60s/70s/80s than now I'd argue is not correct.

Liberalization of the market economies in Scandinavia has been taking place in a pace rarely seen anywhere else. Go to Sweden and find voucher schools for all ages, free taxi markets etc, - things you can barely find the US!
This article is very high level, but I have been giving this some thought. Some aspects of masculinity can be toxic to the people around the man, but those aspects also tend to be something that was once (and no longer is) evolutionarily preferable. An example might be a man who has casual sex with lots of women. If there is one thing those men tend not to do, it's reproduce successfully. This is pretty ironic, because through most of history this may have been a singular factor affecting the extend of one's reproductive success. Toxic masculinity then might be something that used to have reproductive utility, doesn't anymore, but is perpetuated mainly by men and for men. It's mostly men that are impressed by hookups that other men have. No one is nearly as "impressed" when you actually have a child and raise them to be successful, which is strange, because that is the essence of reproductive. Whatever men do that is good for reproduction in our actual environment (make big bucks in tech being an example of something that has no precedent in evolution) could be considered masculine. Whatever men do, to impress other men, that is harmful to the people around them and yet not useful for reproduction (lots of casual sex while using birth control) could be considered toxic (?). Otherwise, no, whatever works isn't toxic.
Non-AMP link: https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/rockets_once_fl...
It's actually the poor that benefit most from the system. They suffer most when there's weak law enforcement.
I went all the way down the presentation tool route and created mine in Fireworks. It's pain to update, but it sure looks great, and it managed to get me a (web dev) job back when I had no previous work expereience :)
I have noticed apparent typos on memorable page numbers in fiction and non-fiction books (ie. 13, 69, 100, 123, 222, etc.) that must be intentionally edited in for this purpose, but I have not kept a list.

I went looking online and apparently this is semi-notorious in reference material (calling the trap a "mountweazle," [1], [2]) but (in a brief search session) I could not find mentions for ordinary books.

Edit: This quickly led to another (limited) set of examples on Wikipedia [3] and then on to the fiction of Jorge Borges [4] where I think I'll spend the rest of my Sunday.

[1] http://wmcz.com/legal-ideas/using-traps-to-snare-copyright-i...

[2] http://www.youblawg.com/ip-technology/5-copyright-traps-you-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#In_fiction

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...
In the US a lot of companies just don’t have the bandwidth to hire someone straight out of university. A degree is great but 10 out of 10 times I would rather have someone with four years of experience doing the work we are doing than someone with a four year degree and no work experience. It’s sad but it’s the truth. We aren’t a big enough team to spare the time and effort it takes to teach a recent graduate everything they are gonna have to learn in their first couple years. A lot of which is just about what being a developer is day to day.
Wonderful progress, congratulations. Good luck on the marathon.
I was indeed in the top 10% of my school. Even a smaller percentile I guess since I was on the top 2 or 3 people in my class.

But unless the job is in Paris (which is extremely expensive) I havent found anything starting close to 40k€
I think it's related to the business truism, "a confused customer is more receptive to advertising messages."

They didn't say fraud doesn't exist otherwise.
Five nines means you can't rely on a single infrastructure provider for anything ever and it doesn't actually matter whether you use AWS at all.
The essay is brilliant because it expands your mind by talking about biology first (a neutral topic) -- delaying natural resistance to ideas that might conflict with poliical views.

Then, in this new expanded space in your mind, it challenges an assumption prevalent in politics that policies are "good" or "bad" independent of who (and how many people) they are applied to.

In my opinion, there should be a lot more discussion about this. Maybe what we really need is something resembling the Democratic platform at the local level, and something closer to Libertarianism at the national level.

The fact that these ideas aren't even discussed should make you worried -- how many other ideas are just not even thought about in public discourse?
Why not let volunteers run the crawler on their own machines?

Perhaps HN members might offer some spare cpu cycles.
I don’t claim to know. I’m not a climatologist, would even know how to begin forming a model.

The reason I don’t need to is this https://skepticalscience.com/97-percent-consensus-cook-et-al...
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20180812184707/https://frinklang...
Life can be tough as we all know.. Glad to hear that you're doing well, keep it up.
Sure. The biggest problem with it is most topics on /. seemingly appearing days after they were already hashed out on HN.

On the other hand, I appreciate the raw unfiltered nonsense that still goes on in unfiltered comments. I also appreciate the curated discussion that takes place on HN. It's nice to have both.
When traveling abroad, pick the restaurants where the are lots of locals as opposed to the ones filled with other tourist
Ask HN: How about an events page on HN?
Wouldn't it be cool if HN had an events page as well (curated, filtered and everything), what are your thoughts?
> There don't really exist exciting software companies in France or Germany, except maybe blockchain companies.

