skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comments here are so far extremely biased towards panic. It’s worth considering that perhaps the world’s governments aren’t panicking because it’s not warranted.

Climate change, while generally “accepted,” has a pretty amorphous definition and most current research agrees that there has been a pause since 1995 or so. Given that we are in a 20 year “pause,” it’s not entirely unreasonable - though clearly heretical - to posit that the alarm is largely unwarranted.

Year after year we see climate predictions fail to come to pass. Good science is based on hypotheses leading to testable predictions, and global warming predictions have a really poor track record of accuracy.

It might be time for the more scientifically minded among us to start increasing our criticism of climate alarmism.
Replying to myself because I took too much time and now can't edit.

I realize you might mean you're not sure how they're relevant to the topic at hand, rather than how they're relevant to each other. I'll attempt to illustrate this connection by providing the simplest possible internally-consistent model of an abstract system that appears to resemble reality as we experience it, including the passage of time. I will define the base components of the system, and compare the emergent interactions of these components with the phenomena we experience.

First, we observe that any given physical space can be said to represent some positive quantity of information; a physical space can thus represent the "state" of a system.

Second, we assume the existence of "causality", patterns for recognizing and amending portions of a state. We may then refer to a possible application of these patterns to a portion of a given state, which we'll call an "event".

For every pairing of initial state and set of possible events, there exists a space of computable states that we may call a "totality". A totality can be represented as a directed graph. The root of this graph is the initial state, edges are detected events from which new states can be computed, and child nodes represent states transformed by events.

Now, when we talk about "the passage of time", we mean the iterative computation of successive levels of totality. An event's distance from the root node is its chronological order, and thus a "point in time" is a depth in the graph of totality. The full state of the system at a given point in time is then naturally the union of the state nodes at that depth.

Our experience of the passage of time is represented similarly in the brain, with neurons building complex models by generating successive branching layers. We hinge knowledge on key experiences, and we perceive time fractally, in heirarchical levels of detail. It seems intuitive that our brains, which function by reflecting our outward reality internally, would in fact structurally reflect reality. Furthermore, the conclusion that the causality graph becomes more dense as mass in a space grows more dense seems to reflect general relativity.

Here's where Gödel and Turing come in. A totality is defined iteratively: there is no way to know its complete value except to evaluate its events, and the only thing to do with it is evaluate its events according to its patterns of causality. Similarly, given a Turing machine (or a consistent system of axioms), there's no way to know the final state (or final set of conclusions) except to run it with some input, and the only thing it can do is run.

So back to the question:

> what is time, physically, and why should it have to exist as some sort of a physical process in the first place

Time, physically, is the continuous evaluation of possible states of a physical space (like ours). It has to exist because it is, by definition (to the point of tautology), the only thing that can possibly happen. It is still a "mathematical construct", but only to the degree that we also are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seconding. BSG (the 2000s one) was top #1 of sci-fi series for me, but after watching B5 recently, I believe the latter has better writing overall. I really wish someone would do a remaster of that series.
I see, thanks! I didn't get any explanation for which rule I was banned. Inside Google it's well known that she had a relationship with Larry, although for us it was not allowed to have any kind of romantic relationship with our superior, as it can be used for carrier advancement.
Try not living in the past and regurgitating media nonsense. Global warming is what global media uses to brainwash people away from the problem. Climate change is the real thing and real deal.

Inform yourself and learn that one of the current issue we face is a continental increase of temperature and shift inseason that would make agriculture impossible in about 50 years.

There are reinforcing feedback loops that will push the change past a threshold where cascading effects would make life on earth surface near impossible.

Life on earth is a complex interdependent system and the larger animals are the first to go, guess what's next now that elephants, whales, tigers, and pretty much every animal larger than humans is on the brink of extinction.
Maybe some aliases are forwarded or whatever. I could see myself doing it if I didn't get the warning above. (Thanks!)

In fact, I was possibly about to next month as a way to easily relay from an about to be disused address to a new address at gmail (or whatever my "friend" chooses to migrate to.)
I wonder what the impact of HTTP/2 on this is. Presumably connection multiplexing and keeping them open for longer works surely mitigate a lot of the latency?
Everyone knew that no one had cash. Your Pendalwalla and Micwalla had to earn money. They would have readily accepted checks or other forms of payment. The real trouble is that a lot of political parties fund their campaigns off the books. They can pay only in cash because it is untraceable to them. Your Pendalwalla, alcohol suppliers and Micwalla got cash before so they took cash. You pay them in checks and they take it.

> You don't pay taxes on things that don't exist on your books.

