skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's basically this but multiplied by the number of countries on the planet - including rapidly developing countries which need the energy.

Complaining about climate change is a luxury for the rich, if you didn't have refrigeration at home your priorities would probably look much different.

Heck, just look at the French Yellow Jacket protests, it's clear the policies arguably needed to combat climate change are harmful to the lower and middle class even in western countries. Especially when those policies are often used to subsidize electric cars or energy efficient windows for those who can afford such things - effectively an inverse transfer payment.

I fear the only way we have a shot at solving this is with cheap, clean energy tech that doesn't yet exist.
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And the full publication can be found by entering https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2018180958 into sci-hub.

I often see https://outline.com/ links on HN, does HN allow sci-hub links?
The link is down
It may not REQUIRE it but that is certainly how its implemented currently. My favorite example is in Toronto where people that dont own homes and dont have the capital for solar panels are paying inflated electric bills to those who do.
>> The danger though is that people will remember that you said “we only have ten years” in ten years and say to themselves “doesn’t seem so bad to me, why should I change anything now?

That has already happened. Circa 2000 we were warned that in (I don't recall the exact number) 15 years time things would go wrong and be beyond the point of reversibility.

So to your point, that is a potential problem. But it seems that people don't remember what anyone said 20 years ago so it's maybe not really a problem after all.
But then you’re manipulating people, and suggesting the ends justify the means.
That is completely true. But it is also true that if someone says X will happen in time T and at time T+1 it hadn’t happened then warning of X won’t be taken seriously next time, even if they only meant to highlight the urgency of the situation by presenting a shorter timeframe. It will be difficult to communicate that “this time we really mean it”. That’s the fundamental problem right now.
Not OP, but I did give it a chance (couple of weeks) and I just can't seem to get used to it. I have no issue with alternative input types (I frequently switch between anything in mouse keys, trackpad, regular mouse and both finger and thumb operated trackballs), but I was just super inaccurate with the Trackpoint, the pointer kept flying off all over the screen it for some reason. Tweaking sensitivity/acceleration helped a bit, but not by much.

I can definitely understand the appeal - having a mouse on the home row is pretty damn cool - but damn didn't I have a good experience. Using it for a couple days doesn't mean you'll like it.
I'm a huge fan of the lambda syntax :

x -> x * 2

It looks much cleaner than the traditional :

lambda x : x * 2

Would a PEP adding this syntax have any chance to pass ?
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How clever of them to have faked a rover failure with Chang'e 3 then, so that we'd believe them now if they report that the rover works. But seriously, we haven't seen any indications of the CNSA faking anything. China isn't a person, it's a whole big country. The fact that Bernie Madoff defrauded a huge number of people doesn't mean that you can't trust NASA.
That is true. I'm not sure if there's really a way to go about it that isn't going to have some short comings. At least this way we're seeing a level of unprecedented awareness. It'll be a shame if twelve years from now, everyone trying to be more environmentally friendly, decides that it was all a lie and quit.

Fortunately (Unfortunately?) we'll probably be seeing more of the effects in twelve years, and that'll hopefully keep people on the bandwagon.
>Doge

Isn't this an odd example to use since it was created to be a parody of cryptocurrency, or did I mix up my crypto-history?
I think this article is complete horseshit. A monorepo will serve you 99% of the time until you hit a certain level of scale when you get to worry about whether a monorepo or a polyrepo is actually material. Most cases are never going to get there. Before that point, a polyrepo is purely a distraction and makes synchronous deployment really painful. We had to migrate a polyrepo to a monorepo and it was not fun because it was a migration that should have never had to be done in the first place. Articles like this are fundamentally irresponsible.
I think Guido wanted to get rid of lambdas altogether one time. If anything I would guess they want to keep it ugly to discourage its use.
> in ten years and say to themselves "doesn’t seem so bad to me..."

except we don't have to wait 10 years, it is already bad. We are already seeing pretty drastic changes in weather patterns are we not?
That sounds like the ScrollPoint mouse, which was made by both IBM and Lenovo. If it's not a current product, you might try eBay.
On the flip side if you use a Mac track pad for a week you’ll never need a track point.
Yea, this seems like some anti-vax level sleuthing, where details are largely ignored.

