skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> since higher CO2 means plants can keep their stomata closed more [e.g. 5]

And that apparent silver lining's actually got a downside, too. Plants working hard to draw up water is a Good Thing, because that water is the only source of nitrogen and other elements needed to make proteins and vitamins.

CO2 just gets turned into carbs; it makes plants grow big and tall but less nutritious. This won't be a problem for us overfed gluttons in the West, but it is going to exacerbate malnutrition issues in poorer regions of the world.

See e.g.:

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/effects-of...

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/5/eaaq1012
That is the stock lie for everybody - and it is a lie even when it is the truth ironically enough - a logical fallacy to be more precise.

The KGB was trying to sponsor the Civil Rights movement to weaken the US. What I mean by it being a lie even when it is true is that the statement implies that the movement is fabricated or unworthy by their support. It is a distraction.

In reality the merit of groups exist completely independent of who sponsors it and even giving money is no guarantee of control. Even if the KGB gave millions to Martin Luther King that wouldn't make fighting segregation the wrong thing to do suddenly any more than accepting Soviet funding of a smallpox vaccination means that eradicating smallpox is suddenly wrong.

It is especially bad since it is used to discredit /the movement/ itself as opposed to any actor being questionable. Martin Luther King cheating on his wife didn't make the civil rights movement wrong.
That's 4 months old and the discussion is locked on it.
Science doesn’t work like that: “As people who develop models we must all know heep inside that we can make them say whatever we want.”

You don’t like the assumptions the model made? Fine, make an argument as to why they’re the wrong assumptions or the model is flawed. The model with the best predictive power wins the day.
If we were to somehow go too far in the other direction, undoing all that CO2 removal wouldn't even be a challenge -- It'd be a return to the current status quo.
Stuff like this is why I have moved to Mint and macOS for my personal everyday computing. I used to love “classic” Windows (XP and 7, even Vista to some degree). I still use Windows 10 Enterprise on one of my government-issued project laptops, but that’s almost a completely different OS in many ways. I don’t think you can even buy the Enterprise version for personal use, because if I could, I would.
Climate science critics who refuse to be satisfied with models might find themselves filled with regret if those models are realised.
Just think about it by 10s, as you do with the metric system:

20 C - a bit less than room temperature (68 F)

30 C - pretty hot (86 F)

40 C - very hot (104 F)

And going the other way:

10 C - a bit chilly (50 F)

0 C - cold (32 F)

-10 C - real cold (14 F)

-20 C - really really cold (-4 F)

When you hear a temperature in Celsius, don't try to convert it to Fahrenheit, just think in Celsius. 15 degrees is halfway between "chilly" 10 C and "room temp" 20 C. One degree of warming - say 26 C to 27 C - is pretty easy to conceptualize when you have those 10-degree reference points.
But is 15C to 32C better?
Wait so we might keep Gulen, infuriate Erdoğan and get the audio publicly released?

Talk about win-win-win!
I have a Chrysler Pacifica plug in hybrid, and I know the plan is to use the technology in Maseratis.

The drivetrain is awesome... Not as good as a pure electric, but still awesome.
But they're not! My foot is 25cm, far from '1 foot'. My thumb is 1.5 cm wide, far from an inch. The metric system is actually much more human for me. And I never needed to measure 1/3rds to 0.02mm precision without a precise measurement instrument. And if exact precision doesn't matter then all these arguments about fractions are moot, too!
There is a symbiotic relation between “terrorists” and the politicians that use this fear to get elected.
Python was not the first programming language I wrote a program in, but it was the first one I actually ran.

When I was a kid I wanted to make games, I picked up a book on C from the library. I wrote a simple interactive fiction type game but with never managed to compile it.

