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Even in the worst case scenario, global warming will not annihilate the human species. AI, nanotechnology, weaponized bioweapons, nuclear war, asteroid impacts, or alien contact could all potentially wipe out humanity.
Imagine being a man on any other board and knowing why you are there..
For Firefox on Android, it's broken for me too.
Let's talk purely about piracy for a second, as a legitimate use for legitimate owners, based on something that happened to me a couple of days ago:

I own two copies of this game, From Dust (which is fantastic, by the creator of Another World), one of them on disc and one of them on Steam, separate keys.

I installed it from Steam because I don't have an optical drive handy and the key is not on the case for some reason. So the game makes me sign up for a UPlay account (in addition to having the Steam stuff), which apparently I did in the past, and not with my primary email. So I can't play because it's already activated... and installing it from Steam doesn't tell UPlay that I own it on Steam.

So then I go and email Ubisoft tech support and say I have this key and haven't played in 5 years how can I swap it over to my new email.

A day later I get a reply that they want me to go screenshot my transaction history and my CD Key (which I already sent them) in the Steam UI.

...meanwhile, I was able to download ("pirate") and install the game in 5 minutes, and it doesn't require either the Steam or the Uplay account to work. AND it'll keep on working 50 years after Steam and Ubisoft are both bankrupt (or keep working on your OS/vm/whatever when Steam and Ubisoft discontinue support for it).

So yeah, there's a use for bittorrent & piracy, since DRM ruins your ability to archive any-damn-thing now. Without bittorrent, playing that game would be a terrible ordeal, if it is even possible at all. Paying for it (twice) only made it worse.
Weird quotes from the article:

> In this case, there are 86 lead authors from 39 countries, of which 39% are female.

> These researchers, who are unpaid, have reviewed the available scientific literature on the feasibility, impacts and costs of staying under 1.5C.

> "If one can imagine the governments holding the hands of the scientists, this means you don't know how science works!"
I still remember how Diebold's machines turned out to be insecure.

That was in 2009.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102923
> Terrible movies with great explosions

They usually have bigger marketing than low budget movies.
No doubt there are differences between the markets but at a high-level similar forces act on both. That is, in both cases, the vast majority of participants either break-even or lose money. A small minority makes money (and therefore takes in most of the profit to be had). The uber market, because it centralized and has an impartial dispatcher (i.e. Uber corporate), that market will probably be more egalitarian. Overall though, the same dynamics play out.

For real-estate, some numbers that I saw had 51% of licensed real-estate agents making one or zero transaction in the past year.
I recently started my first Falcon project, but this looks closer to what I was actually hoping Falcon would be. Definitely going to give this a spin, thanks.
Driving safely is more important than climate change. Don't phone and drive.
People are growing corn further and further north here in Ontario. Places where it used to be unthinkable because the season was too short.

The pessimistic oportunist in me thinks it might be wise to start buying up vacation property in Newfoundland.
The Fanimatrix film which is 15 years old, is becoming the oldest torrent file
Many thanks. I am very pleased there are people on HN who heard about us (we are still such a small company). This means that we are doing something important. Will keep doing our best.
You could do pretty high res full color images by displaying three single color images in a row with the palette reprogrammed between the images. By using a long exposure camera in front of the screen and a hood to get rid of ambient light some pretty impressive results were possible. Only for the patient though, and once true color monitors and video cards became affordable (or even just R5G5B5) this sort of trickery was no longer needed.
Also, the website linked in the repo seems to be down.
I'd just like a directory containing a template, style and code file, the referencing would be straightforward to imply without having to repeat everywhere. Similar to how views work in Rails I guess.
Taking the leap may force you to be more sociable.

Or it might lead to an even quieter, more introverted life. This can go both ways.

Definitely trying to make friends outside of work is good. I can count on the fingers of ... well two fingers the number of actual stay-in-touch-outside-of-work friends I've made in the workplace in the last 18 years.
So make new friends. Old people are people.
> CPC for the best keywords might be up to 10–15 USD.

Is this for real ? 10$ per click ?!!
That's really depressing, and completely shuts out all the small players.
Is it possible that if they were, they would annihilate each other, so you couldn't live in an area where both are present, and so we are necessarily born in a place where there's much more of only one type? The antimatter might be outside of the observable universe, safely away from interacting with us for the foreseeable future.
> If we don't maintain the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman, the worlds population will eventually shrink exponentially. If that doesn't scare you, I don't know what will.

Why should that be scary?
> And part of the problem is, of course, that writing a good post is much harder than writing a witty tweet.

