skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Governments, companies, NGOs, etc. are all just collections of people.

Sure, and people are just collections of molecules. And the structure involved in arranging elements matters.

Further, the problem is hardly that humans are selfish but that we have developed complex structures that allow large scale exploitation of resources (and each other) but which don't allow large-scale protection of resources and situations that we (selfishly) want.

Of course, if we were just random configurations of humans spread-about the landscape doing hunting and gathering, we wouldn't have the ability to burn massive fossil fuel resources to generate climate change, however selfish we might be.
The website is usability disaster.
Go ahead and ask something about it, the throwaway account is ready. Not in SV however. It's been interesting - e.g. I met the smartest (but lazy) person I know and I know for sure that one tech billionaire that you've likely heard of was also doing it.
Perhaps. Perhaps you can resent the system and each other. Still makes for a worse work environment.
Infantryman here, so I can't quite speak to how pilots make their decisions (and I think the sibling comment answers this pretty well).

However, I can attest that pilots routinely provide us infantrymen with information that we weigh very heavily in our decision to engage. Moreover, it is often the case that air-strikes fall under the "close air support" (CAS) category, which in turn means the aircraft shoots where and when the ground troops request it.

In other words: discretion is what separates the professional soldier from the disorganized militia.
> This is what Deep Angel makes of it: https://i.imgur.com/JPvq7P7.png

So turns objects into ghost versions
Pflichtverteidiger Hamburg – Erstklassige Pflichtverteidigung
> And it's never been seriously implemented.

Except in one of the worlds largest economies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Emission_Tradin..., along with some other advanced economies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol#International_E...

In first world nations it's mostly just the US (and a few other smaller nations) dragging their heels.
Evangelicals absolutely do target poorer communities in non-Western countries across the world, this has been the modus operandi of Christianity for the last 3+ centuries. This strategy went hand-in-hand with colonialism, with both being things that were "good" for the uncivilized natives.

As for evidence of conversions for money/material goods, here's a couple of links for you to browse at your own pace:

https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-meerut-priest-tries-to...

https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/aug/15/t...

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4470448

https://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/et-commentary/con...
Might be late / irrelevant but a while back amazon was failing to convert anything i emailed to my kindle and it turned out to be that i wasn't specifying a subject line in the mail. once i did that the very same files started working.
I am maybe too cynical. I meant nudge in the most cynical way imaginable. If you can "nudge" that avalanche or land slide juuust a little bit to the left, you can crush that house.
I'll be that guy and ask: ten years later, are there new treatments based on that field that we didn't have at that time ?
Sorry to burst your bubble but free markets are not the best way to motivate people, people do not want to work but simply want to be happy and live a fulfilling life.

Then again it is not a matter of putting cheap batteries in vehicles, it is a matter of not having road vehicles because the issue at hand right now is that we're currently aiming over the threshold where conditions making life possible on earth are going to go away.

Only option is massive reduction of human population and energy use.
Thanks for the pointers!

* Great idea re searching - I did actually have the URL updating, but I had some problems when switching to [react-instantsearch](react-instantsearch/package.json) with the state getting reset, so I temporarily removed it.

* Job posting will absolutely be automated. I just haven't had time to build that yet.
Apple, Google, Genentech appeal property assessments
The parser is open source - https://github.com/JakeWheat/hssqlppp
The emacs dependency is odd to say the least, but I'm pretty sure CMake doesn't actually depend on it. I don't know much about Gentoo but perhaps the question mark after it means it's just a suggested dependency.
> Governments won't solve this issue. We the consumers have to solve it, the problem is that nobody gives a fuck.

Consumers will never "solve the problem". Why would they? Why would someone downgrade their lifestyle when everyone around them continues to live unsustainably and are more happy as a result? It's all or nothing, and only governments can enforce that.
OK, so let's say that you really care about this. Maybe consider what could you do about it. Instead of building a better database or whatever.
I do do nearly all of those things quite actively (and beyond), and have been doing so since day 1. I'm just starting to really get that feeling that it's not going to do shit. Doesn't mean I'm giving up, but it's certainly getting harder and harder to stay motivated.
React Native vs. Native iOS and Android. Which one is best for your product?
That depends on the price theye are set at. It is not surprising that the politicians who have the environment near the bottom of their priority list (ie all of them) have created credit systems riddled with loopholes.
It's not only how strictly you keep tabs on things, the nature of the exchanged "goods" changes as well, in particular it becomes more asymmetric.

In an equal relationship, both contribute economic resources, emotional support, domestic work, sexual pleasure, etc. Traditionally, in the West, there was an asymmetry in that the woman provided the domestic work, the man the outside work with the concomitant salary; but the asymmetry has shrunk over the decades, due also to the increased opportunities of women in the work force.