When I tried out python a couple of years later I was blown away. I could actually write and run programs. I wrote a mandelbrot set generator and I was hooked. This is what programming is supposed to be like, I thought to myself.
It doesn't seem particularly fraught with ambiguity? We know what the composition was going back many hundreds of years. Presumably it would not be hard to agree something like, "OK we target the pre-industrial revolution composition" and that would be that.
“Web Dev” encompasses a hell of a lot of material. I’m still a fan of books.
That sounds typical of ICE - the stooges have gotten sued multiple times for deporting born US citizens.
But how will we ever get the public to drive more SUV's and buy more disposable goods from the other side of the planet!?
Gantt charts typically have resource assignments and time estimates. Dependency graphs just say Bravo requires Alpha to be completed first (for example).
Normally critics will visit a restaurant three times before writing a review. Obviously tough to do in this situation, though.
I worked with an ex-ecology professor on some 'data science' projects at work, who suggested this older book I enjoyed called "The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data." Good read imho for ideas about generating hypotheses, exploring data, and comparing models to explain the data, and not just in ecology (though that is the context obviously).

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/5987.html
This comment troubled me so I did some reading.

1. You can run Linux applications on elementary. There's nothing forcing anyone to use the store.

2. The split is actually higher than you said for cheaper app apps because the minimum cut for elementary is $0.50.

3. There is a review process which I assume involves human effort.

4. Significantly, there is no enrolment fee and no subscription cost. So you could consider this a referral / hosting fee for elementary.

This seems reasonable actually. Projects need money to run.
> A lot of people who work remotely still need/want cars

I work remotely and my wife and I have two cars. We do significantly less miles than when I worked in an office. Often our gas car sits in the garage for 2-3 days unused.

This is because we try to do as many electric miles as we can.
Which, given the last twenty years of fairly impressive engine technological advancement, is in some senses a travesty.
This could have easily been 3-4 landmark papers, but instead its packed into one cogent idea.

That common interview question about query autocomplete/sentence completion? Shannon solved it and demonstrates it in this paper, almost a decade before FORTRAN existed. New grads still struggle with that problem. PhD's still struggle with that problem.

Pretty much every machine learning classifier is using a loss function described in that paper.
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Interesting, very interesting. Which "American officials" leaked this to the NYT, and why?

> The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to American officials

1. Leaked late on a Friday. The traditional time to release news that you hope gets forgotten ASAP. So the "sources" wanted this story out there, but not too out there? Maybe this isn't significant; maybe the leakers wanted the news out there sooner but the NYT didn't run the story right away.

2. Leaked to a liberal-leaning news source as opposed to one more friendly to conservatives. Don't know what to make of that decision either but it was a conscious one.

3. What were they hoping to accomplish by making it public?

Most obvious explanation: they leaked this because they didn't trust the White House to tell the public about this; they feared the White House would simply bury this finding in order to maintain their relationship with Saudi Arabia.

Alternate explanation: The White House leaked it themselves. Gives them an "excuse" to punish Saudi Arabia while claiming they had no choice in the matter since the "CIA leak" tied their hands. In other words, they are attempting to eat their cake and have it too... punishing the Saudis and trying to maintain a good relationship with them.

(folks, why the downvotes? If you don't want politics on HN, fine, but I didn't post the story. I just replied to it... and I hardly feel my post here is partisan or negative in any way...)
You are arguing the difference between an imperial gallon and a US gallon.

Further evidence of how stupid these measurements are.
As a teacher (in America), it's nice to see people recognizing this. Too often I just hear "Oh, tech can do it better" and soforth. It really can't (and often makes kids' abilities worse; see: Calculators) and is best used to support a teacher who knows how to use it and students who know what they're doing (calculators should be used in high school only, after the kid has done most things by hand plenty of times).
The irony being that IPCC models have a terrible track record of predictive success. So it seems maybe the best models dont win, but rather the most politically beneficial model wins
The screenshot above was Linux Mint 17 MATE, your screenshot is for Cinnamon. New MATE almost didn't change.

https://www.linuxmint.com/pictures/screenshots/tara/mate.png
You are benefitting from the true Imperial pint where there is 4546 mL per gallon.

And of course 4 quarts to the gallon and two pints to the quart.

Otherwise like in the US in what is commonly known as the English system there is only 3785 mL to the gallon.
Why levy high taxes on low mpg vehicles? Wouldn’t it make more sense to increase fuel taxes?