As is reading it when "a good post" implies a long post. Authors should better realize brevity is a merit and learn to organize the information they seek to share in more concise pieces easier to digest. If encounter a post that seems interesting and fits on one page I will surely read it. If it's about 1.5 screens-long I may read it. If it's more than 2-screens long I will only read it if I believe it is probably going to change my life. And my screen height is just 900 pixels.
I tend to model people changing opinion as ships with different inertia changing course:

If you formed your opinion yesterday, it has low inertia, and it is easy to change course. If you formed your opinion a decade ago, it is high inertia, and the best I can do in a conversation is a little nudge in the right direction, hoping it will have some effect later on.

The causes for opinion inertia are known. Long held opinions are part of people's identity (think religion, for example). People actively filter for supporting evidence, eschewing opposing views. It takes a while to breach both barriers.

If you test high inertia opinion change in one sitting, like studies do, it looks immutable.

(don't ever think you are immune to these inertia effects. Everyone is affected)
See Project A119, a top-secret plan developed in 1958 by the United States Air Force to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon. It would be a show of force to boost domestic morale in the capabilities of the United States after the Soviet Union took an early lead in the Space Race and was also working on a similar project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
Yup, this reasoning even has a name: the anthropic principle. However we still would like to know the underlying mechanism that led to the asymmetry.
I've had the good luck to vote in elections where I just mark a paper ballot with a, uh, marker. I wouldn't call it tedious, it takes longer to read the names for a seat or an issue than it does to make a mark.

Then it goes into a scanner/lock box, so there's a count available right when the poll closes...
Well, most of the time the "Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds" question could actually be rephrased as "Why Don't Everybody Agree with the Left?" I just skimmed the article, but the mention of Steve Bannon at end is an indication that the article probably belongs to that trend. This turns the issue into the political ground, not the scientific one. Thus, the word "fact" is used as an appeal to authority when its actually an ideological discussion that is at stake. Some facts are carefully ignored or dismissed when not fitting the narrator world's view (in either sides), so it would be better to acknowledge that it's opinions that are discussed, and that their are not absolutely right.
I’ve always wondered about this, perhaps someone who understands this subject could explain.

Say matter and antimatter were created in roughly equal proportions then some collided to create energy. Couldn’t then this energy coalesce back to regular matter through the mass-energy equivalence? E=mc^2? Repeat this a bit and you’d end up with more matter than antimatter.

As I said, this is so simple there must be an easy argument against it but I’ve never heard the idea addressed.
> so few genuinely helpful companies are emerging out of our ecosystem.

What would a genuinely helpful company look like?

Some examples I can think of:

- New materials development (e.g. plastic that takes 30% less carbon to create)

- New carbon-reduced operation pipelines (e.g. a process for manufacturing cars at 30% less carbon)

- A consultancy that focuses on energy reduction across business verticals

- ...

What else?
>Most of their success is due to being fortunate enough to get a bunch of coverage. From screenshots, most aren't very spectacular. Stardew Valley takes the formula of an existing series (Harvest Moon).

>To make a successful anything, it's 90% marketing, 5% quality, and 5% luck. If the right person finds your product and endorses it, quality doesn't matter. You'll get guaranteed sales. It's then that it takes quality to sustain those sales.

I strongly disagree.

Stardew valley did well because it is a fun game with good graphics. That's it, it's fun and addictive, graphics are good and it gets the gestalt right. Stardew Valley is just a truly truly fun game in which you say "just one more day" a bit too often. It's just that much fun. The game is FUN and addictive. Did I mention I had a lot of fun playing it? It has nothing to do with marketing it had everything to do with how I played the game and whether I had fun or not. The first time I picked it up I poured in more than 40 hours in a single week! And that's a lot!

I just read this article about the creator who spent 4 years making Stardew Valley and it is a really interesting read:

https://www.gq.com/story/stardew-valley-eric-barone-profile
'Switch-off sunglasses' block out screens
Well I disagree a lot with what you are saying. Marketing is important sure. But you cannot market "bad" indie games to be successful. Maybe big gaming companies can do that but even they fail often enough. Luck is an important factor and maybe I would even rate it higher than 5%. I find the number of 90% marketing for an indie game ridiculous.

Stardew Valley is based on existing formula but it is incredibly polished and even people not from this genre play(ed) it. It has something special, similar games don't.

However I think that quality trumps for indie games. There are always exceptions and some "shit" games are hyped because of some Twitch or Youtube coverage. And of course there are some (maybe many?) games that have a high quality and fail. You don't just need quality. But you need it. And you obviously can make a good game in a bad time.

As for the game in the article. I don't want to disparage the author because making a game of this scope is incredible!

However watching a video on his game's site instantly gave me two reasons why the game is not successful.