Its not others fault that you keep your party funding off the books. No one asked you to. You can keep it on the books, pay the tax, and pay you vendors legally without issue. The restrictions were on cash, not on any of the other payment systems.
I'm not quite there, but getting close :)
This just in: permafrost has already been melting for a little while now.
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Yes but which regions will still have maximum temperatures below 40 degrees Celsius at that point, at least on most days of the year?

A 4 degree change worldwide is easily a 10 degree change over continents, and that's just the average!
From what I understand, that can easily mean a 20 or 30 degree change in max temperatures, or does it?

I'm saying Central Europe 60 degrees Celsius on a normal summer day.

Please tell me I'm wrong, but that's the understanding I've gained so far
Right, it also raises awareness of the problem and puts it in people’s faces. It’s hard to argue pollution isn’t a problem with someone wearing shoes made out of it.

Clearly they’re not going to turn all the ocean plastic into flip flops, or anything necessarily, but multiple options do need to be explored.

Amazing that nay sayers seem to manage to write off the whole problem with nitpicks at minor or temporary aspects of actual attempts to do something about it. Early attempts at green energy largely failed, often having carbon footprints and costs greater than conventional approaches, but without all that work we’d never tackle the problem. You have to start somewhere.
Assuming you live/operate the network in the US, it is grey, but your future operation of the open-wifi might be made more difficult.

Have a look here[1] of the potential actions that can be taken against you and your potential response to those.

In the end it will be a matter of how far you and the other party are willing to push this.

This will be different of course if it can be demonstrated that you intentionally ran the open-wifi to bamboozle or encourage illegal use. (because you advertized for or boasted about it in an online forum for instance).

[1]https://openwireless.org/myths-legal.html
But on a scale, typically closer to sex work and much farther from friendship, right?
[runtimedocs: understand how your code behaves at runtime]
Very excited about this move, I was thinking about which reader to go for in the past (https://blog.notmyhostna.me/sad-state-of-rss-on-the-mac/) and now settled on Reeder when they announced Reeder 4 last week and made the current version free.

I’ll probably switch to NNW when it’s out, the developer seems very passionate about the project which makes me a bit more confident in its feature than Reeder.

I really like the part that Black Pixel played here, handing over the name and app and letting him work on it.
"You can't just turn your phone off or get a dumb phone, you need a ritualized sarcophagus to bolster your decaying willpower." still stands 100% true though.

The fact they accord so much importance to a tool is beyond moronic.

"Ooh I can't stop using my new Shamwow ! I'm so addicted to it I need to lock it in a concrete box at night because I could simply never let it down..."
> I realised that if most of them put their gmail address in ~/.forward, any spam they received on their account on my domain, gmail would count towards my domain / ip instead of the original sender.

I had that same problem; I ended up adding all those users and addresses to /etc/postfix/relocated.
> Still, there's probably some fascinating anthropology to be had in the idea of fandom as a new form of nationality.

I agree. If you think of it, meeting people who identify more with a fictional culture from a TV show more than with any existing one, that's... something new, I think. Can't think of any analogue in past periods in history.

> They say dual citizenship is possible but I'd steer well clear of the dmz between Trek and Wars.

Been there, can confirm. Not pretty :).
For me, it properly identified where the object is in the photo but did a poor job erasing it.
> this is market working exactly as intended

This is why we regulate the market. The market will seek to maximize its profit within the bounds of the law. Make the above suggestion compulsory, and the market will adjust to it.
As someone who was there and did that I want to refute that assumption :) I have typed in many programs and there's not a lot to learn because most of them consisted of many pages of DATA lines and a small loop that loaded those machine instructions into the home computer's memory and started the program by a USR directive

On the Beeb most listings were BASIC with all the logic there and DATA statements just for in-game assets such as sprites or room descriptions in a text adventure. All the Osbourne books are online now , check them out https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2016/02/usborne-releases-1... many happy memories inside!
And spam church is supposedly built by this fake corp - http://kendallcorp.mit.edu/

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Text on website (un-zalgofied) says

The Kendall Corporation has been providing infrastructure for worship since 1964. With over a hundred funded fads, religions and spiritual movements across the five continents, Kendall Corporation is the leading powerhouse for seeding creeds.

1. Do you have an early-stage development of a conducive mesostructure?

2. Are you good at building platforms to enlighten, seduce and draw crowds in?

3. Is a network of your making growing at superlinear speed?

Please reach out to us; we may be able to provide angel funding for your startup idea.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6v4t2vegand2v1l/Spam%20Church_Stor...

(removed address and phone number -- even though fake, I don't like linking people's info)

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Looks like an MIT Media Lab graduate's painfully pretentious arg/art project (i love it) :D
Have a look through your ISP's terms of use and you might find specific relevant statements there. Operating an open-wifi Internet access setup might be difficult if your ISP terminates your contract.