Who cares if someone has a massive SUV if they drive it 2 miles per day? It’s the 50 mile per day driver that you really want to discourage from buying a gas guzzler.

Sincerely, a dude that bikes to work 90% of the time unless the weather is particularly deplorable (or has a big load go bring home)
Is that Mate or Cinnamon?
I believe in the basic consensus that the earth is warming due to human activity. Getting the magnitude right is very hard though, because it’s a complex system, we only have one data series, we have never experienced current or future conditions before, we can’t do controlled experiments, and our data is noisy and sometimes difficult to calibrate. This puts you in a situation where you may be able to predict direction accurately, but magnitude is very tough. Methane from melting permafrost and hydrates at the bottom of the ocean are just two examples that might cause a gross underestimate of warming impact.
Oh man, the renovations I’m making without having any customers are damn awesome...
I'm not sure if you're trying to be sarcastic, but Jet is based in Hoboken, and, from first-hand knowledge, they do pay above market for software engineers in order to compete with companies based in nyc.
>How will you feel if it goes out of business from not enough patronage or if the owner closes it because it's not meeting his financial requirements for retirement?

No place I've done this with has gone out of business yet. Keep in mind - I found it. Others will too.
If everything works perfectly, sure. Then there are the constant days like yesterday where you might as well walk
How often is the distance you need to divide a whole number of inches anyway?

No more often than it is a multiple of 12mm, 60mm, or whatever.

Real distances are either designed for easy calculation, like my N*150mm kitchen pieces, or are some random length.
Yeah, I had totally missed that a change was in the works to redefine Avogardo's number as an exact number with no uncertainty. Pretty cool.
> It definitely "ruins" the restaurant, in the sense that it becomes basically impossible to eat there anymore.

This just happened for me with a tiny little southern restaurant down the street from me. For about a year, I would go there occasionally and have a great meal with my SO. Never needed a reservation. Then it got a three star review from the new york times and it won the James Beard Best New Restaurant award, one of two won by the chef that night. I've basically written it off, as I'll never be able to compete with every seattlite and food tourist breaking down the doors to get in. It's sad for me, but I'm glad he's gotten the recognition he deserves.
I'm not exactly used to answering these questions, but 5 seems the obvious choice here - the others being clearly unrelated. Is this really an example of the difficulty of this exam?

If my answer is wrong that would indeed be ironic... I'd love to be corrected.
Oh yes, there was! I am not talking about simple things like NVH or other minor issues. I am talking about safety recalls like the wheel bearing failures which can cause your damn tires to fall off kind of variety!

I was a summer intern at Ford in 06/07 and they were still dealing with issues from the 2000-2003/04 cars.

A sample for you:

"2000-10-24	(Published by NHTSA on 2000-10-24)
Recall Summary:	VEHICLE DESCRIPTION: PASSENGER VEHICLES. THE REAR WHEEL HUB RETAINING NUTS CAN LOOSEN AND ALLOW THE LEFT REAR WHEEL AND BRAKE DRUM ASSEMBLY TO SEPARATE FROM THE VEHICLE.
Hazard:	THIS CONDITION COULD RESULT IN A VEHICLE CRASH."

Knock yourself out. And this doesn't include dealer fixes (called technical service bulletins -TSBs) which are not actual recalls.

https://www.autosafety.org/fords-trouble-prone-focus-hit-saf...

http://wemakeitsafer.com/vehicle-recall/Ford-Focus-Recall-50...
> Do you all think Silicon Valley should make a public statement and distance themselves from MBS?

Silicon Valley should have made a public statement a long time ago about what MBS is doing to Yemen. It's quite ridiculous that being directly responsible for the deaths of thousands is A-OK, but ohhh kill one journalist and the western world loses their shit.
> So...what's an ounce a twelfth of?

It's a twelfth of a troy pound, or Roman libra (lb).