Ie, "I can't eat a spoonful of vaccine, yet you want me to inject it into my blood?!"
Try Google Assistant. Most of the studies and tests show it's far more usable than Siri. It still misses things too of course.
Long ago I read it, and found it frustrating. I don't remember all my objections, but I do remember one: the author spent about four pages almost but not quite defining 3rd Normal Form. Yes, jargon can be a barrier for beginners, but jargon also serves a purpose.

It seems to me that Jim Melton's Understanding the New SQL was pretty good. Anyway, I'm pretty sure I read one of Melton's books when I was learning about databases.
You don't need talent to be successful. Not every chess player is as talented as Carlsen but there are several thousand chess players making a living as professionals. Using talent as a prerequisite to success in a field is just dishonest.
There obviously are trade offs, but personally I would forego nicer screens, cameras, CPUs, and slimness to have a smaller phone. Obviously, Apple is betting that this isn't a sufficiently profitable market, but one can dream.

An iPhone XS phone doesn't even fit into most women's pockets. It'll be funny if pockets get bigger to accommodate phones.
My example isn't the greatest, I agree, because it is, generally supported everywhere.

A more appropriate example might have been scroll-bars, very few devices support moving them to the left. particularly when it's a touch device and I want to actually use my left-index finger, or a stylus (a la Nintendo DS, et al).

This is not a hard problem to solve generically, but it is rarely solved in my experience.

I agree with what you're saying, the problem I see is that OP has pointed out _why_ this feature is required (accessibility) but 5 years later it's still not solved.

This is frustrating as the person that _needs_ that feature.

If any one of those developers had _needed_ the feature, I bet it'd have been implemented in no time at all.

The people responsible aren't affected, and thus don't care. When your user-base is as large as Google's, a small feature like this might affect more people in that tiny minority that the entire customer base of some small companies, but at this scale they're so far removed, nobody cares.

Talking of features we want Google to add; when are they going to finally allow us to set the hostname on Android phones? I'm sure that one was opened half a decade or so ago (This one issue is now 9 years old: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36912590)
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Wow, how late must it have been that I forgot that one. Yeah, nevermind, Russia wins on that one alone.
To be fair, Apple did something good here knowing full well it would impact their bottom line. This long-time SE user is thankful.
When the comforts of life become more expensive due to green policies, it is the lower classes who actually suffer a declining standard of living.
Even worse, people will remember you saying "we only have 30 years" in 5 years and complain that you are always calling for the end of the world, but it never comes.

That's what happened for cheap oil, where people had predictions with reasonable confidence.
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There's all sorts of anecdotes of pets reacting to people being ill well before the people put 2 and 2 together.

The primary problem, I think, is that you'd have difficulty convincing someone to fund this research without a priori knowledge - e.g. if you don't already know that there are (relatively) readily externally visible biochemistry changes from a degenerative brain problem, why would you see if you can train an animal to smell it?

It's similar to the question people posed after the PS3 signing key leak came out - while it is the case that Sony was signing all PS3 (and PSP, if memory serves) binaries with the same (all-zeroes?) random input, so they leaked information sufficient to eventually retrieve the private key from enough samples, why would you think to check if they did that without already knowing?

(Or, more generally, the large domain of problems that is relatively-trivial to verify a correct solution but infeasible to test all possible solutions in order to find one.)
:-) Thank you.
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I generate Coq proofs of Swagger descriptions that were compiled from a speech to text dump during a 10 person Hangout. Downside is that some of the protobufs aren't laid out as cleanly as one would like.
Yea, it's quite the meme. Akira the Don is my favorite artist doing this and he's been very prolific this year.
Lofi hiphop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OKnUk59pZk

Some of his best work has motivational or philosophical quotes over the lofi hip hop from an inspirational speaker. This one just came out yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGh3KDkonQE
A postscript was published a few days ago: https://medium.com/@joeleisenberg/his-name-was-daniel-postsc...
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This is the second post of this type that I posted that has been removed from the front page (I think, or below the point threshold but unlikely with 32 points and 27 comments at 1 hour).