An example, this is from Verizon[1]

2. Use of your Service and Account and Compliance with Applicable Authority. You are responsible for all use of your Service and account, whether by you or someone using your account with or without your permission, including all secondary or sub-accounts associated with your primary account, and to pay for all activity associated with your account. You agree to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and rules regarding your use of the Service and to only use the Service within the United States (unless otherwise permitted by this Agreement).

3. Restrictions on Use. The Service is a consumer grade service and is not designed for or intended to be used for any commercial purpose. Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, you may not resell, re-provision or rent the Service, (either for a fee or without charge) or allow third parties to use the Service via wired, wireless or other means. For example, you may not provide Internet access to third parties through a wired or wireless connection or use the Service to facilitate public Internet access (such as through a Wi-Fi hotspot), use it for high volume purposes, or engage in similar activities that constitute such use (commercial or non-commercial). If you subscribe to a Broadband Service, you may connect multiple computers/devices within a single home to your modem and/or router to access the Service through a single Verizon-issued IP address, and if available through the Service, you may permit guests to access the Internet through your Service’s Wi-Fi capabilities. You also may not exceed the bandwidth usage limitations that Verizon may establish from time to time for the Service, or use the Service to host any type of server. Violation of this Section may result in bandwidth restrictions on your Service or suspension or termination of your Service.

[1]https://www.verizon.com/about/terms-conditions/verizon-onlin...
At the risk of being too pedantic, a rocket is much more like farting yourself to the moon than like jumping. The benefits of ladders remain.
then again, this is not a process that can be stopped once started and there more than enough methane to have dramatic consequences.

then again this is one reinforcing feedback loop among several others.

Are you familiar with the concept of planet albedo, and how it is changing on earth due to melting polar cap?
Ever heard of ocean's anoxic events and their consequences ?

And the list goes on.
In terms of angular speed (e.g. revolutions per minute), lower orbits are faster, higher orbits are slower (think of a Mercury year versus a Neptune year).

The ISS circles the Earth every 92 minutes. If we dropped a cable from the ISS (or another satellite at the same height), the anchoring point (e.g. something like a floating oil platform) would also have to circle the Earth roughly every 92 minutes. That's not feasible.

Satellites at 36,000km circle the Earth every 24 hours, which is the same speed that the Earth rotates. If the satellite is orbiting around the equator, going the same direction as the Earth's rotation, then we would not have to move the anchor (the Earth's rotation would do it for us)
Theres a whole subreddit about it and a few SVs guys talk openly (but anonymously) about it there.
As an anti tamper measure, the ATM will not just pull in the card and read it; instead, it's movement is somewhat randomised, as to increase the difficulty of obtaining an illicit read.
(At least the ATMs in my country are said to usually do that)

As a result, the ATM's read head might pass over the detection spot multiple times.

Maybe you can force the measurement device to move only in one direction, but if I were to design the ATM, it would detect inconsistent, physical card movement.
Can anyone with experience with Bazel, Buck, or Pants chime in?
> If you look at Australia on a map, the premise of a NBN for everyone was definitely going to be difficult

If you look at Australia's population density [0] and the guarantees the NBN actually made (FTTP for 90% of premises) [1], I don't think it's unrealistic at all. The NBN just needs to cover the major cities and some of the larger regional towns.

> I think we will look back in 10 years with a much softer view on the project.

As someone who moved from Australia (ADSL) to the US (Cable) to Europe (Fiber), absolutely no way. Coax is over a decade old already and the absolute cutting edge state of the art offered by a major ISP is 2Gbit/s. Meanwhile on fiber, there are multiple ISPs offering 10Gbit/s already (Salt in Switzerland, Bahnhof in Sweden, Fibrant in Salisbury, NC, VTel in Vermont).

Fiber is also showing signs of getting faster. Copper is not.

Specific to the NBN, back in 2012, just before we voted the Liberals in, NBNCo was getting ready to switch on gigabit network-wide [2]. Now, they're saying they're not even going to bother with HFC [3].

There is no way this project will be seen as anything but an example of truly stunning incompetence 10 years from now.

[0]: http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/1270....

[1]: https://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/nbn#nbn_about

[2]: https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/...

[3]: https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2018/08/08/nbn-hfc-tech...
Just fantisizing here, but helium baloons go over 50km up; can this elevator cable be vertically supported by solar-powered helium-filled heat packs alongs its way, with horizontal stabilization of large fans blowing in oposite direction (lower atmosphere) and tiny rocket boosts in above-atmosphere region similar to how sattelites correct their orbits?

Just fantasizing here..
Kitchen aluminum foil.
I think the people that first encountered computers when they were relatively simple and constrained have a huge advantage over the rest of us

It is not a blessing but a curse. If you understand the computation you will spend so much time wondering “WTF is this (modern) computer doing” when it fails to do something simple that you know an older machine with a tiny fraction of the power could do easily.
This seems strange. If someone uses my car for a malicious act, or uses my house's electrical connection to damage the grid, or something like that, I'm clearly not liable.
What does that mean? Delete all posts and comments made by that account?