These two episodes from The History of English podcast trace these seemingly arbitrary units through history and give them some context. My favorite is the derivation of 5280 feet per mile. Also, that "mark twain" is a depth sounding of two fathoms.

http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2018/07/26/episode-114-th...
http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2018/08/21/episode-115-th...
Yep. Pretty much most of the current designs trace back to the Soviet days.
If I want to actually make my product better by knowing if my product crashes in the wild

There are many ways to achieve that goal. I am not buying the argument that automatic data collection about everything you do is there to "improve our software".
Doordash vs. Walmart labs
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Doordash (San Francisco)
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Annual bonus - 5%

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Base - 145k
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Both are for infrastructure group
Experience - 2 yrs + masters + 1.5 yrs
> As far as boiling and cooking, I would argue that there is no magic number anyways, since boiling point is variable by elevation. At 7500 feet / ~2250 meters, water boils at 198°F.

That's an excellent point, let's examine the relationship between altitude and boiling point, in both American units and everywhere-else-in-the-world units [0]:

5000 feet -> 202.97 F

7500 feet -> 198.33

10000 feet -> 193.6 F

Compared to:

1000 meters -> 96.73 C

2000 meters -> 93.38 C

3000 meters -> 89.95 C

In both cases, the boiling points at altitude are magic numbers. The difference is that with Celsius, you can interpret degrees as "percentage of the way from freezing to boiling". Going from 100 C at 0 meters to 90 C at 3000 meters is immediately meaningful as a 10% decrease. With degrees Fahrenheit, that same 10% drop in boiling temperature that happens at around 3000 meters / 10,000 feet is 212 F to 194 F.

0: https://www.omnicalculator.com/chemistry/boiling-point-altit...
When I said "et al," I meant NASA and the contemporaries in other countries including the Soviets.
The Dragon book - Compilers. I got more out of it reading it after using it in a university course.
Referring to someone by family name is standard Western journalistic practice; the specification of form of address for Miyanaga is only amusing to me because it's specifically called out.

Ogasawara has the added (and rather shocking, from a Japanese perspective) twist of insisting on being addressed by first name, which the journalist does after mentioning this.
Hey now. Potbelly's a solid two or three steps up from Quiznos. I'll house a Potbelly sandwich anytime--you won't catch me dead in a Quiznos.
A 5 year old can do bit of Python programming :). Start terminal, type Python and then type 2 + 3. Watch them getting kick out of typing huge numbers and Python spitting out the answers.
My V8 half-ton pickup truck gets better mileage than many 90s sedans.
My mechanic from Dubai concluded this 5 weeks ago.. nothing in Saudi Arabia moves without MBS ordering it. Most likely, MBS watched the killing, and possibly dismemberment, live via encrypted video link.
I was wondering if I'd entered a time machine and returned to the early 2000s, and indeed the article is from 2012. My understanding is MyISAM has gotten much better - but if you care about perf over integrity there are even better options these days. "Eventually consistent" being the name of the game.
The rules are always different for government leaders and officials.
Google is the new 2005 Microsoft
Show HN: HRConvert2, Self-hosted file conversion server for over 60+ formats
Actually, assuming room temperature is 60° and you’re at sea level, it’d take 1,216 BTUs to bring a gallon of water to a boil. A BTU is the amount of heat (which is energy) required to heat one pound of water one Fahrenheit degree; a pound of water is a pint; there are 8 pints in a gallon (2 pints in a quart, 2 quarts in a pottle, 2 pottles in a gallon). So, 8 * (212-60) = 1,216.
> …presumably it would not be hard to agree…

This seems like a particularly bold claim given that we currently live in a political climate where we can’t even seem to agree on basic matters of reality.
Interesting anecdote: Alan Mulally (former ford ceo) greatly increased fuel mileage in SUVs due to his work in the aerospace industry (Boeing). He knew aluminum well and pushed for adoption of aluminum bodies instead of the traditional steel bodies. This shaved something like 600lbs off the weight of the trucks and contributed to significant MPG increases. F150s get 26 MPG highway, an almost unheard of efficiency 10 years ago for trucks. As recently as the early 2000s, 4 door passenger vehicles averaged around these efficiency levels.

You don't need electric vehicles to cut oil demand. This is just one example of many moves the industry is making.
Yes.