In these sugar relationships, there is massive asymmetry in the nature of the contributions; it's an intermediary between prostitution (pure money vs sex, short term) and marriage (lots and lots of stuff vs lots and lots of stuff, long term), but arguably closer to the former.
Demo: https://braid.chat

Source: https://github.com/braidchat/braid
Perhaps you're just being incomplete in your final thought there, but I think what you've said as is really exemplifies the problem. Science is not just fitting something to data. Science is about predictions, testability, falsifiability, and more. Give any set of input/output data and you can create some sort of model or regression that fits to that data. But that model does not inherently mean so much, especially as the inputs start to become more complex -- meaning the output might not even be mapping to anything fundamental. I think the article hit most strongly on that with this comment:

"Hossenfelder’s real target, when you strip away some unfortunate terminology, is not beauty but self-satisfaction, which encourages disengagement from reality. That attitude reaches its theoretical apex in the doctrine of “postempirical science,” which argues that social consensus, not experimental evidence, determines scientific validity. Here she quotes physicist George Ellis, rebuking physicists and philosophers who adopt that attitude: “There are physicists now saying we don’t have to test their ideas because they are such good ideas. They’re saying—implicitly or explicitly—that they want to weaken the requirement that theories have to be tested. To my mind that’s a step backward by a thousand years.”"

Much of 'science' now a days has started to veer down the path of pseudoscience, and the path there is paved with regression mapping and 'science' by consensus.
Yes, it's hard to know. But pushing too hard on extreme projections is too easily gamed by deniers.
Whenever I think about sugar relationship, I always think of the movie 和你在一起 (Together) by Chen Kaige. One of the character was a woman dependent on sugar relationships and her motivations, fears and the relationships she had with those men was very well depicted.
Nice spec. 2x Ethernet?! Custom router possibilities abound.

More expensive than Pi however. I can get an entire pi for the same price as this module,
>an ATM that only demands the chip instead of forcing you to insert the whole card

Inserting the whole card is also a security measure to be able to take the card away if an incorrect pin is entered 3 times, or if the card is left in the device after leaving the ATM.
The fun thing is that oil and gas are actually renewables given enough time and what we label renewables are not actually renewable, do not scale or do not fit our energy use.

There is no cheap energy production once you factor in costs that are not money.
Life After Google: George Gilder’s New Book and Why Blockchain Matters
Although this method can be used for de-anonymization and fingerprinting, you can't fully reconstruct the screen contents from such a low bandwidth signal.

If your private spaces are bugged with microphones or cameras (ie most mobile devices, home audio "assistants", smart TVs, untrusted software etc) expect the owner of the sensor to do the best in their abilities to spy on you.

Ultrasonic ad fingerprinting is another interesting way your home spies can communicate with each other.[1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...
50 times faster (irregular) data loading for Pandas: no problem, using C++
Probably not. Most radically novel technological approaches to problems fail, but as the range of new tools and techniques available expand, their possible combinations increase exponentially. Most will still fail, but hopefully many of them won’t just as with startups.
"I think the people that first encountered computers when they were relatively simple and constrained have a huge advantage over the rest of us.

Today, (almost) everyone knows how to use a computer, but very few people, even in the computing industry, grasp all of what is going on inside of any single machine."

An astute observation: I see a lot of complexity in IT today which obviously comes from not having a clue how the hardware functions and how it's efficiently programmed. The complexity, performance and resource hits grow with every layer of abstraction. Convenient for those who write software, very bad for users who then needlessly suffer.
Looks great, thanks for sharing it!
I really like the space fountain concept: it's utterly ridiculous, but completely feasible. It also doesn't need to be as big as a space elevator to be useful (a partial space elevator wouldn't work); space fountains can be as big or small as desired, and applications like radio towers have been mentioned.

It would be nice to see even a metre long demo, which I imagine might be possible as something like a student project (4 coil guns exchanging ball bearings).
> And it is a problem that governments and politicians are increasingly less able to address, as their power wanes in favour of corporate interests.

you are about a century late, this is a done deal that happened during the 20th century.

IIRC the quote said something like that: the 20th century saw the greatest advance in corporate power and democracy, and corporations used their newly acquired powers to protect themselves from democracy.
Not true. There are relationships (for example between mother and child) that are not based on reciprocation. Nothing in the definition of the word "relationship" implies expectations or getting something in return. It's a synthetic proposition, not an analytic (tautological) one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic–synthetic_distinction
Those fossil fuel dudes have done some great PR, haven't they?

It's arguably China and Russia that will come out ahead, with the Arctic Ocean as the new Mediterranean. And maybe the US, after it annexes Canada.