That will get you a reddit style of threads:

[deleted]
[deleted]
[deleted]

Also many people are keeping copies of everything going on in HN via the API or scrapping, so that's probably pointless.
“In the temple of knowledge, we are the ones digging in the basement, probing the foundations…. And when we find ourselves on to something, we call for experimentalists to unearth deeper layers. In the last century, this division of labor between theorists and experimentalists worked very well. But my generation has been stunningly unsuccessful.”

That's a modern viewpoint. Historically, experimental results preceded theory in physics. That was certainly true for classical physics. The early years of subatomic physics were trying to put some structure around experimental results. Somewhere around 40 years ago, though, things got stuck. Experimental results became much harder to get, as the reachable areas had been explored.

Theory not verified by experiment is useless. Science is prediction, not explanation. (Fred Hoyle, the physicist, wrote that, but he was writing an SF novel at the time.)
This is not a large scale problem, it is an individual problem, when one turns the light on, eats meat everyday, drives a car, watches tv, uses a cellphone, etc. one is part of the problem.

It is not a long term problem either, we're not talking millenia or centuries but decades. And it all started a couple lifetime ago.
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> divisiveness department

I'd bet something along the lines of "absolute_value(upvotes divided by total votes - 50%)" is a feature somewhere. That's how I interpreted OP.
FWIW, this is rampant in many parts of Asia, too, with a similar discrepancy between traditional culture (Confucianism in China, Catholicism in the Philippines, Buddhism in Thailand, Islam in Indonesia, ...) and today's realities.

Several young women maintain several distinct social media identities: one for family, one for friends, one for "daddies".
Is The Count of Monte Cristo a "classic"? It's great fun but I always thought of it as more of a pulpy adventure than a respected work of literature.
Braid – A More Organized Slack-Like Group Chat (Open Source, Written in Clojure)
I heard he was a trump supporter. Boycott.
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I remember a similar case (citation needed, don't have a link available) where a museum was destroyed by fire and the director hurried to announce that everything was destroyed.

Years later it turned out that some originals were put up for auction since they were alive and well in some private collections. Many times the original is not displayed for the public anyway and a very good copy is used instead. So someone in the museum got money for selling the originals while the copy was still on display, then got money from the insurance, with the fire covering up everything perfectly (either by accident, or for the insurance money, or to cover up the fact that the originals went missing).

Of course this would just confirm the corruption or poor maintenance arguments.
Erdstall - what for?
I live 20 minutes walk from Melbourne CBD and don't have NBN. I'm scheduled to get it sometime between July and December 2019.

It's not just the speed of rollout that's a failure, but the actual connection speed.

New Zealand has managed to get 100 MB/s to most urban centres, and 1 GB/s to the larger ones, it's consistently fast too. Meanwhile I walked past a billboard advertising 40 MB/s the other day like it was something to be impressed about. It's certainly not future proof.

I know people who've worked with the NBN and organisationally it's a complete shambles.
That would only be true if the risk of fire is evenly distributed, which it obviously isn't, and that a museum burning down now and then would not motivate better protections for the rest.

In any case, the strategy they chose obviously didn't work and they lost it 100%.
It depends on the system though; C64 had a very limited basic so without asm you could not do very much. Other systems, like the MSX, had pretty advanced basic and many of the programs you would type in were mostly or only BASIC.

However, because I was young and still had memory in my brain, by typing in those poke data parts, patterns stuck in my memory. When I bought my first asm book, I finally understood what those patterns of opcodes meant. I never programmed in assembly instructions on the z80; I always used direct opcodes, still do. It is faster for me.
When I was 18 or so a dozen years ago I had two detectives show up at my door (USA). Apparently my neighbor, with whom we were friendly, had connected to our wifi in order to try to hide his solicitation of a minor (luckily an FBI agent). They just stopped by to let us know trouble might be headed our way during the investigation and court proceedings. It was strange. They just left. Don't know if they ever contacted my dad about it further, but I do know he confessed to the whole thing.
I feel strange saying this, but really, it's not going to be that bad. Sure, human civilization may collapse. Billions will die. And we're pretty much locked into an historic extinction event.

But the human race won't get wiped out. And the global ecosystem will recover. It's not like Earth will flip into Venus mode. In a million years or two, this will all be just a blip.
try..catch means you don't have to have perfect knowledge of what errors may be raised - which you simply do not have when dealing with external code. It also means that you can guarantee that no exceptional case has occurred that you have not handled. Either you explicitly deal with the issue or you have the option to fail & log.