That's pretty pedantic and narrow-minded. People are excited by wildly different things (and a for a lot of them, not particularly by blockchain), and France/Germany have a lot of things going on tech-wise,
Huh, what's that do? It seems to assign x = x which is reminiscent of my pet "ugly" optimization: adding x = x to the top of a nested scope. It binds the x from a global scope to x in a local one. Local variable lookup can be substantialy faster given a hot enough loop.
But they're both frameworks for writing a server right?
Ive been building my own for a while. Will definitely give this a go!
What school did you go to, if you're comfortable sharing?
That's "of course" if you're already familiar with the Z80 and other hardware associated with it. To a reader who doesn't already know what the Z80-CTC is, though, it's not at all obvious that "Z80-CTC" doesn't denote some variant of the Z80 processor. I think teddyh's comment was useful, and I don't think it deserves the dismissive response you gave it.
It’s also amazing progress as they’re able to recognize being partway along the journey as progress! Depressed people tend to think in absolutes (I’m not where I want to be, and never will be) and being able to see progress as valuable and sustainable, even when incomplete is a sign of real mental health. The combination of more activity, a better job, and the ability to imagine a brighter future bodes very well indeed.
Persistent Collections in Kotlin
I don't consider any of Samsung first party apps to be bloatware especially since I use most of them on a daily basis.

While you could consider all the Samsung apps extra and unnecessary - the Android ecosystem is a loose group of OEM's with varying degree of control over their flavor of Android. The base features are always there on all android phones but Samsung personalized theirs. It's a good decision despite android purists scoffing at it.

Pixel line of phones is there to satisfy those who really want stock that badly they're willing to buy a flagship phone with budget phone features
Not really comfortable giving a name but its one of the top 10 engineering schools in the country (France).
How Does PrEP, the HIV-Prevention Medication, Work?
I would recommend not doing that. The script tag is always bound to the load event. If the payload is huge the load event will wait for download. The async attribute merely tells the browser to execute the script contents asynchronously if properly supported and if fetched as a file from a src attribute.

A more stable approach is to put the code within a timer. This covers all use cases and is universally supported since nearly forever. Example:

let myCode = function () {};
setTimeout(myCode, 1);

Or

setTimeout(function () {}, 1);

Either way you are still stuck with network resolution of the script tag contents.
If the heat shield is where most of the delta T goes, it will definitely serve a purpose. The corona normally drops off as it goes off into space, but if you can concentrate most of that drop in one place, then your electronics will be much happier.

[0] https://www.electronics-cooling.com/1997/09/one-dimensional-...
Sadly, even in Firefox now there seems to be no way to make the address bar never do a search :(.
Isn’t there already a lot of discussion about this? In the US, there’s constant debate about whether particular issues are best handled at the federal, state, or local level. We even fought a bloody civil war over the question of whether the legality of owning humans should be decided by the states or by the federal government.
Are all peer reviews/pull requests equal?

A lot depends on the size, maturity, and customers of the group shipping code. One-person side/hobby projects wouldn't have a 2nd person to review the code. A previous employer initially had a "Deploy to Production" script that ran every 60 seconds, copying the Development folder to the Production folder - to make easier their testing in Prod.

But large publicly-held companies with more customers will often have auditors that require better controls over dev/test/UAT/Prod, and between developers and operators. Separation of Duties is essential to protecting Business Operations from disruptions caused by a single individual.

There should be some sort of lockout that requires 2 humans to put an airplane in the air - at least for major airlines, and could be mandated by law. This could range from a 2-key fuel shutoff for the engines, to different keys on the outer plane door and the inner cockpit door, to mandatory wheel boots on idle airplanes. And part of this would be a very good key management system, possibly with many physical keys managed by an airport or airline "key desk" - or maybe through electronic key-cards, RFID chips or key-fobs, or a smartphone app.
You probably don't want to hear the answer to this one.
I do as many pushups as I can in one go, and solve my speedcube a few times. Gets the blood flowing and the brain working.
Bayesian has direct error bars and error bars on your error bars, and error bars on the ... It’s however generally ignored. Edit: I believe I preformed this experiment which updates my prior probability.

Anyway, my point is not that you should interpret probability functions in a linear fashion just that non linear interpretations are not nessisarily more accurate.

Suppose I am playing a chess I have non zero odds for a 2 win streak, but the odds of winning 1 googleplex games in a row is 0. Not becase it’s some probability ^ a googleplex but rather I am not going to play that many games. Sure, you might say their are some error bars on that zero, and error bars on those error bars etc, but still the direct estimate is still a 0 probability.
Or the data is just old. Years ago, the junction between Route 1 and Route 36 in Iceland was very visibly wrong on Google Maps. If you pulled over and looked over the bushes, about a quarter mile south of the intersection, you could see the old Route 36 that was still in Google's road network, with crumbling asphalt and all. And if you looked at satellite imagery, of course there was no trace yet of the newer and more efficient fork.