Edit: See https://www.arctictoday.com/chinas-arctic-plans-represent-ne...
Ask HN: How are you doing testing in big projects?
Are you using TDD or some other methodology?
Now, this sort of experience can be recreated with Arduino, micro:bit and other educational microcontrollers and nanocomputers. Raspberry Pi doesn’t count: too complicated.
Wheaton did not refer to early Twitter as a sewer. That's why my comment points out that your "executive summary" is a misnomer. It is your interpretation. It may even be a correct interpretation. But it is not an accurate summary of what Wheaton wrote.
> Its not like Earth will flip into Venus mode

Sure?
A Faraday cage could do the same thing
There is. When you need to treat your data without network delays. When performance is essential. When you can't express it efficiently with non-procedural SQL or need to have access with several technologies (can think of it as service on db level).
Depending of environments, deploying changes can be much easier than patching app side.
Seriously, I do hope that you're right. But I doubt it.
Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_equilibrium#Planet... claims the limit of hydrostatic equilibrium for rocky bodies is ~400-500km, so probably not.
The Errata Evaluation Problem
Also known as a skyhook.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_(structure)
The router is the only tool I know of that is actively trying to not move in the direction you push it. It's insidious.
OK, but how much are emissions actually getting cut?

And hey, I don't mean to diss Europe. It's just too little, too late. Without the US and China, we're screwed.
Look at the dish and how well it predicted it's shape. Also just from a tiny amount of blue it concluded that there should be another pan behind the bottle. That's pretty impressive imo.
I wonder, by the way, whether the surge of this phenomenon is an outgrowth of social media.

In discussions with young women of modest means in countries with limited opportunities and huge income inequality (ie most third world countries), it is hard to find arguments against their impression that this lifestyle is their best chance for a good life.
Worldwide broadband speed league 2018
Comparing to a typical submarine, it's three times as much space per person. Submarines typically have 30 square feet pp, 18m x 17.2m for 30 people is 93 square feet.
As someone who was also there and did that, I want to partially refute the refutation of that assumption. There were many many pure basic games that you typed in and you could learn from. But it became more and more common to use assembly language via data blocks to get the best from that beasty hardware and it started to get more common that you would get listing that were pure hex codes and you'd enter the program with a special tool ( which also you typed in from a printed listing ) which would also include a checksum to make sure type each line correctly.

But still, I learnt a lot by modding basic games I typed in from books, then later learnt a lot of assembly as I tried to mod those assembly language programs I typed in with hex codes. You'd print the whole program out using a good ol dotmatix printer ( took a while.... not because there was that much code, just printers were slow... ) and then puzzle over the assembly trying to work it all out and drawing lines trying to work out all the jump sequences etc. Later my Dad and I had a lot of fun hacking tape based games so we could put them on our awesomely huge (doubly huge if you cut a notch and flipped them over) and speedy 5/14 inch discs.
Given a major plot arc in the trilogy was...

(SPOILER!!!)

... the destruction of the space elevator by a terrorist organisation and the consequent destruction on the surface of Mars as the cable, released from its counterweight, wrapped itself around the planet... I’m not sure it’s a great example :-)
GlobalFoundries CTO on Why the Company Abandoned the “Bleeding Edge”
France managed to create a law for that case too. It can be refered as "lack of security". You are also responsible for having a connection that is supposedly secure. If that's not the case ("oh, I have no technical knowledge on how to enable password protection for my network"), you are responsible as well. There are exemples of companies that were fined because of this law.
I haven't had the chance to watch the videos yet (though I will) but I'm curious about the compensation aspect.

Why is it that sales teams are often paid via some sort of commission structure?
In the case of the first example I looked at.

It does better with this dog: https://i.imgur.com/mkP5tnb.png → https://i.imgur.com/3F7pPj0.png
Better than hoping your customers are carrying their own detection device, build such a detection mechanism into the rear of the card slot and have it periodically "sweep" itself.
Preventing Large Range Counts from Crashing EXist-Db
"Hardware doesn't come with programming manuals anymore as it is deemed too complex (yeah right) and expensive."

It doesn't come with manuals because it is considered a trade secret. Commodore had to lay the hardware bare because it wasn't fast enough to program in a high level language nor did the high level languages fully support their hardware, whereas the hardware of today is so fast that nobody thinks anything of it programming it through a driver or a shared object library in a high level language. It's still wrong not to lay the hardware registers and their functionality bare (yes NVIDIA, have you forgotten your SGI roots?)
I'm not in the market for a new car, but from what I read: There is something called "city safety" by Volvo, and I know that Mercedes has the similar tech (a friend learned that by not being run over by a distracted driver). So there are already technologies to prevent (or at least reduce the severity) of what happened to you (assuming he was below a certain speed threshold).