Most of the troubles related to -fstrict-aliasing involve unaligned reads. All sorts of file formats, TIFF for example, are most easily handled with unaligned reads.
They are. And will be inevitable, across the board, apart from low-end engines or very large displacement naturally aspirated engines.
I dunno man I just went and double checked the first IPCC report from 1990 and their estimates are pretty good...

http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_f...
> Removing CO2 might be necessary to stop global warming.

> But what chance does this sort of ambitious effort have when more and more states don't even want to deal with the ordinary problem of reducing CO2 output?

There are cheaper geo-engineering methods that don't attempt to directly reverse the problem, just (locally) mitigate some of the consequences, that could be done unilaterally by a state. E.g. stratospheric aerosol injection (less glamorous but a much cheaper than parking sunlight-filtering-satellites between the earth and the sun).

> Unlike the control of greenhouse gas emissions, which must be undertaken by all major
emitting nations to be effective and is likely to be costly, geoengineering could be undertaken quickly and unilaterally by a single party, at relatively low cost. Unilateral geoengineering, however, is highly likely to impose costs on other countries and run risks with the entire planet’s climate system.

https://www.cfr.org/content/thinktank/GeoEng_Jan2709.pdf
Different approaches. Toyota has been taking the non-turbo + electric assist (hybrid) route, while others which aren't that heavily invested in hybrids have been taking the "let's put turbos across all our engines" route.

Gradually they are converging towards similar solutions.
I think its really #4 - cloud is still a minor side bet for them, something investors are expecting them to try to work at but that the core company doesn't really care about. its kind of a bigger google X project. aws and azure are significant company bets from amazon/microsoft where they are staking their future, google cloud is not a bet on googles future.
Nvidia nurses 'crypto hangover' as demand for mining chips evaporates
>Most obvious explanation: they leaked this because they didn't trust the White House to tell the public about this; surely they feared the White House would simply bury this finding in order to maintain their relationship with Saudi Arabia.

Prediction: The White House is going to maintain its relationship with Saudi Arabia anyways. All this might do is force the administration to make some sort of symbolic gesture of finger wagging at them.
Show HN: Prime number sieve in 31 lines of Python
The measurement of any system is only as good as the quality of the data being measured. When the Black Swan comes computational interconnectivity of these systems will ensure they all respond together and that is not a natural design if on a short-term timescale.
Biggus Uptickus
Until earlier this year, I used to live in that neighborhood. I've been to Stanich's -- we could walk there from our house.

This whole episode is bizarre. The food really was not that good. Not by a long shot. Which makes what happened to them all the more sad.
This is lovely, thank you.
China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real
If you don't mind my asking, what's Mint?
Same with Haskell or ML family languages.
I was there just over a year ago, and it was pretty bad then too. We waited probably 90 minutes for burgers at lunchtime the last time we went.
Imagine if we spent as much money researching how to combat entropy as we do researching how to induce it.
That's entirely backwards, to reduce the bus factor, you need more people maintaining less, not fewer people maintaining more.

In any case, the incentives are simply not there, as different projects have very different priorities (which is why there are so many projects). Some folks want to monetize their special sauce (Plotly). Some folks want to focus on high level statistical charting (Altair, Chartify) Some folks want to focus on interactive data exploration (Holoviews) Some folks want to focus on high performance and streaming (Bokeh) Some folks want to focus on high quality static image generation (MPL). The human and economical cost of getting all those groups under one tent is astronomical.
Sounds exactly like the Country Cat in Portland.
What Diane Greene's Departure Means for Google Cloud
As if Google wouldn't take down the video immediately
Doesn't Gulen have a right to challenge this in US Courts? Any lawyers here...does he have a chance in courts? The process in Turkey surely seems political.
Great comment. Absolutely packed full of gold nuggets.
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Air crash investigators collect evidence and don't bother speculating because of the multiple possible scenarios: eg, open mind getting it right with patience vs. closed mind getting it wrong now with speculation because they have to feed their own, "superior" ego to "declare" the "cause"... as right as often as a know-nothing know-it all.