- The movement of the character looks very stiff and unnatural.
- It is missing atmosphere. A lot of repeating textures. No details which makes the whole world uninspiring and uninteresting.

Now these things can be changed and improved still. But in the end the market for this specific type of game really is a hard one. And you compete with game's made by bigger teams and bigger budgets.
The range: Thales 580 BC to Daniel Dennet 1942.
There was a short story about an antimatter alien who visited Earth. It shook hands with a human and both were annihilated.
USA and USSR planned to nuke the moon out of existence
I guess governments will just skip the prevention step when they realize their own inaction made that impossible and just try to find ways to adapt to the inevitable changes instead. There's pretty much no way, purely for political/human reasons, that keeping the temperatures below 2 or even 3 degrees seems feasible at that point, so humanity will just have to deal with it and adapt over the next century. Shame about the planet and the natural ecosystem, though.
ASP.Net MVC 5 (ASP.NET Core) was a complete rewrite of MVC/Web API. The MVC work that was done previously would have to be completely rewritten.
Previous discussion from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102578 (194 comments)
Hi Joe,

Please get in touch ... loads of potential to do amazing good ... my project (www.wadappt.io) uses crypto in a smart contract framework to catalyze different forms of capital and create hugely positive impact ... which is desperately needed in many places ... e.g. conservation in Africa ... was in crypto valley / Switzerland recently and presented it the SIIA summit ... see:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6447561...

https://medium.com/@wadappt/africa-wildlife-blockchain-oppor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VadheP9JVHs

Look forward to chatting.
Probably unlikely that those will wipe out humanity, at least we don't have any concrete evidence or examples of them (e.g. we have't built an AI that can do much yet, we don't have nanotech that will self replicate and kill us all, aliens have yet to show up etc.). Bioweapons seems unlikely to end humanity as someone will win the war, and personally I think MAD prevents widespread use.

The only thing in your list that does make sense is an asteroid impact, which we don't have much say over.

With climate change we know a) it's happening, b) it's going to affect us in some pretty major ways and c) we can do something about it.

None of those hold true for your points.
What.cd had over one million unique releases (albums), whereas Google Music, Spotify and Apple Music usually claim to have around 30-50 million songs. The most common complaint about Netflix I hear is that their selection is quite pathetic as well. The advantage I see is the user-friendliness, organization, and community that comes out of having a huge library that isn't restricted to just mainstream material predominantly from a few countries.
The only reason it's controversial is because all prior reports have been retouched by lobbyist and politicians who wanted to play down the effort.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst, but worst increasingly looks like an extinction-level oceanic anoxia event.
> antithetical to the goal of promoting sound science

That's perhaps an argument for the sciences directly built on positivism (the philosophical positivism), but that list ends quickly. Everything else is based on at the very least odds, but mostly consensus, and convincing based on those is required for anything beyond a few basic sciences.

And positivism only covers math, large parts of physics and chemistry (but not all), and ... that's mostly it. I mean, you could argue small portions of economics, biology also qualify, but only small portions.

Consensus itself, like presented in climate science and medicine, is an argument by authority. So if you convince someone of the truth of, say, global warming, you have in fact convinced them mostly of a social fact: that lots of people studying this problem seriously come to this conclusion. You have not convinced them that "because X leads to Y, here's the proof, Y leads to Z, here's the proof, this will now happen". You can't do that. These sciences don't work like that.

Things like climate science, medicine, psychology itself, ... just aren't made up of rational argument but from tying anecdotes into a larger framework and some amount of statistical inference. For all those sciences any positivist would say that

1) there are (very small) odds that the science is entirely wrong

2) the odds that significant parts or specific studies, even when executed entirely correctly and with integrity, is quit large: obviously 1 in 20 should be outright wrong at 95% confidence
Reading this while son has just woken up mid sleep cycle and decided to wake the house... 10 month old :)
I'm suspecting it's due to decades of working overnight in tech call centers, and being oncall for over a year, with servers that would regularly fail overnight.
I don’t find that people I relate to in person have significantly more ‘real’ feelings about me than people I know online.
The world’s biggest video surveillance system under construction in China
It's hard to make friends with people and I'm in my 30s. I can't imagine how hard it would be to "find new people" when you are 90+ and probably can't even drive.
There's also a link to live-reporting: https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2018/oct/01/the-nob...
Why would I see a doctor for a natural process? Besides, it's unhealthy to sit for 8 hours, so it's probably not healthy to lay for 8 hours.