In constrast to the whole self driving stuff this DL is popular for: User input overrides DL input.
If the only way out is to kill everyone in the USA, this is something that may be attempted at some point. Putin and his new set of weapons could probably razes every major US cities and put an end to the US nonsense.

One way or the other, most humans are gonna die before the end of the century and a dramatic reduction of population will happen. The US way of living will also come to an end, it is simply a matter of doing it voluntarily and aim to avoid the worst or having it forced on them by powers over which they have no say and feel the burn.
Me too! Reading about how dysfunctional and corrupt the UN has become is indeed very depressing. Great to hear I'm not alone.
As do Monzo, infact the magnetic strip is disabled as default and you can only enable it for 24 hours at a time.
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A friend of mine who studies engineering told me that masonry has infinite compressive strength meaning, in theory, it's possible to build monumental structures out of stone.
Wouldn’t payloads travelling up the space elevator and departing for the rest of the solar system and beyond ultimately deprive the earth of angular momentum and send it hurtling towards the Sun?
With a diameter of 160 Km, it'd be the smallest one, by far. This is particularly interesting because I don't think there's anything round with this size in the system - and a circular ring indicates that.

Do we have instruments able to directly image it?
60 degrees C is almost impossible in non-desert areas (due to evaporation of moisture). The practical limit, today, in tropical areas is about 45 degrees, and at that point, it's getting deadly.

Which also answers the first question. Future temperatures of up to 45 degrees will be survivable. Exactly where that will be, is complicated, but anywhere north of the alps in Europe should be too far north, as should the northerns states in the US.

That does not mean that every place further south will be unlivable, only that it the risk is higher. Spain, Italy, Texas and California could start looking like Sahara, or it could be more similar to Egypt or Thailand, depending on how rainfall patterns change.

In any case, if we look 50 years into the future, who knows what kind of technologies we would be able to leverage to mitigate these problems?
See second graph: https://www.payscale.com/gender-lifetime-earnings-gap
I think some or all ATMs are still able to "keep" cards that fail authorisation repeatedly, e.g. because they're stolen or fake. Without ingesting the entire card an ATM can't do that.

Countries that have completed EMV roll out still issue cards with mag stripes. It's maybe worth briefly explaining why this might not matter at all:

The payment card networks have two _entirely separate_ mechanisms in play. To a Hacker News reader it may seem insane to not tie them together, but this is how they evolved and apparently banks would rather eat fraud and error costs than spend whatever it would cost to fix.

1. Authorisation. This mechanism is in charge of deciding whether all the parties are OK with a transaction, e.g. "Mike Smith pays Example Co. $145". Cryptographic security can be used to verify that this was really Mike Smith's authentic card, he entered his PIN, Example Co asked for exactly $145 and Mike's bank said that was OK.

2. Payment. This operates entirely on the honour system between banks and retailers. Example Co. says Mike Smith agreed to pay $145 and the backend systems automatically give $145 of Mike Smith's money to Example Co. Done.

Because these two systems aren't tied together at all, even though the authorisation system guarantees the exact amounts, is strongly replay resistant, and so on, none of those properties apply to actually paying your money to some retailer. So regardless of whether it's tricky to get past authorisation it doesn't matter to big fraudsters, they can just take whatever they want and ignore the Authorisation step altogether.

When you realise somebody took your money you will call your bank. They may try to give you the run around (after all, it's easier) but ultimately - perhaps after some notice period - they'll probably agree to reverse that clearly fraudulent charge and if you live in a country with actual consumer protection they may even have to pay back any fees or other financial penalties you incurred as a result of them accepting the fraudulent payment request.
I'm pretty sure a nuclear winter does not reduce global temperature other than the short term (~10 years).
IIRC the hopi prophecies have one such outcome where all humans die crawling in the dark with no food due to no agriculture possible without photosynthesis.
How does this work for public locations like libraries or Starbucks? I remember when I went to France many places had free wifi (sometimes with password but it's not like it's hard to ask for it).
Like the crazy latency times from pressing buttons to letters appearing on the screen. I see it's much faster on hc than other websites but not hardware interrupt fast. Why in the world does it have to be usb.
For more 80's microcomputer BASIC nostalgia, there's also INPUT magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_(magazine)). I spent hours and hours as a kid poring through those magazines. Archive.org has the entire series as PDFS - https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine. They were really good at explaining core programming concepts and the illustrations were also amazing.
Also referred to as the map and the territory.
People do illegal things all the time, especially if they are sure there will be no penalty.
*nonlinear, not non-continuous.
I think it's nice that we have both. I don't think there's any risk that this format will replace text articles overall. (If for no other reason than that the economics just won't make sense in all places.)
The idea of the "mutability of the past" has been around since at least "1984".