Can someone shed some light on that?
You can't just jump to the endgame here. Getting people to actually care about the animals that they see is a good first step
> signing two different blocks at the same block height is a conflict

i don't need to sign at same height to be a participant in an attack.
I don't know why you got downvoted. Jacobite is more like a collective blog in the style of Quilette, but it's medium-to-frequently-high quality.
Apple XNU exploits now available (2018)
I'd like to see an actually pythonic Haskell. Needs the right designer.
Show HN: Goto: CLI for teleporting with your terminal
Remote from EU ?
IMO, best thing to do when starting out is go where the opportunity is. You have an entire career to form opinions about licenses, OSes, org size, etc. Those opinions limit you more than help you. Also, accept you are going to be underpaid for a while. Stay with it and it'll be worth it.
Mobile network challenges for IoT devices
This seems like a neat project but I can’t say I ever wanted Python to be an even bigger language... Ideally we would have a Python-like that eschews unnecessary features like inheritance and much of the magic that makes Python hard to optimize (and often hard to understand), and with a type system (even an optional type system) that is better than Mypy.

I’m not 100% sure what that would look like, but I would ditch classes (and thus inheritance) for named tuples, make most things immutable by default, include enums and pattern matching (that the type system would check; I hardly see the point in dynamic pattern matching). If possible, typed code would compile to C extensions or similar. Oh, and exceptions would go away in favor of a Rust-like Result type.
> If the 51% user is truly malicious, the majority of network participants will move away to the new chain, rendering the 51% user's tokens (near) worthless.

so being successful is punished by destroying all wealth of the richest participant in the network? nice.
I'm pretty sure that if given the chance, the majority of the human population will continue to delay acting for as long as possible. I think basic psychology backs this up, as we all tend to value immediate gains over long term ones, and one example of procrastination is the delay of action due to fear.

Personally I expect the worst. I don't have faith that the body of humanity will seriously act to save itself. I think we should start planning on how to survive a very hot planet.
Also global warming advocates mixed genuine scientific considerations with all sorts of anti-capitalism, anti-growth arguments which is the best way to lose trust from the conservative/republican opinion.
The alternative claim that large scale action won't negatively impact poor or lower middle class groups is more bizarre. Let's assume that there is a cost to counteracting climate change. it is not some kind of free lunch.

Then this is only going to not negatively impact the poor or lower-middle class groups if they can push all the cost onto other groups. However, then you have to ask yourself why haven't the poor or lower middle class groups been able to carve out a larger slice of the pie by increasing transfers from other groups to themselves.

So suddenly these other groups are going to act more generously to the poor and lower middle class over climate change but not generally. That seems a bit of a leap.
Do you know why NASA doesn't partner up with China? Because it sounds like you think those political differences are insignificant.
Countly (if you want) can be configured so it doesn't set cookies [1]

You can also configure to remove any data older than N days/months.

It is also GDPR compliant [2]

[1] https://resources.count.ly/docs/countly-sdk-for-web#section-...

[2] https://resources.count.ly/docs/compliance-hub
What is D?

What is the Diaspora Foundation?

How does the Diaspora Foundation differ from the Diaspora software?

Does deploying the software make you automatically a member of D and the Diaspora Foundation?
Then you should take a look a Julia, if you haven't already.
You may have a point there
The biggest reason for planetary protection guidelines is the risk of life escaping from the spacecraft and being mistaken for native life. The moon is so ridiculously inhospitable that it isn't much of a concern because no known life can survive without air or water, even before taking into account the extreme temperature swings. Somewhere like Mars or Europa has much more strict guidelines.
Also, we sent people to the Moon, which are a lot messier than silkworm eggs.
Please stop and think before you write. Of course you do want the state to dictate sources. I suspect you want want your food to be regulated, your buildings to be engineered, your planes to be certified. Society places all kinds of restrictions on sources.

It is also finally time we start moving away from pets being "products" and towards them being living things.
I'm pretty excited to get my hands on my Raise [1], although it is taking longer than expected which I guess is par for the course with Kickstarter.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deilor/dygma-raise-the-...
this statement makes we wonder: what does pythonic exactly mean?
The pipe operator alone makes this worth using.
My advice would be not to specialize in one language too much. Just don't care about all the clutter that's in C++, you won't need more than a tiny fraction of it ever anyways. A lot of them are shoe-horned concepts brought from other languages. Prefer to learn the concepts in those other languages to get a clear grasp of what their use-cases and benefits are.
And still has a $280 million cap which isn't bad considering. I'll consider the crypto bubble done when parody currencies are not in the tens of millions.
I've heard the argument that you ought to consider writing a named function and using it where the lambda would have gone. Self documents and cuts down on lines of symbol soup.