Is there a possibility for failure in seeking medical care?
I've waited for about half a minute and the page still doesn't display anything but just loads my CPU (I have retried a number of times with no luck).
I remember Carroll's Modern Astrophysics being very good. It's quantitative, so it helps to have some physics background.
This is one of the reasons I make efforts to buy games via gog.com rather than Steam (the other reason is that Steam is dangerously close to a monopoly, and that never ends well).
And since people learned how to inject custom code into the game you get amazing creations like a full level editor running inside SMW:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/01/how-a-game-playing-ro...
Sure they do. It’s on mobile. While MS isn’t going anywhere in the Enterprise, anyone who is focused on the desktop when it comes to MS development instead of web, cloud, or even cross platform mobile development is headed down a dead end.
"I'm not the type to really reach out like "hey you wanna hang out"

Me neither, but after my 30s I learned the value of actively cultivating some relationships with I people like, but that are no longer part of my daily life.

WhatsApp helped tremmendly with that, btw. But I say really inviting people to physical world activities like dinners or movies (my kind of thing) and I try to never miss when someone of these people invite me to a barbecue in their houses (my place is too small to invite more than 4 people).

I also have a group of friends who decided recently to meet monthly for a breakfast. Fortunately, there is one person that leads the gathering, but I always make sure to be present and help/support him when he is making this effort.

I also know exactly who are the people that I want to actively cultivate and those who I'm fine meeting whenever life decides.

These important people are not just the closest one. Of course there is a very close group of people. But the trick is that among the people that are not that close, the "second social circle" so to speak, I actively try to keep closer to those that are very good people, with good hearts and with whom I have a healthy relationship (i.e. the ones you feel happy after meeting, not guilty, or exhausted, or drained, or whatever level of toxicity there is).
Edit: this is important because this is not correlated (maybe it is even negatively correlated) to the people that are most fun to hang out, the extrovert, funny, adventurous, cool ones. A good heart and genuine care about people beats all that. Even when it comes combined with "boring"

Learn to reach out to hang out to good people. It will improve a lot you life quality.

Find something in common - for me is usually superhero movies. It is something that both of us will want to do, it is nice to do together and help a lot for introverts as there is not that pressure to keep talking interesting/funny things like dinners. Two hours without any conversation and still brings people closer, after the movie for a burger, there is a natural subject to fill the conversation (the movie).
Whataboutism is so tedious.

There are plenty of other contributors, both direct and indirect. PACs, billionaires, unions, earned media, Russians, grandmas, etc.
Some of those exist, but the problem is externality: so long as the high carbon option is more profitable than the low carbon one, we have a problem.
Also prevents freeloaders from signing up, or people who will never have any means to pay (e.g. minors)
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Absolutely the same here.
And sometimes i wake up pretty early, feeling totally awake. I find that in that case, I have to get up. If i force myself to sleep 2 more hours, the day is basically ruined.
by paying exorbitant amounts for bullshit.
I am not a physicist. But obvious question is why would the energy not coalesce back to equal matter and anti matter?
> It always seems odd to me that people still plan their lives as though the world fifty years from now will be basically the same as now

Even planning for anything 10 years in the future is a daunting task. For any prognosis there are a dozen more claiming different results or different trends with different outcomes. It's an information flood that does not let you make a definite judgement since it's overwhelming, and even when you try to base a decision on scientific evidence, because there's usually a "model", the certainty of the outcome "depends" (on any number of "variables").

What do? Make a conversative projection on what things are like today, and a plan based on that.
Having used both Hull and Shreve in two different courses I'd say they're aimed at very different audiences. The course I took using Shreve didn't actually teach much about real world "options, futures, and other derivatives", but treated them more like abstract mathematical ideas and focused more on the mathematical theory used to model such contracts. While the course using Hull focused more on those contacts, not as abstract mathematical concepts, but as real things that actually exist and are actually traded by real people in the real world with all the messiness and uncertainty that can entail. Admittedly a large part of this was no doubt due to the Shreve based course being taught by the math department and the Hull based course being taught be economics department

While I on many levels preferred the Shreve based course, if I had to pick one for practitioners working day to day with this stuff (which I don't actually do, despite my degree), I'd definitely pick Hull.
No, you don't need blockchain for that, just a good old RFC 3161 timestamping server, most big CAs run one and timestamp stuff for free.

Actually secure timestamping is already used by Windows to verify software signatures, even when the signing key expires: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47289/how-is-an...

Heck, you can even use Roughtime [0] to achieve secure timestamping as it uses digital signatures and allows you to provide a nonce. Even the design doc [1] mentions this use case:

> This means that Roughtime replies can be used as a time-stamping service, and thus that Roughtime servers can be used to check each other.

[0]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/roughtime/

[1]: https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime
I don't get the audio reference; what's that music from?
I'm serious. Check this - https://app.kwfinder.com/dashboard?source_id=0&keyword=proje...