Python wants to be broadly good enough for everyone, not perfect for any one person's specific domain and expertise level. I think this might be the right attitude.
> As a embedded systems (C / C++) and a ReactJS developer (both senior, I know weird)

Nothing weird. Someone has to understand the end-to-end embedded-server-webui.
The problem with global warming is that people have turned it into a religion. Yes, we are doing a lot of stupid stuff. Yes, we should work to reduce our impact on the planet. No, we do not have conclusive evidence on what is going to happen. We have models that seem to point at something bad happening. They are probably directionally correct. We can't predict the future. If someone in 1900 had predicted what the next 100 years would be like, they would have missed all of the major events in the century. We aren't any different than the people 100 years ago.
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Wouldn’t 82% of negative cases being correctly identified mean that 18% of negative cases were incorrectly identified as positive(false positive), or in other words it will mistake 18% of healthy people as having Alzheimer’s, but will always identify an Alzheimer’s patient?
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I'm not really sure why this has anything to do with "Wall Street". Just because something changes for one company doesn't mean it's a trend. Apple is in trouble because they pushed their prices beyond where even the ardent fans will buy it without thinking.

This big thing though is the amount of free advertising they're getting as the darlings of the media has dropped drastically. This is a huge part of how they got to the point they are now. It used to be that a new model launch was front page news ... that's no longer the case, and the biggest Apple stories seem to be their mistakes.

I think people don't really get how much that free media coverage has helped their sales. For a few years "tech" stories meant Apple stories.
If you're not familiar with it, you should check out generational archetypes. It's the cyclical nature of generations, not empires. Anecdotally, it seems fairly accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generatio...
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I can't stop wondering if Scratch's visual block approach could be extended/modified to fit real-world programming tasks efficiently. This can be especially valuable to let people code on smartphones.
Great story. One thing however they don’t do is quantify “Booming business”. Is this a few small boutique agencies or larger industry?
Section 29 of the Equality Act 2010 applies to services (including websites) but not goods (including software). I am not aware of any case law in which Section 15, 19 or 20 has been applied to goods.
Elixir-ifying Python, maybe? The only Perlism I recognize are the dollar signs, but that could be PHP.
The mods have changed the title, which absolutely is fair enough, and this one is more descriptive. So "thank you" to the mods for doing that.

In the interests of full disclosure, this specific post is how to calculate your latitude from watching a shadow on a wall. To calculate the size of the Earth you need to combine that with the earlier posts:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/TheRadiusOfTheEarth.html?sa03...

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/RadiusOfTheEarthPartTwo.html?...

However, the title is a good 'un, and again, my thanks to the mods.
Metcalfe's law is only one of the forces applicable. People also care about sovereignty, which is why N > 1 is most likely.
I disagree. I have both a MBP and ThinkPad. I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer the trackpoint.
You should check nim out, it's a python-like language that compiles to C.
Totally undisciplined of course -- we hired him and he refused to follow any instructions, got bored easily, thought he knew better than his engineering manager, and was ultimately fired after about 3 months on the job.

Or in other words - apparently quite talented as a coder; but as an engineer not so much.
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It's a gravity saddle! From Earth's perspective it's a hill in the r direction but a well in the phi/theta directions. To orbit at a location always visible from Earth it needs to move in the phi/theta directions but moving the the r direction doesn't help, so it doesn't.
I'm also happy with the vendor provided APIs but I wasn't lucky enough to use them anywhere appart from automotive and hobby projects. Most of the time, to make competitive products we had to build our own APIs form the metal up optimized for our use cases wich means you have zero suppor from the IC manufacturer and a clusterfuck of problemes waiting for you.
82% true negative rate == 18% false positive rate. Your description is correct. It's likely that those statistics will be somewhat worse when the algorithm is tested on a broader and more diverse test set, which the authors claim to plan to do in the future.
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I would read through AirBnB's JS style guide. Very well structured, and most rules have reasons specified in the guide. It should cover all the unfamiliar parts for you. After that, the next biggest thing is tooling so it'd be picking a framework and seeing how the development process has changed with npm & webpack. Start with Vue, Angular, or React and go through their hello world examples. Not that you need to be a "framework developer", but they are probably the best spots to see how the development process has changed.

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript